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How about a Pencil Printer?

By Jal Sunday February 7, 2010

How about a printer that uses graphite as ink to print on paper which you can easily erase later? Sounds nice eh? That means, less wastage of paper and no more cartridge and ink problems. Currently just a concept, designed by Hoyoung Lee, the Pencil Printer does what may bring a smile on environmentalists. The pictures below, courtesy Yanko Design, depict the working of the Pencil Printer.

If this one ever becomes a reality, I’m going for it! What do you say?

Microsoft patches 17 year old bug

By Jal Sunday February 7, 2010

In the February 2010 security update, Microsoft will patch a 17 year old bug that was present in the Windows operating systems since Windows NT 3.1.

Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered a bug in a utility that allows older programs to run on newer operating systems. The bug is that this utility could be easily misused in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7. More at BBC →

Get real-time earthquake information

Since the devastating earthquake happened in Haiti, it’s not surprising that earthquakes are among the hottest trending topics all over the internet. Earthquakes are more destructive because nothing much can be done about them. However, it would be really helpful to know about the earthquakes happening across the globe in real-time. I mean, at least [...]

uTorrent 2.1 Alpha boasts ‘mini-mode’ and ’streaming’ features

uTorrent, one of the widely used torrent client, just reached the version 2.1 Alpha milestone adding some new features like the ‘mini-mode’ and ‘streaming’. Of course, you might not go ‘whoa!’ over it but I am sure ‘mini-mode’ is something that you’d hate to miss.
uTorrent 2.1 Alpha ‘Mini-Mode’:

The screenshot above shows the ‘mini-mode’ [...]

Firefox 4.0: Tab animation and Tab Tear Off

It is all very clear that Firefox 4.0 will be leaning heavily on the UI changes to make web browsing fun and easy for the users. Revamping the UI seems to involve animations as well. Stephen Horlander released two videos depicting the New Tab animation and the visually appealing Tab Tear Off.
New Tab animation:
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