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09.04.08

13 High Speed Photography Images Culture | (0)
13 high speed photography images for your viewing pleasure (we’ve included a few high speed photography books on the topic at the end of this post).
09.04.08

Future Dystopias Where The Liberals Have Won Culture | (0)
The Republican Party is gathering in St. Paul, to put forth its vision of the future. And over the next few days, you'll be hearing a lot about the horrendous futures that could take shape if gormless liberals were allowed to run the show. Which makes us wonder: what does science fiction, the literature of the future, have to say about liberal-run
09.04.08

Facebook Ads Target You Where It Hurts Culture | (0)
Facebook takes advantage of its users' insecurities to sell advertising. With the knowledge that I was engaged to be married, the site splashed an ad across the left side of the screen playing into a presumed vulnerability. "Do you want to be a fat bride?"
09.04.08

The 10 Awesomest LEGO Sets (You) Ever Made Culture | (0)
Scientists say atoms are the building blocks of life. But ask any 8-year-old, and he'll tell you the truth—LEGO blocks are the building blocks of life. Even before LEGO started grabbing the license to kid-friendly properties, kids were happy enough to build cities, medieval kingdoms, pirate coves and more. Here are the 10 greatest LEGO sets ever.
09.03.08

1938 Underwater Photography Culture | (0)
1938 underwater photography by Bruce Mozertom.
09.03.08

Interview: Brad Linder Talks Linux and Ultraportable Computers Culture | (0)
Ultraportable computers are springing up everywhere as mainstream computer hardware vendors like HP scramble to compete with companies like Asus and MSI for market share. From his vantage point as editor-in-chief of Liliputing, a popular Web site devoted to ultraportable computers, Brad Linder gets to watch all the action in this new niche. We caught up with Linder to see why he thinks open source software is crucial to the advancement of ultraportables and where liliputers are going from here. OStatic: How did you come up with the term "Liliputer"? There's currently no accepted term for low cost ultraportable computers. They're certainly ...
09.03.08

Chrome, JavaScript, and Flash: Two (Mostly) Opposing Views Culture | (0)
In one of the more interesting reviews of Google's open source Chrome browser, released yesterday, AP technology writer Peter Svensson suggests that Google missed the boat by focusing on JavaScript performance in the browser, and submits that the real culprit behind much pokey web performance and many browser crashes is Adobe's Flash. Notably, Svensson's diatribe against Flash coincided with some interesting comments sent to us at OStatic from AdventNet/Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu. Vembu sees Chrome's focus on JavaScript as right on, to the point where it may begin to stifle Flash. Here's the gist of all this. Peter Svensson's review ...
09.03.08

5 Apps For Painless Windows Reformats Culture | (0)
Written by Lee Mathews Thanks to customers who can’t avoid spyware and trojans to save their lives, I’ve gotten pretty quick at backing up, reformatting, and finishing off Windows installs. I’ve got five core tools that I use to get the job done, and here they are. DriverMax. After going through the install process, the first thing I shoot for is a complete set of functional drivers. Running DriverMax before the format lets you back up all the drivers on a system. It’s a great app, and it even loads drivers for non-present devices - meaning my customers don’t have to ...
09.03.08

Google Open Sources Skia Graphics Engine Culture | (0)
While it wasn't widely written up in the coverage of yesterday's release of the Chrome browser from Google, the company also open sourced a big portion of Android’s graphic engine code. The code comes from the Skia Graphics Engine that was developed by Skia Inc., a company Google acquired in 2005. According to our sister blog GigaOm: "This vector graphics rendering software makes high-end visual effects possible on feature phones. It is tiny in size and is capable of delivering very high quality. Skia’s engine is the graphics core of both Google Android and Google Chrome." Check out their story. ...
09.03.08

hi5 Networks Releases 0.8 OpenSocial Standard Culture | (0)
Social networking site hi5 Networks has just announced its delivery of the OpenSocial 0.8 standard, including a collection of RESTful APIs for building social applications across the web. OpenSocial--a set of common APIs for online social network applications developed by Google and several other social networks--has historically had its roots in JavaScript. The new RESTful APIs from hi5 are targeted to allow developers to choose their own development languages for their applications. Will this get a positive response? "The social web is a phenomenon we at hi5 clearly embrace and promote," said Akash Garg, CTO of hi5, in a statement. "Open, ...

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