Apollo Alpha Launched
Adobe has launched their Apollo platform finally (in Alpha). Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop RIA’s.
Many basically say Apollo = Flash Player + Acrobat Reader * HTML/JS . A very cool project indeed [...]

With Apple’s new set-top device filtering into the hands of the faithful, its buzz has been appropriately high. Over the weekend, however, many enterprising hackers took the time to probe the internals of the AppleTV a bit more thoroughly. What did they find?As it turns out, Apple’s claim that its new devices (e.g. AppleTV, iPhone) [...]

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The Reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artifacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

Anybody who has used a Linux distro knows that downloading and installing from an ISO is only the first part of a very long journey. After you have successfully installed the OS (which is sometimes difficult in its self) you need to add your apps, wifi / bluetooth support (WPA is always a b!tC7H), your [...]

Michael Kemp has discovered a denial of service issue in the BlackBerry Browser. An BlackBerry device running OS version 4.2 or earlier would be affected as RIM has released a patched version 4.2.1 which fixes this issue.
Here is how the vulnerability works:

Construct a WML page that contains an overly long string value within a link [...]

Sometimes an otherwise useful application is missing a feature or two. Take the Stickies app, for example. For whatever reason, the authors decided not to include a scrollbar. Perhaps this was because it’s not a necessary feature for most users. Perhaps it was just overlooked.
Thankfully, you can customize most OS X apps with the tools [...]

Alan Carvalho de Assis (and friends), as announced on the LinuxBIOS mailing list, has released a video of the newly released LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside.
All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the BIOS just fine)… The [...]

How many times have you seen a great video on YouTube and wished you could get your very own copy? Well now you can with the Beta service called VidConverter.com
All you need is the correct URL to your video of choice, click ‘convert video’ and sit back and wait. Currently they only support videos from [...]

RIM has decided to add yet another shade of color to their BlackBerry Pearl lineup and this time it is red. First their was RIM standard business black followed by an astonishing white, which was a first for a RIM device and now red.
This is still considered a rumor at best though the red Pearl [...]