ollie commented on Worst Lobster Attack Sequence Ever, at 10:21 AM on May 9 Hey, have some respect for the crustacean! Remember, lobster sticks to magnet: [www.i-am-bored.com] Right claw south! more »

ollie commented on Sex Secrets Of Hancock And Smallville's Clark Kent, at 12:06 AM on May 7 @Log1c: The house on Eureka is indeed called Sarah. more »

ollie commented on Control and Grab Your Torrents From Anywhere with TorrentFlux, at 12:31 PM on Apr 18 While TorrentFlux is great for a home server, I see absolutely no need to install LAMP and run an apache server in a desktop computer only to control a torrent application. more » [lifehacker]

ollie commented on Gnarls Barkley To Raconteurs: Anything You Can Do We Can Do Better (Maybe), at 10:37 AM on Mar 18 I think it isn't the leaks themselves that dictate release schedule changes, but rather the reactions to leaks. more » [idolator]

ollie commented on Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES, at 10:20 AM on Jan 11 Mr. more » [gizmodo]

ollie commented on BitTerrorists In "Taking Their God-Given Right To Free Music A Bit Too Seriously" Shocker, at 2:02 PM on Jan 10 Slow news day, yet again?! more » [idolator]

ollie commented on Are Those Leaked Albums You Downloaded Really By Who They Claim To Be By?, at 3:43 PM on Jan 7 I hope at the end of this "experiment" they release the google adsense numbers to everybody else. more » [idolator]

ollie commented on Which Scifi Drug Do You Wish You Could Take?, at 5:43 PM on Jan 4 I'd go with the Accela pill, from Serial Experiments Lain. more »

ollie commented on The Old Music Industry Is Dead: Apple Launching Record Label With Jay-Z, at 10:59 AM on Jan 3 "Jay-Z and Jobs are both brilliant businessmen (...)" Jay-Z is not just a businessman, he's a business... more » [gizmodo]

ollie commented on Create Quick-Kill Shortcuts for Runaway Applications, at 2:39 AM on Dec 14, 2007 If you're in linux and don't want to find processIDs or open the command line, the quickest kill would be to run xkill (ALT+F2, xkill, enter). more » [lifehacker]

ollie commented on Spice Up Your Desktop with Time-Lapsing Wallpaper, at 2:30 AM on Dec 1, 2007 @Will If you are in Ubuntu, or any gnome-based Linux, you can make it yourself. 1) Open a terminal and create a wallpaper command: sudo gedit /bin/wallpaper 2) Paste this [ollie.com.br] inside the file, edit the line that points to your images, and save it. 3) Now, make it executable: sudo chmod a+x /bin/wallpaper 4) There, now you have a command (wallpaper) that will change your desktop background to a random image on the directory you chose. more » [lifehacker]

ollie commented on Try Out openSUSE on a Live CD, at 8:14 PM on Nov 5, 2007 In one of my hands is a can labeled "worms"; in the other, a can opener. more » [lifehacker]

ollie commented on A Look at Amazon MP3, at 11:45 AM on Sep 28, 2007 International music lovers and those with tastes leaning towards a little more indie material should try Bleep.com -- they offer DRM free downloads for a surprising number of independent labels as both high quality MP3 and lossless FLAC. Also, they offer the nifty feature of full length previews of any song in the store (you have to re-start playing at 30 seconds intervals), and you can navigate and check different parts of the track. more » [lifehacker]

ollie commented on Read comic books on your computer with ComicRack and FFView, at 10:38 PM on Aug 18, 2007 These files, cbr/cbz are just renamed rar/zip files. more » [lifehacker]

ollie commented on Integrate your iPod and iTunes with Last.fm, at 7:03 AM on Jul 25, 2007 For people on the linux world, if you use Amarok there's a built-in option on the settings (devices tab) that allows you to send your iPod usage to last.fm as well. It would download play stats everytime you connect your iPod in Amarok, and submit them to last.fm the next time you play a song in the player. more » [lifehacker]