Archive for August, 2008
Gustav: Online resources
(1) Here is an interactive, javascript-animated map of Gustav’s path, courtesy NOAA.
(2) Mercenary army outsourcers Controversial private security contractor firm Blackwater is gearing up for disaster in the Gulf, as Hurricane Gustav approaches. Snip from a ‘help wanted’ ad on the firm’s website:
Blackwater is compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into [...]
Comcast announces 250GB bandwidth cap
Today, Comcast updated their Acceptable Use Policy to cover exactly what they feel is ‘excessive use’. When the Comcast cap starts October 1st, they will contact people breaking the 250GB per month transfer limit and ask them to curb their usage. While it’ll be hard for most people to hit this limit, we still wonder [...]
Photoshop Mobile
If you were to tell me 10 years ago that cell phones will one day be powerful enough to run Photoshop, I would think that the resident looney house is missing an inmate. Fast forward a decade and you have Photoshop Mobile - although the name is pretty misleading since it doesn’t allow any photo [...]
Real or Photoshopped
Can you tell if these images are real or photoshopped?
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Fuchitek PEP01 Pico Projector
Fuchitek is poised to release its PEP01 pico projector pretty soon, enabling you to make a decent business presentation everywhere you go without having to lug around a large projector. This model won’t measure up to much against its larger brethren when it comes to performance, but what Fuchitek tries to do here is achieve [...]
30+ Plugins to Make Your WordPress Blog More Social
WordPress blogs are getting increasingly social, giving readers the ability to bookmark your site to a number of services, get to know you better in more ways than just your comments section (and vice versa), and view your activity on a variety of social sites. We’ve compiled a list of more than 30 plugins that [...]
Escaped a disaster? Tell everyone!
Escaped a disaster? Tell everyone!: “Whether you’re fleeing tropical storm Fay - which is currently heading for Florida - or you’ve just been airlifted out of the Grand Canyon due to the the recent flooding due to a dam breach, or even ‘none of the above/other’, the American Red Cross has a way for [...]
Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS
By Juul Coolen
Although I’ve been a Windows power user for years, the transition to Mac couldn’t have been easier and more pleasant. I don’t want to turn this article into some endless rambling about how great Mac is, but as the user of both systems I can speak from my own experience quite objectively. Let’s [...]
