Production Manager Design of Eurovision 2010 Song Contest is keeping on on-line diary of the production. If you are interested in show technology and work behind big TV production, read Eurovision Diary 2010. Around one year ago I write about Eurovision 2009 diary, so if you have not read that article artier, it is now →
The State of Web Development 2010 report is about survey of professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ. Start reading from viewing the PDF infographic overview.Note how unpopular Microsoft IE browser is here →
LED car headlights are a promising technology. They have many advantages over filament bulbs (longer life, faster on/off times, lower power consumption) but the technology has still limitations. LEDs can be used as car headlight when the lighting system is specifically designed for LEDs. There are even some DIY projects for this. The current LED →
ARM dominates the mobile phone chip design market now and has done that for some time. Since 2008 ARM has been trying to get into the subnotebook market as well with Linux-based, ARM-powered “smartbooks” that would provide an instant-on, longer-life alternative to x86-based Netbooks. Smartbooks have been delayed by Flash issues, says ARM. There has →
The fact that 3-D is a hot ticket in tech may not surprise you. The booming recent interest in 3-D video and film content are driving this. Avatar and other 3-D movies have capture the attention. The speed 3-D is headed soon to consumers’ homes may surprise. Cinema owners might not like this development, because →
Usually after a few months of use, our gorgeous new gadgets incur a fair share of scratches. In most case those can be polished up to look look like brand new. How to Restore an Abused iPhone (or any gadget) tells you how to do restore an iPhone. Same ideas can be applied to other →
VMware Player is the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time on your PC for free. VMware Player allows anyone to try new operating systems without rebooting your PC to switch between them. You can use it to safely try and test new software in an isolated environment on your PC. →
SUPER (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) is a GUI to many video tools. If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. The supported tools include o FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, musepack, monkey’s →
Are LED Fluorescent Tubes Ready for Prime Time? I got a mail on interesting survey is on LED vs Fluorescent Tubes at http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/construction/are-led-fluorescent-tubes-ready-for-prime-time-1041920/. The survey concentrates specifically, if LED tubes are ready for widespread commercial use, and if they will replace fluorescent tubes. The writer of that blog is reaching out to a few bloggers →
It has been hard to miss the story of the Apple engineer who left a rumored prototype of 4G iPhone at a beer garden. Some time later Gizmodo got hold of that 4G iPhone and posted a report on it on-line (interesting stuff). Scott Adams, the man behind Dilbert comic has made a two comic →