I’ve always had problems putting my Mac to sleep. Sometimes, especially if I have been playing iTunes, it wakes up again immediately. This can happen 2-3 times before it accepts it should go to sleep. I just spotted some advice on MacFixIt for people having this problem with the new aluminium keyboards – connect . . . → Read More: Fixing a shutdown problem on the Mac
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This is very neat stuff – Shai Avidan and Dr Ariel Shamir have developed a method to shrink or stretch an image so that it fits in the space available. Particularly interesting is shrinking the image, which involves selectively removing parts of the image . . . → Read More: Retargeting images If you are despairing of ever eating at El Bulli (the waiting list for this year would take them 125 years to work through), there is hope for you yet. Their chef, Ferran Adria, has made a deal with a British company to market some of the famous products from their kitchen to the . . . → Read More: El Bulli is selling its products – in tins Behaviour, which elsewhere would hardly raise an eyebrow, can get you arrested in the USA. IKEA in New Haven (USA) was closed on Thursday last week after a customer reported seeing a woman scattering a white powder outside the store. City and state police, firefighters, the FBI, and the city Health Department were all . . . → Read More: A paper chase closes IKEA The Economist has a short article with the graphic above showing the additional costs and fees associated with buying property in different countries. Britain and Denmark are cheap, costing under 5% of the purchase price; Korea, Italy, France, Greece, Spain and Germany are expensive at 12% – . . . → Read More: How high are the fees when you buy property? I happened to click on our “contact us” page today, which includes a Google Map showing where we live. I was surprised to see that the resolution of the satellite image has been noticeably reduced since I set up the page some months ago. I don’t have a before / after comparison, as I . . . → Read More: “Censored” by Google maps The latest research suggests that one cause of obesity is a virus infection: Obesity can be caught like a cold, according to a laboratory study showing that a common infectious virus can turn human cells into fatty tissue, scientists said. It is well established that the human adenovirus-36 causes respiratory and eye infections but . . . → Read More: Overweight? Perhaps you are suffering from an infection? No, not mine. But judging from the comments on this photo in Flickr a not so unusual occurrence. We have a glass-top table in the lounge which at times has had quite a stack of things on it, but fortunately we’ve not had this happen to it. (via . . . → Read More: The perils of glass-topped desks There’s a short article by Ken Fisher on Ars Technica about how AACS DRM (the way film studios protect high definition video recordings, e.g Blu-ray and HD DVD) involves adding a hugh amount of complexity to computer operating systems. Microsoft is already suffering from the problems involved, having released Vista; Apple will have similar . . . → Read More: AACS DRM – what it means to your operating system |
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