8 Web Design Warm Fuzzy Feelings

8 times when web designers feel warm and fuzzy inside. For example "when a site works in IE without fuss". Also talks about making sites with sensible urls and creating functionality that degrades gracefully.

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Sell your used books to Barnes & Nobles (Shipping covered)

You can see how much they pay for any book with ISBN. If interested, you can complete the transaction and they will send you a prepaid postal cover to send the book. After the book is received they will mail you the check. Though the rate offered is pretty less (it depends on the demand for a book), you can make some money out of the unused books.

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New Satellite Data for Google Earth

Google just updated the satellite data for Google Earth (Google Maps/Local will follow later). All of Germany in high res, new TrueEarth data for base-level for entire Earth (replacing Landsat). Details at the Google Earth Blog.

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New York City Sues freeipods.com

New York's attorney general sued an internet company Thursday over the selling of e-mail addresses in what authorities say may be the biggest deliberate breach of internet privacy ever.

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Online test calculates brain speed

Posit Science has a 10-minute online test that examines how fast your brain's response time is. Check it out.

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Firefox 2's Screenshots demostrating Brand-New Features!

Before trying out the new alpha version, I suggest looking at these screenshots to see which features are added.

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Comcast Internet - 16 Mbps

Thanks to Verizon FiOS competition, Comcast is upgrading speeds in areas like Sarasota, Florida, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Howard County,Maryland will see upgrades, while users in Qwest territory will likely have to wait. The speedier service was launched last month in the Reston, Virginia area.

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Forbes Magazine on Google Ads & Digg.com

"The new breed of entrepreneurs aren't so foolish as to think they are the next Google. Digg CEO Jay Adelson knows that frugal operations and Google ads can take him only so far. "If you get enough customers, you need to invest in server farms and expertise. Lots of these companies will simply get lost in the noise." login/pass smartone123

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London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea

DOZENS of the world's cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought.

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New data transmission record - 60 DVDs per second

By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s

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Black Mesa : Source, Half-Life 1 redux

The original Half-Life is being comlpetely remade from scratch in the Source engine. New sounds, weapon models, character models, enemy models, textures, and maps rebuilt from the ground up. All true to the original.Check out the screenshots, the latest update looks absolutely spectacular.

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PhysX Card (footage of pc GRAW with/without card)

Short animation of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for PC using a PhysX graphics card. Looks like the $300 you spent on that card is beginning to pay off, starting with GRAW. Some really insane power there.

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PhysX Card (footage of pc GRAW with/without card)

Short animation of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for PC using a PhysX graphics card. Looks like the $300 you spent on that card is beginning to pay off, starting with GRAW. Some really insane power there.

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God of War 2 footage

shaky cam footage of God of War 2.

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How to create a torrent and share your seed

Bittorrent is great, But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something although it can save a lot of time and even bandwith. Read this tutorial and share your seed.

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Computer Building: Price Guides to Fit Your Budget!

ZeGermans over at GotFrag has put together yet another set of price guides to scale for any size budget! Head on over to check them out. They are the best you can get for your money.

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Sony confirms PS3 controller redesign

Sony confirms PS3 controller redesign

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DELL finalizes Alienware deal

so it turns out to be true. discuss

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Interactive, kinetic sculpture

"Blame" is an interactive kinetic sculpture consisting of a robotic arm with a pointing hand on the end that scans the gallery, and when it finds a viewer, the arm stops with the hand pointing at the viewer, and then the sculpture proceeds to blame the viewer for some horrible crime against society.

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Music Video Based on the Current Weather of Your City

This music video works out your location and plays a completely unique flash music video based on a number of factors including temperature, sunrise, sunset and more

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The $10,000 Dell PC

STARTING at $9930, the PC has a Pentium Extreme Edition processor that has been overclocked from 3.73 to 4.26 GHz, 2GB DDR2-667 memory, a 160 GB 10,000 RPM WD Raptor as well as a second WD 400 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. PC also comes with a FOUR GeForce 7900 GTX graphics processors with a total of 2 GB of GDDR3 memory.

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Yahoo Messenger with Voice launches in US!

Skype, get ready. Yahoo just released their lower-cost, SIP-based VoIP service today dubbed Yahoo Messenger with Voice. The version 7.5 Beta launch follows on the successes Yahoo has seen in five other countries since December

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iPod phone confirmed

While analysts and Apple rumor sites have been speculating, Benq confirms that an iPhone is in the works. Their suppliers who work with Apple have been requested to supply parts for the iPhone. Benq also states that the Apple iPhone is common knowledge in Taiwan. The iPhone is expected to be released in the 4th quarter of this year.

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LEARN 3D Modeling in 30minutes! Excellent wiki primer for any program

If you want to learn 3D and don't know what you're doing, spend 30min. reading this wiki primer and you will have a great grasp on how modeling in 3d works. Universal tutorial that will help you out in almost any 3D application (blender/maya/lightwave etc..).

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Gmail power tips - Become a Gmail master

This article describes techniques and add-ons for getting the most out of your Gmail account, including how to set up mouseless navigation and quick, automated replies. It's a great resource for anyone who uses Gmail as their primary email client.

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Know EVERYTHING about your PC

This diagnostic tool gives you tons of information about every element of your system, such as your CPU, memory (virtual, physical, and swap-file), display drivers, virtual devices, and interrupt-request list

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Laser Chips Could Power Petaflop Computers

Laser communications chips capable of pumping data through the veins of gargantuan "petaflop" supercomputers have been demonstrated by NEC. The communications chips can transfer information through optical fibres at a blistering 25 gigabits per second - many times faster that the purely electronic interconnects used in today's supercomputers.

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OFFICIAL: Firefox 2.0 Alpha Download

This is not the tinderbox download that has been buried on numerous occasions. This is the real deal.

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Popular Science: The Full-Tilt Flying Machine

Twenty years in development, the new Osprey tilt-rotor flies faster and farther than any helicopter and goes places airplanes never could

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Top Ten Tips on how to become a Rock Star Programmer

You will notice that there are no micro coding tips&tricks below. No info on how to make a fast for loop or such. The tips I post is what I think you should do to learn how to learn those tricks for yourself. In all, this list is a little softer around the edges and goes mostly for the background things.

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CSS Tweak! - Get those CSS file sizes down

CSS Tweak is a web based CSS optimization tool. It will take any CSS file and optimize the syntax, grouping your style declarations into shorthand where possible. It can also remove comments, and strip whitespace for maximum compression.

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The Science of Shock And Awe -They're loud, somtimes deadly & invisible

They're loud, somtimes deadly, and invisible. But now scientists are making the shockwaves from explosions visible, and their work could help thwart the efforts of terrorists. This ScienCentral News video explains.

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MythTV On Intel Mac

It's here! Finally a build of the MythTV Frontend for Intel Based Macs. This is for all of you who have bought a new Macbook, iMac, or Mac Mini and have not been able to enjoy your favorite TV shows.

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Microsoft Responds to XBOX 360 Firmware Hack!

Microsoft has issued an official response to that XBOX 360 firmware hack. It looks like an MS required update will be in our near future...

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New Glass to make LCD's even cheaper

Corning has a new type of glass in prodiction that will help drive declining LCD prices down even further. Carefull shopping can already get you 17" LCD's for under $200.00 so this means they will go down even more!

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Photos - Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge - Top 25 Inventions of 2006

On March 21st the History Channel announced today the 25 semi-finalists of the Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge, a national competition that provides an opportunity for independent inventors to be recognized and to influence the ever-changing face of invention, here are the photos!

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Ticketmaster: You've got 3 minutes ...

Ticketmaster gives you three minutes to fill out a form and read almost 10,000 words of dense legalese, and that's supposed to mean you've entered a binding legal agreement. It's just one more example of how vendors believe they can write their own ticket when it comes to voiding the rights of customers.

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We're flying without wing flaps and without a pilot

A program developing new technologies for future generation uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs) has investigated the concepts of "a flapless vehicle where direction is changed with a secondary air flow" and "the replacement of the pilot by software that can autonomously fly the vehicle without collisions in...dangerous or remote environments."

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Caller ID on your Xbox Media Center (Including Screenshot)

The combination of this free xAP Smart Home Software and the Meteor Caller ID hardware allows CID information to pop up on your XBox Media Center...

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Team Xecuter to Release Xbox 360 Exploit

Team Xecuter is in the final stages in releasing a DVD firmware patcher for the PC that will allow anyone to flash their Xbox 360 DVD drive and enable backups, without a modchip!

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Are You Liable If Someone Does Something Illegal On Your WiFi?

For years, whenever the press has written one of their fear-mongering stories about open WiFi, they almost always include some tidbit about how if someone uses your network to do something illegal, you can be arrested for it. It's one of the popular open WiFi horror stories -- but is it true?

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New Carbon Nanotube TV Technology To Become Cheap Alternative!

New Carbon Nanotube TV Technology is to be tested and to hit the market as a cheap alternative to current technologies! TVs will sell for as low as $1,300 when they hit the market!

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Engadget�s Exclusionist Tactics Are NOT An Isolated Incident

This is an article refuting Engadget's allegations that the DAPreview scandal was an isolated incident. Many sites, not just DAPreview have felt the influence of the "Engadget Blacklist", denials notwithstanding.

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How to create OSX Style Backgrounds

Do you know the wavey line backgrounds on the OSX desktop? I always thought they where done by a 3d program, turns out they aren't that tough! Here is the tutorial on how to do it!

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Netscape.com to become Digg copycat?

Weblogs founder Jason Calacanis, who now works for AOL, is rumored to have a plan for the ailing Netscape brand: turn the Website into a Digg-like news and link aggregation site.

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Video of Xbox 360 Hacked

"A while ago we brought to you news about how the Xbox 360 firmware routines were still intact.. Months of hard work have come to an end, with the Xbox 360 firmware being well and truly hacked, the security details posted a few days ago are said to be proof as well as a video, this hack will not be made available publicly it seems."

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PS3 to ship with Linux - Official

...In addition to running Linux from its hard-drive, the PS3 is expected to be available with various Linux-based productivity packs that turn the game into a computing appliance for special applications such as digital video editing.

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An inside look at the Mythbusters workshop

Very cool.

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Build your own $19 MP3 player

Very cool to be able to build your own MP3 player

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First Rock Band to Make It Without Help From Big Record Companies

Artic Monkyes used the Internet to promote themselves and now they are selling out wherever they play. Wired blog describes how MySpace word of mouth, and P2P file sharing helped the band reach a larger audience.

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A Guitar that TUNES itself

The Worlds First practically INVISIBLE automated guitar tuner, An automated guitar tuner system, that not only automatically tunes your guitar fully automatically, but can do it almost hands free! VIDEO HERE: http://www.sonicstate.com/mirror/asx/wnamm06_tronical_powertune.asx INFO HERE: http://www.tronical.com/info01.html

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The tech behind fake debit cards

How does someone in Moscow step up to a cash machine and withdraw money from an account holder half a world away? Even when the debit card is still in the victim's wallet? To show me how easy it was, two executives from MagTek Inc., one of the largest makers of credit card stripe readers, visited MSNBC.com and gave a demonstration.

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Find your favorite TV torrents on tvRSS

Recent changes at tvRSS have made it even easier to find your favorite TV show torrents. You can now search with fields such as show name, season, and episode. And of course, search-based RSS feeds are still available.

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Get Windows Vista Beta 2 when it�s ready! (Public release from Microsoft)

Microsoft have released a website which enables you to sign up to either: Beta 2 of Windows Vista, Beta 2 of 2007 Microsoft Office System, and Beta 2 of Microsoft Exchange "12". These will be out from April onwards, and exact dates are not confirmed.

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Radio dial scan from the night John Lennon died

Amazingly, 25 years ago somone recorded a dial scan of their radio on the night John Lennon was murdered. A fascinating way to capture history, and something that might become impossible if the Radio Flag legislation goes through.

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Life Expectancy Calculator!

This is the test that insurance companies use to calculate your probable life expectancy! This test merely calculates the probability of your life expectancy based on your habits and environment!

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PSP $199 out on March 22

Sony announced today that that they will continue to expand their succesful PSP and make a less expensive package. New games are also on their way such as: Daxter �, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Tom Clancy�s Splinter Cell Essentials, Monster Hunter: Freedom, Me and My Katamari and more.

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Engadget: Busted for Unethical Blogging

Everyone remembers recent stories about Engadget practicing biased reporting when it came to Apple products, well now it seems Peter Rojas is up to no good again by continually ripping stories from DapReview.net and not giving them any credit.

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Google - Music to my MP3 library

Great tip, with search at hand, for finding your favorite, and hard to find, music with Google.

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