Posted by Johan Cyprich on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will now be in control of Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). The new standard, ISO 32000-1, Document management - Portable document format - Part 1: PDF 1.7, is not only an excessively long name but its also based on version 1.7 of PDF.
The PDF format was created in 1993 [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
On June 8, 1978, Intel released the 8086, the world’s first 16-bit microprocessor. This CPU was vastly superior to the existing 8-bit processors used on computers at the time. The family of x86 refers to the instruction set of microprocessors used from the 8086 to today’s modern Pentium 4 processors.
Intel has effectively won the war [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 11 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
Once again, Windows is under attack by Mac enthusiasts: Gartner: Windows is Collapsing and Apple’s OS Edge Is A Threat To Microsoft. The arguments are the same. OS X is better, faster, and has fewer lines of source code than Vista, so therefore it must be better. Why is Vista so large? Could it be [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 11 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
According to this video broadcast, Microsoft is getting 1.5 million downloads per day of Silverlight. This new web technology is Microsoft’s answer to Flash. It makes the same promises in being cross-platform, cross-browser, and cross-device as Flash does. From a casual glance, Silverlight seems to be very similar to what Flash can do.
Will this technology [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 23 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Technology, Videos
Just in time for Black Friday, the ASUS Eee PC has to be the most exciting technology product of this year. The Eee PC is a tiny 7″ computer that weighs just under a kilogram. The current models are being sold with Linux, but ASUS will be releasing a Windows version later this year.
OLPC Is [...]
