August 2009
Humility and the Successful Startup - BusinessWeek →
The ancient dictum “know thyself” written on the wall of the Apollo temple at Delphi is as wise today as it was 2,500 years ago. It is extremely relevant if you want to launch a successful business. You must take a full accounting of your strengths and weaknesses before you get started. This takes a great deal of honesty and humility, but it is the only path to success.
WatchHow Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs - BusinessWeek
Comic for August 30, 2009 →
Interview with Michal Sycz, AKA Noeeko →
Michal Sycz (AKA Noeeko) is a popular designer currently residing in Poland. From his work you will quickly notice his love for art as well as his spirit for perfection. Michal strives to create…
Bokeh Filter Turns Blurry Lights Into Distinct... →
Bokeh, which is the out-of-focus light distortion in the background of a photo, is more and more seen as an aesthetic element of photography. This lens brings it more attention by shaping…
A Simple 2-Click in Place Editing Time Picker →
jQuery.timepickr was created in a attempt to make the process of inputing time in a form as easy and natural as possible. It is a simple 2-click in place editing time picker and regular time…
How Many Nukes Will It Really Take to Instantly... →
Forget about nuclear winter. Humans are resilient. We will survive. So how many nukes will it take to destroy every single human being in the planet, on first blast? Here’s the calculation in…
RobotVision: A Bing-Powered iPhone Augmented... →
Bing Local Search has some interesting features you won’t find in Google, so the prospect of seeing Bing listings appear on top of your iPhone’s camera viewer when you point at a restaurant or…
Cool Windows 7 application that controls monitor... →
If you have a webcam attached to your desktop computer then there’s a good chance it’s either sitting around gathering dust or taking hourly pictures of your uneventful window. One way or…
Amazon, Open Your eBooks or Watch Out →
Hardly a day went by this week without a major new announcement in the eBook and eReader arena. The wireless eReaders from Sony and the Irex/Barnes & Noble partnership were probably some of…
Bill Would Give The President Control Of The... →
A revised version of a bill first introduced in the Senate this past spring would give the President power to disconnect private sector computers from the internet in the event of a “…
Food Tech's Dark Side: What Doesn't Make You... →
It’s hard to think of anything more essential to human survival than eating. And yet that very primal act of gobbling sustenance has, of late, become one of the most genuinely perplexing…
WatchDan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
GScreen's Dual-Screen Spacebook Coming Soon(ish)... →
This is one of the first photos of an actual gScreen’s dual 15.4-inch screen Spacebook—two full screens (not just an extra 10-inch one like Lenovo’s W700. Really. There were renders before,…
There Is a US President In My Tea Cup [Taste Test] →
Here’s one of those simple, zowielala inventions that will make some people smile. The ones who matter, anyway: Those who love tea. And tea parties. With rainbow cookies and carrot cake. And…
Review: Niveus Zone Pro One-Ups The Zone [Review] →
The Niveus Zone was good, bringing an HD HTPC to your living room in a compact box, but the Zone Pro is three times the speed of the old one. And it shows. Here are the specs: 1080p,…
Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to... →
Matthew Paul Thomas “Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it”…. Interesting article via Tom- When I wrote the first version of this article six years ago, I called it “…
CKEditor v3.0 - A Complete Rewrite of FCKeditor →
CKEditor is a Version 3.0 of FCKeditor. After almost two years of intensive development, the first stable version of CKEditor 3.0 has finally released.
CKEditor is a complete rewrite of…
Is Augmented Reality Garbage or Golden? →
We’ve been writing a lot here about Augmented Reality (AR), technology that displays layers of data on top of our view of physical reality through mobile phone cameras, projected images and…
How Many Folding Bikes Does It Take To Fill a... →
Forty-two. It takes forty-two Brompton folding bikes to fill a parking space. One of the world’s great mysteries is finally solved. [Boing Boing Gadgets]
Home Theater PC Gets Crammed Into an Absolutely... →
There are mods that don’t require a lot of time or skill, and then there are insane mods that only crazy people put together. This media center PC stuffed into an ancient Mobira Talkman…
Atlas of Golden Demon award winners →
Say what you may about Games Workshop, tabletop wargaming, or the “miniature arts” in general, there’s no doubt that GW’s annual Golden Demon contests have produced some truly astounding…
Always Innovating Touch Book Now Has Working... →
We liked Always Innovating’s half tablet, half netbook when we saw it, but now the Touch Book has a working accelerometer and a finger-friendly Linux user interface. Oh and it sticks to a…
Loch Ness Monster Discovered On Google Earth,... →
God bless The Sun—the most reliable, serious, and solid newspaper in the entire Commonwealth—because they have just discovered the Loch Ness monster using Google Earth. Or at least,…
Beautiful Glass Shard Spire Set to Dominate London... →
Feast your eyes on these latest visualizations of The Shard (aka London Bridge Tower), a 1017ft skyscraper actually under construction. When finished in 2012, it will be the tallest…
Nokia ARM-Based Smartbook To Follow Booklet 3G?... →
It was only on Monday that Nokia confirmed its first laptop, but now DigiTimes suggests the Fins may use either Compal or Foxconn to build an ARM-based smartbook for 2010. If true, my guess…
Blue Screen of Death Strikes a Samsung Promo... →
No matter how many of these we see, they never really seem to get old, do they? [Failblog]
Amazon Adds a Virtual Private Cloud →
Amazon has launched a new endeavor that integrates traditional IT infrastructure with its EC2 cloud service. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows IT to connect to an isolated set of AWS…
CKEditor v3.0 - A Complete Rewrite of FCKeditor →
CKEditor is a Version 3.0 of FCKeditor. After almost two years of intensive development, the first stable version of CKEditor 3.0 has finally released.
CKEditor is a complete rewrite of…
MAKE on Google featured reading lists →
Google asked what tech bloggers read, MAKE is up there! I found some new feeds in the food category, too. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Announcements |
Comic for August 26, 2009 →
MSI Confirms Wind U150 Netbook with Touchscreen... →
We heard that MSI may release a touchscreen netbook with Intel’s next generation Pine Trail Atom platform, and it will. According to MSI, the new Intel Atom chipset is planned to be…
Intel Next-Gen Mobile Platforms Make Windows 7... →
Windows 7’s launch is going to be a hell of a busy time for laptops. Expect a slew of higher-end Intel Core i7 mobile rigs and thin notebooks powered by new dual-core ULV processors when…
Teacher Confronts High School Student Armed With... →
No doubt weighed down by his aresenal of 10 pipe bombs, a chainsaw and a sword with a 2-foot blade, a disturbed 17-year old’s plan to wreak havoc in a San Mateo, CA high school was thwarted by…
This Is Your Life, and It's Ending One Minute at a... →
Matt showed you Microsoft’s Gordon Bell life in data files since 2001. But how does all that translate to your average real world daily activity? Click image to zoom in. Shan Carter,…
Up! Limited Edition Blu-Ray to Come With Real Luxo... →
As if the movie wasn’t good enough—the first ten minutes alone make it worth it, even if they kill me every single time—now you can get a real Luxo Jr. lamp with this limited edition of…
Lego Universe First In-Game Screenshots [Lego] →
At last, the first screenshots of the Lego Universe game—Lego’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game—have been released. Looking at the gallery, with its mix of Lego lands and the
Blu-ray Will Never Become Common in Computers,... →
Blu-ray is the format that’s replacing DVDs, but it appears that it arrived too late to be the last major optical format for computers. That title goes to the DVD. According to iSuppli, only…
Samsung DualView TL220 Digital Camera →
You know you wish you had this on your honeymoon. All those photos, one face cropped at the eyes, the other at the nose – they are a thing of the past my friend, a thing of the past.
…
City noises and their effects on songbirds →
Robins in Sheffield
sing at night because it’s too noisy in the daytime.
That reminds me that
when I was in Antigua, Guatemala,
I was told that the songbirds in the city have started…
Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's... →
Fifty years after its invention by the British Royal Navy for use by fighter pilots, the technology of layering information on top of our naked view of the world may cross over the line between…
This Is What a Helicopter Firing High-Speed... →
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Mi-24 helicopter firing off dozens of rockets at once. This one is Macedonian, and is from a “training exercise.” All bow before the might of the…
Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook Packs GPS, 3G, HDMI... →
So Nokia’s got a 10-incher with built-in 3G and A-GPS (Ovi Maps) in the works. Interesting, but will it be just-another-netbook? I’d love to see a Nokia touch-screen interface on top of…
Nokia's Ovi to Compete with iPhone App Store? →
As of 2012, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo wants Nokia to have 300 million service subscribers. In an aggressive first step, he’s planning on expanding the Ovi applications environment. But he needs…
PHPSecInfo - Security Information About PHP... →
PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP…
HP Ships Power Cord in Giant Box With Attached... →
If you get a package this size, reinforced with a wooden pallet, your first thought is probably that you’ve accidentally received, say, six laptops, or a fridge, or a mid-sized sedan. But…
PHPSecInfo - Security Information About PHP... →
PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP…
Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! join fight against... →
The three technology giants of Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! are to join the Open Book Alliance in their opposition of Google’s Book Search service. The coalition is trying to stop Google’s plans to…
Toy Helicopter Confused for Life-Sized Version,... →
Police patrols, three Charleston Fire Department trucks, and a battalion chief rushed to the Wando River where a helicopter had plunged into the water. A two-foot toy helicopter. That’s what?…
Merchants of tiny, plastic death →
Even if you’re not a Lego enthusiast, you have to give it up for Will Chapman’s BrickArms business as a brilliant little bit of entrepreneurship. Although there have been notable recent…