Topic: COMPUTER - on January 17, 2008 at 12:43:00 PM CET
1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don't know is that there's another man whose products are at the heart of Ive's design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the '50s and '60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 17, 2008 at 12:40:00 PM CET
MacBook Air - The world's thinnest notebook fits in a manila envelope
Whoa! Steve Jobs has once again left us with our mouths wide open. The rumors were true. Apple has announced an ultra-portable laptop, the MacBook Air, at the MacWorld 2008. Measuring only 0.16 to 0.76 inches and weighing 3.0 pounds, the MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest laptop. It’s so thin that it fits in a manila envelope easily. So, what does the Apple’s new creation has to offer to the customers? The MacBook Air comes with a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display with built-in iSight, a multi-touch trackpad, Intel Core 2 Duo processors running at 1.6 GHz or 1.8 Ghz, black LED backlit keyboard, ambient light sensor, micro-DVI port, magnetic latch closing mechanism, 1.8″ hard drive in standard 80 GB form or optional 64 GB solidstate drive, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 2.1/EDR, 5 hour battery life, optional external SuperDrive, 2 GB memory, and eco-friendly internal components like fully aluminum case, mercury and lead free display. The Air is certainly makes for a major leap forward in laptop design.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 17, 2008 at 12:38:00 PM CET
Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 8, 2008 at 11:42:00 AM CET
CES 2008 – Alienware Curved DLP display, their screen for our game
This curved DLP display with OLED illumination from Alienware is just a concept for the moment, but it’s expected to be available in the second half of the running year. The 2880×900 beast is over three feet wide, lit by LEDs, and delivers an amazing .02ms response time, which is just right for the gamers. It would be fun to see the machine running Crysis at 2880×900.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 21, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CET
Kaspersky false alarm quarantines Windows Explorer
A faulty signature update from Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday flagged up Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) as infected with a low-risk virus, Huhk-C. As a result the core Windows component was quarantined or worse.
Kaspersky released a revised update alongside advice on how to recover legitimate system and application files from quarantine (the default setting) within two hours. But that's not much consolation for users that had set their software to auto-delete infected files, who found themselves with hosed systems.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 21, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CET
Antivirus protection gets worse
German computer magazine c't studied 17 antivirus programs and exposed them to completely new samples of malware. What they found wasn't encouraging. Detection rates sank to 20-30 per cent, from 40-50 per cent in a similar test last year.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 20, 2007 at 3:38:00 PM CET
Rankin-esque Apple ad for Christmas
This wonderfully Rankin-esque “get a Mac” ad has been making the rounds on animation and Mac geek blogs all week.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 20, 2007 at 3:36:00 PM CET
HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink?
HP and Staples are facing an anti-trust lawsuit over replacement printer cartridges. According to the lawsuit, HP paid Staples $100 million to refuse to stock competing ink cartridges. HP could make that back in short order when you consider that printer ink can cost $8,000 per gallon and certain printers deceive users to waste as much as 64% of their ink
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 17, 2007 at 11:41:00 AM CET
E911 document podcast: Historic, incredibly dull technical document read aloud
For the past 24 weeks, I've been reading Bruce Sterling's classic 1992 nonfiction book The Hacker Crackdown aloud on my podcast. The Hacker Crackdown was the first free online book I ever heard of, and it tells the engrossing story of the 1990 "Operation Sundevil" Secret Service sweep of hackers, which led to the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 17, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CET
Hans Reiser Murder Trial Zeros in on Odd Behavior
Week five of the Hans Reiser murder trial zeroed in on the strange behavior witnesses said the Linux programmer exhibited immediately following his wife's disappearance.
In four days of testimony, witnesses said that Reiser, the 43-year-old developer of open-source file systems, appeared nervous and was seen washing his driveway while wearing thick clothes on a hot summer night two days after his wife, Nina Reiser, disappeared.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 8, 2007 at 6:45:00 PM CET
Hacking the Western Digital MyBook World Edition
Western Digital sells a number of external drives under the MyBook World Edition brand. These are network-based external storage drives that you can connect to remotely from multiple machines. Inside are a couple of drives set up in a mirrored RAID configuration, as well as an embedded computer running Linux.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 8, 2007 at 6:39:00 PM CET
Cybercrime Stormed the Net in 2007
Security researchers say 2007 was the year online criminals showed off how smart and dangerous they can be.
Anti-virus vendor F-Secure added 250,000 new signatures to its malware database this year -- as many as the company added in its first 20 years combined.
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