News - Powered by Yahoo NewsHighlight Hunter makes hunting down video highlights easie
The advent of digital video and the ever-more capacious storage capabilities of video capturing mobile devices has made it much less likely that we?ll miss that killer shot when the opportunity arises. But it also means that digging up that great shot amongst the hours and hours of captured footage can be a real chore. Highlight Hunter helps save some time in the editing chair by letting users ...
Wed, 09 May 2012 02:35:36 -0700 -
Digested rea
Faber & Faber, £18.99 Sitting on the aft deck of his capacious yacht Slipstream, surrounded by high-octane women and Paul McKenna, Simon Cowell chain-smoked his favourite brand of Kool cigarettes while a colonic specialist bleached his anus. "OK," he said languidly. "Let's do something outrageous to make Tom think he's got the inside track on my vacuous life of conspicuous consumption." "Gosh ...
Tue, 08 May 2012 16:08:58 -0700 -
Deal firmly with the 'nut behind the wheel'
Our front page picture yesterday of a nearly overturned capacious bus on the Kandy road, brought into focus once again the horrifying spectre of road indiscipline.
Tue, 15 May 2012 12:43:02 -0700 -
Western Digital My Passport Studio
It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but the WD My Passport Studio (2TB) gives users what they want?enormous capacity and fast performance, all in an attractive package that shares the MacBook aesthetic.
Tue, 15 May 2012 09:38:57 -0700 - (2TB)
Iron-Eating Bacteria: Coming Soon to a Hard Drive Near You
Today's hard drives may be smaller, faster, cheaper and more capacious than their predecessors, but the need for ever-tinier components is making it difficult to keep improving them. Therein lies at least part of the motivation behind biocomputing -- in which microscopic biological molecules are being recruited to play a role -- and recently scientists have identified a fresh new possibility in ...
Tue, 15 May 2012 06:00:51 -0700 -
Meet The Entrepreneur Who Hauls Motorcycles With A Prius [I Feel Gassy
# ifeelgassy The Toyota Prius, while boasting capacious cargo space and better than decent fuel economy, is not the sort of vehicle American consumers have been trained to think of as a tow rig. But some folks are willing to take a different tack and try something new. More »
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:47:38 -0700 -
'The Booker can drive people mad'
When Alan Hollinghurst's celebrated The Stranger's Child was omitted from the literary prize's shortlist, many questioned the award's credibility. Twelve months on, Britain's great stylist breaks his silence on the issue ? and on what turns young people into 'monsters and bores' Alan Hollinghurst lives in a light and preternaturally quiet flat on Parliament Hill in north London. When his novel ...
Mon, 21 May 2012 19:11:21 -0700 -
China builds $3.7 billion, 1,373 mile power cable, how was your afternoon
The State Grid corporation of China is constructing a power line capable of transmitting a staggering 37 billion kWh per year. The record-breaking cable stretches from the power rich eastern Hami Prefecture to the energy-starved city of Zhengzhou towards the east. Costing a twitch-inducing $3.7 billion, when it's completed in 2014, it'll be the most capacious link in the world. Rather than rest ...
Mon, 14 May 2012 06:43:05 -0700 -
?Canada,? a Novel by Richard For
In Richard Ford?s new novel, a 15-year-old boy watches his family fall apart, and flees north to something even worse.
Mon, 21 May 2012 14:41:37 -0700 -
News: Target offering $50 discount on iPhone 4, 4
Target is offering a $50 discount on both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, according to a new report. Citing email tips, 9to5Mac reports that a number of Target locations are offering a deal on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, with the prices of 16GB and 8GB units respectively cut to $150 and $50 on a two year contract, regardless of carrier. It is unclear whether more capacious models are also included ...
Tue, 08 May 2012 07:14:23 -0700 -