How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs

A cool article that details Jobs' five keys to a dazzling presentation.

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A Virtual Tour of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in Google Earth

A computer-generated recreation of the seismic pounding taken by San Francisco during the devastating 1906 earthquake was launched online by the USGS. The virtual tour used geographic mapping by Google Earth to start with a view from space and swoop in on the 300-mile rupture along the San Andreas Fault that caused the earthquake.

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Xbox Media Center is Sourceforge's Best Multimedia & Game Project

Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is the winner of Sourceforge's Best Multimedia and Best Game Project. Keep up the good work guys!

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50 ways to get more from your Mac mini

A huge collection of things to put your Apple Mac Mini to use with. Hiding the new shiny machine inside a dirty old Dell PC was especially amusing for people paranoid of thieves!

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Direct Link: Video of Israeli Made "Forcefield"

Developed by Israeli company Rafael, it creates a sort of protective bubble defending ground vehicles against RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and tank rounds. Video in swf form.

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Home Network Router Security Secrets

Ever delve inside your home network routers and use the hidden security settings that can lock down a network nice and tight? Most people never do. Andy Walker reveals 10 secrets on how to easily access your router's security settings.

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Make your own cartoon online

all in the title

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Half-Life 2: Episode One New Trailer

Over at FileShack you can now download a new Episode One movie, showing about a minute of gameplay footage from Valve's upcoming Half-Life 2 expansion. There are also two more screenshots.

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Do it yourself Lasik?!?

A kit to save $$$ by doing your own laser eye surgery? Awesome! Crazy!

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Tom's Hardware adds price/performance ratio to CPU Charts

Tom's Hardware has published a major update to its large and popular CPU Charts utility on Wednesday. Two new processors added to the existing lineup of 83 CPUs and a new price/performance ratio feature will allow users to determine which processor offers the most bang for the buck.

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Six times smaller chip next generation TV-on-mobile in U.S. Market

Philips announced its next generation TV-on-mobile solution for the North American market at CTIA today. An amazing six times smaller than its previous version, the new Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld (DVB-H) front-end solution, the smaller size BGT216 (7x7 mm, compared to the previous version�s 15x26 mm

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MIT's "Perfect Mirror" Technology Used To Shrink Tumor

Medical lasers are like science fiction heat rays that can vaporize tumors. The problem has been getting the lasers to where they are needed inside the body while protecting healthy tissue.Now "perfect mirror" technology, developed by MIT researchers, is being used to shoot a laser through a spaghetti-thin, flexible fiber to attack tumors...

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Mood Music For Programmers

This guy has some really awesome mood music for programmers out there. Slap on the headphones and code away. It helps me get the job done everyday.

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Radiohead call music industry 'retards'

Radiohead's Thom Yorke calls the music industry "a bunch of fucking retards" in this week's issue of NME. The singer has launched a scathing attack on record companies and radio stations as he believes they are only just now looking at the internet for new talent.

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Dots behind Mona-Lisa's smile

Millions of invisible dots lie behind the enigmatic smile of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting. The Louvre installs Telescope to view them at close range, also discussion are on with NASA for Hubble Snaps :-)

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Smart glasses switch focus in an instant

Researchers created a prototype pair of glasses that use liquid crystals to change focus in a fraction of a second -- from distance vision to reading glasses and back again.

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Spiderman 3 Plot Revealed

We've all heard rumors and speculations of the plot for Spiderman 3, but we've never had anything confirmed... Until now.

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Website Coloring

This is one of the best sites I have seen to help with web design. I use it almost every time I open Dreamweaver. It provides color matching, color harmonies, a color calculator and more. If you ever needed help finding the right colors, this is THE place to go.

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update all artwork in itunes free and with only a few clicks

Corripio is yet another artwork finding application. But Corripio gets its artwork from the ITMS. If your song information is relatively correct and your album is on the iTMS Corripio will download and save the artwork to the song automatically! Just select one song or multiple songs and press �get artwork� and Corripio will do the rest.

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AJAX Powered Color Tool

This is an AJAX powered color selector that lets you switch the colors on the site to create saveable schemes. The Color Tool has HSL sliders, HSL varations, and uses script.aculo.us drag and drop. It's a bit unintuitive at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty interesting.

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Graphics Shootout: 17 Cards for a Better Gaming PC

How much video card do you need? Which ones deliver the most bang for the buck? In our sort-of annual graphics card roundup, we take a look at 17 cards that cost from $80 to $600 (from extremetech).

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Google Music Launching - ITunes Competition

Late last week, Google met with a group of music industry executives and described the private event as merely for "networking." But Caris analyst Mark Stahlman suspects that Google is getting ready to launch a Music Store to rival Apple Computer iTunes.

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The Man Machine Cometh - 'We can rebuild him. We have the technology.'

Three decades after the hit television programme The Six Million Dollar Man described how the broken body of a former astronaut was rebuilt with mechanical parts, scientists are closer than ever to creating such cyborgs.

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Netflix files to sue Blockbuster to shut down on-line service

Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc. on Tuesday sued rival Blockbuster Inc. for patent infringement, asking a federal judge in Northern California to shut down Blockbuster's 18-month-old online rental service and award Netflix damages, according to a copy of the filing.

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Incredible Folding Bookshelf and Bed

This accordion-like bookshelf and bed are ultra-portable and ultra stylish. Some really great engineering. Check out the photos of the compact folded bookshelf. Perfect for university students and other frequent movers.

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Apple Boot Camp Public Beta Announced, Part of 10.5 Leopard

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today

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TiVo's Future May Hinge on Patent Case

TiVo and Dish have been battling over a key patent that makes digital video recorders work. A TiVo victory�which experts deem likely�would not only resurrect the fledgling company but also encourage a shift in DVR strategies at the major pay TV providers.

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Stem Cells Repair Torn Tendons, Ligaments

Hebrew University scientists in Jerusalem say they've determined adult stem cells might one day be able to repair tendon and ligament injuries. When the researchers implanted those cells into torn Achilles tendons of rats they found the cells not only survived implantation, but also were able to repair the tendon.

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The National Geographic Genographic Project: Trace your ancestory

Pay for the $100 blood kit. send your blood over, and from the millions of blood (dna) they have recieved they can tell you where your ancestors came from and with more and more applying. the precise location down to the village can be traced.

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Robot Sculptures Made from Scrap Parts

Ann Smith makes these great little robo-sculptures from scrap parts and random electronic parts! Very Cool! Check out the pics!

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PS3 to retail at $499, developers "confirm"

West coast US developers are claiming SCEA has given them a final price point of $499 for the Playstation3. This story does point out that other Californian developers have heard nothing from SCEA so there are obvious inconsistencies casting doubt over the claim, though some are "adamant" this is the real deal.

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Video On How To Hack A PC

This video walks you through the steps you need to take to hack a PC on a wireless network. Not only is it demonstrated in video, it is fully narrated.

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Honda to add Google Earth to cars

Honda will soon add Google Earth to its navigation systems in Japan. This seems to be part of a growing trend. In February Google and Volkswagen announced they had partnered with nVidia to bring 3-dimensional Google Maps to car navigation systems.

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A Thin Blue Line That Will Entice Suspects To Confess

Gwent Police have abandoned the greys, browns and beiges of the 20th-century police cell and have used colour psychology to decorate them. Designers and psychologists have worked for years on the properties of colour. Blue is said to suggest trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection and calm.

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Developers Salary Survey Released

New research shows up-to-date salary levels throughout the various sectors among game developers including artists, programmers and producers. The study published in the new issue of Game Developer, out this week. Research firm Audience Insights aided the study, which received 6,000 responses from game developers around the world.

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Tutorial: Writing Classes in PHP

Some consider classes one of the hardest components of PHP to figure out, but the reality is that classes are extremely straightforward and easy to use. The trouble comes from the fact that not all programmers have worked with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) before.

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Easy RSS Integration

A very easy tutorial on how to integrate an RSS feed into your website using PHP.

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How To Get �Provider Independent� IP Address For Your Home Server?

This article is about how to provider-independent real IP address for your home server behind the NAT.

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Microsoft found guilty of having plagiarized Vista font!

The European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market denied Microsoft the registration of a trademark for the "Segoe" font for its upcoming Vista OS. "Segoe" has been found absolutely identical to Linotype's Frutiger Next.

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Beginners Guide to Rails, Part 1

This is a great, in-depth HOW-TO for beginning development with Ruby on Rails. From what tools you will need, to setting up your development enviornment. I'm already looking forward to part 2...

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how fast can they crack your password

An interesting article on the speed at which passwords can by cracked. Comparing types of passwords.

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Device allows woman to see, even without eyes.

Robertson is blind, but this device allows her to see, not with her eyes but with her brain! Fifteen years ago, she lost both of her eyes in a car accident. Some call her the bionic woman. Others call her a medical miracle. Cheri Robertson has given herself another title:"The robo-chick." (Picture and Video)

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Sony and Toshiba 'Dirty Tricks' in The DVD War

'Support was the result of an intense lobbying campaign in which the companies [Sony and Toshiba] targeted the Hollywood studios on hot-button issues. As in political campaigns, there were allegations of dirty tricks. At least one studio was bought,� one studio executive complains.'

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The Simpsons Movie Trailer - Download

Here is the Simpsons Movie Trailer shown on FOX at about 8:22 PM - it's the same one shown in theaters with Ice Age 2. Enjoy!

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Great little tool that scans what you've got on your disks

Every wondered where all that disk space goes? Well find out now. This nifty little app tells you how many mp3's movies or other files types you've got one your machine. sweet. What do you mean I've got 60GB of pron! :-)

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Xbox360 Gesture Recognition Camera

A very new feature for the Xbox360, a camera that has built in gesture recognition, allowing for a new genre of games to be developed.

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LED Dining table

Dining table with a frosted glass top lit by 448 LEDs that respond, in a complex and gentle fashion, to input generated by motion above the table while we eat.

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Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula - BEAUTIFUL

"More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon."

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Learning SQL Using phpMyAdmin

This tutorial is aimed at programmers, analysts, and designers of dynamic Web sites who want to learn the basics of SQL.

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Expectation of laughter boosts endorphines 27% & human growth hormones 87%

"Laughter diminishes the secretion of cortisol and epinephrine, while enhancing immune reactivity. In addition, laughter boosts secretion of growth hormone, an enhancer of these same key immune responses. The physiological effects of a single 1-hour session viewing a humorous video has appeared to last up to 12-24 hours in some individuals."

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High Definition TV with Frickin' Lasers

Mitsubishi is scheduled to announce an HDTV that uses colored lasers instead of lamps. This is supposed to make the sets thinner and cooler. And, instead of having to replace an expensive lamp, the solid-state lasers are supposed to last the lifetime of the set.

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The 50 Greatest Independent Films!

Check out this list. Bound to find some of the coolest movies you'd NEVER seen...

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How to:Wireless Headphones

Mod to make heavy wireless headphones work just as well with lightwieght and much more comfortable ear buds.

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15,000 layer Photoshop file.

Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster.

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Apple begins fixing MacBook Pro issues

Whining noises, AirPort connection issues, LCD flickering, and burning hot temperatures -- that's what you get being an early adopter of technology. According to this article on DailyTech though, Apple is releasing new MacBook Pro revisions that fixes the problems.

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What I Learned at Hacker Camp

It's easy to create malicious code, penetrate firewalls, and steal personal and financial information. "Ethical hacker" Andrew Whitaker can show you how.

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Giant C-5 Military Jet Crashes in Delaware

An Air Force C-5 cargo jet crashed and broke into pieces Monday while trying to make an emergency landing near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Air Force officials said.

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Free video 'flash' tutorials- These are AWESOME

This guy rocks! What the web should be about, learning, information and knowledge - and all FREE & no adds! Awesome tutorials showing how to create flash presentations simply and easily.

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75 Helpful Web Design Resources

A bunch of web design resources with descriptions.

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Awesome Review of Online Feed Readers

Techcruch review quite a number of online readers listing the features available for each. The "Feature Comparison Chart" lays out which reader does what. Check it out!

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Some really nice Creative Advertisements

I like the ad by Kellogg's Special K.

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This test will make the smartest people stupid!

This little 20 question test will make the smartest people dumb and the dumbest people.......well dumber.

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Simpsons� movie revealed in trailer...2007 release date!!

I just returned from the theatre where I saw a "trailer" for the Simpson's Movie. Here is the first info I have been able to find on it...enjoy kidies.

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Digg listed as 18th most referenced site according to new study

This site is doing a study on RSS feeds and how people are referencing sites, digg.com is listed as 18th out of 1.2k million. Lots of big names in the top 20, glad to see digg is up there!

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Chevy gets trashed in commercial contest

Chevrolet created a contest to let users make their own ad for the Chevy Tahoe, but the company let a couple slip by under its nose depicting the SUV as a gas-guzzling, environment-destroying machine.

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MAKE Magazine rebrands as BUY

It's been a rough year for MAKE Magazine, you see, everyone wants to buy things and not make things, so we're switching our format and rebranding the magazine to BUY. The next volume will be filled with wonderful things you can buy and directives on things to do, like buy more. Our new designer, Nada, has some shots of the next volume here.

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Phishers Setting Hidden Traps on eBay

Click on an eBay auction listing, and you could get an unwanted result: a fake eBay login page, created by scammers looking to pilfer your username and password.

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Drag and Drop Wordpress page builder

Canvas- a drag and drop wordpress page layout system- like widgets for your entire blog

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Almost ALL Windows Drivers For All Of You Who Hate Searching

Wow... This site gives you a way to get virtually ALL drivers for EVERYTHING internal. I have already built a DVD install disk and installed it on some of the newer machines, and it does great. Saves me a TON of time. I just hope the site doesn't go under for bandwidth. :)

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