It's Apple's 'Post-PC' World - We're All Just Living In It →
In this new world, Apple no longer has to compete on specs and features, nor does it want to. There is no Mac vs. PC here -- only "the future" versus "the past." It won't be a debate about displays, memory, wireless options -- it will be a debate about the quality of the experience. Apple is not just eschewing the spec conversation in favor of a different conversation -- it's rendering those former conversations useless.While I wouldn't go so far as to render the conversation useless, I do think that the new world is about the ecosystem and the aesthetic experience as much as it is the technology itself. The thing is, Apple's been doing that for years.
Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark →
We're so use to associating the opportunity of taking amazing photographs when it's 80 degrees on a bright sunny day that we can't help feel we've wasted this chance if we didn't make it outside with our camera but this beautiful video on night photography gives you the encouragement to experiment shooting once the sun goes down.
Really cool stuff from Big Bend.
Make: Long-Exposure Signal Strength Pix
How cool would it be to take this concept and turn it into a topological map over, say, a college campus, to be able to see the signal strength represented as actual mountains and valleys?
Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.
— James 3:1-2
ENDING SCRIPT - I BLEW UP AND FAILED
— Another great Microsoft easter egg. I mean, if you're going to fail, do so with style...
Who is Winning the U.S. Smartphone Battle? | Nielsen Wire
Great snapshot of the current smartphone landscape.
Upgrading Through Every Version of Windows
I don't expect anyone else is interested in this, but I thought it was pretty fascinating. For one, DOS support got better from Windows 2000 to XP. And boy, does Windows 7 look better than everything else. 20 years of application compatibility is pretty amazing, though.
How To Turn A Laser Into A Tractor Beam →
Gotta love theoretical physics.
The Web as Wireframes →
Wirify is a bookmarklet that lets you turn any web page into a wireframe in one click:
Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives →
We've got built-in sanitize commands, overwriting, encryption, and my favorite:
3.2.3 Degaussing
We also evaluated degaussing as a method for erasing SSDs. Degaussing is a fast, effective means of destroying hard drives, since it removes the disks low-level formatting (along with all the data) and damages the drive motor.
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In all cases, the data remained intact.
Yeah, it's apparently a tricky little feat...
(via The Brooks Review)