Resources
13 Things You Must Do First with Your New PC – A new computer is like a blank state–there’s a lot of potential there, but without some work on your part, it’s useless. It’s not hard to get started, but there are some essential first steps that everyone should follow when breaking in their new PC.
Browser Pong – This site let you play Pong in your browser with pop-up windows rather than paddles.
Browser Size – Google has released this tool to help webmasters to determine how much of their website layout is “above the fold.” Very useful.
Flickchart – a fun site where you can rank two movies at a time against each other to compile a personal best of list.
Master Google Android: 40 Tips and Tricks – Ready to take your smartphone experience to the next level? These 40 Android tips and tricks will help you become a power user in no time.
The Meaning of Open – Google reflects on the highly subjective and vitally important meaning of the term “open” as it relates to technology.
Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Themes of 2009 – This year’s release of Firefox 3.5 gave us a lot of reasons to like it, but its extensibility remains everyone’s favorite feature. These add-ons and theme tools were the most popular in the year gone by.
Regex Dictionary – a handy tool for those times when you want a web-based dictionary you can search with regular expressions.
Watch the talks at 26C3 – Download and watch video of the proceeding of the most recent European Hacker Conference.
Discussion
100 Years of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got
How Success Killed Duke Nukem
Why are modern scientists so dull?
Entertainment
CoolVibe has a gallery of 100 epic images from Hubble Space Telescope
10 Unbelievable Facebook Stories – Oddee.com
How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
How traffic lights work, featuring the last of the mechanical controllers
Popular Mechanics Looks Back at the 100 Best Innovations of 2009
See Norway by train, from your laptop.
Tech Pioneers Who Will Change Your Life – TIME
Tech News
American tears through 34GB of data per person per day
Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged
…And an explanation of How 3.6 Zettabytes of Data Get Consumed
Hackers break Amazon’s Kindle DRM
McDonald’s to offer free, unlimited Wi-Fi
The number of people downloading music illegally is not decreasing, says BPI
Texas county to name drunk drivers on Twitter
TSA To Save Print Media? No Electronics On International Flights? What A Joke.
The World’s First $99 Laptop Debuts [More]
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