April 2008
Ultimate Wall-E Robot Being Brought to Life by... →
Disney are teaming up with WowWee to make Wall-E into a real robot. The toy, titled Ultimate Wall-E, will retail at a stonking $189.99 and will ship this summer. The robot will feature ten…
18 Features Windows Should Have (but doesn't) →
Some of the coolest OS features are nowhere to be found in Windows XP or Vista. Here are 18 brilliant features that Microsoft should beg for, borrow, or steal—plus tips on how you can add many of…
Photoshop Techniques →
In this tutorial, it will show you a few substantial techniques to create a nice photoshop products. The techniques include Shapes & Styles Redux , Shine a Light on the Subject, Forcing a…
The Man Who Fell Sideways →
iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and... →
Noah Shachtman over at Wired has a very interesting look at iRobot’s six year battle with Robotic FX, a company started by a former employee who allegedly (and probably) stole schematics and…
Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At... →
For those times when 59 copies just isn’t enough, make 60 USB copies at once with this Virtual Console duplicator. Featuring optional 128-bit encryption and the ability to duplicate actual…
Top Gun 2008, the Movie (Without Cruise,... →
Not everything was about the stunning A-10 Warthog at last week’s Top Gun 2008 competition, the largest R/C event in the world. 10,000 people watched the 120 invitation-only R/C airplanes…
Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed [Windows XP] →
It’s April 29, and Microsoft has to make the unfortunate decision of delaying Windows XP SP3 due to compatibility issues between it and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, something…
16 FREE web 2.0 fonts for your designs | slayer's... →
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Star Wars Book to be Put Online for Free →
In an effort to promote the latest book in the Star Wars “Legacy of the Force” series, starting at 9am tomorrow (Tuesday, April 29), Del Ray will give out book one Betrayal for free as an…
Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers... →
Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government — have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in…
SOSNewbie » Vectorial illustration with... →
Tags: graphic-design drawing photoshop
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PC Mag Reviews FragBox 8500 (Verdict: "Here To... →
PC Mag has gotten their hands on Falcon Northwest’s latest FragBox, a turn-key, budget gaming PC (if there ever was such a thing). Loaded with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 processor (as opposed…
Pioneering Orangutan Pries First Hunting Tool Ever... →
Hide the china, bananas, children—whatever. I guess it doesn’t really matter, because for the first time ever an orangutan was spotted in the wild using a gadget to hunt. In this case the…
Zealous Autoconfig →
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment « Content... →
The main issue with the desktop experience is that the geeky programmers and designers assume too much from the average user. They assume the user knows about the way in which programs are installed, or how the file system is set out. The average user will not go out of their way to google for help or even read the associated documentation that comes with Ubuntu and its default software. The...
CodeProject: Duplex Web Services. Free source code... →
Tags: asp.net webservices
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Apple i Keynote Parody is Spot On [Humor] →
College Humor is running a parody of Steve in Keynote mode, we know it isn’t the first or won’t be the last, but it has some of the Steve’s actions, crowd reactions and the overall atmosphere…
PC World - Yahoo to Radically Open Its Platforms →
The idea is to let the hundreds of millions of people who use its Web mail, instant messaging, calendar, photo management and other online services replicate the social experience that social networks like MySpace and Facebook have made so popular.
MIT Develops "Quickies": Post-it Notes For The... →
There have been a number of attempts to modernize the much beloved Post-it note, but the “Quickies” concept developed by MITs Ambient Intelligence Group may be the most viable to date….
Yahoo! to Rewire for Social Graph and Data... →
Yahoo! announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo the availability of the first program in its large vision for a dramatic overhaul of the company across all its properties. The Search Monkey developer…
Microsoft sponsored site “Carbon Grove” forces... →
When most companies are working towards making the web more standardized and interoperable, it feels as if Microsoft wants to take users back to the last decade when sites were specifically designed…
April 24, 1184 B.C.: First Trojan Horse Attack... →
From Wired’s Randy Alfred:
1184 B.C.: During the Trojan War, the Greeks depart in ships, leaving behind a large wooden horse as a victory offering. It is hauled inside the walls of Troy,…
AquaJelly and AirJelly Robot Jellyfish At Home In... →
Festo, the same company that brought us the Air Ray robot last year, have developed yet another graceful robot inspired by a creature of the sea. In fact, they have developed two versions,…
Web Development Blog » CSS Shorthand Cheat Sheet →
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Comparing Popular JavaScript/Ajax Frameworks →
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AMD X3 Tri-Core Processor Reviewed (Verdict: Get a... →
Maximum PC has reviewed AMD’s tri-core 2.4GHz Phenom X3 8750 CPU. It performs like you’d expect—in between quad and dual cores. Fine, but it’s $195. You can pick up AMD’s top quad core,…
Live Mesh: it’s everything we told you about (and... →
As you read this Live Mesh (www.mesh.com) is being announced as a Technology preview. Of course if you’ve been reading LiveSide you already know quite a bit about Live Mesh, we’ve…
Ray Ozzie Memo Explains Live Mesh Strategy →
Tonight Microsoft is launching a “tech preview” version of its latest platform, Live Mesh. The new platform is all about connecting devices to the Internet via Windows software. From an end user…
Neat Microsoft Presenter Mouse 8000 packaging →
If you thought the Windows Vista or Office 2007 packaging was fancy, then check out this awesome re-usable packaging for the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. Some people have…
Live Mesh: First Look at Microsoft's New Platform →
The new Live Mesh service that just launched as an invite only “technology preview” is Microsoft’s attempt to tie all of our data together. Live Mesh synchronizes data across multiple devices…
Georgian UAV Films its Own Demise in Russian MiG... →
Apparently the latest twist in an ongoing tussle over separatist Abkhazia, this video shows an “unarmed, umanned aerial vehicle” belonging to the Georgian Interior Ministry performing “basic…
Close Call: Apple's OS X Almost Looked Exactly... →
There’s a gem of a story—one of many—in Leander Kahney’s new book, Inside Steve’s Brain, about the biggest OS X mistake Apple never made: The original plan UI was to take the old crusty…
The History Behind the F-35B Vertical Lift: from... →
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua is the aerodynamicist who designed the F-35B shaft-driven lift fan years ago at Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin’s advanced technology program. His invention changed short-take off…
MyColors goes public →
Stardock has released MyColors to the general public. MyColors is a program that reverses the traditional way users change their desktop. Rather than users going out and finding/buying various…
Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look →
So at 5 minutes after 9pm, I navigated to www.mesh.com, logged in with my Windows Live ID, and was off and running. First order of business (after accepting the terms), was to add a couple of…
PixelResort.com » Blog Archive » The Making of an... →
Tags: graphic-design
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Icojoy Free Mini Icons for Any Project by... →
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Icojoy Free Mini Icons for Any Project →
It is time to have some icons again. This time, Icojoy is sharing some of the really nice mini icons. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times. The icons come in 6…
Bungee Labs Evolves to Compete With Salesforce,... →
Bungee Labs announced today at Web 2.0 Expo that it is expanding its hosting options, and also looking into open source as a way to connect with the developer community. Bungee Labs’ main product…
FaviconizeTab :: Firefox Add-ons →
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ColorfulTabs :: Firefox Add-ons →
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Session Manager :: Firefox Add-ons →
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All-in-One Sidebar :: Firefox Add-ons →
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Western Digital launches world's fastest SATA disk →
Overclockers and gamers, prepare to meet your next hard drive: the 300GB VelociRaptor from Western Digital. Said to be 35% faster than previous WD Raptors, the 10,000 RPM drive features a 3Gbps SATA…
Alternative Search Engines Day - Call For Alts to... →
I’m at the Alternative Search Engines Day, in San Francisco, an event put on by our network blog AltSearchEngines. We started out with a keynote talk by ASE editor Charles Knight, who noted…
Semantify Your Web Apps with Triplify →
Alright, “semantify” may not be an actual word, but you can probably guess at its meaning: “add a semantic layer to.” In this case, we’re looking at a small plugin called Triplify that reveals…
Intel Cuts Core 2 Quad Processor Price in Half →
In a shocking price cut, Intel trimmed the price of the Q6700 Core 2 Quad processor in half, and trimmed the price of other processors by as much as 30 percent. In all, Intel reduced the price of fourteen processors, ranging from the mainstream desktop to its Xeon line for servers. The company also introduced several new models.