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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Microsoft's new installation includes invalid product key detection
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Despite the claims in a recent popular Digg submission, a quick glance at the official site for the movie clearly shows that it is distributed by Fox, and not Sony.
Companies using rootkits need to be exposed and humiliated, but let's make sure we expose the right companies!
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This is a writeup of how Gamespot has been progressively leaking private email addresses to random spammers. Gamespot has been completely non-responsive when contacted.
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One of two companies supplying the Xbox 360's storage memory chips, Infineon, has had trouble making enough of the chips at the right speed for the game console that debuted last November, according to the sources. As a result Microsoft has not been able to meet the demand for the console.
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Lead engineer for Firefox Ben Goodger comments on Firefox's memory leak woes.
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Today is a free Skype gift day. On SkypeOut Gift Days you will find a �Get a free Skype gift� button on your account page Click on the button before it disappears at the end of the day and, �hey presto�, you�ll be able to claim your credit. It�s our little gift to you. We hope you like it.
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Access, the company that purchased PalmSource, will be releasing a Linux-based platform for handhelds and smartphones. What will this mean for Linux, Windows Mobile, smartphones, handhelds, media players, etc? Discuss below, let you're imagination drive your comments.
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Happy Valentine's Day... from Maxxuss. According to The OSx86 Project, the "hacking guru" has broken Apple's security measures in OS X 10.4.4, which were stronger than all previous releases combined. The article has a great discussion on the implications of this event.
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In an interview, Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo has confirmed that their Revolution console is ready for E3!
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So the Party Elders in China have written a scathing letter to the government's censors. Excerpt:
"History demonstrates that only a totalitarian system needs news censorship, out of the delusion that it can keep the public locked in ignorance." - Ouch! Sorry that this is not technology related, but it is just TOO good!!!
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OS X Update 10.4.5 for PowerPC is available through software update. Haven't seen a link on Apple's site yet. Just downloaded and installed.
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In need of a better way to tote his 360, this guy turned a husky toolbox into an armor-plated 360 carrying case.
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An article about tech gifts to give your girl for valentine's day, for those guys who want to break out of the chocolates, stuffed animals, roses and jewelry traditions.
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The device, which uses two opposing crystals to generate a powerful electric field, could potentially lead to a portable, battery-operated neutron generator for a variety of applications, from non-destructive testing to detecting explosives and scanning luggage at airports.
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Train volunteers to run the business and work solely with donated electronic items to make them reusable or recyclable. In the process, teach volunteers how the business works and how to rebuild computers, allowing them to adopt a computer after 24 hours of volunteer service, giving them on-the-job training, as well as a social outlet.
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Seagate announces 12GB microdrive to be used in moble phones, and other type devices.
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The huge amount of publicity over Best Buy's illegal bait-and-switch practices at the XBox 360 launch have caused a good number of heads to roll inside the company at the managerial and higher levels.
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LinCity-NG is a City Simulation Game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game. We have created a new iso-3D graphics engine, with a completely redone and modern GUI. For windows, linux and in source.
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This goes along with recent reports stating that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess would be pushed to the Revolution as either an exclusive launch title, or a GameCube game with the added functionality of the Revolution Free Hand Controller support for when you played it on the Revolution.
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A new app was just released that allows anyone to gain full read/write access to their Xbox 360. Its now possible to load in gamesaves from the net and even Xbox 1 gamesaves.
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Ford is developing a new form of automotive propulsion, and the implications for the American Auto Industry are huge.
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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BRICK IN LEGO STAR WARS II: THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY
LEGO Star Wars II follows the Rebel Alliance's battle to dismantle the Galactic Empire and rebuild a galaxy in pieces. From Darth Vader's pursuit of Princess Leia aboard her Blockade Runner to a showdown on the reconstructed Death Star.
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With the release of http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/ , Opera will offer weekly builds on Fridays. Build 8219 available today. A changelog is also available.
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"The system has introduced the unsettling possibility of dumb luck influencing the medal standings."
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