Along the same lines as my last post about Sim City Classic Online, here is an entire virtual Apple IIgs computer that runs through your web browser (again, unfortunately only Internet Explorer). This one has some great old games for the IIgs. And yes, it even includes Oregon Trail.
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Sim City Classic Online
I can remember playing Sim City on an old Mac Classic in black and white! That’s back when you had to wind up computers before turnign them on! Well, guess what… The Original Sim City is now available (in all its glory) to play on the web. Maxis has made the game available again for… Read more »
Christmas Story Parodies
Another Christmas movie in 30 seconds re-enacted by bunnies… A Christmas Story with bunnies And what if A Christmas Story was a horror movie? It might look a little like this.
MS Adds “Bird’s Eye View” to Virtual Earth
Microsoft launched a new feature called “Bird’s Eye View” to their Virtual Earth mapping service. From what I can tell, it provides aerial shots of just a few spots around the country. I have to assume that they’ll be adding more, since the current list of bird’s eye locations is pretty small. This isn’t to… Read more »
Creative Uses for Old Altoids Tins
Altoids has announced the winners of their “Tin Million Uses” contest which challenged people to come up with innovative uses for old Altoids tins. They selected six winners: Electronic Musical Instrument MP3 Player Case Cookie Baking Tin Speaker/Headphone Switcher Pinhole Camera Morse Code Generator These are all pretty cool I’d also like to see the… Read more »
Firefox 1.5 Released
Late yesterday the Mozilla Corporation released version 1.5 of the Firefox Browser just a little over a year after Firefox 1.0 was released. There are a number of notable new features (from the release notes): Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be… Read more »
Geek Gift Guides
I guess I’m a day late for the newly coined “Cyber Monday,” but I’ve put together a collection of geek holiday gift guides, for that hard to buy for person on your list this year. Wired Magazine: Ultimate Geek Gift Guide Make Magazine Gift Guide Cnet Holiday Gift Guide 2005 Ars Technica 2005 Holiday Shopping… Read more »
Online Secret Santa Take 2
I’m trying again this year with the Online Secret Santa. Last year’s effort didn’t turn out that great. I didn’t receive a gift and the one I sent turned out to be a non-deliverable address. Oh well! I wasn’t out anything, but I didn’t get a gift either. The way it works is you sign… Read more »
Black Friday
The day after Thanksgiving, or “Black Friday” usually provides some pretty good deals. Here are a few sites to give you a jump on what the stores will be discounting this year. http://bf2005.com/ http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/ http://www.blackfridaydeals.net/ http://blackfridaydeals.blogspot.com/ http://www.theblackfriday.com/index.shtml
Best Ads On TV
I ran across a site a little while back that reminded me a lot of the old Adcritic site which used to host free ads from all over TV. Well, their bandwidth costs were too high or something so they had to shut down and retool and came back with a pay version of the… Read more »
Warner Bros. Jumping Into Internet Delivered TV
It looks like the big three (ABC, CBS, NBC) aren’t the only networks jumping on the internet delivered TV bandwagon. Warner Brothers has announced that they too will deliver video content via the internet for free (yes free!). They’ll be doing things a bit differently though by airing classic (old?) TV shows for free download… Read more »
NBC and CBS to Offer TV on Demand
CBS and NBC announced separate ventures into the realm of on-demand TV delivery. So now, all three of the major networks (after ABC’s iTunes Music Store venture) have stuck their toes in to test the waters of a new delivery mechanism. The floodgates are far far from opening though at this point. Of the three,… Read more »
New Yahoo Maps Beta
You probably could have guessed that this was on its way based on how Yahoo has been closly following behind Google on just about every new release. In addition, given the fact that Microsoft also has a similar tool makes this release even less surprising. Yahoo has released a click-and-drag version of their mapping tool… Read more »
Jon’s HTPC: Wrap-up Negatives & Positives
This is Part of Jon’s HTPC setup. For more, see: Introduction and Table of Contents The only negative I can think of: Once setup, the system is very FF (Fiancé friendly); one simple remote controls everything and it’s very intuitive. However, setting it all up is a totally different story. That’s a lot of different… Read more »
Jon’s HTPC: Home Automation (the best for last)
This is Part of Jon’s HTPC setup. For more, see: Introduction and Table of Contents OK, the best for last right? This is the part that gets the biggest WOW factor from guests. The HTPC controls every single light inside and outside the house, along with several other appliances. To do this I use a… Read more »
