By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Despite having a name that sounds like baby vomit, Plurk is a Twitter-like micro-blogging service that is gaining more and more fans by the day. But one of the things really holding it back was the lack of a desktop client. Twitter has many including my personal favourite, TWhirl, […]
Why does everyone doing video editing on YouTube depict Boba Fett as some kind of effeminate ballet jazz dancer? Anyways, you’re about to see the latest stop animation masterpiece from Patrick Boivin, a fellow French Canadian dude of mine. Patrick also has other great stop animation videos of Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee that are […]
Just a quick post to warn Playstation 3 owners to wait a bit before updating their console to the latest firmware. It seems that quite a few users on the official Playstation forum are reporting that the new 2.4 firmware bricked their unit. On some cases, people are writing that the SIXAXIS controller refused to […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] We may not be GQ, but we’ve tracked down some new fashion items that we think will be a bit more exciting than the latest trendy threads. See if you agree. The Stink-Free Socks Scientists are close to creating a kind of clothing that’ll keep you smelling a little […]
Ok, maybe this home has nothing to do with geekiness or recent technology, but there’s just something about it that could keep me staring at my screen for hours on end. The “11 Women” house has been designed as a vacation “chalet” to accommodate a family of 13, including 11 daughters, and even has additional […]
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Maybe I have seen too much of Star Trek and other sci-fi series on television but there is something about being able to lock and unlock something with your face or your voice. It kind of makes your text password pale in comparison when all you have to do is sit down in front of your monitor and your face is all that’s needed to unlock your screen.
That’s precisely what Lemonscreen does. It’s a small program for Windows XP only that scans your face with your webcam, saves the scan in its memory and then uses that face scan to lock and unlock your PC. When you go to set it up, you have to sit in front of your webcam, press the button and let it scan you, making sure that your face is inside the little red square.
Melinda Seckington and Karl Gechlik! Melinda won the TokyoFlash Tibida and Karl the S-Mode Oberon. Congratulations to you both! I will be sending the watches via snailmail in the following week, so I guess you can expect them at your door in 5 to 10 days. If you still want one of the many cool […]
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
I am on a bit of a Skype roll at the moment. My girlfriend is finally starting to see the attraction of it as one of her best friends has moved to the US and so she is on Skype a lot right now chattering away for hours as girlfriends are prone to do (I’m sure a lot of male GAS readers will relate to this). So I am using the situation to persuade her to start moving a majority of our phone calling over to Skype. It really is amazing how much money you can save in the long term by switching to Skype and you can get a normal phone number for non-Skypers to call you on too.
A program which I have been playing around with for the past couple of days is AudioID for Skype. This suits me perfectly because I am a lazy slob at heart. My idea of exercise is lifting a TV remote control or a pizza box so this free piece of software which allows me to pre-screen my Skype calls is a God-send. Now I only have to lift my butt off the bed for people I deem worthy!