Archive for February, 2007

Survey: Blackberry owners chained to work

Are devices such as BlackBerrys and Treos actually chaining Americans to their work instead of liberating them? There has been plenty of speculation on the topic of whether being "always on" is affecting our everyday lives. However, survey data released [...]


Add music and movies to your iPod from any computer without iTunes

Everyone loves the iPod. Not everyone loves iTunes. It’s not that iTunes is a bad application, but it does limit what you can do with your iPod. This week I’ll show you how to free yourself from the one computer, one music library shackles of iTunes using alternative software for managing the iPod.
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Leopard Set For March

Mac gossip hounds point to an early release for Apple’s latest, greatest OS. If web rumour mongers are to be believed, Apple is shaping up to unleash Leopard at the end of March. Cupertino’s finest already stated that they’d be dropping the new version of OS X in ‘spring’ but if this release date is [...]


Use YouTube to learn Photoshop

Both YouTube and MetaCafe have a lot of photoshop video tutorials and while not all are the best quality video, the ability to see techniques in action with video is great for quick learning.
Here are just a few of the video Photoshop tutorials unearthed in You Tube and a few from MetaCafe as well.
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Google developing Artificial Intelligence

In a speech Friday night to the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, Google co-founder Larry Page stated that Google was developing Artificial Intelligence and that the company wasn’t far off from completing real AI.
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Ballmer Blames Pirates for Poor Vista Sales

MSCEO Steve Ballmer is not happy about low sales of MSVista. Rather than blame the lack of drivers, and various other problems facing Vista, he blames the tech industry’s favorite scapegoat: pirates. Teh pirates did it! Terrorism! Sorry Steve, we’re not buying Vista because it’s still not ready, not because we pirated it!
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Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!
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Amazing Stereo Pictures! Must See!

By rapidly moving the image between two perspectives, these images appear to the brain as 3D.
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