Errors

Software

What It Looks Like When The Sky Crashes

10:00AM January 23, 2012 | Casey Chan

A floating digital billboard programmed to beam up to the sky crashed in Odessa, Ukraine, so it transformed into a floating error box. Funny! Or maybe God uses Windows? [Izismile via BoingBoing]


Online

The Internet’s Best 404 Error Pages

8:30AM December 8, 2011 | Casey Chan

The internet isn’t just a bunch of cables, wires, modems, computers, silicon, protocols, h-tee-tee-pees and h-tee-em-els. There are people behind it! People with personality. People who like to laugh. People who put up hilarious 404 error pages so whenever something goes wrong on the Internet, people will remember that they exist! More »


Software

How To Fix The iOS 5 Update Error 3200 [Updated]

12:15PM October 13, 2011 | Roberto Baldwin

Good news, everyone. If you’re experiencing the horror of Error 3200 instead of dancing in the technological flowers of iOS 5, there’s a workaround discovered by GDGT users. More »


Computing

iMac Replacement Program For Faulty 1TB Seagate Drives

7:15AM July 25, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Heads up: Apple has officially acknowledged a 1TB Seagate hard drive failure issue affecting iMacs sold between May and June 2011. Hard drive replacement is free, so just click the source link for all the info. [Apple Australia] More »


Mobile

Nexus S Mysteriously Self-Deleting Photos

7:58AM June 10, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Samsung, Google and Sprint are all trying to figure out why some users’ Nexus S phones are nuking pictures without any explanation, Computerworld reports. It’s a toughie, because there doesn’t seem to be any common cause behind the deletions. More »


Computing

Computer Error Released 450 Prisoners With ‘High Risk Of Violence’

8:20AM May 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

Computer system errors accidentally released more than 450 inmates with “a high risk of violence” from California prisons. What might be even worse is that no attempt has been made to return any of them back to prison. More »


Online

Dude, Where’s My Gmail?

10:59AM February 28, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Have you checked your Gmail lately? Better go check if you haven’t in a while, because there’s been some kind of “reset” at Google that’s resulted in missing emails, labels, folders and themes. More »


Online

Hotmail Account Holders Ring In The New Year With Missing Emails

5:00AM January 3, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Microsoft Hotmail users have a lot to complain about as the new year kicks off in earnest: Many are reporting today that their emails have gone missing as a result of a new bug plaguing that popular email system. More »


Cars

Please Return Your Seats To An Upright Position And Put Your Tongues Back In Your Mouths

2:15AM August 28, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Picture the scene: 275 passengers aboard a Hong Kong-bound British Airways flight from London Heathrow are played an automatic plane crash message when flying over the North Sea. Only trouble (or, blessing) is, it was an error. Whoops? [Reuters]


Geek Out

Typo Probably Caused “Most Dizzying Half-Hour In Stock Market History”

8:21AM May 7, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Sure, typos can be funny, but when a stock trader is able to cause a huge stock plunge by accidentally entering a “b” for billion instead of an “m” for million” it’s just plain scary. [CNBC]