The Aperture Home Screen [Featured Android Home Screen]
Reader Jays2Kings created a home screen using the style of the popular Portal video games, with big square icons and a few text widgets. Here's how it works. More »
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
Pan/Tilt wheel trainer ends up being a different way to play Quake
This is a special controller that [Gary Scott] built to help train camera operators. The pan and tilt controls on high-end movie cameras use wheels to pan and tilt smoothly. This rig can be built rather inexpensively and used to practice following a subject as you would with a camera. This is where the project [...]
Do You Use Group Coupon Services? [Reader Poll]
Group coupon services like Groupon and Living Social promise savings through the power of numbers. To be sure, you can find some great deals lurking on these services, but it depends largely on the type...
Cryptography – learn what it’s all about
The concept of cryptography touches our lives many times per day, and that’s probably a conservative estimate. We have a pretty good idea of how it works, having dealt with public-key cryptography for things like remote git repositories or ssh tunneling without a password. But we still enjoyed reading [Tiberiu Barbu's] primer on the subject [...]
Daily Update, Sept. 25th – Cincinnati Reds Stay on the Cutting Edge of IT
Today, we’re kicking off a new feature on The Official Microsoft Blog called Daily Update, which is designed to keep readers of the blog up to speed on selected stories and news of the day here at Microsoft.
For this, the inaugural edition of Da...
Personal Energy Orb prevents your life from being swallowed by the Internets
We love the Internet, but we are definitely guilty of losing track of the time we spend traipsing around our virtual haunts. This project will not only remind you to get out and exercise, it will cripple your digital experience if you don’t heed its colorful warning. [Janko Hofmann] calls it the Personal Energy Orb. It’s really [...]
Emphasize Your Potential Rather Than Your Accomplishments When Selling Yourself [Interviews]
A person's track record of success is the most important factor determining whether he or she gets hired, right? Well, maybe not. According to Stanford and Harvard Business School studies, we have an un...
Build Your Own iPhone 5 Dock for $1 (Because Apple Won't Make One For You) [Video]
Apple isn't making a dock for the iPhone 5 and its lightning connector, but DIYer Casey Neistat shows us how to make a simple one out of wood for only $1. More »
Wii Nunchuck controlled robot exhibits rock solid balancing
[Willy Wampa] is showing off his self-balancing robot. What strikes us about the build is how well tuned his feedback loop seems to be. In the video after the break you will see that there is absolutely no visible oscillation used to keep its balance. The parts used are quite easy to obtain. The acrylic [...]
Cook Taste Eat Teaches You to Cook with Free Daily Emails and Videos [Cooking]
Cook Taste Eat is a great new resource for both budding and advanced home cooks. The site presents a daily video each day teaching you chef techniques and tricks, and at the end of each week it all culm...