April 2009
Crossing Domain Boundaries: Name Resolution →
Most companies today use DHCP to automatically configure TCP/IP settings on your computer when it connects to the network. Another commonly used technology is Active Directory, which provides…
HP ProBook S-Series: Businesspeople Can Have Sassy... →
HP today revealed its new business laptops, the ProBook s-series. The 14.1”, 15.6”, and 17.3” ProBooks are all about pragmatic performance, affordability, and inoffensive design. They’re the…
BuddyFuse, Connecting The Social →
BuddyFuse, created by Dutch Computer Science student and former Microsoft Intern Yousef El-Dardiry, Jeroen Bransen and friends, integrates third party (social / IM) networks into…
Uh-oh! Time to Patch Google Chrome →
Earlier this month, a problem was discovered in Google’s new web browser, Google Chrome, that would have allowed an attacker to launch and run scripts on a compromised machine. The issue,…
GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For... →
Sheinhardt Wigs GE engineers have announced a breakthrough in the formerly retardedly-expensive field of holographic storage: by making the holograms smaller, they can squeeze 500GB on…
TidyRead Deals Blow to Display Ads, Enables User... →
Nothing better illustrates the brokenness of the Internet’s most traditional revenue model than the recent crop of ad-stripping services. “Users want to have a clean layout to read a blog or…
Carnegie Mellon Demos the Power of Facial... →
Want to know how much screen time William Shatner commanded in Star Trek? Or how little Chekov received, for that matter? Carnegie Mellon has you covered, as it has “face mined” the entire…
Bill Gates Sr. Profile Details Humble... →
The Wall Street Journal profiled Bill Gates Sr. this weekend in preparation for his upcoming book, but the juiciest bits involve by far involved Bill Jr. For example, there’s the “water…
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A... →
What is best in life? To crush other browsers, see their worm-ridden code driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their fanboys. And if the whole thing is depicted in a chalk…
EDITORIAL: Tigers at bay - Washington Times →
Last year, Colombo decided enough was enough and withdrew from the cease-fire agreement. Using innovative counterinsurgency tactics, the Sri Lankan defense forces dismantled the guerrilla network on land and at sea. They drove the Tigers from their safe havens and bottled them up in a four-square-mile patch of beachfront swampland. Tiger leaders are hunkered down in underground bunkers trying...
Lab Breakthrough Brings Instant-On Computers... →
Scientists have found a way to add ferroelectric capability to silicon, which pushes the idea of building a completely ferroelectric transistor closer to reality.
Wolfram|Alpha: Our First Impressions →
The hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next “Google killer” from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. Today, we were lucky enough to attend a one-hour web demo with…
Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance →
One of the areas of any release of Windows that receives a significant amount of testing and scrutiny is the performance of graphics—desktop graphics all the way to the most extreme CAD and game…
How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web... →
Last Friday was a hot day in Sebastopol, California. Eran Hammer-Lahav rolled into town hours after finding out that there was a security hole in his pet project for the last few months, a new…
Windows XP Mode Internals - Part 1 (Overview) →
Yesterday, Paul Thurrott and I revealed some pretty exciting news surrounding a new feature in Windows 7 called Windows XP Mode (formally Virtual XP). While Paul is working on the high level stuff…
Espresso Book Machine to Print Books on Demand, No... →
The Espresso Book Machine—which actually is a self-contained 150 pages-per-minute printing and binding machine—can produce a full book in five minutes from a catalog of 400,000 references….
This About Sums Up the Entertainment Industry's... →
Enjoy feeling like you’re making progress while you can, suits. It won’t last too long. [alt1040]
Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes... →
Brilliant. [Irishstu, Buzzfeed - thanks, Alex!]
Bare Conductive Ink Turns Your Body Into Handy... →
Bare is a paint that can transform your body into a circuit (without the inconvenience of electrocuting you). The product of a few Royal College of Art students, the non-toxic temporary paint,…
Apple found guilty of patent infringement →
Uh oh! It seems Apple has been bringing out so many new products with new features recently that it has forgotten about a little matter called patents. A company named Opti Inc. is the winner here,…
Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for... →
Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott reveal a new Windows 7 application compatibility feature called Windows XP Mode. Yes, it’s that “secret new feature” you’ve been hearing about…
Over a month ago,…
Maker birthdays: Guglielmo Marconi →
On this day in way back in 1874 Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was born. At the beginning of the 20th century he played a pivotal role in the development of wireless communication. By…
Fighter Pilots Are Absolutely Nuts [Image Cache] →
When they say fighter pilots are crazy they are absolutely right, as this Italian Tornado shows, flying only a few inches from scratching the surface of this runway. Crazy and bloody lucky. [
Go test drive Windows 7 RC (7100) today →
If you’re like me and watched from a distance leaked builds of Windows 7 fly past like water balloons in a water balloon fight, then the time to join the fun is now. The highly…
Fact: Fighter Pilots Are Absolutely Nuts [Image... →
When they say fighter pilots are crazy they are absolutely right, as this Italian Tornado shows, flying only a few inches from scratching the surface of this runway. Crazy and bloody lucky. [
Hackers Claim They Created 'Unfixable' Windows 7... →
Two researchers at the Hack In The Box conference are claiming they found a way to gain access to any Windows 7 computer undetected. Their weapon of choice is a 3kb app named VBootkit 2.0. …
Predator C Avenger Revealed, Now Kills Kills... →
These are the first images of the stealthy Predator C Avenger in flight. With a 66-foot wingspan, the latest and deadliest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle yet can fly for 20 hours powered by its…
Pixel Qi 3Qi Magic E-Paper and High-Res LCD Dual... →
The display technology Pixel Qi has been promising is revolutionary: A high-res color LCD and low-power, reflective reader mode better than E-ink. For dirt cheap. And it’s coming next…
Why Apple's MobileMe Doesn't Work As a $100... →
There’s nothing majorly wrong with Apple’s MobileMe service. All of its subsidiary pieces and parts—the email, the syncable calendar and contacts, the photo gallery, the online storage—do fine….
Zip Up Headphones →
I completely agree with The Post Family in saying that if these don’t go into production, there is something wrong with the world. I spend a few minutes every morning untangling my…
Ink Input and Tablet PC →
There’s a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality to develop unique solutions for specific markets (medicine, education, line of business) and…
Objectified Review [Movies] →
Do you ever stop to realize that another human being carefully conceived and designed every object you will touch today? It’s a pretty amazing thought, and after Objectified, you’ll be…
The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record... →
Demonstrating how futile the war against Pirate Bay really is, someone has created The Pirate Google bay: A Google custom search dedicated to find torrent files. I can’t wait for the industry…
IT Consolidation Blues: CHOI Does Not Spell Choice →
Oracle is buying Sun, and bankers are looking forward to the next wave of consolidation. To somebody who remembers the innovation and excitement of earlier enterprise hardware and software…
A Gorgeous Vaio P Case From Vaja [Accessories] →
The Sony Vaio P is a great-looking piece of kit, but it runs a bit pricey for a netbook. These Vaja cases let you protect the gadget while still showing it off. Vaja’s cases are always of…
This Thing Is Just Too Damn Huge to Be Real—But It... →
At first sight, this seems like a propeller about to get attached to an airplane engine. I thought the same until I looked closer. Then it blew my mind. Zoom in and discover why. Yes,…
Last Year's Model: Get Great Gadgets. And Keep... →
That’s the slogan from Last Year’s Model. They believe if you buy gadgets that don’t suck, you’ll use them longer and not need to buy new stuff all the time—thereby going green. Seems…
Comic for April 23, 2009 →
How Would You Like Google To Describe You? Vote... →
Yesterday Google made a major change to the search results page that appears when you search for a person’s name. Google Profiles, for people who have set them up, now appear on those pages….
Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop →
First of all I would like to thank Negreu Andreas for collaborating with me in creating this tutorial. This is an inspiration from the Bolt movie poster. In this tutorial you will create a glossy…
A $500 PC That Rocks Out Crysis [PC] →
Okay, for $699, you might not be able to buy the best laptop in the world. But for $500, you can build a PC that plays Crysis at a solid 40 frames per second. Except for the RAM, I’m…
Hobbyist Building World's Fastest Car Out of a... →
Your hobby sucks compared to Ed Shadle’s; in his free time, he’s converting an old fighter jet into a land vehicle capable of going 800MPH. Yep, 10 years ago he managed to buy a Lockheed F-104…
Authentication using web.config Credentials →
In one of my projects I have been asked to implement temporary security on sepcific module for internal usage and it was also suggested that I will not be putting more efforts on the same. First…
Hobbyist Building World's Fastest Car Out of a... →
Your hobby sucks compared to Ed Shadle’s; in his free time, he’s converting an old fighter jet into a land vehicle capable of going 800MPH. Yep, 10 years ago he managed to buy a Lockheed F-104…
Rumor smash: Windows 7 will keep 6.1 versioning →
Yesterday, Neowin writer Michael Stanclift made some noise about possible versioning changes in Windows 7 after stumbling across an example INF on MSDN (actually sourced from the…
Jimmy Wales: Social Web Marketing - Good for Some,... →
According to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, there are too many Indians and not enough Chiefs in the world of Web 2.0 marketing today. “There is a lot of advice about how brands should…
Windows Live Becomes Even More Social: Integrates... →
Windows Live received a major makeover last November, and part of this makeover included the ability to aggregate updates from third-party services like Flickr, Pandora, or Twitter….
Stephen Hawking Expected to Make Recovery [Stephen... →
Super genius and physicist Stephen Hawking is supposed to make a full recovery from his chest infection, but is being kept for observation in the mean time. [MSNBC]
The World if Technology Stopped 20 Years Ago... →
A new Visa ad playing in Australia examines a world in which technology never miniaturized nor went wireless. It has a few clever moments. [TBWA\Whybin via psfk] Presented By:
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