August 2008
Web Design: Black Layouts | Abduzeedo - graphic... →
Tags: abduzeedo web-design web2.0 inspirations
Posted by: sameera
WatchTechnology Students Mess with Dormitory Lights - Video (via Metacafe)
WatchThe Blomsma Code - Hug a developer!
Smashing Magazine - On Stage Free Vector PSD Icon... →
Tags: webappers resources icons
Posted by: sameera
How To Render a Dramatic 3D Wood Cup in Photoshop... →
Tags: psdtuts photoshop 3d
Posted by: sameera
Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs →
This is the funniest thing I have seen in ages!
And if you liked the video, you’ll love the game!
I’m still laughing and it’s been a couple of days!
If you found this post…
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise →
In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: “use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default.” Note the last word: default. Microsoft argued…
Microsoft Issues Warnings on IE 8 Beta 2 →
No sooner had Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, then it warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) might not be able to uninstall either the service pack or IE8 in some…
(Presumably) Very Cheap Tablet PCs by NEC... →
See this tablet? It’s new from NEC and features the same monotonous specs (1.6GHz Atom, 512MB-1GB RAM and 80GB HD) that we see in those cheapie mini-notebooks like the Asus Eee. Running XP or…
OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the... →
When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he’d received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him…
Jesus Tries to Save Your Soul But Windows Stops... →
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: “Come and see.” And I saw. And behold, there was the other Jesus, the Bible character, calling me from a big…
Paint drip table →
Designer John Nouanesing came up with this amazing table, he says it’s going into production later this year. via Inspire Underground
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Is this the Futuremark 3D OpenGL-Powered Car... →
We’ve seen all-digital concept dashboards before, but none seem as impressive 3D (or close to reality) as Futuremark’s. It scraps everything behind and to the right of the wheel in favor of…
3-Channel Black Steath R/C Chopper For $30 [R/c] →
The guys at Think Geek are bringing R/C junkies one of the cheapest 3-channel mini choppers on the market with the new “Black Stealth.” Unlike dinky 2-channel versions, the Black Stealth…
Computer Virus Finds Its Way Into Orbit Aboard ISS... →
The ISS is full of laptops, used for experiments, email, or just watching movie rips on VCDs in 2001. But this time, someone’s laptop has managed to make it all the way up into Earth orbit…
DIY File Index →
Windows has had a search option for a very long time. The problem that I have with it is two-fold:
It is slow
The indexer is a real resource hog
So, a long time ago, I learned how to index…
Eraser | Heidi - Internet Security and Privacy →
Tags: software-watchlist
Posted by: sameera
Hotfixr launched, easily get non-public Microsoft... →
Two days ago, I provided a small snippet of code that redirected users to a deep-within-Microsoft page that allowed users to pull semi-public hotfixes. Well, it was ugly, error prone, didn’t…
Zeep Mobile: Free SMS Gateway For Developers →
While SMS has already become one of the most important forms of communication in many parts of the world, the U.S. is only catching up to this trend slowly. Part of the reason for this is the…
Computer Virus Finds Its Way Into Orbit Aboard ISS... →
The ISS is full of laptops, used for experiments, email, or just watching movie rips on VCDs in 2001. But this time, someone’s laptop has managed to make it all the way up into Earth orbit…
Is this the Futuremark 3D OpenGL-Powered Car... →
We’ve seen all-digital concept dashboards before, but none seem as impressive 3D (or close to reality) as Futuremark’s. It scraps everything behind and to the right of the wheel in favor of…
3-Channel Black Steath R/C Chopper For $30 [R/c] →
The guys at Think Geek are bringing R/C junkies one of the cheapest 3-channel mini choppers on the market with the new “Black Stealth.” Unlike dinky 2-channel versions, the Black Stealth…
Superfish - Enhanced Suckerfish Style Menu jQuery... →
Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript) and adds the some nice features as well….
Houston, we have a virus →
A computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. It is not the first time a NASA computer has become infected….
Fujitsu Readies Eight-core Sparc64 Chip →
Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems….
Null Hypothesis | Magenta Ain't A Colour →
A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence. Pink (or magenta, to use its official name) simply isn’t there. But if pink isn’t in the light spectrum, how come we can see it?
Why your gaming degree may be a waste of time →
Anecdotally, it has become painfully clear that many of these trade schools are degree mills designed specifically to reap the rewards of offering naive students what amounts to a mirage. This isn’t just my own perception
Draganfly X6 UAV: UFO Thingy Packed With Carbon... →
The Draganfly series of heli cams have been impressive, but the just announced X6 is freaking amazing. The triple-tipped carbon fiber body has two carbon rotors on each end. The design…
Convert Text Into WAV Files →
There are several situations where it would be to your benefit to listen to a WAV file rather than read a text file.
When you are driving home.
Someone who is visually impaired.
You do not…
ASP.NET MVC Videos : The Official Microsoft... →
Tags: mvc asp.net video-tutorials
Posted by: sameera
Superfish - Enhanced Suckerfish Style Menu jQuery... →
Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript) and adds the some nice features as well….
Six Fun Things to Do With Serious Military... →
The International Defense Exhibition of Land Forces went down in Moscow this past weekend, and it seems like it was a pretty a great time, judging from these photos sent in to our good friends…
Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in... →
Tags: psdtuts photoshop graphic-design
Posted by: sameera
-scenery tutorial- by =night-fate on deviantART →
Tags: photoshop photography
Posted by: sameera
How to: Start Using Greasemonkey in 4 Minutes →
Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox add-on that lets you change the appearance and functionality of almost any page on the web. Most people don’t know how to write Javascript, though, so we end…
10 Things You Can Learn From The Slow Vista... →
I’m pretty sure that it has sunk in to the people of Microsoft by now that their deployment of Windows Vista has been an utter disaster. Vista has been out for over a year and a half now and…
IOGear's USB to VGA Kit Puts Wireless Gap Between... →
Combine this little gizmo with a wireless USB hub and you could almost have your PC in a separate room to you: it’s a wireless VGA cable. The USB to VGA kit consists of a transmitter dongle…
CodeProject: TT Audio Player. Free source code and... →
http://code.google.com/p/audioplayer/
Tags: audio multimedia C#
Posted by: sameera
Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs... →
One of the best parts of my trip to Lego and exploring their factory was the minifig production lines, where the head and body of the most famous toy citizen in world gets painted and…
Dealing with the Configuration Nightmare →
Typically during an overview of some new technology they will say “and it’s totally configurable” at which point my inner sarcastic voice pipes up in response “great, now we have two problems”.
LEGO sport city →
The Beijing Olympics inspired the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group to build the incredibly detailed LEGO Sport City - here’s the flickr set. They used 300,000 bricks and 4,500 mini-figures!…
Lenovo ThinkPad X200t Photographed in the Wild... →
The tablet version of Lenovo’s ThinkPad X200 laptop, sensibly named the X200t, was photographed in the wild, looking pretty much like an X200 with a swiveling screen. (That means it’s also…
Star Wars Laser Weapon Battles Arrive in 2016—at... →
Boeing is firing off laser weapon press releases and news at almost the speed of light these days. In June we brought you word that the company had successfully test fired its thin-disk…
Deziner Folio» Blog Archive » Speed Up Your... →
Tags: photoshop
Posted by: sameera
Asus F6 Comes With Webcam, 13-inch Screen, Eau de... →
Looks like Asus is sniffing out the next big thing now that it’s found heaps of success with its EeePC concept, and has decided that what the world really needs is a notebook that can…
NEC Wireless USB Prototype Just As Fast As USB 2.0... →
Wireless USB has finally begun to match regular USB 2.0 speeds, making our inevitable launch into a life untethered by the confines of copper and rubber cabling all the more forthcoming. At…
The Latest Gear Behind 3D Movie Making [3D Movie... →
DLP recently teamed up with former LucasFilms effects studios Kerner Optical and Tippett Studios to work on a stereoscopic 3D Trailer for their cinema projectors. Pushing this style of…
iBasket Laundry Concept is Clothes Hamper, Washer... →
Like most New Yorkers, my building has no laundry facilities of its own and, in order to get clean clothes, I have to summon the willpower to drag my brimming bag three blocks. Oh, if only I…