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Nerd News Today; 4/11

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Halo 3 coming soon. Microsoft’s announced the date: May 16. Coming for the xBox 360 first and then us poor PC players can start looking for it later this year. (Source: GamePro)

Young scientists at NASA open-sourcing space program. This is kinda cool. Seems there’s a small clique of scientists looking to get the public involved […]

Why the iPhone Sucks

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I’m not sorry. Stat after stat is coming out on this thing along with enough marketing to choke even a Microsoft exec and it all adds up…to a third-rate phone. $600 for a media player with 8GB of storage?! I know they have creative smokes in Cupertino, but geez! Honestly, Apple is making such a […]

Cool Little Desktop Support Gadget

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Did a quickie on this for SMB IT. Had to fall back onto it during the StorCenter-where’s-all-my-data crisis. It’s basically a Windows-to-Windows USB 2.0 file transfer utility all wrapped up in hardware.
The device coils a double-ended USB cable. Plug one into PC A and the other into PC B. The file transfer utility is embedded […]