with all the confidence that whiskey inspires
This is cool. Go to Einstein@home and download the program. It uses your computer’s idle time to search for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector.
Einstein@home recently made its first discovery, a radio pulsar found in data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. This was all done by volunteers allowing their computers to process data while not being used.
If you remember Zork, then you are my friend.
Interesting story about a 17 year-old kid in Spokane who has taken the source code for Google’s new Chromium operating system and turned it into a workable system bootable from your USB drive. You can download his Chromium build here.
Interesting article on the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a “device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe.”
This text-to-speech generator is done rather well.
If you’re tired of having to use a portable jump drive or email whenever you need to transfer files between your work and home computers, I suggest Dropbox. This is a great idea perfected.
This is one of the coolest online image editors I’ve seen.
A very interesting history of computer data storage, in pictures.
This guy was one of the people chosen by Microsoft to take photos for the new Vista wallpapers. Only two photos in this set were chosen–be sure and check out the rest.
sTablauncher is a small, highly useful little app that allows easy access to any number of programs and links on your desktop. It sits out of the way in little transparent tabs, freeing up your toolbar and start menu. Hey, why not.
I’ve recently found a very useful virtual desktop utility, Dexpot. It takes a little getting used to, but it allows you to work with multiple desktops at once, and easily manages all of them so you always have an uncluttered workspace. Here’s a screenshot showing one of the modes:
Check it out.
Your keychain jump drive can function as your personal PC with mojopac.
Try a pre-release version of Windows Vista here.
