McGST

Recent Posts - page 520

• Portable printer round up

  By Shaun on January 14, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Growing up, when we broke the camera out and took pictures, the photos were printed and in an album within a week. Some of my fondest memories are of my family sitting on the couch, sifting through old albums and giggling about… Read More ›

• The Magical Special Effects in Classic Silent Films

  By Shaun on January 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Harold Lloyd did indeed hang from a clock face on the side of a building in his classic Safety Last! (watch the scene up top), but as the gif shows, a mattress was only a few feet below, safely out of shot…. Read More ›

• How the World’s Oldest Computer Worked

  By Shaun on January 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. The artifacts they came back up with included money, statues, pottery, and various other works of art and craft, as well as a curious lump of bronze… Read More ›

• The Final Flight of Martin McNally

  By Shaun on January 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Finally alone after eleven hours of feverish demands, threats and hostage exchanges, the hijacker pulled off his shaggy brown wig and began to disrobe. He shrugged out of a burgundy sport coat, white dress shirt and yellow trousers — it… Read More ›

• Stand up your asthma inhalers

  By Shaun on January 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Even though I’ve used one, I never realized that asthma inhalers aren’t designed to stand upright… and it’s quite strange because there’s no real reason why it shouldn’t! If it could stand, it would save space in the medicine cabinet… Read More ›

• Good for marching into Poland…

  By Shaun on January 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A California shoe company has recalled a boot after a customer discovered the sole left tiny swastika prints behind. The boot went viral after a Reddit user posted a picture showing the shoe’s tread and its swastika imprints. Conal International… Read More ›

• Trailers for 11 Nintendo Switch games

  By Shaun on January 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  We’ve collected the trailers for all of the games below. There are still many details to be filled in before the Nintendo Switch launches on March 3rd — notably, only a few launch games appear on this list. So expect… Read More ›

• App.net is shutting down

  By Shaun on January 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  In May of 2014, App.net entered maintenance mode. At that time we made the difficult decision to put App.net into autopilot mode in an effort to preserve funds and to give it ample time to bake. Since then every dollar… Read More ›

• iBoy

  By Shaun on January 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Tom is an average teenager whose world is turned on its head when a violent encounter with local thugs leaves fragments of his shattered smartphone embedded in his brain. He wakes from a coma to discover that returning to normal… Read More ›

• The HTC U Ultra

  By Shaun on January 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The other big change on the outside is the U Ultra’s second screen, which is a thin 2-inch strip residing to the right of the front-facing camera and immediately above the Super LCD 5 screen. The 5.7-inch Ultra has what… Read More ›

• ‹ Older Entries
• Newer Entries ›