Plasma is KDE 4s way to handle desktop widgets. Plasma can not only use native widgets (Plasmoids), but also Superkaramba plugins and MacOS X dashboard widgets. Now this list was extended by a new set of widgets: the Google Gadgets. It was the Google Gadget team who did almost all this Plasma integration work.

As the title says, this is a proof of concept right now: it shows that it can be done. Nothing less, but also nothing more. The next task is now to integrate it with the GUI and for example to fetch new Gadgets right from the Google page….

Apple has updated its list of digital cameras supported by Mac OS X’s Camera Raw. 10.5.4 adds support for eight cameras from Canon, Pentax, Epson, and Leaf.

Apple rearchitected the RAW engine in Leopard and Aperture to allow for more frequent updates to RAW support. Since nearly every new model requires a new profile for its RAW data, this is a good thing. And with additional RAW camera support added…

The alarm clock dials a random number in your mobile contact list for every three minutes that you address the obnoxiously loud ringing. Brilliant. Pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance.

Duh people like to sleep, that's why I'm saying they could get more of it by going to bed at a decent hour. Teachers & Professors give students plenty of time to work on projects, homework, etc., but the students choose not to do them…

Diggers have no fear The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The Internet is the real world as this geek learned how to master it, By the end of the year, he had six girlfriends simultaneously, all maintained through a complicated system of instant messenger, e-mail messages and heavily orchestrated dates.

It started in my sophomore year in high school. I went to one of those big Eastern public schools that pumps out students in a way that would make 19th-century industrialists throw their top hats into the air and shout…

Can you really sell other people’s products and expect to build a profitable online business? What does it really take to be a “Super” Affiliate in 2008?
As with most debates about affiliate marketing, there are always two sides of the story.

Can you really sell other people's products and expect to build a profitable online business? What does it really take to be a “Super” Affiliate in 2008?As with most debates about affiliate marketing, there are always two sides of…

Do you wanted to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What’s the best-selling set ever? What has been the worst? Do they recycle? You sent the questions and here you have the answers: Here’s the definitive mega-reference, straight from Lego.

We are always working to improve the assortment of pieces available through our Pick a Brick service. Right now we have over 900 elements available. Unlike the traditional toy retail business, its more difficult for us to project which…

Social Poster allows you to submit a URL with a title, text amp; tags all at once to any 80 social websites of your choice. Its very easy to pick amp; choose which sites you want to post your content to. Almost all of the top social websites are supported on Social Poster.

I tested Social Poster out for myself & it’s truly is a convenience & time saver! I chose the “frame submit” option & it allowed me to go to each site that I chose to submit to, in one window…

It’s uncomfortable when this should be the main priority!

Time is round. Space is curved. Why should your mouse be linear? Plenty of applications require you to do more than scroll up and down. Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to…

BBC UK - Devices called a “mosquito” that send out high-pitched sounds which can only be heard by young people are now considered to be banned. Why they are using it in the first place?

Kent County Council in south east England has become one of the first in the UK to ban mosquito gadgets from its buildings. The devices send out high-pitched sounds which can only be heard by young people. They're used to try and stop…

Turn your regular cheap camcorder or photo camera in a night vision filming spy tool ! for as low as $10, hacking a flashlight to use IR light invisible to the human eye !

Learn how to hack a simple flashlight and transform it into a night vision flashlight! The items need for the project cost less than 10$ and u get perfect night vision… More» view !

Just when we feel comfortable enough to say wow, cell phones have really changed the way we operate,? things get even weirder. Here are 10 facts about cells from around the world that show the scale and style of our contemporary global use.

Korean teenagers between 15 and 19 years of age send well over 20,000 text messages a year, on average (60.1 texts per day). I don’t care how fast StarCraft has made your fingers - that’s a lot of time that could…

A device that relays a person’s body movements to an array of electrodes on their tongue could help people with balance problems recover their poise, or wheelchair users avoid pressure sores.

In one experiment volunteers became worse at balancing when their backs were tired, but could compensate when they felt foot pressure on their tongue too. Another study projected data from the ankles onto the tongue. Volunteers found they were…

Learn how to make your very own DIY multitouch pad in just a few minutes and at a minimal cost.

2. Pieces of clear, sturdy material such as glass, acrylic or plexiglas

And guess what, it’s Microsoft?

This isn’t even as good as the BETA version of Apples touch screen interface. You need TWO hands to zoom? WTF?