Have you ever noticed and wondered, why do TV adverts sound louder than the shows they interupt? The volume is the same, but they sound louder, but alas the UK regulator is planning [http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/focus/background_briefings/TV+Ad+Sound+Levels.htm] to try and…
Caching PHP [http://www.php.net] scripts (intermediate opcode) in memory can make dynamic pages load fast and exert less load on the server resources (primarily the CPU usage). Typical PHP caching engines and accelerators are Zend, eAccelerator, xCache and APC (a PECL extension). Here’s a nice tutorial on…
Harooh! I was up late, last night, to watch “300 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/]” on DVD. I thought I’d give it a go on the telly first. And boy, it was rocking! 300 (directed by Zack Snyder) is an adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller,…
The elusive Apple iPhone [http://www.apple.com/iphone/] will hit US retail stores within a month, but manufacturing contracts have already been signed for iPhone 2. Its reported that a Taiwanese manufacturer, Quanta, had secured contracts to start producing the iPhone’s successor from September. Quanta – the world’s…
When Intel asked designers to build a better laptop, its instructions were simple. The machine has to be fashionable, able to connect to all manner of wireless networks, and full of the latest, fastest computing capabilities. The result, code-named Intel mobile Metro notebook, is less than 0.7 inches thick…
Since I’ve been doing some LAMP development lately, I thought this article might be interesting to share. Applications using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. Everyone from Google to Facebook is using LAMP as part of their system architecture. But often…
One of the best solutions to spam is to get a temporary or disposable e-mail inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period. Checkout the Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services [http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/05/27/top-20-temporary-and-disposable-email-services] . My personal choice is Jetable [http://www.jetable.org/…
While Windows Vista no longer has the Windows File System (WinFS) feature and its core has been built starting from the Windows Server 2003 kernel, the Joejoe group [http://longhorn-reloaded.org/] have gone back to the pre-release Build 4074 of Longhorn and took it from there. Microsoft has so far…