08
Nov
This story describes how the webcam got invented. A small idea grown during
the question on how full a coffee machine’s can in a distant office room is.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser picked up the idea to remotely watch the coffee can by
a camera pointing to the coffee machine shooting a picture every 20 seconds.
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08
Nov
It ain’t a good day for Apple. Today, Charlie Miller has shown another exploit,
that could Apple bring some big problems. The reason: an unobtrusive stock
ticker app. The purpose (besides shoing stock tickers): Getting access to the
inner core applications and files of iDevices. No wonder, Apple striked back!
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08
Nov
It seems that this young man has spent much time on his NES/SNES.
Why? Because he’s very good at replaying the tunes of the various games on
his violin. The results are on the one hand funny on the other hand also
amazing. There’s not much to say about it. Enjoy the show!
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08
Nov
There it is, the shiny new version of Firefox. Overhauled with new features, an
improved display engine and a faster javscript engine this new version shall
bring a new browser experience. However have not many users digested the
sixth major release, the seventh is still much propagated.
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