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• 2012-05-28

  Windows Live is dead

  [Jason Lefkowitz:](http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2012/05/windows-live-is-dead / “Just Well Mixed: Windows Live is dead”) Here we are, seven years later, and all that time Microsoft has been going through the process I predicted they would — trying to figure out what the “Live” brand should actually mean to their customers. Various products bearing the “Live” moniker have come and gone, but the definition of what “Live” itself is never really came into focus.

  So it’s not really a big surprise to hear now that Microsoft has given up on it:

  With the new version of Windows, many of the Windows Live products and services that had been packaged separately will be installed as a part of the operating system. “There is no ‘separate brand’ to think about or a separate service to install,” Mr. Jones wrote.

  Most important, Windows 8 customers will be free to substitute non-Microsoft products and services in place of the re-branded Windows Live successors. “You’re welcome to mix and match them with the software and services you choose,” he says.

  “Windows Live” is disappearing.

• 2012-05-23

  How accelerometer works and how they are made

• 2012-05-22

  Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays

• 2012-05-17

  The Making of the Leica M9-P »Edition Hermès« – Série Limitée Jean-Louis Dumas

  Source: vimeo.com

• 2012-05-16

  Betalogue: Adobe CS6 Installer: Continuing a proud tradition of user hostility

• 2012-05-12

  How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon

• 2012-05-11

  Anti Wi-Fi Wallpaper

  Rather than using this to prevent neighbours from “stealing” your Wi-Fi this is practical for reducing the noise in your location improving your signal. IT Pro Portal:

  A new type of wallpaper, which has been developed by scientists from the “institut polytechnique Grenoble INP” and the “Centre Technique du Papier”, will go on sale in 2013 after a Finnish firm, Ahlstrom acquired the license.

  What looks like a bog standard wallpaper roll actually contains silver particles that allows it to filter out up to three different frequencies simultaneously. It is not the first time that such a technology has surfaced. Back in 2004, BAE Systems was tasked by Ofcom to come up with a similar solution based on what was then called a stealth wallpaper.

• 2012-05-10

  Press Play: Walt Disney's Taxi Driver

  Press Play:

  Bryan Boyce’s brilliant short film “Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver” cherry-picks scenes between psychotic cabbie Travis Bickle and his love object Betsy in Taxi Driver, but substitutes Disney imagery for Travis’ obsession with urban decay. — Part of what makes “Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver” so wonderful is the way that it lifts Travis’ character out of context without actually losing the context, so that you can see him more clearly as a literary creation, and recognize that his mania is adaptable and timeless. The 1976 New York setting turns out to be important in this mash-up, but not until the very end. The first part of the video disentangles Travis from his world, lifts him out of the muck (and the almost purely subjective structure of Scorsese’s film) so you can get a better look at him. When it returns him to his context, Boyce’s short becomes a cinematic time machine, connecting Travis’ past and our present.

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  The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore

  Scott Hanselman:

  The Floppy Disk Icon means “save” for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.

  What happens when all the things we based are icons on don’t exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery?

• 2012-05-09

  55.000 Twitter usernames and passwords leaked

  55 000 twitter usernames and passwords were leaked to pastebin. I recommend checking whether your account was one of the affected ones and changing your password immediately. Luckily none of my accounts were there. This is a very good reminder why one should not reuse same password in multiple services.