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From The Tips Box: Easy Access to iPad Brightness, 4.5GB of Free Dropbox Storage, Banishing Charging Cable Clutter

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:06 +0000

Once a week we dump out the Tips box and share some great reader tips with you. This week we’re looking at an easy way to change the screen brightness on the iPad, how to score extra Dropbox space by syncing your photos, and how to cut down on your cable clutter.

Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes

How To Extend Your Wi-Fi Network With Simple Access Points

How to Sync Your iPod With Another PC Without Losing Your Music

Geek Trivia: Which Laboratory Boasts The Most Nobel Prize Winners?

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:05 +0000

Which Laboratory Boasts The Most Nobel Prize Winners?

1) Xerox PARC
2) Bell Laboratories
3) GE Research Laboratories
4) IBM Research Laboratories

Think you know the answer?

The Abominable Snow Monster from Ski Free gets Desperate (and Creative) [Video]

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:05 +0000

The Abominable Snow Monster is really hungry and rises to new levels of creativity in his attempts to catch his next meal. Will his schemes work on that pesky skier or will it all end in disaster? Watch to find out!

Ski Free Yeti Gets Desperate [Dorkly Bits]

Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes

How To Extend Your Wi-Fi Network With Simple Access Points

How to Sync Your iPod With Another PC Without Losing Your Music

Celebrate Groundhog Day in Style with Bill Murray and Co. [Best Scenes Video]

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:05 +0000

Relive all the fun of the holiday once again with this compilation of the best scenes from the 1993 Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. Hopefully your day will not be as long as Phil’s was!

Best scenes from Groundhog Day in just 19min in HD, another Baransy Studios edit [YouTube]

Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes

How To Extend Your Wi-Fi Network With Simple Access Points

How to Sync Your iPod With Another PC Without Losing Your Music

Use Google Docs As A Simple Rich Text Web Proxy

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:04 +0000

If you’re at a location that filters out a site you want to visit but allows Google sites, this clever work around allows you to browse blocked web sites.

It certainly has limitation: you won’t get pictures, video, javascript, or other advanced web content. You will, however, get the text and the basic formatting–consider it a Rich Text sort of browsing experience.

The secret sauce is a Google Docs spreadsheet that calls up the HTML code through the Google servers (instead of via regular DNS requests at your local machine). Watch the video to see it in action and then hit up the link below to read more about it.

Use Google Spreadsheet As A Proxy [via Hack A Day]

Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes

How To Extend Your Wi-Fi Network With Simple Access Points

How to Sync Your iPod With Another PC Without Losing Your Music

Computex

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:20:07 +0000

Computex is the largest show in Asia, and the world’s leading ICT event for the 31st year. It’s also Taiwan’s largest export exhibition, using 5 venues and hosting an exhibition with largest number of international buyers (36,000).Canonical will be exhibiting at the show.

Location:

Taipei, Taiwan

Time:

Tue, 2012-06-05 (All day) – Sat, 2012-06-09 (All day)

Structure

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:20:07 +0000

In its fifth year, Structure will bring together the leaders innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing evolution in the technology industry – cloud computing. The shift to the cloud isn’t just a change in the way IT is organized and delivered, but it will also become the impetus for a new way of building chips, servers, networking and the other building blocks of the computing industry.Canonical is proud to be a Primetime Sponsor of the event.

Location:

San Francisco, USA

Time:

Wed, 2012-06-20 (All day) – Thu, 2012-06-21 (All day)

High Performance Computing and Open Source Linux Technical Excellence Symposium

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:20:05 +0000

The HP HPC & OSL TES 2012 is an EMEA technical knowledge transfer event, covering the High Performance Computing and Open Source & Linux portfolio dedicated to ExpertONE and Channel partners, HP EMEA presales people, HP Enterprise Integration centers people, HP Open Source and Linux Advocates, HP Open Source and Linux Profession Members, HP Enterprise Services and Technical Services people.Canonical is proud to be a Silver sponsor.

Location:

Grenoble, France

Time:

Mon, 2012-03-19 (All day) – Fri, 2012-03-23 (All day)

Structure Data

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:20:05 +0000

GigaOM’s Structure:Data, now a two-day conference, will assemble the world’s leading technologists, practitioners and business leaders to offer solutions to the questions posed by the growth of big data, including storage needs, data analysis and the uncovering of new business opportunities.Canonical is proud to be a Primetime Sponsor of the event.

Location:

New York City, USA

Time:

Wed, 2012-03-21 (All day) – Thu, 2012-03-22 (All day)

Intel Developer Forum

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:20:05 +0000

IDF 2012 Beijing remains one of Intel’s flagship developer event; spanning the worlds of mobility, digital home, digital enterprise and technology and research. It is one of the premier events where technologists collaborate with the key players in the industry on innovations that change how consumers work, live, and play.Canonical will be an exhibitor at the show. If you are in the area, drop by and say hello.

Location:

Beijing, China

Time:

Wed, 2012-04-11 (All day) – Thu, 2012-04-12 (All day)