Article archive - page 8

Why can't I have $100 laptop
Thursday, November 8th 2007
Don't you hate it when you can't get something you'd really like? I've been following the OLPC project more or less since its inception. When I first heard about it I was mostly interested in how they were going to pull…
Bye bye OpenMoko
Monday, November 5th 2007
Google announced today that they would be partnering up with a load of other companies including Samsung, Motorola and LG to produce a new phone "software stack". For those of us in the technology game this basically…
CSS Structure - what a mess
Friday, November 2nd 2007
James posted a message on my blog some weeks ago and it's only now that a penny has dropped in my mind about what we need to deal with the issue of structure in CSS - the problem is we have none. As James points out you…
FAH goes number 1 but we could do better
Friday, November 2nd 2007
Folding at home (FAH) has taken the Guiness World Record for being the most powerful distributed computing network with a top speed of over 1 petaflop - (a thousand trillion calculations per second). This is a remarkable…
Let the new gaming witch hunt begin
Monday, October 15th 2007
I'm in my thirties now and I've been playing computer games from the age of about four when my dad first brought home the venerable VIC 20 - partly because he was doing a computer science degree at University but mostly…
JQuery Slideshow
Sunday, October 14th 2007
It seems JQuery is definitely gaining some traction as a useful library - not least because of the development of the ThickBox Gallery library by Cody Lindley which is seeing huge amounts of use around the web at the…
JQuery saves the day?
Saturday, August 25th 2007
If you haven't come across it yet there is a javascript library called JQuery which is being developed as an open source project, designed to give us better control over our web pages and the things we can do with them…
Is £180 good value for Wii Sports?
Tuesday, July 3rd 2007
I am definitely a Nintendo fan boy. I've had every Nintendo console released on the market plus so many Game & Watches it's not funny. Call me sentimental but Nintendo has been a part of and is one of the definers of my…
DRMed for Life
Thursday, May 3rd 2007
In the news recently has been the whole thing about not only the copy protection on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks being cracked but people posting digg links with decryption keys in them. I can understand Digg's position in…
Super computer required to simulate half a mouse brain
Monday, April 30th 2007
Scientists have published that the've used the IBM Blue Gene L supercomputer to simulate half of a typical mouse's brain. More accurately they've simulated about half the neurons and just over half the number of synaptic…