Posts Tagged ‘Geeky’

Barclays Capital Mindmap

As a cool recruitment campaign, Barclays Capital made this little game in Flex to (link taken from Miron). I have no idea how people on the leader board can get scores of over 2000. My “Word Power” category here is low because there’s very little score incentive to  forming each word (even with 5 or [...]

Sometimes

When you are working on two identical laptops side by side, have you ever tried to move your mouse cursor from one screen to the next?
But only to be greeted by the boundaries of your display. *doh*
I demand for the computer to magically* know that I want to control the mouse on the other screen!

Netvibes Ginger

Recently I got in on the Netvibes Ginger beta and I really like what they’ve changed in the upcoming new release. For those that don’t use Netvibes or don’t know what Netvibes is, it is basically a website that you can set up your own dashboards with feeds and widgets much like the iGoogle or [...]

Timmy asks… what font?

And don’t cheat with one of those font analysers on the web!

The new solid ThinkPad X300

Mmm…gizmodo just featured the new Lenovo X300 laptop’s specs

13.3″ LED backlit screen
2.5lb form factor
Santa Rosa
64 GB SSD
4 GB of RAM
4 hour of battery life (on 3 cell!)
Disproportionate screen border (this is definitely a “lenovo feature”)

Macbook Air killer for me? Yes. Why? Well, because I can actually plug things into this laptop without having to carry [...]