Yes you heard right, the eye camera.  Though not for sale in sotres at all any time soon, reasearchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have developed a camera that can put an entire image into focus.  In contrast to today’s cameras, the eye camera can take images that are sharper near the center than around the edges.

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If you’re a web designer, web host, deal with or are remotely interested in Domain Name Servers, then this should be of grave importance to you.

Recently, a huge threat to DNS, the system that translates IP Addresses to unique names (and vice verce), creating URLs such as funkytower.com, has been discovered.  This threat would allow malicious users to impersonate almost any website on the Internet. 

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If you’re like me, you enjoy the new standard in design, from vector to 3D to photography. Woudln’t it be nice to have a fresh desktop background? Sometimes the one we have just sitting there can get old. Well, let me introduce you to a free app called Desktoptopia.

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Adobe is now the number 1 source for just about any type of visual software.  Whether you’re a web designer, filmmaker, photographer, recording artist, animator, cartoonist…Adobe has software that could be essential to you.  Sadly, the prices are so darn expensive!!  But because I’m a web designer, I just had to try the new Dreamweaver CS3, so here are my thoughts:

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Woah!  Victoria Beckham has a picture of me?!  I’m flattered…but how did that happen??

Well, she doesn’t, really.  This effect is all thanks to PhotoFunia, a website where you can implement your photo into some other pretty interesting photos.

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According to an article in the New York Times, Delta airlines is supposed to be offering broadband wireless internet access on domestic flights by next summer.  Continental Airlines announced that they plan to offer a very similar service.  There are many others who plan to, or already have a similar service, but on very few flights compared to Delta and Continental.

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Here’s a really interesting App I found called OECake, from a Japanese Software company called OctaveEngine. It’s a free app based on physics. Now, some of you may know about physics more than I, but no matter your knowledge of physics – or lack thereof – OECake is really a fun application for the Windows and Mac user.

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Ever have photos that just don’t look right?  Maybe the color is off, or it’s a bit crooked, or it’s too dark or too bright.  Sure, you can use software like Photoshop to edit your photos, but software like this is far too expensive, and sometimes too complicated for the common person.  Luckily there is a solution: online photo editing.

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So you’re getting into CSS and want to know how to make some decent looking links, hmm?  It’s really quite simple really.  In this tutorial, we will go over the three basic kinds of links: “link”, “visited”, and “hover.”

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We all know the more memory, the faster CPU, the better motherboard, and the bigger hard drive you have will definately help boost the performance of any PC.  Now with Vista out and running, the standard ammount of RAM is 2Gigs…but unfortunately, not all of us can afford that.  Some of us even have decent hardware already, yet we tend to deal with and dread the slow performance of our PC’s, but why?

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It’s a fact, LCD monitors these days can be pretty expensive.  You can get a CRT monitor these days for about $40, while the average LCD monitor can be well over $200.  So, is it really worth the price to witch from CRT to LCD?

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