Archive for July, 2011

Writing better CSS is something all web designers and developers should strive for, and thankfully there are some useful tools out there to help do just that. For this post, we’ve rounded up a collection of new tools to help you with your CSS. From learning new CSS3 properties, to making your code more efficient, [...]

(Reuters) – The FBI’s arrest this week of 16 people who allegedly participated in high-profile cyber attacks is providing a treasure trove of information and will lead to further arrests, a U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters on Thursday. The crackdown — on members of the group Anonymous — was the biggest reaction so far [...]

Your laptop’s battery is smarter than it looks. And if a hacker like security researcher Charlie Miller gets his digital hands on it, it could become more evil than it appears, too. At the Black Hat security conference in August, Miller plans to expose and provide a fix for a new breed of attack on [...]

Rather than rest on their keyboards after being kicked off Google+, the hacking group known as Anonymous has created a holding page for AnonPlus, a “new social network where there is no fear…of censorship…of blackout…nor of holding back.” Unlaunched the social networking site may be, Anonymous does promise that everyone will be able to create [...]

Chuck Bittner is one of the most prominent advocates for adding accessibility to videogames. Photo: Chuck Bittner Chuck Bittner would love to saddle up and lasso some lawbreakers in Red Dead Redemption. But the videogame’s controls are impossible for him to use. Bittner has quadriplegia, a type of paralysis that limits the functionality of his [...]

Google has announced a raft of experiments for YouTube under the banner of “Cosmic Panda”. The changes revolve predominantly around the interface. Activating the Cosmic Panda will give you a new video-watching and playlist experience, extra page designs and editing tools to customise channels, and the ability to keep watching a video while moving between [...]

On-Ramp Wireless has invented a new way to transmit Wi-Fi which does not just entail using more power to strengthen the signal, but less (which is one reason why this news is on this website). Wi-Fi signals become more and more distorted as they propagate through the air, and of course, after a while it [...]