This isn’t an animation, and its not CGI and its not a building doing the humpty dance. It’s actually the old mint in downtown SF being painted by 7 perfectly mapped HD projectors.

Obscura Digital, the company behind the light show at Youtube’s Symphony last week, has has used their propriety software to control [...]

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Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of great Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter (including us). What this says about Twitter’s native functionality we aren’t sure, but we know we’ve had upwards of 10 separate scripts installed and active at different times.
All that is going to end, at [...]

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UStream is out with a new look, a few new features, a new URL shortener, and soon, a new domain name.
The live video streaming service has adjusted its homepage to look much more like other video and news sites, with prominent categories – like news, sports, and entertainment – as well as more [...]

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We never would’ve guessed it, but bovine audio players are apparently a genuine trend. Brando’s newest piece of gadget fluff, a cow-shaped, 4GB, screenless mp3 player, continues the fad.
Not that anybody cares about the specs on this kind of thing, but the “Moo-Cow MP3 Player” packs 4GB of storage, an LED indicator light (since there’s [...]

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Yesterday Google made a major change to the search results page that appears when you search for a person’s name. Google Profiles, for people who have set them up, now appear on those pages. Today Google opened a discussion about Google Profiles and called for voting on ideas about what they include.
Profile [...]

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As a technology news writer, you get pretty good at sizing up the potential of a new project or product pretty quickly. You think in terms of how the thing your looking at is a little like two other things you’ve seen before combined together. Or perhaps inspired by something, but with its own unique [...]

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The Susan Boyle phenomenon shows no signs of abating - in fact, one video tracking firm claims that momentum is growing behind the Scottish singer.
While the official YouTube video of the performance reports over 32 million views, tracking company Visible Measures is monitoring the statistics for all versions of the clip, plus fan [...]

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Apple has fired back, in an unsurprising way, at those new Windows ads we’ve been hearing so much about lately (you remember Lauren, yes?). The counterattack comes in four new, but familiar, flavors:
“Time Traveler” - During which the PC character goes to the year 2150 to see if PCs have become any less error-prone.
“Stacks” - [...]

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It appears Twitter is experimenting with some additional tweaks that may make status updates easier and faster for its users and could help decrease the back end load on its servers.
A semi transparent notification bar (see screenshot below), slides down from the top of the screen when you update your status via the Web. [...]

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AT&T is expecting traffic to increase tenfold with the presumed release of the next iteration of the iPhone this summer, and is expanding and improving their wireless network to handle the added stress with ease.
Currently, AT&T’s network only goes up to 7.2 Mbps, though the iPhone 3G itself (responsible for about half the network’s data [...]

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