http://www.techeaven.com Technology news Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:58:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First of all what is HDR? High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/12/20/fake-hdr-effect-using-photoshop/ I don't know how many of you know already about this, especially those of you that don't live in the US, but i think this is a very important subject for our tech blog. OK! So what is Verichip? Well, Verichip was until now a tiny RDIF chip that used to ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/11/16/verichip-or-the-governments-big-brother/ Multi-touch from Microsoft The research team from Microsoft has come up with a really interesting way of communicating with your computer, using only a nice piece of software and a regular webcam. This application can sense what the background and the foreground of the video is allowing the use of gestures ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/08/15/multi-touch-from-microsoft/ Today Apple launched it's new line of iMacs, with a gorgeous new look and some new features, along with enhanced Suites for iLife and iWork. The new iMac is hotter than ever, made out of aluminum and glass, with a slick design, even thinner than it's older brother. Elegant, slim and ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/08/09/the-new-imac-for-sale-today/ 1 - Redirect Visitors While You Update Your Site Update and test your site while visitors are redirected to the page of your choice: order deny,allow deny from all allow from 123.123.123.123 ErrorDocument 403 /page.html <Files page.html> allow from all </Files> Replace 123.123.123.123 with your IP address. Also replace page.html with the name of the page you want visitors ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/08/09/htaccess-tricks-for-all-webmasters/ Anyone knows how great WordPress is. But few people know that it can be better. WordPress supports a large variety of plugins that can enhance your blogging experience, that can improve your blogs's performance or plugins that simply make your life a lot easier. We selected only a few in ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/08/08/10-must-install-wordpress-plugins/ Notorious spammer Christopher "Rizler" Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday. US District Judge Michael Davis called Smith a "drug kingpin" before throwing the book at him. Smith was convicted on charges of conspiracy, illegal distribution of drugs, money laundering and operating a continuing ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/08/07/spammer-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison/ Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped posted yesterday about how the accuracy of Alexa data is really poor. The specifics of his post are really a spoof as all the "data" is made up. Philipp is in fact spoofing the Alexa methodology itself as he indicated that the data: "uses gut ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/08/07/alexa-stats-not-so-acurate/ We all know by now that Firefox is a great tool, what most people don't know is that Firefox works with the so called Extensions (small pieces of software that add features or small tweaks to you Firefox). Using Extensions is a blessing and they make your life on the ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/08/05/top-10-firefox-extensions-for-webmasters/ Ok, so what is XUL? XUL was developed by Mozilla to use for its cross-platform apps like FireFox. XUL was developed for creating UI for apps just like DHTML is used for web page interface. The only complete implementation of XUL can be found in the Gecko layout engine. XUL basically ... http://www.techeaven.com/2007/07/29/xul-graphical-user-interface-for-crossplatform-apps/