Author Archives: Dominic Businaro
How To Build Your Own Tablet For $400
“The Beagle tablet is a portable modular open source handheld computer,” says Justin Huynh, director of product development at Liquidware. “It’s all about customizability and embedded development.”
The BeagleBoard is a single board computer from Texas Instruments that comes with a 1 GHz processor. There’s also a battery module and a 4 GB pre-formatted SD card to boot Angstrom Linux. But users can also run the Android operating system on it, says Huynh.
[Via Gizmodo via Liquidware]
Star Trek Online Free Demo Weekend – May 7th
Free demo weekend for Star Trek Online starts May 7th. The demo page is coming soon so stay posted for the link when available. In the mean time, read about the STO promotions on the official site.
60+ Awesome New WordPress Themes
A huge collection of new (none older than October 2009) WordPress themes to peruse.
[Via Webdesigner Depot]
Snazzy Hover Effects Using CSS
With all these CSS3 effects and tutorials popping up every day that show all the new and wonderful things we can make happen, we sometimes forget about poor little old CSS2.1 and the great potential it still has.
With very good browser support, we can do lots of cool things that we know will work in all major browsers.
[Via Six Revisions]
iPad Hesitation
I’ll be the first to say that I’m not an Apple fanboy but I was really intrigued by the new iPad. After watching this episode of Diggnation it soon became clear to me why I won’t be getting an iPad myself… until they resolve some major issues.
1) Allow multitasking
2) Stop banning applications that conflict with your built-in features (Micro$oft got sued for similar tactics?)
3) Quit overcharging for your brand name
[Via Revision3]
