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Archive for August, 2008

» Chrome effects in Photoshop

Chrome effects can be created in Photoshop to then be put onto objects or to be used as an effective text effect for Web Design. In this tutorial I will show you how to apply a chrome effect to text or any other object.
? Start by creating a new image 500/500 pixels [...]

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» Now you see me…

American scientist claim to be ?one step closer? to developing the stuff of geek-fantasy: the invisibility cloak.

Researchers at the University of California in Berkley say they have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them ?disappear?.

The materials do not occur naturally, but has been created on a nano-scale, measured in [...]

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» Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on its Way

It should have been released around February earlier this year, but Microsoft has finally announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of its SQL Server 2008.

The code is now finalised and on its way to production, and Microsoft have maintained that the SQL Server 2008 will still arrive within three years of the release of [...]

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» Is your filing cabinet is bursting at the seams?Google’s here to help

If you happen to run a massive business that needs to store millions of documents, then the version 5 of Google Search Appliance is the answer. Five times faster than its predecessor and three times the capacity, this bright yellow server remarkably remains the same size as before, and offers a bunch of new [...]

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» Mind Control:The Future is Now

Ever wished you could move mountains with your mind? Well this new piece of cutting edge technology won?t quite let you do that much, but its still pretty cool. Emotiv?s EPOC headset is a lightweight headset that allows a user, after some configuration, to control computer functions and most excitingly games, with his/her mind.

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» Intel Release Technical Information on ‘Larabee’

Intel have released technical details about its upcoming line of microprocessors with the code-name of ?Larrabee?, in advance of the company?s presentation at the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interface Techniques) conference, in Los Angeles next week.

The chips will act as a springboard for a many-core x86 chip architecture. Intel says the [...]

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» IBM Helping You Remember Stuff

Those clever folks at IBM have come up with something rather cool: ?Pensieve?. In a blatant nod to the Harry Potter memory machine, scientists have come up with a way to help you remember every face, name and phone number you encounter, by using data from your mobile devices to build and store connections [...]

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» UFO Hacker to be Extradited to US

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The House of Lords in the UK has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who got in to several US military, defence and NASA computers, to stand trial in the United States.
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McKinnon has been fighting extradition since 2002, since it was discovered hat he?d hacked his way in to one of the US?s [...]

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