June 2008
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M-Series Is Industry First Quad-Display GPU, Says... →
Matrox keeps updating its multi-display graphics cards, this time with the first QuadHead GPU the M-Series M9140 LP PCIe x16 can drive up to four 1920 x 1200 screens. Hedge fund managers and…
Photoshop Tutorials - Exotic Fashion →
Tags: drawing photoshop
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SaveTheDevelopers - Making The Web A Better Place →
Do you actually think you can rid the world of the scourge that is Internet Explorer 6? We can only hope, but the truth of the matter is that not all users have the luxury of upgrading…
CodeProject: Screen Shot Application. Free source... →
Tags: system graphics screen-capture gdi
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Altiris SVS - review & download link |... →
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Subversion 1.5 brings merge improvements &... →
My shop has been using Subversion for a number of years. It is a reliable tool and works well for our team. One area that Subversion could handle better is tracking merge information. Our team…
Working LEGO Gun Will Make You Shoot Bricks [Lego] →
One man’s LEGO is another man’s treasure, and what better way is there to guard your grand stash of colored bricks than by using the bricks themselves as a weapon? The Thriller Automatic and…
Nation upset at use of name Microsoft Fiji. →
Fiji’s government says it’s still trying to contact the Microsoft Corporation to discuss the company’s plans to launch a product called Microsoft Fiji. Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum told…
Things No One Gives Microsoft Credit For (But... →
Microsoft gets more crap than any other company in tech. That’s partly because it’s given us garbage like Clippy, Microsoft BOB and Windows Vista. And it’s partly because it’s arguably the…
ATI Radeon Graphics Cards Running Nvidia PhysX Are... →
After Nvidia picked up PhysX, it was obvious ATI would probably get left out of Nvidia’s efforts to spread the love to graphics cards and x86 CPUs (hence ATI hooking up with Havok)….
Lamps made from micro-cassettes →
We found these gorgeous lamps, made from clear-cased micro-cassettes, on Boing Boing Gadgets. This seems like a cool, easy project that you could also do with full-sized clear…
65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion... →
Without a doubt, the Lego brick storage buildings were the most impressive part of my visit to Lego. When I first saw their 65.6-foot high ceilings, with multiple giant robots going up and down…
What It's Like Working Under Bill Gates [Bill... →
Joel Spolsky has a very interesting account of what it was like working as a program manager for Microsoft in 1992. We don’t want to ruin the story, because it’s a really good one that you…
BlueBoss - Bluetooth Proximity Detection →
Summary: Bluetooth is now found in a variety of devices and enable the user to use wireless accessories. The Bluetooth protocol allows a user to “discover” any device that is in proximity to…
Your Last Opportunity to Go to the Moon [Career... →
Remember when you were three and thought “I want to be an astronaut” but then you left home to became a waiter then a mackerel fisherman in the middle of the Atlantic then a male…
Green Lights: Pick the Right Compact Fluorescent... →
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Mitsubishi LaserVue Laser TV Will Be 65 and... →
Details on Mistubishi’s LaserVue, the rear-projection 1080p televison that uses frickin’ laser beams to display exceptionally rich color, are pouring out. The TV set will come in 65” and 73”…
DARPA Unveils Details About the Mach 6 Vulcan... →
How does one design a propulsion system that combines a full-scale turbine engine and a Constant Volume Combustion (CVC) engine that is capable of delivering 12,000 pounds of payload up to…
Picking The Right Compact Fluorescent Light For... →
We have all heard about how it pays to go green when you ditch your power guzzling incandescent bulbs for money saving, eco-friendly CFLs—but have you given any thought to what type of CFLs…
Dell Studio Notebooks Officially Bring Decent... →
Studio is Dell’s new line of notebooks that’ll sit in between Inspiron (low end) and XPS (high end), taking design cues from the latter—like its tapered lines, hinge design and slot-loading…
How to Reduce Camera Shake - 6 Techniques →
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Military-Grade Hummer Replacement Has... →
I’m sure military enthusiasts will geek out about this IMI Wildcat — A Hummer-replacing 4x4 MPC vehicle that can hold 12 soldiers, protect against 14.5 mm fire and RPGs, cross 900mm trenches,…
Lego Blade Runner Spinner Car Limited Edition One... →
Joel spent all day with Syd Mead of Aliens, Blade Runner, 2010, Tron vehicle design fame and the first thing he’s posted is this Lego Blade Runner Spinner Car replica that Lego made for him….
Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer Pressure... →
There are over a dozen people working at our fair Gizmodo, but as a Windows user, I’m in a definite minority. I still rock XP, and I’m pretty happy with that. Why haven’t I switched to Macs?…
Dog Made Adorably Bionic With Model Airplane... →
This tiny puppy, named Hope, was born without front legs. You know what that means: it was time to create a robopuppy. Orthotist David Turnbill created a custom support for hope using a…
Google faces $1bn damages in trade-secret lawsuit →
LimitNone, a small software-development company, is seeking nearly $1bn (£508m) in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the company and misappropriating its…
Japan to Build Huge Solar Power Plants to Power... →
The city of Sakai in Japan is going to have a glittering new “green” addition in 2010, when Sharp and Kansai Electric Power build two massive solar-electric power plants there. In a bid to…
Evernote Opens to All: Fantastic Promise,... →
The highly anticipated “memory augmentation” service Evernote opens to the public Tuesday and you’ll probably want to check this service out just to see what it tries to do. We may change our…
Exclusive Video Tour of Lego's Secret Vault... →
In case you missed Jesús’ tour of Lego’s secret vault containing every Lego set ever made—just one of his Lego adventures in Denmark, you can check it out right here.
Kohjinsha SX Series: For When Your Mini-Notebook... →
While Asus has brought mini-notebooks to US shores, for the best stuff you’ve still got to import. The Kohjinsha SX Series is a 2.8lb laptop with a few interesting quirks. Powered by an Atom…
Microsoft Puts Bull's-Eye on SQL Injection Attacks →
Microsoft is pushing freeware to help combat SQL injection attacks. Microsoft is promoting newly released freeware to help IT pros put up a fight against SQL injection attacks. The release of the…
Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site →
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Don't require your users to have a degree in... →
While signing up for online bill payment for one of the services I use,
I encountered the following check box:
Uncheck this box if you do not wish to
receive electronic communications from XYZ.
…
Windows Vista “I can do that” is a disgrace →
Microsoft Australia has recently put together an advertising campaign for Windows Vista called “I can do that”. The premise of the campaign I assume is to demonstrate what you can do with Windows…
Dynamic Tower Skyscraper: Every Floor... →
Italian architect David Fisher is building his first skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu. Every floor of…
Nokia Helps Buys Symbian, Turns it Open Source... →
After a long hardware-software partnership, Nokia’s just announced it’s buying out all the remaining shares in Symbian it doesn’t already own. The purchase amounts to a whopping $410…
BlackBerry Bold on Video: My, My What a Pretty UI... →
RIM’s video tour of the BlackBerry Bold breezes through each feature a little more quickly than we’d like—especially the browser, please show us it won’t suck—but it looks more polished than the…
Doha, Qatar: A Future City as Envisioned by Syd... →
You may know “futurist” Syd Mead from his design work on geek friendly movies like Blade Runner, Tron and Aliens—but in his most recent work he envisions a future city by the name of Doha,…
CookiePie: launch multiple Gmail accounts (or any... →
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Ozzie working on another secret cloud project –... →
As this is the week that Bill Gates retires from his day to day duties at Microsoft, there’s a whole bunch of coverage out there looking at his impact over the last few decades and how he’s shaped…
LED turn signal bike jacket tutorial →
Remember this LED turn signal bike jacket we posted a while back? Well Leah Buechley made a tutorial for making your own. It has a button on each sleeve for activating the turn…
Motorola's "Last Stand" Cellphone, Code-Name... →
Boy Genius has the details on what’s supposedly Motorola’s last-ditch effort: Word is that if this special ops phone doesn’t light the world on fire, Motorola gets torched and goes up for…
EFiX Instant, No-Mess Hackintosh USB Dongle... →
EFix has updated their site with some more details on its voodoo USB dongle that’ll supposedly boot, install and run OS X “unmodified,” straight from the DVD on any PC (Intel processors only…
Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History... →
I have to confess that life hasn’t been very good lately. Work around the clock, not enough free time, trying to have kids and crashing badly. All while moving to a country I don’t particularly…
Setbacks for Google's Android →
The first phones using Google’s Android platform were meant to go to market by the second half of this year. According to the Wall Street Journal, however, Google is facing some major setbacks…
Our Kids Are Failing - And It's All Wikipedia's... →
Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Yesterday, news broke out in Scotland about how the internet was to blame for Scotland’s failing exam pass rates. According to the Scottish Parent Teacher…
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Glomar Explorer →
The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage ship built for a clandestine Central Intelligence Agency mission to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine. The United States government approached billionaire Howard Hughes in the late 1960s with a proposal to build the vessel under the guise of a business venture to mine manganese nodules off the ocean floor. The building of Glomar Explorer, or Hughes Mining...
IxTEE Toy Guns Are Working Toy Guns For Your Toys... →
For those of us who love to give our dolls more realistic props to play with, toy maker IxTEE Productions is putting out a series of 1:6 scaled guns that do everything from lighting up to…