For about $200 less, you can get a fast machine, but with a cheap case and little battery life. We\’d mentioned that Dell\’s previous attempts at premium systems failed price, power and battery life tests. With the XPS 15z, well… two out of three ain\’t bad. Despite the fact that the NVIDIA Optimus GPU turns […]
Darn those gremlins. I have activated CloudFlare for this website, and I missed a DNS setting for the S3 cache for the server. I believe everything should be working fine now.. Â But I hate the fact that, presumably due to caching, everything was looking fine until late tonight…
A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station … And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.
Malware on the Mac: is it mostly hype or a real problem faced by real people? If you ask John Gruber, the answer might be the former—there are lots of proof-of-concept scenarios and virtually none that manifest themselves beyond a slow news day. If you ask Ed Bott, however, the answer would be the latter—he […]
Let the trailer go to the end, please! Â It\’s not just a sappy romantic comedy… Â It\’s worth it…
Will the iPad 2 break with a smart cover on? http://www.squaretrade.com/drop-test Square Trade purchased two brand-new iPad 2s and equipped one with Apple\’s smart cover and one without. They did some drop tests from waist and shoulder height to see if Apple\’s smart cover can protects your iPad. Watch the video to see what happens. […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=zAFcV7zuUDA] Terry Moore found out he\’d been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way. (Historical note: This was the very first 3-minute audience talk given from the TED stage, in 2005.) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the […]