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GameStop has managed to break one of its records with the help of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. What was previously the biggest recorded number of preorders for a single title has been shattered by Infinity Ward's first-person shooter. The game, promising to outdo the first Modern Warfare, generated a huge amo... |
4 November 2009
09:31 GMT |
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When other boys of his age are probably playing outside and just being normal 5-year-old kids, Giuliano Stroe goes to the gym and works out with his dad, a practice he’s been keeping ever since he was just two years of age. Giuliano doesn’t mind and perhaps the fact that he’s just made it into the G... |
27 October 2009
11:54 GMT |
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He is 94 and she is 87, but, going to show that true love truly knows no age and / or limits, they have just become Britain’s oldest couple of newlyweds, knocking the record held until now by another couple with a combined age of 178. Sheila Walsh and Les Atwell met four years ago, fell desperately in love at f... |
9 October 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The Black Eyed Peas are putting themselves up for an auction that will benefit the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Australia. The bid will also offer one fan the chance to fly with the bandmembers, listen to BEP music and, at the same time, watch them set two world records, as the eBay listing informs... |
28 September 2009
05:46 GMT |
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How many times have you found yourself in the position of being asked to write something down in your host’s guestbook but the object itself just did not inspire you, or you wanted to say something really funny that could be the subject of a very wrong interpretation in written form? I am sure that every time ... |
18 September 2009
01:47 GMT |
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Being tall may have its advantages, but, for Sultan Kosen from Turkey, the latest holder of the world Guinness record for the tallest man in the world, it also means he can’t get a date. Measuring 8ft 1in (2.5m), the gentle giant is now in London to promote the Guinness Book of Records, for some sightseeing and... |
17 September 2009
13:31 GMT |
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TechSmith Corp., a provider of screen-capture and screen-recording solutions, has announced the availability of Camtasia for Mac, a software application designed to create professional presentations, demonstrations, screencasts, training and marketing videos in HD. “Camtasia for Mac is as intuitive as a profes... |
26 August 2009
08:39 GMT |
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DIY gadget hacker Adam Byers has created a custom iPhone Call Recorder with the help of which one can record both ends of a conversation, as well as start recording the conversation midstream. The solution is hardware-based, not an app. “I’ve wanted a way to record phone calls to and from my iPhone since... |
25 August 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have just recently created the smallest incandescent light bulb in history, which is about 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter than the one first designed by Thomas Edison. The filament of the new bulb is only 1.4-micrometer long and approx... |
7 May 2009
04:44 GMT |
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SuperMegaUltraGroovy has released a new version of its virtual analog tape recorder, TapeDeck. Now at version 1.1.1, TapeDeck copies .m4a tapes directly into the library, rather than sending them through the QuickTime importer engine, improves drawing performance, and more. TapeDeck's quick-capture workflow reco... |
28 April 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Although she’s shy of calling herself a music icon, Lady GaGa has virtually become one, with “Poker Face,” her second single, climbing to the number one spot in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In doing so, Lady GaGa has joined a very short list of female performers to launch their career with a pair of... |
2 April 2009
08:47 GMT |
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Since 1979, Salt Lake City resident Lee Redmond renounced the scissors and the nail clipper, and let her nails grow by as much as they wanted. Reportedly, by last year, they had grown to the impressive length of 35 inches (roughly 89 centimeters), even though Redmond had previously stated that she planned to cut them... |
14 February 2009
09:01 GMT |
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According to this screenshot (courtesy of CultOfMac), one guy was apparently able to run a total of 80 Mac OS X applications on an Advent 4211, with both Blender and Daz3D launched. The system, hacked in order to be able to run OS X, boasts an Atom N270 @1.6ghz and 2Gb RAM, according to the list of specs.Pointing out... |
10 February 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The popular video sharing website YouTube recently just set a world record, as far as the number of unique visitors and the number of videos watched were concerned. The company dominated the market, and literally dusted the competition, while at the same time registering a 13 percent increase in views from December 2... |
6 February 2009
10:16 GMT |
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Researchers at the Stanford University might have just made the day for businesses seeking to fool people with fine print portions in the contract. They have created letters approximately 15 nm tall, using a device known as a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to push individual carbon monoxide molecules onto a copp... |
26 January 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Lately, most of those long, explanatory written materials have been replaced by the How To videos, making the latter a very important part of any piece of software or project. And, since we are all constantly struggling to optimize our work as much as possible, this method has proved to save a lot of t... |
14 December 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Even though during the holiday season all the extra time is meant to be spent with friends and family, not everyone can afford to take a vacation. This is the case especially if you have your own business and, naturally, you need to keep it on the line. Still, special times require special means, so, if you must work... |
10 December 2008
05:31 GMT |
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Have you ever found yourself interested in a radio show that you accidentally heard while driving? Or discovered a really great radio station? Although you are curious to listen to it again, you forget about it, or you are always busy when the show airs and so on. Radioshift solves all these problems by recordin... |
4 November 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Mobile users from across the US have recently broken three records when it comes to text messaging. According to a report released by VeriSign, the Mountain View-based communications and Internet company, from the beginning of 2008 to June 30, no less than 95.4 billion SMS messages have been sent among US carrie... |
29 August 2008
09:18 GMT |
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In an era when all the information is transmitted digitally and even your bills and statements come in electronic format, a simple, but very organized, database can be a life saver. Forget about all the boxes stuffed with bills that collect dust in your closet, or about the folders from your computer that give you a ... |
16 August 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Have you ever felt like absolutely nothing is able to raise your interest or that the greatest thing in the world might happen right next to you and you would not even notice it? Or that everybody is against you, nobody understands, nobody cares and even the ones that you love are trying to take advantage of you? If ... |
30 June 2008
11:59 GMT |
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SuperMegaUltraGroovy and Toastycode are happy to introduce their new recording application designed exclusively for use in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The app's quick-capture workflow records "tapes" that can be started or stopped at any time with a single mouse click or keystroke."TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new ... |
12 May 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV is dubbed as the biggest game of the year and I really doubt that is a secret for anyone on this planet. Also, Rockstar's game is estimated to generate some $450 million only in the first week, even though the developers say that these figures are actually low. So, one thing is clear: GTA IV ... |
6 May 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset... |
3 April 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Now, it is official: the world's shortest man is a Chinese: the 20-year-old He Pingping. The man is 73 cm (2.4 feet) tall and he is a native of Huade county, Wulanchabu city (in Inner Mongolia province). His father, He Yun, said that, at birth, he had been only the size of an adult's palm. The parents of He... |
28 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is the world's oldest audio recording, from an era when today's recording technology seemed fairy tales. American specialists have found and listened an 1860 recording of a folk song. This pre-dated by 17 years the phonograph invented by Thomas Edison, which recorded him singing a children's song ... |
28 March 2008
08:28 GMT |
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It is said that the mustache is a symbol of male vanity. A vanity that was lost in the western world. But not in other parts of the world. In India, mustached men impose more respect. And this man must impose a lot of respect: Badamsinh Juwansinh Gurjar, 60, an Indian villager from Ahmedabad (western India). On Febru... |
22 March 2008
05:16 GMT |
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We have known that the largest rabbit breed is the German Gray Giant: over 23 lb (more than 10 kg). But the rabbit called Humphrey has topped the official world's record. Humphrey is a French lop-eared rabbit 42 in (105 cm) long that weighs 12.7 kg (28.22 lb). This means 1.4 kg (3lb) more than the world record h... |
19 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1.Have you ever wondered which is the largest fruit in the wild? It grows in the Seychelles Archipelago (in the Indian Ocean) and is produced by a 34 m (113 ft) tall palm tree called sea coconut tree (Lodoicea maldivica), encountered only on two islets: Praslin and Curieuse. The nut has a diameter of 50 cm (1.6 ft) a... |
17 December 2007
14:07 GMT |
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iPhone's lack of video recording capabilities was and still is cataloged by many users as being "pretty lame", "pathetic", "surprisingly in a bad way" and so on. I wish I could say these are harsh judgments but I can't, since a multimedia handset unable to record video is... well, let's say it's a... |
14 December 2007
06:16 GMT |
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Ericsson just completed T-Mobile Germany network modernization in record time. Whether it was intended, or things just ran better than planned, it's admirable just the same. T-Mobile has a new EDGE-compliant GSM radio network in record time.No wonder that Ericsson managed to finish the job earlier. The company h... |
2 November 2007
11:09 GMT |
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HTC managed to sell 800,000 units of their Touch smartphone up to this point, after the handset was released in Europe and Asia. The high units' number was reached only three months after the handset's market hit.HTC Touch has been considered by many people as the smartphone most worthy of the "iPhone kille... |
3 October 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Compared to him, a bone crushing hyena looks like a child with the mouth filled with tooth decay. The Malaysian nicknamed "King Tooth" pulled a seven-coach train employing a steel rope clenched in his mouth, establishing a new record for the heaviest weight pulled with teeth. Amid the grunting and gasping, Raja Gigi&... |
4 September 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Microsoft just reported a record annual revenue, crediting its success to "solid customer acceptance" of Windows Vista and Office 2007, along with increasing sales of SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio. The Redmond-based company reported an annual revenue increase by 13 percent, slightly beating analysts�... |
20 July 2007
06:41 GMT |
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CapMed, a leading provider of interactive personal health management solutions, recently acquired a patent-pending technology from Juke Systems Inc, technology called ICE First. This new technology enables healthcare consumers to have PHRs (personal health records) on their handhelds and access valuable medical, hea... |
10 July 2007
09:33 GMT |
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A team of scientists in Singapore created a new device that can store holograms with the help of an electronically controlled crystal film. With some improvements, this could become a storage medium for increased amounts of data in small areas.Holographic memory is a technology used to store amounts of information a... |
1 June 2007
13:51 GMT |
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The most interesting automobile to hit the "market" of incredible prototypes that actually work is the BMW H2R Record Car. You wouldn't think a hydrogen car could do so much, but this is not just an electric car.She's a fine example of German craftsmanship combined with the latest technology in the field of... |
24 May 2007
11:21 GMT |
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YouTube is based on user-generated content and you know it better because I bet you have already uploaded a clip on Google's product. Because this fact was also confirmed by the Mountain View firm, the hardware producers from all over the world tried to adapt their business according to the YouTubers' needs... |
1 May 2007
08:14 GMT |
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What happens when you mix a truck with a jet fighter?It's called Shockwave, a triple jet-engine truck on a 260-inch (660-cm) wheelbase, and it holds the Guinness record for jet-truck speed at 376 miles per hour (605 kph). Driving on a runway, Shockwave races airplanes that are flying above it at 300 miles per h... |
28 March 2007
11:03 GMT |
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For a long time, multimedia support in Linux was either totally missing or weakly implemented. Nowadays, audio and video decoding has been fully implemented and using one of the many good audio and video players, you can play just about any media format available out there. I'm not saying multimedia support in L... |
6 March 2007
06:24 GMT |
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The largest snake that ever existed is Gigantophis garstini, which lived from 40 million years ago till as recently as 40,000 years in North Africa. This snake reached 11 m (33 feet) in length, was related to pythons and boa, and could eat animals the size of a wild boar. The biggest current snake is green anaconda (... |
26 February 2007
10:24 GMT |
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