April 2009
30 Fresh and Promising Design Blogs to Follow →
This article presents 30 new and fresh design blogs that are worth checking out. Weblogs featured here discuss web, graphic, and print design. There’s an OPML file to download at the bottom, if you…
March 2009
Pirate Bay Torrents Spread Via Facebook →
In a bid to conquer the web bit-by-bit, The Pirate Bay has launched a new feature to allow it to penetrate the social networking site Facebook. With only a single click Facebook users can add their…
iPhone Accounts For 50 Percent Of U.S. Mobile Web... →
Every month, AdMob releases some statistics about the mobile phone market by evaluating traffic from its mobile ad network, and in the month of February, it said one of the highlights was that…
Apple uses a jailbroken iPhone in patent... →
Uh oh Apple — it looks like even your attorneys are dirty, thieving jailbreakers.The images from the iPhone biometric security patent application show a jailbroken phone, complete with…
ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust →
Meet Vince Shlomi. He’s probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi,…
Apple announces WWDC 2009 dates →
Here we go: Apple’s just announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference will take place June 8-12 in San Francisco. If you’ll recall, last year’s WWDC was where a little gadget called the iPhone…
Pwn2Own contest winner: Macs are safer than... →
Charlie Miller, the security expert who won both this and last year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own security contests by exploiting Macs running Safari, repeated in an interview that he’d recommend Macs to…
Mythbusters 'Big Bang' Shatters Windows →
Mythbusters went to Yolo County and ended up with a bigger bang than expected.
Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best... →
As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a…
Even Digg Is Not Safe From Hacker Bots →
Obscure user, 400 odd diggs in less than an hour all from newly created accounts… someone figured out how to play with Digg’s captcha.
A Cup of Green Tea A Day Keeps Gum Disease at Bay →
For each daily cup drank, the risk of having signs of gum disease — including receding, easily bleeding gums — inch downward, the researchers report in the Journal of Periodontology.
Apple Bluetooth Headset Quietly Discontinued →
According to the Apple Store, the company’s $100 Bluetooth headset has been discontinued.
Kernel_task is using over 60% of my processor for some reason. Good news is that it makes my laptop hot enough to keep me warm!
25 Years of Mac: Classic Macs Still at Work →
The machines are rare examples of aging Macs that are still in daily use. They are a testament to the utility and longevity of the Mac, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Sunday.
Want better broadband? Pitch in here: →
There’s a bandwidth gap between the United States and the rest of the developing world that President Obama wants closed, and the feds are about to ask for help devising a plan to catch up to the…
Resource: Typeface Anatomy and Glossary →
A glossary of terminology relating to digital fonts and typefaces; defininitions and descriptions for typographic features.
70 Excellent Photoshop Resources →
In this massive collection of resources, you’ll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more.
This is definitely my most favorite Graph Jam yet - http://bit.ly/4pQi4o
Sen. Gregg says Obama budget will bankrupt US →
President Obama’s former Commerce secretary nominee, Senator (N.H.-R) Gregg blasts President Obama’s budget saying it will bankrupt our country for future generations.
Michigan 15-year-old dies after police Taser him →
BAY CITY, Mich. – Police in Michigan say a 15-year-old boy has died after being Tasered by officers who were trying to break up a fight.
Obama's budget to produce record $9.3 trillion in... →
President Barack Obama’s budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush’s presidency, congressional auditors said…
Women talk three times as much as men, says study →
It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men. In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men,…
30 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web... →
Adding illustrative elements to a web design can take it to a whole new level. In this article, you’ll be able to set your eyes on some of the best examples of websites that have chosen to use…
Could STAR TREK Soon Return To TV? →
Hollywood Reporter - There is some momentum here. The ‘Pushing Daisies’ creator Byan Fuller has openly been pushing for it, J.J. Abrams is no stranger to TV either. This article explores all the…
Obama: 'It's Like the Special Olympics' →
The first appearance by a sitting president on “The Tonight Show” may well end up being the last. President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the…
DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong... →
Remember President Obama’s splendid gift to British PM Gordon Brown? The UK Telegraph reports those 25 DVDs just went from thoughtless to literally useless:
The American Double Decker →
Just finished upgrading my server. Doubled the RAM, tripled the hard drive space!
This 3D Movie Looks So Real! (Comic) →
Click on the kid in the fourth panel for a hidden comic.
12 Ways to Add Randomness and Creativity to Your... →
One of the wonderful things about digital photography is the creativity that you can engage in once you’ve got your image on your computer and in Photoshop. All kinds of effects can be achieved to…
Ouch. My laptop just fell on my head. Don’t ask how, just know that it hurt really, really bad!
Apple Movie Trailer site debuts on Twitter →
In a rare show of openness, the team behind Apple’s Movie Trailers page has started a Twitter account.
Apple Sells 30 Million iPhone / iPod Touch Units... →
Apple sells an astonishing number of iPhone/iPod Touch models since launch, leveraging the unit’s abilities as a game platform to be reckoned with
It’s 80 degrees outside, but the classroom I’m in feels like 40. :(
Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry... →
President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.
I'm here from space to make love to you [Comic] →
Spaceman trickery
2G iPod touch to have Bluetooth unlocked by OS 3.0 →
Bluetooth Audio A2DP coming to iPod touch 2G…for the small price of $9.95
A New 'Star Trek' Enterprise: 'Trek'-Themed... →
Soon, Trekkies will be able to channel their inner Starfleet commander—or inner William Shatner—with “Tiberius,” or perhaps they could try “Red Shirt” or “Pon Farr”—for the ladies.
Engadget - Live from Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 preview... →
Live blogging from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event
iPhone finally gets copy and paste →
iPhone finally gets copy and paste!!!
2,670 = Drunk Driving Deaths So Far In 2009 →
Check out the death clock in this article, it seems to change every couple minutes or so which represents another life lost to drunk driving. If you are driving drunk you are not driving towards your…
SCI FI Channel to change its name to Syfy this... →
“By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider range of current and future imagination-based entertainment beyond just…
Why Apple might reveal a tablet at tomorrows... →
The Apple iPhone 3.0 event tomorrow might have more surprises than are immediately apparent. Especially in relation to a tablet. Here’s why:
Catfight! Arrests made at America's Next Top Model... →
An open casting call for the reality television program “America’s Next Top Model” turned into mayhem on Saturday afternoon in Midtown Manhattan. Fights broke out, three people were arrested and at…
Looking Into the Past (PIC) →
Marty McFly does this all the time.
Ok... Now We're F***ed! →
Over 80 bug fixes due in Mac OS X 10.5.7 "Juno" →
Apple on Thursday evening made available to its developer community yet another pre-release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, which stands to be the seventh maintenance and security update to the company’s Leopard…
Snow Kitty →
My MacBook Pro kernel panicked again… Yay for losing some progress on the project I was working on!
Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show →
While the entertainment industries push for harsher copyright laws, public opinion steers in the opposite direction. Two recent studies from Canada and Spain found that half of the Internet users use…