Xbox Linux distro achieves v5.0 release

The UK-based project team developing Gentoox, a Gentoo-based Linux operating system for the Xbox featuring Linux kernel 2.4.32 and the KDE desktop, announced its latest release on July 5, Gentoox Home v5.0. It is the team's first new release since v4.0 in June 2005.

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Digg Dashboard widget now fully compatible with Digg v3, new theme

Digg widget for Dashboard in OS 10.4.x has reached version 3.1. Here are the features from the changelog: full compliancy with Digg verson 3, the default theme has been updated with a slightly fresher look, the old default theme is still accessible.

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JVC Introduces 120Hz LCDs

Two new LCD TVs from JVC announced this week may not be 1080p, but they use JVC's new Clear Motion Drive to make images smoother with less ghosting than regular LCDs. The Clear Motion Drive sets the refresh rate at 120Hz, which means it's twice the refresh rate of the signal, at 60Hz.

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Google's new headquarters - the perfect working space?

A detailed description of how the new Googleplex was designed and built in a way that balances its utopian desire for transparency with its very real need for privacy.

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Brain-Mind: Know Thyself!

This article presents the author's model of the workings of the brain-mind, not in terms of sweeping generalizations but on the ultimate and unambiguous level of the switching-circuit logic of nerve cells.

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Awesome unique barcode designs

Barcodes are usually pretty boring, these guys are changing that. Check out their unique designs.

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Installing Apache 2.0 and PHP 5 (and MySQL) on Windows XP

He shows you how to install Apache and PHP on Windows XP, as well as how to set up a nice working environment. As a bonus, he also shows you how to install MySQL if you're interested. You can have a complete working server environment on your desktop and be able to do all your test there.

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Wikipedia founder launches political site

"Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection."

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Pictures of the first Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF in official paint job

flightglobal.com has obtained exclusive photographs of Lockheed Martin's first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as it emerged from the paint shop at Fort Worth, Texas ready for its formal roll-out and naming on 7 July.

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Your Mac Notebook Can Detect Earthquakes - for Free

Suitable Systems has released SeisMac, a new program which takes data from the motion sensor in your later model PowerBook, MacBook, or MacBook Pro, and presents it as a fancy-shmancy scientific seismograph. SeisMac is available as a free download.

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How to Bypass BIOS Passwords

Many BIOS manufacturers have provided backdoor passwords that can be used to access the BIOS setup in the event you have lost your password. Here are some from some manufacturers.

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Disposable phone numbers

Whether you're hiding from a telemarketer, your college alumni association or that cutie you met at a bar last weekend, there are many times when you seriously regret having given out your precious digits.

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How to: Create Realistic Fake Depth of Field in Photoshop CS

Create very realistic depth of field effects using the lens blur filter and self made depth maps in Photoshop CS. Example files provided for each step. I did a couple this morning, looks great! Great way to add focus to your photographs.

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Cool iPhoto Trick

Go into edit mode of a picture, select the Red-Eye or Retouch tool, and then press Caps Lock+Control+9, release and press tab. You will enter a top secret editing mode. Details are included in the link.

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NASA Boosts Heart-Monitoring Tech

This Saturday's scheduled spacewalk from the shuttle Discovery will be the first to use a new system for remotely monitoring astronauts' vital signs in space -- after a contractor's experiment found the old system was producing bad data.

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ABC wants to disable FF on DVRs

ABC HAS HELD DISCUSSIONS ON the use of technology that would disable the fast-forward button on DVRs, according to ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw, with the primary goal to allow TV commercials to run as intended.

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Google Video Secret Categories

Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.

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With higher speed limits, our highways have been getting safer

Of the 31 states that have raised their speed limits to more than 70 mph, 29 saw a decline in the death and injury rate and only two have seen fatalities increase. Two studies have compared crash data in states that raised their speed limits with those that didn't and found no increase in deaths in the higher speed states.

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Meta-Digg: The new Rules

What's a community site without a bit of navel-gazing and meta-threads? In this article, Nick Davis offers some new rules for surviving Web 2.0 community sites like Digg.

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Multi column layout in CSS

The W3C's CSS working group recently released a draft of a new multi column layout module--to be included (with possible modifications) into the CSS 3 specs. For those web developers that have been lamenting the lack of adequate multi column support in current supported versions of the CSS specs, this is an exiting addition.

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Find out where your senator stands on Net Neutrality

Expands on the old list somewhere and tells you what to say to your senator, etc. Great!

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AMD Fesses Up

"Advanced Micro Devices' Hector Ruiz admitted Thursday night what investors have known for weeks--the upstart chip company's sales are slowing."

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New Web Based Operating System Built as a Science Experiment

Experimental "Web operating system" that a small team at MIT created. YouOS is an online platform with a window-based, graphical user interface.

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New Internet Tech 153,000 Times Faster Than Modem

A new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds, the California Institute of Technology said today. The protocol is called FAST, standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

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It's Done! One Red Paperclip Guy has got his house.

The town that offered him the key to the city, mayor for a day, etc. has thrown in a house to sweeten the deal. Looks like he's moving to Kipling, Saskatchewan. (see the linked pdfs for the full story).

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Cracking the Secret Codes of Europe's Galileo Satellite

Members of Cornell University's Global Positioning System Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe's first global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the codes secret.

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New Rocketboom Anchor!

The Huffington Post breaks the news we've all been waiting for: There's a new anchor for Rocketboom! She's former MTV Europe News VJ Joanna Colan (or Colon; they spell it both ways). According to HuffPo's Rachel Sklar, Colan/Colon "formerly the music/DJ curator at Table 50, will begin on Monday, July 10th.

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FBI plans new Net-tapping push

The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned.

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A closer look at Apple's educational iMac

For the most part, Apple Computers new educational iMac is a stripped down version of the company's 17-inch consumer offering that ships with a couple of internal component changes but also some outstanding issues, reliable sources tell AppleInsider.

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President Bush confident Missile Shield would have brought down NK missile

President Bush at a press conference today told reporters that he was confident that our untested missile defense system could have brought down any missile shot at the US in the recent North Korean launches.

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Ten Things to Know Before Buying a Video Card

Selecting a video card upgrade can be an intimidating task. Unless you've kept up with all the GPU announcements and performance reports, it's practically impossible to know which cards are worth buying. Here are 10 things you need to know about video cards before shopping for one.

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Heads-Up Displays Making A Comeback In Cars

First introduced over 20 years ago, heads-up displays simply did not take off. GM and other automakers, like BMW, are pushing HUDs even more. You can get multicolored HUDs right now in 5- and 6-series Beamers. They expect sales to boom to 2 million a year by 2010.

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Want to learn Chinese, China wants to teach you

"China launched a Web site, www.linese.com, on Saturday offering free Chinese lessons and materials to promote the study and use of the language abroad."

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Style your forms with CSS

"Ever wanted to match the look of your HTML forms with the rest of your website? This article demonstrates how to apply customized backgrounds to HTML forms, while preserving stucturally clean markup and accesibility."

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Real-Time Eye Tracking

"For those who want to build their own real-time eye tracking system, downoad the open-source code here." Check out the video.

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sprint gives out customers data when you call

You dial 1-877-785-8414 which is a Sprint customer service line (doesn't matter what number you're dialing from), then punch in the cellphone number of a Sprint Wireless subscriber (not necessarily yours). The Sprint voice-bot reads back to you the full name and street address of the account holder associated with that number.

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Conan O'Brien's LOOKWELL Pilot!

Full-length "Lookwell" pilot episode, written and produced by Robert Smigel and Conan O'Brien. The 1991 show, which was never picked up, starred Adam West as an actor-turned detective.

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Stephen Colbert completely losing it!

Anyone that has watched the Daily Show or the Colbert Report knows that Stephen Colbert will manage to keep from breaking out in laughter no matter how funny the story. His deadpan delivery makes everything funny. But with all the talk of the queen, sexual innuendo, and a banana, he just couldn't keep it together in this one!

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The Daily Show's take on MySpace

A pretty funny look at MySpace with the usual sarcasm of the daily show.

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Carell and Colbert on Responsible Drinking

In what seemed like a good idea at the time, Stephen and Steve test the effects of massive quantities of alcohol on a human subject: Steve Carell.

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A Letter To Political Blogs: Let's Ramp Up The Intelligence Of Politics

"I am launching today a new website aimed at being a central meeting ground for people on all sides of the political spectrum who think that it is time for politics to become more participatory, and more intelligent."

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North Korea : Timeline of the Nuclear Standoff

From October 2002 until present.

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Italian Prosecutor Issues Arrest Warrants For 22 CIA Agents

TWO senior officials of the Italian military intelligence agency were arrested yesterday for allegedly helping the CIA to kidnap a terrorism suspect on a street in Milan three years ago. The prosecutor, has already issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA agents said to be implicated in the abduction.

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How Nike Conquered Skateboard Culture

Skaters were a troubling yet alluring demographic for big business. Nike tried four times to get its swoosh on skaters. This is how it finally succeeded.

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China and Russia Side With North Korea

China and Russia resisted an attempt by the U.S., Japan, and Britain to impose sanctions against North Korea for its missile launches Wednesday, saying only diplomacy could halt the isolated regime's nuclear and rocket development programs.

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Training centers to tech military officers cultural awareness.

The training centers will attempt to show officers how important it is not too offend civilians when trying to defeat the enemy. Many experts wonder why it's taken the military so long to figure that out.

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Rumsfeld subpoenaed over Abu Ghraib

A Congressional committee subpoenaed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday at the request of U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays(R).

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Three charged with stealing Coca-Cola secrets

Williams, 41, of Norcross, Georgia; 30-year-old Ibrahim Dimson, of New York; and 43-year-old Edmund Duhaney of Decatur, Georgia, are charged with wire fraud and unlawfully stealing and selling Coke trade secrets to rival Pepsi Co.

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Kenneth Lay's Death Voids Efforts to Seize His Stolen Assets

In yet another bizarre twist to the Enron saga, the sudden death of Kenneth L. Lay on Wednesday may have spared his survivors financial ruin. Mr. Lay's death effectively voids the guilty verdict against him, temporarily thwarting the federal government's efforts to seize his remaining real estate and financial assets, legal experts say.

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Vice President Cheney bets 'Against' the U.S. Dollar

Cheney has dumped another (estimated) $10 to $25 million in a European bond fund which tells us that he is counting on a steadily weakening dollar. So, while working class Americans are loosing ground to inflation and rising energy costs, Darth Cheney will be enhancing his wealth in "Old Europe"

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Study Clears MMR and Mercury Based Vaccines as Cause of Autism

"There is no relationship between the level of exposure to MMR vaccines and thimerosal �containing vaccines and rates of autism. According to our data, the incidence of autism was higher in children who were vaccinated after thimerosal [which contains 50% ethylmercury] was eliminated from vaccines"

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The World's First "Magnetic Levitation" Wind Turbines Unveiled in China

Chinese developers have unveiled the world �s first permanent magnetic levitation wind power generator.

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Bone Marrow Cells Repair Heart

Toronto researchers have discovered a method to utilize bone marrow cells in the repair of a damaged heart after a heart attack.

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Climate change evaporates from G8 agenda

At the last G8 summit, political leaders vowed to "act with resolve and urgency" on climate change. Now, a year later, global warming has been sidelined by concerns on how the world can satisfy its growing appetite for energy.

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Picture of the rarest type of rainbow: the Fire Rainbow

Amazing picture of the rarest type of rainbow, and rarest type of naturally occuring atmospheric phenomena, called the 'fire rainbow'.

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HUGE stock of images of the Earth taken by astronauts

You can search by place, mission or just clicking around a map, and they go as far as 1961. The quality is also great.

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MacBook Pro Biometrics

Article on how a guy used a dremmel, a Sony Puppy FIU-600 and some skill to install a finger print scanner in his 2.16 Ghz MacBook Pro.

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Cracking WEP With Windows : Tutorial, Part 1

This is part one in a two part paper on Cracking WEP with Windows XP. This first part covers sniffing wireless traffic and obtaining the WEP key. Part Two will cover associating with a Wireless AP, spoofing your MAC address, trying to log on administratively to the AP and further things you can carry out on the WLAN once authenticated successfully.

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Device to Directly Connect Two Hard Drives To Each Other and Transfer Data

"connects two different drives, including IDE/ATA and SATA hard drives as well as optical drives, to facilitate the data transfer. it doesn't need an external power supply, but when connected to SATA drives, you'll need to use the supplied AC adapter. Additionally, it can be connected to a USB port for transfer data to another drive."

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Getting Your Site Indexed Before You Launch

I've noticed that most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site. What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch. With a little planning and a few hours of work it's easy to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN before your site goes live.

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Apple filings reveal future iPod, iPhone designs!

A recent series of design filings made by Apple reveal possible future iPod interfaces. One shows what appears to be a Nano with a cell phone key pad. Is iPhone at least a consideration at Apple? It must be.

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Apple�s new �whine-free� MacBook Pro logic board

Apparently, Apple is replacing the main logic board with a new "whine-free" logic board if you turn it in for maintenance because of the whine. Interesting development posted on MacDailyNews.com.

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28 year old hacked FBI, got FBI director's password (and 38,000 others)!

In 2004 s government consultant using programs easily found on the Internet gained access to records in the Witness Protection Program and details on counterespionage activity. Asked if he was surprised that a secure FBI system could be entered so easily, Stewart said, "I'd like to say 'Sure,' but I'm not really."

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99 (Yes, 99) tips to improve slow and droopy Windows XP Performance!!!!!!

Yes, you heard it right! This site has 99 tips to improve every bit of Windows XP's performance ranging from BIOS tweaks to overclocking your CPU and much, much more!!! Check out this site now!!!

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Crime agency asks kids to explain social networking

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre, a wing of the newly formed Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), will ask children, parents, teachers and industry figures to a series of meetings later this month to help the agency to formulate policies to combat child abuse via social networking sites.

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New iPod dock lets you record video directly to your iPod.

The new iPod dock from iLuv lets you record videos directly to your iPod from from any video source using a composite or S-video connections. Plug in your TV, DVD-player or DVcam, record and watch your video on the iPod immediately after recording without any transferring process including a computer.

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Installing your own webserver, and why you'd want to

A great tutorial on installing an Apache (and all the trimmings) webserver on your own computer, and what benefits it brings. It's designed for people who wouldn't normally consider doing it, and wouldn't know where to start - It's great for Digg's new non-geek audience!

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How to concentrate on writing

Professional writer gives ten tips to improve concentration and get the copy written. Would work for other forms of writing and brain-intensive work too, such as coding.

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Microsoft Private Folder 1.0

Microsoft have released Private Folder 1.0, which lets you have a folder called 'My Private Folder' which you can password protect. This was posted on Neowin by cep_head: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=476116&st=0

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Red-Eye Technology Gauges Age

The "red-eye" reducing software inside inside digital cameras could someday be used to verify a person's age.

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The difference between PHP, ASP and other scripting languages.

A well-written little introduction to the scripting languages ASP, PHP, Perl, ColdFusion and JSP. Really worth reading!

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Two Seconds to Sleep

Want the fastest way to put your Mac right into a deep, sleepy-bear hibernation-like sleep (no whirling fan, no dialogs, no sound � nuthin� � just fast, glorious sleep)?

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A Browser Exploit a day for every day in July

A new browser exploit is going to be unvieled every day in July, how will microsoft respond?

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A new world of new programmers in new languages

Programming used to be hard. Only a few specialised people could do it. Today, it's easy. Thanks to Python, Ruby, etc. you don't need a degree to get fantastic results. So, what are you waiting for? A truly inspiring article.

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Create a full automated minisite in seconds!

RSS Mini is a small RSS mini site maker. The mini site maker makes six pages. Home, News, Articles, Photos, Shops, Videos and Links. All pages consist of RSS feeds. The RSS feeds display the content in the source, so search engines can crawl your site easier and faster. During every load, the RSS randomizes.

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The Universities of Tomorrow Must Stay in Touch With Developing Technology

Two examples of how to make tht most of it are the Open Content and Open Source movements. The OU joins the first this autumn when it launches a selection of its material on the web, free to use. It already participates in the other, using Moodle (an open source code) for its virtual learning platform.

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Apple Introduces New iMac for Under $900

Today, Apple introduced a new iMac that only costs $899 for educational customers. The computer features a 17 in. screen, 1.83 Ghz Core Cuo, 512 mb of RAM, 80 gig hard drive, Combo Drive, and Intel integrated graphics. Looks like an awesome deal for students around the world.

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Security suggests switch to Macs

Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm.

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MetaCafe lands $15m more for filtered video sharing

Israel based video sharing MetaCafe has announced that it has received $15 million in funding from Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners

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Homebrew Sonar

Eddie uses a cheap computer speaker and microphone to make a home-made sonar system. He wrote a program that generates a sweeping chirp from 5-20kHz in the space of 4.5 milliseconds.

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[PICTURES] Amazing Water (Drop) Photographs

A professional photographer takes pictures of water, drops, rain, etc, and focuses them just so that they are have *stunning* results!!

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MacBook sales stronger than expected, Apple may introduce 15.4'' models.

Apple's notebook sales in 2006 would represent a 39% increase from the 2.16 million units shipped in 2005. Sources contacted also noted that Apple may expand its MacBook family by introducing a 15.4-inch widescreen lineup.

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Litebox - Same great taste, less calories (1/4 the size of Lightbox)

Litebox is a modified version of Lightbox v2.0 created with one thing in mind, size reduction. Litebox utilizes the 3kb javascript library moo.fx in association with prototype.lite, giving us the basic tools we need to make this work and the ability to expand.

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HandBrake, DVD ripper/encoder for Mac, now actually looks good!

HandBrake is by far the best DVD ripping / encoding app out there for Mac (and it's free!) but I've kept it hidden away in my apps folder due to its ugly icon. Phill has a tutorial on how to vastly improve the app's looks with a few drag and drops, check it out!

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casino refuses to pay jackpot - Winning is "glitch"

Two men from Manitoba have hired a lawyer and are threatening legal action after a Winnipeg casino refused to pay out more than $209,000 in slot-machine winnings.

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8 Web Clichés of 2006

One thing that has persisted throught the life of the hypertext-enabled web is the design clich é - trends or 'memes' that catch on amongst a large percentage of web users. We've seen dancing hamsters, Animated GIFs, the blink tag and Netscape Navigator all come and go - but what about the more recent trends?

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Amazing Infrared Photo Gallery!

Some really great infrared photos of rivers, trees, and fields. They have a chillingly surreal feel to them. Makes for some nice desktop wallpapers...

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SSH tricks

The article describes in a human language some of the powerful, yet very useful (even for total newbies) capabilities of OpenSSH, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on a remote system or even mounting a remote folder using SSH.

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Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) breakthrough

Konica Minolta has developed an OLED device with a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 and an expected lifetime of about 10,000 hours. The company claims that it offers the world's most efficient electric light source and is suitable for use in general lighting applications.

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Disable OS X Dashboard Advisor

With the recently released maintence update Mac OS 10.4.7, the company has added a background daemon that reports information about your computer to Apple every time you launch the Dashboard. Don't want it? Turn it off!

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EFF Publishes Patent Hit List

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is spoiling for a fight, and on Wednesday it named the top 10 patents it wants killed, or at least redefined. The EFF said all 10 patents are in some way illegitimate and are being used to limit free expression.

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Switchers Guide To Mac OS X Software

Are you buying a Mac? This list of software is highly recommended for any new mac owner, especially switchers.

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How Software Makes Fireworks' Booms Beautiful

An article on the technology behind fireworks from PCMag. Natali Del Conte's piece shows how the largest 4th of July fireworks shows utilize software and computer networks to coordinate the audio and visual elements of the show, keeping the timing precise.

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5 Tips For a Beginning Programmer

A collection of tips for the beginning programmer regardless of the language. Learn how to build a strong foundation that will make learning languages in the future easier.

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How to Photograph a Child�s Birthday Party

Great list of tips

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The Pirate Bay Search manual

New blog entry explaining all the commands to use in the pirate bay search box. Some interesting commands to help you find exactly what you want.

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OS X vs. Vista - a GUI development and concept analysis

Great article on interface design concepts and developement process on both operating systems. Different company philosophies for different results on user interfaces.

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Every cool secret or great landmark you've ever missed in Google earth!

Check out this site its got a bunch of files that open up ge and bring u directly to cool places on the globe

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Even wanted to know when Google crawls your site?

This short tutorial will show you how to send yourself an email via a PHP Script when Google�s spider has visited your site.

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How to make an M80

Celebrate the independance of the country by blowing a little piece of it.

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Little-Known Tweak to Boost Hard Drive Performance!

This tweak involves a registry change to force Windows to use UltraDMA-6 mode (133MB/s) for transfers with your drives. Windows has a particularly strange way of handling transfer modes for storage devices, so you could be running slowly and not even know it. I was able to boost the transfer rate of my hard drive by 6X with this tweak!

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Top Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps

As someone in the Macintosh shareware business, I make the daily crawl through MacUpdate to look for the latest and greatest in Mac software. One thing I've been noticing recently is a renaissance of extremely polished and beautiful Mac apps, so I thought I'd share some of these finds with you guys. Hopefully you'll find some new gems in there!

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How to wall mount a display like a professional

Nice guide to installing mounting systems for displays and projectors.

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Apple adds new MacBook retail configurations

Apple Computer recently added two new retail configurations to its MacBook line of consumer notebooks, both of which are now available at most of the company's stores. The new model retails for $1499.

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Apple adds new MacBook retail configurations

Apple Computer recently added two new retail configurations to its MacBook line of consumer notebooks, both of which are now available at most of the company's stores. The new model retails for $1499.

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12 Web 2.0 StartUp Gems - Useful Services for Free

A wide range of google AJAX / Web 2.0 Services offered by innovative Start Ups Will be fascinating to watch how they progress

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The Anatomy of the Google Product Cycle

Step 1: Two Googlers meet for Battlestar Galactica marathon on UPN but end up calculating their worth as the weekend stock price hovers around $415; after two epicurean Mike's Hard Lemonades, a message is sent to an internal developer list with an idea for (a) Google Base or (b) an old Yahoo/Microsoft product with a new AJAX interface.

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Voice Over IP : 5 Things You Must Know

Here's our five-point take on the state of the technology.

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Automated Freebie Finder Updated

Freebie Finder still aggregates freebies while filtering out scams and referral pyramids by detecting links on multiple sites. The new Freebie Finder also predicts categories and countries for new freebies and then utilizes user input to refine these initial predictions through user votes on categories, descriptions, countries, and ratings.

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