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Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Unconventional speed tests for the browser

Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Unconventional speed tests for the browser: "Yesterday, we released a new beta for Chrome, and teamed up with a few creative minds to bring Chrome’s speed to life with an early preview of a series of fun, unconventional speed tests for the browser. As promised in my blogpost, here’s a follow-up video of the full results!

(Watching web pages load at 2700 frames per second reveals unexpected artifacts. If you're interested in the technical details, read on in the video's description drop-down in YouTube).

Posted by Mads Ager, Software Engineer

Zoofs Finds Viral Youtube Videos On Twitter

Zoofs Finds Viral Youtube Videos On Twitter: "

Have you ever wondered what the trends of tomorrow will be? What people will be talking about? You can now get a headstart with Zoofs, a brand new service that scans Twitter for video links and aggregates them into a most popular listing on their website.

According to information posted on the service’s website more than 2.1 million videos have been discovered in the past 22 days.

The site opens with a video wall with controls at the top of it. Each video is displayed with a thumbnail and playtime. Hovering the mouse over the video displays the video’s title which sometimes happens to be in a foreign language.

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The controls at the top can be used to filter the video listing. It is possible to view only videos of a specific category, e.g. sports, news and politics or comedy, switch to a list format for an better overview or change the video upload date from anytime to last 72 hours.

Zoofs is an entertaining and interesting site. A search is missing as well as an option to filter videos by language. Users who like viral videos should give the service a try.

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Simulated swimming pool with room inside

Simulated swimming pool with room inside: "

Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich created this installation, simply called The Swimming Pool, for The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. A 10cm layer of water over a piece of glass separates above from below. It must be a pretty serious piece of glass; some back-of-the-envelope math based on the published dimensions gives 1,100 kg (2400 lbs) of water that it has to support. Plus its own weight. [via Dude Craft]

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Major University Dumps Gmail Over Security Concerns

Major University Dumps Gmail Over Security Concerns: "

The University of California – Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say this email system isn’t secure or private enough to meet their standards.

CIO Peter Siegel, Academic Senate IT chair Niels Jensen and Campus Council IT chair Joe Kiskis said the plug was pulled on Gmail because faculty were concerned that Google’s services wouldn’t keep their correspondence private enough. Many privacy experts also say that Gmail’s social component, Google Buzz, is the source of privacy and security vulnerabilities.

School officials also noted, “Outsourcing e-mail may not be in compliance with the University of California Electronic Communications Policy.”

About a month ago, Yale University made a similar decision. Yale’s concerns centered around security issues, technological risks and the way Google manages data in the cloud.

On the other hand, however, many other schools and local governments are using Gmail and Google Apps to great effect, including lower IT costs. Just last year, Los Angeles “went Google”, a proposal that was agreed upon unanimously by the city council. Washington, D.C., also uses Google’s applications and services, including Gmail.

What do you think: If you’re a Gmail user, do you use the service personally or professionally? Are you ever concerned or uncomfortable about privacy issues in Gmail? And do you think UC Davis’ faculty are being needlessly paranoid, or are their concerns valid?

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sabato 1 maggio 2010

Save Energy With Granola

Save Energy With Granola: "

Saving energy is essential for mobile computing users to extend the battery life of the device. Lowering the energy consumption has a direct effect on the energy costs.

Reduced energy usage can on the other hand impact a PC’s performance up to the point where it is no longer reasonable and needs to be turned off completely.

Granola, formerly known as MicroMiser, is a energy saving software for Windows and Linux computer systems that uses algorithms to find the ideal balance between energy saving and performance requirements.

It works in this regard much like similar applications such as Local Cooling or Edison that we have reviewed in the past.

The cross-platform application Granola offers an unobtrusive method of saving energy. It concentrates its energy saving efforts on the cpu by using dynamic voltage and frequency scaling technologies. It basically means that the cpu will be lowered or raised depending on the power requirements of the system.

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Granola runs quietly in the background displaying energy saving information in its interface when opened. This includes the projected kWh, money and CO2 that is saved yearly if the software is used throughout the year. Examples are given on how much energy is saved.

It is possible to save some energy with Granola. It would be nice if the software would not only regulate the cpu energy consumption but that of other PC hardware as well. It is possible to use the standard power saving options to do that but a software that would handle all of those to compute the energy savings would be more than welcome.

Users who are interested in trying out Granola can download the software at the developer’s website where it is offered for Linux and Windows computer systems. (via Technobuzz)

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