Before I get rolling here, let me warn you -- I'm not a frequent user of iTunes. I don't spend all of my time purchasing new music, videos, and movies, nor do I obsess over creating playlists to share with my friends.
However, I do use it often enough that after firing up iTunes 10 last night,
The True Blood Season 3 finale is going to air next Sunday, Sept. 12, which pretty much means now is the time to start talking about Season 4. On cue, E! Online has pieced together info on some of the characters who'll be coming back next year, which means they not only have a head start on spoiling Season 4, but they're also spoiling the Season 3 finale by letting you know who
Well, it looks like you still won't be able to actually make calls over WiFi, but Verizon Android users can now at least keep their WiFi connection active while using
Marvel's grand plan to release a bunch of individual superhero movies leading up to the ensemble adventure of Joss Whedon's Avengers film apparently involves hiding easter eggs all over the place.
Apple has jumped into the social media pool with both feet by introducing Ping to iTunes 10. Since this is brand-new, we'll show you how to set it up and start pinging your friends. Whatever that means.
After installing iTunes 10, you'll see
So, you've been waiting for a Mophie Juice Pack for your iPhone 4? You're not alone. Well, we have word that it'll be available as soon as next week for $79. We even managed to get hands on with a prototype that l
MosKeyto flies in Ordinary USB Flash drives to darn big for you? LaCie's new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it's connected to.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
A few months ago, Twitter announced that they had acquired Tweetie and the web (I refuse to use the word "blogosphere" because it is a stupid word) exploded with predictions that they had effectively killed off the market for 3rd party Twitter applications by offering a free alternative.
Safe SOX for your virtual box VMworld Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and compliance for VMware's new vCloud Director.…
Apple's new music-related social network, Ping, is not tied in to Facebook because the website demanded "onerous terms" that Steve Jobs said his company could not agree to.
When it was announced that David Tennant had scored the role of Peter Vincent in the Fright Night remake, the collective sound of millions of squeeing fans from the Doctor Who/David Tennant community was probably heard all over. Today, we now have our very first look at what the actor looks like in the role, and it's really, REALLY interesting. And kind of shocking.
A new streaming Apple TV arrives with Netflix as predicted, iOS 4.1 comes with HDR photography and GameCenter, and new iPod nanos drop the iconic clickwheel.
The Food and Drug Administration has warned that Evamist, a prescription spray used to control hot flashes in menopausal women, may cause premature breast development is children.
The iTunes Classic Visualizer is great. For starters, it keeps you interested, and it seems uncannily good at matching the mood of the visuals to the style of music. The new Visualizer style just doesn't make sense to me -- pulsating orbs?
Anyway, the problem with the Classic Visualizer is that it would always force a low resolution on you when using full screen mode.
I'm happy to point out that the Classic Visualizer in iTunes 10 now uses your current display resolution when you go into f
iTunes 10 provides a different layout for the Close, Minimize and Maximize buttons. Instead of being ordered horizontally, in iTunes 10 they're arranged vertically, like a traffic light.
Reverting the buttons to a horizontal layout can easily be done. With iTunes not running, open Terminal and enter the following code:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
To restore the vertical layout, simply use this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -0
A day after the new cloud-based Apple TV was unveiled, two patent applications from Apple describe methods to improve the experience of over-the-air syncing, and browsing of Internet-based content.
ARLINGTON, VA—Defense Secretary Robert Gates admitted losing $192 million in defense funds Tuesday when he unwittingly purchased a large number of bogus BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles from a disreputable arms dealer known only as "Steve." ...
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“As it has with other breaking news events — the landing of a jet on the Hudson River in 2009, the 2008 massacre in Mumbai — the story unfolded first in hiccuppin
While the new Apple TV was given the coveted "one more thing" slot in Steve Jobs' keynote Wednesday, the product will "continue to play second fiddle" to the iPods that were introduced, analysts on Wall Street believe.
Our colleagues over at Apple Gazette had a look at the product and stock value history of the popular Cupertino based company. The result is an awesome infographic and lots of interesting statistics.
Below a teaser image of the infographic, view the complete file
If you are tired of trying to keep up with Apple’s new iPod releases, upgrade your old iPod for free with Rockbox. Rockbox allows you to upgrade your aging iPod with new themes, fonts, games, and more.
Rockbox is a replacement firmware for the iPod, iriver, Cowon, and many other devices. What the firmware does is extends the functionality and features of your current digital music player.
I stumbled on the Mozilla Foundation’s Drumbeat project recently:
Drumbeat gathers smart, creative people like you around big ideas, practical projects and local events that improve the open web.
Would you like to make your blog look great on all devices, not just computers? Smartphones and other mobile devices are increasing in popularity, so here’s how you can make sure your blog looks great no matter what people are reading it on.
WordPress is a great tool for creating a blog or traditional website for your business, organization, or simply to share pictures with family and friends. You can
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Does eyestrain keep you from doing your work on the computer? Take preventative measures to avoid eyestrain—and get your work done. Organize a functional workspace, modulate light exposure, and keep your eyes healthy overall
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RIAA pres Cary Sherman says the failed sue-em-all campaign was really a success because it was “constantly generating dinner conversations about what you may or may not do with your computer.” He also doubts that legal music stores will ever have the selection of music that P2P offers because of the
UK law firm Ralli is urging those that have been “bullied” by ACS: Law with threatening letters and demands for compensation for alleged copyright infringement to come forward and be included in a group action they are pursuing. Lawyers at UK law firm Ralli are trying to roun
Robots have been appearing in movies for nearly 100 years. They can be cute, cool, scary or just plain annoying, but one things for sure, everyone seems to love them.
There was a spider hanging out in an upper corner of my room. My bed is right up against this wall. I couldn't fall asleep with a fucking spider hanging right over me, so I got a shoe, stood there like an idiot for maybe eight seconds because my conscience was getting the best of me, then said "Sorry guy" and smashed that motherfucker. Am I a pussy? Tell me this is within normal, manly human behavior. I mean, the poor bastard wasn't doing anything to me besides existing. submitted by munnerlyng to AskRed
News has surfaced that warning letters, allegedly from HADOPI, are being sent to an untold number of French citizens who are accused of copyright infringement. The problem? Neither HADOPI nor rights holders actually sent those e-mails. It seems that HADOPI can’t
iTunes 10 has a different user interface. Many people want to know how to change the size of the displayed album artwork. This tutorial shows how to either decrease or increase of size of album art that is displayed within iTunes 10.
(...)Read the rest of iTunes 10: Change or Increase Size of Album [...]
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Yes, we know. The giveaway has been over for quite a while now. We tried hard to push through the red tape and good news — we’ve finally selected a winner to go on this fabulous trip.Congratulations, Dan Splaw
It's been only a mere six months since its first unveiling, but Microsoft has already announced that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing. This means device makers can start tuning the software to their hardware, leaving plenty of time to release devices before the holiday season.
Well, this was rather unexpected. As it turns out, Commodore USA's CEO Barry Altman isn't particularly pleased about the article I wrote earlier today in which I placed a considerable amount of scepticism with regards to Commodore USA and its business (and website). He (not his lawyer) sent us a threatening email demanding we take down the article, post a new correction article, the whole shebang. The entire email - as an image, you'll want the original formatting - after the break. Our reply? We refer you
A whole lot of Apple news of course, but we've never really done music players or streaming devices, so let's skip the barrage of new iPods and the new Apple TV (streaming-only? Fail). The real meat is of course iOS 4.1 and 4.2, both of which were detailed during today's press event.
From infancy until our last days, our minds constantly produce dreams while our bodies are at rest. But, what exactly are dreams, and why do we have them?
Did you know that about half of the autobahn has posted speed limits, and there's always a posted "recommended speed" everywhere else? Even so, the autobahn remains a tempting informal speed track for drivers. How fast have the fastest of them gone?
Let's say your vacation tour group ditches you in the outback. Or your car slips off an icy road in the middle of nowhere. Will you have the tools to save your life?
//Mysql!
set @orig_lat=38.70032 ;
set @orig_lon=-9.38603;
/*Meters*/
set @dist=10;
set @mylat = @orig_lat;
set @mylon = @orig_lon;
/*1º = 69miles = 111Km or 111000 meters*/
set @unit = 111000;
set @lon1 = @mylon - @dist/abs(cos(radians(@mylat))*@unit);
set @lon2 = @mylon + @dist/abs(cos(radians(@mylat))*@unit);
set @lat1 = @mylat - (@dist/@unit);
set @lat2 = @mylat + (@dist/@unit);
Since iTunes does not give you a lot of information via print or export of your apps, I wrote a little shell script to retrieve information from the app files themselves.
The script creates and opens a .csv file. To correctly display the columns, choose 'semicolons' as the column delimiter in your csv viewer (e.g. OpenOffice Calc).
You can choose what information to retrieve by commenting/uncommenting them in the Attributes definition at the beginning of the script.
To run the script do th
Dmitry Baranovskiy and team have released another version of Raphaël, an excellent drawing and animation library backed by SVG (VML on Internet Explorer). New features in Raphaël 1.5 in
DETUNE and KORG teamed up to develop a new portable music workstation station titled Korg M01. The Korg M01 was inspired by the original Korg M1, "the world's first widely-known music workstation" released in 1988
Rom Number : 5181Game Full Name : Florist ShopGame Region : GERRelease Group : ROMRom Size : 64MbitSave Type : 4kbFile Name : rom-fs.rarFolder Name : Florist_Shop_EUR_MULTi5_NDS-ROMView NFO :
As foursquare continues to grow, a lot of folks outside tech circles have asked why people take the time to check-in. In an attempt to answer that, Jason Keith of socialfresh has identified 6 areas where foursquare brings utilitarian value to “average” people. They include: playing a game, finding friends, making announcements, getting suggestions, getting rewards and recording history.
Amazon.com’s first sale was fifteen years ago, and while the pioneering online retailer eventually found success, many of its peers weren’t so lucky. Esquire salutes great sites of the Web 1.0 era that never made it.
On ZendCasts.com today there's a new screencast aimed at showing off custom Zend_Form decorators for your Zend Framework application.
This little video tutorial should set you up for building your own custom Zend_Form decorators in 15 minutes. I'll show you how you can make the necessary class and have it easily added to your existing
Mike Willbanks as put together a new post talking about continuous integration with Atlassian's Bamboo software and getting it to cooperate with the needed PHP tools to round out your deployment (like PHP Depend, PHP Code Sniffer, PHP Mess Detector and PHPUnit).
Continuous integration is all the rage these d
On the Ibuildings techPortal site today they've published the latest episode in their Dutch PHP Conference 2009 podcast series. This time it's Eli White's talk on highly scalable web applications.
A constant pariah on web applications is scaling once you become popular. It's not always an easy task (ok, never).
By taking a fundamentally Web-based approach to the development of applications, we shift from bolting Web capabilities onto the silo toward a mode in which data and functionality are native to the Web. How do we change the mindset of today's application developers, in order that they stop building 'old' applications in the new world?
Reduced to its simplest, the SPARQL Recommendations offer a simple and standard means of querying any store of RDF, regardless of the software used to run the store. The software has to support SPARQL, of course, and the Talis Platform is amongst those that do.
Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr has been at it again, using Twitter to announce the release of his employer's latest offering.Amazon has come a long way since its days as a big book shop, and is increasingly making a name for itself as an exemplar of commodity computation.First we had the Simp