Archive for July, 2007
Green Feeling - Free Website Template
Green Feeling is a free website template designed by R. Maguire. It’s XHTML 1.1 strict and CSS W3C compliant.
Zitemplate - Free Website Template
This free template is designed by zidesign.com. It’s plain, simple, yet standard compliant and perfect for those who want to learn the basics of CSS. It’s the perfect learning tool for those who want to make the transition from table based website design to tableless website design.
Thin Green Line - Free Website Template
Thin Green Line is a free web 2.0 style template designed by Six Shooter Media. The template is simple, elegant, doesn’t use tables and it’s XHTML 1.1 strict and CSS 2 standard compliant.
The fastest Broadband in the world
A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world’s fastest internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg’s home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection (that is correct 40 Gb / sec), many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.
But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council’s network arm, has arranged the connection.
“This is more than just a demonstration,” said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.
“As a network owner we’re trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances,” he told The Local.
Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.
The secret behind Sigbritt’s ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.
According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fiber is in place.
“I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fiber has,” said Peter Löthberg, who now works at Cisco.
Cisco contributed to the project but the point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable.
“The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt’s PC,” said Jonsson.
Article via thelocal.se.
Photosynth Prototype
This is an amazing piece of technology, presented at a TED conference. I really can’t explain it better than the video below. Enjoy !
If you can’t see this video click here.
More information is available on the Microsoft Research Website.
There is also a live preview of this software available online. All you need to do is install a 5.5 MB Photosynth ActiveX. The address is : http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
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