Windows only: Driver update utility Device Doctor finds outdated drivers on your PC, and helps you download the latest version—without charging you a dime.

At Google, we're committed to giving you the information you want — regardless of the form in which it might appear. Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information. For example, if you want to learn a magic trick, a video showing you how to perform the trick is likely the best result. ...

€7.6m from rich customers’ accounts was ‘loaned’ to needier clients at a rural bank branch in Germany. Photograph: Stephan Hoeck/Getty Images/Stock4B Creative

Gunfire from a pro-government militia killed one man and wounded several others Monday after hundreds of thousands of chanting opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marched in central Tehran to support their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since disputed elections. The outpouring in Azadi, or Freedom, Square for reformist ...

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

Hysterical news, stats and their new Onion News Network video section make this site one of the best around. Check out The Onion Store and marvel at the ingenious Gotcha Box.

There is a whole generation of people who need to change how they communicate with the world. Just this week, Michelin hired TBWA to create a Facebook campaign around their slogan "The right rite changes everything," in an attempt to rebrand the Michelin Man.

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Windows/Mac/Linux: If you ever have to rip DVDs to your desktop or convert video, you know how awesome open-source encoder HandBrake is. Well, it's just been updated with over 1,000 changes since the last release, including 64-bit support.

One of the widely anticipated features of the new iPhone OS 3.0 is push notifications which allow messages to be sent directly to an individual device relevant to the application that has been installed. Apple have demoed this as useful for news alerts, or IM notifications however it fits in perfectly with the nature of our server monitoring ...

En la era de la superabundancia de información es difícil encontrar una definición estricta de un neologismo, mientras Wikipedia no haya dado su visto bueno. Lo que le ocurre a un concepto como el Open Government es que la definición que ofrece la enciclopedia online por excelencia es excesivamente amplia:

Considerada uma poderosa ferramenta de análise de tráfego 802.11, Aircrack consegue trabalhar em Linux e Windows. Sua função é quebrar ou descobrir chaves WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) a partir de dados capturados duma rede sem fio alvo. Na verdade, o pacote cujo Aircrack faz parte é composto também por outros programas: como o Airodump e ...

　ちょうど今日（11月26日）1時半から、創業者の荒川亨氏の「お別れの会」が開催される。荒川さんの業績を、世界が今絶賛していますよ。

If you have duplicate rows in your MS SQL Server database tables, you may want to delete duplicate records. Before removing some of the rows in the SQL database table, you should decide which one of the row duplicates you will keep. And you should decide which rows to delete.

Starting a few years ago, Google began buying thousands of miles of so-called “dark fiber”--fiberoptic communications wiring that was installed in the ground but going unused. The fiber was historically cheap thanks to a fiberoptic building boom that had gone bust, allowing the Mountain View search giant to acquire large amounts of it ...

Recent reports have held up a remote Brazilian town—filled with blonde, blue-eyed twins—as evidence of Mengele's postwar attempts to add to the ranks of an Aryan "master race."

Let me say right off the bat- JSTalk isn't a replacement for AppleScript. I don't think anything will ever replace AppleScript and some of the amazing things I've seen done with it (especially in the publishing world). But I think of AppleScript in the same way as the original Macintosh Toolbox and Carbon after it. AppleScript was good in its day,

With over 300+ million members worldwide, Facebook is the 2nd most trafficked site in the world, sitting only behind Google. With stats like these, it’s no wonder businesses are turning to Facebook for further exposure.

Closures are reusable code blocks in Groovy. The code of the closure is executed against the delegate of the closure. By default the owner of the closure is the same as the delegate, but we can change this. We can define which object is the delegate for a closure, so we can change the object the closure is executed for.

After three decades of an Islamic revolution that has neither upheld Islam's virtues nor brought revolutionary change from repression, many Iranians have had enough. But political transformation, if indeed that's what we're seeing the start of, won't necessarily be immediate. For instance, nine years elapsed between the first Solidarity strike at ...

Students explore the book "Two Sweet Peas". Working in guided reading groups, they discuss moving, making friends, and the differences between poems and stories. They read the book silently and discuss the importance of being kind and appreciating others.

Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web. Nearly every site has a concept of a user account, registration, and identity. Searching for “sign in” on Google yields over 1.8 billion hits. And yet, the browser does nothing to make this experience better save for some basic auto form filling. The ...

Rarely I find something as inspirational as the interview with Eike König. Eike, is the owner of HORT. I reported about HORT in July. And I must admit I was overwhelmed when Eike invited me to their summer party. As usual I asked for permission to use some of their works for my blog post and then he reported that I really understood what their ...

The detail is astonishing. At first it looks like just another castle surrounded by tiny houses and neat fields. But zooming in on the courtyard one can see figures milling around.

Thanksgiving Maskers, what the heck's that, you ask? Before Halloween became the holiday it now is in the United States, children would dress up in masks on the final Thursday in November and go door to door for treats (think: fruit!), or scramble for pennies. The tradition was known as Thanksgiving Masking.

Wait a minute. It’s less than 2 weeks till Thanksgiving. Shouldn’t I be seeing a pumpkin pie here? Well… yeah, if you’re totally wedded to tradition. And admittedly, this is the time of year when many of us are. Grandma always made pumpkin pie. Or Mom always bought Mrs. Smith’s frozen apple pie (and passed it off as ...

Para quem não sabe, Blog Corporativo são blogs produzidos para ou por uma marca, empresa, produto ou organização. O Blog dentro de uma empresa poderá ter como público-alvo uma audiência externa (clientes, parceiros, mercado) e uma audiência interna (colaboradores). Ele ainda melhora o relacionamento com os clientes e fortalece a imagem da ...

The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones. Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, a self-propagating program that changed the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s pop singer Rick Astley.

Coup de coeur pour cet illustrateur Christopher Lee, en provenance de Californie. Un style coloré et plein d’optimisme à découvrir sur son portfolio The Beast Is Back. Des clients comme Disney, Lucas Art, Hasbro ainsi que la direction artistique du studio Buck.

Just a few years ago, it seemed curious that an omniscient, omnipotent God wouldn’t smite tormentors like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. They all published best-selling books excoriating religion and practically inviting lightning bolts.

A tweeting CEO is a terrific asset. It puts a human face (and voice) to the company's leadership and it demonstrates the executive team's commitment to customers. And unlike blogging, tweeting imposes relatively light demands on a CEO's precious time.

As you prepare to feast, it's not too soon to consider the impact of all that turkey and stuffing. The free Lose It! [iTunes Link] has been out for a long while now, and it's an app that people nearly always bring up when the conversation turns to good exercise/calorie tracker apps. With good reason: at one point I managed to lose over 15 pounds, ...

As the World Trade Center and Pentagon were ablaze on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Secret Service's presidential protective detail was informed that a "Korean airliner has been hijacked" en route to San Francisco, prompting already-skittish agents to worry about another wave of terrorist attacks.

The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery.

Au Festival Européens des 4 Écrans (1), qui s’est tenu à Paris du 18 au 20 novembre 2009, j’ai participé à un atelier consacré aux “Coulisses de la création” d’un web-documentaire. Il était animé par Judith Rueff (2), l’une des fondatrices de l’agence multimédia Ligne 4, qui travaille à un ...

Presenting a list of 14 Free and useful web based applications that can always come in handy. Most of these apps are better alternatives to a paid software/application that you are already using. I use most of these services on almost daily basis and thought it would be a good share. If you use a web based (free) application/service, let us know ...

On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active.

The semantic web folks, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, have been saying for years that the Internet could become significantly more compelling by cooking more intelligence into the way things link around the network.

It’s been a while since I updated the blog and rails has changed a bit since then. I thought I’d revise one of my previous posts: the one about uploading multiple images using paperclip. This time we’re going to be doing it using Rails 2.3.4. I’m going to be using the paperclip gem, as well as the nifty_generator gem(for ...

Sois muchos los que después del twitt que puse el otro día me habéis enviado mails y habéis compartido algún wave conmigo para que os ayude a reducir el tiempo de carga de vuestro blog, es por eso que para no seguir repitiendo lo mismo a todos, voy a explicaros como he conseguido bajar del segundo en el medidor de velocidad de Pingdom.

Hace algún tiempo rondaban algunos rumores de que Google estaba preparando un rediseño de sus búsquedas, y tal parece, todo lo que se dijo es cierto. De hecho, ya se filtró una forma de probarlo. ¿Qué hay que hacer?

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Matt Asay's recent CNET article on the "wisdom of the crowds" losing steam is likely to please the many critics of social media, but perhaps the observable trend is misunderstood. Asay comments focus on the slow down of Wikipedia but also branches into areas of open source development. He notes that "Even uber successful open- ...

RESTON, VA, November 25, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released October 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that more than 167 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in October with ...

“Once the term sheet is signed, the power shifts away from the startup to the purchaser. The typical term sheet will give the purchaser the discretion to step away from the deal if due diligence is unsatisfactory, or if the necessary internal approvals are not obtained.”

I’m writing a series of tutorials on x86 assembly for C programmers who are already familiar with many of the basics of programming and computing. The assembly tutorials available online just aren’t doing it for me, and I need something organized the way I think, on the topics I’m interested in, presented in a way which make ...

Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s guaranteed in this business. Do it right, and only haters will hate you for it. To get, you must give.

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Editor's note: welcome to part 5 of Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory". This part is the first half of section 6, which discusses what programmers can do to improve the memory performance of their code. Part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 remain online for those who have not yet read them.

I will be the first to admit while it didn’t take me a long time to sign up and start networking with friends on Twitter, it has taken me a long time to understand the true power of the website. When I first started using it I saw it as a networking and communication tool. The more I come to use it and the more I watch people from all walks ...

Eclipsing Einstein? A solar eclipse confirmed gravitational lensing and Einstein's concept of spacetime. But a new quantum gravity theory now generating excitement separates time and space.

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When Apple unveiled its iPhone 3GS earlier this month, AT&T was noticeably absent from the list of providers that would provide tethering capabilities for the smartphone.

Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That's sad, because it's an easy, free way to try or use a separate OS without messing with your hard drive.

But, stepping back a bit, why would you implement something you already have? Every IT organization is doing at least some of the practices described in the ITIL framework; rudimentary Incident Management at a minimum. On the other hand, there is no IT environment that looks exactly like the ITIL framework, so no one ever “fully implements ...

Eu também estava no Prêmio Transformadores ontem, e como você, também fiquei emocionada ao ver tantas estórias de altruísmo e desprendimento e igualmente me questionei sobre "o que ando fazendo da minha vida"! Por isso elas são vidas transformadoras: além de modificar para melhor a vida dos que eles auxiliam diretamente, sÃ

Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues?

Who is that nuzzling up to Emma? Certainly not her boyfriend The Harry Potter actress was spotted with Spanish rock star Rafael Cebrian in New York So what would you look like in Kate Winslet's dress? The body-hugging black Herve Leger looks just as good on our model ... but not the £1,350 price tag

Here is an amusing project for the crochet enthusiast. It can be accomplished in two or three sessions and is easy enough for the novice crochet fan to practice their skills.

It has probably happened to you: you're reading articles or watching videos on the web, and you come across some unrelated, gibberish comments. You may wonder what this is all about. Some webmasters abuse other sites by exploiting their comment fields, posting tons of links that point back to the poster's site in an attempt to boost their site's ...

We are happy to announce the first public open source release of 'WebROaR - Ruby Application Server'. This product is available for free use under GPL v3.

Armenia excels at chess. Its top player now has a shot at becoming world champion. How did this tiny country become a giant at the game? Grandmaster Levon Aronian: the popularity of the game in Armenia has made him into the country’s David Beckham

I’d have loved for this post to be the introduction of our latest iPhone application. An application that introduces a new default optional home screen. A screen that doesn’t require you to scan for red dots with numbers inside of them. Instead it would display information and notifications of things that are new and relevant to you. ...

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The goal was simple enough: decouple a particular type of analysis out-of-band from mainstream e-mail processing. We started down the MySQL road…put the things to be digested into a table…consume them in another daemon…bada bing bada boom. But pretty soon, complex ugliness crept into the design phase… You want to have multiple daemons ...

China says it will cut the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product in 2020 by 40- 45% from 2005 levels, says state media.

Next week here in the U.S. many of us will be heading home to see family, share a turkey feast, watch some football.... and help out our less technically-inclined relatives. The pumpkin pie might not even be on the table before you get that inevitable request: "Can you take a look at my computer? It's been really slow lately."

Note: Back in '05, guest poster Matt Haughey covered how to set up an FTP server using Serv-U FTP—which is a fine commercial application, but its personal edition limits how many users can log into your server. We love our open source software, which is why we're taking a look at FileZilla, which has all the features, with none of the price ...

Windows/Mac/Linux/Xbox: What could make the already awesome Xbox Media Center even better? An infusion of eye candy, of course. Read on to see some awesome XBMC skins and learn how to install them.

Paul Steiger, el director de la organización periodística ProPublica, escribe sobre los dramas a los que se enfrenta hoy el periodismo- y sobre las puertas que se le abren en el futuro.

With so much cool stuff popping up these days you notice when something truly draws awe. Qi Pan, a PhD candidate at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University, has developed a novel approach to capturing 3D objects with a standard webcam. Called ProFORMA, Pan's software digitizes and image maps an object in 3D as the user rotates it in ...

Wordpress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms and there are ever increasing numbers of plugins and themes being released for it. Vast numbers make searching for the perfect theme for your blog a tough job.

After over 2 years of extensive research, Todd Zaki Warfel has released the book “Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide”. I talked to Warfel about his interest in the area, the surprising results of what prototyping methods practitioners actually use , and how he seeing prototyping being used in the future.

Ian Lesnet, who used to write for Hack A Day, did the Bus Pirate project, and now runs Dangerous Prototypes, has this cool little hackable LED holiday card/ornament (don't tell Adafruit). The ATtiny13A-driven card comes in two flavors, an already-assembled version, for $15, and a not-for-the-weak-of-heart surface-mount soldering kit, for $12. The ...

Although many users of the Kindle will use it as a book reader and nothing else, the device is so jam-packed with possibilities that you’d be a fool not to take advantage of them. The Kindle can be used for GPS, wireless connectivity, playing music, and so much more. Read on to find out how you can be a better student or person with these ...

WASHINGTON - Marg Delahunty has braved the wilds of the American Midwest to come face-to-face with Sarah Palin. Comedian Mary Walsh's beloved character button-holed the former Alaska governor at a recent book-signing in Columbus, Ohio, only to be strong-armed away from Palin by a cabal of security guards.

If you have ever wanted to learn how to slink around unnoticed and send hidden signals like a real CIA agent during the Cold War, then you are in luck. Wired's Danger Room reveals that the wonderfully titled "CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception" has now been declassified and is for sale to the general public.

Windows: If you're a happy Evernote desktop user and only wish it looked nicer, moved faster, and was smarter about how it handled your organization tools, the just-released 3.5 beta will make you very happy.

Apple has trained iPhone owners to enjoy paying for digital content more than the general online population, a survey suggests. Media law firm Olswang on Wednesday published its 2009 Convergence Survey, which analyzed e-shopping trends among iPhone owners and general online consumers. Apple enthusiast blog 9to5Mac summarizes the findings ...

Boagworld is the web design blog of Paul (the Wurzel) Boag who lives in the heart of rural Dorset. He produces a weekly podcast with Marcus (pop star) Lillington on all things relating to building and running websites. They also run web design agency - Headscape.

Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we’re thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs. I’m thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since. It wasn’t at all a certainty that he would ever return to the ...

This presentation, about information flow through networked media by Danah Boyd at the Web 2.0 Expo, is so rich with challenging thinking it's difficult to know where to start. The best place is probably to go read it yourself, but I'm writing it up here if for no other reason than to help me get my head around some of the big ideas it ...

Once a month this Upper East Side chef and food stylist, Molly Shuster, collaborates with an Upper West Side photographer Jamie Beck to bring our readers a homemade recipe using local farmer’s market seasonal ingredients, the kind of fundamentals our grandmothers lived by in the kitchen. We do hope you’ll stop by once a month and see ...

In honor of Thanksgiving in the United States, we’ve put together a very special (questionably) inspired color scheme inspiration. Our non-US readers might be wondering what giant balloons has to do with memorializing the pilgrims. For over 75 years, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade through New York City has been an annual Thanksgiving ...

OH! I just love this! MMMM! Great time to post it, too! I betcha everyone is thinking today... "hmmmm, I think I will do this on Thursday!" Great pics, too! :)

Kevin Lipp of Grand Island, N.Y., was diagnosed with MS in 1999, but 11 months ago he travelled to Italy as a part of an international project trying to find ways to treat people with MS. In Italy he was treated by Dr. Paolo Zamboni, who uses a revolutionary surgery to treat vascular disease that he believes causes a lot of the neurological ...

This week in London I remembered one of the remarkable things that Mac OS X and the Apple hardware provide: wireless access. By this I'm not referring to the ability to access the Internet through the Mac's WiFi hardware, but rather, the ability to provide wireless access to others using one's Mac. I used it this week to get WiFi access on my ...

Welcome to our little BitTorrent tracker site, a community where you can easily share your files with your friends. If you don't know what BitTorrent is, come visit us on the Forum. In short, you'll need a BitTorrent client like uTorrent before .torrent links on this site would work.

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Fueled by the fall TV season and the addition of ABC shows to its library, traffic to the video site backed by NBC, ABC and Fox spiked nearly 47% in October from the prior month, the biggest single-month percentage gain of the past year.

Desde o ano passado o site Trend Hunter lança um vídeo listando 20 tendências de consumo e comunicação que estarão em alta no ano seguinte.  E o de 2010 já saiu. Confira e fique por dentro:

Anmerkungen zu einem Interview mit Verlagsvertreter Christoph Keese über Verlage, Google und die aktuelle Marktsituation. Auf Carta ist ein Interview mit Christoph Keese, dem Konzerngeschäftsführer „Public Affairs“ der Axel Springer AG, erschienen. Keese hat letztens auch an einer Diskussionsrunde zum Leistungsschutzrecht für ...