Archive for April, 2007

Earth-like Planet Found

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

The European Southern Observatory has just discovered a planet that resebles Earth more closesly than any ever found before. Here are the basic details: The planet has a diameter of 1.5 that of Earth's The planet has a mass 5 times that of Earth's The planet orbits a Red Dwarf (These produce less ...

See the sun in 3-D

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

NASA has just released tones of 3-D images of the Sun takes by its new STEREO telescopes. STEREO was launched in in October 2006. the way it works is that there are two telescopes each orbiting at diffrent places around the Earth (one ahead and one behind). They're kind of ...

How to play .dvr-ms files on a Mac

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Everything is great. You have a nice little computer set up to record your shows, and an Xbox to watch them on your TV. But what happens when you want to watch them on your Mac? Microsoft has discontinued WMP support for the Mac so your pretty much screwed right? Wrong! Where ...

Introducing Community Quran (Beta)

Monday, April 9th, 2007

The Qur’an belongs to us all, not just to scholars. What does this mean? This means that you can now search Allah’s words yourself. But I don’t understand Arabic…? That’s okay, because communityquran.com gives 5 different translations for each verse of the Qur’an, so you can ...

Google Page Designer

Monday, April 9th, 2007

I meant for this post to go up some time last year, but completly forgot about this draft of a post I made. Google has got this nifty (not so new anymore) service called Page Creator which allows you to make a webpage/site. Its essentailly a watered down ...