Well, it’s almost here, and I find it somewhat of a downer. When you’re still a few weeks out from Macworld, there’s all kinds of crazy speculation going on and it seems like the sky’s the limit. What’s that? You heard that one of OS 10.5’s big secrets is that the Time Machine function is [...]
We’re plumbing the depths of depravity, the bottom of the barrel, the reprehensible and the truly terrible. Here, we explore the absolute worst of 2006—the eight products that were so bad, their ranking fell below Fair all the way down to Poor.
Here’s a common myth: to be a successful creative person, all you need is talent. It’s a nice myth to believe in, because “talent” suggests a divine or evolutionary genetic gift. So if you have talented DNA, you’re special and can be a cool creative person. If not, you’re destined to be an accountant. After [...]
Scientific and technological breakthroughs can take years to develop, but when they leave the lab and enter the world at large, word spreads quickly. Here’s a look at the advances you’ll be hearing about in the coming year.
You can satisfy your wanderlust without overspending — and these top Web sites will help you find the best values in travel bargains. We’ve personally used each of these sites to research and book travel and found them superior to others.
For airfare, lodging and car rentals, we identify which links are best for three different [...]
I come across many services a day while researching for Solution Watch, and as many of you know, I take a lot of notes to organize my thoughts about them. Until recently, the only method that I used to keep organized with the services I wanted to write about was by reviewing my notes and [...]
The way you work can have a huge impact on your creative success. We present the best advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process, so that you can keep clients satisfied and make the most of your talents
What is design? Design is both the process and the final product of an [...]
A messy desk is a sign of creativity and imagination. This is the excuse I gave myself for the mountain of papers, knickknacks, and San Pellegrino bottles normally piled on my desk at work. Truth is, I’m just lazy. When I started wasting more and more time looking for lost items instead of being a [...]
In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It’s equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed—and that’s too big a [...]
If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others’ quests for [...]
We all need to access more courage in order to live our lives with greater joy, love, power, choice, integrity, and fullness. And we all can envision and create a better tomorrow while finding courage to make required changes.
ten commandments Courage means ‘heart.’ It cannot be found in one great, heroic act, but in day-to-day [...]
Richard Branson does it effectively from a hammock in the Necker Island, Warren Buffet has been doing it since he was 11, and Bill Gates used it to single-handedly build an empire.
Arguably the most powerful and effective managers in the world, these men have one thing in common – they owe their management acumen and [...]
You can never be too safe these days. Viruses, spyware, rootkits, remote exploits, you just never know what security issue is going to be your downfall. Thats why it is important as a Linux administrator to have an understanding of some of the best Linux security tools available to you. In this article, you will [...]
Rob Wright documents his revelation about pro gamers. While attending a professional gaming event – the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour Championship in Dallas. Some key things became known to him that he wasn’t aware of before
Tuesday I wrote about the 40 essential gamecube games that any Wii/Gamecube owner should have and the list seemed to be pretty popular with the exception of a couple of choices. However, the major complaint was that there was no justification behind each choice and so I have listened and this list is even more [...]
The start of a new year is always a great time to look forward to which movies you want to see in the next twelve months. Looking back at my list for last year tells me that I was completely off the mark with some movies (Zoom and My Super Ex-Girlfriend in my top 20? [...]
Writing my review of 2006 has made me realise I haven’t covered Firefox for a long time. One of my popular posts last year was 10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don’t Get Glamorised, which got picked up by all the top sites including Digg. That article is nearly 12 months old, so I though it [...]
Today, many digital effects are so subtle that movie audiences often don’t notice them — but it wasn’t always so. We asked industry insiders to pinpoint the biggest breakthroughs in digital F/X history.
