On April 12, 1981, twenty years ago today, the Space Shuttle Columbia became the first shuttle to orbit the Earth. In this gorgeous time exposure, flood lights play on the Columbia and service structures (left) as it rests atop Complex 39\'s Pad A at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for first launch. Flown by Commander John W. Young.
If you\'re using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you\'ve got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on it
Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!! (No-- wait-- sorry. That\'s just my USB drive.)
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery.
Are DirecTV\'s DVR\'s violating the GPL? System logs prove that the units are in fact running Linux (and other GPL\'d software). Where\'s my copy of the GPL? Where\'s the source code?
When we start thinking about a new design, one of the first things we start researching is cool colors that we might use. But how about researching Super Heroes color schemes?
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is such a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Mcirosoft Word Doc file - and it\'s totally for FREE!\\r\\rThe program can extract text, images, shapes from PDF file to Word Doc file and preserve the layout. It can convert all the pages, or any pages range of the PDF file.
Needless to say, there\'s no indication as to where this particular bit of technology is headed next, but it seems safe to assume that it\'ll become a fixture of trade shows for years to come.
This is what you get when you capture 69,550 full resolution frames from the six Star Wars movies and combine them with a version of DaVinci\'s Last Supper on a PC with mosaic-making software. The 262-megapixel mosaic (24,168 x 10,864 pixels) took two weeks to complete, including 30 hours of computing power. Giz interviews the author Avinash Arora
In this contest, your job is to substitute puppets into any image you like. From television and movies to politics (insert obvious jokes here) to art and science, show a world where puppets are everywhere.