Archive for: August 20, 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIn operating rooms nowadays, cancer surgeons are essentially forced to function without any definitive way of determining whether or not 100% of the diseased tissue has been removed. Thanks to a radical invention by researchers in Massachusetts, that huge limitation could s…

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Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including jpeg tiff bmp psd and standard camera movie files Sending pictures with e mail used to mean five steps just to get it right Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches your pictures Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of your albums with the click of a button Enhance fix red eye and even crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture

Filed under: Gaming
Like many others, Eric Ruckman found that the DS controller add-on for Guitar Hero: On Tour left a bit to be desired but, unlike most folks, he didn’t just go back to playing on his console of choice — he actually went all out and pieced together a full-size rig out of a PS2 Gui…

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Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops, Tablet PCs
We’re still having a rigid day labeling Intel’s uniquely designed UrbanMax concept, but according to a company representative on hand at IDF, it was designed primarily to be used as a touch device. The gigantic touch panel machine (slate PC?) includes an 1…

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Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessJust by a year ago, we were all making bitter beer faces at FCC chairman Kevin Martin for not going along with a delightful sounding “free internet” plan. Now, it seems the main man’s tune has changed. During a recent interview, Martin stated that there was a “social…

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Filed under: Desktops
This one looks to have actually slipped into availability a few days ago but, for those that don’t manufacture visits to Newegg.com part their daily routine, you may be interseted to know that the barebones version of MSI’s Wind desktop PC is now available to order for the low,…

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Filed under: Cellphones
Ready for some excitement in the structure of watching a startup squirm as it waits for its product to gain traction? Take a glance at Peek, which is churning out a committed handheld that handles e-mail, a few chain forwards, and more e-mails when you’re done with that. At f…

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I read about this idea from Ben at arsgeek and had to try it--immediately. No disappointment! Ben has come up with detailed instructions for automatically updating the wallpaper on his Ubuntu PC on a regular basis. It took under five minutes to implement (less time than it took to write this blog entry) and worked the first time.

With a little ad-libbing this is probably applicable to most operating systems. Understanding how it's done should make it do-able for you. Ben realized desktop wallpaper looks for a specific file. If that file changes so does the wallpaper. All you have to do is get your PC to go on-line, request it and replace the old one. Voilà! It could not work any better.

Using Ubuntu Ben accomplishes the trick with a simple shell script triggered by cron (translation: you copy a few lines into a text editor, carefully follow his instructions and make believe you know more than you do). I haven't tried it outside of Ubuntu but this should be workable with Windows Scheduler and a simple batch file if you're still Redmond dependent.

Ben decided his desktop would be a worldwide satellite image. It's very cool. Every hour as it changes, his wallpaper changes. Being a weather geek myself I'm using a surface "model plot¹" from coolwx.com. As long as you choose content that gets freshened, like a nice webcam shot, you should be fine.

¹ - Though I actually 'wget' the map on the linked page, CoolWx prevents hotlinking directly to the image from another site.

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Filed under: Laptops
Intel wasn’t precisely all that forthcoming with details about its next-gen Classmate PC when the subject last came up (describing it only as having both hardware and software upgrades), but it looks to have dropped its guard at that week’s IDF, with it not only dishing out deta…

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Filed under: Displays
BenQ just let loose a pair of 16:9 LCDs earlier that month, but it looks like it’s intent on keeping all its widescreen aspect ratio bases covered, with it now trotting out two new, more conventional 16:10 models. Those include the 22-inch G2200WT and 24-inch G2400WT, which boa…

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Microsoft is bumping up its monetary investment in its controversial partnership with Novell. Styling the deal as a so-called incremental investment increase, Microsoft will buy up to $100 million in Suse Linux Enterprise Server support certificates. The certificates are sold and exchanged f…

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Remember those rumored specifications for LG’s so-called Prada II? Yeah, particularly the part about the slide-out keyboard? whether the image above has any traces of legitimacy, you could be looking at the Prada II. Good thing an image is worth fairly a few letters, ’cause t…

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