“Were launching the Digg Recommendation Engine beginning this week. The feature will be in beta and presented to registered Digg users first, based on a random sampling of logged-in users.”
The Recommendation Engine is a cool way to discover new content on Digg. Now that there are more than 16,000 stories submitted to the Upcoming section every day, its difficult to sort through everything to find the best content. The…
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Time Magazine takes a look at modern robots in this slideshow.
We don't want to fight addicts; we want to fight addiction.
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The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in Sri Lanka will gather this week to discuss open source applications for Windows, in a bid to curb software piracy in the country.
Organized by local advocacy group FOSS Sri Lanka, the FOSS-ed for Windows conference will cover various topics relating to FOSS applications for the Microsoft platform. These range from Web browsers and e-mail clients, to graphics software…
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Ever wanted to make text out of grass? Well with Photoshop you can. In this tutorial we'll create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience.
Now nice as it's looking, our text is a little lonely and monotonous. So in this last section we'll add a few more elements to the design. Note we don't want to overdo it though because I want this to be a desktop background, so space…
Intel has announced plans to extend its Linux-based Moblin software platform so that it can be used in in-vehicle navigation and infotainment systems. Developers will soon be able to pimp their rides, Linux style.
During an interview last week, Intel IVI director Staci Palmer told Ars that the Atom processor and Moblin software stack will provide a complete solution that can be used across a broad spectrum of transportation-related devices, including…
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Google’s free online calendar makes it easy track your schedule from anywhere, but many of its best features lurk beneath the surface. Here’s how to handle Gcal like a pro.
Desktop calendar applications are great if you're always at your desk or if you're diligent about syncing with your PDA or phone. But if you like to travel light, it may be time for you to switch to a calendar that you can access from any…
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Bostonist was permitted to set foot in Boylston Street’s gleaming ice palace of an Apple Store this morning, in advance of its Friday opening. An Apple spokespersonage gestured and informed us that the store’s floor is from Italy and that the store’s employees are from the Boston area. (Bostonist recognized and was recognized by a former Diesel bar
Bostonist was permitted to set foot in Boylston Street's gleaming ice palace of an Apple Store this morning, in advance of its Friday opening. An Apple spokespersonage gestured and informed us that the store's floor is from Italy and that…
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Last month ReadWriteWeb did an analysis of the proportion of tech news on the Digg front page. They found that it has halved every year for the past 3 years. Now the forecast is for it to drop to 10% or less.
Recent analysis conducted for ReadWriteWeb has shown that the presence of Tech stories on Digg has halved every year for the past 3 years (RWW: http://tinyurl.com/6xsrap). They found the percentage of most popular stories that are Tech on…
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What seemed like a vague industry possibility just a few months ago now seems like an inevitable certainty. Multiple carriers in North America are now either employing or considering monthly caps where users pay per gigabyte should they “over eat.”
Why Not Just Make Gluttons Pay For a Business-Class Tier?
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A blog journaling the use of Linux for one week without using Windows. The author has never used nor considered Linux before.
The first thing I noticed is how fast Ubuntu is. It only took about 4 seconds to completely start up, as opposed to about 30 seconds to a minute on Vista. Everything is so speedy, even the internet browser. I've used Firefox before, but for…
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“How Starbucks is using a special brown logo to evoke the chain’s beginnings and restore some goodwill for the brand…”
Tapping a logo change to convey a corporate strategy is not a fresh idea. In 2000, then-Ford CEO Jacques Nasser took the Ford Blue Oval logo off the headquarters building in Dearborn, Mich., and replaced it with a script rendering of…
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Demand for iPhones outside the United States is out of control and has reached the point where it has started to impact Apples normalized supply chain projections. Its okay to have a delta of, say, 100,000 units or so per year between actual and forecast. International demand is driving that delta upwards of 1 million.
If you define a potential user as someone who can afford to pay twice as much for an iPhone and double what an AT&T subscriber pays per month, there are at least 7 million potential iPhone users in Nigeria, 9 Million in South Africa, 80…
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LiveJournal is no longer allowing new users to sign up for Basic level accounts, which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user profile.SUP, the Russian company that recently acquired LiveJournal, angered a substantial number of its users last week by instituting the policy before discussing it publicly.
Advisory board member and youth social networking scholar danah boyd reacted thusly in her own LJ entry: “While offline this week, I learned that LJ has changed its account levels. Needless to say, Brad's pissed. I'm pissed. Not only…
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How a generation of children are being raised online, spending 20 hours a week on the internet
A generation of children are effectively being “raised online”, spending most of their free time on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, a report warns today. It says that many under-16s spend more than 20 hours a…
