February 2008
53 posts
Comic for 29 Feb 2008 →
Russian Gmail Ad →
A few days ago Philipp posted about the Gmail Art Ad video on Google Blogoscoped, and the Official Gmail Blog today shared more behind-the-scene information about the video.
162 meters…
CTRL+ALT+DEL for Wed, 27 Feb →
A Picture is Worth... That's the Bike Path? Good... →
Not quite as good as Denmark, is it? Apparently it’s a joke in Amsterdam. Via ::reddit…
02/27/08 PHD comic: 'C-C-Coffee...' →
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com
title: “C-C-Coffee…” - originally published 2/27/2008 For the latest news in PHD Comics, …
Sometimes it Pays to Have a Small Car... →
We know. Obviously fake. We just found it kind of funny. Via ::reddit. See also: ::Small Cars “Almost Cheaper Than Walking”, ::Toyota iQ: Less is More for Small Urban Car…
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5 gigabyte gratis opslagruimte van Microsoft →
Na een maandenlange testfase heeft Microsoft deze week eindelijk Windows Live SkyDrive gelanceerd. Dat is goed nieuws voor iedere computergebruiker die zomaar even 5 gigabyte aan online opslagruimte cadeau krijgt. Voor fabrikanten van USB-geheugensticks zou de SkyDrive echter wel eens het begin van het einde kunnen betekenen. Met de SkyDrive beschikt u over een virtuele harddisk die...
The Best Reinterpretation of Pac-Man I’ve Ever... →
…is this Threadless T-shirt design whose title is The Madness of Mission 6:
Click the image to see the t-shirt order page.
Elektron gefilmd →
Zweedse onderzoekers zeggen er voorhet eerst in te zijn geslaagd om de beweging van een elektron rond een atoomkern te filmen. Daarvoor gebruikten ze een attosecondelaser die lichtpulsen van 10-18 seconde afgeeft, zo schrijven ze in Physical Review Letters. Lees meer… C2W
5 gigabyte gratis opslagruimte van Microsoft →
Na een maandenlange testfase heeft Microsoft deze week eindelijk Windows Live SkyDrive gelanceerd. Dat is goed nieuws voor iedere computergebruiker die zomaar even 5 gigabyte aan online opslagruimte cadeau krijgt. Voor fabrikanten van USB-geheugensticks zou de SkyDrive echter wel eens het begin van het einde kunnen betekenen. Met de SkyDrive beschikt u over een virtuele harddisk die...
DIY kit lets houseplants Twitter when they need... →
Filed under: Household
Finally, your mind-exploding, breakdown-inducing struggle to keep your houseplants watered regularly is getting a little help. A group called Botincalls has come up with a method to monitor your plants remotely, then be Twittered when they need some water. Taking a slightly different direction than the ThirstyLight, the system is based around the popular (and versatile)...
Wii Tetris: homebrew edition →
Filed under: Gaming
If that unplayable version of Pong we saw for the Wii wasn’t quite doing it for you, you ‘ll be happy to know that homebrewer Christian Auby (aka DesktopMan) has just hit the next stage in evolution: Tetris. That’s right, you can now get a fully functioning version of the puzzler running on your Wii, thanks to that handy Twilight Princess hack, and what was...
Off the Mark for Sat, 23 Feb →
Bigger Better Bookcase Stair →
TreeHugger loves stairs as bookshelves and as storage as a way if getting more stuff into less space, but we have never imagined one like this, designed by Tim Sloan of Levitate Achitects. It is an alternating step design that rises twice as steeply as conventional stairs, turned into an extraordinary library. The architect told Kristin Hohenadel at Apartment Therapy: …
Gravia: LED Lamp Lit by Gravity Lasts 200 Years,... →
When we talk about going off-grid, or otherwise unplugging from traditional power sources, it usually involves solar or wind power, or some other alternative that doesn’t involved your local utility. Young designer Clay Moulton has figured out how to harness a different source to create electricity: gravity. “Gravia” is his LED-lit floor lamp that combines human power and...
iPhone as a touchpad →
Filed under: Odds and ends, Freeware, Developer, iPhone
I love this. Reader Jahanzeb sent us a little mini-app he cooked up out of vnsea that turns your Installer.app-enabled iPhone into a touchpad for your PC (and Mac, I assume, though the video above shows Windows). Once you’ve got the two talking to each other, you can click, double-click, and even drag windows around. Jahanzeb says...
02/22/08 PHD comic: 'A tranquilizer with graphs in... →
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com
title: “A tranquilizer with graphs in it” - originally published 2/22/2008 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Comic for 22 Feb 2008 →
Emotiv to make mind-controlled games a reality by... →
Filed under: Gaming
The idea of wearing a funny hat to mind control software is certainly nothing new ‘round these parts. Now Emotiv Systems returns with an update to their Project Epoch USB headset. Crave went hands-on with the system which required a short, six-second calibration before entering the first “game.” At that point, Crave was able manipulate a simple cube on the...
Nieuwe informatie van Mario kart Wii →
Stilaan komt er meer en meer informatie vrij van Mario kart Wii, vandaag hebben we onderstaande informatie ontvangen:
# D.K’s snowboard Cross is een track die lijkt op een half pipe. Het is hier mogelijk de zijkant op te rijden en stunts in de lucht te maken.
# Langs de banen zullen Mii’s de race toeschouwen.
# […]
Calvin and Hobbes for February 19, 2008 →
CodeSOD: Fixing Compiler Warnings →
“In C,” writes Keith Lucas, “literal floating point number are interpreted as double precision floating point numbers. For example, if you have ‘0.0’ in your code, the compiler will determine the type of ‘0.0’ to be ‘double’. In some compilers, such as the Visual C++ 6 compiler that we use, if a literal ‘double’ is used for a...
The Footprint of Gmail: How Much Energy Would... →
Like so many others, this TreeHugger made the switch to Gmail a while back, and has never looked back. He immediately started making use of its massive storage capabilities, and stopped deleting anything but the most obviously pointless emails. His email inbox is rapidly approaching the 11,000 messages mark. Being the technologically-challenged individual that he is, it took him some time to...
Wetenschappers vinden manier om gsm op te laden... →
Wetenschappers van het Amerikaanse Georgia Institute of Technology hebben een manier gevonden om elektriciteit uit kleding op te wekken. Dat schrijft de internetsite tweakers.net donderdag.
Lees verder op www.standaard.be
Comic for 15 Feb 2008 →
The Laser Elevator →
Solar sails suck.
In the paper Laser Elevator: Momentum Transfer Using an Optical Resonator, Thomas R. Meyer and friends talk about a neat little trick for getting more momentum out of light (the paper’s not free online, but you can likely get it through your local school or library — it was published in the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2002) The basic physics behind it are simple, but...
Xambox Scans And Files →
We recently extolled the virtues of the paperless home, but some people have to keep the paper for legal and tax reasons. Back in the early days of the computer, our daisy wheel printer spit out three copies of every letter: one for the client, one for the job file, and one for the continuous file where everything was stuck on a clipboard by date. Having evolved past that, we still have a file...
Call Recorder 2.3 released →
Filed under: Audio, Internet, Internet Tools, Podcasting, Software Update
We use Skype for the TUAW Talkcast and recently, our host and podcasting guru (OK, not guru, but he is the host and we like him), Michael Rose, has been looking at possibly using Ecamm’s Call Recorder 2 plugin as an option for recording our weekly talkcasts. I actually have used it to record both audio and video chat...
Google Lego Calendar →
We already know that Google has a history Lego obsession. And recently, blogger Keso received this neat Google branded Lego calendar from Google China. Now, yes, it’s kawaii, but would seriously be pain in the neck when you have to remodel it at the beginning of the month - every month. :)
[photo by keso, used under a CC-license]
Anatomieles 2.0 →
U herinnert zich uit uw schooltijd vast nog wel dat intrigerende skelet in het biologielokaal, waar u vooral niét mocht aankomen omdat het anders uit elkaar zou vallen. Wie vandaag de dag de menselijke anatomie wil bestuderen, of gewoon meer wil weten over ons lichaam, heeft een meer flexibel studieobject tot zijn beschikking: The Visible Body, een prachtige site die het menselijk lichaam in...
Fietslampje brandt op stille windenergie →
Onderzoekers van Wageningen UR Glastuinbouw zijn er samen met collega’s van TU Delft in geslaagd om wind om te zetten in energie, zonder gebruik te maken van een dynamo zoals windturbines doen. Toepassing van de nieuwe techniek zal nog even op zich laten wachten, maar kan naast veel geld aan onderhoudskosten flink wat geluidsoverlast gaan schelen. Lees meer … Wageningen Universiteit Lees...
Nerdy Valentine: Wii belong together →
Link to Etsy item, a Gocco print in “bright white ink on red cardstock. The paper is acid free, archival, 30% recycled and measures 5”x7”.”
The Joy of Tech for Fri, 8 Feb →
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Playable Paper Super Mario... no really, he's made... →
Filed under: Gaming
Taking Paper Mario to its logical — albeit extreme — conclusion, an artist / DIY’er named Keith Lam has created the first physical, playable implementation of Super Mario Brothers. By emphasizing Mario’s movement on the background, and turning the “TV” into the object which moves, the character appears to traverse the familiar landscape of...
Nieuwe screens & info van Mario kart Wii →
Nieuwe screens zijn opgedoken op het net, dit samen met wat info over de cup’s die we kunnen spelen.
Mario kart Wii zal 32 circuits bevatten, waarvan 16 nieuwe en 10 online battle arena’s. In de online modus kan je met 16 spelers online spelen.
Mushroom Cup:
- Luigi Circuit
- Moo Moo Country
- Mushroom Canyon
- Toad Factory
Flower Cup
- […]
Google Bought Plaxo? →
Wired blog Epicenter reports that Google may have bought online address book service Plaxo for around $200 million. From Plaxo’s About Page,
Plaxo provides a free service that securely updates and maintains the information in your address book. Plaxo is the universal digital assistant; available to you wherever and whenever you need it to keep you organized, on top of your life and in touch...
Playable Paper Super Mario... no really, he's made... →
Filed under: Gaming
Taking Paper Mario to its logical — albeit extreme — conclusion, an artist / DIY’er named Keith Lam has created the first physical, playable implementation of Super Mario Brothers. By emphasizing Mario’s movement on the background, and turning the “TV” into the object which moves, the character appears to traverse the familiar landscape of...
Mobius Battle →
Nintendo files Wii accessory patent for... →
Filed under: Gaming
Some folks in the UK happened upon a set of British patents submitted by Nintendo recently for a whole slew of crazy Wiimote accessories, and you might be surprised to know what the company wants dibs on. Included in this large collection of sometimes bizarre add-ons is a Wiimote-cradling teddy bear, skateboard, helmet (with goggles), golf club, baseball bat, and of...
Bewust stroom slurpen →
Een elektriciteitskabel die visualiseert hoeveel stroom een toestel verbruikt (dank u, lezer Hendrik!): twee designers van het [‘Static!’-project] bij het Zweedse Energieagentschap hebben zoiets ontworpen. De Power Aware Cord doet dat door fel of zacht op te lichten, door een bepaalde kleur te gebruiken of door te knipperen. Het snoer is daarvoor voorzien van optische vezels die...
Nintendo files Wii accessory patent for... →
Filed under: Gaming
Some folks in the UK happened upon a set of British patents submitted by Nintendo recently for a whole slew of crazy Wiimote accessories, and you might be surprised to know what the company wants dibs on. Included in this large collection of sometimes bizarre add-ons is a Wiimote-cradling teddy bear, skateboard, helmet (with goggles), golf club, baseball bat, and of...
New way to kill viruses: shake them to death →
Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses in the same way that opera singers presumably shatter wine glasses. New research mathematically determined the frequencies at which simple viruses could be shaken to death. Lees meer … MSNBC Lees de wetenschappelijke publicatie
Enter Data into Google Spreadsheets via Custom... →
Google adds an interesting new feature to its online spreadsheets product: the ability to create and share an entry form with others for collecting information (versus giving them full access to the spreadsheet itself). Looks useful for surveys or any kind of easy information collection for a large number of people. Now that you don’t have to be a Gmail user to use Google Docs (and...
Error'd: THIS is a Warning Message! →
“Clearly,” Alex wrote, “there is more potential for my printer here than just printing…”
Normally Marc doesn’t disagree when his computer tells him something, but in this case…
Wow!!!!!!! It sure was Sander’s lucky day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“A standard confirm() dialog? That’s not a warning message,” Mike scoffed,...
The Joy of Tech for Wed, 6 Feb →
Really, It IS the Only Valid Measurement of Code... →
Click the comic to see it on its original page.
Unboxing an Apple IIc →
Flickr user dansays acquired an unopened Apple IIc on eBay and in true Macfan style, posted his unboxing photos online. From his Flickr set:
It’s never been opened. Ever. It hasn’t seen the light of day since before it was shipped on May 5th, 1988.
I wrestled with whether I should open the box, or store it and let it accrue collector’s value. In the end, I decided that the...