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Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” Steve Jobs  

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My Workspace at Home Featured on Lifehacker

My Workspace at Home Featured on Lifehacker

Today’s featured workspace isn’t the only one we’ve featured before with great back lighting and ambient light, but it’s definitely one of the first that feels like you’re computing from a day spa. Lifehacker reader Mohammed Yassin has a simple home office with a desk flanked by two stands for peripherals and gear, three monitors [...]

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IPv6: The future of net addresses explained

IPv6: The future of net addresses explained

By this time next year the drought will begin to bite – or so it’s reckoned – but will IPv6 solve any of the problems and exploits currently made possible by IPv4? The promise Long before the internet as we know it today came into being, the protocols upon which it still relies were first [...]

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YouTube moves solidly into the future by supporting 4K content

YouTube moves solidly into the future by supporting 4K content

It’s funny — we remember the day that YouTube began supporting plain ole HD like it was yesterday, and we’re guessing today will hang in our memory banks for quite awhile, too. Over at the VidCon 2010 conference, YouTube officially announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), which means that [...]

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New Network Design Could Make the Internet 100 Times Faster

New Network Design Could Make the Internet 100 Times Faster

A group of MIT researchers has demonstrated a method of network topology that could render the Internet 100 or even 1000 times faster than it is today. The “magic” behind the concept is to eliminate or reduce the most time-intensive part of data transmission, which involves converting an optical signal into an electrical signal for memory [...]

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