Category: geekHacks

  • Google Earth Gets Insanely Accurate Flight Tracking

    At least, it is as accurate as the FAA will allow.  For security reasons Google’s tracking is 15-20 minutes behind the live location of the plane.  Of course, anyone with some decent navigation and math skills and the flight path could do the math and get the real location without much trouble. More on the…

  • Nintendo “NES” Coffee Table, It is Exactly What You Think

    It turns out, a Nintendo just might be the best place to set your Nintendo on top of.  -Okay that might have sounded weird, but it is true!- Just check out the screenshot below and you’ll what I mean, and be prepared to get your geek on. This giant NES was made by flickr user…

  • Adobe Flash Player Square 64-bit Launched Preview Today

    Today Adobe Launched the 64-bit version of their new “in-testing” flash player, Square. From Adobe: “Today we’re making available a preview of Adobe® Flash® Player that we’re calling “Square.” This preview includes support for two new areas, namely enhanced support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Beta and native 64-bit support for all major desktop operating…

  • How-To Turn your iPhone or Android into a Wifi hotspot

    Turning your iPhone into a WiFi Hotspot is simple if you have a jail-broken iPhone.  Your first FREE option is by PDANet.  Unfortunately the FREE version gives you only HTTP however normally that’s ok.  The Paid version gives you everything.  The second option is MyWi.  There is no Free version but for $9.99 1 time only, your…

  • Google Video Chat Added For Linux

    Google Video chat has been available on the PC and MAC for almost 3 years and today Google announced it’s now available on Linux. Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.

  • Google Apps Adds More Mobile Security Options

      Has your company “Gone Google”?  Are you a google apps system administrator for your company?  If yes, good news on the mobile side.  Google just updated the security controls on mobile users getting 1 step closer to bridging the gap between it’s mobile policies and that which BlackBerry and Microsoft offer via their Mobile…