Welcome To Macintosh: The Documentary

Well it appears that 2008 is going to be the year of the Apple documentary. Last week I mentioned the upcoming MacHeads The Movie, and now comes Welcome To Macintosh. It looks a little less fanatical than MacHeads. There’s a trailer and teaser out, but I could only find the teaser on Youtube, so I have it posted after the jump. The trailer is the good one though, so you’ll have to follow the link on the next page to watch that sucker, but it’s worth it. Best line in the whole video, from an Apple employee:

The people on the outside think that it’s like this wonderful World of Oz or Disney going on and all of us are just all these brilliant, amazing, happy people and like, it’s not, it’s like a sausage factory man — you really don’t want to know how this stuff happens. Read More »

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Mold Your Mouse Into Any Shape You Want

Is your mouse not ergonomic enough? If you answered yes then here’s the mouse for you. The Lite-On Technology Moldable Mouse is made from lightweight moldable clay covered by a nylon and polyurethane fabric. You mold it into the shape you want, slap on the buttons and scroll pad (which communicate with the device via radio) and you’re good to go. The design was even good enough to win a Red Dot Design Award. I know I really need one — I think I’m getting crappy tunnel from my non-ergonomic mouse. This would be great for people like me or anyone that was born with a lobster claw instead of an arm. And if you were born with a lobster claw instead of an arm I want to eat it. Read More »

Nautilus Home Theater Is Freaking Awesome

Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic novel, the Nautilus home theater is truly a work of art. It was designed by Dillon Works Inc. for Dallas-based dentist Randy Moran and his wife. It looks unbelievably awesome and is nearly 900 square feet. I just showed it to my girlfriend and told her I wanted something similar. Read More »

First Google Earth Update for 2008

They’ve kept a low profile so far, but when they came up with it, it was well worth it. The Google Lat Long Blog comes with a post from Wei Luo, a senior GIS Specialist detailing all of the changes and updates that have happened. In decreasing order, based on the level of how exciting the additions are, here they come: Read More »

Practical Aspects of WordPress SEO

The most challenging stage in websites maintenance and promotion is represented by the application of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques with the purpose to increase the websites visibility for search engine robots. Read More »

What is the Virtual Reality?

Virtual Reality allows us to enter into unseen worlds, created by computers, and even to influence this unreal world. VR goes from war games to the training of surgeons or pilots. It can be applied for supervising aerial traffic, in medicine, an agreement parks, in industries and administrative domains. On the other side, VT technology can also be used in the crime world. Read More »

Some Editor Editing Options from Google Earth

It’s all about optimizing the experience people have when they’re visiting your site, so that they will come again. No more, and by any means no less and who can do that better than
the users themselves?

Brian Cornell, Software Engineer at Google Maps has announced the maps aficionados about the latest tweak they have brought to the interface, in a post on the Google Lat Long Blog. Read More »

High Speed Hector

Hats off to HECToR, now officially the fastest super computer in the UK. Hector or to its close friends, High End Computing Terrascale Resource is has been built for the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility and is capable of processing 63 trillion calculations or teraflops each second, rising to 250 teraflops later next year. Read More »

Clear the Decks

How many times have you wanted to just clear everything off you desk? It’s tempting, no matter how hard you try desks are like magnets for all kinds of rubbish that you somehow never get around to throwing away, and PC desktops are just the same. So, for everyone who has forgotten what a naked desktop looks like, Read More »

Tell Word What To Do

Quite literally, this freeware utility, called Natural Word, lets you take command of Word with simple typed commands. For example, rather than hunt around the menus if you want to increase the size of a word or change the colour simply highlight the word or characters and type ‘make 12pt’, or ‘make blue’. There’s no need to memorize the commands, Natural Word will try to understand what you want. Read More »