Simpsons Archive

  • elgato EyeTV HD DVR for Mac easily makes iPad-compatible versions of your favorite TV shows

    elgato EyeTV HD DVR for Mac easily makes iPad-compatible versions of your favorite TV shows

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Mac users may get a kick out of this, the elgato EyeTV HD. It's a DVR solution that works with your cable and satellite channels, sending everything to your Mac instead of a plain ol' TV. From there you can watch or edit whatever you've recorded. Easy as pie.

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  • Gadgets of Days Gone By: A very mighty VCR tape collection

    Gadgets of Days Gone By: A very mighty VCR tape collection

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Terrible grammar? Blame Twitter.

    Terrible grammar? Blame Twitter.

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Who didn't see this coming? Waterloo University, a fine institution of higher learning, in Canada, has found that 30 percent of incoming freshman cannot pass a "simple" English test. New communication methods, primarily Twitter, texting, and social networking sites like Facebook, are to blame. To quote a classic line from The Simpsons, "Me fail English? That's unpossible."

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  • Dear Hollywood: Wanna stop BitTorrent piracy of your TV shows? Make them available overseas in a timely manner!

    Dear Hollywood: Wanna stop BitTorrent piracy of your TV shows? Make them available overseas in a timely manner!

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    What's wrong with sites like Hulu? Well nothing, per se, except for the fact that they can't be used anywhere outside of the Unites States. As if other countries don't want to watch... um, really great shows like “Extreme Makeover” and “The [American] Office”! Perhaps that's why, then, BitTorrent site EZTV has seen traffic double, mainly from non-American IPs, in the past year? For whatever reason, people want to watch these shows, but since there's no legal outlet to do so, well, it's not exactly hard to configure uTorrent or Transmission, now is it?

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  • Video: Watch this clip of 2012. (Hint: It’s terrible)

    Video: Watch this clip of 2012. (Hint: It’s terrible)

    Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments

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  • DTV box sales “plummet” – surpise, surprise

    DTV box sales “plummet” – surpise, surprise

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember the big technology story of the first half of the year? Analog signals were suppose to be shut-off on February 17, but Obama saved millions of households from their procrastination by delaying it a few months. But eventually on June 12, those signals were turned off. You have to imagine that retailers moved loads of analog to digital converter boxes through the shut-off date. Not many have likely been sold since though, which is why *gasp* sales have plummeted.

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  • Output video as ASCII art in VLC on this lazy Friday

    Output video as ASCII art in VLC on this lazy Friday

    Posted on September 25, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s Friday. You probably have loads of work but no motivation. I know that feeling. So why not fire up VLC and watch videos Matrix-style. Here’s how you do it in version 1.0.1 Click on Tools and then Prefrences all the way at the bottom Click the Video icon on the left Click on the drop down box next [...]

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  • What is Comcast going to do with all its money?

    What is Comcast going to do with all its money?

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Do you have Comcast stock? Are you concerned with all the money the company has in its coffers? Yes, that sounds ludicrous, being concerned that a company has a lot of money on hand, but the fear is that Comcast could be ramping up for a big media buy, something no one wants to see.

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  • No more electro-shock treatment for ‘Internet addiction’ in China

    No more electro-shock treatment for ‘Internet addiction’ in China

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Electro-shock therapy, made famous by The Simpsons so many years ago, is now banned in China as a treatment for “Internet addiction.” Apparently there were concerns over the safety of such a treatment. Go figure.

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  • Gadget translates baby’s cries into various moods

    Gadget translates baby’s cries into various moods

    Posted on July 4, 2009 | No Comments
    bea5_why_cry_baby_analyzerTaking a page from the Baby Translator invented by Homer Simpson's half-brother Herb Powell, the $100 "Why Cry Baby Analyzer" attempts to help parents figure out what their wailing bundle of joy is so upset about. While not as accurate as the Baby Translator from the Simpsons ("I have soiled myself... how embarrassing") the WCBA can apparently detect the following dispositions: hungry, bored, annoyed, sleepy, and stressed.

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