Apple stop supporting Mac OS X Tiger

Computer users remem Mac Operating System Mac OS X Tiger should be facing a great dilemma after Apple stopped supporting this version of your OS.

Historically the company has maintained support for the two latest versions of their OSes, which in the case relate to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), retiring to version 10.4 of Mac OS X (Tiger).

The problem is that current users of Macs based on PowerPC processors can not update their equipment to Snow Leopard (because it only supports Intel processors), so to continue receiving security updates and patches to their computers necessarily should upgrade to Leopard .

This at first glance but it is quite logical in reality is somewhat complex because Apple no longer sells in its stores Leopard, so that interested parties must go to facilities or secondhand stores still remain smaller than their inventory, who have begun to raise its price seeing growing demand in recent weeks.

The Large Hadron Collider is sabotaged by a dove

Apparently someone continues to wag with the people responsible for operating the Large Hadron Collider which is already more than a year late. This time a piece of bread that fell into the ventilation system caused the system to overheat.

That is, there was a leak of helium, a software error, terrorist or time travelers. It was a piece of bread that was originally part of a baguette and drop it apparently divine dove into the system.

Cooling systems are located to keep the collider operating at a temperature of 1.9 above absolute zero. As soon there is a small increase in temperature the super-conducting magnets stop working and blocking antifallen into operation.

This does not mean that the world will end because of a dove, but the Large Collider will be offline until a few days before its scheduled restart this month.

Peek now taste Twitter

You might not remember, but the Peek was the product of the year of Wired magazine and a favorite of 2008 at Engadget. Why? Because the only thing this gadget does, or does it very well: send and receive emails.

A new member of the family of peeks already available and what it does is send and receive tweets. Your name: TweeterPeek. So far only available on Amazon at a price of USD $ 199.99 which includes service for life or $ 99 with 6 months of service for Tweeter, and then require a monthly payment of $ 7.95 (coverage only for the U.S. ).

Although the device can not surf the Internet, will send tweets, direct messages, replies and display images hosted on twitpic.com. Some of his most important specifications include a battery life of up to 4 days, color screen of 2.7 × 4 ", QWERTY keyboard and side navigation bar (similar to older models of BlackBerry).

Yo I can not imagine using a gadget like this, only to send tweets, but until not long ago I could not imagine carrying my emails on my phone.

Video: Guitar Hero controlled by futbol balls

Football and Guitar Hero may be two great passions for some, and put them together would be a dream. How do I accomplish this? Well, basically you need a copy of the game, many balls, giant sensors for buttons and a projector.

"Football Hero" is the experiment we performed a freestyle team of players in England, sponsored by Umbro and playing "Frets on Fire", a Open Source version of the popular game. Actually they do quite well, reaching an accuracy of 76% in pushing the buttons ... impressive considering that are pushing with footballs.

Asteroid hit the atmosphere and cause explosions in Indonesia

It's 11 o'clock in the morning and suddenly heard an explosion in the sky. A trail of smoke is marked on the blue background of a cloudless day. A bright object falls. Is it a bird? A plane that falls apart? Superman?

Not so. In Indonesia, an asteroid exploded above the atmosphere, causing fear among the inhabitants of Bone in South Sulawesi.

NASA confirmed a report that a meteorite was between 5 and 10 meters in diameter, crashed into the Earth's atmosphere at about 65,000 mph.

The asteroid exploded with a power of 50 kilotons, three times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb, but as exploded to more than 15 miles high, not damaged, and the piece that survived the impact ended somewhere near the coast (latitude 4.5 South 120 East).

NASA added that such impacts can be expected once between 2 and 12 years on average (though I have lived more than that and do not remember seeing anything like that before). Normally such asteroids do not cause damage, because to effectively impact the Earth, the object should have a diameter of about 25 meters. And if that happens in 2012, at least we'll have Bruce Willis on the planet.

Demand for Linux netbooks does not convince Acer

The demand for netbooks with Linux would not be enough to maintain a supply of equipment "just Linux," said Jim Wong, global president of Acer's IT products. This would explain why the Aspire One, its first netbook including Linux, will be replaced by a new generation that include Windows 7 and Android.

First, it is not surprising that the inclusion of Windows 7, as in the design of this operating system is considered the hardware restrictions that Vista could not stand and forced Microsoft to extend life of Windows XP. But in the case of Android, a Linux-based system, the explanation is that Wang is included for "connectivity built into the system." One explanation is not very lucky, because in the background is a Linux system and what makes the difference are layers, application level, layers that have nothing to do with connectivity.

Jim Wong also pointed to Internet Explorer as one of the main reasons to install Windows 7 with Android. According to him, people have better productivity and a consistent browsing experience with Internet Explorer. IE is still the dominant browser will not change from night to morning. Probably there will be a single operating system and its netbooks than Windows, but that has to be in the future, not today.

The sale of computers with Windows preinstalled always been a headache for users of Linux, as it is very difficult to get a computer without having to pay a license that in many cases not be used. While there are options to return the license by obtaining the money back, the process can be as complex and fraught with obstacles that the final few complete it. While eliminating all traces of Windows on your Linux system for the statistics of a computer manufacturer is more with Windows.

The asteroid Apophis will not collide with Earth in the year 2036

Apophis (aka 99942) is an asteroid with an orbit close to Earth and that according to NASA data, pass near the Earth in the year 2036 (estimated before 2029) and a small collision with another asteroid could divert toward our planet, where they produce an effect greater than 40,000 atomic bombs.

The B612 Foundation made estimates of Apophis path to follow by 2036 if the impact were to occur, resulting in a trajectory of risk that is located in the southern part of Russia, across the Pacific, passing along the coasts of California and Mexico, then continue between Nicaragua and Costa Rica continuing through the Caribbean Sea to cross the northern regions of Colombia and Venezuela, ending its journey in the Atlantic before arriving in Africa.

This asteroid is about the size of 2.5 football fields and April 13, 2036 would have a dangerous approach of just 30,000 miles on our planet.

But to our recent calculations tranquility documented by Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas, astronomers specializing in near-Earth objects at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA have drastically reduced the likelihood that Apophis hits, leaving behind the 2.7%.

"Techniques for computer updated and new data indicate that the probability of an encounter with Earth on April 13, 2036 has dropped from an over 45,000 and only four million," Chesley said.

I just hope that by then the head of Bruce Willis and Leonard Nimoy are kept alive in a jar of liquid H2OGfat to resolve any last-minute error hehehehehehe