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Today’s tip is a quick one regarding the relationship of colour models. You are most likely most familiar with the RGB colour model as this is used in most computer applications, your digital cameras, monitors, etc. Another very common colour model comes from the print industry, CMYK. If you are using Adobe Photoshop Elements, you …
The short description on the site says it all: This site shows how to take apart electronic devices and gadgets. If you like to take things apart and would like to see what others have done, then you should check out TakeItApart.net.
From InformationWeek: Does your company monitor how much time you spend on YouTube and eBay? Perhaps it should. Employees waste more than 81 minutes of work time in personal computer activity on average and 13% squander more than two hours a day on recreational computer activities, according to an old AOL/Salary.com survey. And, those considered …
I saw this in Windows Secrets… Ever wonder what happens when you leave your computer on overnight? Does it just sit idle until the screen saver kicks in? That’s what you want to believe. But now MASO Digital Studio has captured proof of the secret life of your desktop icons in a hilarious Flash clip. …
From the New York Times: On a muggy day in Kigali in 2003, some of the highest-ranking officials in the Rwandan government, including President Paul Kagame, flanked an American businessman, Greg Wyler, as he boldly described how he could help turn their small country into a hub of Internet activity. Mr. Wyler, an executive based …
From CNet News: There are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted in a suspect’s computer remotely. Many of the questions hearken back to the old debate over the FBI’s Carnivore wiretapping system, which technical luminaries Steve Bellovin, Matt …
From Reuters: The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday. The team at the University of Alberta said they had “solved” checkers, the 5,000-year-old popular board game also known as draughts. Their computer program, Chinook, spent more than 18 years playing out the 500 billion possible positions, they …
From the Boston Globe: Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes. A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums, and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player’s wires. Last summer, a Colorado teen was hurt when lightning struck nearby as he …
Someone posted a great video on YouTube that is a promotional video created for Digital Equipment (DEC). One of the creators said that DEC “distributed thousands of copies of this video, using it to help spread the word about the business potential of the Web, which, at that time, many business people found difficult to …
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