Photoshop enthusiast and frantic video editor Deke McClelland fits 101 tips for Adobe's premiere product into five minutes of video, and the results are surprisingly watchable. [via LifeHacker]

If you've ever read a computer magazine, you know the idea behind "101 Tips."; One gala issue, lots of first-rate contributors, lots of quality information. And lots and lots of pages. But when's the last time one…

They dont call them flies for nothing. While we try to avoid the relentless aerial acrobatics of flies, some scientists have built them their own flight simulator. As this video reports, the work could lead to new flying robots.

The fly captivates Dickinson for precisely the reason it chafes the rest of us: its uncanny ability to dodge its archenemy, the swatter. He explains, “Almost anyone has suffered the frustration of trying to swat an annoying fly, but how…

Linus Torvalds tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.

This video was put together by the folks at the Computer History Museum who kindly gave us permission to share this video with Linux Journal readers. http://www.computerhistory.org __________________________ Carlie Fairchild is the publisher of…

Allen Stern of CenterNetworks belts out a ballad to Twitter.

Over the past week, Twitter has been up and down several times. As I wrote about each outage, I started to realize just how much I am attached to Twitter and how much it really hurts deep, deep down when it's down. So I decided to create a…

5 Megapixel phones from Nokia and Sony are no match for the growing popularity of the iPhone….and this is before 3G!

This graph is "normalized", which is a fancy way of saying that they automatically correct for the fact that more people join Flickr each day: the graph moving up or down indicates a change in the camera's popularity relative…

iPhone users around the United States have confirmed that AT&T is giving them free Wi-Fi access at their many hotspots nationwide. All they have to do is enter their iPhone’s phone number to gain access. Is AT&T treating BlackBerry and other customers like second-class citizens?

Although the "rumor" that AT&T is giving iPhone users free Wi-Fi access has apparently been confirmed as true, I have not been able to confirm that AT&T customers who don't use an iPhone are locked out. If…

Google Fellow Jeff Dean had a very interesting presentation on Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions.

The recent Data-Intensive Computing Symposium brought together experts in system design, programming, parallel algorithms, data management, scientific applications, and information-based applications to better understand existing…

Instructional video site 5min has released a new beta version of their SmartPlayer, introducing support for text, video, and images that can be merged into a single embeddable flash widget.

We’re definitely excited about it. Thanks for the positive feedback. And…Sorry to disappoint, but Tyler is not one of us - although I was relieved to see that he chose to use grown-up lingo in his comments, as opposed…

The Taiwan-based digital camera OEM Altek unveiled an 8-megapixel consumer digital camera with built-in GPS and automatic geotagging. The camera is expected to ship by June, and will be the world’s first, according to the company.

GPS-enabled digital camera will be great for "anywhere computing" extreme telecommuters, because photos are usually geographically based. They can help you remember where you took various photos and let you build a travel…

A company called BigString Corporation today rolled out a free new plug-in for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) that lets you send messages that self-destruct and impossible to copy or capture. Users can also send IMs from the company’s web site without using AIM.

Called BigString IM, the free but advertiser-supported service enables the sending of messages that leave no trail or copy on Internet servers. The sender can choose how long after sending the message self-destructs –…

Dell plans to unveil “later this year” optional new hardware that will let you connected to 3G wireless broadband networks throughout the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Rather than swapping cards to switch between carriers, the Gobi solution is software configurable!

If you buy one and subscribe to the right service, you'll be able to connect within the U.S. via EV-DO networks (like those maintained by Verizon Wireless, Sprint or T-Mobile) and in Europe via HSPA networks (like…

Denver International Airport is the biggest in the world to offer free Wi-Fi. But now a Denver newspaper reports that the connection is censored. The airport actually blocks blogs like BoingBoing and other “potentially racy sites.”

The ISP Planet blog says the airport is using the same kind of censorship technology employed by the governments of Kuwait, Oman and Sudan. The filtering product in use, according to — wait for it — the "Talking…

Last night during the first Digg Townhall, we learned that there are an average of 10,000 stories submitted to Digg daily.Approximately 150 stories make Digg’s frontpage per day, not including stories that make it but are subsquently buried. Based on my math, you have a 98% chance you won’t make the Digg frontpage today.

On an average weekday, you have a 150 in 10,000 chance that your submission will hit the frontpage. However we need to remove a piece of your chance because we know that some sites (in Tech for example: Gizmodo, Engadget, NYT, Techcrunch,…