August 2010
Col-Letto Bed →
Oh, yes, this bed from Lago caught my eye earlier this week and I’m in LUV.
The bed features adjustable sides that can act as a headboard, bed cover when guests are over, or even create a…
Blockbuster's Bankruptcy Could Be the Beginning of... →
For as long as I can remember, Blockbuster Video has been the nation-wide go-to spot to rent movies. Some of my earliest movie experiences as a child involved movies my family rented from…
Microsoft: Script Kiddies And Hackers Accidentally... →
It’s not unusual for hackers and script kiddies to crash their Windows systems while trying to write a malicious code. It’s apparently also not unusual for them to send that…
Inspiring a Nation to Take War to the Skies... →
During World War II, President Roosevelt declared that America would manufacture 185,000 military aircraft in 1942 and 1943. To illustrate and inspire the effort, 4,500 model…
Hardware Acceleration is Coming to Chrome - Try it... →
Google just confirmed that Chrome will soon support GPU hardware acceleration. Developers can speed up the rendering of complex pages by offloading a lot of the processing to a computer’s…
Mystery Solved: How Some Women Have Perfect Group... →
One mystery that’s been baffling me for years is how some women stick their heads together and manage perfect group smiles for every single photo they’re in. Thanks to the…
A new (old) name for Live Sync: Live Mesh !?! →
We’ve been hearing rumblings about a Live Sync name change, and sure enough, today on the Inside Windows Live blog Microsoft is announcing that Live Sync will be renamed as…Windows Live Mesh. …
Chuck & Beans →
LED’s bring life to world’s first interactive... →
A pioneer in the use of LED’s and very well known for his light sculptures Leo Villareal quite rightly eyed the Game of Life to express his ingenuous skills. Leo has endeavored to put the most…
Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves... →
Kyle Brandt, a system administrator, asks Should Developers have Access to Production?
A question that comes up again and again in web development companies is:
“Should the developers…
Don't Know Your Girlfriend's Cell Phone Number?... →
Who cares how technology is affecting our brains. Is technology making it easier for us be dumped by our girlfriends? The New York Times today explains how a guy’s advanced…
Comic for August 27, 2010 →
35 Best Free Chrome Extensions for Web Developers →
It will take an awful lot of effort on Google’s part to tear most web developers away from their beloved Firefox, but with the number of web-developer-friendly extensions for Chrome on the rise,…
Comic for August 26, 2010 →
Android Mobile Web Use Up 400% in Q2, Outpacing... →
The Android platform has garnered much attention lately because of its rapidly expanding number of apps and phones on the market, so additional growth statistics should come at no surprise….
Android Anti-Malware Apps vs. Tap Snake →
Last week Sarah Perez reported that a game called Tap Snake, available in Android Market, was actually a mostly harmless piece of spyware. I took to the opportunity to test a few of the…
Android DRM Cracked! Pirating Apps is "Easy" →
The licensing system Google implemented to protect the applications found in its Android Market has been cracked, only a month after it debuted. Google’s “Licensing Service for Android,” designed…
Google Brings Google Voice to Gmail: Make and... →
Earlier this morning, we reported that Google was testing a web-based telephony service inside Gmail. As it turns out, Google actually just officially announced this feature. If you are a…
Google Testing Web-based VoIP in Gmail →
Already, Gmail serves as a control panel, an always-open tab, for the loyal Google user. It offers quick and simple access to our email, contacts, calendar, documents, chat and more. Soon, it…
Apple.StackExchange is Live: Expert Q&A for... →
Apple.StackExchange is the latest topical site to launch in Beta from the StackExchange network. It seems likely to become one of the most popular of the now 25 well-designed Q&A sites,…
Top 10 YouTube Videos About Internet of Things →
The Internet of Things is what happens when you take everyday ordinary objects and put Internet-connected microchips inside them. These microchips help you not only keep track of your…
A New Coalition Forged to Offer a Self-Service... →
With concerns about the immaturity and security of public clouds, many enterprise organizations are opting instead to implement private (or hybrid) clouds in order to access the benefits that…
Will Microsoft Join the Future with Internet... →
With the official launch of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 only a few weeks away, we already know about some of its impressive capabilities but there is still one thing we’re still left…
Google's Game Developer Advocate Leaves After Less... →
Mark DeLoura, developer advocate at Games at Google, has announced that he’s leaving the company after just 5 months there. DeLoura, a veteran of the gaming industry and past lead engineer at…
Windows 95: It sucks less →
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the public release of
Windows 95.
During the development of Windows 95, one of the team members
attended a Mac conference.
And not as a secret agent,…
August 24, 2010 →
Pow! I really like purple…
Also, I wanted to give a shoutout to a cool new travel site started by friend/Reddit Co-Founder, Spez (AKA Steve Huffman). It’s actually kind of fun to play with.
HTC's Tablet Could Have Touchscreen Tech From... →
What would you like to see in a HTC tablet? Something running Android? Chrome OS? A touchscreen built by N-Trig, the same guys who were behind the Microsoft Surface? UPDATED
Why Did Mark Zuckerberg Make Himself Unblockable... →
What do you do if you’re the CEO of a company faced with persistent privacy concerns? If you’re Mark Zuckerberg, you make it so users of your service can’t block you. Mark…
Asian Countries Too Humid for iPhones? [Apple] →
Apple’s been slapped with many lawsuits for overheating products in the past, but over in Asia, iPhone owners are finding out the hard way that 95 per cent humidity isn’t the best…
Philadelphia Wants $300 Business License From... →
The city of Philadelphia is demanding money from bloggers who were honest enough to report the meagerest - $11, $50 - of revenue from ads or donations. According to the law, any blogger who…
Amateur Astronomer Witnesses Jupiter Getting... →
Jupiter, our colorfully spotted gas giant neighbor was hit, again, by a meteor on Friday. The brief flash, which astronomers now think may happen a bit more frequently than…
NSS Issues Another "Caution" Rating for AVG, Panda... →
NSS Labs has released its latest report: Endpoint Protection Product Group Test Report: Host Intrusion Prevention. As in its recent socially engineered malware protection test, AVG and Panda
15 Facts About Net Neutrality [Infographic] →
Net neutrality has taken up a lot of headline space over the last two weeks. There was the Goggle and Verizon thing, and then something happened with the FCC and some Congress members,…
Comic for August 22, 2010 →
Comic for August 21, 2010 →
Laptop stand lets you use your computer in a... →
The transition from desktop to laptop was a welcome respite from the sitting position. However sooner than later laptop too presented ergonomic issues for you couldn’t change sides or…
SCHED "Fails Miserably" and Moves Forward →
Originally released as an unofficial calendar for SXSW in 2008, SCHED* quickly garnered a lot of praise for its events management database. As SCHED picked up clients, it started to use…
Membase, The Database Powering Farmville →
65 million people play Zynga’s online games every day. Millions of web browsers open to millions farms and millions of frontiers. They take turns, they tend crops, they send gifts. They buy…
Yahoo Kills SearchMonkey, Rolls Back BOSS, Says... →
One year ago, Yahoo announced that it had signed a deal to replace its own search engine with Microsoft’s Bing - but the big question for us was what that meant for all the incredible…
Windows Project Phoenix is taking on Red Bull... →
Calling all Windows fans! This Saturday, August 21st in Long Beach, CA a team of Microsoft Employees - many from Windows - are participating in Red Bull Flugtag, a competition where teams from all…
Facebook's Publicly Available Data: A Big... →
My name is Pete Warden, and a few months ago I created visualization based on crawling 210 million public Facebook profiles that raised a lot of questions about how openly available that…
CouchDB Comes to Android →
Couchio, the company founded by Damien Katz, creator of CouchDB, has announced the release of CouchDB SDK for Android, a mobile version of the document database that can be used offline. By Abel…
4 Tools for Teaching Kids to Code →
In a recent PC Pro article, Professor Steven Furber, developer of the ARM microprocessor, laments the sharp decline in interest in computer science classes in the UK. And although the U.S….
IDE Support for IronPython and IronRuby →
Two of the top three IDEs for .NET are now supporting dynamic programming languages. While SharpDevelop 3.2 continues to enhance its support both IronPython and IronRuby, Microsoft is entering the…
Windows Live Essentials Beta 2: All the good stuff... →
Explanation: This post was written under embargo, before the links to what was apparently the Beta Refresh became available earlier today. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, those links point…
Lego ‘Empire Strikes Back’ chess set intros Star... →
Designed by Brandon Griffith of Los Angeles’ Lego User Group LUGOLA, the “Empire Strikes Back” is a Lego chess set that introduces the modern Star Wars characters, including mini dioramas,…
U.S. Representatives Urge Net Neutrality →
Last week we reported that the Federal Communications Commission had pushed back its next public meeting from Sept. 16 to Sept. 23, citing “scheduling issues.” A group of Representatives…
DARPA Building a Gigantic Space Net to Clean Up... →
Earth’s orbit is cluttered with dead satellites and other assorted space junk, making it increasingly dangerous for the ISS and new satellites. DARPA’s solution? Catch ‘em all in a…
Comic for August 17, 2010 →
This Is What Aliens Will Hear When They Find... →
If I were an alien and I listened to these human greetings, I would totally freak out and destroy Earth. Fortunately, the original Voyager’s Golden Records don’t have that creepy…