Category: tech + the internet

I’ll be in Austin for a couple days, if you’re there – try and find me… “SXSW InteractiveMarch 10-14, 2006 – Connecting Digital Creatives An incubator of new, cutting-edge technologies,…

mac plus > mac mini plus “Our machine gave up its ghost long ago, so we didn’t lose any good meat gutting the proud beast. This is a nostalgia peice…

“The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.’s chips and run pirated versions…

“Like any other game console, Atari 2600 cartridges contained executable code also commingled with data. This lists the code as columns of assembly language. Most of it is math or…

“While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in…

Now just picture it at real car size and expanding to 20 feet tall… I for one welcome our new robot overlords

“With Apples newest generation of iPods garnering much support from analysts and consumers alike, many wonder what lays ahead for Apples most successful device. In this article we’ll take a…

“The latest and greatest iteration of Lego’s robotic toolkits debuted today at CES. The new NXT “brick” is a 32-bit microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC or, for…

Somehow my instincts tell me making them run might not be the best idea. ASIMO Running Video

Finally… “Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today issued a decision requiring all Canadian wireless telephone companies to implement wireless number portability (WNP) by March 14, 2007, in most of Canada.” This will…

“It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our…

“Most Americans carry cellphones, but many may not know that government agencies can track their movements through the signals emanating from the handset. In recent years, law enforcement officials have…

“We thought it was important for the user to be able to invoke every menu command directly from the keyboard, so we added a special key to the keyboard to…

iTunes Signature Maker “iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks…

A collection of add-ons (mostly patches and hacks) as Safari doesn’t have a great plug-in architecture. The top 3 are worth checking. http://pimpmysafari.com