Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you, for the first time, to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
New Mozilla Browser Add-On Visualizes Who Is Tracking You Online.
The EM Railgun launcher is a long-range weapon that fires projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants. Magnetic fields created by high electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor, or armature, between two rails to launch projectiles at 4,500 mph to 5,600 mph.
via With a bang, Navy begins tests on electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher.
Specifications include an ARM® Cortex™-A9 (1GHz) CPU from Samsung, an ARM Mali™-400 MP (Quad-core, 1.2GHz) GPU, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, HDMI output and the Android operating system. It decodes MPEG-4, H.264 and other video formats and display HD graphics on any HDMI equipped screen. Operating systems supported to date include Android Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich as well as Ubuntu. On-screen content can be controlled a wide variety of ways – wirelessly using smartphones with an app, Bluetooth peripherals like mice and RF remote controls; or by leveraging a notebook’s integrated keyboard and touchpad.
Cotton Candy Forum – Fxi launches cotton candy developer site, takes pre-orders.
‘Hemet hair’ is a condition caused by high humidity ironing of the hair under a compressive helmet. The Airhead increases air ventilation to reduce perspiration while creating air space for the hair. The Airhead is easy to fit, anti-static, anti-bacterial and non-allergenic. The new Airhead comes in many different colours and styles to suit your lifestyle.
via airhead product features | Two Wheel Cool.
Driver Identifier scans your PC’s drivers and checks if there are newer versions. It then links you through to the new versions allowing you to keep your PC up to date easily.
Driver Identifier – Free Drivers Download – New Version 3.9.
Driver Sweeper is a fast tool to remove driver leftovers from your system. It’s very important to remove your drivers on a proper way, because driver leftovers can cause problems like stability and startup problems. You can use it if you want to update/remove drivers from your system.
Adobe Flash Player 11 brings Flash content to a whole new level. The new Stage3D APIs finally allow Flash developers to leverage the power of modern GPUs, allowing complex 3D games to run directly within the browser.
But what about your existing 2D content? Per default, your 2D applications and games won’t benefit from this new technology — the acceleration comes only through the use of the new APIs. But this is where Starling enters the stage.
via Starling Framework – The GPU powered 2D Flash API.
Scalado has a system that removes the people in the background of pictures:
“When capturing photos in a busy area, like a public square or a concert for example, it is often difficult to get a clean shot without unwanted objects entering the frame.
Now you can capture the shot anyway, and simply let the camera remove the people for you! Point your camera and take a photo. Afterwards you can remove anyone moving around, or select your friends and remove any strangers.”
The Icenhancer 2.0 updates the graphics of GTA IV so that it looks like it was programmed in 2012. Beautiful!
This site has around 2800 videos teaching you all kinds of subjects, allowing you to learn about almost everything for free as well as practice excercises. It’s quite impressive.
Some idiots think that the city of Amsterdam should do anything to set up a .amsterdam global top level domain to market the city (so you could have www.stupid.amsterdam as a web address).
'Gemeente moet topleveldomein .amsterdam claimen' | Webwereld.
That, hoewever, costs $185,000 New gTLD Applicant guidebook, ch. 1.5 as well as having to set up a domain registry (which is difficult as well as involved).
Basically the PVV, backed by Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, have a few sensationalist headlines from a religious magazine that no-one knows (Reformatiorich Dagblad) or reads and a few from a more serious newspaper (AD) that aren’t so sensationalist, and on the basis of this they’ve decided to open up a Hitlerite plan to turn citizens into anonymous spies and snitches on a very directed group of people – middle and eastern Europeans.
Fortunatley everyone on the internet seems to be making fun of the plan. Unfortunately, NL is populated with plenty of people who will take it seriously.
Meldpunt Midden en Oost-Europeanen.
