May 2008
Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop →
Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I’ll show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We’ll render the look on a nice dark background with…
Vista users: "You Already Have MinWin" →
We have learnt quite a lot about Windows 7 this week, and one of the things was that Windows 7 would not get a new kernel. The call for a new kernel has been made a few times on the internet, but…
Gigabyte to apologize to Asustek →
The legal battle between motherboard makers Gigabyte Technology and Asustek Computer looks set to be over before it even started, with Gigabyte agreeing to issue a public apology. Tensions between…
Windows UI Taskforce: your help wanted →
Most of us who use Windows Vista have probably come across a couple of user-interface quirks during our times - some of which irritate you more than others, some are more obvious than others….
Be a Space Ambassador, Fly On Virgin Galactic for... →
Screw voluteering to lie down for 90 days for NASA: the National Space Society is offering a job as a Space Ambassador, with taking a ride into space as part of the duties. Yes—…
New Army Cluster Bomb Rains Down Thousands of... →
Cluster bombs are increasingly frowned upon—there’s an international agreement banning them, though the US hasn’t signed on—in part because even low dud rates leave lots of little…
LEGO Star Wars Minifig Lights Up with LED, Scares... →
This modded LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper is the best use of a light-emitting diode since my LED-based Lava shot glasses, Philips Living Colors lamp, and psychedelic bath tub rubber…
Microsoft launches 'Sysinternals Live' online →
Windows users can now launch the Sysinternals library of free diagnostic and troubleshooting from a web browser, after Microsoft launched the functionality as a beta service. “We’re excited to…
Weekly icon lists 2 →
There are a lot of very nice icons has been released during the week. Frex has released another Milky icons just like they promised. There is also VistaICO, a very well icons with Vista flavour.
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Decorate Your Images and Photos with CSS →
Nick La has made another great great tutorial for us. Nick La shows us how to decorate our images and photo galleries without editing the source images. The trick is very simple. All you need is…
Microsoft Taking Official Petitions to Keep XP... →
If you can remember back a few weeks, Steve Ballmer went on record saying that Microsoft would consider extending the life of Windows XP if enough people asked for it. Afterall, many people don’t…
First Details on the Asus Eee Box [Desktops] →
Asustek has dropped some details on that Eee Desktop PC EP20 we’ve seen floating around. First off, it has a more catchy name—the Asus Eee Box. Expected for a global launch this July in…
40 Extremely Beautiful Icons [1] →
Very excellent icon pick from DeviantArt by Noupe. Most of the icons are replacement and system icons, available for Windows and Mac.
Via: Noupe.com
Decorate Your Images and Photos with CSS →
Nick La has made another great great tutorial for us. Nick La shows us how to decorate our images and photo galleries without editing the source images. The trick is very simple. All you need is…
<3 Longhorn, <3 Office →
Here are some mockups and prototypes of Office 2007 as it was coming up through Longhorn. These were images shown by Jensen Harris at Mix ‘08. Click here to go to my flickr account to browse…
Decorate Your Images and Photos with CSS | Web... →
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40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from... →
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Cobalt Pocketwatch Gadget Concept Revolutionizes... →
Even before wrist watches—and now cellphones—replaced the pocket watch in the everyman’s wardrobe, pulling something out of a pocket and flipping over a cover just to tell the time was…
How My Wife Castrated My DVD Collection... →
My wife always hated my DVD collection. A testament to my bachelorhood prominently sitting on a set of shelves in our living room, she would glance over at it like an unwanted dinner guest who…
Mozilla Shooting for Download World Record With... →
Sure, Firefox 3 is the bee’s knees (and has been since Beta 3), but will it go down in history books? It will if it sets a world record! Mozilla’s taking the quick and easy path to…
40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download |... →
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Asus to release 'Matrix' ROG GeForce 9600 GT →
All that catering seems to have taken its toll on Asus which has decided to swallow the red pill and went to see how deep the rabbit hole really goes. Luckily for us, Asus came back, a little…
Thoosje Quick XP Optimizer: get better performance... →
Description: Thoosje Quick XP Optimizer is a free program that provides 1-click performance enhancement for Windows XP, including faster startup, faster HD access, faster apps, faster intente, and…
AMD to roll out Griffin processor as ‘Turion... →
Computex Taipei 2008 is just around the corner and news of what we can expect to see at the conference is already trickling in. Nvidia will release its new GeForce GTX 280 and 260 GPUs, AMD its…
Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini... →
I bumped into Michael Dell at All Things D after his interview, and he was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he said no one’s seen before. It’s a small form factor…
Eco-Friendly Bombs Ensure No Smog Results from The... →
I have a problem I’m sure you’re all familiar with: eco guilt. Whenever I’m about to drop a gigantic bomb on say, a small village, I get to thinking about the impact of the bomb on the…
Houston, We Have a Problem. A Really BIG Problem.... →
Short of the airlock opening in the space station and sucking you out to die in a vacuum, what’s the worst thing that could happen during your visit to the International Space Station? If you…
Giz Explains: OLED, the Future of TV [Giz... →
Plasma and LCD HDTVs are better now than they ever have been, but they’re just that—the TVs of now. OLED is the TV of the future—being shown off today at All Things D. Thin,…
Air Conditioned Seat Cushion Features The Latest... →
Kuchofuku, the same company that brought us air conditioned shirts, has re-applied their groundbreaking technology in an effort to deliver us from one of the biggest problems facing…
Fun with Pain Rays, Sound Cannons and Other... →
This week’s New Yorker (yep, you heard me right) has a cool piece on the development of non-lethal weapons for military and police. You can tell the writer, Alec Wilkinson, had a good…
Hybrid Technologies Supercar Crushes Prius And... →
There’s a car that’s not slated for release until 2009 or 2010. It makes some wild claims. And no one in the media has driven it yet (since it’s still in production). But with those caveats in…
Gadgets: Build Your Own Windows Vista Sidebar... →
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Don’t believe everything you see about Windows 7 →
In the midst of all the hype around Windows 7 news and affairs, CrunchGear and TechCrunch shows us how gullible some bloggers (and readers) have become. I would like to direct your attention to…
New Secret X-Bomber Is Not So Secret Anymore... →
Northrop Grumman is working on a new classified bomber prototype for the Air Force, at an estimated cost—according to their financial statements—of $2 billion. Apparently, the first…
Samsung's "Safari Browser" Likely Just S60's... →
Samsung has presented their L870 Symbian-based smartphone at the S60 Summit 2008, which has started today in Barcelona. Some blogs are speculating that it includes Apple’s Safari, even…
Asus Eee PC 1000 to Debut First Week of June... →
According to an invitation from Chairman Jonney Shih, Asus will present their EeePC 1000 at Computex 2008, the classic IT fair to kick off in Taipei next week, starting on June 3. The…
GPS-Tracked Biggest Drawing in the World is... →
You know that so-called “biggest drawing in the World” made by pin-point DHL mailings of a GPS tracker? Well, all you doubting commenters were right: it’s a complete and utter fake. While…
You Can Officially Kill a Man With a MacBook... →
Sure, the edge of the MacBook Air is impressively thin. But did you know that it’s razor thin? According to some German users, the edge is refined enough to slice through freshly…
How to Build Your Own Sea-Based Country for Fun... →
Last week, I told you about the new project by a small group of monied Silicon Valley geeks to build autonomous countries out at sea. The project, called Seasteading, will consist of…
Create an Impressive Mock-up of a Grunge Box →
Learn how to create impressive mock-up designs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Vanishing Point Filter to get quick and professional presentation results. The final result is a…
Milky Free Vector Icon Set Part I and II by... →
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Marvel's Comics On Mobile Phones = Win [Marvel] →
Marvel Comics wants to port their comics to mobile phones. Seems like a perfect thing to read while you’re supposed to be paying attention to what’s going on around you, but sure how you’re…
"Crowd Control" iRobot Fires Up to a Million... →
You remember that gun that electronically fires up to a million rounds a minute (theoretically) by Metal Storm? They’re strapping them to iRobot’s X700 to create a serious…
All Things D Live: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer... →
UPDATE: Windows 7 photos and feature details here.
8:00 Tim O’Reilly: Big companies have big hairy goals, like putting pcs on every desktop. What’s Microsoft’s goal now? Bill:…
Steampunk Jewelry Is Perfect If You Are Captain... →
So you think you are a steampunk fan because you got all your steampunk things, right? Your steampunk music instruments and weapons and figure models and Darth Vader mask and …
OLPC XO-2 Will Love You Back With Haptic Feedback... →
OLPC’s upcoming wonder laptop, the XO-2, will have multi-touch and haptic feedback, according to a Mary Lou Jepsen of Pixel Qi, who designed the original’s innovative…
Photoshop CS 4 Might Hit in October With GPU... →
Over the holiday weekend (yep, I was slaving over a keyboard, not a grill, just for you) it came out via TGDaily that the next version of Photoshop would rock general-purpose GPU…
Windows 7 Features Revealed, Coming in 18 Months... →
Here’s what Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer revealed about Windows 7 at All Things Digital a few minutes ago. The biggest “feature” is the touch and multi-touch integration, which takes many of…