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(link) Saturday, 26-March-2011 19:18:35 (GMT +10) - by Sciby
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First up, we've all seen the beautiful images released from NASA, the shots of far off galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Well, I'm sorry to break it to you, but the shots don't come out of the telescope looking the way they do, NASA boffins do have to stitch together a lot of the shots and give them a good tweaking to make them look their best. "This processing work doesn’t mean that the images are fake – even while at times they appear to be total fantasy. And it doesn’t mean that, if we went there in a spaceship all of Hubble’s images would be different from what we could see in person." The link has a video, explaining what process they go through with the raw images.
In other news from Gizmodo, some observant Apple-owner has realised the top of the iPhone 4 fits perfectly in a cutout on a Mac Air case. Does this mean the iPhone 4 could be used as a handle? Was there ever meant to be a dock there? Or will this just fuel the minds of the obsessive, paranoid geeks for some time to come, but actually mean nothing? :)
We saw the new ASUS Eeepc Transformer back at CES 2011, but it's just been released in Taiwan:"The build quality of the final product units of the Eee Pad Transformer are much better than the units we've seen before, although one concern is the overly stiff hinge of the keyboard dock and the fact that in “notebook mode” the Eee Pad Transformer we got some hands on time with today didn't shut properly as you'd expect of a notebook. Minor issues maybe, but not something you'd expect of what is meant to be production ready hardware."
The Tech Report have released an article about USB 3: "A late adopter's guide to USB 3.0" "USB 3.0 is all around us these days. It's in our motherboards, our PC enclosures, and our external hard drive docks. It's even in some of our laptops—provided they don't have a glowing piece of fruit on the back, at least. That's all well and good, but what if, like me, you put together a PC just before the USB 3.0 craze?" Is USB 3 really that widespread that I'm late to the party? Looks like I'm living in the past again.
In tragic news, it seems more and more people are saying "LOL" out loud. "LOL is defined as an interjection, 'originally and chiefly in the language of electronic communications: ‘ha ha!’; used to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement.' The real surprise here isn't the online ubiquity of LOL but its growing offline presence as a spoken word. As this week's announcement makes clear, LOL is now 'found outside of electronic contexts, however; in print, and even in spoken use, where there often seems to be a bit more than simple abbreviation going on.'" It seems there's only one explanation for this: some hapless geeks are de-evolving into... dorkgeeks.
Finally, TechReviewSource have a guide for spring-cleaning your computer (even though it's not spring for us down here in the southern hemisphere, I know)."It's that time of year, when the dirty aftermath of winter gives way to the desperate need to clean your home before the sun starts to pour through the window, exposing just how little housework you've done. As you prepare to tackle the floors, windows, and everything else you've neglected, you should seriously consider giving your PC, be it desktop or laptop or even handheld smartphone, a thorough cleaning as well." Go on, give your PC a clean. Your mother would be proud - or relieved. Either one.
Anyway, time for me to run off to dinner and the movies, have a great Saturday night. :)
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