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Google explains Chrome OS

Chris Barnes — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:25:57 +0000

The upcoming Google Chrome OS is basically a stripped-down operating system that runs nothing but a Web browser. The video above explains the rationale behind this, and what makes Chrome OS so great.

Chrome OS won’t be ready for prime time until some time next year, but if you want to give it a go, there’s a pre-release version here which you can download and run in a virtual machine.

YouTuber reviews worst game of all time

Chris Barnes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:15:32 +0000

Here’s a video review of Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing, widely considered to be the worst game ever released.

One word: WOW!

Amazing a capella cover of “You Rock My World”

Chris Barnes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:16:48 +0000

Here’s a faithful 38-voice a capella rendition of one of Michael Jackson’s hits:

(via Cover Me)

Robot plays Rock Band on iPhone

Chris Barnes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:50:53 +0000

The Rock Band iPhone application is pretty good fun, but can be time consuming. Enterprising blogger Joe Bowers had a brainwave, and built a robot to play the game for him, saving him heaps of time!

Seriously though, this is an impressive bit of robot-building, and Joe has documented the entire build process from start to finish on his blog.

(via Mashable)

First computer to sing – IBM 7094 sings “Daisy Bell” in 1961

Chris Barnes — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:16:59 +0000

This historical achievement is what inspired Stanley Kubrick to use the song in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Time to upgrade to MS-DOS 5!

Chris Barnes — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:00:27 +0000

This cheesy Microsoft promo video from 1991 explains why you should upgrade to MS-DOS 5. Ah, the good old days…

Pioneering new image resizing technique from Adobe

Chris Barnes — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:16:06 +0000

via Download Squad.