Death by Caffeine is exactly what it sounds like. You pick the caffeinated beverage, it gives you an estimate on how many it will take to end your sad little existence.
"It would take 120.63 cups of Brewed Coffee to put you down."
-CGP fo Life-
Less than a week after the Sweeds raided their servers under US pressure, The Pirate Bay is back and serving torrents! The servers are now in the Netherlands. I expect this is just the biginning of the war. This should get very interesting.
And in true TPB fashion they have posted some interesting stats:
Just some stats...
... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix:
Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
.. yawn.
-CGP fo Life-
Beauty and Chaos is a really cool web-based white-board of sorts. At any given time you can just start drawing, as the 20 or so other connected people do the same. Of course you get idiots scribbling over your art or drawing offensive pictures, but just refresh and everything begins anew.
-CGP fo Life-
We just added a new feature to CapsGetPeeled. At the bottom of every post is a "Bookmark This" link. Clicking it will take you straight to Socializer which in turn will let you post the link straight to your favorite social bookmarking site. So start Digging and del.icio.us...um..ing? Well you get the idea.
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Macrovision has a long history of being evil toward consumers in the name of copy-protection. Their half-assed attempts at DRM have always had flaws and rather than come up with something better they have decided to go after the little guys.
VersionTracker.com is reporting that Macrovision is demanding they stop linking to MacTheRipper.
"We have been contacted by Macrovision, who claims this violates their property and are threatening to sue us if we don't remove the links to it. We are checking with our legal advisors to find out what our options are. -VersionTracker Editors"
The best way to get your copy of MacTheRipper at the moment is via BitTorrent.
-CGP fo Life-
After years and years of refusing, Los Angeles based KROQ has finally started streaming their content online. But as always, the still managed to screw it up. Not only is the stream based in Windows Media and super low quality (54 kbps), but the site is so badly designed it does not work on anything except windows. After trying the site in every browser I could (Safari, Shiira, Opera, Firefox, ect. ect.) I gave up and found the stream's url in the source.
"http://kroq-live.wm.llnwd.net/kroq_live"
UPDATE - 2/22/05
Looks like they have changed URL's:
"http://bdcast-infinity-kroq-fm.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_kroq-fm"
Drop that URL into Windows Media Player for mac and you too can hear The Kevin & Bean Show.
-CGP fo Life-
Some webmasters have googlebombed both the word failure and the phrase miserable failure so that the first result on google is the White House Biography of George W. Bush.
-CGP fo Life-
RnSkSoftronics has released a Mac OS X loader to put homebrew software on your Sony PSP 1.50.
"Simply click the plus button and select an EBOOT.PBP file to add that file to your Game Library.HomebrewPSP Converter will save your new, ready to go files in well labeld folders (Application Support)...just press the "Transfer to PSP" button to copy to your mounted PSP and enjoy!"
Anyone found good deals on 512mb Memory Stick Pro Duo's?
-CGP fo Life-
It's not on their homepage yet, but Griffin Technologies new iFill is my new favorite Mac OS X application. Want lots of new music on your iPod, that gets refreshed every day? Looking for an easy way to fill that extra gig or two on your iPod? Then give iFill a try.
"iFill streams mp3 files from thousands of free radio stations directly to your iPod. You can choose several stations at once and select from many different genres. And since iFill goes directly to your iPod, it won't clutter up your hard drive with extra files."
Pick your favorite streaming radio stations, plug in your iPod and go to sleep, when you awake you've got loads of new entertainment. They've got my $20.
-CGP fo Life-
Unxmaal pointed out this very cool Moss Graffiti. Grow your own biodegradable urban art.
-CGP fo Life-
Well, Besk one's house got robbed last week, fucking bastards cleaned up and got away with the following booty:
Brand NEW PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0Ghz, 1.5GB Ram, 2x 250GB Hard Drives SN# YM4384H1QPM
Apple 20' Cinema Display (ADC) SN# YM4384H1QPM
Canon Digital Elph S230 SN# 8185A001 [AA]
Philips Pronto Pro TSU 7000 SN# PL1A0428006201
Apple iBook G3 500Mhz, 512MB Ram, 10GB Hard Drive (bought used, no SN handy)
Apple iBook G3 600Mhz 256MB Ram, 20GB Hard Drive (with broken screen hinges)
Evolution MK-426 MIDI Controller
Lilliput 7" Touchscreen (see car-puter thread)
250GB Firewire Drive (my backup HD)
200GB Western Digital ATA Hard Drive
My Friends Sony Camcorder
so Help a fellow cap peeling brother out, and be on the lookout some sucker ass punk selling said items cheap on e-bay or craigslist - If I ever find out who did this, I'll probably be in jail for splattering their insides all over the place I find them, but hopefully the cops find them first.
And a note to everyone - GET RENTERS INSURANCE! it's cheap and will save your ass - as I'm finding out, not having it really sucks sweaty monkey balls...
The worst part about the whole deal is the 6 years of data that's now gone :(
And it's not like I didn't have a backup in case my internal drives died - the bastards stole my BACKUP DRIVES TOO! - a good case for always having an off-site backup of your important data!
Yup, just saw the killer news over at BoingBoing.net that the EFF just fought for your right to do whatever the hell you want with the TV you get over your publicly owned airwaves!
So those fat cat network bitches, that wanted to control the way you watch and interact with your television just got the beatdown of the year put on their asses!
Time to fire up those network TiVo's 2006 is gonna be a TV Sharing-Parrrrrrrty!
What do you when your iPod hard drive takes a dump??? If your anything like this guy, then you hand build an ATA cable to connect a 3.5" hard drive to your iPod. Definitely not for the solder-unfriendly, but having a 250gb iPod on my desk would be damn cool.
-CGP fo Life-
This swedish guy found a use for the cheese-grater front of the G5 tower. His site is in swedish, but here's a translation.
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The pioneer of "Gonzo Journalism" Hunter S. Thompson killed himself yesterday
"Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. He was 67. Thompson's wife, Anita, had gone out before the shooting and was not home at the time. His son, Juan, found the body.
Thompson "took his life with a gunshot to the head," the wife and son said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News. The statement asked for privacy for Thompson's family and, using the Latin term for Earth, added, "He stomped terra.""
A twisted brilliant mind has been lost.
"Hey look over there, there's two women fucking a polar bear"
-CGP fo Life-
I have always been disappointed with the lack of good visual plug-in's for iTunes. Sure there's G-Force, but compared to WinAmp and some of the other Windows MP3 players we dont have squat. Thats why I was ecstatic to find JewelCase. JewelCase renders a spinning 3D CD jewelcase of whatever your listening to. If the song has album art, it is used as the cover and altered for the back cover.
And JewelCase renders a track listing of all the other songs on the album (that you have, and have properly tagged) on the back.
"JewelCase is a plug-in that turns iTunes into a visual jukebox, displaying each song in a virtual CD jewel case, complete with album cover art, artist and album information... It's just like viewing real CDs in your collection!"
Simple, elegant, and free. Just like your mom.
-CGP fo Life-
Remember when I wrote about the ZoomQuilt and said how it would make a perfect Mac OS X screensaver? Well the guys at Nullriver must read this blog, because they made one (link goes to VersionTracker page).
-CGP fo Life-
Happy Holidays from everyone here at CapsGetPeeled. We're off to a small tropical country where hookers are legal and the liquor flows freely. You know, a traditional christmas.
-CGP fo Life-
More proof that people will sell anything on ebay (or at least try to).
For just $10k you can own the University of Iowa's Scoreboard and Jumbotron. If you win this auction you better invite our staff over for Superbowl!
-CGP fo Life-
It's probably been around forever, but it's new to me, so check out this video of a Dodge Viper GTS trying it's best to fly. You have to watch this video to believe what happens so I wont even bother trying to explain. Plus I'm really really lazy.
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Remember Bikes Against Bush? The guy with the WiFi/Bluetooth anti-bush graffiti bike. He was planning on sparaying anti-Bush messages all over New York in chalk during the Republcan National Convention. He has been arrested, his bike has been confiscated, and he could face a $10,000 fine and a year in prison. Even though the graffiti is chalk based, he has been charged with "criminal mischief and criminal possession of graffiti instruments".
-CGP fo Life-
Gadgetmadness has a link to directions to make your own hoverboard. It can reach a vertical lift of 5 cm, as long as the rider weighs less than 95kg. As you can tell by the picture, it's not exactly like in Back to the Future II, but it still seems pretty cool.
-CGP fo Life-
Do you ever miss playing classic mac games like Lemmings, Prince of Persia, or Monkey Island? Then you should check out The Macintosh Garden. Home to tons of macintosh abandonware games.
"Welcome to the Macintosh Garden, a site devoted to preserving Macintosh abandonware games.
Abandonware is commercial software that has been discontinued by the publisher and are not sold or supported anymore. If you are the publisher of a certain game on this site, and wish that it is removed, please email me and I will remove the game.
The interest for abandonware is increasing everyday. One reason is that the emulators keep getting better and there are quite a few great emulators that runs the MacOS. Another reason is that people realize that all these new "cool" 3D games already have been made. And usually the original is more fun to play. :)"
It's been up for a few years and just keeps getting bigger, and you have to love the great Mac OS 7.5.3 interface for the website.
-CGP fo Life-
Seth MacFarlane (creator of the Family Guy) has announced his new show American Dad. According to MilkandCookies.com:
"American Dad from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, is the animated story of Stan Smith (MacFarlane), who works for the CIA and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity.
Stan will go to extremes to protect his beloved America from harm as evidenced by the terror-alert color code on his fridge, and his frequent knee-jerk reaction of shooting holes in the toaster whenever the toast pops up."
Although there is nothing on the site yet, there is a downloadable pilot that is unfortunately in Windows media.
-CGP fo Life-
Still looking for a way to keep the bigger kids on your block from kicking your ass? Mow them down with a Jet Powered Go-Kart. It goes 100Km/H but no working brakes.
"This is also not the kind of gokart you can run up and down the road outside your house -- the neighbors would probably kill you and the cops would turn up in no-time.
It's getting a bit old and tired now, the engine has been welded back together quite a few times and is currently in need of further repairs (that I will make before selling). Odds are that you'll have to weld it up some more after a bit of running but that's simple enough if you've got half a clue or a mate with a MIG or TIG welder."
-CGP fo life-
Here's the good ol' red, white, and blue (found at Erotic LA) in honor of this 4th of July weekend. There probably wont be any post's over the weekend as the CGP staff will be busy attempting to consume all of the alcohol in the Los Angeles area, and blowing things up with highly illegal fireworks.
-CGP fo Life-
This public toilet is made entirely of privacy glass. Totally clear from the inside but opaque from the outside. According to BoingBoing it's located in Sweden. As if public toilets were not already scary places. That would be so fun to have sex in one of these, as long as it was recently cleaned.
-CGP fo Life-
Break out the ecstasy and spanish fly, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen are 18 as of this weekend. The frog twins have not eaten a thing for about 2 years, and are worth more money than everyone you know combined times 10. This picture was their senior yearbook picture that I stole from Defamer. Which one will be in playboy first? Which one will do rehab first? The future looks so bright.
-CGP fo Life-
Ray Charles died today at 11:35am. He was 73 and died of liver problems that can probably be blamed on his years of herion abuse.
The "Genius of Soul" died right here on the westside, just like 90% of celebrities.
-CGP fo Life-
BoingBoing points out The Top 25 Weirdest Things found on Amazon.com.
From live lobsters to chocolate covered pork rinds, and my absolute favorite: Owl Puke.
Too bad half the list is sea monkeys, and a couple items are standard items for gardening.
-CGP fo Life-
Don't want your your favorite porn site to know your surfing from inside NASA? Trying to keep the feds from knowing you grow your own medicine?
Then AnoniSurf is the answer you've been looking for!
"AnoniSurf has arrived for MacOS X. No longer a front-end to Anonymizer, AnoniSurf uses a script by James Marshall called CGIProxy. It filters out ads, masks your IP address, and prevents you from unwanted hack attempts while surfing the web. Please read the disclaimer before using the software! v1.2 adds a server database, server crawler, cleaner interface, smaller file size, software update feature, and an online PHP framework created by Patrick Paul."
FGSoft.net has contacted me and asked me to remind you that they do not condone illegal use of their software, and they are not legally liable for any misuse.
CapsGetPeeled.com however encourages you to participate in victimless crime, senseless mayhem, and total anarchy (just dont use this app to do it).
-CGP fo Life-
I've been using Gumby since last year but completely forgot to post about it! This app does EVERYTHING!
"Gumby is a multipurpose application for manipulating, fixing and converting files found on the net. Over the years, many tools have appeared to handle such files, unfortunately the majority have been PC-based, thus leaving Mac users in the dust. Gumby tried to rectify this situation by providing roughly 20 programs into a single application.
VCD Jelly: Extracts an mpeg-1 film from a file.
SVCD Jelly: Same thing as above but for Mpeg-2 files.
SVCD Fixer: Fixes SVCD's so they work on some players.
Binchunker: Converts a binary file (.bin) to an ISO.
SFV Checker: Performs checksum verification on files.
PS2 Patcher: Patches PS2 images (CD or DVD) for the Japanese swap trick.
PPF Patcher: Applies PPF patches to images.
MPEG Cutter: Cuts or trims MPEG documents.
Unrar Extractor: Extracts files from RAR documents.
PAR Checker: Fixes RAR documents using parity files (PAR).
PS2 PAL: Converts PAL PS2 games so they run on NTSC TV sets.
GI to ISO: Converts Primo DVD images to standard ISO.
S/VCD Builder: Creates VCD or SVCD images from mpeg documents.
MPEG Fixer: Demuxes, Remuxes, Fixes and Repairs MPEG files.
Batch Processor: Automates multiples functions to work with 1 click."
All the CGP staff use this app daily, and according to the site a major update is coming.
-CGP fo Life-
This excellent MacOSXHints.com article explains in detail how to use your firewire equipped mac to record HDTV signals at full resolution for free. All that is needed is a HDTV cable box with FireWire (Since April 1st the FCC requires your Cable company to offer you one), a mac with firewire, NinjaMonkey, and tons of hard drive space. The only downsides are some HDTV signals are encrypted (unplayable), the files can only be played back in VLC, and video at 1920x1080 and 1280x720 (1080i and 720p) takes up huge amounts of drive space.
-CGP fo Life-
Unxmaal.com points out the Rasterbator. A very very cool website that takes any image you give it and makes it HUGE, and rasterizes the image into various sized dots. The resulting image is broken up into pages and downloadable as a pdf file. Then you can print the hundreds of pages out when you get to work the next day. I love the smell of hot toner in the morning.
-CGP fo Life-
Lik-Sang is now selling the GBA Time Machine, an adapter that lets you play Famicon games on your Gameboy Advance! The Famicon was the Japanese version of the NES, and with a cheap adapter you can use this with your american NES games. With the new NES styled (pictured above) GBA it's a perfect match.
-CGP fo Life-
MacNN is reporting that Mark/Space has announced The Missing Sync for the Tapwave Zodiac! The Zodiac is a palm based portable gaming device made by ex-Apple and ex-Palm employees. It's got a huge screen, good graphics and sound, bluetooth, SD slot, force feedback, and can run any Palm OS application. But, and this is a fairly big but, absolutly zero mac support. No palm or iSync. Tapwaves retail games, movies, and mp3's cannot be installed from a mac. You can however send normal Palm .prc files via bluetooth to the device. For $40, The MissingSync should do all of this and even transfer your highscores from the Zodiac to Tapwave's website. I love my Zodiac, maybe now that I can use it as a PDA I will love it more.
-CGP fo Life-
Please dont ask me why, but this guy has figured out how to install Linux 2.2.16 on the original Apple Airport Basetstation (graphite). I cant possibly think of a use, but the author says:
"Having a linux router obviously offers a huge amount of flexibility. Just an example: my ISP quite often drops my connection - I let 'init' take care of respawning pppoEd which in turn runs the right scripts to send me an email to work with the new IP address as soon as the new connection is up. Also, the status of the ppp link is monitored by the leftmost red LED. "
-CGP fo Life-
Todays edition of CapsGetPeeled has been brought to you by Microsoft Word.
Write letterz n shit, yo.
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In what is absolutely the most important news of all time, Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Family Guy, has announced that The Family Guy is returning to television with new episodes!!!!!!!!!!!!
"MacFarlane told IGN.com that he plans to begin production on new installments in April, but is unsure about whether the episodes will first air on Fox, which originally broadcast the series from 1999-2002, or the Cartoon Network, which has aired the show in repeats since April 2003.
"Cartoon Network will be involved regardless," MacFarlane told IGN.com. "Whether it goes there permanently or winds up on Fox first and then Cartoon Network remains to be seen. So, at the very least it will be on Cartoon Network, which is great, because at the end of the day, that's where we built our biggest fan base. So I'm happy either way."
Hell Yeah! Too bad they wont start till 2005.
-CGP fo Life-
Moshdaddy showed us this. In city's where it snows a lot, local news stations announce business and school closures to help employees and students from trudging out in the snow.
News 14 in North Carolina took it a step further and made a web interface that let anyone who registered submit said closure information and didn't bother to read any of them before sending the messages out over live TV.
Some UNC Students found out and halarity ensued
-CGP fo Life_
For sale: One used US Navy F/A-18a Hornet Fighter Jet. This jet can fly 1,400 mph, can climb over 30,000ft, and turn any Afghani cave into a nice crater with ease. As part of the Blue Angels, it is also a collector's item. Originally this plane cost our government $28 million each, but thanks to the magic of ebay, it can be your for $2 million in parts or $9 million assembled. The seller recently got a visit from the FBI who apparently wanted a ride to the liquor store but forgot to bring jet fuel.
-CGP Fo Life-
Last.fm is a really cool personalized music streaming service that my explanations can't do justice so here is the blurb from their site:
"Last.fm creates a radio station unique to each listener. Stations are not limited by programming schedules or musical genres, but are compiled by a profiling and recommendation system which compares your musical taste with other listeners.
Last.fm Radio tries to do three things for you: Firstly the Last.fm system learns about your musical taste by remembering which songs you listen to and which you skip. Last.fm then uses this knowledge and tries to play you more songs you'll like, too. If you become a fairly regular Last.fm listener, the system should know you well enough to be able to predict new songs you like."
Sign up and start listening biatch.
-CGP fo Life-
MacMerc has discovered a way to cheat in the Pepsi/iTunes store promotion.
From their site:
"The secret is the angle. I've found it to be 25Ί, but that's really no use when you're out in the field. Just tilt it until it seems about that, and look up towards it (hold it above your head). With luck, you should be able to see under the cap."
I cannot try this since I cannot find the promo bottles anywhere in Los Angeles, but if it works let us know!
-CGP fo Life-
E! Online is reporting that Fox is in the early stages of making a Simpsons movie.
"Fox's feature-film animation division is "in the very early stages of developing an idea for the movie," exec Chris Meledandri said in Wednesday's Daily Variety"
Could this be the end of the Simpsons 15 year run? The only movie based on a TV show that didn't completely suck ass was South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut. The article mentions that the Simpson's staff feels the same way and some have even joked that the Simpsons movie is "gonna suck pretty hard.".
-CGP fo Life-
Don't have room in your pockets for both your cell phone and your gat? Then digital convergence has evovled enough to benifit you too. Introducing the Cell Phone Gun. According to this Time.com article the weapons are made in Croatia and fire 4 .22-cal. bullets in rapid succession simply by pressing number buttons on the phones face. Now you can pull a drive-by and check in on your baby's mama at the same time.
-CGP fo Life-
Today marks CapsGetPeeled's 1st official birthday! While I have had the domain for about 3 years it was never actually put to use until I installed MovableType on my home G4 on January 22nd 2003. It's been a lot of fun and a ton of work but the pay makes it all worth..........nothing. If our host had not been hacked we would be at around 500 post's, but since the backup was pretty old we only have about 270.
Here's to another great year of cap peeling and westside representation!
-CGP fo Life-
The always excellent Gizmodo has by far the best CES coverage I have seen. Short, simple and lots and lots of photos of cool gadgets and gizmos.
-CGP fo Life-
No baby, it's a Bigger Disk! LaCie has began shipping it's 1 Terabyte (yes thats 1000 Gigabytes) Bigger Disk at MacWorld and CES. It's got Firewire 800, Firewire 400, and USB 2. Needless to say we want a couple. Prices and availablity are not yet available.
-CGP fo Life-
Ever wanted to talk like Snoop Dog but always get your shizzles confused with your izzles? Let AskSnoop translate for you! Enter any website and get a Snoopified result. From a snoopified CNN article about the mars probes:
" The $400 million craft named Spirit also locked in on Earth wit its most powerful antenna fo' da first time, allowing that shiznit beam images 'n data directly Earth without interruption."
-CGP fo Lizzle-
Happy New Year! Here is a holiday card for your loved ones who have represented for the Westside this year.
-CGP fo Life-
Everyone MUST go out and purchase this right now, especially all you bust-ass-punk-mofo's fronting and perpatrating like you a true payer mac flossing all the hoes!
GHETTOPOLY
Master P's little brother, C-Murder has been found guilty of second-degree murder in a Louisiana court, and is facing life in prison, for the death of a 16 year old outside a club earlier this year.
-CGP fo Life-
When your on the run from the cops for murder, stealing a $5 sandwich is probably not the smartest thing to do, especially when you have $500 in cash on you.
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This British guy is my new personal hero! He drives around England with an angle-grinder cutting the boot (wheel clamp) off people's car for free. I got the boot on my car once and not only did it cost a fortune to have the city remove, but they ruined my new rims.
-CGP fo Life-
Flόgtag is coming to LA!!! September 20th on the Santa Monica Pier. Flugtag is a contest where people launch man-made objects off piers with themselves inside. It should be a blast and most of the the CGP staff will be there drinking their lives away. Come on by and buy us a beer.
-CGP fo Life-
Xlr8YourMac.com is talking about a cool Firewire based TV Tuner and Video Converter currently only available in Japan. More info is on the IOData japanese website.
-CGP fo Life-
Micro$oft's Windows Media Player for Mac page has been updated with the following note:
"Coming Soon! Windows Media Player 9 Series for Mac OS X will deliver compatibility with 9 Series audio and video content."
Maybe they will make it not suck ass this time, and maybe Bill Gates will buy me my own personal porn star. Seriously Bill, I know you can spare one.
-CGP fo Life-
A post on theInside Mac Games Forums gives us an update on the status of Descent: Freespace 1 & 2 for Mac OS X. Mainly it says music/voices and fullscreen don't work but movies do. 3D audio and force-feedback are on the way. This is cool but what about Descent 3? My absolute favorite in the series and it has internet multiplayer. Too bad Scott never got off his lazy ass and finished GameRanger Support for it.
-CGP fo Life-
Labock Tech have developed the utimate in Cap Peeling technology, one way bulletproof glass! One side stops bullets, the other side allows them to pass through, then the glass heals itself. Dont believe me? Watch the video (sorry it's in realplayer). Now you can take your kids on drive by's and feel confident that they wont be the ones gettin peeled on.
-CGP fo Life-
Corey managed to get Krazy Glue in his eye! From the story:"As a side note, I'd like to say that wet Krazy Glue in the eye hurts like a motherf*#@%r. More on that later.". Sure, he is a dumbass for doing it, but you have got to respect that he told the world!
-CGP fo Life-
This Security detail shows a simple way to defeat Mac OS x's(10.2) ScreenSaver Password protection. Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) adds password protection when waking from sleep but I don't know if that feature is vulnerable as well.
-CGP fo Life-
According to InsideMacGames.com the Mac tech demo for Neverwinter Nights comes out tomorrow. Produced by BioWare and published for the mac by MacSoft, NeverwinterNights is a D&D nerds wet-dream, which is sadly the only one they will ever have.
-CGP fo Life-
FlyMan is a really cool flash game. Your a guy who can fly, and the goal is to get to the top, but it's way more fun to interact with the things you fly by.
-CGP fo Life-
Do you love Halo and live in Texas? Well if so, climb off your horse, put down the lasso, and take off your klan hood, because GearBox software needs you. They are asking people to come down and play the new net-ready PC verson of Halo. You get free food and a copy of Halo when it ships as well.
-CGP fo Life-
CoreCrib (mentioned here and here), the company Repackaging/Reselling old Apple logic boards in new cases, is no longer in business. Just as I said, Apple came down on their parts supplier, Small Dog, since Apple Authorized repair facilities are not allowed to resell parts, especially not to another company who isn't in any way Apple authorized.
From their site:
" The Bad News: Our distributor was under contract to not sell the Apple components we reply on for our business. The supplier was unaware of the stipulation when we originally started our business agreements. Now that the facts are clear, they are under legal pressure to stop immediately and perminately the sales of Apple components to CoreComputers.
The Good News: We are actively searching for new suppliers which are not under agreements that restrict the sales and have a very good lead that may provide short term and long term supplies for current orders and new orders of both the CoreCrib and the CoreBox. "
-CGP fo Life-
Trevor Goddard (a.k.a. Kano from the Mortal Kombat movie) died of "possible suicide by an overdose of as-yet unknown "illicit, illegal" drugs" on sunday. He is also going to be in the upcoming Pirates of the Carribean movie.
iCommune is now offering 401(ok) a "quick and dirty hack to allow iTunes 4.0.1 to share music beyond your local network". Quick and Dirty? sounds like our kinda app!
In related iTunes info, LostBoi.com has detailed instructions for using DNS redirection and other fun stuff to share your iTunes 4.0.1 music.
-CGP fo Life-
Has anyone gotten the WASTE source to compile on Mac OS X? It has a Makefile.darwin so i thought "gcc makefile.darwin" would work but it says "Bad Magic Number. Not a Mach O file" so I assume it's X86 assembly??? I really dont know this stuff.
PDASmart is now selling replacement battery's for the old iPods. They sell for $59, the same as at LaptopsForLess but it's always nice to have another source.
-CGP fo Life-
Remember that Microsoft iLoo that they said was a joke, well it turns out it wasn't, but the execs killed it after the publics reaction and tried to play it off as a joke. Good old honest Microsft.
-CGP fo Life-
Corey Tamas has found one of the funniest TV ad's I have ever seen. You would never see this on American TV (after all it wasn't on the BBC 2 years ago), and there isnt even any nudity. You might want to turn your speakers down though.
-CGP fo Life-
VirtualCrack.com provides free crack for you and your family. Crack-based eCards are perfect for every situation. Birthdays, weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and even funerals. They even offer pre-written greetings such as "Sorry I ate your dog", "Happy V.D.", and the time-tested Hallmark classic "So, you killed your boss?".
-CGP fo Life-
Scott Blake makes really really cool Bar Code Art. Sure it's nerdy, but nerds need creative outlets as well dont they?
-CGP fo Life-
I have been playing The Getaway for about two weeks now, and just passed the mansion with the lasers. "Why haven't you finished it?" you ask? Cause I DIDN'T READ THE FUCKING MANUAL. The game has no "training" mode or level so I just jumped in and figured it out by playing. I can't remember any time in my gaming history (easily 400 games) that I have missed out on MAJOR features of game-play due to not reading the manual, but now it's happened.
It turns out there is an Auto-Aim that is meant to be the primary attack but only works when enemies are around, so when you hide in an empty room to learn the controls, it does nothing so you assume it's unused.
And this one bothers me a lot. The game has no health or ammo gauges, and no health to pickup anywhere. I assumed that this meant there was no healing, boy was I wrong. Apparently leaning against walls heals you. Yes, LEANING heals you! WHAT THE FUCK!@#$% I want those magical morphine walls in my new condo!
Speaking of the condo, I get my keys on monday. I am so god damn excited I can't believe it. My first home, it's a ton of responsibility but will absolutely change my life for the better. I still have no roommate and can't afford to be without one. I put an ad in the Loyola-Marymount student paper since it's walking distance to the campus but only got 3 phone calls. First one didn't return my calls. Second forgot to leave his phone number in the message and didn't show up on my caller ID. Number 3 only wanted a summer place, and I don't want to go through this again in 3 months. Also I still haven't figured out hosting, I absolutely cannot get a static IP in the new place and cannot afford any kind of hosting. A few people have emailed me links to their favorite hosts (thanks) but I still cant swing it. Fear not, my dear readers, CapsGetPeeled will never die. The power of the Westside compels it.
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Crazy Apple Rumors reports that IDG has changed MacWorld New York yet again, this time to a symbol. Unhappy with MacWorld, they changed it to CREATE, when they realized no one would show they renamed it to MacWorld CREATE, and now it's:
Anyone going to "The conference formerly known as Macworld New York"
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Today I aquired a Powerbook G4 Titanium 500mhz with a broken logic board and damaged screen. And a Blueberry iBook 300Mhz with a bad logic. Since I already have a clamshell iBook I am selling this one for parts if anyone is interested (unless I come accross a very cheap logic board. For the Tibook I am having trouble finding an LCD and Mobo anywhere but Ebay. Any ideas? Email me
Dan Dickinson's The Primary Vivid Weblog
links to a mashup remix of Eminem's "Without me" and the Benny Hill theme song. Yes thats right, the Benny Hill theme song. Yes, thats right, the old english comedian who appreciated a good rack Benny Hill.
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iPodBattery.com sells a replacement battery for your iPod and even has instructions. So now your thinking why should I give a fuck? If you dont have an iPod you shouldnt, in fact if you dont have an iPod go away, we dont like you, no wait come back..... please.... ma'am........ ::::::sob sob::::: But if you do have an iPod there isnt anywhere else that I have ever seen that will sell you this battery. Apple wont, and they wont even sell them to the most authorized of Apple Authorized service departments.
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Everyone using iScrobbler may have noticed over the last 2 weeks that AudioScrobbler.com has been shaky at best, and even gone for a while. It has returned and even has working recommendations once you have submitted 500 songs. Here is my stats because I like to pretend you care. If you don't know about AudioScrobbler, it works with your music player to compare what you listen to with what other Audioscrobbler users are listening to and makes recomendations based on this data.
Make em go woooooooo woooooooo! Bubb Rubb is the greatest craze to hit the net since All your Base. Watch the video and see a true cap-peeler in action. A google search turns up MP3 remixes and even flash animations. Wooooooooooooo Woooooooooooooo.
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Everyones favorite wireless scanner/cracker KisMac has been updated to version 0.04a. The following changes were made:
* bugfixes
* gps support
* log export (macstumber and netstumbler format)
* newer kernel file
Anyone know any Mac OS X compatable GPS hardware?
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Consumption Junction has a great ad for some new medication.
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Shiny Entertainment has finally released some in game footage of the upcoming Matrix game. The game is coming to PC, Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube. From the look of video the Bullet Time stuff looks really cool but the camera and the running animations need a lot of work. Who knows until we try it.
"Red pill? Dont you have a white one that says Vicodin on it instead?"
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Apple brings the Duece-Duece
First they give us a new Safari , and then Mac OS X 10.2.4. Stupid update moves and replaces your httpd.conf (Apache Config). If they can write an OS I don't see why they cant figure how to add a line to an existing text file.
Movable Type hits 2.6
The software that runs this blog (and like a million others) MovableType has been updated to version 2.6. There is also a Pro version ($) that might be useful to blogs that actually have readers (unlike here). I have updated this site to the new version, and to my amazement (and I'm sure yours as well) I don't think I screwed anything up. If you find any broken links or errors please let me know.
Kismac 0.03c
Everyones favorite wireless scanner Kismac has gotten a big update.
Forty-Two 1.5
The best DVD ripper/encoder for OS X has been updated to 1.5, check out the Forty-Two website for details and downloads.
Forty-Two has been updated to 1.0 and OMFG does it kick ass. The best Mac DVD to VCD/SVCD/DIVX/DVD-R app ever! Go grab it now before the MPAA finds out. READ the entire Read Me or it wont work.
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A little strangeness gleaned from /. for those of you who love the bootleg DVD action (and you know who you are).
This site has some great screenshots of the random translations.
Quite nice.
You have to be a moron to:
A) Run a Microsoft webserver
B) Run your CRUCIAL SQL database servers with direct internet connectivity
C) Forget to install a security update from last July
D) All of the above and BE Microsoft!
Thats right kiddies, Micro$oft didnt install their own patch on some of their servers! Slammer took them down like the bitch they are.
CapsGetPeeled now offers RSS feeds!. Just add that url to your favorite RSS reader and get a nice quickview of the site. My favorite OS X RSS apps are:
NetNewsWire
SlashDock
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I know our readers have been asking "How can we give back to Caps Get Peeled for the wonderfull service they provide us?" By buying us a Skycar of course! The prototype is going up on ebay starting Jan 31 so save up your cash!
The cocaine industry sells more than $100 Billion of product a year which makes it the #1 industry in the world. In other word Scarface is the man, and you should probably consider a new profession if you haven't already.
