OekelWm's Blog (5)

New disc can store 500 GB

General Electric claims to have made a disc that can store a total of 500 Gigabytes of data. That’s around the data that would fit on 100 normal DVDs. The new technology has yet to be made in products that can be mass-produced at affordable prices. The company says that the price will be about 10 cents per gigabyte, which is nearly 90 cents cheaper than Blu-ray. Mr. Lawrence: “The price of storage per gigabyte is going to drop precipitously”.… Continue

Added by OekelWm on April 28, 2009 at 4:23am — 1 Comment

Burning Sand - A sandbox simulator

A while back ago I stumbled upon a program called Burning Sand 2. Burning Sand 2 is basically a sandbox simulator, that will allow you to mix all kinds of elements. By example if you mix salt with water, you get salt water. And if you would heat up this salt water with some fire, it will vaporize the water into steam and leave salt behind. It's also very easy to mod Burning Sand and create your own elements to mix up. You can download Burning Sand 2 at s… Continue

Added by OekelWm on February 16, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Is Google bad for the environment?

According to a research done by the Harvard University, two search requests done on the search engine Google, produce as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle of water. Every time you do a search requests on Google, it produces 7 grams of CO2. A recent research, done by the research firm Gartner, claimed that IT causes 2 percent of global emissions nowadays. In total there are 200 million search requests done on Google every day, that's 1,400,000 kg of carb… Continue

Added by OekelWm on January 12, 2009 at 7:14am — 4 Comments

The New XBOX Experience

As you may've heard, Microsoft is releasing a new XBOX 360 User Interface on November 19. This new interface will completely change the entire look of the XBOX 360. Also, it will add several new features. One of these new features is the ability to create your own 3D-avatar. And another feature is the Xbox Live Community Games. This feature allows gamers to create their own game and share them with the rest of the XBOX Live community. The new XBO… Continue

Added by OekelWm on October 31, 2008 at 8:56am — 1 Comment

Security Camera Setup

Do you want to have your own security camera system? Well, it's possible for free with Dorgem, an open-source program for video recording. After you've downloaded the program you can use it to capture an image every few seconds. Also, if you don't want the program to take that many images, you can also make it respond to motion with the motion detector. If the motion detector is on, it will only capture an image every few seconds for as long as it will detect motion. You can download Dorgem… Continue

Added by OekelWm on October 16, 2008 at 6:56am — No Comments