I had two people ask me the past week, “How do you pay for hosting for your website? It’s so expensive…” Seriously? Have these guys even shopped around? I looked around and found 10 great hosts for about $5 per month, pretty reasonable.

Pull your blog off WordPress.org or Blogger and get your own server (and I don’t mean the sketchy one to the left)–it’s not as expensive as you think! Then you can tell people to go to http://www.kittenreviews.com, instead of http://www.wordpress.org/sites/longurl/snoore/kittenreviews! What you do with your own web space is your own business!

IXWebhosting and FatCow have the best deals, at about $3.95 and $5.50 respectively, for pretty much unlimited everything, including MySQL which is used by WordPress and most other blogging software.

Given the choice, I think IXWebHosting is the solid choice due to their stellar tech support record, price, and near 0% down time, but I think FatCow is just about equal and also great.

Go to www.deathcarrot.com/webhosting, or click on the tab above to see my top 10.

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The awesome guys over at ThinkGeek.com sent me some gadgets to support my Stolen iPhone Cause and I’m giving them all away to you guys for being so awesome! =D.

Up for grabs this week is a super cool Griffin AirCurve iPhone Acoustic Amplifier: The AirCurve looks like a simple, elegantly minimal stand for your iPhone. But inside is a coiled waveguide “horn” that collects the sound from the built-in speaker of your iPhone, amplifies it (by about 10 decibels), and projects it into the room. While the AirCurve won’t power your iPhone, but the built-in pass-through slot can feed a dock cable through the bottom and charge from your computer.      * Acoustically amplifies your iPhone      * Custom-engineered waveguide requires no power      * Allows syncing/charging using Griffin Dock Cable or         the charge/sync cable that came with your iPhone      * Works with original iPhone or iPhone 3G      * No batteries required $17.99 over at ThinkGeek.com

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A hacked electronic highway sign in northwestern Texas carried an international message that seemed to predate, well, the use of electricity.

The sign Friday briefly flashed: “OMG The British R coming. They R watching you.”

A statement from Austin Bridge & Road says someone “with a questionable sense of humor” accessed the password on the message board. The portable sign that was hacked has since been removed, since a permanent exit sign has been installed. Similar pranks in other states have transportation authorities worried that drivers may miss important information about upcoming road conditions.

In the spirit of Paul Revere, some nefarious souls have reprogrammed (read as: hacked) some road signs to read differently than the warnings they were meant to be displaying. You might remember that Hack a Day informed us earlier in the week that, “…the keypad inside for programming is often still set with a default password of ‘DOTS’”, allowing the sign to read literally whatever you want — get creative.

Here at Deathcarrot.com we don’t in any way condone changing critical road signs, but we admit we would find early warnings of an impending Zombie (or British, for that matter) Apocalypse very important to surviving said Apocalypse with our brains intact.

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As expected, it didn’t take long for the QuickPwn team to jailbreak the iPhone 2.2.1 firmware. QuickPwn is available now for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. [Gizmodo via QuickPwn via Lifehacker]

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The CSIRO has developed a way to network household and commercial fridges together in a distributed peer-to-peer fashion that lets them ‘negotiate’ with each other the best time to consume electricity. The organisation’s Intelligent Energy Research team based at Newcastle has developed a controller that can be retrofitted to any existing refrigerator.

Not quite as cool as last weeks Twittering Washing Machine, “The controller connects the fridges together using a distributed peer-to-peer system, according to Sam West, an engineer at the CSIRO. ‘It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central point of failure and it’s very scalable,’ said West.”

The technology allows the refrigerators to coordinate their on/off cycles in order to use the least amount of energy possible between all connected devices.

In the future, all your home appliances could be linked together such as air-conditioners and dryers in order to save even more energy and money. Solar panels could also be networked to alert the other appliances that there is less power being created (the sky became more overcast), thus scaling down the power usage of connected appliances. As long as it keeps my Dogfish IPA cold, I like it! [via iTnews]

 

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Recently, a Japanese coder on the DCEmu Forums released Windows drivers for DualShock 3 controllers. While the drivers only support using the controllers over USB and not bluetooth, they do include force feedback and Sixaxis support. Included with the drivers is a configuration tool, and though it appears to be in Japanese there is some explanation of how to use it included in the forum post. We have not tested these personally, but you can try out the drivers for yourself by downloading them from the forum here. [via Hack a Day]

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Those of you that live in snowier climates will drool over the I-Shovel, a battery powered robot that shovels the snow off your driveway, saving you countless hours of backbreaking labor over the course of a single winter. Its inventors claim that, despite its relatively underpowered motor, it keeps the driveway clear even in heavy snowfall; the trick, apparently, is that the robot constantly monitors the amount of snow on the driveway and springs into action whenever a significant but manageable layer has built up. Unfortunately, the I-Shovel is still a prototype, but with any luck you’ll be able to actually buy one soon. If you’re impatient, of course, you could always try building your own.

I can’t get that song out of my head… “It’s snowing outside… and I’ve got a cold…” lol

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If you have $180 to burn and you love your Xbox 360 a little too much, then have I got a deal for you! The guys over at XIM360.com will mod your Xbox 360 controller so that you can use a Keyboard and Mouse to control your games.

Now you can finally challenge that geek across the hall that always swears he’d whip your ass at Halo 3 if he had his precious Counter-Strike setup from his PC gaming rig. I gotta see one of those videos. Come on guys submit away! Unfortunately, these puppies are only for preorder and way out of my price range… oh, and they are kinda dumb. [via Xbox360Fanboy via Engadget]

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Admit it, you’ve left your clothes in the washer for a little too long and come back finding them smelling… well… slightly mildewy. Not any more! With a washer that can Twitter, you’ll know precisely when your clothes are done. Whether or not you actually do anything with that information is your own business. Now all I need is a washer that will wash my clothes, dump the clothes into the dryer, dry them, fold them, and then put them away for me…

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