Spotplex: a selective Digg

Spotplex is an interesting take on social-voting sites. If you're familiar with Digg's system of user voting for story promotion, you'll notice that Spotplex takes a slightly different approach, counting click-throughs per link to promote stories to the front page.

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Al Gore: a Hypocrite Over Power Bill?

Al Gore, a leading voice against global warming, is being criticized by a conservative group that claims his Nashville mansion uses too much electricity. A Gore spokeswoman said the former vice president invests in enough renewable energy to make up for the home's power consumption.

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KAZAKHSTAN has a problem and is not Jew

Two Baptist congregations – one state-registered and the other a branch of a state-registered congregation - and a Pentecostal congregation are among the latest victims of Kazakhstan’s crackdown on religious freedom known to Forum 18 News Service.

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PS3 shortage of stock or demand?

A Reuters interview with Sony Computer Entertainment America chief executive Jack Tretton, revealed that the company expects shortages of its latest generation console PlayStation 3 to be over by May 2007. The question is, however, is there really still a supply shortage of PS3 consoles or just a shortage of demand.

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The Newton and the iPhone, more similar than you think

It seems that people are referencing the Apple Newton more and more when talking about the iPhone these days. Although I don
’t remember the poor launch back in 1993, (I was about 9) growing up around Apple computers I have read quite a bit about it. Unfortunately, I can see the similarities between the two launches.

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AMD unveils first ATI product

Wednesday, AMD unveiled the first product from its acquisition of graphics chip designer ATI Technologies Inc., saying it represents the initial step toward fulfilling the goal of the $5.4-billion (U.S.) deal.

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DIY a touch screen

Easy and cheap way to make a touchscreen.

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DIY a car's hood ornament

i'm always seaching for ways to make my things unique. in a world of mass production, this becomes more and more difficult. thank the sweet Lord for instructables. here is how to make a really cheap and easy hood ornament for your car.

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Private Static Members in Javascript

It was a widely held belief that javascript objects could not have private instance members, that all javascript object properties where public and could be accessed and changed with external code. Douglas Crockford has demonstrated that closures can be used to provide javascript objects with private members.

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Video: “Advanced JavaScript”

In this presentation — the third of a three-part series he has been teaching at Yahoo! — Douglas looks closely at code patterns from which JavaScript programmers can choose in authoring their applications. He compares familiar constructs like the Pseudoclassical Pattern with more unique patterns like the Parasitic Pattern that (he argues) run more

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Hacking Sale Prices

The Consumerist had an interesting article last month about certain retailers using a price coding scheme to indicate different discount classes.

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The Simpsons DVD boxsets easter eggs

Double the fun watching the Simpsons DVDs with these great easter eggs.

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Second warmest winter in 350 years

Despite being battered by snow storms, floods and even the odd tornado, new figures reveal that England has this year basked in the second warmest winter on record.

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Control table appearance with CSS

My previous columns covered how to organize data with HTML tables and control style table borders with CSS. This week, I conclude this three-part series with an examination of spacing issues and overall table layout.

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Sony expects to resolve PS3 shortages by May

Sony sticks with bad timing, they forgot by June the iPhone will be out. Awesome planning strategy Sony.

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Get to know Eclipse User Assistance

This article introduces the Eclipse User Assistance project and discusses the many ways to deliver quality user assistance for your Eclipse-based applications.

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Use XForms to create your own Sudoku game

This article assumes that you're familiar with the basics of XForms. For a refresher, see the Resources for links to content to get you started. The code has been written for and tested on the Mozilla Firefox XForms extensions, but the concepts apply to any implementation.

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The 15 minute PHP with XML starter

Learn how PHP5 has vastly improved how you work with XML in PHP

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God to NASA: Stop sending that thing up here

The next flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis, its giant orange external tank damaged in a freak hailstorm, will be delayed at least a month, said NASA.

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Microsoft says Google success a "wake-up call"

I'd say taps for M$'s online endeavors.

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Keybot - an electronic keyboard robot

A keyboard robot is a device that allows one computer to operate the keyboard of another computer. It also allows a computer to control its own keyboard. It can even be used to control a network of computers if a multiplexer is added.

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DIY Function Key Box

I made a neat looking function key box using the guts of an old keyboard and a button box from a piece of industrial equipment.

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Police officers enforcing racism?

Look at this, you won't believe it.

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Bike-riding bank robber sought in 4 states

The F-B-I says today agents are seeking a bicycle-riding suspect in the robbery of six banks in Ohio and three other states since November.

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Self-configuring Lego-like SuperBots for NASA crawl, fly, climb

SuperBots modules can connect in a variety of ways to permit rolling, climbing, burrowing, flying, and inspection and repair.

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Apple TV shipping date postponed to mid-March

Apple customers will have to wait a bit longer for its new Apple TV device. The company now plans to ship the gadget in mid-March. Originally, Apple said Apple TV would ship in February.

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PS3 wins console war through 2010(Only if Kyoto is nuked till next century)

Media analyst Screen Digest foresees a possible future in which the PS3 wins this generation's console war, but according to them, it won't be easy.

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Perl script to monitor disk space and send an email

How to write a perl script that can monitor my disk space under UNIX or Linux and send me an email alert?

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PHP for Microsoft AJAX Library released

In the past, Microsoft has said that its ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas) framework could be used sans Microsoft development tools. Particularly, the client-side library in ASP.NET AJAX can interact with several web-based programming languages as it consists of nothing more than JavaScript.

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PQuery, a New Tool for PHP

Dion Almaer in the Ajaxian web site informs you about the PQuery. For the uninitiated, PQuery is a set of helper classes for JQuery, the JavaScript library. This library allows you to integrate AJAX, Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts. He says it has a small footprint and is compatible with PHP4 and PHP 5 versions.

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VertrigoServ: Install a LAMP in your windows box in just one shot

VertrigoServ has been developed as a highly professional, easy to install package consisting of Apache (HTTP web server), PHP (reflective programming language), MySQL (multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System), SQLite (ACID-compliant relational database management system), SQLiteManager (multilingual web based tool to manage SQLite

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Translate SQL Syntax Between Databases

SQL::Translator is an interesting Perl module that, among other things, can convert database table definitions to and from several DB platforms.

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Build a Savonius Wind Turbine: Electricity on the cheap

This is my project to make a semi compact wind turbine that can handle turbulant wind and generate enough power to charge deep cycle batteries. I

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Getting free music legally (and converting it to MP3 format)

In this instructable i will show you how to get free music without downloading it or instead of hooking it up to the headphones jack you could hook it up to your record player and transfer your vinyl to MP3.

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Why i got fired from apple computer

Won't make the front page due the controversy but here it goes.

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How to Get Alerted When Somebody Has Dugg your Article

Digg.com is the absolute biggest source of traffic that most content authors are going to ever see. The “Digg Effect” can cripple your site within an hour, so it’s nice to know if somebody has submitted one of your articles to Digg. Here’s a quick and dirty trick on how to set up an aler

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SpyBye: Finding Malware in Web Sites

SpyBye helps web masters determine if their web pages have been compromised and install malware.

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Bye Bye Down Under: Doomsday for Australia?

It was something of a double whammy for one of the world's most desirable cities.

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The New Map Of The Brain

Trying to map the brain has always been cartography for fools. Most of the other parts of the body reveal their workings with little more than a glance.

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When the sky smiles the joke is on us

Photographer spots rare heavenly arc

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Giant hole swallows houses in Guatemala

Emergency crews on Saturday found a third body in a 330-foot-deep sinkhole that had swallowed a dozen homes and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.

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Surveillance cameras get smarter

The next time you walk by a shop window, take a glance at your reflection. How much do you swing your arms? Is the weight of your bag causing you to hunch over? Do you still have a bit of that 1970s disco strut left?

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Worlds First Wheelchair Backflip!

Footage of Aaron Fotherinham doing some pretty sweet tricks in his wheelchair. He also performs the worlds first wheelchair backflip.

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Worlds First Wheelchair Backflip!

Footage of Aaron Fotherinham doing some pretty sweet tricks in his wheelchair. He also performs the worlds first wheelchair backflip.

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Working With Fractions In CSS and PHP

Most of us are uncomfortable with using fractions when writting programs. If we encounter a fraction, we will first convert it into a floating point number (with decimals) and proceed from there. Most programming languages would prefer to use 0.5 as opposed to 1/2 because the later might conflict with the syntax of the languages. In this article, I

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Bottled Electricity.

This is a quick-and-dirty method for making a Leyden Jar (an early form of capacitor) from my old friend, the 35mm film cannister.

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Two sided PCB using toner method

This describes an easy method to make professional looking two-sided printed circuit boards at home.

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High quality FREE Linux Games trailfire

A great trailfire of Linux games, you'll have a blast playing.

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JetBlue's safety brochure

They get their point across.

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The story of Google by Dilbert

Scott Adams nailed it one more time.

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Microsoft ponders Ruby language

Microsoft is "very interested" in the Ruby programming language and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a Microsoft official said this week.

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HP makes $25 million out of Debian

THE MAKER of printer ink called Hewlett Packard is making $25 million a year out of supporting Debian GNU/Linux distribution in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

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China electrocutes young gamers

CHILDREN in China are being treated for internet addiction by being plugged into the mains.

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DIY Scratch Turntable

Using just a Pizza box, some brown tape and a mouse they create a ghetto scratch pad for use with the PC

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PCB transfer with inktjet picture paper

Inktjet picture paper works best for pcb transfers; it peels off by itself.

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ShowerStory Color Fusion LED showerhead

Wow is not excuse to skip a shower.

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Introduction to Oscilloscopes

Oscilloscopes are really cool measurment devices that is handy to have in the workshop for observing the characteristics of a circuit in real time, debugging, and hardware hacking.

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T R E M U L O U S : FREE Linux FPS with a twist

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning.

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Introduction to Oscilloscopes

Oscilloscopes are really cool measurment devices that is handy to have in the workshop for observing the characteristics of a circuit in real time, debugging, and hardware hacking.

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Doesn't the Social Web Realize that People Talk?

During my upcoming presentation at ETel, Voice and the Web: The New Terrain, I'll be examining how the global telephone network evolved from a completely closed system to where we're headed when the global telephone network finally becomes available to applications developers everywhere.

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Google Apps APIs available now

Google Apps and its APIs open up a wide variety of new opportunities to integrate and extend Google's communication and collaboration services. Domain adminstrators can use the APIs to migrate from and integrate with existing IT infrastructure. Application developers can use the APIs to extend Google's growing offering of services.

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Get hot water at home and pay $0 in electricity bills

This is a solar air convection heater for my garage that is powered by the low angle winter sun. This is a second version of an earlier instructable I did; a solar heater for the chicken coop. The idea and design is from Mother Earth News (December/January 2007 Issue #219.

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Chimpanzees have Learned to Hunt with Spears (Not Britney, I guess)

In a revelation that destroys yet another cherished notion of human uniqueness, wild chimpanzees have been seen hunting bushbabies with spears. It is the first time an animal has been seen using a tool to hunt a vertebrate.

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Gel-ous Bitch bath for your best friend

Dog store sign featuring derogatory term for a woman offends Seattle residents.

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Is that your wallet or you are just happy to see me?

She's a 200-pound-plus hugging machine, but her affection comes with a price. Police are warning men about the "Hugging Bandit," who heartily embraces men coming out of downtown bars and leaves them wallet-less. Dozens of men say they have been victims. Police say others are too embarrassed to admit it.

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How Open Formats Encouraged Open Source

Back in the early 1970s, the hardware engineers at Digital Equipment Corporation made a decision about how their new computer, the PDP-11, would address memory. I believe their decision had the unintended, butterfly-effect consequence of helping to bring the open source software movement into existence.

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Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority

Google Inc., racing to head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

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Canon unveils new professional digital camera

Tokyo-based Canon is said to control almost 50 percent of the global market for digital single-lens reflex (DSLR), high-end models with interchangeable lenses, which have higher profit margins and more stable prices than simpler compact models.

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A cyclone of fire for your bar?

The introduction of the CycloneTM marks a foray into an entirely new product category – perhaps better described as “Fire Art” than a conventional fireplace. The Cyclone is available in either a customizable version or as a system. Both models feature the same mesmerizing,

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Two clowns shot dead at circus

Why are you laughing?.

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Algorithm helps computers beat human Go players

Computers can beat some of the world's top chess players, but the most powerful machines have failed at the popular Asian board game "Go" in which human intuition has so far proven key.

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Wii: The eco-friendly next-gen system

To add to its already growing appeal, an independent test claims that the Wii is this hardware generation's most power-efficient console.

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An Easier XML-RPC for PHP 5

Mike Naberezny, in a post over his blog, informs you about an easier XML-RPC client for PHP 5. He says, that he rewrote the Zend XML-RPC client as a part of a customer project.

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Tip for Clearing the PHP 5 Warnings in EclipsePHP

Benjamin Hill, in a new post over the Bakery blog gives a brief tutorial on how to clear warnings in EclipsePHP while using a PHP 5 framework. He says, CakePHP framework, sometimes is surprising to those who are used to programming with PHP 5.

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PHP Group accused of security incompetence

PHP developer Stefan Esser has said he will go ahead with plans to disclose dozens of security flaws in PHP in March, hitting back at criticism that the "Month of PHP bugs" project is nothing more than dangerous, self-serving publicity.

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States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying

Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old Essex Junction, Vt., boy instant messages calling him gay. He was threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly by so-called cyberbullies.

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Use Perl and a regular-expression generator to search for and display LDAP

Use Perl and a regular-expression generator to search for and display LDAP database records

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Some fear billboards distract drivers

When officials in this Minneapolis suburb didn't like the two eye-popping digital billboards that Clear Channel erected along the freeway, they pulled the plug. They had the power company cut off the electricity.

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New DVD game battles childhood obesity

Obesity may be a global epidemic, but it's Obeez City that is spreading out of control in a new DVD game.

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Online Mathematics Textbooks

The writing of textbooks and making them freely available on the web is an idea whose time has arrived. Most college mathematics textbooks attempt to be all things to all people and, as a result, are much too big and expensive. This perhaps made some sense when these books were rather expensive to produce and distribute--but this time has passed.

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FREE Numerical Recipes Books On-Line

Thanks to special permission from Cambridge University Press, we are able to bring you, free, the complete Numerical Recipes books in C, Fortran 77, and Fortran 90 On-Line, in both PostScript and Adobe Acrobat formats! Due to copyright restrictions, Numerical Recipes in C++ is not available on-line at this time.

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Apple updates Java, changes time

Apple has released a pair of updates for running Java on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 and also changed the way Macs handle US Daylight Savings Time.

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Man attacks guards trying to steal a wii remote

Man faces charges for trying to steal Wii remote controller, injuring guards

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Flip for Flapjax: Javascript is dead, long live to Flapjax

Meet a better-than-JavaScript programming language for modern Web applications

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UNIX tips and tricks for a new user: Some nifty shell tricks

This tutorial includes examples of such situations from small Bourne shell scripts. These situations include base conversion from one string to another (decimal to hex, hex to decimal, decimal to octal, and so on), reading the keyboard while in a piped loop, subshell execution, inline input, executing a command once for each file in a directory, an

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XML and Java technology: What's XML really good for?

It's no secret that XML continues to be one of the most popular technologies that's shown up in the last ten years. But what is XML really good for? Is it useful for configuration data? For data exchange? As a medium for data storage? What is XML really good for? This article offers food for thought and encourages you to share your thoughts on the

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Make PHP apps fast, faster, fastest

PHP is a scripting language most often used to create Web applications. It's easy to learn and produces visible results quickly. However, because PHP is interpreted, PHP code is parsed and translated to opcodes every time it executes. An opcode cache eliminates that rework, making PHP applications faster.

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How to make a dual-supply RS-232 to TTL level converter

With some free samples from Maxim/Dallas you could build this on the cheap. “I had a little bit of free time to work with the MAX3222 chips that Dallas Semi sent me. These have all of the features of the MAX232 (two TX and two RX channels) as well as shutdown and output enable. The best [...]

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Download the IPhone ringtone here

Nokia ring tone be gone!!!!.

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Facts You Never Knew About Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves, and AllTheWeb

Nearly 85% of all knowledge obtained online starts with somebody doing research on one or more search engines. Whether a product or a service, search engines are the tool people are using to find what they want. You would benefit greatly to gain an understanding of how search engines can help grow your business.

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Ski Chair - Unsafe at Any Speed

My son found an abandoned wheelchair in the summer and after spending a week having chariot races (i.e. tying ropes to a bike and getting pulled too fast) it ended up in my garage until winter.

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GPS Chimes

My GPS Chimes are wind chimes that are triggered by an individual's proximity to a given location -- networked via GPS, cellphone and the internet. Think of it as mile-wide radius around the wind chimes, where my networked presence and GPS location (via Mologogo) send a virtual breeze to announce my travel home.

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PC Robot: His name is Vincent

It may very well be the lovechild of R2-D2 and Intel, but his name is Vincent and he's all grown up. Tom Burick is the brilliant robotic mind behind the "Extreme Build" 914 PC-BOT, and this latest robodesktop is looking to speed up the convergence between robotics and your home office.

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Xbox mod robot racks up gamer points - an undetectable aimbot?

No need to play the game, let your robot do it for you. A gamer who goes by the name Diego Knyte, real name David Harr, has spent an awful lot of time -- 10 hours to be precise -- designing the xBot.

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Thousands Aim to Break Snow Angel Record, Nearly 9,000

Among the thousands of people frantically flapping in the snow Saturday in an attempt to set the record for the most snow angels ever made were parents, children, even snowplow drivers.

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Wii – Kids Burn 40% More Calories Says Research

New research commissioned by Liverpool John Moores University has shown that kids who regularly play Wii games burn up a significantly larger amount of calories than kids who play other consoles, or spend their time passively watching TV.

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LucasArts Addresses Nintendo Wii Star Wars Snub

Why is there no Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming to Wii? When the LucasArts title was announced a few days ago, the platforms included PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, and DS, but Nintendo Wii was noticably absent.

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Urban road race to test limits of robotic cars

In what sounds like a science fair project on steroids, engineers at Stanford University plan to have an unmanned robot car ready to navigate urban traffic in less than a year. Get ready for robot road rage.

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Tamper HTTP Data at will

Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters.

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LCD Backlight Conversion to LED

So I decided to see if I could drive the existing CCFL's with a Computer UV CCFL kit and barring that would try LED's

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Ten Reasons to Switch to an IP PBX

This article explains the top 10 benefits of an IP PBX which provide a compelling reason to throw out the old PBX and replace it with a new IP PBX. The article also provides a brief explanation of what an IP PBX is, how it works in a computer network and how it integrates with VOIP providers and PSTN Gateways.

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Sony GripMote in the works before the Wiimote?

Sony may well have been contemplating a wireless interactive gaming controller before Nintendo
’s famous Wiimote. Sony’s recently issued patent on a Hand-Held Computer Interactive Device which details the controller.

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Sony To Reveal nano Challenger

Sony’s once iconic Walkman has long since played second fiddle to Apple
’s ubiquitous iPod range and while that position is unlikely to change anytime soon, it does at least appear to have finally come up with a worthy challenger to the nano.

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Intercept, log, and modify web traffic on the fly.

The first publicly released general-purpose web application security assessment tool. Achilles acts as a HTTP/HTTPS proxy that allows a user to intercept, log, and modify web traffic on the fly.

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Man sues IBM over firing, says he's an Internet addict

A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal. Diggers at work get ready.

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Foxtrot geeky cross words puzzle comic

A great puzzle to start Sunday with.

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Beej's Guide to Network Programming

This is my little how-to guide on network programming using Internet sockets, or "sockets programming", for those of you who prefer it. The sockets API, though started by the Berkeley folk, has been ported to many many platforms, including Unix, Linux, and even Windows.

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FREE Advanced Linux Programming Book

Develop GNU/Linux software that works the way users expect it to. Write more sophisticated programs with features such as multiprocessing, multi-threading, interprocess communication, and interaction with hardware devices. Improve your programs by making them run faster, more reliably, and more securely.

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The Linux CDROM interface - Code CD controls for your software in Linux

We've all seen the plethora of CD playing programs, such as kscd and workman, that let you program and play any number of different tracks from CD's, but it's often hard to come across information about how to actually play, stop and eject CD's from your own programs.

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Good Bye Stanley, Hellooo Junior, Standford's bet on Robot Race part 2

Meet Junior, a VW Passat that Stanford is tuning up to steer itself through city streets in a robotics contest. By Stefanie Olsen.

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The all in one geocahing device

All you ever need to go on your geocaching adventures.

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PodCacher: the Geocahcing Podcast

A written journal of our geocaching experiences, musings, rants, raves and opinions. Shownotes to our audio PodCasts . Links to really cool and helpful stuff. Always Family Friendly!. Check the podcast page here on digg at http://digg.com/podcasts/PodCacher_4.

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Great analogy on how some Linux distributions work

gnuLinEx, claims to be the easiest Linux distro out there, see how they rate them against the rest.

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Wii bowling knocks over retirement home, you won't see grandma for a while

At the Sedgebrook retirement community in Lincolnshire, where the average age is 77, something unexpected has been transpiring since Christmas. The residents, most of whom have never picked up a video game controller in their life, suddenly can't put the things down.

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FUNtains, the next generation in public entertainment

``FUNtains'' are FUN interactive fountains that combine form, function, and frolic at the nexus of art, science, and technology.

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Printed electronics set to be next big thing

Nowadays, the term printed electronics is taken to include thin film electronics that will become printable. Most of the potential for printed electronics lies in what Toppan Forms calls Smart Media Products (SMP) which will be intelligent and mass producible yet often customisable as well. They will usually be used at the human interface or connec

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The next best thing in 3d modeling FREE

3-D modeling has never been this easy. Hurry up it will be free only while in beta.

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Put Multiple Dreamcast Games On A Single CD-R

I've been cleaning up the files on my PC, including a number of useful text files. Among these files is a tutorial that I picked up a while back that let people put multiple Dreamcast games on a single CD-R.

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NBA rolls out 3D telecast for All-Star games

A select group of sports fans will watch the National Basketball Association All-Star game on Sunday in the first-ever live high-definition 3D sports telecast that NBA officials hope will create a buzz about profiting from the new technology.

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Teen tech tormentors: what's a parent to do?

One in three said they get as many as 30 hourly mobile phone text messages from a boyfriend or girlfriend wanting to know where they are, what they're doing or who they're with.

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AJAX web-counter for widgets

Modern widget engines (Apple Dashboard, Yahoo!Widgets, Windows Vista Sidebar) use XML transport (AJAX) to constantly update various information(like weather, stocks, etc) from web. In this article there is a source of trivial php web-counter which collects stats and outputs number of page views(hits) and visitors(in fact, unique hosts) since midnig

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Hardware Versus Software Firewalls

This raises a question. How do the freeware firewalls compare to expensive, all-in-one firewall solutions such as the Cisco PIX? The goal for this project, then, is to compare the Cisco PIX with two freeware firewalls.

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An Introduction to Power Line Communications

PLC is now mature and ready to be standardized worldwide within an international body of standardization. The three technological consortiums are working together to achieve this within the IEEE. Indeed, the working group P1901 at IEEE is about to propose drafts for PLC and BPL in 2007 and is also working on the issues of interoperability and coexi

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Bare-breasted women in public around New York City

Uncovered: Busting Out in the Big Apple This is a collection of photographs featuring bare-breasted women in public around New York City, often presented with interviews exploring the issues of body image and sexuality in America today.

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Beware of the PHP virus

Richard Thomas, in his blog informs you about a virus that he got through an e-mail. He explains that he got an e-mail from his host using a generic return address.

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The benefits of drinking vodka: you can catch a shark with your bare hands.

Phillip Kerkhof says it was the vodka that made him catch a 1.3 metre shark with his bare hands.

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The Complete CSS tutorial

The only reason not to use CSS in your design is not knowing how!

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Soldering videos galore

If you'd like to learn how to solder surface mounted components, this is the collection of videos you need to watch.

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Anti-Porn Billboards Pop Up Around Jax

Billboards around the city are urging people to stop looking at pornography in the name of love.

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4096×2160 HD TV made out of 15 LCD displays

The Dutch SARA Computing and Networking Services have rendered a clip of Elephants Dream at a resolution of 4096
×2160 pixels, and played it back on their 4K visualization setup which consists of 15 LCD displays.

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Blender Video Sequence Editor

Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (in short the “VSE”) is an old feature that has been used to edit Elephants Dream and also is used to edit in the Plumiferos project. After being almost forgotten for a time, the new focus made it take on as enthusiastic a development as the rest of Blender.

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How a dead scanner can return as a printed circuit board UV lamp

Making your PCBs on the cheap.

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SQL Injection Walkthrough

The following article will try to help beginners with grasping the problems facing them while trying to utilize SQL Injection techniques, to successfully utilize them, and to protect themselves from such attacks.

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PHP: Export Database Schema as XML

Sometimes it can be useful to have a dump of the current database schema. The script below reads the schema from a MySQL database and outputs XML that describes the schema.

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NY, Calif more likely identity theft targets

New Yorkers, especially around New York City, and Californians, especially around Los Angeles, are more likely to be targets of identity theft, according to a new study.

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DIY Electric Motorcycle Conversion

electric motorcycle conversion using (mostly) scrap materials

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A Ninja Pays Half My Rent

"A Ninja Pays Half My Rent", a short film written by Steven K Tsuchida, Aaron Ginsburg, and Wade McIntyre. Directed by Mr. Tsuchida.

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Photos of people pulling a Matrix

Gravity is a law and is meant to be broken.

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DIY Pulsing Hubby Detector

This project uses an RF receiver module to trigger a pulsing LED Heart when the transmitter comes within range. I made this for my fiance for Valentine's Day this year.

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OpenXava - J2EE/JavaEE easy and rapid

OpenXava is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications, like Ruby on Rails, but OpenXava produces standard J2EE / JavaEE applications that can be deployed and any standard Java Application Server (or standard Java Portal).

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System Administration Toolkit: Set up remote access in UNIX through OpenSSH

Use OpenSSH to provide a secure environment for running a remote terminal. The basics of OpenSSH and terminal usage are quite simple but, in this article, examine additional elements that allow automatic login to remote hosts, methods for running remote applications, and how to securely copy files between hosts.

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Create an interactive production wiki using PHP

This "Create an interactive production wiki using PHP" series creates a wiki from scratch using PHP, with value-added features useful for tracking production. Wikis are widely used as tools to help speed development, increase productivity, and educate others. Each part of the series develops integral parts of the wiki until it is complete and ready

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Using Variables and Built-in Functions to Update Your Web Pages

With JavaScript you can update the content on your pages automatically
—every day, every hour, or every second. In this chapter, I'll focus on a simple script that automatically changes the date on your web page.

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Java and .NET Interoperability - Let's just do it

How to prototype this interoperability? In this blog, I am outlining the steps to do just that. I will show you how to establish the most basic interoperability between Java and .NET platforms using Web services.

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Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran

Welcome to Open Watcom — a joint effort between SciTech Software Inc, Sybase® and the Open Source development community to maintain and enhance the Watcom C/C++ and Fortran cross compilers and tools. An Open Source license from Sybase allows free commercial and non-commercial use of the Open Watcom tools.

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DrawBot - Python scripts that generate two-dimensional graphics

DrawBot is a simple application for MacOSX that allows you to write simple Python scripts that generate two-dimensional graphics. The builtin graphics primitives are currently pretty braindead, it currently only supports rectangles, ovals and (bezier) paths and polygons.

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The Top 15 Wackiest USB Devices

Unplug that printer, and put down that mouse: Use your precious USB ports to connect one of these weird and wonderful peripherals.

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Sony and Blu-Ray Disc Association Declare Victory Over HD-DVD

We first heard it at CES in Las Vegas, when the heads of several major studios -- all members of the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association -- sat on a panel to tout their "inevitable victory" over the HD-DVD camp. In fact they even circulated a newsletter declaring the victory, using various research firms' predictions and prognostications regarding future

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Steven Spielberg Documentary

A great pick from the youtube library.

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An Introduction to Hibernate 3 Annotations

In this article, we look at how Java 5 annotations can be used to simplify your Hibernate code and make coding your persistence layer even easier.

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WebProNews: Yahoo Pipes, Digg Hates, Cuban Porn

Your weekly tech news delivered the way it is supposed to.

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WebProNews: Yahoo Pipes, Digg Hates, Cuban Porn

Your weekly tech news delivered the way it is supposed to.

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Open Source Mobile Phone On The Way

Orange/France Telecom's research and development lab in Beijing is supporting efforts behind the GPE Palmtop Environment.

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Study: Encryption Is Needed; Few Doing It

While 66% of IT and business managers surveyed have "some type" of encryption strategy, only 16% have enterprise-wide strategies, the Ponemon Institute found.

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Open Source Databases Review

Open Source Databases: A brief look at the Berkeley DB, Derby, Firebird, Ingres, MySQL and PostgreSQL DBMS'

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20,000 Watt Speakers Made from Ice and Snow

This is the student-AES chapter of MTU's Winter Carnival Statue Thread. The basic design is a three-way stereo -> mono sub system with some complementary rear noise makers (this will not be a surround driven system, just stereo).

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How does satellite Internet operate?

For the few and needy geeks out there.

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How to use a Buss Bikes Rack

Easy To Use Bus Bike Racks.

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Malicious JavaScript code detected on Super Bowl-related sites

Security experts are finding an increasing number of Web sites hosting malicious JavaScript code first detected on Super Bowl-related sites last week.

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Quiet Your Xbox 360

Reduce the Xbox's racquet to a minimum.

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Vista vs XP with NVIDIA

Firing Squad looks at how Vista stacks up against XP for Geforce cards and besides posting benchmarks, interviews NVIDIA about it. Here's a fun fact: NVIDIA has spent 350 man-years of development on Windows Vista driver development...

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Build Your Own Render Farm

3D animators are a famously tech-savvy and notoriously obsessive bunch, with prodigious knowledge of both graphics hardware and software. And though their party conversation suffers as a result, their lightning-quick PCs always benefit. A hardcore graphics-head recently told me that after throwing a $700 graphics card into his 3-GHz PC, and optimiz

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Browse the Internet, Digg, watch TV and Chat while you are on the potty

If you're not enjoying your toilet time, a leading U.S. plumbing company has the solution. Roto-Rooter, an Ohio-based plumbing and draining service company, has brought all the latest technological gadgets right to the toilet.

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RRDtool: a data logging and graphing application

The industry standard data logging and graphing application. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python or PHP bindings. Create graphs like this:

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Astronaut Culture Stresses Achievement

- From the dawn of the space program, America's astronauts have been treated like stars, saluted as red-white-and-blue heroes, and indoctrinated in NASA's can-do, failure-is-not-an-option ethos. Could that explain the downfall of Lisa Nowak,

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I Don't

New Yorkers face ban on playing on handhelds, listening to iPods, and other distractions while crossing streets.

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The Bastard Operator From Hell Compendium

All the things Dilbert sees when he is high.

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The Free Josh Wolf Wiki - Freedom of Speech PWNED.

Josh Wolf is an independent journalist and blogger who was jailed on August 1 when he refused to testify or turn over unpublished video out-takes to a federal grand jury investigating a July, 2005 anti-G8 demonstration. Josh has never been convicted of a crime.

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How to Ensure Your Wi-Fi Connection Is Safe

Securing your connection doesn’t take a degree in electrical engineering; a flood of vendors are at the ready with products that can help mitigate the risks posed when using Wi-Fi.

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Howto: Download Youtube and Google Videos with bookmarklets

Sometimes you want to save the videos that you watch on Youtube or Google Video. Perhaps you want to watch them later. Maybe you are hoping to transcode a video for playback on a mobile device. Or maybe you want to edit a clip into a podcast you are making. Problem is, you can only download a subset of the videos from Google and Youtube doesn't eve

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DIY iPod Dock Extender

The idea for the extension cable is to have a female iPod connector on one end and a male iPod connector on the other...a flexible extension of the dock cradle.

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Notes on FORTRAN Programming

Learn about the king of scientific software development language.

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Amateur radio on Linux How-To

Dave Freese has just released version 1.2 of Fldigi, a popular new program for Linux and FreeBSD which enables amateur radio operators to join their radios and their computers at the hip and create a new kind of ham shack: a digital ham shack.

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Sonic And The Secret Rings, Wii Trailers

I must say that Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii seems to be on the right path to redemption, if there’s any indication from the new trailers.

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Too Many Clicks! Unit-Based Interfaces Considered Harmful

This article will suggest a different way of thinking about UIs, and will discuss how to compare one UI to another, or one UI to the theoretical maximally efficient UI, to tell if your game can be improved. I
’ll use examples primarily from strategy games, but it applies to UIs for programs of all kinds.

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never scratching cd/dvd protection

This storage method keeps your cds from taking any abrasive damage, and also prevents damages caused by the aging of the plastics and resins the disks are made of. It's simple, cheap, and damn near fool proof.

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DIY RF Remote Controller

On these pages, I will introduce Remote Controller with Radio Frequency. The electric wave sending-out is controlled with the code by PIC for transmission and the code is deciphered by PIC for receiving.

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Your first born child + PSP if you want a PS3, Sony will rip the UK good

HMV has revealed a quite astonishing PlayStation 3 pre-order campaign in the UK with the blessing of Sony.

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Patrols seek Sydney's 'monster' shark

Reports of a "monster" great white shark near southern Sydney beaches have got local authorities stepping up patrols.

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Your first born child + PSP if you want a PS3, Sony will rip the UK good

HMV has revealed a quite astonishing PlayStation 3 pre-order campaign in the UK with the blessing of Sony.

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Apple's Jobs calls on music industry to drop DRM

hief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major record companies to start selling songs online without copy protection software to thwart piracy known as digital rights management (DRM).

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Novell: 'No One Can Stop Us From Selling Linux'

The company comes out swinging after the Free Software Foundation expresses concerns over the Novell-Microsoft partnership.

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Make a Movie of Your Linux Desktop

Want to show off your snazzy 3d desktop, or demonstrate the features of your favourite new program? Make a movie of your desktop to capture all your actions, edit it, then add a soundtrack.

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13 Ways of Looking at a Ruby Symbol

New Ruby programmers often ask, “What, exactly, is a symbol? And how does it differ from a string?” No one answer works for everybody, so–with apologies to Wallace Stevens–here are 13 ways of looking at a Ruby symbol.

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Digg Style Videos For Your Blog

Digg's recent design changes incorporating in-site embedded videos as a major feature of their site should be a sign to every blogger that web 2.5 is here and if 2.0 was social, 2.5 is video. The great news is that it's very easy to incorporate Digg style video embedding in your own site.

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Linux system management now a Puppet penguin

According to Luke Kanies, managing Linux systems should be easy and done without touching the server, so that’s why he wrote Puppet, a new kind of management tool

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Get Your Picture Perfect—No Photoshop Required

Photoshop offers incredible tools for correcting and adjusting exposure, tone, and color. However, very often an image is unusable not because of problems with its exposure or color, but because it's poorly composed. In this chapter, you'll learn how by employing a few good shooting habits and paying more attention when shooting—you can get your co

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Kismac on a Macbook

So today I decided I wanted to actually sit down and figure out why I can
’t use Kismac on my MacBook like how it could be used on the previous generation. The answer was simple: new chip-set = new drivers ergo no go on passive mode.

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jmonkeyengine: a 3D Game Engine

jME (jMonkey Engine) is a high performance scene graph based graphics API. Much of the inspiration for jME comes from David Eberly's book 3D Game Engine Design.

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Huge python makes a meal of 11 guard dogs

Guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia have met their match -- a 7.1-metre-long (23-ft-long) python that swallowed at least 11 hounds before it was finally discovered by villagers.

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Reduce your Linux memory footprint

A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux
® performance. In this article, learn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses. You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example.

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Amateurs take on Superbowl ad challenge, watch the contestants tonight

What if your take your superbowl ad budget and give it to amateurs to produce, what you espect to be, an utterly shocking 30 sec TV commercial?. Fake or real?, lets wait and see.

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A CONCERT FOR WAIN WITH CYNDI LAUPER

Cyndi Lauper, Lifehouse, Mint Condition and Soul Asylum will ROCK the Myth in Maplewood, MN to save the life of Wain McFarlane! Wain is a musician and friend dying from Kidney Disease.

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How Capitalism Makes You Stupid #2: Scott Adams vs. Scott Adams

In the last post I related how Scott Adams claims reducing America's dependence on foreign oil won't affect the foreign sources. It's a weird, extreme claim, typical of his intellectual laziness.

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Long-lost Castlevania installation revived for PSP

Much like the PS2, it seems like the PSP is anxious to show just how much life it has left. While many people have dismissed the PSP as dying for a while now, there are still quite a few quality titles on the way that will give owners a reason to gloat.

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6 reasons why slashdot is going down

Some compelling reasons about Slashdot's downfall.

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Asterisk + The National Weather Service = Free Weather Report

Thanks to Asterisk, Flite, and the National Weather Service, you now can get a quick weather update or a seven-day forecast for any combination of 1,000 U.S. cities using your plain-old touchtone telephone...

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Simple Zip Code Geocoding

The ability to geocode, or translate into latitude and longitude, postal codes is a fairly useful hack to have in your programming toolbox. Quick and dirty zip geocoding allows you to do some neat things fairly efficiently and with a minimal amount of code.

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Tetris goes 3D with the Tetris 3D Cube

If you like puzzles and you like Tetris then the Tetris 3D Cube might just be the answer.

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Vista Tips: my trailfire collection

Access this trailfire full of goods for the early MS Vista adopters. Once you get trailfire, you won't walk on any other path.

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FREE Internet access at ANY Internet Cafe

A Tactical Toolkit to Liberate Pay-Per Use Wireless Networks!

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mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL Rewriting

mod_rewrite catches URLs that meet specific conditions, and rewrites them as it was told to, it gives your web application LOTS of flexibility and SECURITY too.

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The Scanner Parts - Desk Lamp

This instructable shows you how to make a desk lamp out of scrounged scanner parts and a few extras from Home Depot.

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Simple PHP/MySQL Pagination

pagination allows you to break up large result sets from a database query, and present it to the user in a more manageable way.

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100psi Hand Held Self Contained Air Cannon

This is a relatively simple device bodged together from junk I had around. Take some PVC parts, an old tire inflator, solenoid, capacitor, inverter and various other stuff, and you end up with something

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A cheap digital compass

Do u need a digital compass for your app? Here we go, let's put interface a digital compass w/ CUBLOC CB280

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Free Applications For your TomTom

More fun for free.

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Hacking Garmin GPS: StreetPilot 7200 and StreetPilot 7500

Because man cannot live on GPS alone, today's tip from Chet involves using your StreetPilot 7200 and StreetPilot 7500 as a monitor for multiple video sources -- for total ride-pimping fun:

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Condescending Sony scorns Nintendo Wii's success, Finally: Acceptance

Sony, the builder of world's most powerful gaming console, the Playstation 3, apparently is as of late taking on a condescending tone towards the apparently more successful Nintendo Wii.

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Can Wii change the news business?

How could the Nintendo Wii, currently the hottest video game system in the world, have anything to do with the delivery of news?

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Young inventors design robot to aid firefighters

"Firebot 1000," the creation of Josh Henson, Ethan Lott, Will Kendrick and Derrick McCarley, is designed to move toward the sound of a screaming person in a burning building, so firefighters know exactly where to go.

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A robot for your digital camera?

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames will release in March a $200 robot which will transform your digital cameras into powerful image-makers without your help

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Funny Things To Do With Your Microwave Oven (The Evil List)

Below I will describe some nice things you can do with a microwave oven. Most effects are quite spectactular. When I first heard of it I didn't believe it until I actually tried it myself !

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Surfer mauled by shark off Australian beach

Australia: A surfer was mauled by a shark as he rode a wave off a popular Australian beach Saturday, an official said.

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Viacom demands YouTube remove videos

Viacom Inc. on Friday demanded that Google Inc.'s online video service YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips after they failed to reach a distribution agreement.

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Novell could be banned from selling Linux: group

The Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell Inc.'s right to sell new versions of Linux operating system software after the open-source community criticized Novell for teaming up with Microsoft Corp.

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Save YouTube Videos and download YouTube videos with YouTubeX

YouTube.com is an excellent website that allows you to view saved videos on their servers. Unfortuneatly YouTube doesn't allow you to download these videos. YouTubeX.com allows you to save YouTubeX videos and download YouTubeX videos easily using only your IE or firefox browser.

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We say 'oui' to Wii

It was well worth it. The Wii is easily the greatest thing since the invention of fire, and much safer too. It has become somewhat of a joke-butt due to some over-enthusiastic people who end up throwing the controller through their television sets, but assuming you can read instructions and remain cognizant of your surroundings.

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Steve Jobs Dismisses Java As "Heavyweight" in Age of Lightweight Computing

These are curious times just now for Java. In one and the same month, Steve Jobs stands up, and declares – referring to language support on the new Apple iPhone – “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore.

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MySQL Launches All-You-Can-Eat Enterprise Support

MySQL on Tuesday launched an all-you-can-eat enterprise support option for its database for $40,000 a year.

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Color POV project

I designed and built this display for my final project in ECE154, my embedded systems class. It has an array of LEDs attached to a rotating arm that spins at approximately 1000RPM. The device has an infrared eye which triggers the arm to display the image at the same location every time.

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The Homemade LED shirt that will land you in Jail

Not to be worn close to Boston police department officers, they shoot you for sure.

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C for Lego mindstorms NXT is out

Next Byte Codes (NBC) is a simple language with an assembly language syntax that can be used to program LEGO's NXT programmable brick (from the new LEGO Mindstorms NXT set).

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Microsoft software banned at World Social Forum, Bill will eat his B.S.

With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organisers of the WSF preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products at the forum.

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XForms as an RSS reader/editor

RSS, Atom, and other syndication strategies involve making XML data available for download. XForms, which is designed to view and edit XML, is the perfect environment for an XML editor and reader. This article explains how to create an XML reader and editor using XForms.

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Pull parsing XML in PHP

Discover the XMLReader library, which is bundled with PHP 5 and enables PHP pages to process XML documents in an efficient streaming mode.

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XML for Perl developers: XML plus Perl

Once you whet your appetite for working with XML in Perl, the other two articles in this series will help you sharpen your new skills further.

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Two ways to build Apache Derby database applications in JRuby

This tutorial shows you two methods of connecting to and building Derby database applications from JRuby.

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Shells, scripting, programming, and compiling

Ian Shields introduces you to the Bash shell, and scripts and programming in the Bash shell. By the end of this tutorial, you will know how to customize your shell environment, use shell programming structures to create functions and scripts, set and unset environment variables, and use the various login scripts.

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