September 2008
Nifty robot 3D vision system →
Howard Gordon, of Surveyor Corp, sent us this announcement about a new, affordable stereo vision camera system for robots. I checked out the video with my 3D glasses. Pretty cool. This past…
Web Site Performance →
I came across a post on StackOverflow.com regarding web site performance. Quite often you can take a look at your application and find 10 different ways to make it more efficient. Depending on…
Microsoft shows off new developer tools →
Microsoft is offering the first look at the company’s latest .Net and Visual Studio releases. The company has announced the newest versions of both developer tools, known as .Net Framework 4.0 and…
World's Largest Cruise Ship Probably Leaves... →
Only five Solstice-class cruise ships will be produced, and the first one (aptly named Solstice) has just left port for the sea. Weighing approximately 134,000 tons, the Solstice is over 1,000…
Visual Studio 2010 First Previews →
Microsoft has published some information about Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 today.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-29VS10PR.mspx
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Japanese Matrix Trilogy Blu-ray Collection Arrives... →
Japan, not content to be our betters with just Internet service providers, is upping the ante again with this extravagant Ultimate Matrix Collection Blu-ray limited edition set. Available…
Windows 7 promises fixes for Vista taskbar... →
As Microsoft readies for the first widespread distribution of Windows 7 at two key conferences later this year, details of planned changes to the software continue to emerge. And while the issue of…
Supercomputers to speed up internet →
THE DAWN of a new internet age has begun. A network of supercomputers, known as the Grid, is to revolutionise the speed at which information is downloaded to personal computers. The power of the Grid…
jQuery to be Supported in Visual Studio and... →
Microsoft just announced that jQuery will be supported in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and shipped with ASP.NET MVC. Scott Guthrie mentions that an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will be…
jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s... →
You may have read that from John Resig or Scott Guthrie. I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft has decided to ship, adopt and support using jQuery on top of ASP.NET. This may come as a…
SpaceX Has Finally Made History and Reached Orbit! →
SpaceX, a private company established by Elon Musk the founder of Paypal, has once again attempted to successfully launch a shuttle into space. This launch comes after the failure of the Falcon 1…
My Little Pony - modded →
It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I really like this modded My Little Pony storm trooper. The my little alien is rad too, thanks Brad!
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Are Mac Pro Cases Toxic? [Approach With Caution] →
One of the croissant-snarfing editors at Gizmodo France passed along this article that alleges the Mac Pro gives off toxic vapors. Translating from the language of lose to the language of…
Sony Explains Intel Core 2 Duo with Weird French... →
Sony’s site has an absolutely hilarious page explaining how Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip helps you multitask with cartoons featuring two odd, party-hat-wearing elfin caricatures. Read on for my…
Everyone Will Be a Walking Nuclear Weapon Detector... →
Researchers at Purdue University are working on tech that will turn every cellphone into a roaming nuclear weapon sniffer and are lobbying Congress to legally require cellphone users and…
KUNGFU KOMIKS: What's the difference between a... →
Best of the TUTS Sites - September - PSDTUTS →
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Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop -... →
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Ditch the Plasma and Hang Six PCs on the Wall... →
Every yup on the block has a fancy TV on their wall, but not too many folks can claim they have six PCs clustered in a render farm, glowing with eye-searing blue LEDs through a wall-mounted,…
Steve Ballmer Thinks PCs Can Run 5x Faster Without... →
We hate crapware, you hate crapware, and Steve Ballmer hates crapware. Here’s what Ballmer said last night about it. When people complain about computers coming with too many…
SimpleTech Duo Pro: 4 Interfaces, 3 Terabytes, 2... →
There are plenty of dual-hard-drive outboard storage systems on the market, but SimpleTech’s Duo Pro struck me as particularly brimming with awesomeness. It’s not a NAS—it’s totally…
Microsoft Loves Open Systems Except When They Can... →
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer spoke at the annual Churchill Club dinner last night and said some very interesting things about the way Apple, Microsoft and Google make devices. No…
First Look at the XM25, the Most Lethal Army Gun... →
Here’s the first look at the final version of the deadly XM25. We learnt this morning about the weapon’s destructive power, but now we have all the details, starting with the key for its…
FeedBurner May Not Be Hearing Your Pings →
Blogging is a fast medium, that’s one of its advantages over traditional media. There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics. Most of those…
Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch –... →
In the last part of this series we added the necessary framework to put in the place the sign-in control and get it working. So now that you’ve got the sign-in control displayed in your User…
The Inside Story of the Android Font [Android] →
We’ve complained (maybe carped is a better word) about the lack of design unity in Android, but the truth is, there is one design element that’s consistent across the entire OS: the Droid…
Gustavo Pimenta’s Collection of Design Solutions →
Gustavo Pimenta is a user experience designer focused on making the Web a better place. He mentioned that he is addicted to making screenshots of some of the best design elements / soultions,…
Gustavo Pimenta’s Collection of Design Solutions |... →
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Gustavo Pimenta’s Collection of Design Solutions →
Gustavo Pimenta is a user experience designer focused on making the Web a better place. He mentioned that he is addicted to making screenshots of some of the best design elements / soultions,…
Iron Is Chrome Spin-Off for Tin-Foil Hatters... →
German security company SRWare likes Chrome but not as much as their tin-foil hats, which is why they have created Iron. Iron is a Chrome derivative that has been developed to protect your…
How do we write test automation for ASP.NET? →
Part of the responsibility of our team is to write automated regression tests for every ASP.NET feature. It is important to have a comprehensive test bed, since it is used for many years after a…
Lighting Review: Berkeley Lamp II - 'The Only Lamp... →
The Gadget: A lamp with two bulbs, both dimmable, that provides a 50% energy savings over incandescent lamps, an extra 120v port on its base to make up for the one it takes up, and a choice…
Dude's KITT-Modded Car Apparently Does 340MPH... →
Do you think the original KITT’s dashboard was so overloaded with useless indicators and LEDs so dumbstastically stupid that it made The Hoff look like a Physics Nobel Prize in leather pants? Then…
Microsoft Image Composite Editor: a powerful, user... →
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China running out of IP addresses →
Chinese officials are calling for a mass migration to IPv6 after disclosing that they have only 830 days’ worth of IPv4 resources left. The disclosure was made by Li Kai, director of IP of the China…
Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch –... →
The preface to this little project is that at work I have been handed a project which is all about styling. Given the recent release of Windows Live Messenger Wave 3 beta, the new 2.5 API set and the…
Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch –... →
Following on from the first part of this article where we managed to register Ajax classes and get a basic outline that we can play around with for our new messenger User Control, we come onto…
MAKE and CRAFT at Crafty Bastards! →
This Sunday, September 28th (10am - 5pm), the 5th annual Crafty Bastards! Arts & Crafts Fair will take place at the Marie Reed Learning Center, in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington,…
China Building Cylon Basestar Space Engines... →
While NASA is having problems reaching milestones for their new Ares rockets—the conventional rocket that will get the US to the moon and Mars—China is actually trying to build a…
Norton Partition Magic alternative freeware - FREE... →
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Abandoned cannons →
Incredible gallery of abandoned cannons in Russia via Buzzfeed. This is an abandoned army base on the sea coastline near the Murmansk city. It looks like it stays abandoned for…
reCaptcha: Stopping Spam While Transcribing Books →
CAPTCHAs, those pesky challenge-response tests that many web sites use to determine whether you are human or a spambot, are an annoyance to many users. According to a report in Science…
Yankee Stadium Gets a Glorious Lego Send-Off... →
For die-hard Yankee’s fans like myself, this has definitely been a year to forget. I think everyone would agree that the season itself was a total disaster, and I’m sure that there are a lot…
Japanese Iron Man Toy Has a Ridiculous Level of... →
Some very talented individuals at the Japanese company Hot Toys have developed 1:6 scale Iron Man Mark I, II and III figures that feature an absolutely extraordinary level of detail….
Download Android 1.0 SDK...NOW [Android] →
Google made the Android 1.0 SDK available today, following the announcement of the G1 phone yesterday. The 1.0 signification means it’s technically out of beta, and you can develop without…
Baikonur Cosmorome in Big, Beautiful Pictures... →
I am so drawn to all things Baikonur. It’s been Russia’s primary spaceport since 1955—the world’s oldest. Maybe it’s the sharpness of the pop in my mind when considering many of humankind’s…
The Force is Tiny (and Incredibly Detailed) With... →
Lego microscale enthusiast RogueBantha has been busy. For the past year, he’s been putting the finishing touches on this incredible battle scene between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic…
It’s Going to Be Brilliant: Adobe Photoshop CS4 →
Some of us have been eagerly awaiting it, others have been casually disinterested and some have even expressed irritation. The fact of the matter is, though, that this September 23rd saw the…