I’m not sure if the folks at Redmond have changed their water supply, but for the last 6 months to a year, Microsoft has been getting a lot more right than they have wrong. As evidence of this, their new search engine bing.com (formerly codenamed Kumo) has opened to the public in preview mode, much the same way Gmail has been in beta for over 5 years now. After a few random searches, I’m sold, or at least rented.
Read MoreEarlier this month, Canadian newspaper The Globe And Mail recently launched The Download Decade series, which is a multimedia cornucopia looking at how the media landscape has changed since Napster launched 10 years ago (as of June 1st). Besides a wealth of articles on all aspects of digital media, the site, which was months in the making, has a number of video and audio features, which can be viewed not only through YouTube and iTunes, but also downloaded via the oft-maligned bit torrent. I can say that this is one…
Read MoreWhat do you get when you select all the webcomics artists who follow a certain foulmouthed comics writer by the name of Warren Ellis (of Transmetropolitan fame, and currently writing FreakAngels and Ignition City)? When such selection is jumpstarted by Ellis putting out the call personally on Twitter, you get a motherfucking kickass webcomics roundup thread, that’s what. It’s not the first time he’s done this, but the collection appears to be snowballing. I’ve only tackled the first three-odd pages of the thread so far in my reading and in…
Read MoreThis iPhone screenshot is from an episode of a TV show called Flashpoint, which I discovered on my hard drive, and with which I discovered that the most common video container in the world (anything ending in .AVI), is unplayable on this ‘iPhone’ handset! It took a little bit of screwing with to get right, but there is an MPlayer app on Cydia you can use to watch this forbidden format. With a few skips and jumps, and provided you don’t sic it on anything too hi-rez, it works. But…
Read MoreThough it actually sneaked out the door a day early, the latest version of Microsoft Windows 7 has officially been released to the public. Just like the earlier beta, this is the ‘Ultimate’ edition of the OS, so it comes with all the bells and whistles, including Media Center. An XP compatibility mode which will allow legacy applications to run in a virtualized XP space, concurrently with Vista & Windows 7 applications, is also available as an addon, which should help assuage some of the fears of enterprise users as…
Read More[TFLN]: TXTS FRM LST NGHT is a new-ish site with a mission to keep a record of a phenomenon that’s likely familiar to all of us on some level. Remember that time you havered your ex because it was 4 in the morning and you just had to get something off your chest? Ya that’s kind of the idea. From the site: Texts From Last Night (TFLN) was founded in February 2009 by two friends for reasons that may or may not include: the tendency to press send more easily…
Read MoreAccording to LIFE Magazine, Toronto has joined the ranks of Barcelona, New York City, Tokyo, and 6 other large cities as the most photographed in the world. LIFE’s process was not particularly scientific, but still telling, in that it appears that the stats come from casual or amateur photographers and not necessarily from any corporate-sponsored initiative: A glance at the list of Flickr’s all time most popular tags reveals that a handful of cities are consistantly photographed by the users of the popular photo hosting site. Check out the stream…
Read MoreToday marks the first time that the United States has marked Canada as a ‘priority’ problem in the fight against intellectual property theft. This puts the largest trading partner of the US in the same rogues gallery of pirates that includes Algeria, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia and Venezuela amongst others.
Read MoreIt appears that I promised a full iPhone jailbreak guide in an earlier rgbFilter post. I have since lost any memory of doing it. Fortunately, I actually wrote out all the steps before my latest schism, and have since recovered them for you from my lifestream. Here is the entire rest of the series. Make sure you reread the caveats in that first post!… QuickPwn 2.2.5 identifies which iPhone model to jailbreak…
Read MoreThe above video demonstrates a chemical gel created in a lab at Waseda University in Tokyo. It’s a purely chemical reation that allows it to move in a fashion similar to an inch worm. The 600 um scale is just over half a millimetre, so there’s no fear of it killing loved ones and taking their forms yet… From The New Scientist, a great place to keep tabs on all the latest advances of SkyNet.
Read MoreEarlier this year Philips announced it’s 21:9 Cinema TV, which officially makes it 5 better than 16:9. Although one could argue whether the world needs 21:9, Philips has put together a really cool demo of the TV, using a bullet time type short called Carousel which can be watched here. As the film plays, watch for the the three tags in the progress bar, which work as inline commentary.
Read MoreAs most of you know, the guys who run The Pirate Bay, the most popular search engine for torrent files, were found guilty of, well… being pirates even though they don’t actually host the copyright infringing material. A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing each to a year in jail. The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of 30 million Swedish kronor ($3.6 million) in damages to copyright holders, among them a number of American media giants. The…
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