Planet Mozilla
Not too long ago we kicked off an analysis to answer the question, Does aliasing a subset of Webkit CSS properties in Gecko improve mobile Web compatibility? The preliminary results of our small study showed little improvement. The next step in this…
5 November 2012Slashdot
First time accepted submitter TheUnFounded writes "A site that I administer was recently 'held hostage' for the vast sum of $800. We were contacted by a guy (who was, it turns out, in Lebanon), who told us that he had been asked to perform a DDoS on our…
3 November 2012Macworld
The Matrox DualHead2Go Digital ME is an external multidisplay adapter that allows you to add up to two DVI monitors to a Mac. The $179 DualHead2Go Digital ME measures just 3.8 by 2.5 by 1.1 inches and comes in a silver aluminum housing with two DVI…
1 November 2012MacOSXHints.com
With iOS 6, you can now add different signatures for different e-mail accounts, but you can also add logos, links and styled text. If you have an HTML or styled signature in Mail on OS X, do the following: 1. Send an e-mail to your account with the…
1 November 2012Planet Mozilla
It must be time for my biannual blog post and this time I’d like to introduce a new development in animation for the Web, called, creatively enough, Web Animations. Some of you may have heard rumblings of an attempt to overcome some of the limitations…
31 October 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
If you've been lusting after a Fusion Drive but own an older Mac, a Fusion-like solution may not be entirely out of your reach. Posts at the jollyjinx tumblr detail how the eponymous hacker built his own Fusion-style SSD/Hard Drive hybrid using features…
31 October 2012inessential.com
Michael and I just posted episode 5 of Identical Cousins. Five episodes! We’re doing this. As we were talking prior to recording, Apple posted the press release about the departure of Scott Forstall, so we talk about that. I also complain about iCloud Core…
30 October 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Whether you use Skype or FaceTime, or you do a weekly video podcast, the quality of the video camera you use is important. It also helps to have more than one camera to switch between, for variety and to make your video look more professional. Most…
29 October 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
29 October 2012MySQL Performance Blog
The idea to use SSD/Flash as a cache is not new, and there are different solutions for this, both OpenSource like L2ARC for ZFS and Flashcache from Facebook, and proprietary, like directCache from Fusion-io. They all however have some limitations, that’s…
26 October 2012