January 2009
DFW - DirecTV HDTV Bitrate Monitor →
guy checks bitrates of various channels based on Tivo recorded filesize. Interesting
Bergen County Comp Killers! →
Hat tip to Rich in NNJ for pulling this list together! Make sure you thank Rich for his hard work!
BERGENFIELD
90 LINCOLN AVE
SOLD: $388,000 12/12/2006
SOLD: $262,000 1/9/2009
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Lightbulb Speakers →
This week I noticed two seperate articles about Lightbulb Speakers. Both the Altec Lansing concept and the Soundbulb from designer Hoang Nguyen use electricity from a light socket…
Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display... →
An anonymous reader writes “Professional digital photographer and website publisher Rob Galbraith has performed both objective and subjective tests on laptop displays, finding that the late-2008…
CDN Sector Getting More Crowded, Competitive →
The content delivery sector continues to get more crowded and more competitive. Here are some news items from this week that reinforce this trend:
Amazon Web Services has expanded its pricing…
Streaming video cannibalizing DVD rentals, says... →
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: Streaming video cannibalizing DVD rentals, says Netflix — Netflix says that DVD rentals are down for subscribers who make use of the…
Flickr: Discussing Presetting Lightroom's 180+... →
lot of free lightroom presets
CBS Interactive Sees Opportunity In The Downturn;... →
Those with long-enough memories (that’s years, not decades, in net time) may do a doubletake when they see the latest cross-platform venture from CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) and the…
archive • kermit bale →
chaj:
what the
“what do christian bale and kermit the frog have in common? more than you might realize…” many, many, more …
Time Lapse Everywhere →
chaj:
ingeniously creative and well executed
With the ease of assembling time lapse videos on your computer from the bazillion still photos you can now effortlessly take, I predict we will all be…
REMINDER: Transformers ROTF trailer, THIS SUNDAY! →
chaj:
tformers and GIJoe all in one day.
We at Seibertron.com would like to remind you that this upcoming Super Bowl Sunday (February 1st), is also the very same Sunday Paramount will be showing…
Gangster Ruler designed by Atypyk →
Gangster Ruler designed by Atypyk
Road Kill Carpet by OOOMS →
Road Kill Carpet by OOOMS
Canon - “Go get some” →
chaj:
holy crud
Well, well, well…
While Nikon guys are playing with their cameras, Canon guys have been told to play with their………… what? (Just poking a bit of fun, I love you Nikon guys.)
I’m…
More Signs of a Google Webdrive (Alex Chitu/Google... →
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: More Signs of a Google Webdrive — The long-awaited and much-delayed GDrive is likely to be released in the near future as more pieces of…
10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress →
By Sergej Müller and Alex Frison
The administration area of a Web application is a favorite target of hackers and thus particularly well protected. The same goes for WordPress: when creating a…
Maximum Photoshop Performance →
By Ctein
My previous column “Speeding Up Photoshop” described how I cut my times for memory-intensive Photoshop operations, like panorama building, by 25–30%. The key was putting the fastest…
Slate throws Apple a $100B idea, suggests iBank →
Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple Financial
In an interesting — not to say wildly speculative — essay, Slate Magazine’s Karim Bardeesy says that Apple should take some of its…
Socks camera by Neta Amir →
Socks camera by Neta Amir
slackware.ru : Optimizing Linux filesystems →
nuff said
Sumo Paint (out today) demo →
chaj:
pretty frickn’ amazing
You always want to see what software can really do before plunking down any cash, and I remember attending a demo to see Painter software in action, in the days…
Slashdot | Visualizing Complex Data Sets? →
nuff said
CARBON FIBER VIOLIN - WOHHH →
nuff said
synergy of loxal: Tuning ext3 for performance... →
nuff said
Radical new snowboard design →
This month Cheetah Ultra Sports will begin shipping The Whip, a new type of snowboard designed to - Fit better. - Feel lighter. - Go faster. - Cruise smoother. - Turn quicker. - Edge…
OpenGrok at OpenSolaris.org →
source code browser - good reviews
Obama action figure →
chaj:
Barack, I am your father… NoooooooOOOOOOOOO
While we could never imagine an American toy designer proposing an action figure of the Japanese Prime Minister, it somehow makes sense…
ozcollective →
ozcollective
Ariel Atom →
chaj:
yes yes want want
Be your own favorite race car driver in the Ariel Atom ($65,000 and up). Handcrafted and lacking doors, a roof, or windows, the Atom is truly a racing machine,…
WordPress-to-WordPress Import | Technosailor.com →
works - just have to trick the target wp by importing a small file first and then uploading the full file manually before hitting ‘go’
Active Directory Comes To Linux With Samba 4 →
chaj:
for realz?
Da Massive writes in with another possible answer to a recent Ask Slashdot about FOSS replacements for Microsoft AD server. “Enterprise networks now have an alternative choice to…
Nothing is Original →
Beautiful. (via noquedanblogs)
Reader mail: What happens to baggage after an... →
Reader Tom K. asks:
The US Airways landing in the Hudson was amazing. Thank God (and the captain) for such a great outcome. I’m curious, what happens to the luggage that people left…
Mac Automation: Creating Watch Me Do workflows →
Filed under: Features, How-tos
Do you want to use Automator’s powerful features, but don’t want to worry with “programming” the usefulness each and every time you wish to perform…
Introducing the CORE motorcycle! →
We’ve gotta show you Victory Motorcycle’s CORE concept bike, unveiled at last week’s Cycle World International Motorcycle Show in New York. And no, they didn’t name the bike after us; so…
More TF Audi Toy Pictures →
Clearer pictures of the Deluxe Audi R8 from the Transformers 2 toy line are up on ACToys.net. They are similar to the previous pictures, but now with correct robot transformation. Overall, a very…
Stuff like this makes me happy: →
This is the fantastic new T-mobile advert which was filmed at 11am on Thursday 15th January 2009 at Liverpool Street station, London. Stuff like this makes me happy. (via younic)
Example of an iptables firewall →
common security precautions
MediaTomb - Free UPnP MediaServer →
like twonky
FUPPES - Free UPnP Entertainment Service →
like twonky
Autocar.co.uk – the online home of the world’s... →
decent auto mag
0–60 (cars auto) →
auto mag
Mac 101: Put your display to sleep fast →
Filed under: Mac 101
Quick! The boss is coming! Hide your screen! What, you don’t have Spaces set up so you can switch to that handy Excel worksheet you’ve got open? That’s okay —…
13 tools to spice up your Flickr photos (or the... →
nuff said
MooPix | Your Flickr photos, your way →
clean slideshow
LATEST ON THE UNTITLED SCHUR/DANIELS/POEHLER... →
chaj:
aziz ansari and Vin Diesel? must watchhhh
LATEST ON THE UNTITLED SCHUR/DANIELS/POEHLER PROJECT
I’m really sick and going to bed, but today myself, Rashida Jones, and Amy Poehler…
A bike lane that travels with you →
chaj:
awesome
If there is no bike lane, what to do? Bring your own: LightLane . We agree with GOOD, this is a superb idea.
(thank you rion)
NJ to Manhattan Rail Tunnel Approved - Bergen... →
Plan Approved Today Could Provide Bergen County Commuters with Direct “One Seat” Access to Manhattan Via Train
This is great news for Bergen County’s Economy and great news for the…
45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience →
by Noura Yehia
JavaScipt libraries have made huge leaps and bounds in helping developers write code and develop products more quickly. jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks,…
Web Design Trends For 2009 →
We Web designers are a fickle lot. We love to experiment with things. We love to observe how people interact with our work. And we love to try out unusual design approaches that might possibly go…