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Richard Feynman, widely regarded as a great explainer, gave a series of lectures in the 60s that today are collectively known as The Feynman Lectures on Physics. I have been working through these lectures since June, proving things that are left to the reader and every time I open the lectures I am struck by the sense of fun and excitement that he managed to put into every chapter (despite what

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Microsoft has released to testers the first preview of Microsoft Office 2010. There are not many obvious improvements, but I will point out what I have noticed in the following screenshots: The most obvious change in the above screenshot from the Office 2010 is the color scheme, which was blue but is now white, with some glass fading near the top. Clicking what was once the orb gives this:

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Wolfram|Alpha is a computable search engine. That is to say, while it has large amounts of stored information its real value lies in its ability to work with that information. It has just yesterday been released to the public and for such an anticipated project the launch was carried through with very little in the way of problems (discussed below). Wolfram Alpha is by the same people behind the

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This weeks hypothetical gadget is made from… A flexible touchscreen http://i.gizmodo.com/5159896/university-claims-to-have-developed-worlds-first-flexible-touchscreen-display A neural Impulse Actuator http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/ocz_peripherals/nia-neural_impulse_actuator One of the more ridiculous desktop pc’s that I have seen http://www.dell.com/content/products/

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Apple has recently released Safari 4 beta. Before starting the review, here are some related links: Speed Comparison: http://lifehacker.com/5160709/browser-speed-tests-how-safari-4-stacks-up Hidden Preferences: http://lifehacker.com/5160709/browser-speed-tests-how-safari-4-stacks-up There is a new start page: It, like Chrome’s start page, auto-populates with the most often accessed pages

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I’ve decided to do a segment which may be repeated if it is successful called “Hypothetical Gadgetry” in which I take a few pieces of technology, and just suggest that they may work well together. The first one is: http://i.gizmodo.com/5159939/realtime-mobile-video-stitching-is-so-crazy-it-just-might-work http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10171472-56.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave The first

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You know Google right? Its that company that plans to index all information everywhere in the world. They’ve outdone themselves again this time with Google Earth 5. The main new features are a time machine (way cooler than that Apple invention) and a way to see under the sea. The sea now shimmers, though the picture does not show it. The depth of the ocean is now represented. You

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puerSilicon has announced a 1TB 2.5in SSD. It has a data density of 15.40gb per cubic centimeter, three times greater than that of any other SSD. It is also compliant with military requirements for operation in extreme environments and provides 256bit AES encryption onboard. This drive will be available in the third quarter of 2009. No pricing details are available yet, but with 30GB drives

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With MacWorld just a few days away the Internet has started its Apple Rumor Machine. A new iMac with four cores, a new cooling system, and an NVIDIA graphics card is probably coming.                 A new Mac Mini with dual display support, an updated processor, the same graphics system found in the macbook, and possibly a new look.             An Apple Media Server, much like

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Now you too can enjoy you wonder of the Leopard Stack in Windows. The program is called Standalone stack. I can't try it out on my usual test machine(windows 7 doesn't play well with it), but it does work on other machines and it works well with a small memory footprint. This is great if you want stacks, but don't want a dock.

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(Screenshot from GMail-Backup) GMail Backup is a tool that performs backups of your GMail account. It can also restore the backup to your account. It can be run from the command line(instructions here), and is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux. GMail-Backup

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Lets say you need some random numbers, or at least ones that exhibit statistical randomness, and you don't have a calculator or computer will you. You know that 7=2*3+1. One divided by seven will give a series of semi-random numbers, six of them. This can be done for many different numbers. Here are the requirements: Let a be a prime number. Let b be a prime number such that b=2a+1 1/b will

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(Image from Chewingpixels) So its true, console controllers have become more complicated over time. The hands in the image remain constant in size so that relative sizes between controllers are preserved. The size of the controller seems to have peaked with the old X-Box controller, and is now something more reasonable. Its just interesting to see how things have changed.

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Fonolo works through phone menus to get you a direct number for a particular part of a phone tree.   (Image from the Consumerist) Once is reaches the point in the menu that you want, it is easy to call directly to that point. Fonolo.

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Having recently written up my five predictions for 2009, these are my hopes for 2009-2010. 1. Batteries on all laptops will last at least 5 hours, and netbooks will all last at least 10 hours on a charge. 2. Netbooks will have enough power to do more than just word processing and internet surfing. I don't expect to do gaming on one, but the ability to edit photos quickly would be nice. 3. The

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With the year coming to a close soon, predictions about the next year seem appropriate. These are my five predictions for 2009. More may come later. In addition, there are ten things I would like to happen in 2009 which will also be posted later. 1. Touchscreen netbooks in the sub $350 price range will be available some time next year. This feels very scifi but it is practical, useful, and very

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The main advantage(from my point of view at least) of being a console gamer is that you don't have to buy new hardware every other day just to keep playing the latest games, more like every 3-4 years. However, if you have some cash to burn and are a PC gamer and play Crysis with all settings on high at 2560x1600 with two screens, then I can see the Nvidia GTX 295 being for you. As Gizmodo so

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Buffalo has announced the perfect device for a wonderful economy, oh wait..... This is a 240GB SSD, so it is silent. It can have either RAID1 for redundancy, or you can use the entire storage. It costs $1200, and so might not have been the best produce idea for a recession. Buffalo

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Part of every pc repair toolbox ought to have been a linux live cd, for when there is no hard drive installed, no hard drive accessible, or a broken hard drive. It also would let you see if the system or windows is at fault. With UNetbootin, you can install linux to a flash drive. The system can then boot off of the flash drive. Some distributions even support persistent images(so that you

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This little piece of software does one thing, but makes it easy, simple, and fast. You add video files to the list and click burn. It auto-converts codecs to DVD-friendly formats. The simplicity comes at the cost of customization, there are practically no options, no extras in the menu, nothing but the basics. Available here from kibisoft.

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With all the variety available in Desktop systems, there has never been a cheap, low power All-In-One system available. The main reasons for this have historically been:1. Early on there was no such thing as a cheap system with any ability to speak of.2. People like being able to upgrade their systems, so the traditional tower has reigned supreme for a long time.3. No one really thought of it.The

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There are lots of little programs that make life easier, and I found five which are particularly useful. 1. Transmute Transmute lets you change bookmarks to work with different browsers, and supports the following: Chrome Chromium Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari 2. AtlDrag Its happened, a window’s title bar gets stuck above the monitor. You can’t move the window

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Today’s review is just a mini review. One of the first things that many people do when installing Windows is install codecs, well no more! Windows 7 now supports H.264, AAC, MP4, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ASP, AVCHD, and HDV. Windows 7 also natively supports XVID. I opened up one of my videos after installing Windows 7, and it started playing. It had been a while since I reinstalled Windows, so I had

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http://gizmodo.com/5091473/sgi-molecule-packs-10000-atom-cores-one-ton-of-awesomeness The atom processor is apparently better for more than netbooks and underpowered laptops, it has made its way into the cluster area. This atom based system has 10000cores, and is cooled by something called “Kelvin cooling technology”. I’m not quite sure what it is, but unless it involves hundreds of gallons of

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One of the biggest features of Windows 7 is the new Superbar. The Superbar is a new taskbar that gets a lot of things right. Now I have a bunch of programs open, so the individual items in the superbar are a little smaller than normal. For reference, the entire superbar: So, the first and most obvious change in the Superbar is that it is very transparent, as opposed to the not really

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How many times have you left your computer and come back to find that Windows Update has forced a restart? Its fairly common. Shutdown Guard prevents this by requiring a confirmation before shutdown, reboot, or log off. Image from the Shutdown Guard page on Google Code.

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If, in the midst of an economic crisis you inexplicably find yourself with way to much cash, here are some gadgets to spend it on(most of these serve little or no practical purpose, but are cool nonetheless). Soil Lamp(left) This lamp creates electricity with bacteria in mud. All it requires is a bit of water now and then. Not sure how its supposed to work, as it doesn’t appear to be able to

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This post will be about the small little touches that I have noticed that make Windows 7 more useful. 1. When entering an incorrect password, there is no longer a long pause before you are told that the password is incorrect. In Vista, the computer looks like it has accepted the password, and then a second or two later tells you that you entered an incorrect password, no more! 2. When searching

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Worldwide, only about 0.238% of users use IPv6. For Mac users, the percentage is 2.44, and over 50% of IPv6 users are Mac users. What this says about the users is unclear, but the raw data is here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081113-google-more-macs-mean-higher-ipv6-usage-in-us.html

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One feature today, the solution center. The solution center is the result of years of control panels and security centers. Anything that might be wrong, or needs fixing, or could be changed and has to do with reliability and security, is available here. This center makes it easy to fix problems, backup the system, run windows update, and change firewall or internet settings. It also allows

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Over the next two weeks or so, every three days(I hope!) I’ll publish another part of my set of Windows 7 reviews. I hope to focus either on three small features or two big features(or one huge feature) per review. So, I would like to start with three small features. These are: New Games Folder New Display Resolution Menu New Theme Manager The new Games folder is a big improvement on

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Now what does this mean for the tech crowd? In all likelihood it means that ISP’s will have to start treating the consumer like a human being, and of course a better economy makes it easier to get gadgets. On a side note, I have a bunch of posts coming in a day or two, starting with a few smaller things but leading up to a full review of build 6801 of Windows 7.

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http://gizmodo.com/5054007/5+in+1-usb-charger-cable-could-solve-some-usb-woes Despite all of the methods that have been found over the years to deal with cable clutter, from zip ties to wifi, cables are still a mess. Its easy to get a wireless mouse and keyboard. Wifi cards can be built in. Unfortunately, this is where mainstream technology stops. There is no widely adopted wireless usb standard

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Remember DoubleKiller? Well  while I thought that it ran pretty quickly, Easy Duplicate File Finder is amazingly fast. It took 39 seconds to analyze almost 13000 files totaling around 45GB. You can have it only scan files bigger or smaller than a certain size. It is a bit slower using Byte-for-Byte comparison as opposed to checksum. Duplicate pairs are highlited in alternating green and white

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Has Gmail locked you out? Ever? It happened to me once, but you can probably see the problem with not being able to access email. Gmail apparently emails a verification number to your other email when you sign up, so keep this number, it can unlock your account.

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Over at tuaw, they have a gallery obtained with the wayback machine of Apple.com going back all the way to 1997, and it sure has changed since then.                              

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Mz Cpu Accelerator elevates the priority of the active program. Simple as that. It doesn’t do much on my system, as its difficult to get a Core 2 Quad up to 100%, and it won’t help if your CPU is not at 100%. Available here.

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This small program does just one thing, but it does it well, it scans wireless networks.  It gives signal strength, speed, when it was picked up and when it was lost. It lists channel, MAC address, and SSID. It also gives the security type.Available here.  

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Toshiba has announced a PCI-E add-in card that uses a cell processor to accelerate the transcoding of H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 entirely in hardware. It has 128MB of XDR memory to aid in the process, and will be available for $250-$300. At that price however, I don’t think its worth it, especially with that small fan(small fans are noisy). Full article here.

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Before:     After:   Lifehacker has the full guide. It requires 10 extensions and one theme.

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If you’ve ever wanted to theme Windows Vista, or alter in any way the system files, you need to take ownership of them. This is a long and tedious process, which can now be simplified. Take Control will take ownership of any files that you put in the list, provided that you are running as admin. The download link is available at WinMatrix. Also, if you want to add a context menu button, there

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Its a situation lots of technically minded people have been in, someone asks you to speed up their computer. The first thought that should run through your mind is “Remove spyware, adware, and viruses”. Hitman Pro 3 uses a network connection to scan your computer for suspicious file. It is no replacement of course for proper dedicated tools with definition libraries, but its fast, identifies a

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This is another Chrome article, so those who are frustrated with all of the Chrome craze might not lie this article. SRWare Iron is a Chrome derivative which is for privacy fanatics. It is based on the Chromium open-source code-base with some privacy enhancements: 1. No user-ID 2. No info sent to google, at all 3. No Google Updater 4. No alternative error messages It looks and acts in a way

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Its convenient to have Word 2007/2008, it is compatible with just about all document formats. Unfortunately, on other word processors as well as older versions of Word, you can’t use docx documents. Zamzar can convert them for you. Just browse to upload, and the converted documents will be emailed to you. I guess you don’t have to upgrade just for compatibility anymore.

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With Halloween quickly approaching, some great photos have emerged of a Jobs-O-Lantern. More as well as templates available here.

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Lots of Windows 7 build 6780 screenshots are available at Winfuture. With PDC coming up so soon, I thought these would be interesting as a look of what might be coming. You can see the redesigned start menu and search box. The new calculator looks useful for a change. Notepad now has a ribbon, although there are very few tabs on the ribbon.

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Crossover Chrome, built by Codeweavers, is Chrome for the Mac and for Linux. Its buggy and unstable, they used the Wine API’s to port it over. It does not auto-update. Available at Codeweavers. If you can wait though, the official team at Google is working on Mac and Linux native ports.

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Stainless is a new Chome-based browser for the Mac, and it looks pretty good(image and original article from TUAW).Its just a tech demo at this point, but it would be great if this was ported over.

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For $60 you too can watch in awe as iPhone icons absorb the condensation from your glass. See the amazing Jobs-ish sight here.

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Isn’t it annoying dealing with the built-in services manager in Windows? Its a bit slow, the dialog boxes are frustrating to deal with, and the interface is not useful. Turbo Service Manager fixes this. It is a 123k program that does one thing, manage services. It can filter based on dependencies(what depends on a particular service, what services does a particular service depend on). It can

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Attribute changer changes your files’ attributes. If you want to modify date stamps, privileges, of file locking, this can help. It installs as a shell extension, and is available as a 902k download here.

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So while your testing that new overclock with prime95, and you've used speedfan to monitor temps and fan speeds. But what if you need a smaller program to do that, and you don't need the fan speeds? Or what if you need to know what voltage the motherboard suggests but want to set it yourself? What if you need constant clockspeed monitoring and temperature logging? Or what if you need a

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New Macbook Air: Faster processor, faster memory, Nvidia GPU, and a mini display port. No mouse buttons.     Image from TUAW.       New Macbook: Aluminum shell. A bit thinner. Includes a Macbook style keyboard, mini display port, dvd burner, motion sensor, and an Nvidia GPU. It now includes an LED displa and a glass trackpad. There are now no mouse buttons.         Image from

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GE is building an OLED printer, which basically prints extremely low-power ultra-thin light panels which, due to their properties, could be used in a wide range of situations. More details after the link.

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I have read a lot of Desktop Customization guides for windows, they seem to be popping up all over the place, so I thought that it would be a good idea to create one of my own using what I think are the best bits from others, as well as a bit of my own stuff. So, this is my desktop: The dock at the bottom is ObjectDock(the free version is good for this customization) with live previews

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While building a data center, one of the things many people don’t think about is the power cables used. This $1800 Power Cable is amazingly strong and useless. Unless you expect someone roaming the data centers with scissors cutting every power cable in sight. If you really want one of these, you need to go to Furutech’s site.

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Safari, the default browser on every new Mac, was once the fastest browser available, arguably on any platform, at least out of beta. Now, however, it has some competition. With Chrome using the WebKit rendering engine, as well as a new java engine, Safari has lost its speed advantage. Firefox has caught up to Safari on certain benchmarks, and Opera has always been faster on certain pages.

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So one day, my laptop’s graphics stopped working. Its a great laptop, but the graphics are completely messed up. I took it apart to try and fix it, but it is currently not working. Below are some photos of the inside, as well as a list of what I have tried. Comments and suggestions are welcome! The photos below are blurred slightly to prevent the serial numbers from being read. Those which

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With the new Picasa 3 beta recently released, I thought I would do a screenshot tour of it.The main screen is largely unchanged.There is a new photo viewer, which can run both fullscreen and not, and it is very fast, even for 8MP raw photos.’Thumbnails can, as always, be resized.You can filter by people, starred, and video clips. So for instance, the people filter shows all photos with people in

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Evil Player is a music player, supporting WAV, OGG, MP1, MP2, MP3, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, MTM, UMX, and MO3. It supports radio streaming via SHOUTcast, ICEcast, and ICEcast2. Its also free. The interface is very minimal . It supports adding either individual songs or directories. The bars on the right are about all its got for a visualizer, but you can’t really argue with memory usage, with no songs

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Don’t you just hate it when apps crash? Its even worse when the app is a media server or ftp server, and you’re not home to restart it. Application monitor is the solution.   This lets you add apps to the watch list and set a check time. By default it will make sure that the apps in the list are running every two minutes. Its really useful, and available here.

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Performance monitor is a simple graphical representation of current system load. Each color box represents a different aspect of the load. The boxes can be moved around to form any different configuration. It can monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network. The colors are customizable. It can also show any of the load aspects in the system tray. It is small, light on resources,

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A screenshot from iPhone Atlas shows a redesigned Mobile Safari, with the Google button not available without clicking first on the address bar. The search button is gone, which makes sense, and the refresh button is now embedded in the address bar. Looks promising, and there are no obvious Photoshop marks.

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Nowadays you can stuff a flashdrive into anything, plastic, metal, rubber duckies, bowling balls, chicken feet..... wait a minute, what?! Thats right, you can be the proud owner of a chickenfoot usb flash drive. Here are ten weird usb flashdrives: http://devicedaily.com/gadgets/10-weird-usb-drives.html Here are some of my favorites: Tape:     Sushi:   and Chickenfoot:

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Gizmodo has a great chart showing the process that it seems that Apple follows when deciding to reject or accept an app. Available here: http://gizmodo.com/5051273/how-apple-picks-which-apps-make-it-to-the-app-store

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Admit it, of all of Windows Vista's new features, the one that you found least useful and exciting was UAC. UAC requests permission for many actions that require administrator privileges, even if you are logged in as admin. While it might stop you from making a bad choice, it is so annoying that users often develop the reflex of hitting continue whenever a UAC box comes up. (A UAC box,

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Computers are never wrong, except when we tell them to be. Gizmodo caught this great error, almost 10000f below zero! http://gizmodo.com/5049421/computer-weather-error-shows-why-houston-is-in-extra-trouble

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Well, now that I have you portal fans reading, its safe to tell you that this is actually about real cake. iPhone cake. This was created by Nick Bilton and Danielle Bilton for a cupcake decorating championship. Details here.

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IBM has jumped past Intel, and says that they have solved the problem of scaling chips down to 22nm. Intel currently has plans to go to 32nm in 2009, and 22nm in 2011. If this is true it means that manufacturers have another two years to figure out how to make 16nm chips based on Intel’s tick-tock cycle. http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/123142,ibm-unveils-technology-for-22nm-chips.aspx

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Google recently found an old 2001 database, and worked with the internet archive to make the links point to the Internet Archive pages from back then. The net effect, you can google like its 2001!

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Someone with a ton of free time decided to make these: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html They depict the end of the world as we know it, starting with the LHC

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Windows Live represents a huge leap forward for Windows and software integration. Currently, Windows Live Mail is integrated with calendar. Photo Gallery recognizes people from your contacts(with some training). Those same contacts are kept in the online services as well as in Windows Messenger and Windows Live Call. All of the services integrate well with Flickr, and can be extended to add

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Well its a little late for a back to school series, but I'm going to be posting things I think would be useful for back to school. Lifehacker has one that I think is great:   Its Windows XP with a bunch of tweaks and mods, the explanation is available here: http://lifehacker.com/5049027/xp-goes-back-to-school

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In the one corner we have Windows Vista, weighing in at just over 15GB with updates and backups, sans programs, and in the other corner we have Google Desktop, weighing in at just over 0.0019GB. Huh. Now that wasn’t really fair, Google Desktop is just one program, while Windows Vista is a huge operating system, but it really shows that this time, Google is concentrating on efficiency.

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The following is an amazing setup that looks like it ought to take several people to control: This was a workstation submitted to Gizmodo by Mitch Haile. I honestly don’t know what I would do with all of those monitors. Ok, so you could have two browser windows open and that takes two. Windows Live Writer is another. I suppose hulu is a fourth. The fifth could be a word document, a sixth could

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So, of the posts this weekend, what do you want to see more of? Gadget compilations, Tech news, or freeware reviews? Please write in the comments section with your response.

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With digital storage and easy file copying, its not difficult to imagine duplicate files cropping up. The issue with trying to weed them out comes along when your not sure if this photo is the one you edited, or the original. Or when you suspect that there are masses of duplicates, you probably don't want to go through comparing the file properties or calculating CRC32-checksums. This is where

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For 20% less, Tokyo residents will get 1Gbps fiber connections starting Oct. Original link here.

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Spore can make just about anything. Anything! To prove this hypothesis, here is starcraft, in spore: The rest of the images are available here: http://kotaku.com/5055113/holy-crap-spore-created-starcraft-amazes-us

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Wikipedia Screensaver loads random Wikipedia pages at preset intervals as your screensaver. This was captured using prtscn, and its neat. I’ve got it set to change articles every 20 seconds. Pretty cool huh? Available here.

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Dell has announced that they plan to launch a laptop with the above specs, targeted at graphics design professionals. The video is pretty cool. Specs: 16gb of ram Quad Core 1TB of hdd space 1GB of video ram for up to dual 30inch displays A jog shuttle(whatever that is, it looks something like a special touchpad. Available fall 2008, I just shudder to think about its battery life.  

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Backup solutions for windows over a network are somewhat limited. You could pay for a program to do it. You could use a free program and be stuck with a proprietary format. Or you could manually copy files over. None of these options are great. Microsoft SyncToy attempts to solve these problems. You can create pairs of folders to sync, and syncing can happen to any network, local, or external

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Canonical(basically the company that manages some Ubuntu stuff) has announced that codecs will be made available through Ubuntu’s apt package management. The one unfortunate part of this deal is that the full codec pack is $40. The alternative is what it has always been, to obtain the codecs illegally or buy software with the codecs built in. At least this provides an easy option to get the

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It seems that anyone attending PDC 2008 will get a pre-beta version. Links: http://www.windowsvienna.com/windows-7-pre-beta-distributed-on-october-28-a22.html http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/25/pick-up-a-pre-release-copy-of-windows-7-for-just-a-few-thousand/

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Teeny Web Server(Image from Gizmodo) This thing is smaller than a business card. Its got 8k of ram, a 32mhz processor. Details at Hackaday       Griffin’s Simplifi Its a dock, no its a CF reader, no wait, its a memory stick reader, and its got two powered USB ports. If you happen to need all of that on your desk, this is for you. Griffin

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Remember vlc? Well, a fairly big new version came out recently. Its got a new look: Its got a new media menu: The new open menu finally shows you the available files!   It supports video capture devices(webcams): The preferences have been organized(yay!) and are easier to work with: There is also even better codec support(if possible). It now auto-downloads music albums, and

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Previously, I told you how to update Chrome to the latest dev build. Google now has an official way to do this. It is called the Chrome Channel Chooser. http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/ It basically lets you tell Chrome to update using the built in updater, but to download dev builds instead of official builds. (Note, this only works for Chromium, not Chrome)

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Instead of individually posting about lots of new gadgets, I thought I would write about a few.   The first new gadget is the SanDisk Extreme III, a 32GB CF card. There is no conceivable number of photos that could fill this card, unless you take 50 megapixel raw shots, and even then you get over 650 shots on one card. The big use for this card will be, I think, in DSLR’s that can record HD

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As part of the new Microsoft marketing plan, some new wallpapers have been released. The idea is Windows vs Walls Links to the full set of resolutions: 1920x1200 1680x1050 1600x1200 1280x1024 1280x800

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A 4GB iPod nano has apparently been shipping in small quantities to markets outside of the US . The idea was for a cheaper nano with less storage. No word on pricing.

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Intel has launched a new six-core xeon processor, codename Dunnington, model number 7400. It is basically penryn plus an L3 shared cache, with 6 cores on the chip. It is 1.9billion transistors. The 2.66ghz model has a TDP(basically the most power the chip should ever use) of 120W. The 2.4ghz model has a TDP of 90W, and the 2.1ghz model has a TDP of 65w. There are three sets of two cores, each

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For the next few days, I’ll be posting 4-5 posts per day(or more), and then I’ll return to the normal 1-3 per day. Have fun! I’ll be putting up a poll later on after the Blog-O-Thon, and you can vote for your favorite post. Have Fun!

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Chrome now has history! And by that I mean that Brian Rakowski, Google group project manager, revealed some of Chrome's development history in an interview. Things I find interesting from it: Chrome always looked about the same as it looks now, and most of the big changes like a multiprocess architecture were implemented early on. The interview is available here: http://blogoscoped.com/archive

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The EFF(Electronic Frontier Foundation) has filed a lawsuit against the above in order to stop illegal warrantless wiretapping. The EFF has also fought anti-DRM cases, and defended consumers accused of pirating music and movies. Regardless of the outcome, it will be very interesting to watch this case.Via Slashdothttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/18/179256&from=rss

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Apparently those really small adapters: Have the prongs breaking off and sticking in power sockets, creating dangerous situations(in small percentages). Apple is recalling these and will exchange them for good ones. Apple’s Ultracompact USB Power Adapter Exchange ProgramThis could have been pretty bad, but Apple's quick reaction and free replacements will probably prevent this becoming as big

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So, you want to have chrome as your default browser, but you still need firefox to access that one page that doesn't work in chrome(I know there are more, but the average person won't have more than one or two pages that they use frequently that don't work with chrome).  This is what Chromifox is for.  It makes firefox look pretty much like Chrome. There are some minor differences, but it is

Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541131621098747014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654056914024543858.post-61123001902655627782008-09-23T22:58:00.000-07:002008-09-23T22:58:00.460-07:00

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a gallery of fake MacTablets available here.

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For those who don’t know, this is Windows Mail: This is Windows Live Mail: (Photo blurred for privacy reasons) The new big thing is email preview pane on the far right. Clicking on an email in the middle pane opens a preview in the right pane. There is now feed reading: (Those are the default feeds, not ones I chose) (Photo blurred for privacy reasons) There is now a calendar:

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It seems that the Chicago Olympics bid team doesn’t understand the idea of first come first serve. Stephen Frayne Jr., a 29 year old MBA student bought the domain Chicago2016.com back in 2004, two years before the bid was submitted. The bid team is trying to get that address from Stephen, by filing a complaint with an international arbitration organization. Frayne is asking the U.S District court

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Windows Live Call is like messenger+skype+SMS. Thats about all. Calls are 2 cents for pc to phone, pc to pc are free. Its really more of an addon to Messenger than anything. If you use SMS, or PC to Phone, or PC to PC Calling, and don’t want to use Skype, this is for you. The only reason I can think of to use this is because the memory usage is lower than Skype’s, and it feels a lot less

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