Steve Jobs: His 10 Commandments

Steve Jobs: His 10 Commandments: More than anything else, Jobs's genius is in managing the creative process. Here's his playbook.

Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?

Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?: One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly the default Windows XP image showing a blissfully relaxing vista of green rolling hills and a bluer than blue sky. The wallpaper, probably one of the most viewed images of all time, is aptly named ‘Bliss.’ Do a Google image search for just the word ‘bliss,’ and the first result is the Windows wallpaper.

Shit! Obama crossed my path!

Shit! Obama crossed my path!

10 minute movie downloads: Google’s high-speed broadband now live in Stanford

10 minute movie downloads: Google’s high-speed broadband now live in Stanford: Google's high speed fiber network is now live in Stanford where lucky residents are downloading movies in 10 minutes.

Reddit hosts largest online atheist community

Reddit hosts largest online atheist community: Where do atheists mingle on the Internet? Chance are, they visit Reddit.

Photography Tips: Top 10 Ways To Greatly Improve Your Artwork

Photography Tips: Top 10 Ways To Greatly Improve Your Artwork: Great images are hardly ever a result of the best gear and technique on their own. Several other crucial elements include things like creative imagination, exposure, research and passion. Learn how to visualize a finished photograph in your mind’s eye before you actually captured it. That’s the art of seeing. Then develop your own interests and your own style. With the growth of online forums as well as the rise of internet photo blogs, sometimes you will get to meet trolls along the way. Just take criticism constructively and remain centered on your objectives instead of your detractors. Here are ten ways to improve your craft with a brief explanation below. Stay inspired on your next shooting opportunity.

100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals

100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals: Photography as both a profession and a hobby is an incredibly expansive topic that covers a remarkably vast range of subjects from science and art. No matter where you lie on the professional spectrum, there is simply always more to learn. We spent countless hours scouring the web for the best content we could find and share with you, and today we’ll help you expand your knowledge with 100 photography related tutorials!

side-by-side Programming Languages Reference Sheets

side-by-side Programming Languages Reference Sheetst: syntax for common tasks in a side-by-side format

10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice): We’ve taken an interesting turn in the industry over the past ten years. We’ve come to value experiential learning much more, and we’ve regained a strong pragmatic focus, but I think it would be a shame if we lost sight of some of the deeper things which people have learned over the past 50 years. Rediscovering them would be painful, and (to me) not knowing them would be a shame.

A Comprehensive Beginners Guide To Udk

A Comprehensive Beginners Guide To Udk : In this new tutorial series, Ivan Krushkov will be walking us through the very basics of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK

11 Tools to Instantly Code Faster

11 Tools to Instantly Code Faster: Doesn’t the title say it all? There are a wide variety of tools and techniques which can drastically improve the speed at which we code. Particularly during time-sensitive settings, even a savings of a few seconds per iteration can add up substantially over the course of the month. I’ll show you eleven of my favorite tools in this article.

Python from Scratch

Python from Scratch: Welcome to Python from Scratch, where I’m going to teach you the ins and outs of Python development… from scratch. There’s no need to worry if you don’t have any ounce of Python experience. That’s what I’m here for! Let’s get started.

At Digg, There Is A Glimmer Of Hope

At Digg, There Is A Glimmer Of Hope: Nearly a year ago to the day, Digg v4 launched. Within a month, the site started losing all of the support it had garnered in the tech world from thought leaders like Pete Cashmore and Michael Arrington, replaced by complaints and users leaving. By most accounts, Digg had doomed itself with the disastrous launch.

Star Swallowed By Black Hole

Star Swallowed By Black Hole: A supermassive black hole has been found shredding and swallowing a sun-sized star that wandered too close, according to two papers published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Security Cam Turns Your iPhone's Camera into a Security Camera and Monitor

Security Cam Turns Your iPhone's Camera into a Security Camera and Monitor: While I doubt Security Cam is going to be a cheap replacement for a real security camera, if somebody's stealing your iOS device you might be able to use it to catch them. You can specify the amount of time Security Cam is active and how frequently it takes photos. It can also activate at a certain noise level or when motion is detected. Photos and videos are all stored within the app and (optionally) marked with a date and time stamp. You can send saved photos and videos to your device's camera roll or email them directly from the app.

Top 10 Weird Jobs

Top 10 Weird Jobs: “So what do you do for a living?” is a common enough question when engaging in small talk with somebody you’ve just met. But for a select few of the world’s workers this signifies the beginning of the end of any conversation, followed by awkward excuses and another evening spent stood alone in the corner at a party.

Free e-book: Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.5

Free e-book: Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.5: "Programming..." it is an e-book, published freely on Creative Commons license. I am showing there, how to adapt popular Open Source IDE - Eclipse - for developing Blender scripts. This is merely an introduction to this subject. It is intended for the readers familiar with Python and Blender 2.5 on the average level, at least. I am describing here the methods, used to learn Blender API and how to find the way to implement desired operation.

10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon

10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon: Researchers showed all manner of serious attacks on everything from browsers to automobiles.

7 Famous Works of Art With Bizarre Mistakes You Can't Unsee

7 Famous Works of Art With Bizarre Mistakes You Can't Unsee: No one should be immune from criticism. Not even the great masters of the art world--they're humans just like the rest of us. So please indulge us while we take a look at lauded works of genius created by artists far, far more talented than we are, and laugh at them.

'Tron'-inspired scooter could make geek kids rejoice

'Tron'-inspired scooter could make geek kids rejoice: Designed by Ryan Callahan, an industrial designer from the Town/Lifestyle group at Trek Bicycle, this pedal-less scooter could have kids speeding around the Game Grid while learning the basics of cycling.

Dark Elven Gatekeeper from Lineage II worn by Erika Door

Dark Elven Gatekeeper from Lineage II worn by Erika Door: Jaw dropping cosplay costume.

37 Most Creative Offices of Top Companies Around the World

37 Most Creative Offices of Top Companies Around the World: You have daily used and heard Twitter, Facebook, Google, Digg, Swatch, Pixar, Moser, and more….may be you have a dream to work with these companies so take a look of Top companies….

67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications

67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications: Why spend thousands or even hundreds or thousands of dollars on a closed source application when you can get a comparable open source app for free? Even if you need commercial support, many open source programs now offer paid support that costs much less than the alternatives.

Your Code is My Hell

Your Code is My Hell: I often get brought in to help preexisting Ruby/Rails projects evolve and mature in a sustainable way. As a result, the vast majority of Ruby projects I’ve worked on have been well-established by the time I arrived. In fact, offhand I can only think of one commercial greenfield Ruby project I’ve participated in. All the rest have been “legacy” from my perspective, in the sense that there was a sizable codebase in production before I showed up. (I’m not counting personal and internal projects.)

Data logging with open source hardware and software in the energy sector

Data logging with open source hardware and software in the energy sector: Explore how to monitor simple climatic conditions with the Arduino in the context of solar power generation. Specifically, get an introduction to basic temperature sensing with a TMP36 chip and light with a light-emitting diode (LED), and store the information for later retrieval. Then smooth out selected results and display in a chart, using PHP as a data processor, MySQL® as storage, and Flotr as a charting library.

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) exam prep

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) exam prep: Self-study articles and tutorials to help you learn Linux fundamentals and prepare for system administrator certification

Pixar Planning New Movies About Dinosaurs And The Mind

Pixar Planning New Movies About Dinosaurs And The Mind: During Pixar’s Saturday panel at D23 Expo 2011, the animation studio revealed details on two planned features.

Species flee warming faster than previously thought

Species flee warming faster than previously thought: Animals and plants are shifting their natural home ranges towards the cooler poles three times faster than scientists previously thought

jStat : a JavaScript statistical library

jStat : a JavaScript statistical library: jStat is a statistical library written in JavaScript that allows you to perform advanced statistical operations without the need of a dedicated statistical language (i.e. MATLAB or R).

Genius 13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power Breakthrough

Genius 13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power Breakthrough: When I was 13 I was smoking cigarettes I'd found on the ground and playing Super Nintendo like it was my life's work. This kid discovered a way to draw 20-50% more power from solar cells. He is way cooler.

Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World

Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World: This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world. But both moves are also in line with a trend I've observed, one that makes me optimistic about the future growth of the American and world economies, despite the recent turmoil in the stock market.

10 Best Websites To Learn Web Design Online For Free

10 Best Websites To Learn Web Design Online For Free: Do you want to make a Website? If yes, then we are here with a power pack of best design tutorial sites that will help beginners to create a Website easily.

Brad Bird: Hollywood isn’t brave enough to copy Pixar process

Brad Bird: Hollywood isn’t brave enough to copy Pixar process: Everyone in Hollywood says they wish they could do it like Pixar, but they really don’t. There’s no secret at Pixar, but there is a belief in letting people pursue something with passion and take chances, and most of Hollywood, really, doesn’t like that. It’s too scary.

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich : "OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched."

Anonymous hacks BART after wireless shutdown; protests planned for Monday

Anonymous hacks BART after wireless shutdown; protests planned for Monday: "Anonymous has delivered on earlier threats to hack BART after the San Francisco Bay Area transit entity temporarily shut down wireless data service in some stations. On Friday, BART supervisors gave the order to kill connectivity at those sites after receiving word that protesters were planning demonstrations within the train system over the recent killing of a homeless man by a BART officer (this following the fatal 2009 shooting by another BART officer of an unarmed passenger)."

Introducing: LetterBomb hack your Wii in minutes

Introducing: LetterBomb hack your Wii in minutes: "Today we are announcing a project that changes this completely and removes the requirement for an exploitable game."

Russian insurance companies

A TV ad for Russian insurance company, saying that big insurance company is much better than the small ones that can behave like this when you come for your cover payment.

UK Riots Cause Amazon Aluminum Bat Sales to Increase 6,000%

UK Riots Cause Amazon Aluminum Bat Sales to Increase 6,000%: "Amazon UK has seen a drastic increase in sales of “riot gear” as the violence continues to outrage the country. The London riots have caused the sales of aluminum baseball bats and other weaponry to soar."

Nothing 'mindless' about rioters

Nothing 'mindless' about rioters: "Civil disturbances never have a single, simple meaning. When the Bastille was being stormed the thieves of Paris doubtless took advantage of the mayhem to rob houses and waylay unlucky revolutionaries. Sometimes the thieves were revolutionaries. Sometimes the revolutionaries were thieves. And it is reckless to start making confident claims about events that are spread across the country and that have many different elements. In Britain over the past few days there have been clashes between the police and young people. Crowds have set buildings, cars and buses on fire. Shops have been looted and passersby have been attacked. Only a fool would announce what it all means."

London Riots. (The BBC will never replay this. Send it out)

London Riots. (The BBC will never replay this. Send it out)

Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5

Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5: "Hacktivist group Anonymous, which has been responsible for cyber-attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp, and others, has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell)."

Time Lapse of Night Sky Over London

Eerie look of the London riots

London women jumping from buildings

London women jumping from buildings: "Jumping ship from building in flames #london #riots"

5 Things I Can't Believe Websites Are Still Doing

5 Things I Can't Believe Websites Are Still Doing: "The general consensus is that the Internet went mainstream sometime around 1996. That's important because it means that for a decade and a half, the experts have been spouting off about how 'in the future,' all businesses will be dependent on connectivity. Well here we are, we've arrived at the future, and even the corner dildo recycler has a website."

Seven startling things most people still don't know about the national debt, banking and the money supply

Seven startling things most people still don't know about the national debt, banking and the money supply: "Most people, even smart people, know surprisingly little about the way money really works in Big Government. With the debt ceiling fiasco suddenly raising awareness of the possibility of a total global financial blowout, now seems like a good time to remind people of seven disturbing facts about money that are almost never acknowledge in the old media."

Real Comic Book Guy Owned by Cop NSFW

Real Comic Book Guy Owned by Cop NSFW: "You can see him screaming EEEEEEPPAAA!!!!"

Home Alarm Monitoring: 10 Times Your Home is Most Vulnerable to Break-ins

Home Alarm Monitoring: 10 Times Your Home is Most Vulnerable to Break-ins: "Your home is always a potential target for burglars, whether you are home or not. There are, however, certain times when your home is more vulnerable to break-ins than others. Here is a list of ten situations when you should be the most concerned about keeping your home secure."

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge"

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge": "Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash."