Opera Software has released Opera 7.60 Preview 3 for Windows for download. I took a quick spin with it to see what new features they’ve added. Granted, I am a big Firefox fan, but I’m not so closed in my belief that Firefox rocks (which it does) that I can’t recognize the goodness in other […]

The new concept of micro-rebooting takes the presence of software bugs as a given and, instead, works toward shortening recovery time.

That’s the concept behind “recovery-oriented computing,” a 180-degree turn from traditional thinking. The idea is that since software can’t be created without crash-causing flaws, it should be built to reboot much faster, allowing users to […]

At least according to Microsoft.

If you haven’t read about it elsewhere well then remember you read it here first. Microsoft has put into beta (again I believe) their Google-killer. It’s as ugly as ever. Looks amateurish. And ummm, I don’t know what else to say. It’s another search engine. Not the most exciting of topics.
So I guess I will […]

It is finally here! I know you were all waiting. You won’t be disappointed for it is the best browser ever! Go Firefox!

Since today’s election day, I’m wondering where people really stand compared to how they’re voting. The World’s Smallest Political Quiz is a 10 question tool to determine where you sit on the political scale… do you favor economic freedom? personal freedom? both? neither? or somewhere in between.. More useful than the polarizing labels of liberal/conservative […]

According to Slyck News, a news site covering the file sharing community, “bit torrent spam” has recently been popping up on “Suprnova.org”:http://www.suprnova.org/, the ‘net’s largest bit torrent listing site.
When you download a compressed file from some users, you have to visit the site of the person that originally uploaded the torrent in order to get […]

Zend has announced the winners of its PHP 5 coding contest. The entry criteria were pretty flexible with the most stringent being that the application should be potentially useful to the PHP community.

The top three:

PRADO by Qiang Xue — an event-driven and component-based framework for Web application development in PHP5
wtcSQLite by Andrew Gallant […]

Amazon has added the ability for customers to upload their own photos to be displayed with the Amazon-supplied product shots. This is a really amazing idea in my opinion, and it looks like people are already uploading some helpful photos, comparing the product’s size to other common items, pointing out “trouble spots”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B0002OKCX4/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_1/002-1052569-5777652?%5Fencoding=UTF8&index=1#gallery, showing the “back”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B0000DC69T/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0/002-1052569-5777652?%5Fencoding=UTF8&index=0#gallery […]

The image says it all.

I consider myself to be a techie, but technology like this blows my mind. Cyberkinetics, a company based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, has developed the Braingate:

A pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, […]

In another step toward making the human obsolete, researchers from NIZO Food Research, Quest International and Wageningen University in the Netherlands have developed an artificial throat. Now, we don’t even need ourselves to taste test things.

Developing the flavour of a new sports or low-carbohydrate drink is a lengthy task, involving many tests by panels […]

Glad to see the government taking such a strong interests in our computing haibts. Too bad it will probably amount to nothing. I don’t even think the people who vote on these bills use computers. Maybe they are still using BBSs and read their mail through Pine so spam and spyware are never really that […]

Today, I came across something surprising in my friendly city newspaper — a story about Wikis. It was an AP story out of New York.

The article specifically mentions Wikipedia, perhaps the largest and most well-known Wiki project as well as the use of wikis for idea organization in companies.

At its core, a Wiki is an […]

The rats are trained to search for human odor. In the case of an earthquake, for example, the rats would be sent in. If they come across a human, a brain recognition pattern would be detectable, and the rescue team would know an area to search for survivors. Rats are obviously much […]

Thought we would mention this nice little contest for our readers in the Maryland/DC area. If you win, you must send us all the prizes because that would be the fair thing to do…right?
Prizes include:

Ten winners will receive “Admit Two” passes to either of the AMC screenings
One winner will receive a DVD of the first […]