Technology

From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems

March 17, 2008

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/past-present-future-file-systems.ars A tongue-in-cheek historical review of most file systems, that can double as a quick history of operating systems. I found ...

Prism for the Desktop

March 12, 2008

Mozilla Labs last week released a new version of Prism, a single-site browser system that brings web applications to the desktop. The latest version is designed to work as a Firefox extension rather ...

No Time to Think

March 9, 2008

Where is the space and time in which we get quiet enough to think in deeper ways? Which are the tools to enable us do that? Very interesting/good talk, extremely interesting subject, nothing really n...

Sync your Google Calendar with your Microsoft Outlook

March 6, 2008

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=959 A standalone application that periodically syncs Outlook and Google Calendar. Several options are missing such as syncing multiple calendars. I would prefer it to...

Vortex: An offline abstraction on top of Google Gears

March 6, 2008

from ajaxian.com

Google just released Google Gears for pocket pcs

March 4, 2008

Off-line web applications are a big deal for many companies/projects such as Adobe/AIR, Mozilla/Prism, Google/Google Gears and possibly Microsoft/Silverlight. From gearsblog.blogspot.com: Gears for m...

Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit

March 4, 2008

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080303-creating-rich-internet-applications-on-linux-with-webkit.html The title says it all. It mostly talks about WebKit integration on Linux with the open-sour...

Amazon for developers

March 4, 2008

Amazon Web Services and Amazon Business Solutions. They offer the following infrastructure services for developers: EC2=Elastic Compute Cloud (Computing/processing in a cloud) S3 = Storage in a cloud...

Startups,

March 2, 2008

“The Pmarca Guide to Startups” are a series of posts of Marc Andreessen who among others co-authored Mosaic. They date from June 25 2007 to August 30 2007 and still contain very interesti...

Coding with your mind

March 2, 2008

http://www.overclock3d.net/news.php?/input_devices/ocz_prepares_neural_impulse_actuator_for_shipping_next_week/1 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10929 Neural Impulse Actuator is essentia...