According to our Google Analytics, 58% of your are using a Macintosh Operating System, 39% are on Windows, 1.5% are logged as using the iPhone OS, and, finally, as the subject of today's post, 0.65% of you are reading this from a Linux Operating System. (Wow, 0.01% use Playstation 3!). The Linux platform, in contrast to that of Apple's and Microsoft's, is free and open source and has major street ...
In what is predicted to be a pivotal year for ebooks, with next month's iPad launch, the number of books available as iPhone apps now exceeds the number of games The electronic book passed another milestone this month, with the number of books available on the iTunes App Store passing the number of games for the first time. According to data released earlier this month by the mobile phone advert...
I would like, if I may, to take you… on a strange journey. Actually on a weird, wild, perhaps futuristic guitar trip. What we’re dealing with here is an electric guitar that the designer reports has all the pros of electric sound with none of the downsides of a non-analog. Pickups and frets with digital imputs which work on a MIDI-signal that’s adaptable to replicate any guitar and amp setup. And ...
Jesse Divnich of EEDAR recons this is just the beginning of a new industry power struggle... Last week began with two staff members allegedly being escorted from their development studio by burly security guards. It ended with a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the biggest games publisher in the world. And while gamers are frantically trying to work out what the Infinity Ward/Activision sa...
Now this is hard core geek awesome. As a long-time Mac user, myself, I was absolutely floored by this Instructables piece by gmjhowe . Here were his guidelines—the end result is nothing short of gorgeous:
[ Upgrade your original 1984 Macintosh to run OS X Snow Leopard ]
Related posts: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Now Available for Pre-Order
How to run Mac OS X Leopard on your PC
...
If you’ve opted in to YouTube’s HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser’s player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago.
YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capable browser with the h.264 video codec (i.e. Chrome but not Chromium, Safari v4 , or IE with Google Chrome Frame). Videos containing ads continue to u...
Do some people confuse public Buzz messages with private email conversations? I don’t know, but some of the following conversations I found using Gmail’s Buzz search sounded a bit odd. One of the conversation, for instance, was by a person who only follows one person and only has one follower. Then again, how would this misunderstanding come about, if that’s the case, as Buzz says “Public on the w...
Tadao Casio founded Casio in 1946, soon after World War II ended. At the beginning the business of the company centered around machines that emitted plane tickets. During the early years they also had to repair some of the first mechanical calculators with electronic components that allied forces installed in the airports of Tokyo and Yokohama. With the first reaped benefits and the experience gai...
You remember Ubisoft's announcement that they were crippling their new games with a DRM system that would kick players out of their games if they couldn't connect continuously to Ubisoft's DRM servers? Now Ubisoft's servers have started to go down.
Of course, pirates and people who break Ubisoft's DRM can still play. Way to correctly align the incentives, Ubisoft.
Ubisoft DRM Authentication ...
Popular Science, in partnership with Google, just put its 137-year archive online, for free. You can't yet browse by issue; rather, the entry point is a keyword search box. But yes, the ads are all there too. At left, Chatroulette, er, I mean "You See Your Party On New Video Phone" (September, 1950). Ah, the history of the future never gets old. Search the PopSci Archives
Popular Science, in partnership with Google, just put its 137-year archive online, for free. You can't yet browse by issue; rather, the entry point is a keyword search box. But yes, the ads are all there too. At left, Chatroulette, er, I mean "You See Your Party On New Video Phone" (September, 1950). Ah, the history of the future never gets old. Search the PopSci Archives
The OO is a wireless projector capable of displaying high definition (1080p) data. Utilizing either a WIFI connection or internal SSD storage, the projector can operate independently from any wire for up to 3 hours based on an internal Li-Ion battery or using a single wire connected to a power source.
Part of the GEO series, the OO’s form is inspired by the simple and elegant form of the circl...