Scientists have uncovered a powder that absorbs moisture and have shown promise at absorbing storm clouds. New Scientist: In their latest experiment, large military aircraft scattered the powder through a storm cloud 1600 metres long and over 4000 metres deep. It took about 4000 kilograms of powder to soak up the moisture from the cloud,…
...Read MoreDaring Fireball Exposes the Truth Behind the New PowerMac G5’s
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has some great observations behind the new Power Mac G5’s. There’s some good news and some bad news.
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Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup Good advice if you’re thinking of joining a startup. (tags: advice blog business digital howto management reference search startup technology tips career interview questions jobs vc) 16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Increase traffic to your blog through some relatively easy personal marketing. (tags:…
...Read MoreApples New Toy Aperture Appeals to Digital Photo Professionals
Wow! Apple has release a really cool professional photo platform called Aperture. Aperture allows real time editing in RAW format as well as versioning so you never lose your master documents. Take a look at the specs below: Apple: Input * Import images directly from cameras and storage devices o Compact Flash I, II and…
...Read MoreApples Unleashes the Big Doggies
Just before moving to what some are calling a “weaker” architecture, Apple unleases the big dogs with twin dual-core processors and brand super-fast video cards. Nice! ZDnet: Adding to its steady stream of recently announced products, Apple on Wednesday upgraded its Power Mac desktop and PowerBook laptops. The new Power Mac G5 Quad has two…
...Read MoreNikon Releases Digitutor
If you’re a Nikon user like me, prepare to be WOW!’ed. Nikon has revamped their site, registered users have known this for a while, opting for a cleaner, fresher, down-to-business look with some new features. The most exciting of these is the Digitutor. Digitutor is an online help guide that not only explains the function…
...Read MoreDane Gets Blogging Gig for AmEx
Dane is blogging the American Express OPEN Adventures in Entrepreneurship Conference. You gotta check this out. This is really cool. Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Records, Virgin Airways, Virgin Mobile, etc. etc.) will be there. Dane is blogging as part of an online discussion with Rob May of Business Pundit and Anita Cambell of Small Business…
...Read More.Mac offers multiple computer synching
If you’ve got a .Mac account and you’re running OS X 10.4 Tiger on multiple Mac’s then you’re in for a real treat. It seems with iSync you can synchronize information across multiple computers so you’re always up to date. Imagine bookmarking something on you home computer and having it synched across to your laptop…
...Read MoreComparing fonts with Typetester
This morning Dane pointed me to Typetester, a really cool way to check out fonts on the screen before you use them in your design. Take a gander. Hell, take a goose too if you want. It’s damn fine stuff. Thanks, Dane. Tags: cool, design, font, tips, webdesign
...Read MoreRunnng Ubuntu (Debian) and Apache 2: Let the fun begin!
The Ubunu box is up and running nicely. It took me a bit of time to get Apache 2 running to spec. Apache 2 on Ubuntu (Debian) has undergone some major revisions since Apache 1.3 namely that the old HTTPD.CONF file is now deprecated and has been replaced by APACHE2.CONF and a modular configuration. To…
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