Is Apple really that evil company that throws caution to the wind while doing everything it can to turn an even bigger profit? Some think so. And that’s why Apple may become the next generation’s evil empire. Just don’t expect me to agree.
In an interview with Scott Ruecker of lxer.com, John Hull - manager of the Linux Engineering team in Austin for Dell tells about how Linux is on the mind of the PC giant.
“As we approach one million PLAYSTATION 3 consoles participating in the Folding@Home program, we continue to improve the FAH client. With the new Firmware v2.1 we also prepared an updated version of FAH, which can soon be automatically downloaded by clicking on the FAH icon.”
New chat bots can be added to translate Google Talk chats in real time. As we expected, Google’s automated translation yields mixed results, but it’s a big step in the right direction.
Apple ad listing details the need for Touch interface QA personel. The interesting part is that the job states that it is for iPod and Mac Touch interfaces.
This jibes with Steve Jobs’ earlier hints that Touch was coming to Macs.
Hollow Earth theories come in many forms but perhaps the strangest of all is the believe that there is another habitable surface on the inside of the Earth with its own sun at the center of the Earth! One (albeit insane) ’scientific explorer’ is trying to raise $2 Million to mount an expedition through the ice caps to find this ‘Inner Earth.’
Two amazing mockups of the new Ubuntu Hardy Theme!
Firefox 3 Beta 2 has been officially released over at Mozilla.
[Improved in Beta 2!] Firefox 3 Beta 2 includes approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.
MSDN’s Channel9 and the IEBlog both confirm the new version of IE, IE8, will pass the ACID2 Test!
Continuing to refine its recently-released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system at a rapid pace, Mac maker Apple Inc. will soon begin testing the first pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update, AppleInsider has learned. People familiar with the matter say developers could receive an initial test builds as early as this week…
With a new video out that’s more teaser than trailer, Duke Nukem Forever still has a lot to prove. How can it possibly overcome the all ridicule its gotten over the years and blow us all away? Is Duke’s attitude worth more than great graphics or multiplayer? We take a look at what 3D Realms needs to do to make us love the series all over again.
“Although a couple of spin-off or bowdlerized versions — depending on your perspective — of Unreal multiplayer games were developed for consoles by or in association with Epic, none have duplicated the PC Unreal Tournament versions from stem to stern, as does the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament III.”
