09.17.07
Replaceable
We’ve seen this theme before in the form of a t-shirt…
08.30.07
Smackbook Pro
This is old, but amusing. Have you ever wondered if there was another use for those motion sensors in your computer? (you know, the ones that turn off your harddrive if you drop it…) Someone put together a hack that allows them to switch between virtual desktops with a light smack on either side of his laptop’s screen…
08.21.07
VMware Goes Hiring
From San Jose Mercury News:
VMware is challenging Google for Silicon Valley’s most-coveted prize: computer-programming talent.VMware, which went public last week and has a market value one-seventh of Google’s, is wooing code writers with salaries that recall the dot-com heyday of the late 1990s, headhunters and analysts say. The salaries are more than other software companies in the area are offering, said Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research.
07.25.07
Burj Dubai
Even though it’s still under construction, the Burj Dubai is now the tallest building in the world.
06.18.07
Ephram’s Solar Panels
Here’s a very interesting look at the adoption of solar power in Amish communities. While most people think the Amish avoid technology for technology’s sake, their true objective is to remain independent from mainstream society, so they can preserve their way of life. They seem to be happy to do this with some technologies like solar paneling…
06.13.07
Safari on Windows
One of the announcements coming out of Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at Apple’s WWDC this week was the fact that Safari, the web browser for Macs, is now available for windows.Why would Apple do something like this?
Maybe they felt that it was a way to introduce Windows users to the Mac world and look and feel… and maybe they would get a few more people to consider getting a Mac…
Or maybe it’s so web developers can try Safari so they know how their pages and apps will look on the iPhone…
Maybe they feel like the browser wars need another round, that there is some reason to make Microsoft and Firefox look bad…
Or maybe there’s a more subtle message being sent… That Apple can port QuickTime, iTunes, and now Safari to Windows… and maybe any code written in Cocoa could soon be built for Windows… bringing a new set of developer tools that allow people to write code that runs on both Macs and Windows.
It could be coming… though I’m not holding my breath. If that’s not the case, there should be some other, bigger goal to making Safari available on Windows (a new product launch?). It’s not like the Jobs/Apple team to release things just for the heck of it.
05.08.07
Waaaaayback Machine
This has been around… well, for a long time. But I was recently re-acquainted with it.
You can visit the versions of webpages past… such as the long since departed StockMaster, or our old friend Buildscape.
Some of it is quite amusing, such as Google circa 1998. It’s also helpful to find something like JavaRSS.com website before it got hacked and left for dead…
05.05.07
Beer Batteries
From BBC – Foster’s hops on green bandwagon
The technology – using bacteria which consume sugar to generate power from brewery waste water…
As bacteria consume water-soluble waste from the plant such as starch, alcohol and sugar, the battery will produce clean water and electricity.