Mar 24 2009

Hulu Gains 10 Million Viewers In February. #4 Video Site

Hulu jumped two spots to become the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, according to the latest data from comScore …

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Mar 24 2009

Converting a PSD to XHTML/CSS

A tutorial on how to convert a PSD into Valid XHTML/CSS.

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Mar 24 2009

9 Good Things The Internet Has Ruined Forever

Sometimes nostalgia can actually serve a mirror into our lives and show how really screwed up we really are. Like, for instance, what life was like before high speed Internet. Sure, our lives sucked then as much as it sucks now, but we blame the Internet for ruining a few things that were once good and holy.

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Mar 24 2009

Breaking: Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner

Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner over censorship lists

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Mar 24 2009

Pinch and Spread: The Battle Over Multitouch Tech Is On

The Pre, Palm’s new mobile phone, stole the show at CES this year. Looks helped, but mainly it was the Pre’s iPhone-like touchscreen tech that wowed the industry crowd. Two weeks later, Apple COO Tim Cook expressed his irritation (without directly naming Palm) to analysts on a conference call: “We will not stand for having our IP ripped off”

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Mar 24 2009

Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader

A overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago

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Mar 24 2009

Linux : Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Includes the Brtfs Filesystem.

None other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced last evening the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.29, a version that brings initial support for the highly expected Brtfs filesystem. Brtfs is a brand new filesystem created by Chris Mason and designed to act like the ZFS or WAFL ones. When Brtfs will be stable, it will….

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Mar 24 2009

Can anyone break the carriers’ lock of the cellphone market

I was astounded when the cellular carriers sent Dell’s prototype “iPhone-killer” back to the drawing board. I do get it though … carriers need differentiating products in a crowded market. Still, shouldn’t the handset makers be designing the handsets and not the other way around?

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Mar 24 2009

Do Linux users pay a "Microsoft tax?"

Steve Ballmer recently caught flack for essentially saying that Apple users pay an Apple tax of 0 for buying Macs compared to PCs. Does that mean that Linux users are forced to pay a Microsoft tax every time they buy a PC with Microsoft software on it?As I wrote in my blog yesterday, Steve Ballmer claims that when people buy a Mac rather..

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Mar 24 2009

.CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker

clover kicker writes “The CBC reports that the group managing Canada’s .ca internet domain is working to foil an internet worm set to attack starting April Fool’s Day. ‘This is the first virus that’s really focused on domain names as part of propagating the virus itself,’ said Byron Holland, CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, a non-profit organization that represents those who hold a .ca domain. CIRA’s strategy includes pre-emptively registering and isolating previously unregistered .ca domain names that Conficker C is expected to try and generate, said a news release issued by the group. That would make those names unavailable for anyone to register in order to set up a website to host the worm’s ‘command and control’ file. A list of the names has been predicted by security experts based on the worm’s code. In addition, CIRA is investigating and monitoring activity at names on the list that have already been registered and will ‘take appropriate action if suspicious activity is detected.'”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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