Scientists Make Cloud Disappear

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 More

links for 2005-10-21

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 More

Apples 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 More

Apples 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 More

Nikon 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 More

Dane 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 More

Comparing 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 More