Archive for August 2014
August 1, 2014
· 20 of the Worst PC Setups July 2014 and more (21 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Ubuntu 14.10 Alpha 2 released
· Florida Friday Part 2: Woman sentenced for having sex in Sumter County pavilion (Video, Poll)
· Florida Friday: Casselberry Walmart piles up the arrests (Video)
· Florida Friday: Hammerhead shark gets up close and personal in Florida (Video, Pics)
· Airline crew attacked with prosthetic leg
· Google to scrap its two barges
· Facebook being sued over Privacy violations
August 2, 2014
· AMD A10-7800 Kaveri and more (12 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Florida photobomber gets a wedding day beating
· Shocking end to Dallas police chase (Video)
· Random Photo: Cow Selfie FTW!
· Which browser is most secure
· Internet shows you can't miss
· Facebook outage results in calls to 911
August 3, 2014
· How to download large files and more (6 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· KDE 4.14 Release Candidate
· Schoolboy drains pond to recover smartphone
· Facebook, LOL (7 Photos)
· Nasa tests Microwave thruster
August 4, 2014
· Random Photo: Best gaming mouse
· 16 1000-1250 watt power supplies tested and more @ NT Compatible
· Even the mafia likes Facebook
· Poweliks: Rare malware with no file exploits Microsoft Word vulnerability
· G-Mail detects child porn, arrest is made
· Police perturbed by drone flyer (Video)
· TouchPico: Turn Any Surface Into A (HUGE) Touch Screen
· Comcast offers 6 months free internet
August 5, 2014
· Braswell has DirectX 11 graphics and more (15 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· KettleCharge uses boiled water to charge USB Devices (Video)
· Russian fisherman saved from bear by Justin Bieber
· CenturyLink has expanded its Super-fast gigabit Internet service
· Battery-free Wi-Fi technology?
· Pre-order the Navdy (A Heads Up Display device)
· Russian Gang has stolen 2 billion username and passwords plus 500 million email addresses
August 6, 2014
· All-round PC August 2014 and more (15 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Random Photo: Plastic surgery fail?
· The dromedaries fight back (Video)
· New US government leaker brought to light (Video)
· Man arrested for stuffing Family Dollar smoked sausage in pants (Mugshot)
· Justin.tv shuts down
· Active duty cyberwarriors out done by civvys
· CryptoLocker decrypted
August 7, 2014
· A Steve Ballmer Story That Helps Explain Microsoft and more (14 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Maine mother busted for drunk driving and speeding twice in two weeks (Mugshot)
· New teacher gets detention for showing up drunk and pantsless (Mugshot)
· Former Apple employee Sam Sung auctions business card (Video)
· Tourist gets mouthful of shark (Video)
· Random Photo: In other Apple news, Steve Jobs is alive in Brazil
· Google to penalize websites without encryption
· Microsoft to start blocking insecure add-ons ( Read: Java )
· Advance Notification Service for the August 2014 Security Bulletin Release
· Dogs on Hogs (Video)
August 8, 2014
· Best Free Drive Backup programs for Windows and more (17 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS released
· Likes-for-content banned by Facebook
· Random Photo: The ex-girlfriend text
· Yahoo! and Google team up to provide secure email
· Florida Friday: Credit card thief happily poses for picture
· Mini-terrorist breaches White House perimeter (Mugshot)
· Space gas can be deadly (Video)
· Two critical fixes from Microsoft to be released on Patch Tuesday
· (Update) Court of Vienna rejects Facebook suit, refers it to the regional court
· Origami robot (Video)
· Facebook "color changer" is malware
· R.I.P: James Brady, Ex-White House Press Secretary dead at 73 (Update)
August 9, 2014
· Best Desktops for Under a Grand and more @ NT Compatible
· Android-x86 4.4-r1 released
· Post Office mail filter taken offline (Video)
· Random Photo: A standing law shall never be broken
· Papers, please: Russia requires ID for public WiFi
· MajorGeeks Locals: 12-foot cat eating snake captured (Video)
· Pro tip: Don’t pick the massage parlor across the street from where your wife does Yoga (Photos, Mugshots)
· Supermoon plus meteor shower in store for Sunday night
· Apparently, he now has a music video
· Amazon's "Big Deal" Returns to the Kindle
· FCC questions throttling practice
August 10, 2014
· NYC DA subpoenas Twitter for ID info in "Brooklyn Bridge flag case"
· Random Photo: Fee to change?
· Hard West on Kickstarter
· FCC wants hackers to go after Rachel
· Virginia has the fastest internet speed
August 11, 2014
· AMDs 5 GHz Turbo CPU in Retail: The FX-9590 and ASRock 990FX Extreme9 Review and more (13 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Game of Hacks: Test your application hacking skills online
· "People of Walmart" source found in Walmart parking lot (Video)
· Here's 6 totally free email programs
· Random Photo: Southern kid control
· CASE Remote frees your creativity by letting you remotely control your DSLR camera
· Random Photo: Bill Gates 450 foot vacation yacht
· OMG Discovery - Thanks
· R.I.P: Robin Williams Found Dead in Possible Suicide
August 12, 2014
· Intel Broadwell Architecture and more (22 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Civilians seize control of satellite from within abandoned McDonald's
· Quick fix to get Firefox back up and running
· OpenGL 4.5 Specification Released
· Microsoft develops way to make shaky videos smooth (Video)
· Ankle monitor sends Florida woman back to jail (Mugshot)
· California mandates a "Kill Switch"
· Westboro Baptist Church hates geeks, especially that devil Zuckerberg
· Tests on suites that block exploit kits on XP SP3
· R.I.P: Lauren Bacall, Bogart's leading lady dead at 89
August 13, 2014
· Mini-ITX Game PC August 2014 and more (11 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2014
· ABC: Always Be Classy
· Twisted Sister: Fan-Filmed Footage Of HEAVY MONTREAL Performance (Video)
· Love triangle murderer asked Siri where to hide body (Mugshot)
· Random Photo: Boston wrong
· In honor of shark week....
· World View satellite to launch at 2:30 p.m. ET (Video)
· Random Photo: Googled CN Tower - Wasn't Diappointed
· Snowden reveals secret NSA cyberwarfare program
August 14, 2014
· OCZ ARC 100 240GB SSD Reviews and more (34 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Debian Installer 8.0 Beta 1 released
· Random Photo: Switzerland launches virus warning
· Pilot single-handedly lands plane after arm falls off during landing approach (Video)
· Internet just hit the 512K route limit
· Mineoama and the $500K scamorama
· California hotel hires Robot butler
· World Of Warcraft Warlords Cinematic and Release Date Event Stream Now Live!
· The lowdown on passwords
August 15, 2014
· How to prevent websites from hijacking keyboard shortcuts and more (16 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· TMZ claims they have an exclusive look at new Apple iPhone 6
· Random Photo: Crafting some computer mayhem
· Harvard is ground zero for the programmable thousand-robot swarm (Video)
· 77K Robin Williams fans sign Legend of Zelda petition (Video)
· iMessage Spam Pushing Fake Designer Sites
· Superfast broadband is possible over copper
August 16, 2014
· 5 Cool Things You Can Now Do With Windows Phone 8.1 and more (11 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Random Photo: The voices axed me
· Taser added to the Ice bucket Challenge (Videos)
· Looking for a tech job? Head to Texas
August 18, 2014
· Angelbird SSDs Reviews and more (10 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Ferguson riot tweet fail
· Robin Williams video scam hits Facebook
· Chinese hacker nailed in theft from Boeing
· Are you a victim of a RAT?
· Mom creates "Ignore no more" app
· Dumb-*** lights firecracker and puts it in his shorts (Video)
August 19, 2014
· AMD Radeon R7 SSD Reviews and more (20 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Ice Bucket Challenge for the not so famous (Video)
· Microsoft urges recent Patch Tuesday updates be uninstalled
· In a perfect world, real friends help bury the body - This one wasn't perfect
· Georgia woman high on synthetic pot steals, crashes police cruiser (Video plus winning mugshot)
· Man picks interesting t-shirt for jail mugshot (Mugshot)
· Random Photo: Shock and ow!
· New anti-virus test based on prevalence
August 20, 2014
· Satirical posts to be flagged by Facebook
· In depth: Build your first gaming PC and more (12 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Stoner Arrested in Orange County Drug Bust
· Man with huge sword taken down by citizen and jailed (Video)
· Random Photo: Missing droids have been found
· US Nuclear Regulator Commission (NRC) has been hacked three times
· Insane motorcycle crash (Video)
August 21, 2014
· Kingston V310 960GB SSD Reviews and more (17 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· 3 ways you can clean up your taskbar (System Tray) and improve performance
· UPS hacked
· Sprint dumps "Framily" plan
· T-Mobile recruiting new members with free unlimited data plan at no additional charge
August 22, 2014
· 15 AMD Radeon R7 260(X)/265 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 (Ti) cards review and more (15 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Florida Friday: Jacksonville, Florida wins worst news reporting of the week
· Florida Friday: Drunk, speeding and dragging a tree is no way to go through life son
· Florida Friday: Man arrested for prowling tried to fight a fire hydrant
· Samsung's deception will net US government $2.3 Million
· Jim McMahon from MajorGeeks does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (Video)
· %# (NSFW)
· Microsoft planning September 30 roll out for Windows 9
· Traffic lights hackable
· Microsoft teams with hardware makers to sell dirt cheap laptops
August 23, 2014
· Hands on with the ECS LIVA Mini PC Kit and more (9 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Joey Belladonna from the Grammy nominated Anthrax steps up for the ALS ice bucket challenge (Video)
· Keeping your network secure
· Backoff malware captures credit card data
August 24, 2014
· Random Photos: Icy humor (4 Photos)
· SpaceX rocket explodes during launch in Texas (Video)
· It's a sign (7 Photos)
· DeLorean to reduce lag in online gaming
· China to develop its own OS
· R.I.P: Lord Richard Attenborough, Jurassic Park Star, Dead at 90
August 25, 2014
· Gaming PC August 2014 and more @ NT Compatible
· Slow right-click response? Here’s how manage those pesky shell extensions
· Sony hit with DDoS by self-proclaimed ISIS sympathizers
· New breed of super-stealthy ATM skimmer uncovered
· Cop versus an Indian hood (Video)
· Apple to replace iPhone 5 'short life' batteries
· Microsoft drops price of Surface 2
· CNN gets pranked during California quake coverage (Video)
· Kaspersky says users reluctant to protect themselves
· Amazon to purchase Twitch for $970 mil
August 26, 2014
· Z97 & Z87 Motherboard Charts: 42 Models tested and more (21 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· A Flipping Game Changer: Long term update using the Yoga 2
· Sour neighbor pushes shutdown of 12 year old's illegal business (Video)
· California enacts Kill Switch legislation
· HP recalling six million power cords
· OnePlus apologizes for exploding battery
August 27, 2014
· Tulsa's Army National Guard Base Accidentally Covered In Foam (Video)
· Intel Haswell-E and X99 Chipset Preview and more (14 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· You're Doing it Wrong (5 Photos)
· If you're a Time Warner customer you might not see this story
· A users guide to becoming a troll
· Business choice awards: Tablets
· Random Photo: Time Warner Cable (3 Photos)
· ISIS looks to rebrand - not the terrorists
· Need a condom for your USB device?
August 28, 2014
· Soon No One Will Care About a Phones Battery Life and more (15 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Has Piriform pulled the “Slim” version of CCleaner? (Updated)
· Microsoft reissues patch to fix BSOD patch
· Microsoft purges Windows app store
· JP Morgan Chase hacked by Russians
· UFO's over Houston
August 29, 2014
· 20 of the Worst PC Setups August 2014 Edition and more (10 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 1 released
· Florida Friday: Daytona police chief stopped with gun in bag at Orlando airport blames 'stupid oversight'
· Florida Friday: If Shakieria want's some nookie you had better run (Mugshot)
· Florida Friday: Man under arrest for driving a lawn mower while intoxicated (Mugshot)
· Florida Friday: Texas man who threw chair, beer bottles from balcony was found naked with bag of cocaine: cops (Video)
· CryptoWall replaces shut down CryptoLocker
· Dairy Queen hacked - at least 8,000 credit card numbers stolen and for sale
August 30, 2014
· Intel Haswell-E, DDR4 reviews and more (44 Reviews) @ NT Compatible
· Wild man accused of exposing his junk (Mugshot)
· Google blames faulty search tools for delay in subpoenaed records
· |t's a sign (7 Photos) @ Pedal To The Metal
· Anatomy of a Hackers brain
August 31, 2014
· Convert Windows XP to a virtual machine with VirtualXP and more @ NT Compatible
· CompatDB Updates 08/31/14
· 'Les Miz' flash mob brings musical theater to Orlando mall (Video)
· Speed bumps FTW @ Pedal To The Metal
· Random Photo: Why online reviews suck
· Random Photo: The New York State Fair sets an all time attendance record - I go for my own record
