November 2009
CodeSOD: Pretty Basic Validation →
“For reasons beyond my comprehension,” Kristof writes, “one of my coworkers has managed to keep his job after more than eighteen months of messing about. His latest project was to build an import…
INotify on new changes →
Jaime Rodriguez has a great post on some of the interesting things we at Microsoft have on one of our internal discussions, namely the WPF one. The big one I noticed was that my favorite was…
Comic for November 30, 2009 →
Hyper-V Virtualization CPU compatibility utilities →
Two utilities from AMD and Intel to check your CPUs for compatibility for virtualization - Intel – Processor Identification Utility checks your CPU for virtualization, 64-bit and threading. …
Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade... →
Apparently the Department of Defense believes that PS3s are a better value when it comes to supercomputers than IBM products specifically designed for the purpose. Granted recent price…
Office 2010 scheduled for June release →
Microsoft is set to launch an entirely new updated wave of Office applications in June 2010. The Office suite will be updated for Windows, including ribbon support for all products, and will also be…
Cartoon: That's What Friends Are For →
A while back, a friend of mine wondered about LinkedIn’s somewhat limited options for indicating how you know someone. (“I vomited on their shoes at the office party” isn’t on the list, for…
Leaked Intel Roadmap Reveals Budget Desktop... →
For those of you who get hot and bothered by leaked Intel product roadmaps, please sit down. We have one here for desktops that runs the gamut from budget Core i3 and a low-power i5 marked…
Windows 7 Apocalypse: Hard Reboot Gets a New... →
Snitch and Langford are about to find out whether they’ve got what it takes to survive the Robot apocalypse. The answer might surprise you! Brian Hogg is a puppeteer and a writer….
DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look... →
Despite my earlier protests about the damn thing, I went and bought a bloody iphone.
And on this new device (with which I am utterly utterly obsessed) I’ve been playing a bunch of games,…
Comic for November 29, 2009 →
Should be purple →
> Leon!
Desperately need help!
I been racking my brains about this all morning!
Why isn’t my HELLO WORLD purple?
<FONT COLOR='BLUE'> <FONT COLOR='RED'> HELLO WORLD! (should be...
25 Funny Comic Strips About the Web & the... →
Web is a multiple utilities. It can either be a resource that can provide information or help you keep you in touch with your loved or even be a source of entertainment. There has been exponential…
The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More... →
Microsoft’s posted the clips from Family Guy’s killed hackathon that would’ve shilled for Windows 7, and they’re even more brain-liquefyingly stupid than I thought. Just watch, but…
Classic WTF: Smooth, Like a Factory →
It’s Black Friday! For those of you stuck at work (or not in the US), here’s a fun classic. Smooth, Like a Factory was originally published on November 9th, 2006.
Daren S knew that his days were…
128-Bit Kernel Support in Windows 8 and Windows 9:... →
Caveat: I’ve been sitting on the information contained in this post for quite a while now, but it has finally perturbed me enough to put it out there for all of you (and myself, for that…
The Burj Dubai Just Can't Stop Getting Struck By... →
A tipster sent along this spectacular photo of the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest, most absurdly ostentatious building, getting struck by lightning. While checking for newness, I noticed…
25 Funny Comic Strips About the Web & the... →
Web is a multiple utilities. It can either be a resource that can provide information or help you keep you in touch with your loved or even be a source of entertainment. There has been exponential…
Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station... →
NASA didn’t plan any traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner for the astronauts at the International Space Station, but they had it anyway: Someone sneaked the real thing into the space shuttle…
Mytrey, modular trey becomes a portable... →
With reducing size of modern apartments, portable furniture allowing greater flexible has become an integral part of contemporary living spaces. The brainchild of Italian designer Alessio…
Let's Sing About Safer Sext (NSFW) [Nsfw] →
Sext. Sending pictures of your naughty bits through MMS. Oh, don’t play coy. You already knew what it is, so let’s just watch this educational video and learn about safer sext practices from…
New Firefox 3.6 Beta Enables Local File Handling →
Earlier this morning, Mozilla released the fourth beta version of Firefox 3.6. Besides over 140 bug fixes, the new beta also introduces support for HTML5’s local file handling API. This…
Aero Theme - CRX Version 1.5 →
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Homecentric Laptop for every entertainment purpose →
The “Homecentric” by Carl Andersen is a flexible laptop design that caters to the varied needs, be it at home or at the workplace. The device is designed around the ‘9 to 5-ers’ who look to…
What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built... →
Youch. So that’s what would happen if HP built astromech droids. Can’t say I blame Leia, those error messages make me want to break something, too. Though maybe a lightsaber would’ve looked…
Android's growth worries developers →
A year after Google’s Android launch, the open source operating system has become a sensation for both developers and consumers. With at least 12 devices currently using Android consumers have a…
Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base [Windows] →
It was going to happen eventually, since Windows has 18 times OS X’s marketshare, but Windows 7 already passed Apple’s install base about a month after having been released. Again, not a…
White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer... →
AT&T did not take kindly to remarks made by White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin comparing oppressive Chinese censorship to the practice of American ISPs. McLaughlin, a major supporter of…
Volvo IT Department Gets Banned From Wikipedia For... →
One of the risks facing any enterprise is how to deal with people who use the corporate network to post rude, sexist or even racist material on public facing web sites. That issue is coming…
Screenr: Screen Recordings, Easy to Make, Easy to... →
If you ever need to make a quick video capture of your screen but don’t want the hassle of having to install any software or upload the video anywhere to share it, Screenr might be a…
Pixel Qi Dual-Mode LCD Ships Next Month; $100,... →
One is a rough manufacturing start date for a display component, and the other is an announcement so vague it barely means anything. But lest you forget: Pixel Qi’s multi-mode, …
Places Where the Internet Actually Happens (In... →
Real, physical places form the Net’s backbone: data centers, under-sea cables, junctions, optic fiber pipes. Wired traced a single bit’s journey from England, across the US, and into…
How to Try the New Google Search [Google] →
Confirmed. The rumors about Google’s redesign are true, and you can try it for yourself with a very simple method. 1. Go to Google.com. 2. Once it loads, enter this code into your web…
Firefox's Plan to Kick the Login's Butt →
Firefox gets distributed social networking and identity management. The good people who work on the revolutionary, open-sourced, and occasionally maligned browser have been hard at work on making…
Two circulating beams bring first collisions in... →
An update… Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC. Every time we have a post about the LHC the crazy comes out of the woodwork proclaiming the world…
5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks [Gaming] →
Liliputing put together a list of 5 decent, recent PC games that play smoothly on netbooks. Also, we would add the classic Half Life to their list, along with Diablo 2 (obv). Your…
Screenr: Screen Recordings, Easy to Make, Easy to... →
If you ever need to make a quick video capture of your screen but don’t want the hassle of having to install any software or upload the video anywhere to share it, Screenr might be a…
"Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by... →
Interesting quote from today’s big education announcement (MAKE is part of it!). Reminds me of when Dean Kamen says “We are what we celebrate”… Mr. Obama said academics should be…
How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law... →
I know it’s science, which is ostensibly more objective than human intuition, but there’s something unnerving about an MRI brain scan being admitted as evidence in a murder trial in Chicago,…
The Four Gaming PCs Worth Lusting After [Buyer's... →
We asked Maximum PC editor-in-chief Will Smith to name the best gaming PCs in four categories: monster laptop, value laptop, over-the-top desktop and “cheap” desktop. Though that last one is…
Google Search's New Interface Being Tested Now... →
The rumors published last week may be true after all: Google is testing a new search interface on random people, as these screenshots from Gizmodo reader Matt Karolian confirm. Like…
Offline Gmail Gets Attachment Support [Gmail] →
According to Google, one of the most requested features for offline Gmail users was the ability to include attachments in emails. Well, that problem has been solved. Starting today, users can…
Hardware Acceleration: The Next Frontier in the... →
Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 9 at its Professional Developers Conference earlier this month. One of the unique features of IE9 that Microsoft announced at that time was hardware…
Google Apps for Blackberry: Now for Businesses of... →
Google Apps is making it a bit more enticing for companies of all sizes to adopt its service for the Blackberry smart phone. In a post this morning on the Google Enterprise blog, the group…
Ostendo's Crazy Curved Monitor Can Finally Be... →
Ostendo’s super curvy CRVD monitor wasn’t actually for sale when we first saw it, but it looked damn good. Judging by this video which uses three of the monitors, it still looks incredible….
Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM's Cat Brain... →
The cat brain simulation IBM supposedly pulled off has just been called out as a “PR stunt” by the leader of the Blue Brain project, who says that it’s all a “mass deception of the…
Facebook Linked to Middle School Redhead Beating... →
The beating of a 12-year-old redheaded boy this past Friday is linked to two of the favorite punching bags of those unwilling to directly blame the jerk kids responsible: Facebook and South…
Google Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Ubuntu and... →
Chrome OS dev code only just went public, but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin…
Microsoft Sued By Datel For Killing Off Third... →
Datel, a company selling memory units for Xbox 360 consoles, filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft for blocking unauthorized third party memory units. Microsoft claims innocence, as the…
This Car Will Run at 1,000mph [Cars] →
Bloodhound is a car being designed to run at a swooshing one thousand miles-per-hour. That’s 1,609 km/h, which is way faster than the speed of sound. As the video shows, it’ll have more…