February 2009
Robots May Prepare Ground for NASA Moon Base,... →
NASA wants to have a lunar base in 2020, and they are teaming up with Astrobotic Technology and Carnegie Mellon University to design automated Tonka trucks that would do the groundwork. And…
Microsoft's Child 'I'm a PC' Ads Only Works With... →
The first two I’m a PC ads from Microsoft used little girls, and were super super cute. This latest one? Not so much. Nothing against little boys, but nobody likes them using a…
Watchmen Featurettes Show Dr. Manhattan's Tron... →
Here are a couple of exclusive featurettes showing new Watchmen behind-the-scenes footage, including Dr. Manhattan looking like a Tron dork and Silk Spectre looking like the foxy,…
Ryanair's New Emergency Instructions Could Be Real... →
After today’s $1.40 airplane lavatory charge, the disco girl with the long legs and the lovely smile has sent us proof that Ryanair is going way too far in their demands to passengers….
Gmail enables multi-attachment uploading →
If you use Google Mail for your email needs and get frustrated that you can’t select more then one file at once well you can now rejoice because Google have enabled the feature in their service. The…
Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist... →
If I encountered Craig Mundie on the street, met his kind but humorless gaze and heard that slight southern drawl, I’d guess he was a golf pro—certainly not Microsoft’s Chief of the future.…
Low Frustration Tolerance: Curse and Blessing →
There’s a psychicologicalous condition known as ‘Low Frustration Tolerance’, (LFT for short… abbreviations, btw, are helpful for those with LFT ;-))
Low. Frustration. Tolerance. I am writing…
Why I Now Hate Epson Printers [Man Vs Machine] →
A few months back, I reviewed Epson’s Artisan 800 printer, and I loved it. Tonight, I hate its shiny plastic guts. In fact, I may never touch another Epson product again because of this… I…
An Important Message From the Global Entertainment... →
The Pirate Bay is carrying this spot-on cartoon on what we already knew about labels and studios: Their “new media—first radio, then TV, then tapes, then video—will kill our industry!”…
BlackBerry Ad Shows How Much RIM Hates Apple... →
Research In Motion is shooting their blackberries at Apple’s apples. Literally. Too bad their Storm’s touch screen actually sucks, no matter how many phony prizes they get. [Rimarkable…
Nutter Holds Victim With Sega Light Phaser for 10... →
Those Brazilians seem to have a problem with gaming and kidnapping. This time it was a crazy guy who used a Sega Light Phaser—from the good old Master System—to kidnap a woman for ten…
Run All Windows Browsers Simultaneously From the... →
The Xenocode Browser Sandbox allows all popular Windows browsers to be run simultaneously, directly from the web. Web designers, system administrators, and other users can now evaluate Internet…
Run All Windows Browsers Simultaneously From the... →
The Xenocode Browser Sandbox allows all popular Windows browsers to be run simultaneously, directly from the web. Web designers, system administrators, and other users can now evaluate Internet…
CodeProject: Peer Name Resolution (PNRP) - netsh.... →
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Facebook Management Has Lost Its Grip on Reality →
Facebook made one of the most important announcements in the young company’s history today. It has proposed a set of foundational documents, including the first official statement of Facebook…
Nutter Holds Victim With Sega Light Phaser for 10... →
Those Brazilians seem to have a problem with gaming and kidnapping. This time it was a crazy guy who used a Sega Light Phaser—from the good old Master System—to kidnap a woman for ten…
BlackBerry Ad Shows How Much RIM Hates Apple... →
Research In Motion is shooting their blackberries at Apple’s apples. Literally. Too bad their Storm’s touch screen actually sucks, no matter how many phony prizes they get. [Rimarkable…
An Important Message From the Global Entertainment... →
The Pirate Bay is carrying this spot-on cartoon on what we already knew about labels and studios: Their “new media—first radio, then TV, then tapes, then video—will kill our industry!”…
Vista Password Recovery Helps Widow →
Sometimes it takes the worst of situations to bring out the best in us. This is what happened to me the other day. A woman comes into the office that I work in, obviously quite distraught. We…
Some Changes Since Beta for the RC →
We’ve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we’ve received on Windows 7. It should be no surprise but the Release Candidate for Windows 7 will have quite a…
Toy tractor and trailer built from trash →
A monstrous testament to resourcefulness and the valor of the human spirit, rendered in the most modest toy, made of plastic bottles, rusty nails, and bits of wire. Both sort of heartbreaking…
Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever?... →
This business card idea is undoubtedly clever, visually suggesting to people that they just Google your name for contact info. But do you want to encourage people to do so? If you happen to be…
Wipe Your Monitor Clean By Rubbing It Down With a... →
What better way to clean that dusty screen than rubbing it down with a cheeseburger? If a cheeseburger isn’t your thing, how about a donut, piece of cake, cookies or a BLT? Dubbed “Sweets…
Google Attacks Microsoft's Browser Monopoly... →
Oh the irony. Google wants to join the European Union’s antitrust case against Microsoft, all while at home Obama’s antitrust chief wants to nail them to a sign that says “Don’t be evil.” …
Dell Studio XPS 435 Looks Like Young Darth Vader's... →
I haven’t seen a mainstream desktop this drool-drippingly designed since Voodoo’s beautiful Omen box. The Studio XPS 435 isn’t quite as lustworthy, but I still can’t quite believe it came…
Ballmer Confirms Skinny Version of Windows 7 for... →
Even though Microsoft says Windows 7 works beautifully on netbooks just the way it is—and it’s true—Steve Ballmer confirmed they’re making Windows 7 tighten things up to run even better…
Book Giveaway: The Paper Architect by Marivi... →
Although it’s been years since I’ve done much papercraft to speak of, it’s always been a craftform that’s fascinated me. When I was a kid, I used to get those Dover Publication papercraft…
Amazon Exposes 1 Terrabyte of Public Data →
Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap “computing in the cloud” business that changed the computing…
Microsoft to introduce new 'netbook-like' Windows... →
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer listed the areas where Microsoft plans to invest in the annual Strategic Update presentation for Wall Street analysts. During the event Ballmer said the company will…
Gmail Give Millions An Unexpected Holiday →
Gmail was down for so long last night that Google felt compelled to apologize this morning. Google’s online apps are unavailable for short periods of time often enough for it to be…
This Might Be the Nicest Inhabitable Cave Ever... →
Some family out in Missouri decided five years ago to purchase a cave and build their house in it…literally. This 17,000 sq.ft. house not only has three bedrooms, but a secondary party room…
SheevaPlug: A $99 Linux PC Crammed Inside a Wall... →
Think about it—an inexpensive Linux PC crammed inside a wall-wart plug. Something like this SheevaPlug could open up a whole new framework of managing and sharing data that could be…
The Future of Touch →
It’s tempting to give Apple’s iPhone credit for the birth of touch-based computing, but it was not the first touchscreen user interface - nor is it the only one in existence today. Long before the…
University Claims to Have Developed World's First... →
ASU’s Flexibile Display Center and military partners have developed the very first display with a flexible touchscreen. Mainly designed for military applications, the screen is made out of…
VS10 new UI →
The VS10 UI is taking shape, it still looks very much like the UI in the PDC build but with some tweaks.
Multi-screen support, the screen shot does not show how it works in action but the…
NASA Rocket Crash Claims The Life of First Global... →
It would have been the first dedicated satellite for the study of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Instead, a failure during launch has scuttled NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory in the…
Bad News for OpenID: People Still Using Same... →
A new survey from Gartner Research delivers some bad news regarding our online security practices: two-thirds of U.S. consumers use the same one or two passwords for all the web sites they access….
Dr. Strangelove Light Might Provoke a War [Light] →
Planning on starting a nuclear war between the superpowers? You’ve gotta have the proper lighting for such activities, such as the AIRFLITE light, which was inspired by the war room in Dr….
Jon Stewart Is Totally Not Buying The Kindle 2... →
Jeff Bezos brought a Kindle 2 to the Daily Show last night, where Mr. Stewart lobbed some pretty hefty criticism at it. And all Bezos could do was laugh like a gassed hyena.
16-Foot Tall Lego Pharaoh Floats Down the River... →
Holy crippity crap! It’s a giant Lego pharaoh floating down river Thames. Have mummies in the British museum come back as zombies to find that Legos are easier to build with than stone?…
Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future... →
Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they’ll be the space junk gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future…
Atlantis Found on Google Earth, Official... →
The image you see above is purportedly traces of the ruins of the Lost City of Atlantis, found on Google Earth. Let’s weigh the evidence for and against, and see what we can conclude. …
Windows 7 Release Candidate to Be Released April... →
Neowin is reporting a date of April 10th for the release of Windows 7 RC, the next important version of the OS. Microsoft confirmed that beta users won’t receive the RC before the general…
Vint Cerf: We Still Have 80% of the World to... →
“By 2010 we will have run out of IP addresses if we don’t do something about it,” Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist and the man commonly referred to as “the father of the…
Skylon Rocket/Jet Hybrid Is, Scientifically... →
The Skylon reusable space plane takes off from an airport runway, burns atmospheric oxygen, switching to liquid oxygen and hydrogen to hit escape velocity and attain orbit. At least, it will in…
Windows 7 Release Candidate to Be Released April... →
Neowin is reporting a date of April 10th for the release of Windows 7 RC, the next important version of the OS. Microsoft confirmed that beta users won’t receive the RC before the general…
Seagate's FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Is a... →
Last night, I previewed Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player, which docks those super-slim FreeAgent 2.5” USB drives in order to connect your video files to your TV. The Free…
Atlantis Found on Google Earth, Official... →
The image you see above is purportedly traces of the ruins of the Lost City of Atlantis, found on Google Earth. Let’s weigh the evidence for and against, and see what we can conclude. …
A Peek at the Oscar Animated Shorts Nominees... →
With the Oscars this weekend and all of their red carpet pageantry, it’s always easy to forget that some of the most innovative art and storytelling is found in the animated shorts. With all…
One Google Search Uses 1000 Computers... →
Every time you Google “Krispy Kreme cheeseburger” or “how to relieve herpes” or “laser cats,” it takes the processing power of up to 1,000 machines. In a talk at WSDM 2009, Google Fellow…