10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Apple aims to patent ergonomic, full-hand multi-touch input
Three patent filings set into motion by Apple just a month after the iPhone's US debut open the door to curved multi-touch surfaces that can recognize more than just fingertips.
More @ AppleInsider
2. Custom Search goes global
In our Mountain View, California lobby, there's an image of a globe radiating colo(u)red beams of light, representing searches in different languages in countries all over the world. It's quite mesmerizing to watch. (You should check it out if you visit.)
More @ Googleblog
3. What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
Today I want to ponder the question: what if Microsoft, not Google, had created Gmail? What would be the differences in that web mail client for users today? What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us Hotmail, for instance?
More @ Blogoscoped
4. SLR lenses on your digital video cameraMore @ HackaDay
5. Thankful I'm Not Bill O'Reilly
I was thinking that I really ought to do some kind of Thanksgiving weekend post, and I finally found my topic. I'm thankful that I'm not Bill O'Reilly, the conservative pundit, and that my readers are smarter than his!
More @ OreillyRadar
6. Alexa’s Make Believe Internet
Amazon’s Alexa traffic reporting service has little credibility left among people who follow traffic trends. Most analytics services, like Comscore, don’t measure small sites well, but they tend to get it right for the larger sites. Alexa seems to get everything wrong, no matter how large or small the site.
More @ TechCrunch
7. ATI HD 2900XT With Open-Source Radeon Driver
Today David Airlie announced that the Radeon driver would be supporting the ATI R500/600 series (the announcement). David Airlie and Alex Deucher had been working on an AtomBIOS branch of the Radeon driver in xf86-video-ati, and this morning it finally went public.
More @ Phoronix
8. Guitar Hero III, Will it Blend?More @ WillitBlend
9. Sharing the Supercomputer Wealth
The M45, named for a star cluster, is considered one of the world's 50 fastest supercomputers. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Big Ben system, by comparison, debuted two years ago with capabilities for 10 trillion calculations per second. The world's most powerful machines are becoming mightier. The Argonne National Laboratory is installing the Blue Gene/P, which will triple the speed of the fastest supercomputer.
More @ LinuxInsider
10. Game Development Archeology: Zelda on Game Boy comes with source
Imagine you’re writing a Game Boy game, and the resulting ROM with all the code and data is just a little over one megabyte in size. No big deal, just pad the game to two megabytes, and use a 2 MB ROM in the cartridge.
More @ Pagetable
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