The difference between Blu-ray and HD-DVD is simple: capacity, as in how much stuff you can put on a disc.
Blu-ray
HD-DVD
HD Video Capacity
~5 hours
~3 hours
Data Capacity
25 GB
15 GB
In short, blu-ray holds 40% more stuff. That means you can back up more photos on your computer and watch more episodes of Lost on a single disc. [...]
I’ve been meaning to get this up for quite a while, but there was an art show based on old-school videogames recently with some pretty impressive results.
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As any iBook owner knows, those little rubber feet tend to come off over time. So, how do you replace them? Aside from asking someone at your local Apple store (they generally have extras on hand), I found a cheap place where you can order them yourself. A package of 6 ibook [...]
The geniuses at Mobility Today (as opposed to Yesterday or Tomorrow) claim Note to Apple..Microsoft beat you this time.. in regards to Apple and Nike’s new iPod Sport Kit and then Gizmodo somehow lamely decided to echo it.
How exactly did Microsoft “beat” Apple this time? They have a prototype called the MPTrain of a [...]
San Francisco has chosen Google and Earthlink to offer city-wide wifi. Some details from the New York Times:
Under the proposal from Google and EarthLink, Google said it would provide free access over the 47-square-mile city, but that access would be at modest speeds of 300 kilobits per second. Megan Quinn, a spokeswoman for Google, [...]
I usually try to find a browser that serves all my needs without the use of plug-ins, but I made an exception for the Inquisitor search plug-in for Safari and Camino. Safari is my browser of choice for reasons stated previously, but Inquisitor gives Safari’s search input a much needed boost with auto-complete, a [...]
Ah, the quality journalism that is USA Today.
Andrew Kantor writes a column for USA Today under the name “CyberSpeak” as if he’s the lone guy who still believes in the promise of The Lawnmower Man. In this particular column, he puts forth the idea that Boot Camp, beta software released by Apple to allow [...]
Xara, a kickass graphics application previously covered by slashdot, has gone open source and has just recently released their source code. Go over and grab the Linux bits and check out how fast and impressive this early port is. I’m still very much convinced that Xara will become the premiere vector application for [...]
Apple’s release of Boot Camp, which allows you to run Windows XP on Intel Macs, has a lot of people excited, but none more than gamers.
Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of people make the jump from Windows to Mac and been extremely happy in doing so, but gamers as a group are usually [...]
There’s no shortage of companies in the computer industry that make ugly products. Belkin, which makes wifi routers and quite a bit more, was clearly in the plain to ugly category with most of it’s hardware in varying shades of grey and forms that couldn’t really be discerned from the competition.
But, with the release [...]
