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Mon, Aug 18th, 2008 | 10:01am | Submitted by niraj
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This is really cool...some technology from Microsoft Research and the Weizmann Institute allows editing of video, letting you add 2D objects to a 3D video. In one example they draw a mustache on someone's face, and the mustache shows up in the video, moving along with the face so it looks like...
Tue, Jun 17th, 2008 | 10:22am | Submitted by niraj
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That's right, Mozilla is releasing Firefox 3 today, and is trying to get a world record for most downloads in a day. They should be making the official release available at 10am PST at the Download Day website.
Firefox 3 has majorly improved, most notably by being quicker and much lighter in...
Tue, Mar 25th, 2008 | 12:29am | Submitted by niraj
Apparently Apple's Safari web browser is greatly improving on Windows. They've released version 3.1 which is no longer a beta, and it looks to be much better in terms of memory usage and supported features.
Safari 3.1 is the first non-beta release of Safari for Windows. Along with the Mac...
Tue, Jan 15th, 2008 | 1:22pm | Submitted by niraj
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Underwhelmed, is my overall reaction. If you haven't heard the news, Apple's MacWorld 2008 took place today, and there was a bunch of hype in the Mac community (as usual) about what would be released. Speculation covered everything from a super-thin MacBook Air notebook to movie rentals in...
Thu, Jan 3rd, 2008 | 2:13pm | Submitted by niraj
I'd heard plenty of these stories but I'd always rolled my eyes before when hearing people complaining about Vista and saying they were going back to XP. But over the holidays I got to thinking about it and realized I had a lot of issues in Vista that could be resolved by going back to XP.
That...
Wed, May 30th, 2007 | 9:33am | Submitted by niraj
Microsoft has released video of an extremely cool upcoming product that only has had concepts demonstrated before. While they show it used in both home as well as hotel and bar environments, it's likely to only appear in the latter because of it's cost, at least in the near future. The product is a...
Thu, Feb 22nd, 2007 | 1:30pm | Submitted by niraj
The upcoming Daylight Saving Time (DST) change may become a hassle for many. Starting this year, DST will take effect about three weeks sooner in the spring (starts on the 2nd week of March now) and ends a week later (the first Sunday in November). While people have been talking for some time about...
Thu, Feb 1st, 2007 | 10:13am | Submitted by niraj
The new version of Windows is about to come out, and one of the (optional) features in Windows Vista is speech recognition in the OS to handle certain tasks. But it turns out that a webpage or audio file could be used to trigger the voice commands even if you didn't intend them to, allowing a...
Wed, Aug 17th, 2005 | 4:25pm | Submitted by niraj
According to this article, a new 3D display called Heliodisplay just started production. The Heliodisplay from company IO2Technology projects into the air (without a need for special screen) images fed to it from a variety of sources, using lasers. It is believed to project onto some kind of fog or...
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