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AWESOME New Graphics Rendering Framework–Check out the demo videos!

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Graff is a lightweight high-performance graphics rendering library that focusses on providing ways of animating graphical elements over time. Compiz has officially pwned Vista, now we’re gunning for Apple!
Link to AWESOME New Graphics Rendering Framework–Check out the demo videos!

Pictures: Amazing Cakes

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Wow… all I can say is wow.
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Design secrets revealed - 35 Pro designers asked 5 must know questions

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

35 professional designers disclose their favorite CSS technique, how they prioritize their designs, their favorite font, their most read design-related book and the design magazine that they read religiously.
Link to Design secrets revealed - 35 Pro designers asked 5 must know questions

Samsung unveils World’s First Hybrid Hard Drive

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Just over a month since releasing their HHD to OEMs, out pops an 80GB Hybrid Hard Drive in Samsung’s venerable M55 laptop. They’re calling it an “industry first”.
Link to Samsung unveils World’s First Hybrid Hard Drive

Palm embracing Linux in the hopes of being relevant again

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Once upon a time, Palm ruled the roost when it came to PDAs, but the company has fallen on hard times. It is in this context that one can best view the company’s latest strategy to become truly competitive again: adopt Linux.
Link to Palm embracing Linux in the hopes of being relevant again

Photo: A Moment On Earth

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

On August 5th, 2004 at 12:00 Noon GMT, 60 filmmakers in over 40 countries and on all 7 continents captured a single “moment” on earth. This mosaic builds a composite image of Iraq and the Pacific Ocean out of thousands of single frames from the other moments that were filmed around the world at the […]

Don’t settle for light speed; take Safari to ludicrous speed

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Today, Apple’s browser of choice is Safari, based in part on the open source KHTML codebase and enhanced regularly through Apple’s WebKit project. It’s pretty fast, too, but not always. Sometimes, Safari can slow to a crawl depending on a variety of factors such as cache size or network congestion, or even how many tabs […]

Microsoft slams Apple iPhone as ‘irrelevant’

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Apple’s soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a “closed device” and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.
Link to Microsoft slams Apple iPhone as ‘irrelevant’

43 Folders: Some handy Mail.app Smart Mailboxes

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Quoting Merlin Mann: “It took me a while, but ever since I’ve gotten my head around Smart Folders (and Smart Playlists and Smart Groups, etc.), I’ve started to think about the way I use my Mac a bit differently…So, in the interest of spreading the love, here’s four Mail.app Smart Mailboxes that have been rocking […]

Really awesome wallpapers

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Check this site for some fantastic desktop wallpaper.
Socksoff.co.uk [wallpaper links resource]
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