Open Blender Movie

Big Buck Bunny is a film made in Blender, an open-source 3D animation program. Today, they have released the movie files of Big Buck Bunny. Just one look at the site shows that it’s not just some amature film with no point, but that it is actually a very well developed film. As you can [...]

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Top 5 Best Home Pages

If you do a lot of web browsing, you may find that Google is a bit limiting, as just a search engine. If you want to be able to get up-to-the-second news updates, then maybe it’s time to change homepages. Your home page is the first thing you see when you open your web browser, [...]

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.3

Today Apple has released the 10.5.3 software update. This update (for Leopard) should appear in Apple Software Update.
The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: [...]

Facebook To Go Open Source

It is rumoured that soon, possibly even this week, Facebook.com will be releasing their platform as open-source software, Tech Crunch tells us. The immidiate effect would be that many social networks could be formed from their CMS, as well as making it possible for other social networks to pick up their code, making it possible [...]

Google Maps Rolls Out Spanking New Features

Mark O’Neil, author of MakeUseOf.com, recently wrote about how through messing around through Google Maps, he found that they have released a whole batch of new features.
For example, there is now a more button, that lets you see photos of that area that have been Geo-Tagged.

Of course, I recommend that you take a look at [...]

Adobe Releases Public Betas of Soundbooth, Fireworks and Dreamweaver

Adobe announced today that they have now released public betas of SoundBooth, Fireworks and Dreamweaver. These programs can be downloaded from labs.adobe.com and are available for both Windows XP+ and Mac OS X.
However, while these downloads are publicly available, unless you have CS3, you are only able to use this software for 2 days.
The Dreamweaver [...]

ePSXe 1.7.0 Released!

After over 4 years of waiting, the ePSXe team have released a new version of what is everyone’s favourite PSX emulator. The ISO support code has been rewritten, as has the MDEC decoder. It’s got a new version of Pete’s Software Plugin, and many of the bugs in the CD-ROM decoder and in the core.
For [...]

Phoenix Mars Lander Photos

As you can see, earlier today I posted some news on how the Phoenix Mars Lander had sucessfully reached Mars, and NASA have now released some photos of Mars, taken by the lander.
You can now see the photos on ChicagoTribune.com.

The Touchscreen Turntable

The ATTIGO TT is a digital touchscreen turntable is a digital turntable for DJs, created by Scot Hobbs, a student at the Dundee University, who is currently studying innovative product design. For his final year, he created a digital touchscreen turntable that allows DJs to loop, sample and scratch wave forms, just as you would [...]

Solar Powered iPods, iPhones and Laptops from Apple?

A new patent filed by Apple shows that there could be plans for new solar powered iPod, iPhones and Macbooks. If Apple was to use solar panels in their devices, it could significantly increase battery life, as it would be possible to charge, while the device is in use. However, integrating solar panels into devices [...]

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