Honestly, 1TB of storage doesn't seem to be enough these days. With the explosion of high-definition content, what was once considered massive is probably only enough to keep a small percentage of your movies and photos.
Which is probably why leaked shots of an upcoming upgrade to the Apple Time Capsule probably comes as no surprise. Read more »
April Fools' Day passed with much angst over and little action from the Conficker worm, but that doesn't mean it's not a threat.
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Joe Stewart from SecureWorks has put together an effective "eye chart" that sources its graphics from sites that Conficker would block. If you can't see one or more of the images, you're either infected, or image loading in your browser has been disabled. Read more »
OK. Don't read past this first paragraph yet. I want you to look at the pic above and try to guess what's going on. Go ahead. I'll be here when you get back.
Figure it out? I didn't. At first I thought it was some kind of "Internet-speak joke" that I'm not hip enough to get. Thankfully, it's something much cooler.
By way of Lifehacker, I bring you the Spider-Mac desktop. Not its official name (not yet at least). Basically one of Lifehacker's readers, Zack Shackleton took a Spider-man comic panel and made a useful desktop background out of it.
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Google confirmed that it pulled a Wi-Fi tethering application from the Android Market because it violated T-Mobile's terms of service, but said it hadn't intended to pull that application from the market entirely.
Earlier this week an Android developer said his tethering application--designed to let PC or Mac users get on the Internet through their Android phones--was removed entirely from the Android market because T-Mobile, the exclusive US carrier of the only Android phone on sale in the US, does not allow tethering. T-Mobile users still can't get that application, a Google spokesperson said, but the ban should not have applied to Android users running HTC's Dream phone in Singapore and Australia, as well as those who paid extra for an unlocked phone. Read more »
Google for the first time showed off its server design.
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Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.
Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or Sun Microsystems. But Google, which has hundreds of thousands of servers and considers running them part of its core expertise, designs and builds its own. Ben Jai, who designed many of Google's servers, unveiled a modern Google server before the hungry eyes of a technically sophisticated audience. Read more »