So fed up of that boring Google news page? Well NewsMap.jp is something to look into. What NewsMap.jp presents the news feeded in from Google in a much more visually appealing way. You can select from one or more of the given categories that are given at the bottom of the page such as Technology and Sports. It is all color coded by recency, so lighter colors are newer news that was posted within 10 minuets darker are more than 10 minuets ago and the darkest is more than 1 hour ago. Then at the top of the page you can select one or more countries that you would like to see news from.
Being a geeky person you probably would like to install and run Apple mac Os X on your Microsoft Windows machine. In this hack i will show you exactly how to do this step by step. I will also show you how to dual boot the two Operating Systems so that you can boot up into which ever one you want at that time.
Maybe you move around internet cafes allot and you want your own programs with you. Or maybe the company you work for does not let you install your own software and your stuck on IE6. This program will allow you to take with you any open source software in their library and run it on you USB that you can plug and run in any computer.
How do i get it?
Head over to PortableApps.com and click on the “Download Now” button. There you will find three suits that give you different software. (All you really need is the platform) Click on the suit you want and you will be redirected to Open Source software hosting site SourceForge.net.
Now just click and run the program. Choose your language. Hit OK and now select your USB storage device and hit install. When its done you can launch it and it will open up in your taskbar.
And now to install software:
Head back over to PortableApps.com and click on applications. You will see plenty of Open Source and freeware programs that can be downloaded, even some very large programs such as blender witch is a advanced 3d creation software.
When you have found what you want just click on it and downloaded it. You will once again be redirected to SourceForge.net and just run the file when it has finished. Make sure you have it pointing to your USB you have installed portable apps on.
And your done. You now have your programs on your usb! Enjoy and share this post. Don’t forget Sharing is Caring
As you know the web is a pretty dynamic place filled with plug ins such as Flash, Java and Silverlight but say good bye. Version 5 of HTML is being developed as you read and Google (the owner of YouTube) has launched their HTML5 beta program. This means that all the YouTube content is all shown in HTML5 instead of what is currently used which is Flash.
To enter this new beta program just head over to YouTube.com/HTML5 and click the join beta program and to leave just click the leave beta program
Flash is a long standing platform and is now at version 10 witch mens that it is all pretty smooth. But the only problem is that Flash is heavy and takes up allot of your computing power. This is why netbooks cant render flash properly. But again with HTML5 this problem will not exists and you will be able to render videos in HTML5 even on your iPhone, iPad or low power netbook.
You will need a HTML5 capable browser such as Safari, FireFox or my recommendation Google Chrome. And so thats HTML5
