Posts in category Desktops
I Know What You Torrent
Everyone knows that BitTorrent isn’t anonymous. If you download something you shouldn’t, there’s a chance you’ll get a letter in the mail telling you to stop violating copyright laws or risk going to court.
To highlight this lack of privacy, the website You Have Downloaded gives you a (not so) nice list of what you [...]
The History of Apple
Click on the image above for a large view.
From Pop Chart Lab:
The world’s most comprehensive mapping of Apple products, this print shows every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors [...]
300 Windows 8 Features Microsoft hasn...
Thanks to the folks over at winrumors, we have a list of the cool things the software giant is developing. Some of them have already been covered at BUILD, but there’s a whole lot that haven’t.
Battery Life
Time/Battery/Date/Network status
Browser
Protection against app (…)/ malware scan
Apps are certified
Pre-boot reset
OEM A [...]
The Top 20 SSD Manufacturers in 2011 ...
StorageSearch.com, which tracks over 300 SSD manufacturers, has published a list of the top 20 most important companies. So who made the cut and who didn’t?
Some of the winners are:
Fusion-io
STEC
SandForce
Texas Memory Systems
OCZ
And some of the losers:
Micron Technology
NextIO
DDRdrive
Memoright
BiTMicro
I must admit that I’ve wanted [...]
Geosense adds Location Awareness to y...
Most phones now have GPS in them, but laptops are being left behind. Most manufacturers don’t offer a GPS chip, and those that can be bought are expensive. Geosense aims to bring GPS functionality to your PC without the need for any expensive GPS chips or software.
Geosense uses IP and Wi-Fi lookup powered by Google to find your location, so [...]
What’s WHDI?
I put out a call on Sunday for suggestions about what topics I should cover. One of them was WHDI. So what is it? WHDI is short for Wireless Home Digital Interface, and promises to cut the cord clutter that becoming increasingly common for us with tons of gadgets and electronics.
WHDI is a consumer standard for HDTV, and has prominent compan [...]
The Explosion of Digital Information
A fantastic visualization of the growth of digital information in recent years.
See the full size here.
Terrific Visualization of Digital Information Explosion [via The Technology Liberation Front]
Windows 7 SP1 is out Today
The first service pack for Windows 7 is out today for the public. Don’t expect anything new though, it’s just a set of updates intended for security and system stability. I recommend that you install it through Windows Update, and not a manual installation. Why?
On a 32-bit system, you’ll need about 750 MB
64-bit systems require 1050 M [...]
The Evolution of Hard Drives
The history of the hard drive, through pictures.
See the slideshow here.
Top Articles on Teknophilia [Top 5]
![Top Articles on Teknophilia [Top 5]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5081/5273859719_6867a81f23.jpg)
mooi
I’d like to wish everyone a late “Happy New Year!”
Last year, I started Teknophilia and have tried to cover pretty much everything in the field of technology. So I thought it would be good to see which of these articles attracted the most interest.
In decreasing order, last year’s top 5 articles were:
1. Windows Media Center Customizati [...]
Less Do, More Think [SOTW]
![Less Do, More Think [SOTW]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/3942606430_ede0280b5f.jpg)
colemama
“I am very concerned with how technology is used and even more concerned with how technology is talked about in education. Many people will have us believe that more technology is the way to improved education. What I have seen is that more technology leads to no fundamental change in teaching.
What is even more concerning is that [...]
How Important have Apps become? [Info...
![How Important have Apps become? [Infographic]](http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/tech-fun/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mobileappimportance.jpg)
Click the picture for a large version.
Source: Flowtown
A Photo Tour of the Large Hadron Coll...
![A Photo Tour of the Large Hadron Collider [Science]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2399841479_b237d53956.jpg)
Jody Art
“To handle the interest generated by the LHC, CERN has built a new visitor’s center to introduce the public to the work that goes on there. For this visit, however, the tour started across the street, next to the CERN gift shop (yes, it has a gift shop).” [via Ars Technica]
See the full photo tour here.
Further Reading
A pho [...]
When computers go wrong [via PC Pro]
![When computers go wrong [via PC Pro]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2108/2248584101_8d18afc34f.jpg)
Wesley Oostvogels
“When computers go wrong, they often go spectacularly wrong.
In most cases, catastrophic failures are blamed on “computer bugs”, although human error is normally the root cause for embarrassing failures. Here, we look at ten IT disasters that highlight the precariously fickle nature of computers.”
Among these spectacular fa [...]
Tablets and Cloud Computing
Uncrate
With the release of Apple’s iPad, BlackBerry’s Playbook, and Toshiba, HP, and Dell joining the fray, I have to wonder whether this is another gimmick, or a fundamental change in the industry.
In recent years, we’ve been changing from laptops to netbooks. This was bound to happen because first, we don’t really need a powerful computer [...]
USB Dead Drops
agoasi
“‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to s [...]
World’s fastest supercomputer b...
“A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster than the previous speed leader, a computer at a U.S. lab in Tennessee.
The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located a [...]
How To Explain The Internet To A 19th...
![How To Explain The Internet To A 19th Century British Street Urchin [via Laughing Squid]](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1254/5134202038_47cdb8b9ee_z.jpg)
How To Explain The Internet To A 19th Century British Street Urchin
Recent Comments