July 2008
Customize.org - Download Themes, Skins, Wallpapers... →
Tags: visualstyles
Posted by: sameera
Giz Explains: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid... →
We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget…
Will Microsoft's Midori Project Be a Web-Delivered... →
That’s what SD Times is claiming, based on “internal Microsoft documents” that give more details on the skunk-works research project currently brewing in Redmond. The docs supposedly hint at a…
Via's Nano Beats Intel's Atom in Apples and... →
Via’s Nano and Intel’s Atom low-power processors are intended for slightly different purposes, but that didn’t stop HardOCP pitting them against each other in performance tests, and…
Megatorpedo Sinks Destroyer in One Hit [Weapons] →
This is a US Navy Spruance-class destroyer sinking in mere minutes after being hit by the latest version of a Mk 48: a heavyweight torpedo which, as you can see in this video, can wipe a whole…
Microsoft Runs Milgram Experiment on Vista →
Microsoft today unveiled video footage of an exercise called the Mojave Experiment, where unwitting Windows users were tricked into watching a Vista demo while told it was something else. The…
India Developing US$10 Laptop →
India is developing a laptop to be sold at US$10, that will target higher education applications, a minister of the federal government said Tuesday in Delhi. Research on the new low-cost laptop is…
Rocket Racers It's Like NASCAR In the Sky... →
If you thought Red Bull Racing was crazy, you won’t believe the Rocket Racing League. Think NASCAR, but in the air, using planes powered by solid-state rockets flying simultaneously. The…
Vortex Fountain Scares the Piss Out of Traditional... →
The Vortex Fountain eschews gentle, soothing streams for a powerful water funnel. The illusion of a standing block of water is created by an acrylic case hidden by transparency and water…
SVATS Anti-Theft System Bands Cars Together to... →
What if all of the cars in a parking lot were wirelessly keeping an eye on one another just in case a member of the “herd” was damaged or stolen? Sencun Zhu, an assistant professor at Penn…
Deziner Folio» Blog Archive » Ultimate Web 2.0... →
Tags: photoshop web2.0 webdesign resources color
Posted by: sameera
Scientists Develop Micro Microscope: Fits on a... →
There’s been a bit of a rush of pocket/USB digital microscopes recently, but none can hold a candle to this development from clever chaps at Caltech. They’ve done a neat bit of thinking and…
Buffalo's 32GB and 64GB SSDs For Eee PC Get Launch... →
Asus’s EeePC 901 has already proved itself very hackable but Buffalo’s newest product won’t require much modding: 32GB or 64GB replacement SSD’s. Not much more to say, apart from the…
Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts →
Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the results with the public. For those new to the Mojave Experiment,…
Peering Into Microsoft's Cloud →
On July 24th, Microsoft held their annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM), an event where many of Microsoft’s top executives come together to talk about the company’s progress and achievements….
HP Admits Nvidia Defects Were Known Since Last... →
Dell isn’t the only laptop maker offering its customers help if they have laptops with certain Nvidia chips that are prone to overheating. HP has issued a list of laptops of its own that…
Homemade Iron Man Suit Can Probably Kick Real... →
While the nightmarish beer-belly-ready Iron Man suit was WRONG and disturbing, this homemade version of the original suit is a perfect reproduction of the original. And still disturbing….
WinBubble 1.74 was released →
In just two clicks, WinBubble will help you to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization. What’s New on WinBubble 1.74 *”Set the…
Shuttleworth: Microsoft Does Not Want War →
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, which maintains the Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, said he doubts Microsoft would file a suit against a free software developer unless the software…
Smart Desktop Organizes Your Info, Both Online and... →
One of the software programs mentioned at this year’s IORG conference (see our coverage here) was SmartDesktop. This program uses machine intelligence to automatically organize your…
Ex-Googlers Build Cuil Search Engine, Say it's... →
“Search 121,617,892,992 web pages” claims the front page of the new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool” apparently.) Those 120 billion pages are about three times as many as Google…
Maintain Browser History with AJAX →
Most of you out there would have noticed that browser history button doesn’t work if you are using AJAX. Instead of rolling forward or backward the AJAX step they actually move the complete page….
Norwegian NGO used by LTTE, also delivered arms to... →
Norwegian People’s Aid - One of Norway’s biggest non-government organizations which is alleged used by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for its terrorist activities is also learnt was…
CodeProject: Zoomer - Capture/Zoom/Add... →
Tags: system screen-capture
Posted by: sameera
EjectUSB: a powerful tool for safe USB drive... →
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Tags: software-watchlist
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YouTube - Photoshop Mama's Green Screen Extract... →
Tags: photoshop graphic-design
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YouTube - Photoshop heads on to bodies →
Tags: photoshop graphic-design
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Citizen engineer (audio fixed) →
Weekend update… I fixed the audio issue on the Citizen Engineer video, transcoding to Flash seemed to mess something up. So here it (above) & in HD again… and if you just want to see…
CodeProject: Turn off laptop monitor and lock the... →
Tags: system hardware
Posted by: sameera
Gateway Shutters Online Store, Exits Direct PC... →
Gateway will now no longer be selling its PCs through Gateway.com and has shut down all its direct PC sales to become a 100% retail channel PC company. The move is only somewhat surprising—its
Logo Design Trends Report 2007 →
There are many different kinds of stunning logos. Some are aesthetic, some conceptual, and some cultural. It is also becoming disturbingly clear that logo design has become a public sport. As the…
Web Tablet: Toward Less Complexity →
TechCrunch is usually a deplorable timesink but I’m quite intrigued with their recent post about ‘A Dead Simple Web Tablet’
The idea is instantly exciting — but the funny thing is how…
Lego Beijing Olympics Doesn't Include Tibetan Monk... →
It was only a matter of time before someone turned the Beijing Olympics installations into Lego. Our friends at Brothers Brick discovered the landmarks—like the Nest Sports Ground or the…
Worms Do Calculus to Find Food | LiveScience →
Worms calculate how much the strength of different tastes is changing — equivalent to the process of taking a derivative in calculus — to figure out if they are on their way toward food or should change direction and look elsewhere, says University of Oregon biologist Shawn Lockery, who thinks humans and other animals do the same thing.
Windows Live Photo Gallery Will Soon Recognize... →
Digital Inspiration unveils a little bit about the face recognition in the upcoming Windows Live Photo Gallery: Imagine this. You connect a digital camera to your PC for transferring photos…
Dealzmodo: $19 HDMI Graphics Card [Deals] →
If you’ve been scouting for components to build a budget media center PC, this Asus ATI Radeon HD3450 is going for just $19 after a $10 mail-in rebate. (It usually runs about $50.) While not a
Ubiquity For Firefox Is Not An Add-On - It's a... →
Is This Future for the Firefox UI? You may remember a project called Enso, a software program developed by Humanized - the same folks who brought you Songza. The program is an application…
Incredible typewriter scuptures →
Jeremy Mayer makes these really fantastic evocative sculptures from old typewriters. I’m amazed by what he uses for each body part, and how he could have imagined to put things together the…
Creating ClickOnce Applications for Others to... →
Highlights and Sticky Notes:
Not all developers who are creating ClickOnce deployments plan to deploy the applications themselves. Many of them just package their application by using ClickOnce…
USB Watch is Deconstructed Electronic Geekiness In... →
This concept USB watch, dubbed “Timeless” is either a fabulously ironic piece of deconstructivist electronic art, or a geeky overload. Whichever way you look at it, it’s kinda neat: basically…
Pismo File Mount: mount ZIP and ISO files as... →
Tags: software-watchlist
Posted by: sameera
Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer... →
The future of software development
is about good craftsmen. With infrastructure like Amazon Web Services and
an abundance of basic libraries, it no longer takes a village
to build a good piece…
Nerf Vulcan Fully Automatic Dart Gun Now Available... →
We saw the Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 at Toy Fair 2008, we saw it perform in the hands of brave co-workers fighting in the trenches at the epic Nerf office war, and now you can proudly own the…
Moon Base Two Could House Four Astronauts for a... →
What’s the next step in space exploration? A semi-permanent moon base, of course. It’s about time we get a settlement up there for astronauts to stay at for months at a time, don’t you…
Daily Cup of Tech » Reset Your Vista Password →
Tags: vista hacks
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Reset Your Vista Password →
A very useful trick from What’s My Pass? if you can’t access your Vista box:
Using BackTrack Live CD which can be found ::here::
For those of you who forgot your spiffy new Vista Logon…
Tilted Twister solves Rubik's cubes →
Jason over at Haqckszine found the Tilted Twister, a LEGO NXT robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube without the help of a PC. It’s really impressive to watch! Just place the scrambled…
Zero-Gee Computing Recliner Proves Our Fat Future... →
Everyone saw Wall-E, right? And how the luxury cruisers of the future glide around in floating touch-screen-equipped easy chairs? Then the Zero-Gee gaming/blogging “workstation” should look…
Vista: How To Get Refunded on Prepackaged Vista →
Most of us click that “I agree” box without ever thinking twice. But what if you don’t agree with those terms and conditions? It gives you perfect fodder for going back to the computer manufacturer and demanding a refund on the software. After all, the EULA itself says to “contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their return policy for a refund or credit”...
Michael Arrington Wants Help Designing a $200 Open... →
Michael Arrington wants a $200 touchscreen internet tablet. So do a lot of people. Unlike a lot of people, Arrington is loaded and runs TechCrunch. So he’s taking it into his own hands and…