Find out. Great video describing the process of what a redesign of the iPod's case would look like if done by Microsoft. Very funny.
ROFL, this video is hilarious, it is definatly worth a look!
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Lozano is not a rocket scientist. He is not a stuntman. He is an animated, often goofy granddad who is afraid of the sight of blood. He says, �The difference between me and everyone else is that these guys didn�t create their own rocket belts from scratch.�
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Some knuckleheads in Huntsville, Alabama, have irresponsibly outfitted an AutoCopter mini helicopter robot with a 12-gauge SHOTGUN. They call it the "AutoCopter Gunship". (with pic and video goodness)
Uhh, this is really intesting combination, helecopter, and a shotgun; its also a bad combination if you dont know what you are doing.
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I would submit the straight video link but it's a mms:// so here is the blog containing the link instead. Watch the video then come back and post your thoughts.
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I found this on a blog, while surfing on digg, this is hilarious!:
These images are from an I-70 overpass just outside of Hays, KS. It appears he didn’t know how tall his cargo was :)
As of this morning it is still stuck there :)
Here is a video of the new comment system... coming soon.
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Get a free USB Drive from Microsoft. Click on the image of the USB drive "Valuable Information - Get Yours".
I'm not getting mine for info, I'm getting it for the free flash drive, because its FREE :).
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The first non-human mammal recorded that has contracted this disease
Nothing to do with tehcnology, but ever yet very interesting discovery....
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Engadget have managed to get their hands on the new iPod Hi-Fi and post some pics of it, and the bedroom setup Apple created.
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SiteAdvisor is testing all Web sites for spam, spyware, & safety threats. You browse and search as normal and their empirical data (green=good, yellow=caution, red=bad) appears in an icon in IE or Firefox & next to results in Google, Yahoo, & MSN. Every site gets its own site details page w/ in-depth analysis. They launched a slick redesign today.
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I think lots of folks feel that their time was wasted in looking forward to fun new stuff from Apple. Engadget bloggers are blasting this new device from our friends in white.
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CEO Tom Rogers sat down for a video interview with Reuters today. The big news is the TiVo-powered Comcast boxes are on target for late this year... and it sounds like our existing boxes will be upgraded over the network via a software "burst."
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This is where to find your live-up-to-the-minute coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote today...
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Yes, yours and my favorite password cracker has been updated and released. The big news with this version is the ability to crack passwords with new algorithms and at faster speeds. Also with this version the cracker has a log so you can see the steps and progress of the current cracking session.
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You can now store the whole wikipedia on your IPod!!!!
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The PSP homebrew community has done it again, they made their own Flash player for PSP - I got it to work and many of my old Flash files played fine.
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Based on Intel, single-processor and dual-processor chip versions.
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We still don't have personal jetpacks, we didn't get mayonaise in a squeezable plastic container until the year 2000, and until now, no one else has thought of this: a simple but much-needed update to the common electrical wall socket.
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There's a lot of confusion about Windows Vista these days. Many online discussion forums have a great number of users who express no desire to upgrade to Vista.
ExtremeTech pulls it all together and tell you why they're excited about Vista with a list of what's new and improved in Microsoft's next generation OS and why you should care about it.
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This guy burns 20 copies of Ubuntu and heads to his local McDonalds. After convincing the manager to let him pass them out there by demonstrating Ubuntu with a live CD, he leaves 20 copies. The next day, they're all gone. Next step? Burn 30 more for 'ol Mickey Dee's.
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Media and politicians are piling criticism on the fast-growing teen social-networking site, which has been linked to sexual predation. But scapegoating and overreaction may be an equal, if not greater, danger.
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Can Google Page Creator do more than intended? Maybe so! (This is not another "It's here" post!)
hmm, interesting, I have 2 googlepages accounts for my blog and gamerweekly, I'll have to try it. It is ironic that I didn't think I could upload html files and other things.
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Take a look...Firmwire 3.0 has so many new features!
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If you have no money and want a new game look no further. Here are 101 free games. There's bound to be something you'll like.
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See, Cell's greatest strength is that there's a lot of hardware on that chip. And Cell's greatest weakness is that there's a LOT of hardware on that chip.
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Issues with mass production of Blu-ray drives could be to blame if spring system launch is pushed back to fall.
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New tricks with light and lenses could produce the smallest microprocessors -- without revamping the industry.
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Popular distributed computing project decrypts first of three coded messages that the historic Enigma machine was unable to back in World War 2.
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Ever-expanding Apple Computer Inc. has acquired an impressively equipped but never-used data center in Newark for an estimated $45 million to $50 million.
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Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer.
Microsoft has settled on six versions, including an Ultimate edition that will combine the best of the company's corporate and consumer features.
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Mapquest said it would take 41 minutes for me to drive from Columbus Circle in Manhattan to Far Rockaway in Queens. Google Maps estimated the trip at 39 minutes. Navteq supplies the raw map data that underlies those directions. That data isn't as raw as you might think, though.
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The US Department of Homeland Security has teamed with the US Air Force, in a secret mission called "Operation Dark Sky", to Kill Hurricanes.
Sounds interesting, I wonder if it will work.....
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"Digital noise follows a different distribution pattern and, more importantly, has a particular shape that the human perception finds unnatural. There are mainly two artifacts who present the latter characteristic when pushing the limits of MPEG-2 (or any DCT block-based codec): Mosquito noise and Blocking artifacts."
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Sourceforge has enabled Subversion support for all projects.
Now you don't need CVS anymore, Subversion really has become "a compelling replacement for CVS".
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A company that makes and sells the parts, motors, and security systems for secret doorways a la Batman - including book levers in the bookshelf to reveal a secret room, reclining chairs that open up to enter a tube slide to another floor, etc. Cool animations of their work.
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Digital Kitchen Posted it and took down.
Here is the video of Origami.
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It's amazing what skilled developers can do with the limited capabilities of game consoles. Racketboy covers the games that pushed each console to its limits: from the Atari 2600 to the Sega Dreamcast and nearly every console in between.
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Look what he did to that perfectly fine NES. Either way, it's a nice small form factor case mod. Just don't try to jam Duck Hunt into it.
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"Pete's Open Source Journal on Driver Heaven, said that it is five months since products have been released, but ATI is still unable to supply Linux drivers for the products."
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Samsung's newest Z5 portable MP3 player, which will appear on store shelves March 5. The software inside the player was forged at Iventor Inc. by a small team of programmers led by Paul Mercer, 38, a veteran Apple Macintosh software designer.
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Sure, you could fill your video iPod with episodes of Knight Rider from iTunes for $2 a pop. Or you could save some cash - and your soul - and fill it with files you convert from your DVD collection using freely available software.
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"Fitness prompts nerve cells to multiply, strengthens their connections, and protects them from harm. Benefits seem to extend to brains and nerves that are diseased or damaged. These findings could suggest new treatments for people with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and spinal cord injuries."
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"The fireball [looked] like a hot jellyfish, quivering and buoyant in the air," Jerby said. The glowing object measured just slightly over an inch across and lasted only about 10 milliseconds
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Work is under way for Debian to have an official live CD of its own. This would allow people to use a "pure" Debian live CD when trying to rescue a system, demo functionality, or just test hardware to see if Debian will work out of the box. Maybe other liveCD distros will start to use this as a base?
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TiVo may begin giving away its PVRs to attract more customers, CEO Tom Rogers said this morning. The company soon will begin offering a range of pricing options, including a plan that would offer a free box in exchange for possibly higher monthly charges.
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Apple recently passed the 1 billion purchased songs milestone on iTunes. Here's a graph showing the major iTunes since they started selling music in May 2003. 500 million songs purchased in the last 7 months!
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This is a pretty amazing video of Ethan Winer playing 37 separate cello parts to create one song. He even plays the percussion parts on his cello. It was recorded on 23 tracks using 37 plug-in effects. He spent hundreds of hours on this project so its worth a listen.
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This guy installed 100 very popular extensions on Firefox to stress test it! He says it did pretty well under the load - includes screenshots.
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See that last feature (simple memorable URLS) is also the greatest weakness of Google Pages and I think it is going to cause a huge headache for Gmail users. And a potential PR nightmare for Google.
One point here: the url of the GooglePage can be changed on the main page, under site settings....so this can be advoided.
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Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and more.
(see comments for info on .ogg format and how to convert .ogg to mp3)
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You are bidding on one real punch in the face, this is not a joke!! do you hate yourself? i will punch you in the face!
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VIA Technologies has set up what is in effect, the first sports academy for computer gamers when it recently launched the girlz 0f destruction gaming house in Sweden. Dubbed the �Home of Chrome� after the Hi-Def Chrome computer hardware provided by VIA and S3 Graphics
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Excellent easy tool to use. If you have Flickr account this tool is a must. Point this tool at a flickr tag or set of tags and it will change your background periodically. You can filter by user or just use all user tags.
This is probably the coolest tool I've found in the last couple years aside from Flickr.
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Passclicks is a new way to login to websites without users having to remember their old style textual password. Just save your password by clicking on 5 points, then login by clicking on those same points with a 7px margin error. Ingenious!
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Funny video where a guy rides a UAV in Battlefield 2.
Here is the video:
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Good copy editors make their headlines short, concise and to the point.
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Nice hint about the future here. Amazon is selling a ton of iPods at a special discount, and the sale ends the 27th. That's one day before the big announcement we're hearing rumors about.
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Apple, is preparing to launch a film download service. An announcement is expected as early as this week. The news will represent another move in Apple�s strategy to network computing and entertainment products around the home so music and video can be wirelessly streamed from one device to another...
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Has been submitted two times by others, before without making the front page. Let's try with buzzwords in the title this time.
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Has been submitted two times by others, before without making the front page. Let's try with buzzwords in the title this time.
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Four of the messages encrypted with the Nazi Enigma machine were never decrypted; a distributed computing project (like SETI@Home) is harnessing the power of the Internet's many computers to break them.
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Built on the shoulders of giants, GNOME 2.14 hits the shelves on the 15 March. As well as new features and more polish, developers have been working around the clock to squeeze more performance out of the most commonly used applications and libraries. This is a review of some of the most shiny work that has gone into the upcoming GNOME release.
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A comprehensive list of tips to bypass that annoying BIOS password.
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From the mysterious person who posted a picture of a supposed new iPod has come out with a video showing the making of the photo that turned out to be fake. Here it is at a mirrored site, as the original link broke down.
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This thing, the Microsoft Origami project, by inital glances in the advertising video that was leaked, seems to, with all the features that it shows, be the ultimate AlphaSmart killer. I use an AlphaSmart for writing stuff at school and all, and looking at Oragami, it just makes what I have look obsolete. Having something with, a color screen, abeit slightly smaller than the dana's might be a disadvantage, but having a color screen, with a touchscreen, running Windows or Linux would beat PalmOS anyday. The features that this seems to initally have, mp3, remote control, docking capability (??), and a external keyboard, make this thing seem more mobile and much more flexable. It's like the QQQ computer that was released last year, but it seems better, with a large screen, more modular, and also more fit for the rol
e of a mobile computer that would be used in day to day. It doesn't seem like a tablet, because of the screen's smaller size, but its like an inbetween, a UltraSmall computer. I've been pondering, ever since the website of this viral marketing campaign, several things. One of which is battery life: will it be able to beat the Dana's approxiamate 6+ hour(a guess, from how I've used it) battery life, and be able to easily type essays and other documents. The thing was shown in some sort of dock, I wonder if this dock has a video output, so it could be used as a pseodu-computer like laptop if it was docked to a bigger screen with a keyboard. I could probibly go rambiling on and on for hours, but these things just seem to go into my head when I read all the details about this, and continue to think, if Microsoft is beginning a new trend in the gadget industry: UltraSmall computers...
Dell PrecisionTM open-source n Series1 workstations deliver maximum workstation performance. Smart for businesses with proprietary software images or special Linux needs, these systems are available with factory installed Linux.
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But Only For A Limited Time, Hurry And Get Your Account Set Up.
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Short tutorial for amteur filmmakers on how to to build your very own blue/green screen set for special effects work like in Star Wars, Sin City and virtually every other film ever released. Simple step by step instructions with materials that are dirt cheap.
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Browsing through the patent library, I came across some interesting laptop designs ...
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Wonder if the quality of HD is going to be much better than DVD? Check out these screenshots from "The Fellowship of the Ring" DVD transfer and rollover to compare them to their HD counterpart. The difference is amazing!
The HD screencaps have been sampled down to DVD resolution, so be sure to click on them to get the full effect.
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Okay were on a back and forth relationship here, first Pixar is bought by Disney, and Now Disney is bought by Apple? I dunno, but I know I am not watching mickey mouse silhouette style!
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Amazing gallery that reveals Da Vinci's sense of dimension and light.
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In February of 1986 the NES was released in the USA. Heres a tribute by gamespot to that revolutionary console.
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HDClone Free Edition enables you to move the content from an entire hard drive to another, larger one. The program installs itself on a bootable floppy or CD, and include it`s own operating system, so it runs completely independent from Windows.
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He kept a daily chart of these 13 goals, and placed a dot next to the ones he failed to abide by each day for the rest of his life. (via lifehacker)
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Pretty Cool Tutorial on how top make a hologram using Photoshop.
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If you want to download your torrents from this website you will have to pay a membership. It's a pity
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003.
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Kernel development is not an easy task. This is a testament to your programming expertise: To develop a kernel is to say that you understand how to create software that interfaces with and manages the hardware. A kernel is designed to be a central core to the operating system - the logic that manages the resources that the hardware has to offer.
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Somebody from a digital marketing firm leaked their promotional Microsoft Origami video... So Kevin took a few screen shots for us! It looks like a mini tablet PC - nothing more, nothing less.
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What do Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and entertainment mogul David Geffen have in common? Besides being exceedingly rich, none of them has a college degree. Four-year college not only path to well-paid work.
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It may well have been the best 99 cents Alex Ostrovsky ever spent. He did not know it, but it was the billionth song the site had sold, and Apple was not about to let that go unnoticed.
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So today Microsoft officially flipped the switch on the buzz machine for their Origami Project -- an atypical viral marketing manuveur for a company whose products are usually known about years ahead of time.
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Most of the profiles are botnets anyway, where there are manual signups then perl, java or vb robots sign in on fake "hot" women profiles and give the impression that they are online 24/7, in order to promote some product on their website or cam whores.
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A crazy video showing the loading time for Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 on the PSP, this is bad as you would probably be playing this game on the go.
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Let's see what happens when the entire digg community decides to play a game of pong at the same time.
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With the release of Mac OS X for x86 processors, Apple has chosen to not release source to key components of the OS, such as the kernel and all drivers. This means Darwin/x86 is dead in the water.
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Scientists say they've created software that may help make it possible to access Web sites and run some devices with just a fingerprint. The new software is able to identify computer users even on the basis of a partial print of a finger
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In an Interview with Electronic Arts, an EA rep let it slip that the Nintendo Revolution controller will have touch sensitivity. Could it be something like the DS, or entirely different concept?
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An article decontructing John C. Dvorak's recent article speculating that Apple will drop OSX.
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Only now does the Linux desktop seem to be approaching the tipping point.
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Researchers for Japan's largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, have broken a world record for packet-switched data transmission in a mobile network. The researcher's achieved 2.5Gbps packet transmission downstream while moving at 20 kilometers an hour. According to the report, DoCoMo achieved 1Gbps speed in a similar field experiment last year; This time, by increasing the number of MIMO transmission antennas from four to six and by using 64-QAM, they increased data volume per transmission from four bits to six bits.Sounds intersting, but I wonder when this technogy enhanvements will reach the United State, and even if they will ever make it there; ther just seems to bee this feeling that certain technologies in Japan would not be popular here in the United States. This is not allways the truth. There are many technologies, including 7 MegaPixel Cameras, that would be great to be shipped here.
Cool article on why the SNES is the best console ever. Face it, it's true! Mke sure to check out the forum link at the end of the article, awesome thread.
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At last: some mouth-watering, edge-of-your-seat, breath-holding revelations from the STO devs!
Actually it's just a few nice shots of the inside of the virtual Enterprise - look nice and clean and realistic. But what about the gameplay?
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The dual GPU cards should be available to buy off the shelves with an SRP somewhere close to the $799 mark, meaning that you'll need to spend $1600 to get the fastest graphics platform on the planet. Insanity! Anyone thinking of spending that much on just graphics cards?
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The next version of Sony's PSP will sport an integrated digital video camera that will allow users to stream live video to the PlayStation 3. The feature, which will take advantage of the PSP's Wi-Fi support, will be targeted at younger users as the new way to chat with friends while on the go.
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Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg raised eyebrows Thursday at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles with a proposal rarely heard from executives at large digital music services: Record labels should try selling music online without copy protection.
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5 new screenshots have been released. They look amazing!
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Electronic Arts is giving away a secret code to people who pre-order their game, "Black". The code will unlock a hidden BFG gun that lets you blow up virtually anything. Someone decompiled their flash web site and found the url that their restricted access login points to! The unlock code: 5SQQ-STHA-ZFFV-7XEV
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New feature on the MAKEbot - Add the MAKEbot to your AIM buddy list and type "ping digg start" (no quotes) - you'll then get the latest digg front pages stories sent to you over AIM as they happen.
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this is a java-script multiplayer chess. it's very good for playing quick games (no log-in) and a replay-mode is included to view your last game and others in pgn-format.
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"Discover the versatility and power of the X Window System." In this article X is defined in all of its glorious detail. If you don't know what X is or you're not sure, this article will tell you.
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Microsoft lately has been challenging Linux's suitability for older hardware, so it seems like a good time to look at Linux distributions that can run on older machines. I took six distributions for a test run on an old machine, and also tried software that turns old hardware into a thin client.
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Prepare yourself by writing a script that pops up on the screen via a web server to inform the thief that you are aware of the theft and that files will be deleted.
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Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, figured out how to get hydrogen out of green algae by restricting sulfur from their diet. The plant cells flicked a long-dormant genetic switch to produce hydrogen instead of carbon dioxide.
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Designtechnica has published their list of favorite Web 2.0 sites out there and categorizes them. Topping the list includes Digg.com, Flickr.com, Vimeo, and several others. Congratulations to these site.
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Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide.
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This guy is cruising in the most amazing simulator I have ever seen. It moves just like a real vehicle.
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The Democracy Player is an amazing open source Internet TV application that allows you to subscribe to video RSS feeds from anywhere on the web. With a little hackery, The Democracy Player will make you wonder why you�re still paying your cable bill.
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OH SWEET!
Take a look at this, let me just say MODULAR. You will like it!
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The MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub. This could have a huge impact on the Bittorrent community since Torrentspy and Isohunt are two of the most frequently visited torrent sites.
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Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Google Release Free Website Service
Google have launched Google Page Creator, a free website creation tool.Looks interesting, even though I know HTML, I'm still interested in this hosting service, becasue of the AJAX that they have built into it :).
Perhaps best described as Geocities for the 21st century, Page Creator takes the Google AJAX magic and applies it to website design. The process is simple, albeit, at this time, a little buggy.
In a fashion remarkably similar to Powerpoint, users can pick from a number of themes (or change them on the go) and text layouts. It makes use of a rather clever What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, so users don't have to face the prospect of editing HTML (but the option exists). Best of all, in true ground breaking fashion, Google lets you have 100MB of space for free, and it doesn't even put ads on your homepage.
It's all very easy; of course, that's the idea. Google have identified an area of the web which has garnered little interest in the last few years. "Free" providers traditionally have provided a lack lustre offering designed to try and persuade people to go up to pay-for options. No longer. Google Pages sees the company delve into a natural but new field, and will no doubt be popular.
Google no longer sees your website through eyes of an 11 year old text browser (No I'm not talking about IE), but what's to come is still unknown.
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Over 30 books, 100% FREE.
Game Programming. Clear, practical lessons based on C++/Java game programming are the basis of this book's lessons.
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First look at the MacBook Pro which has just shipped. Macworld tests the battery life, Rosetta, and general applications. Finally an official test of the new notebook.
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A new DHCP client can recognize when a Linux user has disconnected from a particular DHCP server and look for a new connection. Cool! Gimme gimme.
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Poke is the ultimate gaming utility. It's a small program that allows you to cheat in every game out there - published or to be published in the future!
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WGN aired a story on video game addiction, now prior to airing the story, the anchorman said in the teaser that "video games can be more addicting than crack cocaine". When I heard that, I knew that I had to record the segment and upload the video for others to see. This is the news media at is worst. You can see the video on the link.
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks the company should spin off its iPod division, and believes it's past time for Microsoft to shed its 'Darth Vader' image.
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Numerous developers have recently divulged Revolution dev. kit information, saying they are both extremely inexpensive and near finalized. Costing $2000, this is 10x cheaper than PS2 dev. kit, and even half the original PlayStation.
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On January 28, a laser beam of several watts was launched from Yepun, the fourth 8.2m Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope, producing an artificial star, 90 km up in the atmosphere.
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What is "origamiproject.com" (domain is registered to Microsoft) currently it only shows a flash animation. but invites us to stay tuned for more information on 3.02.06
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Side by side comparison of (basically) equal spec systems. The article is pro Mac, but informative either way. Based on the *updated specs & price* that the MacBook Pros are shipping with right now.
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This project consists of a "box" 17"X17"X 47" OD. Three Shiva's are mounted on each of the four sides, all fire inward in phase. The "box" is suspended from the ceiling of my basement, and exits through the floor into the HT above. The "enclosure" is the entire 1500 sq ft, of the basement, in other words, a true infinite baffle.
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Hacking the hacker's identity | News.blog | CNET News.com
Sometimes a photo is worth only a few words--a few very revealing words. That was apparently the case recently when The Washington Post accidentally left clues to the identity of a confidential source in an article about hackers.
Turns out that other story that is being dug like crazy is missing out on some important features of the actual story..
Don't worry, you'll still be able to buy that old Famicom.
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A Canadian university has ruled against Wi-Fi on the campus because administrators are worried about possible hazards to student health. Lakehead is located at the head of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and president Fred Gilbert won�t allow Wi-Fi, "until he�s satisfied EMF (electric and magnetic fields) exposure doesn�t pose a..
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Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) - A chapter in naval aviation history drew to a close Feb. 8 with the last recovery of an F-14 Tomcat from a combat mission.
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Alexa has just been updated, and Digg.com finally broke through the top 500 websites in the world and currently sits at 491! According to Alexa, the top 500 websites in the world account for 45% of the total net website traffic.
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Why aren't we dual booting Windows on the Intel Macs? Money. ($12,088 to be exact) Check out this great commentary from the OSx86 Project on why greed is actually slowing progress... not encouraging it.
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"We now have Windows XP running on the Intel-based Macintosh � as a guest operating system under the Linux version of VMware."
"To anybody who has used Windows XP under Virtual PC on the PowerPC version of Mac OS X: you will simply be blown away by how fast Windows XP runs under VMware on the new hardware."
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Mozilla Foundation's Gervase Markham recalls an incident where a UK Trading Standards Officer cannot believe that software licensed under GPL can be redistributed by others. The officer claims it makes it impossible for them to enforce UK anti piracy legislation
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Almost as good as actually attending Berkeley...?
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Kevin Rose and Digg.com are featured in the new issue of Wired zine. (Page 040) The new issue of Wired is also in a new smaller and slimmer format. Drop by your nearest book store and grab a copy. Please note that Wired.com has not been updated to show the new issue.
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Fortune's most admired for "Innovation" list: Apple Computer is the most admired company for innovation this year, up from #3 last year.
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Some brilliant ideas came out of gaming engineers...
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Microsoft says that today's release of the Windows Vista February CTP is "feature-complete". Two new features are Sidebar and Welcome Center. Take an illustrated walkthrough of Vista build 5308 with these 53 screenshots.
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via HardOCP: (press release)
"To meet these growing requirements HD Audio technology enables support of the latest high definition audio content, and advanced features such as enhanced microphone support for clearer VOIP communication."
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"Drinking five cups of green tea a day can reduce the risk of breast cancer by 22 per cent, claims a meta-analysis of previous studies, the same studies that the FDA recently said contained very little science to support the claims."
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OS X flaw exposes Macs | CNET News.com
update A serious flaw in Mac OS X could be a conduit for attackers to install malicious code on computers running the Apple Computer software, experts warned Tuesday.
The security problem is the third to surface for the operating system in the past week. It exposes Mac users to risks that are more familiar to Windows users: Visiting a malicious Web site using Apple's Safari Web browser could result in a rootkit, a backdoor or other malicious software being installed on the computer without the user noticing anything, experts said.
It appears that Apple may have gotten to Maxxuss, the hacker made famous for his flagrant cracks and patches of Mac OS X for Intel.
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Apple has sent out an invitation to select media, including iLounge, to a special event that will be held at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California on February 28th. The invitation, which only features the iCal-like calendar image shown right, reads: “Come see some fun new products from Apple.” The special event begins at 9:00 a.m. at Apple Town Hall, Building 4. iLounge has confirmed with Apple that this event will be taking place and is not a hoax like the email sent out last week purporting to be an Apple invitation to a special event on March 1st.Sounds interesting...I wonder if Apple is going to announce any new Intel Powered macs, Intel PowerMac, Anyone?
Beta software called AIMOnPSP is a new AIM client for the Sony Playstation Portable.
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Following last summer's release of Quake III Arena source code and tools under the GPL license, id is now placing GtkRadiant and q3map2 under GPL license. We are also providing in this release a number of Quake II tools that never made it under GPL when we packaged Quake II source code.
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A scan of the March 2006 issue of Official Xbox Magazine reveals "that a DirecTV blade might be added to your Xbox 360 Dashboard to accompany the Xbox Live, Games, Media, and System blades. In that blade, you could download TV episodes in high definition, HD movies on demand, and standard-definition streaming DVR (i.e., TiVo) functions."
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According to the Official Nintendo Magazine, The Nintendo Revolution will have it's power supply inside the plastic stand. It is not known if the Revolution will now always have to be inside the stand to work, but it now seems likely.
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The approval of a mobile 802.16x standard could open the door to low-cost, wireless broadband -- but not for a few years. Investors might want to take the time to adjust expectations."Telling someone they have to be at a computer at a fixed location is actually nutty," says Marty Cooper, who invented the cell phone three decades ago.
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The Nintendo DS Lite isn't even out here in the States yet, but Reggie just told Engadget that we should expect a third version of the DS next year!
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While Sony maintains that they're going to release the PlayStation 3 this spring, the entire industry, says that there's no chance that the console will release anytime before the fall season. Now you can add one of Sony's major component providers, Nvidia, to the list.
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On SpikeTV's Game Head program this morning, Nintendo of America's head of marketing Reggie Fils-Aime told host Geoff Keighley that the long awaited Gamecube title The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess would be released "this fall", meaning that the game will be released about a year after it's original announced release date of fall 2005.
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Share price sinks 3.6 percent on predictions of $900 per-console manufacturing cost, spring 2007 US launch; contradictory corporate statements follow.
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genius recreations of video-game scenes using legos.
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According to Merrill Lynch, the PS3 will cost Sony $900 per unit at launch.
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Each move of the paddle is the average of several thousand players' intentions. The sensation is unnerving. The paddle usually does what you intend, but not always. When it doesn't, you find yourself spending as much attention trying to anticipate the paddle as the incoming ball.
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This picture is a scream. Network World online editor Adam Gaffin was in New York City over the weekend and snapped this photo of the world's largest Windows error message.
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Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, have pioneered the technique which could be used to see through rubble at earthquake sites, or look at parts of the body obscured by bone. Among other things ;)
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A very informative Howto from MS for the purpose of removing Linux and installing Windows. Non the less it's pretty good information for Linux users.
This is HILARIOUS, why would anybody want to remove linux! and why would I look at microsofts site to do it, anyway :)
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As time passes by, Sony is constantly backing out on all of it's E3 announcements. "Sony will not be able to meet its initial target of 1080p Full HD that it had originally set and will instead deliver 720p and will upscale it or allow the new TVs to do so."
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Enables Moore's Law to continue uninterrupted well into the next decade.
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SuSE Linux (OpenSuSE) has released the 4th beta in the 10.1 lineup.
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WidescreenGamer.com is discussing something that is becoming a nuissance for owners of the popular Dell 2005FPW widescreen monitor: Image 'Screen Burn' after prolonged periods of use.
It's actually not really 'screen burn' at all, and you'll be relieved once you read what we have to say about this phenomenon.
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US government officials are considering introducing legislation if companies continue to distribute copy-protection measures that compromise computer security.
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JavaScript 2.0, aka ECMAScript 4 will be coming in a future version of Firefox, and with it will come Python-like generators and iterators, among other things. The good news is that Adobe and Microsoft are on the spec alongside Brendan from Mozilla, so there is hope for the language to improve in all browsers in a standard way.
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The screenshots of about 1,000 of Digg's recent front page stories, laid out in a photo mosaic of Digg's logo, and complete with links.
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Probably not a lot of Star Trek fans at the Patent Office. They have demanded a working model of the Worsley-Twist warp drive.
I think the first comment was on the money, wont be a problem as soon as they find a source of dilithium crystals.
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One of the most common misconceptions about the computer industry is that it is 'hi-tech', that is to say, technically advanced. This is utter baloney. Some of its products may be reasonably sophisticated but the industry, per se, is still in a primitive state of development.
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Broadband customers of Australia's largest ISPs can use peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as BitTorrent and Kazaa without being throttled by their ISP, at least for now.
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Gmail has been used for data storage for sometime now on Windows and Linux. Now there is an application that allows easy uploads and downloads of data to Gmail from OS X. gDisk is pretty stable, allows multiple file uploads and downloads, has the ability to attach labels to content and more.
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A yellow-orange sun called Chara 26 light years from Earth has been identified by scientists as one of the most likely sources of intelligent alien civilisation in the universe.
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"As most of you know, two days ago we were contacted by an Apple representative concerning links, posted by our members, to the newest patches by Maxxuss on his site... After speaking with the lawyer representing Apple, we've removed the handful of links to Maxxuss' website from the Forum."
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Every user has had trouble with a scratched CD. In the case of data CDs, the drive cannot properly read the CD, giving rise to reading errors. In the case of audio CDs, the CD skips when we play it. Great article on how to fix scratched cds.
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A leading Cornell University agricultural expert, has calculated that powering the average U.S. automobile for one year on ethanol (blended with gasoline) derived from corn would require 11 acres of farmland, the same space needed to grow a year's supply of food for seven people.
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ever wanted to run Ethernet cable everywhere in your house? don't want to sink cable into walls? This is 2.4mm thick CAT5 cable that sticks to walls and is almost invisible (well, except for the 2.4mm bump I guess).
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The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.
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Fight Night 3 PSP players are in for a surprise if they think online play is free. Either give EA your personal details including email, or else pay them $2 to avoid them spamming you.
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Skype has come under scrutiny from the NSA and FBI since its PC-to-PC calls are encrypted using AES encryption. This is the same encryption used by the US Government for many things. So, why is it "national security" when the Government encrypts its communications and assumed "criminal activity" when private citizens follow suit?
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Amazing to see how the new 2006 Toyota Prius parks itself.
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Justin Karneges has released Telnet 83 v0.96 Beta for the TI-83. This program will allow you to connect to the Internet from your TI-83 and it allows you to do IRC, e-mail, or browse the World Wide Web. You need a TI-Graph Link cable, an external 9600 modem, and a cellular phone or wall jack.
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This is a great resource for source code for different sorting algorithms. It also graphs performance of each algorithm to help you choose the best one to use. The code is all in C.
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This is a very through and easy to follow tutorial for Python.
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Anonymous Inet has been relaunched, after being down for a couple of months. Anonymous Inet is a free anonymous proxy service, it can be used to bypass school firewalls, work firewalls, for more privacy online and more.
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A large oak tree dug up last summer in a gravel pit in Indiana could be 6,000 years old or more and might have been entombed by a glacier during the last ice age, scientists say.
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AppleInsider claims the MacBook Pro will be available by June of this year, possibly a little sooner.
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DIY Project. The quest to get a Mac Mini with audio and video working in the Toyota Prius.
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No, really! You can do it. This story explains how to install (very easily) Asterisk on OpenWrt, and how to configure it to end up with your very own personal PBX. Includes a download of the infamous "has been carried away by monkeys" greeting.
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"So I built a funky alarm clock out of an old Nintendo console. Why? Because I was at Value Village with my girlfriend and my sister, and while they were browsing through miles of clothing the only thing of interest I could find were two broken Nintendo units without paddles, and I had to do something with them."
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Might pacify your wife/gf/baby-mother if she complains of being a "computer widow".
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The Coral Cache Network has switched from port 8090 to 8080 for better compatibility and speed. Make sure next time you post a link to a dugg site you use port 8080 (.nyud.net:8080)!
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The same guy who predicted the Gmail for domains last week has found two new lines of code that hint at voicemail and evites.com integration.
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The Mozilla Foundation wants to stay at least a few steps ahead of Microsoft's IE7.
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In the latest issue of the United Kingdom's Official Nintendo Magazine, an exclusive hands-on article revealed that the Revolution's stand acts as a power supply for the console.
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The Big Four record labels are escalating their attack on Patti Santangelo, the New York mother who's so far the only person to stand up to them. And get this, they'll be using her own kids against her in the lawsuit.
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First Windows, now Linux. ExtremeTech shows you how to fix Linux with Knoppix, which includes repairing boot issues, working with key system files, and working with Linux partitions.
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A hip-hopping "Saturday Night Live" skit that sparked a Web craze has been removed from a popular free video-sharing site at the request of NBC, which cited copyright concerns. Called "Lazy Sunday: The Chronicles of Narnia," the two and a half minute segment follows the rapping duo of "SNL" cast members Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg.
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The article explains how dogs determine optimal paths on a moment-by-moment basis. Interesting stuff for all you dog loving mathematicians.
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Check it out! Q is a new Cocoa implementation of the open-source emulator QEMU. Its optimization for OSX includes being a universal binary, support for CoreImage, CoreAudio and OpenGL. Who needs to wait for Microsoft?
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Maker Writes:"I wanted a simple small amp for my ipod to leave in the garage." This is a fun little project to do. A step by step guide on how to build yourself a simple amp.
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When I read the original article many posted about sending a complaint to Verizon. I did just that and this is the response I got back from them. This is their side of the story and is interesting.
Original:http://digg.com/technology/Verizon:_We_re_Ending_Google_s_Free_Lunch_
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A tutorial to help website owners save bandwidth and reduce server loads by blocking Fasterfox from pre-fetching links on web pages. (add code to robots.txt)
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A tutorial to help website owners save bandwidth and reduce server loads by blocking Fasterfox from pre-fetching links on web pages. (add code to robots.txt)
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Take a $40 wireless router, a $15 USB audio adapter, and a $12 LCD kit and combine them into a wireless music player that hooks up to your stereo and does everything the $200 networked music players do. Awesome!
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Scientists say that for complex decisions, it is best to sleep on it. I have followed it several this several times. Now scientists have confirmed that I am doing the right thing. However, I have not slept on the decision to sleep on the decision to submit this story to digg.
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Danish national radio released 9 mp3s (at very high quality: 256kbps) with 9 Mozart symphonies in honour of the musician's 250th birth anniversary. Download for free.
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SOCOM 4 is confirmed to appear at E3 and is likely to be a PlayStation 3 launch title.
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Electronic Arts has suffered a serious blow as it watches the eagerly-anticipated Xbox FPS BLACK leak out across peer-to-peer networks and downloaded by an untold number of home and professional pirates.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), based in San Francisco, filed the suit against AT&T for giving the NSA direct access to its databases of communications records, including whom their customers had phoned or sent e-mail to in the past. The suit was filed Tuesday in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California.
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"More than fifteen years after the Berlin Wall was shattered with hammers and bulldozers, a Canadian-designed computer program is preparing to break through what activists call the great firewall of China."
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No more concepts, no more CGI, someone who went to the DS Conference in Japan yesterday (Feb, 15, 2006)
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An SUV with retractable wings could make 100- to 500-mile jumps and carry two people and luggage on a single tank of gas.
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Could Apple soon offer the ability to purchase a software upgrade that removes the 100 song cap of the ROKR and SLVR? If this screenshot and the code snippets that led up to it are true, these phones could finally become appealing.
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This story is about an inventor called Michael Thomas who claims to have a 1.2 petabyte hard disk in the pipeline. He expects it to be ready 'in about four to five years' at a cost of '$750'.
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Mackers' Dartmaps is a great example of a real-time application making use of Google Maps.
The DART is frequent train service in Dublin, Ireland.
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64-year old Thai Ngoc had a fever in 1973, and after that he never went to sleep again, not even for a quick nap. He even had a medical examination, but doctors gave him a clean bill of health.
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hate little popups in windows xp, this shows you how to get rid of them
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The European Union is about to impose a $2.4m per day fine because they say Microsoft hasn't released technical documents as part of their antitrust settlement.
But Microsoft says they've already handed in the 12,000 pages of technical info the EU asked for, and that the EU is creating problems by not understanding what they were asking for.
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Oracle tried to acquire open-source database maker MySQL. I don't believe it, I think Oracle is trying to take out a competitor. The article, however, discusses how this is "an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant collaborative programming philosophy"
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Exasperated, Feingold finally gives up saying "[the] White House sees any effort to protect civil liberties as a sign of weakness". Will we continue to accelerate down the slippery slope? How far will our civil liberties get eroded before we say enough?
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An 'antigravity' propulsion system was proposed at the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF). The new exact solution to Einstein's gravitational field equation might make it possible to accelerate space craft to speeds approaching that of light without crushing the contents of the craft
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Andrew Welch, El Presidente of Mac shareware company Ambrosia Software, has disassembled the supposed Mac virus and is posting updates regularly to the link.
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Microsoft wants both Blu-ray and HD DVD to lose. You see, before Microsoft and Intel backed HD DVD, Toshiba was just about the only major consumer hardware brand backing HD DVD. Now, since Microsoft and Intel have hopped on to the HD DVD bandwagon and at least dragged HP part of the way there, HD DVD has become a much more viable option.
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In a surprisingly compelling speculative argument, John C. Dvorak makes the case that Apple will drop OSX and become a hardware vendor shipping with Windows systems. I don't quite believe it, but read the full article before criticizing his argument.
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An ABC affiliate in Philadelphia is reporting on how the DS's wireless capabilities put children in harm's way. It's a new low for fearmongering and shoddy journalism.
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This is a step by step guide to building your own mini-itx Linux computer which boots off of USB! Its so easy that anyone can do it, but follow the guide.
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In the neverending speculative battle between the bundled versus non-bundled camps regarding the hard drive for the upcoming PlayStation 3, info straight from the horse's mouth now puts the odds squarely in favor of the non-bundlers.
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A former NSA member told the House Government Reform Subcommittee about a "special access" electronic surveillance program that he characterized as far more wide-ranging than the warrentless wiretapping recently exposed by the New York Times but he is forbidden from discussing the program with Congress.
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Next Generation has the hot scoop�the PS3 will probably be hitting the streets on September 21st in the US, September 16th in Japan, and include a new XBox Live-alike system, HUB. According to well-placed industry sources.
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This is absolutely hilarious. Apple included a secret poem in OS X 10.4.4 for hackers to find... which Maxxuss obviously did. Also check out the OSx86 Project's response. Good times.
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Cool new feature! I linked to a frontpage story on digg after you click on the "Email This" link. Obviously, you can see this for yourself when clicking on any post, but at least by posting this as a story, people can find out about it thru their feeds (if it makes the frontpage).
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Rumble Box is a fast paced 3D action beat-em-up with a unique premise: all of the characters are made of simple objects which stay around in the level even after the character is defeated. The objects pile up, changing the gameplay landscape and altering your combat tactics. This is the most fun I've had with a PC game in quite a while...
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When we visit certain webpage that is misspelled, incomplete or non existent a 404 error is dished out. While You know the meaning of that screen but do you know why the number 404 was chosen? Why not some other number like 303? or 505?�
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Cryptographer Adi Shamir, "a cellphone has all the ingredients you need to conduct an attack and compromise all the RFID tags in the vicinity".
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This article is a great write-up on how the XBox 360 achievement system is bringing out the addictive qualities of console games by making adding a whole new level of competition.
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Millions of people worldwide spend enormous amounts of time online, but are they addicted? Video games and the Internet have been subject to suspicion since the computer became a household fixture. One complaint: People get sucked into spending enormous amounts of time on the computer, to the detriment of other parts of their life.
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