September 2009
The CSS Awards – Recognition, Prestige & Media... →
The CSS Awards select the best websites developed with CSS from around the world. The awards are given to only the best desigerns, agencies and bloggers in the online community. The awards are…
100,000 Google Wave Preview Invites: Everything... →
Google just officially announced that it will send out 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave tomorrow. These accounts will go to developers who are already in the developers preview and…
Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine →
How often do you check your email per day?
Does checking your email make you more productive or less productive?
Oh, sure, we delude ourselves into thinking we’re being extra-productive by…
What Early Birds Want to Know About the Real-Time... →
The real-time web is a broad and rich phenomenon emerging online. A wide variety of companies are building and using it in really diverse ways. YourVersion offers a real-time discovery engine…
Real-Time Web Protocol PubSubHubbub Explained →
Real-time web protocol PubSubHubbub’s co-creator Brett Slatkin, an engineer at Google, gave a talk at Facebook headquarters today about how the new information delivery system works and how…
Microsoft Security Essentials Available For... →
After reporting that Microsoft Security Essentials will be final in the coming weeks only a week ago, we can now tell you that it will be available tomorrow, September 29. Microsoft…
"Broadband Tax" could become UK law →
Revealed this week, a tax increase of 50p may become law for UK taxpayers that will go towards a fund to fuel growing development for the infrastructure of Internet networks throughout Britain….
How To Embedded StyleSheet File with Custom... →
How to embedded StyleSheet file with custom control? Question has been opened many time on ASP.NET forum.
So in this article, I will try to demonstrate how to achieve this task.
In General
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LINQ and Homework →
My daughter asked me to check her homework today. One of the math problems was: A book has 352 pages. How many 4’s were used to print all of the page numbers. She got 35. She explained how…
How to Choose a Graphics Tablet that Fits Your... →
The first time I tried a Wacom tablet is only comparable with the day I discovered Photoshop, bought my first laptop, tested an Apple computer or I met my girlfriend for the first time – geek…
Inner Message Rings →
Hide a secret inside the ring so it can only be revealed when pressed against the skin.
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Launch Your Own Satellite Into Orbit for Only... →
Looking to start your own satellite TV station? Perhaps you want to take your stalking of your ex to the next level. Well, if you have $8,000, Interorbital Systems can help make that…
Microsoft believes Google Chrome Frame lowers... →
Google’s recent release of Google Chrome Frame wasn’t entirely expected, though that’s not to say it wasn’t welcome. Some people questioned the usefulness of it, whilst others were overjoyed….
How a Soviet Doomsday Master Missile Looks and... →
Yesterday we learnt that the Soviets still have a working doomsday system in place. This is an SS-17 ICBM master missile, which are launched first. Once they are in the skies, they activate…
Exclusive: First Look at Word Web App’s Editing... →
Following on from yesterday’s post on OneNote Web App, we’ve got the chance to take a look the Editing View of the Word Web App, currently disabled in the recently released Office Web Apps…
Phoenix's New Laptop BIOS Boots Windows 7 in 10... →
That’s Windows 7, not a mini-Linux OS like Splashtop. It’s also from a powered-off state, not sleep mode. Pretty impressive. And much of that speed comes from turning on a laptop’s devices (hard…
Can You Endure 14 Steve Ballmer Videos Back to... →
Here’s your chance to find out my friends. Oobject has complied 14 examples of Steve Ballmer selling Microsoft with a side order of crazy. Check it out—if you dare. [Oobject]
DirectX 10.1 vs. DirectX 11: Can You See the... →
Like with the jump from DirectX 9 to DirectX 10, you’ll have to really concentrate hard to see what’s changed between the two versions. If you can even really tell which version is which.
Microsoft Getting Cleverer and Cleverer With New... →
Oh, those smart rascals at Microsoft are on a roll. I love their Courier tablet concept, and now they may have found the way to make on-screen multitouch keyboards actually work great—even…
Data Shows What Everyone Knows: Gimmicky Apps... →
Think about how many times you use gimmicky apps—fart generators, zit poppers—past the first few days after you downloaded them. Now think about news and social networking ones. Big difference,…
Seedcamp Winners Announced; 6 Teams to Receive... →
When we wrote about the 22 finalists selected to pitch at Seedcamp Week 2009, there were several teams whose ideas excited us in particular. Three of our eight picks have now been announced…
Submarine Home Theater May Require Captain Nemo's... →
What would you do if you had $100,000 to spend in anything you wanted? Make a home theater room that looks like a rotten Nautilus, complete with working periscope, plutonium torpedoes that…
Waking Up On Mars: Australia's Bizarre Dust Storm... →
I woke up Wednesday (Tuesday U.S. time), to a scene from Total Recall. Sydney had been blanketed by an apocalyptic glowing red dust storm. Red from iron-oxide: rust. And if I couldn’t breathe,…
Optical Gaming Implants Turn Babies Into Killers... →
I love fake ads from the future: like the satirical spots from Robocop and Total Recall, or the Veridian Dynamics openers in Better Off Ted. These ads for “Eyefinity” gaming implants…
Intel Atom CE4100 Is a Beast of a Media Chip... →
Here at IDF, Intel introduced the Atom CE4100 media chip, which is likely coming to set-top boxes and Blu-Ray players. It’s got some serious power: We’re talking simultaneous decoding of two…
French Parliament May Mandate Full Photoshop... →
In today’s media, you can’t find an image of a person that hasn’t gone through some level of Photoshop manipulation. But France may decide that any such images need a disclosure, just like a…
New Wacom Bamboo Is First Graphic Tablet with... →
Wacom seems to finally understand that sometimes a stylus isn’t as good as a finger. The new line of Bamboo tablets includes one that is touch only, another that is pen only, and three…
Google Threatens Cyanogen Android Hacker With... →
This is a weird one: Google has just slapped Cyanogen, maker of the biggest and most successful Android ROM mod around, with a cease-and-desist letter. But Google’s reasoning doesn’t make any…
Comic for September 25, 2009 →
“Ballmer says they screwed up with Windows Mobile.... →
Today at a Venture Capital Summit, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted a few things we all already kind of knew: Windows Mobile 7 is late as hell, and needs a lot of work. Twitter user…
Frankenstein, an all-tube home theater system →
What could be better than a tube amplifier? How about an entire surround sound system built using tubes! Radar hacker Greg Charvat built such a beast back in 2005, and he refers to it…
Google Sites API Makes For Data Liberation →
In 2008, ReadWriteWeb covered the announcement that JotSpot would help Google “expand upon the Google Page Creator already offered within Apps.” The idea was that JotSpot would power a system…
With So Many Startups, Where Does One Get... →
With DEMOfall 09 now behind us, pitch season has given us a lot of “Wow”: solid businesses with promising applications. The majority of new ventures we’re seeing today are variations on…
Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program →
I’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build…
Detecting Chrome Browser in ASP.NET →
ASP.NET comes with a browser capabilities database (BCD), which describes the capabilities of known browsers. This database is usefull for control developers that want to take advantage on different…
OrganIP: Call Your Friends without Knowing Their... →
Today at the DEMOfall 09 conference, Digitrad announced a new consumer voice service called OrganIP. Although the odd name conjures up ideas of a medical or musical application, we think that…
Viliv's S10 "Blade" Netbook Tablet Boasts 10 Hours... →
Viliv, who’s previously made the S5 and S7, seems to always have a bigger gadget on the horizon, and here at IDF they showed off the S10, a 10-inch convertible tablet running Windows 7….
ReadWriteWeb's List of Kid-Friendly Online... →
In an ironic twist of fate, Fox’s IGN Entertainment, a company known for its game reviews of products like Zombie Apocalypse just acquired What They Play. The newest member of Fox Interactive…
GuruStorms: Brainstorm with the World's Experts →
From the same company that delivered BountyStorms, the crowdsourced Q&A service, now comes GuruStorms, a new twist on the brainstorming concept which connects you with subject-matter experts…
Comic for September 24, 2009 →
Official: There's Water on the Moon [Space] →
After some accidents, many pictures, and a video here and there, it’s official: THERE’S WATER ON THE MOON! New observations from three different spacecraft give us “unambiguous…
This Is What the Burj Dubai Would Look Like in... →
What would the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, look like if it was in NYC? It would look something like this. Holy shit, this thing is huge. And here’s some more perspective for…
Life-Size Gears of War Lancer Is Sure to Get Some... →
This Gears of War replica Lancer doesn’t fire real bullets, and it’s lacking the motor components to saw someone in half. But damn does it look deadly. Packing a weight of 15 pounds and a…
How the World Might Look If We Run Out of Water... →
Someone better work on implementing the beautiful Hexagonal Hydropolis city project. Pronto. One, because there’s plenty of land in the desert. Two, because I’d like to dress up in a Fremen…
Asus G60J Republic of Gamers Laptop: The Budget... →
Asus’s new G60J laptop, in their Republic of Gamers line, is the company’s first Core i7 laptop. It’s packing the 1GB GeForce GTS 250M graphics card, dual-SATA HDD support, and a…
13,000 McDonald's Locations Visualized As They... →
No, this map isn’t charting swine influenza outbreaks but something far more deadly—all 13,000 “or so” McDonald’s restaurants in the US. How simultaneously gross and delicious. [Weather…
Kensington HD Universal Dock Converts Laptops Into... →
If you are looking to turn your laptop into desktop workstations with one single USB 2.0 cable, driving monitors up to 2048 x 1152 pixels, you must be out of your freaking mind. Or maybe you…
IDF's Array of Affordable Thin-and-Lights Are... →
Want the tiny size of a netbook, but the power of a full-size? Intel showed off a crop of ultraportable laptops, all aimed at around an $800 MSRP, using Core 2 Duo processors, not Atom….
250-Foot Long Hybrid Airship Will Spy Over... →
Sometimes it feels like I’m already living in the future. The U.S Army’s Space and Missile Defense command plans to have an unmanned spy-ship capable of loitering at 20,000-feet (for up…
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Is First to Support... →
Do you remember that crazy, 6x30-inch monitor rig by AMD? Well their upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards are what drive the uber display. The two new cards, the ATI…