Archive for April, 2007

Top 100 Most Influential People in IT

Monday, April 30th, 2007

eWeek has a interesting slideshow of the most influential people in IT, many of which will be familiar to you all.
I won’t spoil anything from the list so just check it out because it has it’s share of surprises.
Check it!

7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

You all know digg, the social bookmarking website. Well, it has only been a week since they launched their own API and there are already some note-worthy applications and ideas released onto the interwebs.
Here’s a list of Mashable’s favourite 7. Definately need to check that out.
Enjoy!

Wine 0.9.36 released

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

You know Wine, the ever-popular implementation of Windows for Unix. They just got version 0.9.36 out.
A selection of the more interesting changes in the version:
What’s new in this release:
- Midi support in the CoreAudio driver.
- Mixer support in the Alsa driver.
- A lot of MSI fixes.
- Implementation for most D3DRM functions.
- The usual assortment of [...]

A mouse mouse

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Title sounds wrong for you ? Well, it should. Instructables has a pretty sick how-to made by canida  for a  real mouse ( as in rat ) mouse. It was gutted and filled with the parts of a small laptop mouse. Site has pictures and video of mouse in action.
Enjoy!

Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps.
Read the press release here

Slice in CSS with this 9 page full-featured guide!

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

A concise, 9 page full-featured guide for anybody who is interested in becoming a CSS web designer,CSS Slicing Guide teaches you how to take a layout straight out of Photoshop, or infact any graphics program, and turn it into fully standards compliant XHTML and CSS with superfast loadtimes.
Check it out!

Icon search engine for webdesigners

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

iconfinder is a search engine that crawls the internet for… you guessed it, icons. It’s a great tool for web designers, allowing you to quickly search through 17.238 icons.

EA Sports games introduction tutorial

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Here’s a very funny audio made by Andrew Anthony, official voice of EA SPORTS tagline, instructing you how to say the famous “EA SPORTS - It’s in the game” quote with which every game starts.
Enjoy!

Moster list of freelancing job sites

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Here’s a list of job sites from around the internet compiled by FreelanceSwitch.com for all of you freelancers. It’s neatly tagged and organized, making it easy to find work.
Good luck!

IRS wants to tax online sales

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.
It is reported that nearly 700,000 Americans make their primary or secondary income from online [...]