tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103135162024-03-07T23:54:18.506-08:00Top Dawg TechLet's geek out.TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-8032097013153514932011-03-27T09:12:00.002-07:002011-03-27T09:13:08.266-07:00Long HiatusSorry for the long Hiatus, I plan on posting again...TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-87503180324040669142008-05-23T09:38:00.001-07:002008-05-23T09:38:13.929-07:00Scott_Adams<div style="text-align: center;" >Why I love Scott Adams<br ></div><a href="http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/8000/800/8716/8716.strip.print.gif" ><img align="baseline" alt="Will anyone love the teche?" border="0" hspace="0" src="http://writer.zoho.com:80/ImageDisplay.im?name=520848000000004001/1211560601562_girlfriend.gif&accId=520848000000002007" vspace="0" ></a><br >TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-7443459297976691182007-04-20T18:28:00.000-07:002007-04-20T18:30:24.627-07:00 <font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"The Ultimate Search For Bourne on Google"</span></font><br><br>About two weeks ago I <a title="spotted" href="http://topdawgtech.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-and-bourne-ultimatum-being-that.html">spotted</a> a Google maps logo at the bottom of the Bourne Ultimatum <a title="page" href="http://thebourneultimatum.com/">page</a>. I followed up on that post today and noticed that site has been updated with a flash intro. After the intro your back to the old page but with the Google maps logo missing. But wait, there's more. Scrolling down to the bottom of the page you will notice "The Ultimate Search For Bourne on Google Starts This Summer". <br><br><img style="height: 390px; width: 423px;" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=ajctjzjvv3gq_65ck55bxdw"><br><br>This seems to fit in really nicely with what Google has done in the past with "The Davinci Code". Boy I can't wait to see what's in store :D<br><br>Link:<br>thebourneultimatum.com<br><br><br>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-18119625824852536872007-04-08T17:28:00.000-07:002007-04-08T17:30:41.675-07:00 <font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">25% off your next spray on computer?<br><br></span><font size="2">We've all seen or heard of the spray on tan, but spray on computer? Researchers in Scotland are ready to reveal "</font></font><a title="speckled computing" href="http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=539582007">speckled computing</a><font size="4"><font size="2">"<br></font></font><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">scientists have developed a computer the size of a matchstick head, thousands of which can be sprayed onto patients to give a comprehensive analysis of their condition.</span><br></blockquote>The basic concept is this; take a bunch of these tiny computers, spray them on a subject and they automatically start to create a wireless network, sending back vital information about your heart rate, oxygen levels, etc...<br><blockquote><p style="font-style: italic;">The individual appliances, or 'specks', will form networks that can be programmed like ordinary computers. </p><p><span style="font-style: italic;">Spraying them directly onto a person creates the ability to carry out different tests at the same time, for example muscle movement and pulse rate. This allows a complete picture of the patient's condition to be built up quickly.</span> </p></blockquote> Link:<br>http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=539582007<br><br>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-6870858333074689382007-03-30T18:38:00.000-07:002007-03-30T21:03:45.873-07:00 <font size="3"> Google and the Bourne Ultimatum?</font><br><br>Being that I love the Bourne trilogy (and yes, I have the books), I saw the new trailer floating around YouTube (no DMCA take-down notices, weird:) After watching the trailer I buzzed over to Bourne Ultimatum web site and <a title="noticed" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/topdawgnate/Web/photo#5047891258650654994">noticed</a> a nice little Google Maps logo at the bottom left hand side. Is this a sign of a Google partnership like what we saw with The Davinci Code? Maybe I'm reading into this too much, but the Google logo just seems to obviously placed to be a coincidence.<br><br><img style="height: 385px; width: 385px;" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=ajctjzjvv3gq_60dzs97t"><br><br>Link:<br><a title="http://thebourneultimatum.com" href="http://thebourneultimatum.com">http://thebourneultimatum.com</a> <br><br><br>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-6580417469270396962007-03-30T18:08:00.000-07:002007-03-30T18:48:30.925-07:00<font size="3">Never worry about charging your cell phone again.<br> <br> I found a great article off </font><a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/04/01/8403349/" title="CNN Money">CNN Money</a><font size="3"> about a company set to revolutionize the small electronics industry. Powercast claims to have developed a technique for transferring radio waves to a DC; the important part, it's cheap. The concept is pretty simple. Plug in a base station and put in a dime size receiver (about $5 the company says) and whenever your mobile device gets within three feet of the base station it starts to charge. No more plugging in clumsy chargers, instead while you sit at your computer reading the post your phone is charging all on it own.<br> <br> </font><blockquote>That's where Shearer came in. A former physicist based in Pittsburgh, he and his team spent four years poring over wireless electricity research in a lab hidden behind his family's coffee house. He figured much of the energy bouncing off walls could be captured. All you had to do was build a receiver that could act like a radio tuned to many frequencies at once. <p> "I realized we wanted to grab that static and harness it," Shearer says. "It's all energy." </p> <br> <br> <p> So the Powercast team set about creating and patenting that receiver. Its tiny but hyperefficient receiving circuits can adjust to variations in load and field strength while maintaining a constant DC voltage. Thanks to the fact that it transmits only safe low wattages, the Powercast system quickly won FCC approval--and $10 million from private investors. </p> </blockquote>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-15146353161819734482006-12-12T19:17:00.000-08:002006-12-14T14:48:05.590-08:00 <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where To Place The Ads<br><br></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div></div>I was checking through the source code for <a title="Google Docs" href="http://docs.google.com">Google Docs</a> when I noticed this new Javascript <a title="file" href="http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js">file</a> addition, conversion.js. Digging through the code you'll notice to interesting urls<br><br><blockquote>var url = proto +<br> "//www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/" + <br> escape(w.google_conversion_id) + path +<br> "random=" + (new Date()).getTime();<br></blockquote><a title="http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/http/extclk?random=213800" href="http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/http/extclk?random=213800">http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/http/extclk?random=213800</a> serves up a tracking pixel. <br><blockquote>url = url + google_language_code();<br> var link = proto + "//services.google.com/sitestats/" +<br> google_get_filename() + "?cid=" + escape(w.google_conversion_id);<br></blockquote><a title="http://services.google.com/sitestats/en_US.html?cid=http" href="http://services.google.com/sitestats/en_US.html?cid=http">http://services.google.com/sitestats/en_US.html?cid=http</a> is an example of what will be served up.<br><br>The conversion.js file doesn't really seem to convert anything, rather is seems like standard ad tracking/documenting system. With this in mind is seems like Google is trying to add ads to Google Docs. This does seem like a logical step. Perhaps we'll see a similar system to what we find in Gmail.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-91896903312498041292006-11-17T13:51:00.000-08:002006-11-17T14:18:34.522-08:00 <div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Improved Google Video Rankings</span><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>I noticed this improvement to the Google video ranking system today.<br>Just click on the >> by the side of rank to expand this view.<br><br><img style="height: 469px; width: 440px;" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=ajctjzjvv3gq_25c7xx5d"><br></div></div><br><br>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-81621613001739772692006-11-10T07:01:00.000-08:002006-11-10T08:05:03.094-08:00 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aggressive spam filter or buggy blogger, you decide.</span><br> <br> The other day I wanted to post to my <a href="http://topdawgtech.blogspot.com/" title="Top Dawg Tech">blog</a> and I ran into a very interesting bug. I really despise the post editor with blogger, so I found a <a title="work around" href="http://tecnirvana.blogspot.com/2006/10/publishing-to-blogger-beta-using-google.html">work around</a> to use Google Docs to publish to my blogger beta. One really small annoyance, try publishing the dollar sign without the number one using Google docs, <a title="it doesn't work" href="http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ajctjzjvv3gq_18gb7g8n#Example">it doesn't work</a> (I'm publishing to Blogger Beta). I know Google wants to cut down on spam, but this seems a little to aggressive. <br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 346px; height: 257px;" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=ajctjzjvv3gq_20f288p9"><br></div> <br> For example, this doesn't work<a name="Example"></a><br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 348px; height: 259px;" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=ajctjzjvv3gq_22d2dzm9"><br></div> TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-89524968072080253202006-10-29T19:52:00.000-08:002006-10-29T19:58:06.649-08:00 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Some Profits in the Sky's<br><br></span>"And on page one hundred and six of the flight catalog you'll find the prices for beverages and internet connections..."<br><br>This is what you might hear the next time you find yourself on that twelve hour flight. According to <a title="Forbes Magazine" href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/networks/2004/06/17/cz_qh_0617wifi.html">Forbes Magazine</a> , Beoing has introduced in flight Wifi to select flights traveling from Germany to LA. This is a great idea that is sorely past it's time. What a better place to sell an internet connection than to a bunch of people who can't move for six to sixteen hours.<br><blockquote>"Airlines, which pay probably 500,000 [Dollars] a plane to get Wi-Fi, won't do this if only 2% of people will pay. Our research shows something like 38% of frequent travelers will pay for this." For its part, Boeing anticipates running a profitable business on an uptake rate of 6% of total travelers.<br></blockquote>So, would you like "<a title="Coffee, Tea Or Broadband" href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/networks/2004/06/17/cz_qh_0617wifi.html">Coffee, Tea Or Broadband</a><span class="mainarttitle"><span class="mainarttitle">"</span> </span><br><br> <br><br><br>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-25255810123758423312006-10-27T06:23:00.000-07:002006-10-27T06:23:57.170-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"> This is a test of the new Google documents<br><img title="Nathan Typing" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=ajctjzjvv3gq_12d4w87m" height="100" width="100"></div>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1117074022754249872005-05-25T19:05:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.913-07:00Turning polar dipping into energyYes the same thing that causes your skin to curl, the annual tradition of swimming in the cold Atlantic water, could be the key to the world every increasing demand of energy. The <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.html">article</a> in Wired.com talks about a very familiar with the ocean, Dr. John PiƱa Craven. He's got a degree in ocean engineering, a one crazy, but proven idea to transform the fridgid temperatures of the ocean bottom into energy. The basic premise, is sink a large pipe to the bottom of the ocean, start a siphon pump, and boom, you've got endless energy with very little needed to be done to keep it going. Not only that, but you can collect the condensation a provide fresh drinking water; free air conditioning; and according to Dr. Craven, use the cold water to accelerate plant growth. Really great read.<br /><br />Sources:<br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.html">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.html</a>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1116184624244185052005-05-15T11:55:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.857-07:00Blood PowerNeat article posted on <a href="http://slashdot.org">slashdot</a> about using your <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw111596760144B215">blood for power</a>. Japanese Scientist apparently figured out a way to draw electricity out of glucose using vitamin K3 (both found in the human body). The device generated enough electricity (0.2 millawatts) to power a small blood sugar level and then transmits that level. This would be great for artifical organs. Anyone want a truly built in cell phone charger?<br /><br />Sites:<br /><a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw111596760144B215">IOL.co.za</a><br /><a href="http://slashdot.org">Slashdot.org</a>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1114033133750406702005-04-20T14:27:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.796-07:00My personal web butler, Google.comFound a great <a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3499046">arcticle</a> about Google searches today, it's called <a href="http://www.google.com/searchhistory/">Search History </a>(beta of course). Not only does it track your searches, but it also tracks what links you click on. They allow you to search your history and give you the results by the most recent searches. They give you the option to "pause" and delete search queries. Very neat, check it out.<br /><br />Nate<br /><br />Links:<br /><a href="http://www.google.com/searchhistory/">Google Labs: Search History</a><br /><a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3499046">Search Engiene Watch</a>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1113834289772103092005-04-18T07:19:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.721-07:00Gmail FSIf you have a Gmail account, a great acessory is Gmail File System. It's free and it works pretty nicely into a windows operating system (with a little tweaking of course). It took me a while to get it configured right, so I thought I would write this little tutorial.<br /><br />First thing I did is create a new account. Then I installed GmailFS. This is where the work comes in, getting your firewall configured right. The GmailFS runs through the Windows Explorer Shell, so be careful how much access this program has to the internet. You need to let through three things to get it to work properly; DNS, Google.com (for account authentication), and gmail.google.com. Using your log of firewall activities will make this alot easier. First, create expert rules that allow outgoing connect to Gmail and Google (with Zone Alarm, just add in the host and it looks up the IP address). Then create a rule that blocks everything (the first rule should have presedence over the later, this keeps other programs from going in or out). Then try to access you Gmail Drive from your "My Computer". It should pop back an error to you. Examine your firewall log; you should see a UDP request looking something like *.*.1.1:53, this is the DSN request. Create a new rule which allow an outging connect with that IP and that only allows a UDP connect for DNS on port 53, and that should do it.<br /><br />Hope this helps. Enjoy.<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topdawgnate@gmail.com">Nate</a><br /><br />Sources:<br /><a href="http://gmail.google.com/">Gmail</a><br /><a href="http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm">Gmail File System</a><br /><a href="http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp">Zone Alarm</a>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1113513323397576922005-04-14T14:10:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.660-07:00An oldie but goodie. Build a Giant TV/MonitorSkimming around <a href="http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20041201/index.html">Toms Hardware</a> when I noticed a great arcticle that came out last December. Great read. It talks about building your own XGA Projector for very little money. Enjoy.<br /><br />Toms Hardware Article: <a href="http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20041201/index.html">http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20041201/index.html</a>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1113007619267918862005-04-08T17:32:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.603-07:00Ride the Light - A silicon photonic chip!Great <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0411/068.html">article</a> in the future of semiconductors, and it's called light. A startup company called, <a href="http://www.luxtera.com/">Luxtera</a> has created a way to intergrate the properties of fiber optics and silicon. Although this isn't an entirely new idea, the size and speed is. From just a CPU sized device, they can send up to 10 Gigabits a second, or as the <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0411/068.html">article</a> pointed out, "it's fast enough to send a DVD movie in four seconds. Could we be seeing the start of central computing again, where all your data is held online, say at Google. Just the other month, there were articles circulating about Google buying so called <a href="http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-1034_3-5537392.html">"dark" fiber</a> and what they coud use it for. Very cool read.<br /><br />Forbes article: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0411/068.html">http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0411/068.html</a><br />Luxtera: <a href="http://www.luxtera.com/">http://www.luxtera.com/</a>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1112926891964565722005-04-07T19:18:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.468-07:00Portable FirefoxFound a new version for <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox</a> for those who are on the run, <a href="http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/">Portable Firefox</a>. This is what the creator of the new version says about his portable version. <blockquote>Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a<br />USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform<br />faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher<br />that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch<br />computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives,<br />external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more</blockquote>TopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313516.post-1112926026919758132005-04-07T19:06:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:35:19.408-07:00My blog revampedThis is the inagrual blog for Top Dawg Tech, where when I find a neat tech article, I post the link. EnjoyTopDawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589958118624039270noreply@blogger.com0