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 | Who needs the Wiimote? ...when there's laptops. But, you say, you can't wave laptops around to control your videogame! Actually you can. Many laptops manufactured now come with motion sensors to suddenly freeze the hard disk when it gets bumped around. These sensors can be read by software, which you … |
| | Google has now introduced its "[URL="https://www.google.com/a/"]Google Apps for Your Domain[/URL]" service. Google Apps is a free collection of tools targeted at small businesses, including online web applications such as a GMail, Google Page Creator, customized start page, among others. This has already been around for a while, but now Google …  |
| | A recent prediction from Gartner states that blogging may soon reach its peak. By the first half of 2007, it says, the number of bloggers will only be around 100 million. Recent data from Technorati shows that although there's 100,000 new blogs online, 200 million bloggers have quit. Additionally, less … |
| | As of late, many conflicting reports are saying that altough iPod sales continue to rise, iTunes store music sales are decreasing. They go on to state that sales now are 65% lower than in January, with average transaction sizes dropping by 7%. I think this is really crazy. Why? Apple …  |
| | I'm always excited when I see people inventing new uses for existing devices. Linux kernel developers have been working hard, and have now added PS3 support for the Linux kernel. Sony helped by contributing patches for the machine, which have now been merged into the kernel. This will be included … |
| | Research In Motion (RIM) is now suing the hand held maker Samsung, claiming that Samsung's new product named "Blackjack", released earlier last month, is causing lost revenues and misleading consumers into thinking that Blackjack is another product in the Blackberry line. Now at first thought, the names don't seem very … |
| | Monday, Sun Microsystems released the latest version of Java -- Java Standard Edition 6. It's available to developers in the Sun Developer Network ([URL]http://java.sun.com[/URL]). The final release is planned to ship in January. Java's taken a lot of time for this release. They've worked at it for at least 2 … |
| | Everyone is up-in-the-arms about Nintendo's new console beating Sony's. The sales of the Wii in November (roughly 467,000) are more than double the PS3 sales (147,000), according to NPD. But what most articles about this don't talk about: the PS2 is still winning, and easily. It managed to sell 664,000 … |
| | It seems like users are doing exactly what Nintendo intended when they created the fancy Wii controller. Users are having so much fun, they're getting carried away when playing their video games, and [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdihGX7iWM&eurl="]literally throwing it around[/URL]. The Wii-mote, a uniquely designed game controller for Nintendo's Wii game console, works … |
| | Why doesn't everyone switch to Linux? Is it because it's too difficult? Not exactly. The problem with Linux isn't because you have to run millions of commands to start it up, it's because it gives users too many options. Commercial companies like Microsoft standardize their product when they create it. …  |
| | Ever since computer's hard drives became large enough to hold substantial amounts of information, people have been trying to store music on their computers. Which is fine until they start "sharing" it. Since the beginning of music sharing, record companies have been trying to halt this illegal activity. Online music … |
| | MySpace seems to be where all the kids go -- it's the online meeting place for a lot of young people. But it also seems to be a place where pedophiles hang out, something that [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128087-page,1-c,internetlegalissues/article.html"]MySpace is trying to change[/URL]. It seems as though MySpace is trying to incorporate one … |
| | [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBfLjqfYKM0"]Oh boy[/URL]. If Kevin Rose, the founder of [URL="http://www.digg.com"]Digg[/URL], is correct, he may soon be facing a lawsuit big enough to cripple a small country. In his podcast, he gets drunk and tells "vague details" of the much rumored iPhone. He starts off by saying, "I have a little bit … |
| | Microsoft has [URL="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C12%5C04%5Cstory_4-12-2006_pg6_1"]finally launched the long-awaited Windows Vista[/URL]. Will it sell well? It's already pretty obvious that Windows Vista will have a hard time competing against Microsoft's previous operating system, Windows XP. Many businesses are happy with it, and see no reason to switch. Still others are just now switching … |
| | All 3 major game consoles have been released -- Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, and Sony's Playstation 3. Out of all of these, the [URL="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=technology&storyID=nN29388999&from=business"]PlayStation 3 appears to be losing[/URL]. Why? The previous generation console, the PS2, dominated consoles created by Microsoft and Nintendo. The answer lies in the companies … |
| | Microsoft just released their iPod killer -- except that it isn't killing the iPod. Although it looks promising, it has had a number of [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/installing-the-zune-sucked/"]negative Zune reviews[/URL]. It may seem like the Zune is a total flop, after all, "it's from MS". But no, I don't think that is the … |
| | When computer systems get "owned", you may think it takes a master-geek with an extensive amount of knowledge to hack into tightly-secured systems. After all, security bugs are quickly found out, and patches can be released within a few days. But when securing a computer system or network, especially the … |
| | http://answers.google.com/answers/ That URL will soon lose its usefulness for answering your questions. Google is now going to abandon its Google Answers service at the end of this week, which it launched 4 years ago. Google is not entirely clear on [I]why[/I] they are quitting it, other than "[it] was a … |
| | The French parliament is now going to dump Windows in favour of open-source. More specifically, Linux. The planned switch date is June 2007, with over 1000 parliament workers switching. No word yet on what Linux distribution they're going to use, or what email client -- one thing is for sure: … |
| | [URL]http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html[/URL] "Firefox 2 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Firefox 1.x should not use Firefox 2 … |
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| | Ever had trouble remembering if that website ended in .com, .net, or .org? Well, your troubles just got a whole lot worse. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7475986.stm[/url] "We're running out of .com addresses? Let's just let people register whatever extension they want!" Brilliant ICANN, just brilliant. And it looks like some of those TLDs … |
| | Would it be possible to disable smileys within [noparse][icode][/noparse] tags? For example, [icode]MainNamespace::[b][/b]SystemClass::[b][/b]sca[b][/b]red::[b][/b]PThread();[/icode] Turns into [icode]MainNamespace::SystemClass::scared::PThread();[/icode] Okay, exaggerated example. But you get the point.  |
| | I think we've all observed the trend of eye candy incrementally increasing in the user interface of consumer operating systems, particularly the commercial ones. Vista's Aero and OS X's Aqua are perfect examples: both use large amounts of transparency, and contain "sparkle" in the windows designed to enhance a user's … |
| | [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc&NR=1[/URL] [URL]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20750575/[/URL] It vaguely reminds me of a recent incident on DaniWeb IRC. But I thought news sites had better things to do than glorify little whiney babies throwing temper tantrums.  |
| | So here's the deal -- I'm dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP on my MacBook. On Mac OS X, I have the clock synced to network time. And, being a good Unix system, it sets the system time to GMT. That's all fine and dandy until I install Windows, … |
| | Since this became a debate in the other thread, I thought it would have enough weight to become its own thread. Thus, I'm posting this here. If you want to whine about code tags, then take a looksie over here: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread84443.html[/url] Basically I'm asking for your opinion on a code … |
| | Sorry, this is a little bit late. I'm just curious regarding your thoughts on the blog comment order: do you find that the benefits of being able to quickly see the latest comments on a particular blog entry outweigh the disadvantages of having to read everything backwards, now that blog … |
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| | Hey everyone, isn't Mac OS X great? The only problem is that a lot of open-source software is only for Linux. Well, there will never be an end-all solution, but there's many ways of making it better. Here are the solutions I recommend: - Dual-booting Mac OS X and Linux … |
| | I don't like it one bit. If I had problems with my eyesight, I'd increase the font size on my browser. Please change it back...  |
| | Hello all, This is a relatively simple problem I ran into when designing my site, so hopefully you can help me out here. I have a div like so (for example): [code=html]<div class="box">testing</div>[/code] And here's the CSS: [code=css].box { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 50px; color: red; background-color: blue; }[/code] … |
| | With the massive amounts of text editors out there, you'd think it would be easy to find a decent freeware code editor for Mac OS X. Well, not exactly. The numbers are deceiving because:[LIST] [*]Most "good" editors for Mac OS X were really written for Linux or Windows, and they … |
| | As many of you are already aware of, I was the winner of [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread63237.html"]DaniWeb's end-of-the-year blogging competition[/URL]. So, Dani offered me the choice of both a Sony Cybershot digital camera and an Xbox 360, or I could trade those in and get a Dell 24" flatpanel display. So... I originally …  |
| | Today I just happened to be trying to hotlink an image from ImageShack using the [img] tags, and I had the constant problem of the tags being parsed into the [url] hyperlinks. And then when I looked around for the "insert image" button in the Advanced Reply, I could no … |
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| | Just now I've been experiencing a problem with a lot my post edits - I edit and save the post, but none of the new material shows up. I click the edit button again; the information is still there. Yet whenever I click "save", it refuses to show. Don't know …  |
| | Heh, this is my latest website I visit when I'm bored: [URL]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/URL] It amazingly has huge numbers of stories from tech-support guys trying to fix people's computer problems. My fav: [quote][LIST] [*] [B]Tech Support[/B]: "Ok, let's put your operating system disk in the drive." [*] [B]Customer[/B]: "Ok...which way does it … |
| | As many of you probably already know, yesterday DaniWeb received a massive amount of spam threads. I want to thank the moderators for deleting all the spam; it makes me really grateful that we have them here. However would DaniWeb manage without the "flag bad post" link? ;) |
| | The new line numbers inserted when using syntax coloring code tags is causing me problems when copying and pasting code. Here are some examples: [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post311344-32.html[/URL] I copy and paste the code to my editor. This is how it looks when it's selected in my browser:[INDENT][IMG]http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7406/picture1ji6.png[/IMG] [/INDENT]And this is how my … |
| | Hey there, Whenever I try to load my user control panel, I just get a blank page. Perhaps this is because of recent DaniWeb code change, but just in case I'm not the only one who's experiencing this... The weird thing is that I can view my PMs if I … |
| | Narue and her family must have had a [I]very[/I] happy time this Christmas, as her baby was born on Christmas day. Her daughter is 8 lbs, 8 oz, and is 20.25". I know it's nearly a couple of weeks late, but... [B]Congratulations Narue!!![/B]  |
| | In response to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread25111.html"]this thread[/URL], I have created a poll asking for supporters of a Game Development forum. It's something that I find DaniWeb is lacking, it would attract a good crowd of game developers and programmers, and would keep game programming discussions seperate from other forums such as the … |
| | I'm writing this to let you know that I've found "bug" in the Dashboard widget iStat. It's not a bug per se, but you should know about it. iStat offers many statistics about your Mac -- amount of time running since reboot, temperature, fan speed, etc, etc. However, if you … |
| | Has there been some sort of new word filter put in place that automatically stars out profanity? I've been noticing a lot of *s out there in ordinary words that happen to contain the letters of the donkey word: [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post253585.html#post253585[/URL] [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/member57744.html[/URL] [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread61663.html&highlight=word[/URL] Test:[LIST] [*]P***word [*]***embly [*]P a s s w … |
| | I've noticed this problem, and it's really been annoying me: Whenever I click the unordered or numbered list button, it prompts me for all the items I want in the list. However, the newlines that are supposed to be automatically inserted are all at the end. Not that the lists … |
| | Debian Linux is what you might call very, very flexible because it runs on nearly any hardware configuration, from Motorola chips to PowerPC to the x86 structure. So whatever your machine is Debian Linux can most likely run on it. However, because installation is so different between different setups, this … |
| | [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDjmylmXxew[/URL] It's too funny!  |
| | [IMG]http://rightonthruhere.thejefffiles.com/linuxsecurity/tux.jpg[/IMG] [U][B]Linux server security guide[/B][/U] A lot of servers out there use Linux. It's powerful, free, easy to use, and it's secure (a little bit of sarcasm there :cheesy:). How secure though? Actually, without the right knowledge and procedure, your server could be one of the many vulnerable servers out … |
| | Here's (in my opinion) some of the best Linux software available: [B] Stuff for your GUI:[/B] [URL]http://www.kde.org/[/URL] Still using Gnome? Need a more powerful environment? Maybe you should try KDE. It's a matter of personal choice, but I prefer it to Gnome. [URL]http://www.kde-look.org/[/URL] Allows you to download skins and anything … |
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