Phantom of the Floppera - Floppy Music

Remember the old floppy squares we used to store our 1.44MB of data on? Has anyone had the wonderful experience of installing Windows 95 on a computer with floppies? Well I have and it's not much fun... Especially when one of the floppies goes bad...

Now I have found an even better use for these obsolete disks we probably all have laying around, make a musical instrument out of them! Check out these two YouTube videos I found!

So which one did you like more? Let me know in the comments!

Create An 800mbps Wireless Network With LEDs?

LED Throwies!

You head that. There is this new technology being developed that would give a wireless network the capability of reaching speeds of 800mbps. That's almost three times as fast as the current wireless network leader, wireless n, with speeds of 300mbps.

The only current problem with this new technology is that the Wireless LED transmitter and receiver would need a clear line of sight in order to function properly. Even with this set back the technology may still be worth something.

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Juice Defender Crashed My LG Optimus Launcher

The LG Optimus V doesn't have very good battery life. I was already doing what I could to try and prolong the life of the battery. I had finally came to the conclusion that it was time to let an app conserve my battery power.

I had read around online and found Juice Defender. I downloaded the ultimate version of it and it was working perfectly. I was already noticing slightly more battery life before I had to recharge it. Last night I turned the phone off as I always. This morning I turned on the phone and the home screen launcher would continuoisly crash rendering the phone useless.

To fix this I turned on my phone, went to the android market on my laptop, and downloaded and installed launcher pro. This allowed me to use a different home screen launcher on my phone. Once usinging Launcher pro I wanted my old launcher back that I had gotten use to. To get it back I un-installed Juice Defender and everything started to work normally again!

Let's hope that my phone continues to work and that Juice Defender will fix this problem on the LG Optimus V.

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LG Optimus V - Pre-Paid Virgin Mobile Android Smartphone Review

LG Optimus V

I recently purchased the Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V Android Smart phone. Overall I am enjoying it very much. It's a good solid smart phone. Especially considering that it's a pre-paid phone. I am under the age of 18 which means that I can not get a contract phone. Yes I know I could ask my parents but this is just easier and simpler for all of us.

 
So this phone is running Android 2.2 which, as my first Android device, is AMAZING! I have only owned it for about a week and I already know that it's a much better platform then iOS on my iPod Touch. It just has more customization. Also, it's Google, so you know it's good.

New Domain Names! ICANN allows the purchase of custom top level domains

ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Which manages the Internets top level domains, has released news that they will be alllowing the purchase of custom top level domains. For those of you that don;t know what a top level domain is, it's the few letters that follow the url and the "." - for example ".com" ".org" ".gov"

At the moment ICANN regulates the TLD's that can be used. They are the ones you see every day. Now they are going to allow companies to purchase their own top level domain. So let's say "money" bank wanted a new domain name. They could purchase money.bank and when people went to money.bank in their web browser they would be able to visit the company's website.

This is an interesting idea but it's just going to lead to more confusion on the Internet. Sometimes it's already hard to remember if a website is going to be website.com - website.org - website.us - website.ly - website.info - you get the idea.

The thing that should keep the average person from buying a bunch of custom top level domains is that ICANN is going to put a fee on them. Right now a .com domain can be purchased for under $20 a year. Well if you wanted a custom TLD you would have to dish out an extra $185,000 as an evaluation fee. And then you will have to pay a renewal fee every year in the 200,000 dollar range.

Fortunately this should reduce the amount of spam that is put onto the new TLD's. Without these large fee's the Internet would be an even larger mess.

What do you think? If you had the money what domain would you buy? I would want a ".matrix" domain! :)

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