The video above just hit YouTube showing Microsoft’s upcoming Internet Explorer 9 in action. Unlike previous previews , this one shows what appears to be the full UI and chrome around the browser.
We thought that our homemade Theremin was difficult to control, but this one is in a different league altogether! The, ahem , brainchild of Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider, the Teletron takes a Mattel Mindflex game and uses it as a control voltage source for… well, any piece of musical equipment that has a CV input. In the video below, the musician / producer plugs it into a Moog analog synth and increases / decreases the pitch solely with his mind
According to a study focusing on 450,000 Americans and how they evaluate their happiness, a salary of $75,000 a year is the magic number after which people’s day-to-day happiness no longer improves. More
Last week we asked you to share your favorite mobile to-do list manager , then we rounded up the five most popular contenders for a vote . Now we’re back to highlight your favorite to-do list manager. More
Nike’s dalliances with technology should be familiar to our readers by now, with the crowning jewel of course being the Nike+ run-tracking software that pairs a shoe-mounted sensor with your iPhone or iPod. Well, it was . The gargantuan sportswear company is moving with the times and throwing the hardware away with the introduction of its all-new Nike+ GPS application
It seems like only yesterday that Oracle announced it was hiring former HP CEO Mark Hurd to be a Co-President and member of the Board — that’s because it was just yesterday . And now just one day later, we have a lawsuit filed by HP to block such a maneuver by Oracle. In confirming the lawsuit in a brief blog post today, HP’s official corporate blog highlights what they see as the key issue here: trade secrets and confidential information
If small workspaces lack for anything, it’s the wiggle room to be a little messy. Today’s featured workspace highlights the transformation of a small workspace from a cluttered mess to an organized place to get stuff done. More
Oh, sure — we’ve seen an Xbox 360 enclosure stuffed with x86 innards, but we can’t say we’ve ever seen anything quite like this. Gaming upstart Origin PC has just shattered every preconceived notion about its potential with the Big O, an appropriately titled luxury machine that combines a liquid-cooled gaming PC with a liquid-cooled Xbox 360 Slim. In one box .
Chrome: Zoomy is a small Chrome extension that automatically enlarges websites to fill the available screen space. Whether you’re trying to read small text more comfortably or you’re tired of the massive page gutters on your widescreen monitor, Zoomy can help. More
One of the big problems with video on the Web is that other than the title, description and some meta tags, it is mostly invisible to Google and other search engines. One way to make video more SEO-friendly is to add transcriptions, but that can get expensive. An angel-funded startup called SpeakerText is (re)launching today with a very clever way to automate the transcription process and attach the full transcript as part of the video player in a drop down window