February 23, 2006

Windows XP on the Intel-based Macintosh: A Virtualized Possibility

"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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Kevin Rose and Digg in Wired

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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Berkeley lectures as podcasts

Almost as good as actually attending Berkeley...?

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Digg breaks into top 500 websites

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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53 ScreenShots of Latest Vista Release

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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U.S. Grants Patent For Using AJAX

Now any site that uses rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and video game consoles will need a licence.

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Google releases new Page Creator

"Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes." Looks good to me!

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Free Game Programming/Development Books

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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Prof says there's no hacker he can't foil

A University of Toronto professor says he can now use a photon of light to smash through the most sophisticated computer theft schemes that hackers can devise.

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Wi-Fi anywhere you want?

Don't pay for wi-fi in a hotel again! Portable wi-fi hot spots that you can plug in anywhere and browse the web, courtesy of your favorite cellular provider.

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Googlebot gets Mozilla glasses. Proclaims "I can see!".

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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Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto.

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MacBook Pro Reviewed by Macworld

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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Yahoo's PHP Resources

Yahoo has a page specifically dedicated to implementing Yahoo services via PHP. Outstanding!

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Super Slick TV Listings using Ajax

EvokeTV is an interesting new way to look through TV listings using Ajax. Not only does it have the listings for thousands of areas, it also gives you the show's synopsis in a nice little sidebar. Add some nice Ajax gloss, and you have a great tool for channel surfing (or BitTorrent downloading)

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The swiss army knife of gaming cheating

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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Super-Repellent Plastic

With GE's new plastic, self-washing buildings, cheap diagnostic chips, and free-flowing honey jars are possible.

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iTunes MOVIE Store may Finally be introduced during Feb 28 Event

Apple may use the event to launch a world-first - a movie download service through iTunes. He said: "We believe there is a greater-than-50 per cent chance that Apple will announce its first, full-length feature films available for download on iTunes."

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London To Be Totally Wi-Fi-Enabled

The City of London Corporation is all set to have Wi-Fi network in place covering the entire city. The project is being undertaken by the corporation in partnership with a private Wi-Fi firm, The Cloud. It is expected to be implemented in full in the next few months.

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February 22, 2006

How to Buy a Notebook On eBay

A lot of this is common sense, but given the number of people who get screwed on eBay and other auction sites when buying a new laptop or other hardware, this is a worthy read.

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No more cashiers at Taco Bell and KFC

The Back to the Future 2 prophesy comes true, except instead of Max Headroom and Ronald Reagan we have a old colonel and a talking taco.

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Squeaky Clean CSS

The creator of the mystical Lightbox javascript library gives 7 useful comments on css writing ! "I thought I'd share a little bit of what I've learned from noodling around with stylesheets these past few years. Here are a hodgepodge of simple, practical tips."

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Dynamic Ajax Tabs

This article demonstrates how to create dynamic css based tabs using ajax. New tabs can be opened and closed on the fly without refreshing the page.

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Web 2.0 XHTML CSS Page Generator

Web 2.0 eats itself. A web application that creates the design for other web applications, using all the W2.0 tricks everyone is already getting bored of. pretty funny.

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Official Flight Simulator X Screenshots!

Microsoft released this week a new set of screenshots of the upcoming Flight Simulator X, totalling 52 pictures. Check them out!

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Old Sierra Game Titles Re-released from Target.com

Old Sierra adventure game compilations, include space quest, king's quest, police quest, and more are slated for release on March 24, 2006. They will be compatible with windows XP. This is great news for all adventure-genre gamers, since these games defined a generation.

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How Things Work - Explaining the physics of everyday life

A colossal list of digg-worthy questions.

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10 Things That Will Change The Way We Live

This Forbes story looks at 10 major changes that will probably occur within our lifetimes. The list includes VoIP, WiMax, and $200-per-barrel oil.

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Microsoft blunder leaks information about Vista

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news), the world's largest software maker, prematurely posted information about its much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system on one of its Web sites, the company said on Tuesday.

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MacBook Pro Dissected

Already fully taken apart, pictures taken, and posted to the web by 1PM. Not even enough time to benchmark this system!

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Digg Blog: Upcoming RSS Change [Developers]

"Later this week we will be adding several new elements to our RSS feeds. You will now have the ability to pull submitter name, number of comments, number of diggs, friends that have dugg a story, and user icons URLs "

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How To: Clean Your Keyboard

This guide shows you how to thoroughly clean you keyboard with some simple household items. Your keyboard will look as good as new after.

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February 21, 2006

Top 10 Strangest MP3 Players

The title says it all, this list has some really strange MP3 players.

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Give your Gmail account a skin

Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things).

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Wired Magazine: "Can Surround Sound Save MP3?"

The popular format that defined the online music revolution is outdated, but a new upgrade may give MP3 its best chance for a second life.

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Simon Cowell Ready To Make Techies Famous

American inventor show is getting huge Hollywood buzz.

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DIY Hardware keylogger

Here's how to make a PS/2 keyboard line keylogger, also provided - the software application with full source code to download the recorded data.

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Creating Water From a Tap (Photoshop Tutorial)

This is a great tutorial that will show you how to create a realistic water effect from a tap/faucet. This technique could also be applied to other places as well.

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CSS Layout Tutorial for beginners

A tutorial that goes step by step through the process of implementing a real-world web design into a working template using CSS for layout.

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Severe security hole in Apple's Safari browser discovered

A severe security issue has been discovered in the Apple Safari browser that can result in the execution of evil shell scripts without notice of the computer user. This article describes the issue and the countermeasures to prevent harm from your system.

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Corsair System Building Guide

Corsair's step by step guide on how to assemble a computer. It even goes into overclocking, BIOS configuration, and cable management.

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USB 3.0 Confirmed (Wireless USB upto 1Gbps)

Go to the bottom of the page to see Intels roadmap.

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15 Steps to Install Windows XP on a Flash Drive

A step-by-step and illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive

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How does Google Earth work?

Short cuts bring the globe to your screen without crashing your computer.

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Microsoft is giving away MacBook Pros & Ipods......

You can win a MacBook Pro or an Ipod from Microsoft. Microsoft's Mactopia section of website announces MacBook Pro, Ipod, and Cash giveaways. This adds to the speculation that Microsoft and Apple are more friendlier than people think.

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Visual Comparison of 18 Monospaced Fonts

This is a monospaced font comparison screen shot of 18 different fonts which are great for programming.

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Why does my program run faster if I click and hold the caption bar?

Sometimes, people discover that a long-running task runs faster if you hold down the mouse. How can that be?

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New optical effect may be able to make walls transparent

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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Video game scenes recreated in legos

genius recreations of video-game scenes using legos.

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New intel iMac -- better than a light bulb!

Apparently the new iMac is so energy efficient that you could use it as a lamp while the CPU is being 100% utilized and probably save on electricity rather than turning on a light in your house.

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CIA Reclassifies 55000 Documents

In a 7-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have removed from public access thousands of historical documents that had been available for years.

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Timeline: Employee Headcounts for Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

Each Microsoft employee is worth $4.3 million. Each Yahoo employee is valued at $4.7 million. Each Google employee is valued at $19 million.

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February 20, 2006

A library of textures

Here is a collection of various textures. May come in handy.

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Recovering Scratched CDs

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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CSS Live -- Watch a page come together.

Shows how a site goes from plain white to full design, step by step.

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34% off Dell Desktops code

Found this 34% off code good until next Thursday. I haven't seen them over 25% before so this is a great deal.

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Deauthorizing all iTunes computers

Wouldn't it be great if you could just start over with no authorizations? You can and now more easily than ever before.

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The Many Unusual Looking Buildings On Earth

Very interesting buildings that you probably have never seen before.

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Military�s Very Real RTS - Reads Minds

The software application is impressive. It is so advanced; it helps Generals who command troops on the field anticipate behavior which in turn helps saves lives.

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A huge scam in the making. The .COM registry contract. VeriSign is Evil

Hang on to your wallet! There's a scam in the works. If it happens, it's going to adversely affect all of us. VeriSign wants to control the .COM registry forever. VeriSign has somehow persuaded ICANN to propose a new contract where VeriSign will be the permanent and unregulated controller of the .COM registry.

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Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks With DenyHosts

In this HowTo I will show how to install and configure DenyHosts. DenyHosts is a tool that observes login attempts to SSH, and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address, DenyHosts blocks further login attempts from that IP address.

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DIY Hardware keylogger

Here's how to make a PS/2 keyboard line keylogger, also provided - the software application with full source code to download the recorded data.

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February 19, 2006

HOWTO: Animated Live Search (Worpdress)

How to set up live search for Wordpress.

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Ajax Workshop 2: Building Tabbed Content

This workshop we will be building a tabbed content browser that�s Ajax powered. When ever a user clicks a tab the Ajax will communicate with the server and send back the appropriate data for that tab.

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Archaeologists get ancient audio from grooves on Pompeii pottery

French archaeologists have taken pottery from ancient Pompeii and played the grooves back like a record to get the sounds of the pottery workshop, including laughter. Click "Lire la vidéo" to play the short video which contains a sample of the audio.

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Windows -- unsafe on any network

Do you want to put the fear of God into a Windows-using friend and get them to switch to Linux? It's an ugly story, but it's also a well-told one. Those of us in the business already know about botnets. Well, we should know about them...

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mIRC 6.17 has been released!

Included are some new updates.

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Mac Mini With Front Row Hacked into a Toyota Prius

DIY Project. The quest to get a Mac Mini with audio and video working in the Toyota Prius.

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Mozilla Talks About Its Plans For Firefox 2.0

The Mozilla Foundation wants to stay at least a few steps ahead of Microsoft's IE7.

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How Playboy Protects Its Assets

With more than 53 years of multimedia content under its belt, Playboy Enterprises takes content management and rights management very seriously.

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