November 2007
Google Takes a Lesson From Digg? [Testing] →
Taking a lesson from Digg and similar sites, Google Labs is testing out a new reader response interface for search results (with only a select few users for a limited time). Essentially, your normal search results are enhanced with “like it” and “don’t like it” buttons that would tweak the order of said results on your list. And you can also add URL results that you...
Vector Polishing Techniques →
Tags: graphics illustrations photoshop webdesign
Posted by: sameera
90 Free High Quality Vector Icons Set →
Amazing set of 90 free vector icons, all in one EPS file. Enjoy and share this beautiful file with others, but please try to save the image on your server if linking to this file. Image is more than 1 MB. This set is ideal for creating web 2.0 icons, buttons and everything that your imagination can handle. They looks really good and scalable which is really a useful set of icons.
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Software aims to uncover 'data discrimination' -... →
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Increasingly worried over Internet providers’ behavior, a nonprofit has released software that helps determine whether online glitches are innocent hiccups or evidence of deliberate traffic tampering.
'South Park': All Online, All for Free →
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of hit animated comedy “South Park” available for free online next year as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere. ADVERTISEMENT storyboxend7 The decision from the biggest division of media conglomerate Viacom Inc follows on the heels of the “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” whose...
Creating an installer using Wix v3.0, Votive and... →
Tags: deployment installer
Posted by: sameera
Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns | HTML Dog →
Tags: controls css menu web
Posted by: sameera
Marine Research Facility Designed Using Star Wars... →
Using Star Wars films as one of the inspirations for his designs, a masters student at the University of Texas named Jason Mellard developed an aquatic research and housing facility to be located 50-100 miles offshore. Scientists studying marine and bird life would stay on the platform with their families in 6-13 month shifts and work in spheres consisting of laboratories, classrooms, computer...
MIT Designs Electro-Scooter That Folds Up into... →
Those eggheads at the Smart Cities group at MIT are a clever bunch, coming up with a design concept for an electric scooter that folds up into a package scarcely larger than a wheeled carry-on suitcase. In the Utopian vision for such bikes, you’d ride one to work, then fold it up and roll it right into the office, where it will take up very little space. But wait. This idea gets even more...
Micron's Future Concept of SSD is RAM-Module Like... →
In addition to Micron’s traditional solid state drives announced today, they also showed off a concept for a SSD module that resembles RAM in physical design and would fit into a similarly designed port. It’s obvious but genius: while the SSD drives with SATA interfaces are terrific because they can be used in current laptops with no mods, the real performance of flash mem is only...
Corbis Offers Free Photos to Bloggers - With a... →
The world’s second largest stock photo firm, Corbis, will soon begin giving away free some of its high quality stock photographs to bloggers via a partnership with newly launched site PicApp. PicApp is a new startup that aims to give bloggers and small media producers legal access to previously unaffordable stock photographs for free, in exchange for displaying advertising. The PicApp...
Signature Sound maker: like iTunes Ringtones, but... →
Say hello to an orchestra of sound snippet in your instant messenger. The Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta was released today sporting a handful of new features as already uncovered last week by LiveSide. One feature in particular called Signature Sound is giving users the power to customize the sound their contacts hear when they come online. However as annoying that might sound (pun), what’s more...
GDrive: Three Ways it Could be a Game Changer →
The Wall St. Journal ran a B1 story this morning about the forthcoming online storage service from Google. Call it GDrive, call it Platypus, call it My Stuff - the vast majority of tech bloggers have called it old news. I disagree. I think there’s a lot of potential for Google’s online storage to be a game changing product.
It appears that the GDrive will sit on your desktop and...
More Microsoft Longhorn PC concepts →
Thanks to a tip from Steve Clayton, a treasure chest of Windows Longhorn inspired PC design concepts has been just unearthed. An industrial design company located in San Francisco called Ammunition were recently interviewed as part of a Wired article on evolving PC designs. Following the link to their website shows an array of computer-related design concepts for a variety of companies including...
Checking out Dell’s Vostro 1500 Business Laptop →
Two weeks ago my new Dell Vostro 1500 arrived. Dell’s Vostro Notebook line-up is a relatively new line-up of laptops that cater to business users. While I love the Tablet PC experience the HP tx1000 offers, I was in need for something a little more powerful. I’m the type of guy that likes to feel like I am taking my desktop PC with me when I travel.
After looking at the specs...
10 Absolute "Nos!" for Freelancers : Freelance... →
Tags: career freelancing
Posted by: sameera
Photo Magic: Amazing 'Paintball Office' Photo... →
Canon Portable Burner Transfers AVCHD to DVD... →
I’m not turned off by video transfer/burner devices like this Canon DW-100 because of how unrefined DVD burning still is. The DW-100 takes high-def AVCHD video from your camcorder and burns it to DVD.
Simple, yes, but most people just want to be able to watch their home videos somewhere that isn’t a camera screen or doesn’t require A/V wires. It can also function as an external...
AngelSounds Finds and Records the Pitter-Patter of... →
Forget strollers and RF monitors: the first thing expectant parents can now buy is the AngelSounds Fetal Doppler System, which tracks down prenatal junior’s heartbeat and plays it through a standard pair of headphones. The monitor will also make a recording, giving you one more annoying memento to email to friends and family. Fetal Doppler systems aren’t exactly new technology, but...
PSDTuts - Photoshop Tutorials and Links - Create a... →
Tags: graphic-design photoshop typography
Posted by: sameera
Rome uncovers its founding moment | Special... →
Rome has revealed what its leading archeologist says is “one of the greatest discoveries ever made”, a lost shrine dedicated to the ancient city’s mythical founders.Andrea Carandini told a press conference yesterday that a large vaulted hall beneath the Palatine hill was almost certainly the fabled Lupercale - a sanctuary believed by ancient Romans to be the cave where the twin...
Koenigsegg CCXR Biofuel Car Breaks 1000HP [Green... →
When most of us think biofuel, we think imperfect solution granolamunchingmobiles. But the Koenigsegg CCXR supercar just changed our minds. Featuring a lightweight, cast-aluminium V8 engine, this bad boy of biofuel can go 0-100kph in 2.9 seconds, cranking out 1018 HP at 7200 rpm and 780 lb/ft of torque at 6100 rpm. These drool-worthy specs are actually made possible by E85 biofuel’s...
Tie Clip Plays Tunes, Exposes Your Dorkiness... →
Back in the olden times when people used to dress up in multi-piece outfits to impress their colleagues, there was a thing called a tie clip. Now that historical object has been designed into a multipurpose display device that not only plays MP3s but notifies everyone exactly how much of a geek you really are, scrolling by in plain English. This design concept has a single-line LCD display,...
Home Trebuchet Kit, a Few Feet Short of Perfection... →
When we first spotted this Stirling Warwolf Trebuchet kit, we thought our dreams had come true. At last we could defeat our neighbors, if not in a landscaping-off, at least in an old fashioned, purely American arms race. But then we saw the all-too-reasonable price of $189. And we knew this trebuchet was only moderately awesome and probably wouldn’t help us defeat the neighborhood any time...
UI-Patterns - User Interface Design Patterns... →
It has long been common practise to use recurring solutions to solve common problems. Such solutions are also called design patterns. Collections of software design patterns are standard reference points for the experienced user interface designer. This website seeks to better the situation for the UI designer, who struggles with the same problems as many other UI designers have struggled with...
Daft Punk Bearbricks: Musicians and Robots and... →
ToysREvil has the scoop on a limited edition pair of Daft Punk Bearbricks, meant to coincide with the release of Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 CD. Medicom will release 3000 of these toys on December 5, package them with a copy of the CD and sell it for 5250 Yen ($48), presumably in Japan. The Bearbricks also come housed in a pyramid, not unlike the one Daft Punk used for their epic live shows. The...
Firefox burned my RAM →
I like Firefox. I think, that Firefox is one of the best browsers, i ever used. As web programmer, i used it alot. Well, after researching SubSonic project, Vista starting to work very slow. After fighting my way to the Task manager, i allmost fall from my chair. Firefox used 1.4GB of RAM. WTF? I was so suprised, i allmost spilled my drink. I thought, that ammount of memory is controlled (both...
Fan Case Mod Keeps CPU, Half the World Cool [Mods] →
Sixty-six fans is a lot, but if you are planning to mod a standard PC case with fans allover, you shall be requiring that amount of cooling power. We very much doubt the mod retains the PC’s original energy star rating, but if you have a problem keeping cool and you continually have your CPU shorting on you, why not put some extra cool on your case?
That is if you can stand the awful...
HighSlide - Javascript Popup and Thumbnail Viewer →
Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages. The library offers these features and advantages:
No plugins like Flash or Java required.
Popup blockers are no problem. The content expands within the active browser window.
Single click. After opening the image or HTML...
YouTube could kill internet by 2010 News - PC... →
A study from Nemertes Research Group suggests the increasing use of video services such as YouTube could see the internet reach breaking point in just three years’ time.
Forget about writing Atom or RSS XML handling code... →
A *very* welcome addition to .NET 3.5, which just went RTM for MSDN subscribers and trial for the rest before general availability early next year: System.ServiceModel.Syndication. This namespace, which lives in the System.ServiceModel.Web.dll assembly which provides the WCF Syndication functionality, contains useful classes for working with feeds and items. I won’t go over the Architecture...
Make Linux look like Leopard →
Are you running GNOME desktop on your Linux OS? Do you want to change the default GNOME desktop look to match Leopard. You can do it now, withe the help of Compiz Fusion for handle effects and other applications you can make it looks like OS X Leopard. You can find the guide in HowtoForge, it’s six pages instruction long. Be sure to read it carefully and follow each steps. For more information...
What's new in Microsoft's Messenger 9.0? - News -... →
Microsoft’s most trusted testers are receiving early invites to a beta test of Windows Live Messenger 9.0. Don’t worry if you haven’t made the cut though, the indications are that this is a really early build of the app and the beta test will grow by some margin.
Impressive and Beautiful CSS Styling Mootools... →
To be honest, this is one of the best calendar I have ever seen. I was really excited when I was playing with Calendar. It is powerful and yet really easy to implement. You can also have different CSS Styling for the calendar.
Calendar is a Javascript class that adds accessible and unobtrusive date-pickers to your form elements. This class is a compilation of many date-pickers. Rloaderro has...
Service Packs for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 →
The .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is now available for download. x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=79bc3b77-e02c-4ad3-aacf-a7633f706ba5&DisplayLang=en x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=029196ed-04eb-471e-8a99-3c61d19a4c5a&DisplayLang=en
Same for the SP1 for the .NET Framework 3.0:...
SlamMan Punching Dummy Stands In for Peculiar... →
Take out your holiday frustrations on SlamMan, a defenseless sand-filled dummy that might just remind you of most of your family members. He has LED target lights that suggest punching patterns for you, and even includes a pair of 12-ounce boxing gloves and a video to teach you exactly how to open up a can of whoopass on him. It might be the best $249.99 you ever spent, maybe even keeping you out...
Anti-Piracy Outfit Pirates TorrentFreak |... →
The infamous Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN has infringed TorrentFreak’s copyright and blatantly copied a quote from one of our articles without attributing the source. TorrentFreak is thus considering legal action against these copy/paste pirates, where they may face a fine of up to $975,000 and several years in prison.
[H] Enthusiast - AMD Phenom & Spider vs Intel... →
It has been a long road for the computer enthusiast that looks to AMD for solutions. If you are an “Intel guy” and don’t look to other brands for computing solutions the last year has been good to you, and it looks like the next year will be even better. There is no other way to put it; I am disappointed in AMD’s Phenom.
First Confirmed Casting News for G.I. Joe is...... →
British actress Sienna Miller (Factory Girl, Stardust) will play The Baroness in Stephen Sommers’ live action depiction of G.I. Joe. According to Variety, she will play “the film’s female lead, described as a raven-haired baroness and sexy femme fatale skilled in espionage.” I’ll confess that I didn’t watch a lot of GI Joe as a kid, but isn’t The Baroness...
Napkin Notebook: An Idea so Good, It Must Have... →
It is no secret that many of the best ideas are doodled down on a napkin in a moment of inspiration. Now you can keep the ideas flowing at all times thanks to this spiral-bound cocktail napkin notebook. It even comes with its own pen for optimum napkin doodling effectiveness. Now if they could only harness the inspirational power of the toilet, we would be on the brink of a second Renaissance....
Let's Focus on Web Innovation Again! →
We’ve discussed before on Read/WriteWeb about how we’ve entered The Digestion Phase of the Web, a term that Alex Iskold coined. He defined it as “a period of time for us to reflect, to integrate, and to understand recent technologies and how they fit together.” Tim O’Reilly has also been reflecting on how innovation has slowed down and consolidation is occurring.
But...
Brick Archway →
Stara Technologies Mini-Missile Precisely Guides... →
This sensor guidance system from Stara Technologies looks like a tiny precision missile, and that’s basically what it is, but it’s a whole lot more sophisticated than meets the eye. It’s not specifically designed to deliver explosives, but when you toss it out the window of an airplane (or a Predator drone as you see here), its precision guidance system can deliver it to whatever...
Nerf Sniper Rifle is Three Feet of Fun [Weapons] →
The Nerf N-Strike Longshot CS-6, to give it its full name, is the kind of blaster gun that your kid would kill for. It’s also the kind of thing that would be a gift in name only, because, any child will have problems prying it out of a parent’s hands once unwrapped. And it works just as well at close range as it does on long targets:
Just remove the stand and the barrel extension. It...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 →
Laptops Designed by Children [Laptops] →
When adults design a laptop for children, it looks like the OLPC or Speak and Spell. When laptops are designed by children they look like the setup above. The PurC PC (Purple Construction Paper PC, my name) was made by an 8-year old girl in the youngster-founded, no-adults-allowed “The Laptop Club”.
Alphanumerics are pegged where function keys are normally situated. Below are the...
Alienware Further Teases Us With Powerful Area-51... →
All that pre-release hype from Alienware we heard last week led up to even more pre-release hype today, with the company unveiling its two new laptops, the Area-51 m15x and m17x. It’s calling the radical PCs “the most powerful notebooks ever created.” There’s still an air of mystery around the two laptops, but we do know that both the 15.4” Area-51 m15x and the...
Amazon Kindle vs Sony Reader Bitchfight [Poll] →
Wired has compared the features of the new Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. They don’t give a definitive verdict yet, but point out the $400 Kindle’s biggest drawback: lack of “format neutrality.” Labeled as a “portable DRM bookstore,” the Kindle won’t be able to read open formats like Acrobat PDF (unless you have a Windows PC and convert them first). We...
Fluid-Width Layers with Rounded Corners →
Check out THIS POST where Josh shows us how to make DIVs with rounded corners.