There’s a rumour that Google will be launching access to their distributed database service, BigTable, making the same type of database hardware and software that keeps Google running, available to anyone who pays for it.
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Further details of how Radiohead’s ‘give us what you want’ album, In Rainbows, sold have emerged in an interview with the BBC, beyond the somewhat sketchy details what we knew already.
Continue reading Radiohead: “Italy Most Generous: 75% Paid For In Rainbows Download”
We’re all keen on doing our part on not destroying the planet these days – and quite rightly too.
For quite a while, we’ve known that much electrical equipment uses a lot of electricity in standby mode – sometimes, with things such as PVRs, actually more power!
A company calling itself Bye Bye Standby released its new Energy Saving Kit back in September 2007 in the UK.
Today they’ve made it be know that the US equivalent product is now increasingly available.
Continue reading Bye Bye Standby: Save The Planet With Your Thumb
Sony has announced the Handycam HDR-TG3E, claiming it to be the World’s smallest HD 1080 Camcorder – and judging by the photos we’ve had through, they’re more than likely right. The thing looks tiny.
Sized at little larger than a mobile phone (33 x 119 x 63.5mm and 283g), Sony say it’s the smallest, slimmest, lightest camcorder ever to feature 1920×1080 Full HD recording with crisp 5.1ch surround sound.
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Futuresonic, an Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas (as they describe it), is being held again this year.
It’s running 1-5 May in Manchester and is looking like a really interesting, rounded event.
Of equal value, if not greater, to Skype’s voice calling is the IM (Instant Messengering).
Given the IM usefulness, we thought we’d pass on to you on a tip that we found out a little while ago.
Continue reading Skype Tip: Editing Your IM Text
In a world where we’re all becoming more spied upon by many organisations including, but not limited to, governments and supermarkets – why not volunteer more information to your fellow humans instead.
Dutch techno-fashion label Wickd, have a line of clothing, primarily T-shirts, each of which have a unique circular code graphic — they using ShotCodes — on them.
There was a competition at the CanSecWest security conference to see who could hack/control/Pwn any of the three laptops (VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10; Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1; MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2) available. The prize for the first successful hack was the laptop and a cash prize that reduced the more access given to the machine.
Continue reading PWN To OWN: MacBook Air Hacked In 2 Minutes
Always keen to stay on top of how content is being used and distributed, a few of us at DL have been playing around with the playlists and ‘channel’ building abilities of YouTube of late.
While compiling and organising collections of strange video that we found, an interesting options popped out at us.
Continue reading Video ID Matches: YouTube’s Anti-Piracy Tools
This is a sad and sorry tale. A tale of not having a clue how to treat your customers.
When we got our first Moo cards back in May 2007, we loved them. We ordered, they delivered. Simple.
We’ve had the same experience quite a few times since then – UNTIL we had to send some back.
Continue reading Moo Cards: Customer Support Is BAD