Mac OSX Address Book to Thunderbird 3 Contacts Converter (vCard to CSV or LDIF)
December 19th, 2009
Online converter to migrate your OSX Address Book contacts to Thunderbird.
Robot shows how to Solve Rubicks Cube
December 19th, 2009
Deemed ‘the cubinator’, a robot with a series of camera can see and work through a Rubicks Cube Puzzle. Watch the video.
Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime
December 11th, 2009
Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity.
Physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for decades. In contrast, the other forces of nature have obediently fallen into line.
For instance, the electromagnetic [...]
Custom Fonts on your website: Fast, Free and Cross Browser compatible, with TTFGen
December 7th, 2009
Definitely worth checking out, TTFGen provides a great way to embed custom TTF (true type) fonts on your website. The TTFGen script uses a PHP image renderer and your TTF giles to generate the image. The generated image takes parameters from your CSS file, and even includes support for rollover images. TTFGen is fast, SEO complaint, integrates seamlessly with CSS, and even has a WordPress version for ease of use.
IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines
November 21st, 2009
“A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near. But this week researchers from IBM Corp. are reporting that they’ve simulated a cat’s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory — 100,000 times as much as your computer has.”
Mind Over Matter: Neural Decoding – The Control of the Movement of Objects Using Thought
November 21st, 2009
What was once speculative fiction — the ability to read minds and to control the movement of objects using thought alone, sometimes called mind-over-matter –- is rapidly becoming neurotechnological fact. In light of a recent announcement at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago, “mind reading” has taken another scientific leap forward. Researchers are now able to determine what vowel and consonants a person is thinking of by recording activity from the surface of the brain.
Subversion SVN, OSX and Finder Integration: SmartSVN (Finally, a Tortoise equivalent)
November 18th, 2009
I’ve spent the last few months looking for a suitable subversion client that integrates with the Mac OSX finder. Mainly, I have been looking the closest equivalent to Tortoise SVN for OSX. SCPlugin is decent, but very limited. In short: SmartSVN Rocks.
Use Aptana’s PHP Development Environment with Aptana 2.0 +
November 13th, 2009
The team at Aptana must have heard our cries, because now with version 2.02, they have allowed use and installation of their original PHP 1.1 development environment. Read the full article for detailed steps on installing the original Aptana PHP development environment with Aptana 2.02+
OS X SSH Tunnel Gui Application (to help bypass Firewall)
November 12th, 2009
SSH Tunnel Manager is a front-end for the ssh command when used to open tunnels between two hosts. Those command lines are particulary long and confusing, especially for novices, and I never remember which argument comes first, if I have to open local or remote tunnels and so on…
Photographs of the foetus developing in the womb, by Lennart Nilsson
November 6th, 2009
Some of these pictures were taken with conventional cameras with macro lenses, while others were taken with the use of an endoscope. Scanning electron microscope technology enabled Nilsson to take pictures at a magnification of hundreds of thousands.