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3D in a Flash (1,136 diggs) A new technique can reconstruct the depth of a surface simply by taking two photos of it – one with a flash and one without (see video, right). Merely analysing the resulting shading patterns can capture the surface's 3D texture.

Got A Pirated Copy of XP? Expect to be Nagged (3,231 diggs) Microsoft is introducing a new "feature" to Windows XP Professional. If you try to update with a bootleg copy, you'll see a few changes... Such as, the desktop background will be reset every 60 minutes & changed to a plain black background. Not to mention the addition of what Microsoft calls the "persistent desktop notification."

Mozilla Labs: Introducing Ubiquity (2,461 diggs) Today we ’re announcing the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

Facebook Hits 100 Million Users (1,463 diggs) Fast growing social network Facebook has hit the 100 million users mark, according to a statement today by Dave Morin, the company's Senior Platform Manager.

Cloud computing: A catchphrase in Puberty (517 diggs) Fail and You... It's been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, but they all mean the same shit: Renting your quickly depreciating physical assets out because your software company is out of ideas for computer programs.

Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 (2,706 diggs) Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it's also become the

Nerrivik - Beta 1 of Amarok 2.0 released! (694 diggs) The Amarok team released the first beta of Amarok 2.0. Lots of bugfixes and cool new stuff like AFT and a new scripting interface as well as gorgeous new artwork. Get it while it's hot.

IE To Get Privacy Mode (743 diggs) Microsoft is planning a "privacy mode" for the next release of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. By clicking a button, users of IE8 will be able to limit how much information is recorded about where they go online and what they do.

Mozilla Drags IE Into The Future With Canvas Element Plugin (1,617 diggs) Most browser implementors are quick to adopt emerging Internet technologies, but Microsoft can't or won't make Internet Explorer a modern web browser. Despite some positive steps in the right direction, Internet Explorer still lacks many important features. Its mediocrity has arguably hampered the evolution of the web and forced many site designers

What is the best free email account? - Google's Gmail (3,407 diggs) Although it may take a week or two to get used to gmail, over the many years to come, it will literally save you weeks of your time. I highly recommend to switch to Gmail and below I give 10 reasons why

New magazine-sharing site may violate copyrights (869 diggs) A web site called Mygazines.com encourages people to copy and upload popular magazines. Visitors can read high-quality digital copies of dozens of titles in their entirety. While legal experts refer to the site as violating copyright laws, Mygazines says its copies are no different from magazines shared in a doctor's office or salon.

Computers Exploit Human Brainpower to Decipher Faded Texts (707 diggs) In a neat example of Internet-enabled “crowdsourcing,” the method of distributing a large task to many contributors, researchers are using an anti-spam program to get people to decipher damaged or faded texts, one word at a time.

Find Your New Favorite Website (792 diggs) PC Magazine has released their list of Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites. The list includes all sorts of sites like Serious Eats, ExpoTV, FixYa, HowCast, and FriendFeed. I love lists like this - they're awesome for finding new sites to browse!

Get Started: Firebug, Firefox's 'Killer App' For Web Develop (1,218 diggs) Ask web developers to name their desert island Firefox extensions (ignoring for now the improbability of having a laptop while stranded), and they're bound to put Firebug at or near the top of their lists

Wireless to the People (585 diggs) The FCC used this weekend's pre-season football game between the Washington Redskins and the Buffalo Bill to test mobile wireless devices that harness vacant portions of the public airwaves, know as white spaces.

19 Most Essential Open Source Applications (1,931 diggs) 19 Most Essential and useful open source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life. Most of them are top of the list projects that have an open source industry leading popularity and many of them are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one of you.

Search Wikipedia The Pro Way (934 diggs) I thus have found some of the best and most accurate Wikipedia search engines to help you get the most accurate information whenever you need it. Here are just some of them (in no particular order):

FireFox:Google Redesigned Extension Facelifts Gmail and GCal (863 diggs) All platforms with Firefox: Globex Designs, makers of the popular Gmail Redesigned skin, have released a standalone Firefox extension which applies the style without Stylish (or Better Gmail and/or Better GCal).

uTorrent 1.8 Released, Mac Version Coming Soon (3,250 diggs) After months of hard work and more than six months since their previous stable release, the uTorrent team has released version 1.8 of their BitTorrent client, with significant improvements and updates. Adding to the excitement, we were told that a public Alpha of the Mac version will be released in the next few weeks.