March 2009
Microsoft Plays MONSTER BALL!!! [Advertising] →
Fine Microsoft, you’ve got us. If you stop these crazy ads featuring mutants and basketball, we’ll take Lauren back. We just hate that it came to this, pain and damage that cannot be undone….
OCZ DIY Netbook: A Build-a-Bear for the... →
Netbooks are everywhere, and yours just doesn’t have the nerd cachet it used to. If this really bothers you, you may want to consider building your own netbook, like the OCZ Neutrino. On…
10 Creative & Rich UI & How to Create Them | Noupe →
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How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with... →
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Visual Studio Magazine Online | Ask Kathleen:... →
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Why There's a Bunch of Cellphone News This Week... →
Expect to see a whole bunch of new cellphones—and stuff for cellphones, like Skype on iPhone and new Opera Mobile—splattered all over Giz this week. That’s because the spring CTIA wireless…
If the Dharma Initiative Took Out Magazine Ads...... →
I happen to love LOST, gadgets and 70s and 80s-era National Geographic ads. These mock Dharma Initiative ads happen to incorporate LOST, gadgets and 70s and 80s-era National Geographic ads….
Microsoft Announces End of the Road for Encarta →
Microsoft’s years-long-running multimedia CD-based encyclopedia product, Encarta, will be history by the end of the year. According to Ars Technica, Microsoft quietly announced the…
What Gadget Is Powerful Enough to Resurrect... →
According to this Japanese advertisement, a woman died in an asthma attack. But one force in the electronic world was strong enough to pull her back from the other side. (Any guesses?) Spoiler:…
Dell Mini 10 With 720p Screen Now Available... →
You can now configure Dell’s latest netbook with a 1366x768 screen, which is big enough to handle 720p vids. No word on the other supposedly forthcoming extras, though. We understand that a…
See the New Orion Spacecraft Up Close and Personal... →
NASA is now showing Orion—the spacecraft that will take humans to the Moon and Mars—at the National Mall in Washington. It’s not the real thing, but it looks great (needs more pretty…
Screen Recordings Made Easy with GoView →
GoView made screen recordings easy. You can start recording your computer’s screen and audio with just two clicks. Snipping out unwanted segments is as simple as using a pair of scissors. You can…
How Microsoft put Apple owners on the defensive -... →
She’s the young, hip, Volkswagen-driving redhead who stars in the latest Microsoft’s (MSFT) TV campaign. Told that if she can find a 17-inch laptop for under $1,000 she can keep it, Lauren ends up — to the Mac aficionados’ dismay — with an HP (HPQ) running Windows Vista.
Bug List: Excel SC (unresolved) →
Highlights and Sticky Notes:
Ability to add customers & contact
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SpicIE - Simple Plug-In Creator for Internet... →
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Immense 'GhostNet' Computer Spy System Is Going to... →
If you thought Cranky Windows Guy was angry now, this vast spy system we read about today—targeting 103 countries—is really going to be the piss in his corn flakes that ruins the weekend. …
Snow White MacBook Cover Can Only Be Awakened With... →
Unlike the deep sleep she experienced in the movie, when Snow White bites into this Apple, she spontaneously transforms into a Gizmodo editor. [noquedanbogs via flickr - Thanks, Sabino…
Screen Recordings Made Easy with GoView →
GoView made screen recordings easy. You can start recording your computer’s screen and audio with just two clicks. Snipping out unwanted segments is as simple as using a pair of scissors. You can…
Meet the Open Cloud Manifesto - BusinessWeek →
IBM and other tech companies have issued a statement of principles that calls for keeping cloud computing services as open as possible
Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0... →
Skype does not get the respect it deserves, because eBay not only publicly admitted to overpaying for it but is making a mess of its core business. Another reason may be that Skype flies in…
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Stay At the Hotelicopter: The World's First Flying... →
Since 2004, the company behind the Hotelicopter has been working to modify a Soviet-made Mil V-12 into two world firsts: the “world’s biggest helicopter” and the “world’s first flying hotel…
New Airplane Interior Design Allows for Romantic... →
While you and I try to eat our plastic-wrapped dinner in cattle class, first class passengers in Swiss International’s flights would be able to chat up passengers and invite them to their…
Texas Decides Evolution Needs More Study, I Decide... →
In Austin, creationists have managed to include several amendments aimed at casting doubt on the theory of evolution. The amendments may affect the content in science textbooks across the…
Surprise: You can’t change your wallpaper in... →
On Friday, another Windows 7 TAP-delivered build leaked, this time only about a week old numbered 7068. While Paul Thurrott was loading all the SKUs on his various machines peppered…
New Airplane Interior Design Allows for Romantic... →
While you and I try to eat our plastic-wrapped dinner in cattle class, first class passengers in Swiss International’s flights would be able to chat up passengers and invite them to their…
Texas Decides Evolution Needs More Study, I Decide... →
In Austin, creationists have managed to include several amendments aimed at casting doubt on the theory of evolution. The amendments may affect the content in science textbooks across the…
The Seven Types of Searchers →
We all spend some time on a search engine. And, believe it or not, some of that information is gathered.
Back a few years ago, there was a leak of information by AOL. They…
Spanish students beat NASA →
A group of student makers took kite arial photography to a new level: weather balloon photography. They certainly are undercutting NASA’s budget, spending very little on their…
google-gdata - Google Code →
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Bruno Terkaly - Microsoft Developer Evangelist :... →
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End of Rainbow Captured On iPhone Camera, No Pot... →
Unfortunately, this gorgeous iPhone shot captured by amateur photographer Jason Erdkamp reveals that there are no leprechauns or pots of gold at the end of a rainbow—just SUVs. Bummer. […
Lauren, We Have Someone Who'd Like to Talk to You... →
By now you’ve probably seen Microsoft’s latest ad featuring Lauren, a woman who claims to be neither cool nor rich enough for a MacBook. Well Lauren, one of our readers has a gift for you. …
Blackened-Lungs Cigarette Lighter Really Rubs Your... →
Cigarette smokers understand the damage they’re doing to their bodies. That’s why “shocking” anti-smoking ads like these blackened lungs won’t do anything to stop them. At this point,…
Charles Simonyi, Creator of MS Office, Becomes... →
I imagine the first thing on everyone’s mind when they return from space is “When the f%&@ can I go back!?” Today, Charles Simonyi became the first space tourist to make a second paid flight.…
Delicious But Deadly [Great Moments In... →
This print ad by Ogilvy & Mather for India positions Glaxo’s Eno antacid as the pure white daisy in the muzzle of an assault rifle of tasty pain. The Dorito gunsight…damn. [Coloribus via…
Windows 7 Might Block Third-Party Video Codecs... →
Something we love about Windows 7 is that it has much better native codec support, like H.264 and AAC. But the price might be high: It looks like Windows 7 might block third-party video…
Stay At the Hotelicopter: The World's First Flying... →
Since 2004, the company behind the Hotelicopter has been working to modify a Soviet-made Mil V-12 into two world firsts: the “world’s biggest helicopter” and the “world’s first flying hotel…
Microsoft Ad: 'I'm just not cool enough to be a... →
Having gone through quite a few ad campaigns in the past year, Microsoft is at it again. This time around, they bring us a series of ads entitled “Laptop Hunters”. The idea behind the advertisements…
Google Implements New Open Standard for Friends... →
Google has announced that the company now offers a secure way for third party websites to access any user’s list of friends, with their permission, and based on a proposed new industry standard….
I drive a car the way most people use a computer →
It was interesting to me reading the reactions to my
adventures driving a manual transmission.
People seemed to be spending a lot of time trying to convince me
that if only I were to expend a…
Awesome Find #13: Scrabble Keyboard →
Found in the dictionary under Awesome!
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Streaming large content from a WCF RESTFul service →
Streaming large content such as media content, images or files is a common scenario for RESTful services. If a scenario like this is not well addressed or implemented on the service side, there is a…
Find Stolen Images with TinEye Reverse Image... →
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher…
Comic for March 27, 2009 →
Find Stolen Images with TinEye Reverse Image... →
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher…
iPhone app refund could bankrupt developers →
As the iPhone AppStore gets more popular, Apple has made significant changes the way refunds and policies are handled. As the new contract is rolled out, many developers are left scratching their…
Ulysse Nardin Chairman Kinetic "Hybrid Smartphone"... →
We were teased with a shot of the kinetically-powered Ulysse Nardin Chairman smartphone earlier this month, but now the wraps are off—and what we are left with is truly one unique device.
Taser X12 Stun Gun Freezes People From 88 Feet... →
There’s a new stun gun called the X12. And it’s pretty much a freeze ray without the ice. The X12 fires a jolt through the air (wirelessly) through nonlethal bullets that can cut through…
40 Logo Design Tutorials →
Logo design is a sub-school of graphic design with a very specific skillset. It can seem daunting to know where to start learning about this wonderful discipline. Here we’ve collected 40 fantastic…