1 day ago

Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories: Local 25 years ago (1984): Stevie Ray Vaughan, who has been called the greatest electric guitarist in the world, flew from New Zealand to Memphis yesterday to attend the event. (Read More)

2 days ago

Gizmodo When the Droid was shipped, it was plagued with a lousy autofocus bug. But then, it magically seemed to fix itself. Did Verizon secretly update all the phones from afar? Nope. The explanation is much weirder than that. There's a rounding-error bug in the camera driver's autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that cause (Read More)

2 days ago

Gizmodo It will be some time before it reaches couch potatos' hands, but NEC's new TV remote prototype promises eternal power and no battery changes. Ever. How so? It doesn't use any. How is this sorcery possible? According to the witches and wizards at NEC Electronics and Onryoku Hatsuden, their new remote generates electricity wh (Read More)

4 days ago

Engadget Sure, Verizon's doubled down on the 3G map ads in response to AT&T's false advertising lawsuit, but eventually the company's lawyers had to file a response and, well, ain't nobody backing down in this one. Here's the freaking introduction:AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon's "There's A Map For That" advertiseme (Read More)

5 days ago

zlabs Internet Explorer – the bane of most web developers’ existence. Up to 60% of your development can be wasted just trying to squash out IE specific bugs which isn’t really a productive use of your time. In this tutorial, you are going to learn about the most common IE bugs and rendering disparities and how to easily squash th (Read More)

4 days ago

Slashdot theodp writes "Thousands of teachers are using websites like Teachers Pay Teachers and We Are Teachers to cash in on a commodity they used to give away, selling lesson plans online for exercises as simple as M&M sorting and as sophisticated as Shakespeare. While some of this extra money is going to buy books and classroom s (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Slashdot grmoc writes "As part of the 'Let's make the web faster' initiative, we (a few engineers — including me! — at Google, and hopefully people all across the community soon!) are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of Web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced 'SPeeDY'), an applicati (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

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Nov 13, 2009

Submitted by Kchau from Google Reader: Today, for dinner I ordered pizza online. There was a box to type in any special requests. I wrote in "Delivery guy must beatbox." When I got my pizza, the delievery guy beatboxed all of Sexy Back. I have new faith in my local pizza places. MLIA . (Read More)

7 days ago

kottke.org URL shorteners still suck, but several URL shortening services have agreed to hand over the keys to 301Works in the event that a URL shortening company goes under. 301Works will be administered by Internet Archive.Participating companies will provide regular backups of their URL mappings to the 301Works.org service. In the (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Kchau from Google Reader: We’ve previously seen the debate on whether or not you should attend university if you are interested in a web development career, especially when you can just as readily turn to a site like Nettuts+ and save yourself some time and money. Well……not so fast. Traditional universities lend themselves to a number of learning op (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Engadget We always said that if Apple's arbitrary, inconsistent, and quite frankly baffling approval process didn't get straightened out soon, the defections were going to pick up pace -- and what do we have here? Joe Hewitt, the developer of the well-loved and highly regarded Facebook iPhone app, has flipped the script and rejected (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Joystiq While we're certainly happy to hear that a brand new Final Fantasy XIII is coming to the theater in PlayStation Home tomorrow, we can't help but be a little put out too. Is this the announcement that had been hinted at on Sunday? Because we were honestly hoping for something a bit more ... announcementy. On the bright side (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Gizmodo This is Rodney Bradford. A few days ago, Facebook saved his 19-yo life. Facebook and his status plea demanding the immediate consumption of the very basic food groups every human being needs to properly function in the morning: Pancakes. Rodney was arrested on October 18 as a suspect in two crimes. He declared himself innoc (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

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K Chau

Still a lot I need to take in at 22 yrs old... :)