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Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft’s betas including Vista has some interesting CSS values. The first line in the .css is commented “fix for the IE 1px-off margin error”, followed by a value called “.StupidIEMarginHack “. [digg]
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I think that this update was made by Apple to compete with Dell’s UltraSharp 3007WFP which had a higher specification up until now. CNET did a review recently comparing the two, and although Apple’s 30″ Cinema Display beat Dell’s for better colour accuracy and sharpness, Dell did a good job. The Dell screen has better [...]

There is a Flickr group up that contains hundreds of photos of items relating to the PS3. Images from E3 ‘05 and GDC ‘06 of the keynotes and the many booths that showcase the PS3. If you are interested at all in the PS3 I recommend you check it out, there are some worthwhile images [...]

Awhile back I posted about the new search results interface Google was supposedly testing. I can definitely confirm that today. This blog post describes how to set a new cookie in Firefox that will force Google to display the new results page for you. Since the instructions are a little off (and took me some [...]

As I have been quite busy lately with some other ‘work’ I haven’t been making many blog posts lately. I will try to get back into my normal frequency (2-3 posts a day) as soon as I can. So I missed out on an opportunity to post this piece of news on the actual day. [...]

You can’t get more simple than the Galvanic Skin Response [GSR] sensor. It is just a cut 9V LEGO motor wire and some aluminum foil wrapped around your fingers with tape. I was inspired by talks by Mindfest panelists Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich who talked about using this type of sensor. The theory is [...]

[Photo Credit: Revolution Report]
Much has happened since yesterday in Revolution news, so I thought I’d put it all in one place. First of all, at GDC (Gamer Develpers Conference) in San Jose, Nintendo had put out a Revolution on display behind a plexi-glass container. This is what is assumed to be the final design of [...]

[Photo credit: Dan Bowles]
Could this be a deliberate easter egg on Apple’s part? I don’t know what you see, but to me it looks like the light given off by the Mighty Mouse looks like a mouse or a rabbit depending on how you view it. I checked it with my and yes, it does [...]

I’ll be sort of live blogging the event, ready to upload as soon as I can get back to civilization across the street. There’s a display up on stage of the history of Sony consoles: the PlayStation, PSone, PlayStation 2, PS2 slim, PSP, and–of course–the PlayStation 3.
[10:36] GDC director Jamil Moledina takes the stage. Says [...]

Ever wonder what 3000 iBooks looks like? Or how you might go about configuring them? What if you only had three days to do it? Apple consultant Jaron Brass has an amazing gallery of photos. [TUAW]
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