| Pingdom Podcast #11 – iPad 3 and Mobile World Congress | Royal ... Mar 1st 2012, 04:46 Posted in Main, Podcast on February 29th, 2012 by Pingdom Want to test your site every minute? Posted in Main, Podcast on February 29th, 2012 by Pingdom 
Pingdom's Podcast is a show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff. In this show, we talk about the upcoming launch of Apple's next iPad, whether it be iPad 2S or 3, and what's been announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read more Posted in Main on February 29th, 2012 by Pingdom 
A team of researchers in Australia has managed to create a transistor that is the size of an atom. That's the smallest transistor ever created. Considering that the single-atom transistor is only 0.1 nanometer in size, the possible applications are mind-boggling. It will be quite some time before we see the single-atom transistor technology implemented in microprocessors that we use in computers and other devices. But this is such a thrilling development that we wanted to find out how it fits in with how microprocessors have evolved so far. So here we go, a wild ride from 1971 to today and beyond. Read more Posted in Main on February 28th, 2012 by Pingdom  Even the most hardcore Linux fan would admit that their favorite OS has not captured more than a very small market share on personal computers. And that would include us here at Pingdom: all of our engineers and 50% of or our developers are, in fact, running Linux.
Ubuntu has enjoyed great success, and more recently Mint, as well. But Linux desktop OS doesn't seem to be able to break free and climb above the low single digits in market share. But that may be changing if the latest numbers are anything to go by. Read more Posted in Main on February 27th, 2012 by Pingdom  Did your jaw drop when you first saw the iPhone 4, which was rendered completely in CSS and JavaScript code?
According to the website where you can view the iPhone, it was created with "no images… just 3,395 lines of CSS code and 335 lines of JavaScript code." We talked to the creator of this very impressive project, Vasiliy Zubach, to find out more about him, and learn how he actually made all the thousands of line of code work. Read on to experience the story of the 3,395 lines of CSS3 code. Read more Posted in Main on February 24th, 2012 by Pingdom  Who doesn't like free stuff? We put together a selection of free Linux e-books that you can read, in many cases download, and use as references, or simply to learn something.
The topics range from advanced programming to Java, from GNU to Emacs, from device drivers to the kernel, and much, much more. You don't have to pay anything to take part of the wealth of knowledge and information available in these e-books. Read on to check out the 10 free e-books. Read more  | |