Don't worry if you just locked yourself into a two-year contract with a dual-core smartphone, there aren't a ton of apps out there that truly take advantage all that computing power anyway. We're not saying that to make you feel bad about purchasing a dual-core phone; on the contrary, we don't think anyone should needlessly stress about all those quad-core devices on the horizon[......]
The latest bit of climate controversy has kicked off in Texas, a state with a governor, RIck Perry, who has suggested that climate scientists have manipulated data. At issue is a report on the future of Galveston Bay, on Texas' Gulf coast. The report was commissioned by the state's Commission on Environmental Quality, and prepared by a private consulting firm. [......]
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Research, perhaps the most consistently interesting division of the hulking software company. [......]
Wayne Hoehn beat Righthaven so badly that the Las Vegas-based copyright troll lost its copyright infringement case on fair use grounds—and had to pay Hoehn's lawyers at the Randazza Legal Group $34,045.50 in attorney's fees. But Righthaven, which has been squeezing settlements from bloggers and random forum users for more than a year, hasn't paid up. Now, Marc Randazza and his team want the US Marshals to seize Righthaven's bank accounts and property[......]
Here at Ars we're big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in Creative Commons-licensed Wikipedia (used with caution, of course), the Creative Commons-related policy issues that we cover give us a steady stream of great news content, and we make use of Creative Commons-licensed images in our news stories. This last piece—the use of Creative Commons images—has historically been one of the trickiest issues for us to navigate as a publisher, given the number of different Creative Commons license types[......]
While the idea of a reunited Korea is one that never dies, it's also one that seems rather unlikely in the short term. Well thanks to the work of augmented reality artist Mark Skwarek , tourists and South Korean nationals are afforded a glimpse of what was, and someday may be.[......]
Program lockups are always annoying. But if the app in question has the text of an important document, which you've been working on for hours, and not actually saved to disk yet, then it could be a real disaster. Don't shut down the hung program, though -- you may still be able to recover your carefully crafted words, just as long as you've a copy of DumpIt to hand[......]
Matthew Inman never wanted to be a hardass. He just wanted to write his unique webcomic, The Oatmeal , but only months after he started the project, he began to see his work showing up—often with all attribution stripped out—on user-generated content sites like FunnyJunk.com.[......]
Continuing its foray in iOS software Adobe today released three companion apps for Photoshop CS5. The apps provide a range of new ways to interact with Photoshop with your iPad starting with Adobe Eazel , which enables you to paint and draw on the screen of your iPad using a range of tools before sending the completed work of art to your PC or Mac, or sharing it via email[......]
Standard images editing tools are not hard to come by -- in fact Mac users are almost spoiled for choice in this field. [......]
Gathering information online used to mean saving folders full of images or copying and pasting text into a word processing documents, but then web clipping services such as Evernote made it easier than ever to collect together information and organize it however you wanted. Evernote is an undoubtedly powerful tool, but for many people its features may be a little over the top and the interface somewhat overwhelming. Memonic is an alternative tool that keeps things simple and yet retains the most useful note management features. The service can be used via the Memonics web site, using a Windows program, with browser extensions or by making use of an iOS app. [......]
Rice University grad student Ryan Guerra is on a mission to extend the range of WiFi signals from a few hundred feet to a mile—and beyond. This month, he succeeded, thanks to some nifty engineering and a few empty TV channels[......]
Attention all podcasters, vloggers and wannabe YouTube stars! No more must your work be sullied by the sub-par microphones built in to your PC or phone. TechRadar has teamed up with Blue Microphones , whose tagline is Sound Perfected , to grant four lucky winners some top notch USB-microphone technology. First prize is the just-announced Yeti Pro, the world's first USB microphone combining the highest digital resolution on the market with analogue XLR output[......]
Flickr’d You may have heard that the Dutch Government now plans to outlaw music and movie (and whatever else) downloading. That seems pretty prosaic: since when was it legal to infringe on someone’s copyright[......]
Whenever AMD or Intel introduce a new processor, there's the question of whether or not it will work in your existing motherboard, and if not, which one(s) will it work with? The answer isn't always as obvious as a pin count, especially with the current generation of AMD parts. To help alleviate any confusion over AMD's next generation CPUs for current AMD 800/700 series chipset motherboards, Gigabyte announced it's the first to market with AM3+ "Black Socket" motherboards, giving users at-a-glance confirmation that everything's kosher. [......]
