Merry Christmas from the Geekly Update
What are you doing reading this, surely you have better things to do… Might I recommend the leftover, over-cooked, progressively drying turkey in the fridge or the Only Fools and Horses and Vicar of Dibley re-runs on the telebox.
Whatever your closet Christmas pleasure, merry Christmas, eeeveryone.
In the second of its kind, a huge geeky happy birthday goes out to dedicated Geekly Update reader Tiger. Have a great day. “Aaaaaarrrrrggghhhh!”
The date is 22 October 2009, the place is Scottsdale Arizona. you walk into a brand new shop being opened by a huge multi-national corporation that specialises in the production of operating systems for computer and mobile phones, media players and other wondrous technology. The shop is littered with over-smiley employees wearing bright coloured t-shirts and lanyards around their necks. The shop is open, simple and spacious sporting a hardwood floor and widely spaced wooden tables presenting a plethora of products. At the rear of the shop is an ‘answer bar’ where you can ask employees any questions you might have about their products.
No Apple didn’t just open a new shop, Microsoft opened their first. Read more…
This video from Ted.com is absolutely fantastic. Beau Lotto’s color games puzzle your vision and highlight what you can’t normally see. This is how your brain works. Its a fun, hands-on look at your own sense of sight, revealing how evolution has tinted your perception of reality. It is truly brilliant.
This year marks the second time the Eurogamer Expo will hit the UK. According to all sources its going to be bigger and better than last year and the Geekly Update team will be there to bring you all the news. Read more…
Apple introduced the an FM radio to the newest iteration of the iPod Nano when it launched last month. Rumours today suggest that this capability will soon be making its way to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Read more…
As you may well have noticed, over the past week or so there has been little to no activity on the Geekly Update. Please rest assured that normal service will resume shortly and all you innermost desires will once again be fulfilled.
For now please accept my most sincere apologies and expect some activity following this Friday.
The existence of Modern Warfare 2 accessories to compliment the games November launch is no secret. May I present you with the Throat Communicator. Read more…
The Geekly Update hits everyone’s favourite social networking site and in the immortal words of one inebriated northern lass “Thats going on Faaaaacebooooooook”. Read more…
The social networkig world slowly ground to a halt today when both Facebook and Twitter stopped working. Both sites slowed to a crawl during the day presenting users with a miriad of technical errors and connection issues.
Twitter confirmed this afternoon that their site was hit by a Denial-of-Service attack resulting in a complete collapse of their servers. Essentially a DOS attack overloads a server with false hits, overwhelming it and causing it to shit down. Facebook have yet to comment on their service issues but one should imagine that they were facing similar attacks most likely from the same individual.
This must have been one rather anti-social hacker, not that one would suppose the hacking community comprises the most outgoing and convivial bunch of peeps.