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If you flash your Android phone’s operating system frequently and want to be able to install all of your favorite apps easily onto your fresh now OS, then have I got a utility for you. Made by user 2tealth over on droidrzr.com, you flash his utility on any Android device running any form of clockworkmod [...]

Today while reinstalling my operating system, I came across this magnificent application called UNetbootin. It lets you select an operating system from a wide list of distributions, select a version of that operating system, and then it will compile itself onto a USB drive that you have plugged in so that you can boot from [...]

If you play Minecraft, you can now connect to a server at mine.jakenixon.com. Just put that URL into the IP field, like this: Tomorrow’s post will be about how to set something like this up, from redirecting a web address to an IP, and hosting the server itself. Happy playing!

Check out this TED Talk about a prosthetic arm that gives the user tactile feedback on their chest through a bunch of electrodes and motors. It’s being developed by surgeon and engineer Todd Kuiken, and tested in the video by a real live patient, Amanda Kitts. This is a small step to the future of [...]

Here’s a video from Microsoft’s Research YouTube channel demonstrating a new technology they’re dubbing “HoloDesk”. While this new technology isn’t perfect and there’s no tactile feedback, it could be integrated with Shinoda Lab’s Touchable Holography with a very simple merge. Here’s a video of Touchable Holography in action.

Due to the recent passing of Steve Jobs, retired CEO and co-founder of Apple, apple.com has added a live updated tribute to the iconic leader of our new age of technology. People who send an email to rememberingsteve@apple.com will get their message posted to apple.com/stevejobs publicly. It’s heartwarming to spend a few minutes watching people’s [...]

Apparently when you have a magnet and a super-cooled slab of something superconductive, the magnetic field from the magnet will actually grab on to the electrons in the super-cooled element. Here’s a video of this phenomenon in action. Isn’t that incredible?

I’ve been using the developer preview for Windows 8 (build 8102) as my main operating system since it came out on the 13th of September this year. So far, the OS team at Microsoft has done a great job in this next installment of Windows. Right when you install the OS and you’re setting up [...]

Have you ever had a friend or family member who needed help with their computer, but you didn’t want to go out and help them yourself? Well there’s a fairly new way to help them without leaving your own computer. Instead of downloading and installing some third party program like Crossloop (which is a very [...]

What you see here, or–rather–don’t see, is a massive blob of this invisible and infamously enigmatic stuff called dark matter. See the squiggly, stretched out galaxies forming a circle around the center of this image? Well get this: those galaxies aren’t actually physically like that. Our vision of this galaxy cluster, named MACS-1206, is distorted [...]