http://www.2robots.com Inside the robot's brain Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:03:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The VOX External Hard Drive (v1) is a solid is a great and near-silent external hard drive for almost any purpose. Like other external hard drives, it will work with all the major operating systems: Linux, OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista without any problems. It comes pre-formatted as ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/08/16/vox-external-hard-drive-v1/ A Telnet client for your iPhone or iPod Touch! This client can be used for interactive communication with another host using the TELNET protocol. It implements a simple terminal emulator, and can be used to connect to any standard telnet server including Linux, BSD, Solaris, OS X, Cisco, or even Windows ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/07/30/telnet-client-released-for-iphone-ipod-touch/ Space Wormy is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch! You can play a free demo online. The online version has simpler graphics and gameplay than the full version. It works both on a PC web browser and from the iPhone. You can get the full version through the iTunes Store. It ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/07/10/space-wormy-available-now-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ I'll admit it. When I was younger I used to pirate music, movies, games, and software. I was a poor high school and later college student. I had no money. I couldn't afford to buy those things. If I didn't find a way to get it for free, I just ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/06/24/bsa-mpaa-riaa-try-again-but-with-data-this-time/ For the past few years, I've been using a Mac Mini as my main HTPC. This has worked out really great, as the Mini is a small, quiet piece of hardware, and generally Apple's iTunes/Frontrow is simple, intuitive, and impressive as a content management system. As my collection of media grew, ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/06/02/home-storage-server-on-the-cheap-to-drive-your-htpc/ I think its a shame that email encryption and signing isn't more prevalent on the Internet. As a technology that has been mature for over 10 years, there is little or no built-in OS support for it in either Windows or OS X. The latest version of Ubuntu Linux, however, ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/05/10/email-security-and-pgp-or-gpg/ I upgraded my blog software to Wordpress 2.5. I've been using Wordpress since the 1.x days, and more specifically, I've been using the current theme (originally based off Neuron, but long since modified) since then, so I haven't been using a lot of Worpresses newest features. This morning I "widgified" my ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/04/09/site-update-2/ Hard drive technology is fundamentally broken. The main problem with hard drives are that they haven't been able to keep up with Moore's Law. While computers have gotten faster and faster, hard drives seem to have topped out some time ago. At the same time, the total storage capacity of drives ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/03/30/hard-drives-are-fundamentally-broken/ Apple seems to be getting a lot of negative press on its recent SDK announcement. Much of the criticism seems to focus around two issues: That not all functionality of the phone is accessible via the SDK, and that Apple controls the distribution method to the phone. I'll address the ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/03/17/iphone-sdk-correcting-brew-and-j2me/ Chrome Walker has a post on some of the new phones coming out in Europe for 2008. One of the trends that seems to be emerging is the "real web." This was kicked off by Apple with the iPhone, and its the idea that you can view the Internet on ... http://www.2robots.com/2008/02/25/real-web-on-your-cell-browser-yes-app-server-no/