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Articles and Reviews from Voodish

Welcome to our Articles section, we try and update this section at least twice weekly, so check back regularly for the most up to date info. Our sections include Future of Computing, Internet Tools, Tea Break and Web Development.

Apr 28 2007

Digg List Code

Digg List

If you’re like us and are always checking the front page of DIGG for the latest articles and don’t always have time for offsite / off program feeds, this neat piece of code creates a catalogue of the Latest Links from DIGG and displays them in a neat list on your Blog, CMS or Static site.

Apr 28 2007

Outstanding Badminton Rally

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Our 1st Tea-break video for you to enjoy.
Having recently helped to win the Gibson Plate for Abergele Badminton club (North Wales, U.K). Badminton has been on my mind a lot recently, so here’s a truly outstanding Badminton video, which shows a seemingly endless Mixed rally. How these guys develop so much power, yet are agile enough to reach impossible shots, is truly amazing… all to do with foot work they say :)

Apr 28 2007

Mouse brain simulated on Super Computer

Mouse Brain Simulation

US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.
The scientists ran a “cortical simulator” that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer. In other smaller simulations the researchers say they have seen characteristics of thought patterns observed in real mouse brains.

Apr 27 2007

Game console could help cure Alzheimer’s

Folding with the Playstation 3We’ve all heard that regular gaming can help keep the mind active, especially Role Playing and Memory intensive games, but Sony have now taken a heads on approach to helping solve diseases such as Alzheimers.

More than 250,000 PS3 owners have enrolled their console in the Folding at Home (F@H) project which uses it to study the shapes proteins assume. So many have signed up that the project has carried out a year’s worth of research in a month. Proteins that do not fold correctly have been implicated in diseases such as Alzheimers and BSE.

Apr 27 2007

Internet helping to close Nations Divided

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E-readiness is not just about speed of connection

The net is helping to close the digital divide between industrialised nations, suggests a report. The annual e-readiness rankings by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows Asian and African nations catching up with big net users such as Denmark.

The report says this is partly due to broadband which is now cheap and affordable in almost every nation.
But it warns that much hard work remains to be done to get the best out of the net for citizens and companies.

Apr 26 2007

The most complex scientific instrument ever built to be switched on (now with Video)

Hadron Collider

The most complex scientific instrument ever built was to be switched on in November 2007, but due to complications the experiment has now been set back to Summer / Autumn 2008; Cern particle lab schedule slips.

The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate the conditions right after the Big Bang.

 

By revisiting the beginning of time, scientists hope to unravel some of the deepest secrets of our Universe. In the epic quest to find the meaning of ‘everything’, the understanding of the Universe in infinite detail - the God particle.

Apr 26 2007

Operating System Showdown - Ubuntu Vs. Vista

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By Brian Briggs
For years many have predicted the death of Windows at the hands of Linux.
The latest challenge to Windows comes from Ubuntu. Since everyone has long made up their minds in which operating system to use, we compare these two operating systems on the features that don’t matter. Read on to find out if your favorite wins…