Lossless audio formats like flac or ape are different from mp3 or aac files. The latter have been compressed with a lossy compression which usually produces data that is different from the original (uncompressed) file. Lossless audio formats on the other hand can reconstruct the original data from t...

  For homo sapiens, getting older is painful. Take me for example. Nine hours on a plane never bothered me when I was in my 20s with a rubber backbone. But a couple of weeks out from birthday # 43 and one cross-country airplane ride translates into a sudden spinal meltdown that has me lying in ...

1610 Galileo Galilei records the discovery the four largest moons of Jupiter, which will be named Callisto, Europa, Io, and Ganymede. These four moons will be collectively named the Galilean moons in his honor. 1714 British engineer Henry Mill is granted the world’s first patent for a typewrit...

Heh, this was planned as a one-week hack but somehow turned into a full re-write that took the complete December. Yesterday, I finally managed to tame the semantic bot army and today I've added a basic RDF editor. A sponsored version is now online at knowee.net, a code bundle for self-hosting will b...

While iSCSI might have the little "i" so common in Apple's naming schemes, it has nothing to do with Mr. Jobs.  In this case, the "i" stands for "Internet."  SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is an interface used for connecting PCs to peripherals such as ...

Section: Computers, Hardware, Laptops, Trade Shows, CES The new Pavilion dv2 series from HP is nice, but what about those of us who want just a bit more screen space and power?  HP hasn’t forgotten about us, and is announcing its Pavilion dv3 series beside them.  While the dv2s have ...

Based on Windows® Home Server platform, HP MediaSmart Server ex485/ex487 can stream media across network and automatically organizes digital media/files from Windows- and Mac-based computers for backup, remote access, sharing, and upload. It is powered by 64/bit, 2.0 GHz Intel® Celeron...

Lenovo introduced its Ideapad notebooks at CES last year, and this year they’re bringing some new laptops to the party. The IdeaPad Y650 will have a 16-inch display. At $1,199 it offers up to 4GB of DDR3 (double data rate 3) main memory and can go up to 500GB of hard disk drive data storage, u...

+ Chinese target Google in month long anti-porn crack down (via Globe and Mail) + Google Wins Lawsuit on Name, Trademark of Subsidiary in China (via Bloomberg) + Google unveils Picasa for Macs (via AP) + Webcast: Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain Go...

1714 Englishman Henry Mill receives a patent for the first typewriter. (No. 385) He will never successfully market his invention and, while it will later be recognized as the first in a long evolution of devices, his design will die with him. The patent is titled, “An artificial machine or met...