The long awaited Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update was released just moments ago. It weighs in at 97 MB in total size. For details on the update go here: http://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.info.apple.com%2Fkbnum%2Fn301984
The areas where Mac OS X have been improved:
- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
- AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, [...]

The end of 2005 is near, and now that most of the big technology products are out for the holidays, (except for the Xbox 360), it’s time to look back at the technology that has emerged in 2005.

Podcasting and Blogs

The two most important advances in technology this year were the new ways of communicating information. [...]

For those that don’t know smashmyipod.com is a web site created by a bunch of guys with one single purpose, as quoted:
After we collect $400 in donations, we will take that money to a local Apple Store. We will purchase the iPod, open it right inside the store, and destroy it right on the spot. [...]

The following link doesn’t really need an introduction, it’s just a bunch of pictures (56k’ers beware) of a guy in a Storm Trooper costume walking around in Akihabara in normal, however funny, situations due to his costume.
Here’s one of the most memorable pictures:

One of the biggest flaws with gadget or computer review entities is that they very rarely consider the durability of an object in their reviews.
I’m not saying they should throw the gadgets around, but at least use them for a while, do exhaustive testing with it, try it under various environments. This article is about [...]

You may have read about how business are blocking blogs from workplaces. Well this is even worse. A Catholic school in Sparta, New Jersey called Pope John XXIII Regional High School has told their students that they may no longer have personal blogs. This was made clear to the students and their parents at a [...]

You read it right, it seems that Humma Kavula, creator of the very famous Fastloader / UMD Emulator has decided to abandon the PSP Scene just when 2.0 homebrew started to appear.
There is no word yet if he will release the source code for his programs for someone to continue but his departure will surely [...]

According to ZDNet, Microsoft plans to make Office 13 completely web-based.
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A “Microsoft insider” was asked which other products and services Microsoft [...]

The new Slashdot, Digg, has apparently racked up $2.8 Million in Venture Capital by a few firms, including Omidyar Network, the outfit led by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, and Greylock partners.
No word on what Digg plans to do with the funding.

Addicted to using tags for organization on sites like del.icio.us and Flickr? Here is a tutorial showing how to organize your files and applications with tags using Emacs.
A tagging system uses a far simpler, more intuitive and, surprisingly, a far more powerful method for organizing your data: After you have entered the data, just free-associate [...]

Solo Tees has started up, and if you are bored of Think Geek and other such T-Shirt makers, you might want to check out Solo Tees. Its tag line is “Shirts for Today’s Entrepreneur”, but it appeals to the Bloggers of the world as well as Today’s Entrepreneur.
Some of the t-shirts they already have up [...]

If you’re like me, you probably hate to have to carry around multiple head-phones for each devise. If your phone happens to have a line-out slot or a line-out converter of some sort then you’re in luck. A Japanese company called Try electronics just released a Bluetooth kit that will on anything that has the [...]

Yes, it seems that somehow Sony has managed to do it somehow. I find it amusing that they have to study the exploits developed by the PSP Hacking community.
It’s my opinion that if somehow they could enable homebrew software on PSPs and restrict some things (like loading ISOs) it could perhaps save the PSP [...]

This guy made an AT-AT costume out of cardboard and documented it on Flickr

BBC News has a very interesting report on eleven MMORPG gamers that took pictures of themselves together with their online counterparts. From a truck driver to a photojournalist, they cover many great careers, whether they are “online” or real life ones.

Never has any game amazed and entertained me as much as this one. From it’s starting sequence to the game itself.

The world around you feels alive and barren, vast and ridged. When you ride your horse through the plains it’s almost like you can feel the wind.
When you encounter a new Colossi you shiver at [...]