Fat Dads: TECHnically, we’re both! [beta]

One particular Fat Dad’s take on some the tech news that seems to be going around the InterWeb.

The Quicksilver-for-Windows Showdown January 31, 2008

Filed under: 2.0, tech, trick shot — 2fatdads @ 12:56 pm

Quicksilver for Windows courtsey of www.lifehacker.com

Before I owned my first Mac, Quicksilver was the application that made me wish I did. Luckily, slowly but surely, Windows developers began building apps intended to successfully attain that Quicksilver-for-Windows status. They started as simple application launchers, but recently the Quicksilver-for-Windows battle has exploded with tons of new applications.

[From LifeHacker]

Sometimes Dreams do Come true. I use Quicksilver so much, that whenever I use my Dell Latitude, I instinctively hit [CTRL] – [SPACE] and start typing. I have ruined the formatting in many a document by doing that. I have found however that it’s not Quicksilver itself that suprimo awesome but the way Quicksilver talks to OS X that makes you want to take it behind the middle school and make mad passionate love to it. Of course, I blame Merlin Mann for this infectous love affair.

If you are using a Mac and don’t use Quicksilver, get it [here] and of course unlike it’s Windows counterparts like Dash Command, it’s Free As In Beer as well as being Free As In Speech.

 

Depriving the Middle East of YouTube January 31, 2008

Filed under: tech — 2fatdads @ 10:37 am

Sheiking_4_UTube

Disruption to internet services in south Asia and the Middle East continues after undersea cable damage.


[via the Beeb]


Stealing their oil and trying to instill democracy is one thing but depriving the Middle East of YouTube is just plain cruel and most contravene the Geneva Convention.

[UPDATED] FEB 6th, OK this isn’t funny anymore. There are now _FIVE_ cut cables in middle eastern waters.

 

Download your Free PUGScreen Cleaner Here January 29, 2008

Filed under: 2.0, funny, video — 2fatdads @ 12:06 pm

The Flash video of the pug licking you monitor from the inside has been taken down. Some like to call this the Fat Dad effect!

I try to keep my blog as clean as possible, but sometimes you need a little extra help from some professionals.

Thanks to Eric for sending in the Pros

 

Currys stops selling analogue TVs January 28, 2008

Filed under: 2.0, funny, tech — 2fatdads @ 5:34 pm

[From BEEB] Electrical retailers Currys, Dixons and PC World will now promote digital TV sets with built-in Freeview tuners.

Why hasn’t this happened in be in Canada yet? This is perfect excuse for going out getting that 50 LCD everyone absolutely _needs_!

 

Mahalo’s Veronica Belmont Interviews Stan Lee, Excelsior! January 28, 2008

Filed under: funny, tech, video — 2fatdads @ 1:11 pm

Mahalo’s Veronica Belmont had the chance to interview one of the childhood heroes and the person responsible for making comic books, like Spider-Man, so damn cool by not having superhero gods! Yup, I’m talking about you Superman! Marvel comics will always be my favourite and it was pretty awesome to see Stan Lee interviewed by someone who didn’t just want to pick his brains about why Peter Parker did such and such in issue four hundred and does it really matter!