Bill Gates’ To-Do List
It’s still a year before Bill Gates shifts from a full-time Microsoft worker to a part-timer. Which is good, because there’s plenty he still wants to achieve.
Archive for February 1, 2007
Reduce, reuse, and… download? Is iTunes good for the environment?
An interesting look into the environmental impact of the iTunes Store. Are iTunes users reducing waste?
Vista on Intel Mac With Parellels: Not Quite There
we wondered how well the best of both worlds worked. Namely, using Parallels to run Vista alongside OS X. So we installed Vista using Parallels on our 15-inch, 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro.
The good news is it did work, but the bad news is it didn’t work very well.
Windows Vista Gaming Performance - NVIDIA and ATI Compared
So should gamer’s run right out and get a copy of Vista today? Apparently not, according this article, especially for NVIDIA users. With quotes like “very obviously let down by the Windows Vista gaming experience” and “NVIDIA’s Forceware 100.54 driver on the other hands was more or less a mess” pretty much sums it up!
[PSP] Firmware 3.10 decrypted on Day 0 thanks to Team C+D!
Remember when I said that the newest firmware required some magic on the part of Team C+D? Well, it’s because I knew a few things at that time which suggested that something was cooking. And well, I guess it didn’t take them very long to finish whatever they were doing. And in this case, it was another fine piece of work- The FW 3.10 decrypter!
Photoshop Tutorial
Vanishing objects with clone tool in photoshop
The Road to KDE 4: Kalzium and KmPlot
Since not all of the development for KDE 4 is in base technologies, this week features two of applications from the KDE-Edu team: Kalzium, a feature-filled chemistry reference tool, and KmPlot, a powerful equation graphing and visualization program. Read on for the details.
Coming Soon: Catalyst Control Center - Linux Edition
AMD is working on a new fireglcontrolpanel replacement! A new Qt Catalyst Control Panel for Linux is underway, which should offer similar functionality to the Windows version. The new ATI Linux Control Panel looks like it may be done before the end of this year.
A dystopian future - looking beyond Windows Vista
If Microsoft’s latest patent application is anything to go by then the next version of Windows, Vista+1 is really going to give you nightmares.
Trailfire Debuts New Tool At Demo
Trailfire has blazed its path as a social networking tool, and now it
The Amazing 3D desktop on Linux, This makes “Aero” look like a cheap toy !!
Hey all, this had been around for some time … but in time for the Vista by M$, here is a look on a “REAL” 3D desktop that is practical !!
I installed something similar to this (without the transparency) on an “old” AMD pc (athlon 2200+ ,512MB , 128MB 5200) … it’s amazing, and it’s not just eye candy !
Video Screen Cast of the new Netflix Watch Now Beta
A member of 2old2play has taken a Video Screen Cast capture of the interface for the new Neflix Watch Now feature that is currently in beta. The screencast visualy shows how the interface works from sign in, to movie streaming. Great indepth look at the new service, with voiceover.
