October 2008
At Last, Space Football Is Coming! [Sports] →
Stand aside Michael Jordan, because ex-Washington Redskins linebacker Ken Harvey has been pitching NASA scientists and venture capitalists alike on a high concept sport: Float Ball. Planned…
Hubble Resumes Operations, Sends Back Picture of... →
The Hubble Telescope, which was quite nearly lost this month to a combination of old age and a fritzy 486, has resumed “regular science operations” today, and sent back this spectacular…
Designer Lingerie Has Embedded GPS-Uplink for Lady... →
This could be a tongue-in cheek bit of high-tech flirtery: Brazilian designer Lucia Lorio’s “Find Me If You Can” lingerie line has embedded GPS-uplinking units that a partner can remotely…
Creating A Glossy Navigation 3D Button →
In this tutorial, it will show you how to design a glossy navigation 3D button. There are thousands ways to create this kind of button. And, you always need to spend quite a while in order to…
.NET Framework 4.0 Poster →
If you are interested in getting the .NET 4.0 poster, here you go…
I saw this on Brad Abram’s blog
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London Getting Bomb-Proof, News-Delivering Trash... →
In London, public trash cans are hard to come by, as they’re an easy receptacle for bombs. Which makes it hard to throw things away properly! Now, the city is going to bring trash cans back,…
Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework | Web Resources... →
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Google Adding Text Messaging To Gchat in Gmail... →
Those of you who use Gchat through Gmail can now send text messages to mobile phones. The function is experimental, so you have to go to the Labs tab inside of Gmail’s settings (or click on…
Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework →
Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework does not only separate HTML from CSS, but even CSS definitions are categorized into structural and thematic types. Thus creating a new drop-down means creating…
ATI Quietly Enters Switchable Graphics for... →
ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has quietly introduced technology that allows notebooks to seamlessly switch between discrete ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU)…
Worm Uses Google to Squirm Around Facebook →
A malicious program that sprang up on Facebook.com in late July has surfaced again, this time using Google’s Web sites to sneak around security filters. On Tuesday, researchers at unified threat…
EA: Play nicely, or don't play at all →
In a controversial move, EA have announced that they have tied together their forum and in-game accounts, meaning that if anybody misbehaves on their forums and gets themselves banned, they’ll be…
Sleep well, Phoenix Mars Lander →
MarsPhoenix twitter: Take care of that beautiful blue marble out there in space, our home planet. I’ll be keeping an eye from here. Space exploration FTW!
about 8 hours ago from web In…
Tidbits about the new “superbar” taskbar →
Ever since the Windows 7 demo with Steven Sinofsky and Julie-Larson Green at PDC 2008 where they showed off the new “superbar” taskbar, there’s been a lot of questions about how the new…
Dealzmodo Hack: Juice Up Your Canon Digital Camera... →
Digital cameras are generally closed platforms, built and programmed under the assumption that they would never be modified. To get more features, you pay more for different firmware, even…
Dubai's Newest Insane Skyscraper to House a... →
Oh look, another insane tower planned for Dubai! This one is dubbed the Anara Tower, and while it’s not going to be the tallest in the world (it’ll be about 500 feet shorter than the Burj…
Capital Gate Tower is Four Times as Crooked as the... →
If you thought the Leaning Tower of Pisa was messed up, get a load of the Capital Gate tower currently being constructed in Abu Dhabi. Actually, saying it is “messed up” is incorrect given…
Exclusive: The Lego Minifig Timeline [LEGO] →
We have worked with Lego to painstakingly collect and catalog almost every minifig ever produced into a photographic timeline. You will be able to see the evolution of the iconic…
Software Can Duplicate Your Keys Using a Photo... →
There are skilled locksmiths out there that can reproduce a key from high-resolution images, but new software developed by computer scientists at UC San Diego has simplified the process to a…
Mugen Pop Pop Infinite Bubble Wrap Toy Hits the US... →
The previously Japan only Mugen Puchi Puchi bubble wrap toy is now available in the US for $5.99. It’s available in four colors: cold sore pink, pea soup green, dying of exposure blue and…
Self-printing Game of Life in C# →
Igor writes- Conway’s Game of Life has fascinated computer scientists for decades. Even though its rules are ridiculously simple, Conway’s universe gives rise to a variety of gliders,…
My View of C# 4.0 →
I’ve known a bit about C# 4.0 for a while now and have had time to think about it. I’ve just re-read the New features in C# 4.0 paper published by Microsoft and would like to offer the following…
C# 4.0 - Named and Optional Parameters - Behind... →
In my previous post, I talked very briefly about both named and option parameters. Now, I’d like to go a little deeper into the subject to see what this looks like underneath the covers. As…
Visual Studio Magazine Online | Inside VSTS: Code... →
Tags: performance architecture best-practices
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Sending Mail To Your File System (No Need For A... →
Tags: .net communication email
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Automen: a small yet brilliant video converter -... →
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Windows 7 and light sensors: let there be light →
Once in a while, we all leave our lairs to use the laptop in alien environments commonly known as the “outdoors”. One of the forces of evil we face outdoors is of course the sun who…
Improvements to fonts in Windows 7 →
Besides Windows Classic, another popular question when a new version of Windows is announced is whether or not the “Add Fonts” dialog is there. In fact this is such a quirk it’s the first and…
Design principles for Windows 7 →
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If you’ve never seen Hillel Cooperman’s presentation “Getting Users to Fall in Love with Your Software” from PDC 2003 for what was then Windows Longhorn, then you’re missing out. Fast…
Microsoft Boku at PDC 2008 →
For everyone who hasn’t seen Boku before, this is a Microsoft Research developed game for the XBOX 360 (and presumably PC too) aimed at kids to teach them about programming via a entertaining…
Even your [insert relative] can program with... →
After suffering this morning through the monotonous Microsoft Research history segment of the keynote, a team member unveiled a new “visual programming language made specifically for creating…
Artifical Heart Developed, Beats Almost Exactly... →
Artificial heart technology has been around a while, but this new invention by European scientists is so convincing in its emulation of a real heart’s action that if you plot its output…
High Performance Fighter Uniform Can Stop Bleeding... →
According to Blackhawk, their new High Performance Fighting Uniform has been designed to make the life of SEALs and other special forces units more comfortable and better, thanks to more…
Windows 7 Taskbar, 'Peek' and Multitouch Gestures... →
Our in-depth preview of Windows 7 mentioned a few major features that didn’t quite make it into the copy we tested, but the wily crew at Chilean site FayerWayer have caught a more…
SearchWiki: Google Experiments With Customizable... →
Last week, we highlighted Microsoft Research’s URank, an experimental search engine interface that allows users to rearrange their search results from Live.com. Now, Garett Rogers reports…
Giz Explains: Why Windows 7 Will Smash Vista [Giz... →
Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been, what we hoped it would be. The Batman Begins to Vista’s Batman and Robin. While superficially both are kinda the same (Batman!),…
747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the... →
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the 284 passengers on board Quantas Flight 12—a Boeing 747-400 flying from Los Angeles to Sydney—couldn’t believe their eyes when they looked through…
NASA's Ares 1 Rocket in Trouble Again: Could Crash... →
NASA’s Ares 1 rocket may be facing another large technological hurdle before it can take part in the future lunar missions: it’s apparently in danger of banging into its own launch tower if…
Scientists Claiming Planet Vulcan May Exist Don't... →
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, Dr Massimo Marengo—from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics—and Dr Dana Backman—from the SETI Institute—are claiming that there’s…
Google Pays $125 Million to Writers and Buys Us... →
Google has been scanning somewhere around 3,000 books per day for its Google Book Search program. The only problem was that they never got permission from The Authors Guild or the…
Toys: Robot Wild Animals Are Way More Adorable... →
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Windows 7 DPI scaling: my 7 is bigger than your 7 →
You may not know it, but you are very likely to be using a high dots-per-inch (DPI) display today, especially if you use a laptop smaller than 15-inches. The fact is, if you use Windows XP, or…
Windows 7 Demos →
Picked up on some nice demos of Windows 7 this morning at PDC. Firstly there is a touch screen application demonstrating the touch features and ability for multi touch during air hockey. It was a…
Windows 7 →
No additional words needed. Windows 7. Period. Today is THE day. This blog post is going to be updated with links to all of the images and good write-ups that are done today in regards to Windows,…
Run Win apps on Mac/Linux (free) →
Today only - get CrossOver (usually $70) for free - runs Win apps on Mac and Linux… Saw this all over the place today, downloading now… CodeWeavers’ mission is to make Linux and Mac OS X…
CAPS LOCK trainer key →
In response to International Caps Lock Day last week, Sean Ragan made this caps lock trainer key:
DOES SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAVE A SHOUTING PROBLEM? IF SO THEN THIS HANDY TRAINER KEY MAKES…
Windows 7 UX tidbits: color hot-track →
If you liked what you saw at the PDC08 Windows 7 keynote in terms of the user experience of Windows 7’s shell and taskbar, then get ready for more since what Sinofsky and Julie-Larson…
Introducing the Windows 7 UI →
During the Windows 7 reviewers workshop on Sunday Linda Averett demonstrated the user interface enhancements introduced with Windows 7. Keeping with the trend, Averett described herself as a PC,…
Sinofsky, Nash and the Windows 7 ecosystem →
On Monday I attended an exclusive workshop on Windows 7. Microsoft briefed us on the core changes on Windows 7, their goals for the client and the ideas for the future of Windows Live. Mike Nash,…
Google, NASA Team Up to Bring Internet to Space... →
Google and NASA are partnering up to let space beings (and astronauts) wander the web from up in orbit. Google VP Vint Cerf and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have started working together to…