Google targets GPS in-car personalized advertising

"Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, believes that when he is listening to the radio in his car, radio ads should personally address him about his needs. For example, while driving past a clothing store, a radio ad should remind Eric that he needs a pair of pants and instruct him to turn left at the upcoming clothing store."

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How To Remotely Monitor Windows Memory Usage

Adding extra RAM when your machine doesn't really need it is pointless. Here's how to tell when it's time.

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15 Exercises to Know A Programming Language: Part 1

The fastest way to learn a new language is to write some code. Here are 15 exercises from veteran programmer Larry O'Brian to kick start your studies.

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Apple's Windows site mentions Parallels Desktop instead of Boot Camp

Apple's Windows page on their 'Get a Mac' site now mentions Parallels Desktop instead of Boot Camp.

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How One Spammer Got BILLIONS of Pages into Google in 3 Weeks

One Romanian company has taken spamming Google to new heights. Learn how they got over 7 billion spam-filled pages into Google in under 1 month.

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How to enable remote desktop - Remotely

Remote desktop is a nice feature of Windows that lets you remotely work on the system as if you were there. Many times you find that you need it enabled - but the machine you are trying to access is tough to reach. This is a simply way to remotely enable it.

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Japanese Parking Lot Works Like Jukebox (video)

This Japanese parking lot is quite remarkable. It kind of works like a jukebox. Only this time your car is fetched instead of the latest track of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Drugs firm blocks blindness cure

Company will only seek licence for medicine that costs 100 times more and is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.

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Amazingly Scary In-depth Look at Scientology!

I researched Scientology for my college graduate studies project and here's what I found. They are a dangerous cult that employ spies and a variety of dirty tricks to intimidate, scare, and threaten their critics, all the while bilking million of dollars from their followers. A video follows.

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Top-Secret Google Data Center Almost Completed

"In short, it will be one of the most powerful data centers on the planet and may move the consumer market aggressively to a software-as-a-service model -- with advertising funding changing dramatically the technology market as we know it," Enderle said.

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20 Ways To Secure Your Apache Configuration...

Here are 20 things you can do to make your apache configuration more secure. Disclaimer: The thing about security is that there are no guarantees or absolutes. These suggestions should make your server a bit tighter, but don't think your server is necessarily secure after following these suggestions.

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Cool Picture of Toronto Before and After Photoshop

Very popular photoblog by Sam Javanrouh, shows effects of processing images in photoshop.

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Amazing NEW in-game Crysis footage. (14 min video)

Entirely new footage from the upcoming first person shooter Crysis. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far Cry. A must view for any serious gamer or anyone with an interest in where 2007 will take gaming.

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The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless network

I've seen a lot of misinformation about securing wi-fi networks. This article debunks those myths by explaining why mac filtering and ssid hiding is pointless in most cases. Looks like the only effective security is WPA with a strong passphrase.

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Beyond the Valley: 10 Blooming U.S. Cities for Tech

eWEEK editorial scoured dozens of news stories, job reports and technology forecasts, crunched them all together with a dash of insight, and came up with the following 10 cities and their surrounding areas.

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All the World is a Map

A conferenace for "neogeographers," -- a generation of coders whose work is inspired by easily obtained map data, as well as the mashups made possible by Google Maps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth.

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Save your XBOX 360 from the dreaded red lights with this fix

This applies to 360 suffering from the "three red lights of death," or red lights from three o'clock to twelve o'clock around the power button. This means "General Hardware Failure" and does not point to any one specific item.

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NewsForge: Flock beta rocks!

Flock is a "social browser" built on the Firefox code base, which integrates blogging, photo sharing with Flickr or Photobucket, "favorites" (a.k.a. bookmarks) using del.icio.us or Shadows, and other collaborative features.

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Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web

"There is another way to do almost everything these programs can do, some would say you can actually do more and you can do it free. A number of smart programmers have developed word processing, spreadsheet, calendar and other software that you operate while in a Web browser."

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Tutorials bringing you from newbie to coding pro

I was looking for a way to learn coding (PHP, Javascript, CSS), and I found this website. Its created by Ron, the maker of "SayBox". It brings you from the ground up with extremely descriptive tutorials in many different coding subjects. Its growing quickly, and more tutorials are being added very often... give it a look and digg on!

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Play with unprotected security cam on Internet

This request on google give you a list of unprotected security cam on the net, active or not. You have full control (zoom,scan,move,etc). Sometime you get nice things :-)

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Revealing How Marijuana Affects the Brain

A new imaging method could show how cannabinoids affect diseases like schizophrenia.

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PayPal Security Flaw Allows Identity Theft

Scammers are exploiting a security flaw in the PayPal web site to steal credit card numbers belonging to PayPal users. The scam tricks users into accessing a URL hosted on the genuine PayPal web site, which has been modified by the fraudsters via a cross-site scripting technique (XSS).

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Windows Media Center Preview (Vista Beta 2)

"With Beta 2 now out for several weeks, I thought I�d finally look into what changes Microsoft made to the Media Center platform. Many of the changes are only skip deep but there are some new features that make the platform even more exciting than ever before."

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No More Cavities?

A Florida-based company called Oragenics may have found a way to rid our mouths of a bacteria that thrives on sugars in the mouth, which it consumes while excreting lactic acid. On the surface it seems like an elegant solution, but clearly there is the potential to upset delicate systems in nature, resulting in possible larger-scale side effects.

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How to keep users from messing up their desktops

While I prefer allowing every user to customize his system, some managers may want to keep users from messing up a standard configuration.

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Sin City Style Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop tutorial for how to get the Sin City art style in your images.

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MacBooks Now In 24 Different Colors

Those guys at ColorWare PC have updated their product line now to allow you to have a MacBook that stands out from the rest of the crowd. For a premium price of course. Why doesnt Apple get in on this market and offer more stock color choices like they did in the original iMac days?

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Digg CEO Jay Adelson responds to Netscape challenge

"Digg CEO Jay Adelson took time out of his busy schedule to email me some thoughts about Netscape's new digg-inspired community news site."

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Analysis: What Bill Gates's Departure Means for Microsoft

Bill Gates may be the public face of Microsoft, but his departure from daily operations at the company could actually strengthen it--and even pave the way for better products.

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Microsoft AJAX Framework Forges Ahead

"Microsoft's planned AJAX faces difficulty with its development, but promises to be a topnotch offering for the trendy Web scripting technique, a moderator of a TechEd 2006 session said on Wednesday."

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Google Calendar: More new features!

Google just released 2 New features for their calendar service! You can now add your so loved calendar to the google homepage as well as now you can place an interactive, graphical version of your calendar into any page that you manage!

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US Patent Office Opens up for Standards

The new system allows patent filers to submit PDF applications through the USPTO Web site. People submitting material get an immediate acknowledgement that it was received. Older versions of the system sent confirmation postcards through the mail.

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Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons in Pure CSS

Tired of the lame javascript hacks? Using only proper CSS and semantic markup, it's still possible to replace default sytem graphics for these widgets with whatever custom look you like. Learn a new CSS trick!

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Windows Vista Premium 2007 Requirements Detailed

Microsoft has broken down its requirements for the Windows Vista logo program into two categories: Basic and Premium. Here is a list of requirements for Windows Vista Premium logo-compliant PC and will be mandated by June 1st, 2007...

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Simply creating a website for your company isn't enough anymore

Savvy Web marketers realize that consumers turn to the Web to shop and to learn about companies, which is forcing them to market beyond just the company website.

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Choosing Boot Camp or Parallels to Run Windows on an Apple MacBook

This article is an overview and comparison of two alternatives for running Windows on an Intel based Apple MacBook: Parallels or Boot Camp, which to choose? Pictures, benchmarks and video are included to demonstrate each Windows on a Mac solution.

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The best Mac freeware

Updated list of great free and open-source apps for OS X.

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Picasa Web Album launched

The title says it all. Google launched their Picasa Web Album. Looks very neat.

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Scoble The Exit Interview

Microsoft tech evangelist and alpha blogger Robert Scoble talks about everything from his tensest moments at Microsoft, to what Microsoft could have done to keep him, as he prepares to leave the Redmond software maker and join startup PodTech.Net.

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What Search Engine Spiders See

Have you ever wondered exactly what those search engine spiders actually see each time they visit your website? Wonder no more.....this useful little tool will scan your page and show you the results, as well as provide useful page data such as word density, meta keywords, links, etc.

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Amazing photoshop work - all done with a mouse - plus tutorial

This guy is amazing... he has created a photorealistic image using just Photoshop 6.0 and a mouse... no graphics tablets here. Pure talent. He has also created a nice step-by-step tutorial on how it was created. Final image: http://www.wade.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/FinalPic.png

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An Unbelievable Collection of Breathtaking Photos

"A Walk Through Durham Township Pennsylvania" - A gathering of some of the most breathtaking pictures I have ever seen.

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More of your information might be online than you think

If you are worried about a thief stealing your identity, it's not your wallet that needs guarding -- it's your state and local governments.

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Amazing photoshop work - all done with a mouse - plus tutorial

This guy is amazing... he has created a photorealistic image using just Photoshop 6.0 and a mouse... no graphics tablets here. Pure talent. He has also created a nice step-by-step tutorial on how it was created. Final image: http://www.wade.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/FinalPic.png

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An Unbelievable Collection of Breathtaking Photos

"A Walk Through Durham Township Pennsylvania" - A gathering of some of the most breathtaking pictures I have ever seen.

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More of your information might be online than you think

If you are worried about a thief stealing your identity, it's not your wallet that needs guarding -- it's your state and local governments.

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Video Demo of Volvo�s Fully Automatic Brakes

Volvo�s Collision Warning System with brake support was launched recently. Now, the company is working on the next generation of the Collision Warning System which actually does all the braking for you. Take a look at it working in this video, where Volvo researchers set up an inflatable obstacle and the brakes stop the car just in time.

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Awesome Hurricane Simulator

Check this out! Very cool but also very depressing.

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Rendr

Rendr is a live CSS and HTML rendering tool. It displays what the page would look like as you type, making it great for rapid testing of page designs.

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Written by a chronobiologist, this is a detailed guide to human sleep cycles, how to alter them, what they are...

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Your DIY 4 GHZ Dual Core Gaming Rig for $720

Who needs a mere 4-GHz of processing power these days? Why not double it up, with a dual-core device while you're at it? Our do it yourself (DIY) project shows how you can build a dual-core CPU PC by buying parts from your friendly neighborhood or online PC component vendor.

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CSS3.info Launched

Joost de valk, who brought the CSS3 preview page, has just put online CSS3.info, a site dedicated to information about CSS3. So if you are interested in learning more about CSS3 dig this link.

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New Material Sensitive as Human Skin

"The sensitive sheet was produced by encouraging microscopic particles to bond to the sensor surface by dipping the materials in a series of chemical baths. The resulting material is only about a hundred nanometers thick. When something touches it, the pressure changes the current in the sheet, and the affected particles in the sheet light up."

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How to Mask Your IP and Use Country Restricted Sites

If you want to watch ABC streaming even if you don�t live in the US or see the Football Worldcup in BBC Sport, even if you live outside the UK - the next few steps will help you mask your IP by changing your default proxy to the correct country.

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Top 10 Strangest Spy Gadgets

Our editors have compiled a list of the �Top 10 Strangest (or coolest) Spy Gadgets� for your enjoyment. Which ones are your favorites?

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How to: Vista Beta on Your MacBook and MacBook Pro

After a few false starts I have finally got a working Vista up and running on my MBP. This is assuming you already have a working copy of XP installed using BootCamp. Here is what I did:

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Digg: Soon, Not Just for Geeks Anymore

Digg, the collaborative tech news site, will soon branch out beyond geekdom.

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CGI simulation of meteor colliding with Earth

The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower. In the impact at the same time as colliding The earth's crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off.

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