A feature that has been requested since Day 2 of the tabbed browser, may soon reach the general public. I know I have a tab problem. It's so easy to keep tabs open and come back to them later. Combined with settings to restore those tabs the next time the browser is re-opened, it takes active effort (or a computer crash) to keep them to a manageable number. On the other hand, … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2013
Multiplayer gaming using your smartphone as a second screen
Google announced on the official Google Blog about a new Chrome Experiment called Super Sync Sports. The concept is to use Chrome on both your desktop and mobile devices to play a single player or multiplayer game with your device as a controller. In the title game, you run, swim, or bike against the computer or your friends by using the touch input of the mobile device while … [Read more...]
The Super supercapacitor using graphene
The Nobel Prize in Physics was won in 2010 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for work with graphene. That work has expanded and is highlighted in a Focus Forward Film, a series of short films presenting big ideas that could change the world. GE is behind the series and the winners were announced at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The grand prize was $100,000 with 2nd-5th … [Read more...]
Using different fonts in WordPress
The Web has a sordid history with fonts. If you have been around the web world for long enough, you probably recall some of the pains from clients wanting to use particularly weird fonts who then get upset when it doesn't appear correct on a random computer they used. Previously, to show a font in HTML 4, it required having the font installed on the computers visiting your … [Read more...]
Nvidia announces the GeForce GTX Titan
Earlier this week, Nvidia unveiled the GeForce GTX Titan. It weilds 2,688 CUDA cores for 4.5 teraflops of processing power. It uses a 384-bit interface for memory at 6 Gigabits for 288 Gigabytes per second memory bandwidth. The card gets its name from the Titan supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It was mostly funded by the US Department of … [Read more...]