February 2012
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May 2010
1 post
"The most remarkable airplane of the 20th century" →
Recently saw this Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in person at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Gorgeous lines on it. More photos/details and a video. Struck me…
April 2010
9 posts
AOL Sells Instant Messaging Service ICQ To DST For... →
It’s done. AOL has officially sold instant messaging service ICQ to Russian investor DST for $187.5 million. In a release, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said “As AOL continues its turnaround…
AOL Sells Instant Messaging Service ICQ To DST For... →
It’s done. AOL has officially sold instant messaging service ICQ to Russian investor DST for $187.5 million. In a release, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said “As AOL continues its turnaround…
40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins →
Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved. We’ve been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development. We have invited…
How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web... →
© Aurimas Adomavicius for Smashing Magazine, 2010. | Permalink | 67 comments | Add to del.icio.us | Digg this | Stumble on StumbleUpon! | Tweet it! | Submit to Reddit | …
99 year-old loves her first computer -- an iPad →
Filed under: iPad
Virginia Campbell, a 99-year-old woman from Lake Oswego, has finally bought her first computer — an Apple iPad. “It’s changed her life,” one of her daughters …
Completely useless extension turns laptop adapter... →
It’s 2:30pm at your favorite cafe, and not a single power outlet’s available to save your dying laptop from its fate. You’re screwed, but a world away, your Japanese counterpart knows…
The White House releases its open source code →
Filed under: Developer, Open Source
If you’ve visited WhiteHouse.gov since its change of ownership back in 2009 you’ll hopefully have noticed some very cool changes. The site itself…
Desktop Notifications with Webkit →
Mohit Muthanna has a nice blog post explaining how you can create desktop notifications with the latest Webkit/Chrome.
There are essentially three API calls you use:
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November 2009
2 posts
Jake Behrens – Interview →
Jake Behrens is a developer in Oklahoma City, OK whose recently been attacking the iPhone market app market. I’ve asked Jake to come on 8bitFeed™ to help share his story for those thinking about…
Jake Behrens – Interview →
Jake Behrens is a developer in Oklahoma City, OK whose recently been attacking the iPhone market app market. I’ve asked Jake to come on 8bitFeed™ to help share his story for those thinking about…
September 2009
5 posts
New Official Trailer for Denzel Washington's The... →
Warner Brothers has just debuted a second full-length trailer for The Book of Eli today on Yahoo. We last debuted the teaser trailer for this during Comic-Con back in July. The Book…
Upgrade your wimpy RV to a MAN-echile →
Check out this amazing MAN-echile. If you were looking at those lame RV’s to tote your family around the wild, you may want to go ahead and check out the EX70-HDQ / MAN TGA 6×6.
It eats…
Tweeting About Twitter Being Down May Cause World... →
It’s the eternal paradox: you need to vent your frustration that Twitter is down, but, well, Twitter is down! What to do?
In one of its shortest parody videos to date, comedy site …
AT&T agrees to first constantly connected... →
With users’ permission, the social networking iPhone application Loopt will report the phone’s current location even when the software isn’t running, based on a new agreement with AT&T.
Moronic Newspapers Reprint Onion's Neil Armstrong... →
I thought some “readers” were joking when they claimed they believed the Onion’s story on a conspiracy theorist finally convincing Neil Armstrong about how the Moon landings were faked….
August 2009
13 posts
Connecticut man consults Apple Genius and gets... →
Filed under: Odds and ends, PowerMac G5
A Fairfield, Connecticut man took his Apple G5 desktop to the Genius Bar at the Stamford Town Center store complaining about some issues with his…
From Facebook to Apple: How to Fix the iPhone App... →
The Apple iPhone App Store has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy: a race to the bottom for app prices, FCC investigations, and strange app bannings just to start….
Quicker tweets with qTweeter →
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage, App Review
There’s no shortage of Twitter apps in the App Store. Even more surprising is the number of GOOD apps that connect…
Quicker tweets with qTweeter →
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage, App Review
There’s no shortage of Twitter apps in the App Store. Even more surprising is the number of GOOD apps that connect…
The Creation of Time and Space [Science] →
Maybe I like this because it looks like a Leopard desktop—I hope Leopard came with the animations—but if you have to watch a science video today, let astrophysicist Janne Levin explain…
Wikipedia Releases an Official iPhone Application... →
iPhone/iPod touch only: We’ve already seen plenty of apps that bring Wikipedia to your iPhone, but today Wikipedia launches their own official iPhone app called Wikipedia Mobile. The…
Your Need to Sleep (or Not) Might Be Hard-Wired... →
Those friends who claim they “only need” five or six hours of sleep, as compared to your lazy eight? Researchers suggest their lowered slumber needs are a genetic mutation, and that the rest of…
Select PSPGo Games May Look Just Like iPhone Games... →
According to an unconfirmed leak by PocketGamer, Sony will not only price downloadable PSPGo titles at prices competitive with the App Store—the company is actually recruiting iPhone…
F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen Trailer with... →
Whoa, I did not see this coming! The trailer for F. Gary Gray’s Law Abiding Citizen starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx has debuted on Entertainment Tonight (via GerardButler.net…
USAA's Deposit@Mobile app puts check deposits a... →
The problem with banks, you see, is that they’re one of the few remaining weak links in our ultimate goal of eliminating all human interaction. If you’ve got a check you need to deposit in…
Camtasia coming to Mac on August 25th →
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Video, Odds and ends, Podcasting, Beta Beat, Deals
If you’re wavering on the edge of switching to the Mac as a consequence of the…
Apple Tablet Probability Meter: 90% Chance, 3... →
After last Sunday’s rumor on the Apple Tablet’s September announcement, and yesterday’s evidence of two new iProducts in the iPhone OS 3.1 USB devices list, I have decided to elevate the…
Friday Favorite: AppZapper →
Filed under: Software, Friday Favorite
Every so often I’ll go through my Mac’s hard drive and delete stuff that’s just sitting around. The downloads folder fills with junk especially…
July 2009
22 posts
While We Wait For 12seconds’ Robust iPhone App, We... →
12seconds showed off a really slick-looking new iPhone app at our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp earlier this month. Unfortunately, that’s not quite ready yet. But in the meantime, they have…
Sneak Peek: 1Password 3.0 + secret beta-enabler... →
Filed under: Software, Reviews
As Christina mentioned a while ago, 1Password version 3 is on the horizon, and we’ve got some sneak peeks to show you. There are some great…
Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a... →
Holy frak. Holy frak. HOLYROLLERBLADINGFRAK! Movie producers paid two Sukhoi Su-35 pilots to fly without a canopy at Mach 2.0, and have one of them eject in what probably is one of the…
Palm Pre drops to $99 at Best Buy (update: "error... →
Interesting — just a couple days after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told a conference that “it’s too early to tell” if the Pre’s a hit while talking about Android, the latest Best Buy ad shows…
Must Watch: High Def Test Teaser Trailer for Tron... →
Whoa! Another surprise discovered earlier today. As I mentioned in the rundown on the big viral for Tron Legacy last night, we were collecting codes from the Space Paranoids game….
Screen sharing is caring: Skype 2.8 goes gold →
The good folks at Skype have just gone gold with the 2.8 update (link) (previously in beta) of the popular VOIP client for Mac OS X. As TUAW previously noted in the beta release of 2.8,…
AllSocket Puts Wall Outlets Wherever You Need Them... →
As I look down underneath my desk at the tangle of wires and plugs I dream of a day when all of our gadgets can be powered wirelessly. Until then, a concept like AllSocket could help…
New Software Corrects Shaky Camerawork by Warping... →
Adobe and University of Wisconsin scientists have created software that can correct shaky camerawork, but it’s way cooler than anything on the market now. Using 3D modeling, it guesses…
Fortune: Microsoft about to offer online version... →
Filed under: Rumors, Freeware, Internet Tools
Yep. Zip. Zero. Nothing. Fortune Magazine is reporting that Microsoft will announce a free, web based version of Office to be…
Windows 7 Touch Pack: Surface Interface Without... →
I scored one of the only copies of Windows 7 Touch Pack out in the wild, and it really blew my mind, bringing the full power of Microsoft Surface to touch-enabled Win 7 PCs. Have a look: …
Obama Checking Out Girl at the G8 Summit? God Save... →
Leave it to a slow Friday during the summer for one of the biggest news stories of the day to be a picture that purports to show President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy checking out…
Justin.tv Lets You Watch and Broadcast Live Video... →
Live video on Facebook: we know you want it. 9.7 million of you tuned in for the Facebook/CNN stream of Michael Jackson’s memorial, 21.3 million of you for the Obama inauguration, and one…
First Aid Myths That Do No Good [Health] →
When an accident happens, your first reaction can do more harm than good—if you believe and follow through with an inaccurate first-aid myth, that is. Photo by Robert S. Donovan Web site…
So This Was Obvious [Design] →
I don’t even want to hear your lame rebuttals about structural integrity. Why we’re using centuries-old key/keychain technology in 2009 is beyond me. Buy this real working blank key and join…
Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months... →
About six months ago, Michael Bay approached Digital Domain, the Academy Award winning special effects company behind movies like Benjamin Button, Titanic , and the The Fifth Element,…
This Not Your Typical Small Home Office [Image... →
It’s not an ultrafancy rig, but I like the fact that President Obama has a personal computer and a regular printer next to him. But el Señor Jefe of the Free World doesn’t fool me: This is…
Apple procuring video camera modules for nex-gen... →
With all of Apple’s spring product offerings now on the market, attention is shifting towards the company’s fall iPod launches, which are widely expected to include the first models that will dual as…
Epicly Awesome French Trailer for Tony Jaa's Ong... →
Whoa! Now this looks frickin’ awesome, that’s for damn sure! Twitch has posted a French trailer for Tony Jaa’s Ong Bak 2, the long-awaited sequel to Jaa’s 2003 martial arts cult…
The Infamous 2009 LimeWire Pizza Fiasco →
July 1, 2009 - the day the music wars started in earnest. Last night the guys from Dovecote Records, a small music label based in New York, were hanging out at their local bar. Employees from…