Yes, They're Real!

Technically speaking, anyone can mine diamonds. But Apollo can GROW them. By the end of 2007, Apollo aims to be producing flawless 1-inch by 1-inch diamond cubes that could drive research into some very interesting areas!

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Google GDrive isn't a rumor

Google themselves have acknowledged that a GDrive is in development. Soon we will be able to use our G: to save and access files remotely.

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How the warez scene works

An article from 2600 that seems to be one of the most well-rounded and informative article's about how the Scene works & How warez/other files get spread through the p2p networks.

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Photos -- Digg's New Offices and Digg Employees.

Kevin's Flickr account shows the new empty offices as well as other Digg employees.

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Become an internet bank, with a click.

Thanks to the magic of the internet, you can now lend money or request money in the form of a loan. You set the interest rate, you take the benefits. Is this the next e-bay?

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The top 10 most popular Open Source Website Templates [ Photos included ]

The open source design community is alive and well. take a look at some of the best designs at owd.org. The link goes to the most popular designs. There are some stunning designs and they can be downloaded and used for free as well!

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Xbox 360 dashboard coming for Xbox Media Center

Check out this reproduction of the Xbox 360 Dashboard for Xbox Media Center. Currently in production and hoping to be ready for a spring/early summer release. Just awesome...

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Yellowstone Volcano Grows as Geysers Reawaken

Forces brewing deep beneath Yellowstone National Park could be making one of the largest volcanoes on Earth even bigger, a new study reveals. Oh crap!

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Javascript in Ten Minutes

If want to learn Javascript in 10 minutes, then here you go.

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New Vista Build 5308.60 Released!

Only days ofter 5308 was released, it has been "released" again! This recompile of 5308 is faster, sleeker, cleaner, and better than ever. This is the FIRST time MS has EVER followed a Vista build with another, just days later.. Especially not two CTPs in a row!

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First Pictures of new iPod Hi-Fi

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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Dijjer, better than BitTorrent?

I wrote this story which attempts to introduce us to a new open-source, GPLed peer to peer framework called "Dijjer", built by the folks who run revver.com. It solves many of the shortcomings BitTorrent suffers from.

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51 Year Old Hobbyist, from Mexico, Builds His Own Jetpack, from Scratch

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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A MySpace Cheat Sheet for Parents

A very informative article from Wired that addresses some of the most pressing questions parents might have if they explore their teenager's relationship with MySpace.

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Why Windows Vista Won't Suck

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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Upgrade your Comcast Moto 6412 DVR to TiVo Software!

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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New Mac mini 2.5x - 3.2x faster

Based on Intel, single-processor and dual-processor chip versions.

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Upgrade your Comcast Moto 6412 DVR to TiVo Software!

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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Engadget: Live from the Steve Jobs Keynote

This is where to find your live-up-to-the-minute coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote today...

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Gmail Guide For Webmasters (With More Than One Email Address)

This advanced guide details how to organise your email and email addresses using just one gmail account :)

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How Digital Animation Conquered Hollywood

It brought Kong to life, put Sin City on the map and is making next-gen X-Men fly. Digital animation is coming of age in Hollywood, one blockbuster at a time.

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Create a nice Web Forms online - Ajax style

Wufoo.com is a new Web 2.0 app, created by Particle Tree. It is an online Form Builder, enabling you to create nice-looking forms. At the moment it's only in Beta (surprise - surprise !), and nothing about what we can do with the forms after we create it. But check out the public demo, it's a very nice implementation of AJAX.

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20 great jobs that don't require a degree

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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Learning the Basics of the C Programming Language

Learn C programming from these daily lessons. They're nine days ahead of you already so get busy...

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Home theatre speakers that dare to be different

If you�re looking for something a bit different in home theatre audio, you�ll certainly find it in the Mirage UNI-Theatre 3-in-1 Home Theatre audio solution.UNI-Theatre is a self-contained left, right and centre speaker in one ingeniously designed aluminium enclosure intended to blend in with today�s prolific LCD, Plasma and slim-line CTVs.

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Microsoft wants to steal Apple's thunder on Tuesday

"While enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting what Apple is going to announce on Tuesday, they may be hearing from Microsoft, too. The company announced a surprise media presentation to be held on Tuesday evening at which an "innovative concept in development" will be unveiled. Could it be Origami?"

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M4 Project Decodes First Nazi Message

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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Games That Push Consoles To Their Limits

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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Origami - youtube got it before DK took it down

Digital Kitchen Posted it and took down. Here is the video of Origami.

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1984: Re-visited?

The most effective punchline for the George Orwell novel was perhaps - "You're being watched!" But this piece of software gives everybody a chance to become the BIG BROTHER, unless you want to remind yourself of your activities at some point of time.

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500 Simple Exeriments anyone can do

Explorium, San Francisco's Museum of Science, art, and human perception has a page dedicated to 500 simple experiments anyone can do. It's all hands on! I wrote a bigger review of the site here: http://www.sharewonders.com/2006/02/26/exploratorium/

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Google Hacking: Ten Simple Security Searches That Work

With 1,000s of security related Google searches, here's the 10 that consistently return great results. Without further ado, let�s digg into some queries.

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iPod packaging re-designed by Microsoft

A very funny take on how the iPod packaging would be re-designed by Microsoft. It's also a great example for many people in the design business and what they go through on daily basis with clients.

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Amazing Video of a Song Composed Entirely of 37 Cello Parts

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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Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables

A good article clearly explaining how you can crack most passwords within a few minutes with the correct resources, includes sources for tables and software (with a free alternative to LC5)

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Gentoo 2006.0 released!

Grab hold of the greatest Linux Os, Gentoo! "The Gentoo Release Engineering team proudly announces the release of Gentoo Linux 2006.0. Gentoo Linux 2006.0, the first release in the 2006 series"

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web2.0 solutions: Store 1GB of files with an AJAX interface!

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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How To Make A Star Wars Type Hologram (Photoshop Tutorial)

Pretty Cool Tutorial on how top make a hologram using Photoshop.

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SETI@home-like project to crack unbroken Nazi Enigma ciphers

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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Scientists can now predict memory of an event before it even happens.

Scans of brain activity, published online in the journal Nature Neuroscience, indicate that the brain can actually get into the 'right frame of mind' to store new information and that we perform at our best if the brain is active not only at the moment we get new information but also in the seconds before.

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Cool Visual Passwords

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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