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In addition to the power efficiency, one advantage of an e-ink screen is that it does not illuminate a room at night. And interestingly, a Kindle or similar device still seems to b…

I use Pencil, too. It has some limited features and the UX could be better, but it is open source and works across Linux, OSX and Windows, so other people on the team can edit diag…

It is a feature of the GIF format. You can specify how often the animation shall loop or that it should loop forever.

I still use Picasa, because it is so fast and easy to just copy an SD card somewhere to my hard drive and have it show up at the top of Picasa seconds later. Then I browse the pict…

Do you need Photoshop or Lightroom to use these tools or do they work standalone as well? I can't find this info on the website at all.

I can highly recommend Dreamlines. It's a great place to work.

Can it play web radio, i.e. shoutcast streams?

Following that link consistently makes my Firefox crash. Anybody else experiencing this?

The automatic alignment helps prevent ghosts from camera shake. But it would be interesting to see how they avoid ghosts from moving subjects like leaves in the wind if they are ef…

I tried a lot of the popular Backup solutions (like Acronis and others I don't remember now), but none of them really worked for me. I'm using HardlinkBackup for incremental, local…

OK, I've been digging into this a bit further. When I do a request from a remote machine, I do get an Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header, but from my local machine, this header …

It is not working at all on either Firefox 30 or Chromium 34 (both Ubuntu). All I see is two large maps and a bit of text in between. The developer console has a few CORS errors, t…

PoS = Proof of Stake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake

I guess this means they won't be announcing Retina MacBook Airs at WWDC in June.

So it's not as easy as walking into your bank, sending a text message to the ATM and walking out with a lot of free money. You actually need physical access to a USB port of the AT…

This post is already a few years old: Posted: Monday, November 14, 2011

1) Why the clickbait title? 2) What do you want my Geolocation for? 3) Why can't I middle click or ctrl+click any links in the article?

The same article was discussed here ~3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6403285

From the rather vague text I can imagine they are doing matrix multiplication in JavaScript and assigning the end result to a CSS transform. Instead of doing multiple transforms in…

I'm sceptical. You can actually use the upper button on the left side of the app pictured in the article [1] to calibrate that app. So you could make it show whatever inaccuracies …

Makes me think of the movie Mercury Rising[1], where a kid "wins" an NSA crypto challenge and is subsequently hunted by them because he cracked their code. [1] http://en.wikipedia.…

Thank you, I'll try rebooting the phone. I recently read an article here on HN that briefly touched on memory management under iOS and especially the problem of apps getting killed…

It crashes for me every time I take somewhere between 60 and 75 frames with the main camera. With the front-facing camera, I can shoot forever. In the iPhone Settings (somewhere ca…

Mind you, that whole thing happend in 2008. And this article doesn't add any new information nor does it sum up the already known info all that well.

They are also allegedly not filtering a set of white-listed ads, most of which come from companies that pay 30% of their ad revenue to the company behind AdBlock Plus.