Dual Screen Dream Transform your desktop pc monitor or old notebook into a second screen for your laptop using DoubleView software. From Read laptop reviews and notebook news at the laptops weblog - Laptopical on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..
Suround Sound from an mp3? MP3 Surround enables high-quality surround sound at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo MP3 material. It is backwards compatible to stereo MP3; a legacy MP3 device plays back MP3 Surround as high quality stereo. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
How To: Building a Two-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell This website aims to help someone to build a microbial fuel cell (MFC) using relatively inexpensive and readily available materials. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Adsense Threat: "Pay Per Click" Fraud Bot-Net Discovered Clickbot.A: The bots are controlled remotely through several Web servers. The number of clicks from the bot can be monitored as well as the computers online at any one time. The system used can evade fraud detection systems by sending click requests from different, unrelated IP addresses. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Apple shunned superstar chip start-up for Intel A chip start-up that created a high performance, low power processor compatible with existing Mac software had been working closely with Apple for many months. Why then did Apple pick Intel instead? From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
World’s First Hard Drive - 1956 Presenting the world’s first hard drive, first introduced in 1956 — IBM’s 5MB Random Access Memory Accounting: RAMAC From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Big in Japan How come scientists are famous in Asia, and we get Kevin Federline? From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Bad News for Nanotechnology : Tiny Toxins Preliminary studies suggest that some types of nanoparticles might pose a health hazard. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Time Dilation: Frontiers of Time Perception When a person's life is in danger, a phenomenon known as 'time-dilation' can occur. This is when, during a car crash for example, time seems to slow down or become frozen. In these cases the internal clock speeds up when facing a potential catastrophe, so as to take in more information more quickly and function more effectively in an emergency. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Damn Small Linux 2.4 has been released! The newest version of the 50 MB Linux Live CD has been released. Get it! From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Congressman wants to send judges to patent school. Congressman Darrell Issa holds a few patents himself, and while involved in a few cases he noticed that judges don't know or don't care about patent laws. He and the bills cosponsor want to make sure judges have a good grasp of patent law or at least have the option or handing the case to someone who does know. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Pearl Jam releases video under Creative Commons license In its latest bid to show its progressive side, popular band Pearl Jam has just released its latest music video, "Life Wasted," under a Creative Commons license. That means, according to Creative Commons creative director Eric Steuer, that anyone will be able to "legally copy, distribute and share the clip" for noncommercial purposes. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
$25 Fine For M-Rated Games Minnesota passes an "Inappropriate Games" bill which fines minors $25 for buying M- or AO-rated games. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Market Punishes Intel For AMD's Win Intel Corp. shares fell to a three-year low Friday after No. 1 personal computer maker Dell Inc. said it would begin using chips from smaller Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., whose shares surged. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
IM Worm installs own browser: The Safety Browser A new IM hijack that installs its own browser called (as you might have guessed) the "Safety Browser" which is anything but! Changes your homepage, loops music on your desktop every time you boot up and spams the infection link via IM and IRC. Oh, and enables popups by default...! From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Mac Os X driver for the XBox 360 controller A driver that allows to use the XBox 360 controller with Mac Os X. Allows to use Force Feedback, comes with source, universal binary and a Preference Pane. As I don't have 360 I didn't test it. Can some of you comment on it's usage? -- Note to self, I searched for a copy of this story and didn't find any... read it first on TUAW. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Coolest photo you will see today Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is a five minute exposure taken from about 7 miles away from the pad. Taken with a borrowed all-manual Nikomat camera, 24 mm lens, f/16, Kodak Royal Gold 100 film. When the exposure was stopped in this shot, the shuttle was approximately 229 statute miles downrange. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Canada leads the world in Firefox Usage Browser World USA Canada Microsoft IE 85.17% 82.47% 77.41% Mozilla Firefox 11.79% 12.81% 16.00% Apple Safari 2.02% 3.69% 2.61% Opera 0.79% 0.67% 2.15% Netscape 0.15% 0.26% 0.23% From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Brazilian scientists unveil dinosaur claw A dinosaur claw fossil found in Brazil reinforces the theory of an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds, a new study says. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m..
Researchers use bacteria to reduce uranium to safe levels New results show a promising technique for cleaning up uranium from some of the most severely contaminated areas by harnessing the powers of microbes already in the soil. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
A Disposable Camera 'Coil-Gun' This is awesome, ever want to be McGuyver? Are you trapped in a holding cell, and have access to a disposable camera? Freedom is just around the corner. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
16 Wii launch titles comfirmed, officially, 100% The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Wii Sports, Red Steel, Madden NFL 2007, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors. Among others! From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
High-Performance PC for Military Applications (first rugged UMPC) • Ultra small footprint – 6.5”x3.0”x 0.5” (first rugged UMPC) • Fits in Warfighter’s pant pouch, with 6-hour battery life • Up to 1.4GHz Pentium®-M processor with up to 2Mbytes of L2 Cache • Up to 2Gbytes of ECC memory and 16Gbytes of bootable Flash • CompuSec and E-Purge prevents unauthorized or enemy access From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
The Biggest Game Developer You've Never Heard Of? Game developer Tose has 1,000 employees, and created 1,100 games since 1979 (including Final Fantasy GBA versions, though they can't mention it in this interview!), but they're basically unknown, because they're 'game development ninjas', and 'refuse to put [their] names on the game'. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Dell Responds: My Way's Not Spyware, Dipshit Dell employees respond to the recent article found through Digg claiming that they are charging $49 to remove their own spyware. Although some of the responses are well written, one attacks the writer and calls him a "dipshit". From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Algorithms put to use in oil hunt Mathematical procedures developed at MIT may soon help energy companies locate new sources of oil many kilometers underground. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Top 10 Strangest DIY Gadgets/Projects Why throw out those old hard drives and spare parts you have laying around? Make your own strange gadgets. Our editors have compiled a list of the strangest (or coolest) DIY gadgets that we’ve come across in recent time. Which ones are your favorites? From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
How Linux is getting very close to mass adoption To be perfectly fair to Ubuntu I had also played with a copy of Vista beta. My sound card was not found, the ethernet adapter was not found, and my graphics has severe issues. So all in all the Ubuntu beta is ahead of Vista right now. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Linux System Administration in the New ERA I refer to the current Linux infrastructure play as the "New Era". Linux has matured rapidly and far surpassed the expectations of the smartest analysts I know. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Is Evolution Predictable? Can we predict how animals and plants evolve in response to changes in the environment? Maybe, according to preliminary research from Rice University. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
5 Million People Will Buy PS3 "Even If It Didn't Have Games" Says Sony "The first five million are going to buy it, whatever it is, even it didn't have games" says Sony's Euro CEO David Reeves. That seems a little bit arrogant. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Automate Linux installation and recovery with SystemImager Imaging software, commercial and open source, creates compressed images of a client's hard drive data and stores them on a central server. These images can then be used to restore systems or roll out new ones. One useful open source imaging applications is SystemImager. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Steve Jobs CNBC Interview, 5th Ave. Apple Store Apple CEO Steve Jobs interviewed on CNBC to mark the opening of their new 24/365 store on 5th Avenue. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Time Lapse of Apple Store Fifth Avenue Hour by hour time lapse of the line infront of the Apple Store Fifth Avenue From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Scientists create new type of liquid crystal focusing lens. The new lens uses a mixture of liquid crystal and monomers allowing the focus to change with voltage. The crystals migrate to the substrates where the voltage is applied, while the monomers move towards the center. The new way has less distortion but takes more time to refocus as the crystals don't change orientation. From digg on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
SC: 20/05 Security Upgrade to Skype Internet Telephony software Skype Technologies has updated its popular Skype Internet telephony software to fix a security bug that could expose sensitive data; the flaw could let an attacker construct a Skype hyperlink which, when clicked on by the target, sends a file from the victim's computer to another Skype user ... From MCS Safe Computing Bulletins on May 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
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