Over at Apple.com is a curious video about how to sync / activate your iPhone to iTunes. What makes this video so curious is that while Apple is explaining how to use your iPhone, the capacity is displaying the all too familiar 74.40 GB.
Is this some sort of hacked up iTunes for the demo video? [...]

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A table is created which is filled with large numbers of 1×1 cells. Each cell has a background color of the corresponding pixel in the image. That’s all it is; just a massive grid of colored table cells.
We tried to post one in this article but Firefox kept freezing. Not to mention that every time [...]

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This is a demonstration of the alpha version of CompComm (a temporary name) which is a result of the re-merge of Beryl and Compiz. These plug-ins and effects are bleeding edge and are not expected to work perfectly. However you CAN try them out. There are instructions for Ubuntu Feisty on forums.opencompositing.com Take [...]

If you missed the demo of Microsoft’s Surface table product at the D: All Things Digitalconference a few weeks back then you didn’t miss out on much. On that day Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that will “break down traditional barriers [...]

Ever wondered how Digg works? What technologies have they put to use and how do they handle so many request each and everyday. Well, they have put together a short and concise slideshow to help answer those questions and more. The slideshow is appropriately called, “Technology at Digg”, and here it is:

Sweet!

Opera has always been an innovator and their newest version is now exception. Take a look at the major new features that has been introduced in this version:

Torrent Support: Opera has tried to simplify the downloading of torrents through it’s torrent dowloader. It makes downloading torrents as simple as downloading a .exe [...]

Cardboard box + Tracing Paper + Movie Poster + Tape = $0.00
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Straight off, iPhone salivators, here’s The Time to go with The Date in your calendar (. . . I’m guessing iCal):
6:00pm
At WWDC last week, Steve Jobs announced in his keynote that the iPhone will go on sale on 29-June at 6:00pm, “local time.” Time will tell if the line around your local Apple Store (or [...]

As we move through June, YISTA will be following all the salient details about Apple’s forthcoming iPhone up to and beyond its release. That release date, Apple revealed last night, is June 29th, just scraping by (as is Apple tradition) on the promised “June 2007″ deadline announced by Steve Jobs at Macworld in January.
This news [...]