July 2009
Show Us How Bad You Need One Of These 10 Cable... →
If you have a tangle of cords and power strips behind your desk, you might want to consider one of these cable management solutions. And while you are at it, show us a picture of what your are…
No Conditioner Can Untangle These Power Lines... →
This ad for Procter & Gamble’s Rejoice conditioner uses the tangled mess of power lines in Bangkok to get its message across. Pretty brilliant, no? [BusinessWeek via Book of Joe]
Steelcase Cobi Designer Puts Your Design Skills... →
The Steelcase Cobi, starting at $400, is unique in that it’s a higher-end office chair that you get to customize quite a bit of how it looks—avoiding the late ’90s dotcom sea of chairs that look…
Seriously, Is the Boeing Dreamliner EVER Going to... →
We’ve been following the progress of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for a long, loooooooooong time, so we’re excited that it’s finally ready to—oh, wait is that wing coming apart? Last week…
How to split a very large text or CSV file by a... →
This posting will describe how to split a very large CSV or Text file into a number of smaller parts by specifying the number of desired lines within each of the resulting pieces (for…
Next-Gen Audi A8 Includes Handwriting Recognition,... →
Think texting while driving is dangerous? How about leaning over to the center console to scrawl “NEAREST BATHROOM!!!!!” on your car’s navigation system with a stylus? Audi’s next-gen A8…
Skype As We Know It May Not Exist Much Longer,... →
EBay is working on software to replace the guts of Skype but is worried that it may not succeed, may lose a court battle with Skype’s founders over rights to the core technology and may need to…
Microsoft makes a u-turn, Windows 7 testers to get... →
In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. In recent weeks Microsoft has faced angry reactions from…
The Firefox Campaign Trail: A Billion Downloads, A... →
According to the Mozilla Team and the Firefox Twitter account, the spunky orange browser will reach 1 billion downloads at approximately 3:45 a.m. PT tomorrow morning.
Because Microsoft’s…
Intel will deploy Windows 7 on employee's... →
According to The Register, Intel plans to deploy Windows 7 on its employee’s computers. When asked at a Technology Summit with reporters and analysts in San Francisco whether the company would wait…
City of staples →
Artist Peter Root’s Low-Rise via jwz.
Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic….
If Knowing Is Half the Battle, What's the Other... →
This t-shirt investigates the oft overlooked “other half” of the battle. So if knowing is half the battle, what’s the other half? Lasers. 25% red. 25% blue. We”ll all sleep better…
All Your Messages Belong to Us: Silentale Prepares... →
Silentale is a soon-to-launch startup whose goal is to consolidate your conversations and contacts from all the platforms you use including webmail, social networks, and even your mobile phone….
Yahoo's New Local Search is Great, Too Bad It'll... →
Oh, the irony. One day after it was announced that Microsoft’s Bing will be replacing Yahoo’s own search engine on Yahoo.com, Yahoo! came out with a new local search functionality that ought…
100 Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in... →
Last time we scoured Europe for the best Photoshop talent going around. This week we’re turning to beautiful South America to uncover 20 of the top digital artists on the continent. Is your country…
50 Superb Photo-Manips You Probably Haven’t Seen... →
Photo manipulation is a truly impressive art form. The following works show immense skill in blending multiple photos, effects and colors to produce awesome final compositions.
I highly recommend…
The End of Lost Luggage? RFID Slowly Coming to... →
In this latest installment of our ongoing series on the Internet of Things, we look at one of the big advantages of Internet-connected objects: trackability. In other words, knowing precisely …
Timber Frame Design using Google SketchUp →
A lot can be learned about 3D modeling in Google SketchUp from these video tutorials. They are extremely well presented, and cover a lot of advanced techniques. Check out the web site for…
Windows 7 tours gets animated Silverlight browser →
[See post to watch Flash video]
Those fun and quirky animated characters at the beginning of every Windows 7 tour video released earlier are back to do more of what they do best,…
The Wrath of God or Just a Huge Atmospheric... →
Rain, thunder, and lightning are taking over NYC, but nothing as spectacular as this gigantic ray striking aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. Or as scary as this one, touching ground near…
Texting Death [Cartoon] →
Like Fox News’ anchor and iPhone/Big Mac-hater Shepard Smith, this guy won’t BRB. [Mike Lukovich’s cartoonThanks David]
Scorpion EXO 900 3-in-1 Transforming Motorcycle... →
This is probably a bit of overkill for my bicycle, but on a motorcycle the EXO 900 is the king of versatility. It can quickly flip from a full face helmet to a flip front modular to a 3/4…
Microsoft Washing "Windows Mobile" Taint From... →
So how do you market a mobile OS that’s essentially a superficial upgrade to a years-old product that a sizable bloc of techies think is the worst thing, ever, period? You change its name! To “
This Is How You Sell Wide-Angle Lenses... →
It’s extremely rare to find a tasteful ad campaign that uses sex and clever humor to perfectly define the qualities of a technology product. This series of print ads for Omax wide-angle…
First Pictures of Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo... →
We all know how Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo looks from the outside, but this is the first time ever you are going to see the cockpit of SpaceShipTwo’s mothership. It looks like the…
Mojet T40 R/C jet car →
The folks at Hobby Media sent us this item: V8 Supercar driver Rick Kelly is a R/C model cars fan and he recently built the Red Bull Mojet T40, a 1:10 scale replica of the…
Creative Zii Egg Plaszma: Android-Wielding iPod... →
Spotted in a recent FCC filing, the now-revealed Creative Zii Egg Plaszma boasts some of the world’s first “flexible StemCell architecture” that uses 24 floating-point processors. But…
Vintage Bill Gates Predicts Tablets to Be the... →
Our own Adam Frucci doesn’t like the idea of tablet computing. And most of the world agreed with him back in 2001 when Bill Gates and Microsoft were pushing the form factor. You may…
Microsoft Office 2010 Click-to-Run Lets You... →
Sure, music streaming’s all the rage, but how about Microsoft Office? Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft’s privately testing a streaming-download setup they’re calling Click-to-Run, that’ll let…
Visual Studio 2010: Database projects →
Visual Studio 2008 introduced us database projects. These projects are also present in Visual Studio 2010. I noticed some differences already when building my photo gallery application. Let’s see…
The Underwater Express Lets You Cruise In a... →
While most DARPA projects never materialize, the Underwater Express mini-submarine project is entering the test phase. If successful, the Underwater Express will be capable of going 100…
Lease →
Screw the Cloud! Tonido Wants to Put Your Apps on... →
Tonido has reviled the whole concept of cloud computing, calling it an “anomaly… in the natural order of things.” In an age when virtual computing, cloud server technology, netbooks, and…
Windows 7 Taskbar Dynamic Overlay Icons and... →
We covered the basics of the Windows 7 Taskbar in Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Application ID, and how you can create a Jump List for your application in Developing for the Windows 7…
OpenID for Google Apps is Here, But Not... →
Google announced today that everyone using Google Apps enterprise or education editions can now use their organization’s domain as a federated single sign-on. That means that millions of…
Hire People Who Disagree with You →
Emma Sky is a British pacificist dedicated to getting the U.S. out of Iraq. In 2007 she also became a key aide to General Ray Ordierno, the operational commander of U.S. forces. “People always…
Three Instantly Effective Social Media Ideas →
If you’ve got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an…
Race To Market Developer Challenge →
Are you a (Windows Live Mobile) developer? Now is the time to submit your applications to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Not only will your app be one of the first available in the…
Microsoft sponsors Firefox! →
Photographs credit: “gnell” / Flickr.com
However the money isn’t going towards the Mozilla Corporation. Instead, it’s gone towards an equal if not better cause, the Chengdu Panda…
MSFT-YHOO search deal “likely to be announced this... →
Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo! about deal that would have Microsoft’s Bing providing search technology for Yahoo! properties continue, according to an article in today’s Advertising…
Three Instantly Effective Social Media Ideas →
If you’ve got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an…
An Introduction to LinkedIn: In Restrictions a... →
“I’ve been trying to find a way to use Facebook in a more professional manner and I’ve found it – it’s called LinkedIn.” Inevitably many users have an “aha” moment when, after spending a quiet…
Cool Microsoft job ad: Problem Solvers Wanted →
Credit: Creative Spark
Credit where credit is due, this isn’t the first technology job advertisement to feature an “encoded” message, but it’s still nice to see Microsoft UK (note the…
Comic for July 28, 2009 →
Google Giving Away eReaders at Google Books - What... →
Google announced today that it is running a contest for the next ten days where visitors to the controversial and under-loved Google Books site can win a Sony Reader eBook device….
Exemplary Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid's... →
This is what great parents do when they want to take good care of their son, giving him all he needs to grow into a cultured, social, healthy young man: A 98-inch TV mounted flush inside his…
Hire People Who Disagree with You →
Emma Sky is a British pacificist dedicated to getting the U.S. out of Iraq. In 2007 she also became a key aide to General Ray Ordierno, the operational commander of U.S. forces. “People always…
A First Person View Into the Future [Augmented... →
This? It’s not just a tiny screen running Windows. It’s a tiny screen running Windows that fits over your eye. Technically, that video display is one monitor from a pair of Myvu Crystal…