Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Good
Gizmodo has posted a good article discussing Barnes & Noble's latest entry into the ebook reader market, the Nook. Plenty of comparisons to Amazon's Kindle to be found.
Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Good
(Via Gizmodo: Top.)
User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
Mark Coleran designs User Interfaces that are used in film. One of my recent favorites was Tony Stark's computers in Iron Man, however apparently he can't take credit for that one. Still, this is a pretty cool job, similar, but less challenging than that of a video game UI designer job in the real world.
[Mark Coleran via Metafilter and Gizmodo]
A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?
Awesome. But am I allowed to bust out this chart to justify phone usage?
Click the image to view a larger version.
Based in New York City, Shane Snow is a graduate student in Digital Media at Columbia University and founder of Scordit.com. He's fascinated with all things geeky, particularly social media and shiny gadgets he'll never afford.
(Via Gizmodo.)
7 Reasons Why You Should NOT Eat Breakfast
Breakfast. Image credit: Andreza Pinheiro.
I've always been told that skipping breakfast is unhealthy. So, I found the article from StrongLifts.com below to be eye-opening.
Motor Trend Car Of The Year: 2010 Ford Fusion
The newly-refreshed 2010 Ford Fusion was just named MotorTrend's Car Of The Year for 2010. Not a bad choice in our opinion as Ford's got the most money to spend on marketing. Also, the car's damn good.
(Via Jalopnik: Top.)
Study indicates MacBooks are pretty reliable
A laptop reliability study conducted by Squaretrade reveals most reliable laptop manufactures. The sample size was from over 30,000 devices over a 3 year lifetime. No big surprises here as the cheaper bargain laptops and netbooks round out the highest failure rates and the more expensive systems last longer. The linked PDF is full of pretty graphs which is always a win.
Of personal importance is my current laptop manufacturer of choice the Macbook Pro's ranking in the study.
[via Engadget]
Metasploit Framework 3.3 Released Today
The Metasploit Framework 3.3 was released today (Tue, Nov 17th.)
Tons of bug fixes and more exploits for us to play pentest with!
(via SANS Internet Storm Center.)
Strong Contender for Worst Idea of the Year: Adobe Flash 10.1 Adds Hardware Video Acceleration
I'm not claiming to be an expert on how Macromedia / Adobe Flash is bolted together nor it's security architecture, however adding an API to allow any website to stream HD video to directly to the video card sounds like a terrible idea on the level of badness equal to ActiveX. Makes you wonder what the QA cycle for video card drivers is like.
Luckily, Adobe has only announced support of this new reason to keep all us security folks employed HD Video Acceleration for Microsoft operating systems at this time.
(Feature announcement via Lifehacker.)
Oh, and here's some performance benchmarks from anandtech
Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week
Google's Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we've heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.
(Via Linux.com :: Features.)
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