Freewebs launches new AJAX SiteBuilder
Pretty sweet design and implementation. They also did a good job incorporating 3rd party widgets.
Archive for August 16, 2007
Find out all the USB devices that where attached to your computer.
Every time you attach a USB device, your computer remembers it but its hidden from normal viewing. Here’s a good hack to see what kinds of devices were attached. You may be surprised to see what you find.
Xbox 360 to get memory shrink: cooler, but mostly cheaper
TSMC has just announced that they’re partnering with Microsoft to bring smaller 90nm memory chips to the Xbox 360. Some of the early press coverage I’ve seen of this announcement already suggests that the new chips will make the console more reliable by cutting down on power consumption.
LimeWire to “go legit” with 256Kbps DRM-free music sales
LimeWire has announced that it plans to join the growing pool of digital music resellers by launching its own music store. Can LimeWire success where Napster has
… napped? LimeWire could face some trouble signing on major music labels.
Major copyright case to test First Sale Doctrine, possibly shrinkwrap EULAs
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has agreed to take the case of a California man who is locked in a legal battle with Universal music over the sale of “promo CDs” on eBay. The case will test the limits of the First Sale Doctrine and could have implications for the legal status of “shrinkwrap” licenses in the software industry.
Why gamers are better at handling life
With video games, sometimes you enter levels that are rather easy to navigate and play through, but as time passes, the levels get harder, and the bosses become more formidable. And in some cases, the solutions to various traps and puzzles seem to elude you until you are certain that you will never be able to figure things out. Life is li…
It’s Official: Appleworks Is Dead
“AppleWorks’ last breath was masked by last week’s iMac, iLife and iWork announcements - Apple has discontinued the product,”
GNOME turns 10!
We want to develop a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based entirely on free software.” Those were the opening lines of Miguel De Icaza’s email announcing the GNU Network Object Model Environment, better known as GNOME, exactly ten years ago, on 15th August 1997. ..
DIY Wii balance board used to play snowboarding game
Armed with a GlovePIE script, some plastic, and a few shaved tennis balls, one guy sets out to see exactly how a balance board will work with actual games. Luckily for us, he documented the entire process!
Rockstar to the gaming industry: Rally behind us and Manhunt 2
What do you think Diggers, should we fortify their ranks?
Apparently Live Search is Stealing Website Passwords
Perfect 10 are suing Microsoft Live Search for including stolen images in their search results. I can understand why Perfect 10 are upset, nobody likes people stealing their content. The problem is that its not up to the search engines to police copyright theft.
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