September 2010
Why You Should Use Ad Block Extensions, Even if... →
Whether you block internet ads or not, ad-blocking extensions are pretty handy. Not only can you use them to block offensive material, rickrolls, and other unpleasant things, but…
Panasonic Toughbook S9: An Armored Beast That Just... →
Panasonic’s Toughbooks have always been ultra-rugged warhorses, but at least the competition could titter about how bulky they are. Until the Toughbook S9 struts into the room:…
Physicist Says There's a 50% Chance Time Itself... →
And now, for your pleasant Tuesday morning headline. A UC Berkeley physicist says that the laws of physics are simply incompatible with a model of the universe in which things just…
That's Not a Firefly, You Silly Frog [Image Cache] →
Fear not, for this very cute and very confused Cuban Tree frog didn’t die electrocuted or slowly cooked from the inside. After James Snyder found it in his garden, he pulled the…
Microsoft to Close Its Blogging Platform -... →
Microsoft and WordPress just announced that WordPress.com will become the default blogging platform for Windows Live. Live Spaces’ 30 million users will have six months to migrate their…
A Look At Mark Zuckerberg's Surprisingly Dull... →
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is constantly in the middle of some sort of torrid gossip storm, but his home life appears to be the opposite—it’s calm and cozy. Here’s a brief…
Microsoft to shut down Spaces, migrate 30 million... →
At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta just announced that Windows Live Spaces is going to be shut down. In its place, Microsoft and Automattic have partnered to migrate…
Virus Targets Industrial OS, Reaches Iran's... →
Several weeks ago, when the Stuxnet virus first struck, the thing that stuck out was how it targeted the computer systems found in factories, called supervisory control and data acquisition…
Hotmail adds new security features →
Another announcement on the Inside Windows Live blog today, looks like this is going to be a banner week for Windows Live news. A number of new features designed to improve security and rid…
Japanese Inventor Wants to Destroy Typhoons With... →
Typhoons are a deadly problem along eastern Asia, killing dozens yearly. Their lifeblood? Warm ocean water. Which is exactly what Japanese inventor Koichi Kitamura wants to fix, with…
Mobile Developers More Optimistic About Android... →
We’ve discussed Appcelerator’s Titanium mobile development recently because it is an excellent way for startups to expand their service across multiple platforms. Over 4,000 apps have been…
Acer’s unveils the Aspire AS8943G gaming laptop... →
This morning Acer dropped a big ol’ bomb on the gaming world – two new models in its Aspire AS8943G gaming rig lineup that feature ATI’s smoking hot ATI Mobility Radeon 5850 GPU with 2GB (that’s…
MeeGo Looks Pretty Great On Everyone Else's Phones... →
Just because Nokia’s been slow to deploy MeeGo doesn’t mean the developers over at MeeGo Wiki have to be. They’ve already managed to port the operating system to a Nexus One,
What the BlackBerry Tablet and New Developer Tools... →
At the BlackBerry Developers Conference today, RIM announced its first tablet, called the BlackBerry PlayBook, as well as new initiatives designed to make BlackBerry development easier and…
Kno Announces Single Screen Tablet Textbook →
Kno announced today that the company plans to make a single screen version of its tablet textbook. The company received a $46 million round of funding in August for its then dual-screen…
Office Web Apps Update: The Balance of the Cloud... →
Here’s something you don’t hear that often from Microsoft. A number of new releases out on the three-month anniversary of its newest software offering. More usual is the two-year gap as is the…
First View of the F-35 Hidden Weapon Bays... →
This is the first declassified view of the weapon bays hidden inside the belly of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, carrying a standard load: It shows two AMRAAM missiles and…
Windows Phone 7 buzz heats up: US launch Nov. 8? →
We’re getting right down to the wire with the launch of Windows Phone 7, with a launch announcement with all the trimmings expected in New York on October 11th, and news from multiple sources that…
Ignacio Giri: Scam and Rip-off Web Designer →
Along with my recent Dell Hell post, I have yet another situation with someone where my money has been essentially stolen from me. Please also take this post for the cautionary tale that…
Titanium Foam Builds Wolverine Bones... →
Eat your heart out, Wolverine. The X-Men superhero won’t be the only one with metal fused into his skeleton if a new titanium foam proves suitable for replacing and strengthening…
Interview With Ed Lopez →
Ed Lopez is a veteran designer who has mastered several styles ranging from matte painting to photo manipulation and 3D integration. In our interview Ed lends some words of wisdom about his career…
Comic for September 25, 2010 →
How They Found and Killed the Bloodiest... →
This Thursday, Mono Jojoy was killed in his secret jungle base. He was the military boss of narcoterrorist group FARC, responsible for the deaths and kidnappings of thousands of…
Facebook Unveils Recommended Subscriptions →
What do you get when you combine the biggest collection of personal taste data in history with the world’s easiest method of subscribing to syndicated content? In theory, one of the most potent…
Navy Helicopter Pilots Caught Hot Doggin' on... →
Back in the day, military pilots would tool around drunk on motorcycles all night and and abuse their planes by day until they nearly fell apart. Now they can’t even dunk…
Designer Unveils Future Phone Thought Experiment... →
An extremely creative designer has taken a throwaway idea hatched in February 2009 all the way to an impressive 3D rendering of an “Open Web phone” that will make your eyes sparkle. …
Google based Android AlessiTab symbolizes Italian... →
Android-based AlessiTab goes beyond symbolizing Italian fetish for ultra stylish design. Its designer Stefana Gionvannoni created this simple, versatile domestic tool keeping in mind all the…
More Hotmail updates coming up! →
The still fairly new Hotmail has gotten a string of smaller updates. Some were planned, like push email, calendar, and contacts through Exchange ActiveSync, but others were the results of…
Windows Live Web Services refreshed – Service... →
So yesterday we saw Microsoft (temporarily) updated the Hotmail Calendar service with the new features like weather updates. It seems like that’s just the beginning of a new wave of updates coming…
Recursive Pizza Topped With Smaller Pizzas... →
John Riepenhoff is an artist, not a chef. Which is why he describes his pizza-topped pizza as “meant to address the ontology of the social as material in art.” I love art theory,…
The Great Mount Everest Challenge →
Technically he won.
Comic for September 24, 2010 →
Data in the Cloud Still Governed by Obsolete... →
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was enacted in 1986 to protect user data from government oversight and significant portions haven’t been updated since. That’s a problem,…
Microsoft Brings LinkedIn to Windows Live... →
Depending on where you are in the world and what profession you are in, Windows Live Messenger is either a professional tool you use every day to keep up with your colleagues or something…
Rapid Innovation: The Philosophy of Betaworks CEO... →
Continuing our series on product innovation and the people driving it, this week I spoke with the CEO and co-founder of Betaworks: John Borthwick. If you’re unfamiliar with the name Betaworks,…
Mark Zuckerberg More Minted Than Steve Jobs... →
Hours after Forbes reported Zuckerberg overtook Steve Jobs on their Forbes 400 rich list, news escaped that he’s donated $100 million to New Jersey’s Newark schools. A clever…
WatchThe Microsoft Office Blog - Office Web Apps reach 20 million: New features today + 7 more countries
The Principles of Great Call to Action Buttons →
The Principles of Great Call to Action Buttons
A call-to-action within a web context is any part of a website that prompts the user to take action. This includes any image or text links, or…
TrendyPacks Gigantic Design Giveaway →
TrendyPacks Gigantic Design Giveaway
We’ve partnered with the nice people at TrendyPacks.com to give our readers access to their Vector Packs, Brush Sets and .PSD Files.
The…
This Is How Moses Actually Parted the Waters... →
Did you hear about the one with the long-bearded Charlton Heston-lookalike who chats with flaming bushes and uses his big honking stick to part the waters of entire seas? Well,…
How to Detect a Photoshopped Image [Image... →
Photoshop is an amazing tool for altering reality, but it’s only really great when you’re aware of its effects. Here are several tips for detecting a Photoshopped images and earning…
Your Privacy Is a Joke for Google's CEO Eric... →
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Stephen Colbert yesterday. Colbert asked him about his “Want privacy? Change your name!” quote. Schmidt’s answer: “It was a joke, it…
What a Package Hears as It Travels Across Europe... →
What’s does being shipped sound like? A student at the Royal College of Art in London shoved a dictaphone inside a parcel and sent it off to Helsinki to find out. Here, charmingly…
10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming... →
Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into…
NoSQL? Never Heard of It, Say Most IT Pros →
We write regularly here at ReadWriteWeb about various NoSQL solutions - how the scientists at CERN use CouchDB or how the social game Farmville utilizes Membase, for example - tracking how…
Report Examines Rate and Focus of Google's... →
Acquisition by a major company has become a common exit for many startups, with the first quarter of 2010 breaking records for M&A numbers. At the beginning of 2010, Google CEO Eric Schmidt…
Another Chinese Palace Goes Virtual →
If you’ve gotten your fill of the Forbidden City online, move ahead a little in conceived time and a few miles in virtual space and visit Beijing’s Yuangmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace. …
PPG Pittsburgh Paint Fallingwater Color Series →
You already know Fallingwater the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home located in located in the Allegheny Mountains in Southwestern Pennsylvania. But, now you can replicate the famous…
What Would Happen if You Stuck Your Hand in the... →
The Large Hadron Collider is slinging 300 trillion protons at 99.9999991% of the speed of light. It could answer momentous scientific mysteries of our universe. But what if you…