Freak Out Archive

  • Friends Around Me iPhone/iPad app lets you interact with friends or strangers, just like they were really there

    Friends Around Me iPhone/iPad app lets you interact with friends or strangers, just like they were really there

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Friends Around Me is a mobile app for iPhone and iPad that searches around you for nearby friends — or anyone else willing to say hello — and enables you to view their profile, look at and rate their photos, chat with them, or send them virtual gifts. The service joins together your Foursquare, Twitter, and [...]

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  • Newzbin has shut down

    Newzbin has shut down

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Well that didn't take long. Newzbin.com has shut down, just about six weeks after the High Court in the UK ruled against the Usenet indexing site. You had to see this coming.

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  • Steam for Mac made official for May 12

    Steam for Mac made official for May 12

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Whoa whoa whoa. Valve has officially announced Steam for Mac’s release date: May 12. So says an e-mail straight from Valve HQ. Feel free to freak out.

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  • Japanese P2P virus catches you downloading porn, demands money to clear your name

    Japanese P2P virus catches you downloading porn, demands money to clear your name

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a pretty hilarious computer virus causing a bit of havoc in Japan right now. It affects users of the P2P program Winny (sorta like a Japanese version of Freenet, so says mighty Wikipedia), users who were looking for a strain of pornography known as hentai. I wouldn't recommend googling that word while at work, or while in the presence of other human beings unless you're prepared for a laugh followed by, "Um, what?"

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  • Android 2.1 to hit the Motorola Droid starting Thursday

    Android 2.1 to hit the Motorola Droid starting Thursday

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    When it rains, its pours. We just found out yesterday that Android 2.1 hitting the Moto Droid sometime in March was a pretty sure thing, and now we've got an exact date.

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  • The FCC’s National Broadband Plan is now live!

    The FCC’s National Broadband Plan is now live!

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Might as well get this over with now. The FCC has announced its National Broadband Plan, which describes where the agency would like to see the U.S. in a few years' time vis-à-vis broadband and connectedness. It's sorta like the UK's Digital Britain report, published last year. The big thing is this: it's in America's best interest to turn itself into a first-world nation again, and the best way to do that is to develop its Internet infrastructure a wee bit more. That's the gist of it: better, faster Internet access for many more people.

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  • Goodnight, Forest Moon

    Goodnight, Forest Moon

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    In the great metal room There was a comlink and a Tauntaun and a picture of- The Executor flying over the forest moon That’s right: for those parents who don’t want to read their children the potentially death-tinged Goodnight, Moon we present Goodnight Forest Moon, a beautiful parody by Noah Dziobecki. You can download it here, print it out, and [...]

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  • Add Samsung to Greenpeace’s hate list (for now)

    Add Samsung to Greenpeace’s hate list (for now)

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Greenpeacenow officially hates Samsung. The environmental organization has taken issue with Samsung's inability to remove Brominated Flame Retardants, or BFRs, from its products. BFRs have been linked to environmental damage, and specific types have been banned from Europe altogether because of the potential for human harm.

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  • eBooks on the iPad may not be so outlandishly expensive

    eBooks on the iPad may not be so outlandishly expensive

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The NYT has a report on ebook pricing for the iPad, saying that Apple may charge $9.99 for popular titles, just like everyone else in the free world. While most prices will be higher - it's an iPad! Why go slumming? - popular books can hit the $9.99 if need be. Apple takes 30 percent of the sale while the publishers take 70 percent.

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  • Assassin’s Creed II DRM proves that Ubisoft hates your guts and wants to beat you up after school

    Assassin’s Creed II DRM proves that Ubisoft hates your guts and wants to beat you up after school

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Fellow PC gamers: it's time to freak out. You're familiar with Ubisoft's newfangled DRM scheme that requires you be online in order to play its games, right? It's 100 percent as awful as we had thought it would be. PC Gamer recently played Assassin's Creed II, and discovered what a pain the in the ass the DRM really, truly is. Get this: every time you lose your Internet connection the game boots you to the main menu, and all progress made from the last save point is thrown out the window. This isn't an MMO, mind you, but a plain ol' single player game. In other words, no Internet, no game. Bravo, Ubisoft.

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  • Windows update causes Windows XP to freak out

    Windows update causes Windows XP to freak out

    Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Microsoft makes it so hard to like Windows. The company released an update on Tuesday that seems to have borked a number of Windows XP installations. There's a number of message board threads wherein people are complaining that, since the update, their computers boot right to a blue screen of death. Sigh.

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  • StorE TV: Oh look, another home media server, this time from Toshiba

    StorE TV: Oh look, another home media server, this time from Toshiba

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    The good gents over at Electric Pig were one of the first people to see the Toshiba StorE TV, a home server for all your digital media files. It combines local storage (up to 2TB) with streaming to ensure that you're able to play that totally legally acquired movie on your big screen HDTV.

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  • Disgusting: The GUMMI-X toy kit is an edible insect maker

    Disgusting: The GUMMI-X toy kit is an edible insect maker

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    What Japanese toy maker Megahouse is offering here is truly disgusting: A toy kit that you can use to form edible insects made of juice and other liquids. The so-called GUMMI-X [JP] is geared towards teenage boys, but it has the potential to seriously freak out certain adults, too. Users will be able to create a total of four exotic insects and such that they can put into their meals. Choose between stag beetle, the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, the especially disgusting pill bug and the Procambarus clarkii, a freshwater crayfish. Other animals, a frog for example, are sold separately.

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  • Video: Crazy kid goes crazy because he’s not very good at Modern Warfare 2

    Video: Crazy kid goes crazy because he’s not very good at Modern Warfare 2

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments
    So we’re in agreement: this kid is crazy, right? He’s ranting about losing in Modern Warfare 2, then proceeds to freak out. I damn near started chanting “EC DUB! EC DUB!” when he attempted to reverse fireman’s carry the wall. That makes no sense, no. Warning: he uses salty language to describe his displeasure with [...]

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  • FCC considering taking some TV spectrum, auctioning it off for wireless broadband

    FCC considering taking some TV spectrum, auctioning it off for wireless broadband

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    More FCC news for you, this Wednesday morning (and before Droid news consumes us all). The agency is considering taking some of the bandwidth that is currently allocated to digital television, and auctioning it off so that broadband companies can bid on it. The point, of course, is to increase the availability of wireless broadband.

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