Before you rush out and try to duplicate the image, you should know that you’ve got to have perfect conditions and fairly expensive gear. Still, it’s incredible that a 2-megapixel, fixed-focus camera can see more than 500 million miles.
It was aimed through a telescope to create a 267x magnification. He then cleaned it up [...]
It’s not what you would expect from the Chinese company that acquired IBM’s PC business, but it works. The ad is getting passed around like candy, and it is really funny and points out the weakness of the Macbook Air. (It lacks some ports and an optical drive.) Expect the Macbook Air crowd to strike [...]
The partnership teams Sony with IGA Worldwide, one of the largest in-game ad providers in the world.
This was probably a necessary move for Sony, since it doesn’t have its own in-game ad network and its chief games competitor, Microsoft, does, having bought Massive to stake out its place in the growing market.
Every time I think [...]
Just yesterday, my
iPhone started acting up: the screen would freeze, and phone calls wouldn’t hang up, among other symptoms. Once I connected the device to a PC and downloaded the most recent release of the iPhone software, the glitches disappeared.
On my year-old notebook, there are six different Java versions, each using about 136MB of disk [...]
DirecTV will release a new TiVo-powered high-def DVR in the second half of 2009, the company has announced. Unlike the last “DirecTiVo” model that was released in 2004, the new model will be able to receive DirecTV’s entire lineup of digital and high-def channels.
DirecTV’s original TiVo-powered DVRs were among the first satellite receivers with [...]
commentary
Still, if we must have DRM, an open-source system seems best. Marlin isn’t the first time open-source DRM has hit the market. Back in 2006, Sun Microsystems was talking up its own open-source DRM approach. Unfortunately, it never caught on. Nor did SideSpace’s open-source DRM back in 2003.
Will Marlin be different? Maybe. But I wouldn’t [...]
See also: Find stuff faster on Craigslist–if you dare
To help in the hunt, there’s a new tool called Search All Craig’s Lists that does the dirty work for you–scouring all the cities and countries with local Craigslists and compiling them into one index that can be searched extensively, and with ease.
It uses Google custom search, [...]
Microsoft’s most recent update for Windows caused many people using Check Point’s ZoneAlarm firewall to lose their Internet connection. The patch fixes a potential DNS-related security breach that affects servers and clients alike, so I’m sure Microsoft was compelled to release it as quickly as possible.
In Windows XP, click Start > Run, type sysdm.cpl, and [...]
(Credit:
Pioneer)
Blu-ray comes in single layer (25GB) and dual-layer (50GB) flavors. Pioneer does say that because the lens specification for reading the discs is similar to Blu-ray, “it is possible to maintain compatibility” between its disc and Blu-ray discs. That’s not saying it will be compatible, but it would make sense since Pioneer is one [...]
commentary
Still, given Zenoss’ traction with large companies and its triple-digit percentage revenue growth quarter-over-quarter, it’s perhaps not very surprising, therefore, that Forrester Research recently suggested, “Zenoss looks like a strong competitor for large frameworks.”
Zenoss recently announced an expansion to its open-source systems and network management product, creating Zenoss Professional Edition to focus on medium-size enterprises. [...]
