June 2009
Comic for June 30, 2009 →
Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai... →
This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it’s still a minor miracle that there was only…
Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai... →
This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it’s still a minor miracle that there was only…
Microsoft TechEd Australia attendees to receive... →
If any Aussies out there wasn’t entirely sure of going to the Microsoft TechEd Australia conference on the Gold Coast this year or not, then here’s an offer to nitro-boost your thought…
Features and Improvement in Base class libraries... →
Hi,
With the
new version of DotNet Framework (.Net 4.0), Microsoft has introduced many new
classes in the base class libraries. Below is a list of some of the new
features and improvements in the…
A Closer Look at Facebook's New Privacy Options →
Chances are you wouldn’t tell grandma about the wild party you went to last Saturday night. Likewise, you might have spent Sunday evening at home knittin’ a mitten and only feel secure enough in…
Air Protect Baby Seat Is Strong Enough to Take a... →
We don’t cover a lot of baby seat tech around these parts, but we found Air Protect, a new technology meant to soften the blow to a baby’s head in a side-impact crash, downright punchable. …
A Tribute to Splendid Half-Assery [Hacks] →
Misadventures in do-it-yourself home repair, or lateral thinking of McGuyver-esque proportions? We’ve all pulled something stupid like this in our time. Hey, I once tried to fix a waterbed with…
Toyota Scientists Succeed in Thought-Controlled... →
Sure, brain wave-controlled robots, music, cell-phones, and games give us tech lust, but Toyota’s announcement that it’s developed a way to control a wheel chair—without the need for…
So Long Desktop PC, You Suck [Proclamations] →
Desktop PCs have been in decline for a decade, and countless people have said their piece about it. But new evidence suggests the desktop tower’s death spiral is underway—and we’re not too…
Amateur Move: Journalist Interrupts President... →
As someone with a proudly stupid ringtone (“Gonna Make You Sweat”), I’m okay with being embarrassed when it invariably goes off in public. But then, I’m not a White House reporter who…
80s Superhero Alert: Motorcycle Features... →
The sidecar always seemed like a precarious way to ride a motorcycle. So maybe it’s a good thing that this ridiculous yet awe-inducing “Snaefell” fit a whole 2-seater car on the side of a bike.…
Windows 7 gets “Apple style” guided tours →
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I’ve been a big fan of the guided tour videos Apple makes available soon after a new product launch. It’s an effective way of showing off a new product…
Vacuum tube chess →
Not sure how it is to play on this board, but it sure looks cool. Paul Fryer - Chess Set for Telsa Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts |
The best Windows Mobile concepts you’ve never seen →
Chinese Microsoft enthusiast blog LiveSino.net today posted a bunch of links to some interesting portfolios by a handful of Chinese designers who works at the Microsoft Advanced…
Drag and Drop Table Content with Javascript →
With 200 lines of JavaScript, you can drag and drop table content. Content of the HTML table cells can be dragged to the another table cell or another table. Script has built in autoscroll and…
Drag and Drop Table Content with Javascript →
With 200 lines of JavaScript, you can drag and drop table content. Content of the HTML table cells can be dragged to the another table cell or another table. Script has built in autoscroll and…
Cartoon: Pee Into This Cup & Hand Over Your... →
To the list of things you worry about when you’re writing a blog post or updating your status (“How will this affect my Technorati ranking?” “Will Wil Wheaton finally retweet me?” “Is this going…
Acer Quietly Poised To Surpass Dell As... →
Don’t look now, but Acer—yes, that Acer—is on the verge of unseating Dell as the second-largest PC maker. Acer’s rise to the number two spot behind Hewlett-Packard was fueled in part by…
Bing Toolbox →
Are you a webmaster, a publisher, a developer or maybe an advertiser? Now you can find everything Bing you need at the Bing Toolbox. As you can see in the screenshot above (click…
Comic for June 28, 2009 →
Nerds Beat Netflix's Recommendation System,... →
In a very shrewd move, Netflix created a contest more than 3 years ago to award $1 million to anybody that could create an algorithm more than 10% more accurate than theirs. Now, a team has…
How Facebook Could Create a Revolution, Do Good,... →
Great bruising battles between powerful antagonists is good for media. It “sells papers,” as we used to say, or “generates clicks”, as we now say. When you mix in a love triangle and jilted…
Transcending Moore's Law: Is This the Most... →
Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit has doubled every two years, explains the exponential growth in computing power that…
Edelweiss PC is Absolutely Stunning [PCs] →
Holy crap, is this an awesome looking computer. The Edelweiss, created by Pius Giger in Switzerland, is one of the coolest custom rigs I’ve ever seen. I don’t have any details as to the components…
MiLi Pro Turns Your iPhone Into a Projector... →
The MiLi Pro is a LCOS, LED-driven projector for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Simply pop your iPhone into it and it can put a screen up on your wall. It’s got a 640x480 resolution, so it…
What Is This? [Image Cache] →
Some kind of circuit board close up? No. A nuclear power plant’s control panel full of gauges and labels? No, that’s not it. The answer will probably amaze you as much as it surprised me. …
Anti-Abuse Bus Stop Ad Only Batters Women When... →
Amnesty International has installed a new anti-domestic-abuse ad fixture in Hamburg, Germany which is equal parts clever and shocking: when you look at the photo, it’s a smiling couple; when…
50 Breathtaking CG Images →
After hours of tirelessly scouring the web, I have done it! Below is a compilation of 50 of the most stunning pieces of CG artwork in the world. Composed in an array of different applications and…
The iPhone Software Revolution →
The original iPhone was for suckers hard-core gadget enthusiasts only. But as I predicted, 12 months later, the iPhone 3G rectified all the shortcomings of the first version. And now, with the…
Lego Matrix Zion's Last Stand Arrives Six Years... →
Here’s a Lego diorama of one of the best scenes of Matrix Revolutions: Zion’s last stand against the Matrix, humans in their mechas against merciless Sentinels. The close-up of the human…
Bing: The Fastest Way to Google [Bing] →
Have you guys heard about Bing? It makes Googling stuff super easy. [CollegeHumor]
Blu-ray Laser Suggests That Lasers Have Still 'Got... →
Companies like Wicked Lasers will sell you a Blu-ray diode laser. But this DIY keychain looks flat-out deadly in this photo, like a mini one-shot pistol of the future…that can fire for a…
Microsoft Might Sell Windows 7 On Flash Drives,... →
CNET has a source saying Microsoft is considering selling Windows 7 on flash drives, making installation on netbooks—a declared target for the OS—much simpler. In case you were wondering,…
This is What 50,000 Cellphone LCDs Looks Like... →
Sometimes even spam is useful. This is a set of images we got from a junk email trying to sell us 50,000 pieces of Asian LCDs. CDMA only, they claim in bold. [Thanks spammer!]
Step by Step Guide to Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone... →
There’s no need to be intimidated. I’m here to hold your hand every step of the way while you jailbreak or unlock your original iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPod Touch, and it’s really not much of a hassle…
Always Innovating Half-Netbook, Half-Tablet Ships... →
Always Innovating has hit on something very interesting with its Touch Book tablet, a sparingly-spec’d touchscreen device with a detachable keyboard, embedded Linux OS and impressively…
Lenovo Installs Adware With Latest Automatic... →
A recent automatic update from Lenovo contains adware that subjects users to irremovable pop-up ads that advertise various accessories contained in the Lenovo website. The ads pop up about…
Windows 7: Cheaper Than Vista (and Every Other... →
It turns out, even if you don’t weigh in all the slightly confusing Windows 7 upgrade deals, Microsoft’s latest OS is its least expensive to date, and a real bargain compared to Vista. …
SQL Server Index Defrag Script →
Hiya… Some of you may have already seen this, but just in case you haven’t; Some excellent SQL Server work from Michelle Ufford, also known as “SQL Fool”….
Yet another experiment in motivating people to... →
Everybody has probably heard about some project
where management decided to
motivate testers and programmers by
rewarding testers for finding bugs and programmers for fixing them.
In the absence…
LightLane Virtual Bike Path to Become a Reality... →
Be happy, bicyclists of the world, because the lasertastic LightLane personal bike path is going to be a reality soon. It’s already in the production engineering phase, as this demonstration…
The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to... →
One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos…
What Is This? [Image Cache] →
No, that’s no moon. It’s the Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System. It’s a weird view, because usually—as you can see…
Windows 7 Packaging Is Plain, But With Subtle... →
The Windows Blog just started to show off Windows 7’s reduced-waste easy-open disc packaging. At a distance, it looks like it couldn’t be more plain-Jane, but when you look closely, you can…
I Don't Want Any Service That Transforms My Laptop... →
I’m not sure why anyone would buy into this crazy French online snail mail service (especially if they are stealing laptops by turning them into jets…tricky bastards), but their viral ad…
Google Wants to Make the Web Faster, Debuts Speed... →
The Google Code blog announced today the debut of yet another developer resource, this one focused entirely on making Internet browsing “as fast as turning the pages of a magazine.” The new…
Giant Wraparound Screen Shows Air Traffic in... →
This installation shows all of Lufthansa’s flights at once, all projected in 3D on a 180-degree, 46-foot-wide screen. And damn is it cool. As you can see in the video, it’s all controllable in…
