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Arcade Fire, Google Create First HTML5-Powered Music Video | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

hakujin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:13:18 +0000

Internet savvy alt-rock band Arcade Fire just released the first HTML5-powered music video for its most recent single, “We Used to Wait.”

With the help of Google Web developers, who used HTML5 optimized for Google Chrome, the rock outfit created an interactive video that incorporates visual data of your hometown using Google Maps, Street View, and the 3D graphics engine within HTML5.

PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WILL ENJOY THIS MASTERY!

Arcade Fire, Google Create First HTML5-Powered Music Video | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App

hakujin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:47:10 +0000

Google is launching a new tool on Monday that lets anyone create an app for Android phones.Google App Inventor claims to enable non-coders to develop complete, working Android () apps by connecting a series of “blocks.” Google () has been testing App Inventor in schools for a year, reports The New York Times. At the time of writing, App Inventor is only available to those who apply via a form

via Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App.

10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS – Page 2 | Maximum PC

hakujin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:49:01 +0000

10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS – Page 2 | Maximum PC.

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Disaster Recovery by Google

hakujin — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:44:29 +0000

Will you be ready when disaster strikes? It’s an uncomfortable question for many IT administrators, because answering it with confidence usually requires boatloads of money, immense complexity, and crossed fingers. Fortunately there’s a better way.

via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Disaster Recovery by Google.

hakujin says: This is a great article on Google disaster recovery (i.e. goog apps cloud/redundancy) and the comments that follow are both critical and informative.

A hole in space… no really, an actual hole! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

hakujin — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:34:34 +0000

Space is black. I mean, duh, right? But really, it’s black because it’s almost entirely empty, so even with stars scattered around, there’s nothing to light up.hst_ngc1999But some parts of space are bright: clouds of gas can be lit up by nearby stars, making them glow

via A hole in space… no really, an actual hole! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.

Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp – HotHardware

hakujin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:29:53 +0000

SSDs are still overpriced for most average consumers, but the companies responsible for making them are constantly searching for ways to make them larger in terms of capacity, smaller in terms of form factor and cheaper in terms of real dollars. Toshiba has their own line of solid state drives right now, but just as the company has innovated in the optical storage department, they’re also hoping to innovate in the world of NAND storage.

via Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp – HotHardware.

How Wi-Fi attackers are poisoning Web browsers – Network World

hakujin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:16:32 +0000

Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to “poison” users’ browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal data at a later time.That’s according to security researcher Mike Kershaw, developer of the Kismet wireless network detector and intrusion-detection system, who spoke at the Black Hat conference

via How Wi-Fi attackers are poisoning Web browsers – Network World.

How the PS3 hypervisor was hacked « root labs rdist

hakujin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:01:43 +0000

George Hotz, previously known as an iPhone hacker, announced that he hacked the Playstation 3 and then provided exploit details. Various articles have been written about this but none of them appear to have analyzed the actual code. Because of the various conflicting reports, here is some more analysis to help understand the exploit.

via How the PS3 hypervisor was hacked « root labs rdist.

Three years later, the PS3 gets hacked

hakujin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:40:51 +0000

After over three years on the market, the PlayStation 3 has finally been hacked. Famous iPhone hacker George Hotz, aka “GeoHot”, has become the first to achieve the feat, though what this means for the PS3 modding community remains to be seen.

via Three years later, the PS3 gets hacked.

Photoshop Fail: 15 Hilariously Botched Images | Design + Ideas on WU

hakujin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:47:44 +0000

Forget silly things like human anatomy and the laws of physics. When it comes to Photoshop, reality needn’t apply – just clone, rotate, skew, blur and hope nobody notices.

via Photoshop Fail: 15 Hilariously Botched Images | Design + Ideas on WU.

Ditch the Granny Knot to Tie Your Shoes More Efficiently – Knots – Lifehacker

hakujin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:36:53 +0000

The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop.

via Ditch the Granny Knot to Tie Your Shoes More Efficiently – Knots – Lifehacker.

PayPal vs Fake PayPal: Can You Tell the Difference? [PIC]

hakujin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:10:38 +0000

Back in October, we wrote about a new policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN that will allow non-Latin domain names to be registered in early to mid 2010. This is really exciting for Internet users in areas that use non-Latin alphabets like Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Cyrillic, who have spent the last fifteen years without full domain opportunities.

via PayPal vs Fake PayPal: Can You Tell the Difference? [PIC].