If The Map Is Wrong, You Have Nobody To Blame But Yourself

Online mapping services have proven to be very popular, and the technology that can produce accurate driving directions on the fly is definitely impressive. But there are still gaps in the technology, and if you every ge badly burned by inaccurate directions, it can really shake your confidence in a given service.

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Verizon Uses HP Spying Flap As PR Bait

Verizon Wireless has filed suit against 20 people it claims fraudulently tricked it into giving away calling records in the HP spying case so they don't "do it again", a company spokesman says.

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Iranian video game offers chance to blow up U.S.

A new Iranian computer game sets players the task of blowing up a U.S. tanker in the Gulf to block the sea route for much of the world's oil supplies, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

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Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail

Yahoo Inc. is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company's products for it.

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Lights out in Iceland this week so people can gaze at the night sky

Authorities in the capital Reykjavik will turn off street lights on Thursday evening and people are also being encouraged to sit in their houses in the dark, writer Andri Snaer Magnason said on Wednesday.

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Intro to Programming PIC Microcontrollers in Linux

This article is inteded for people who are familiar with PIC programming. It's not a beginners guide to programming PICs, but not far from it. It's intention is to get you setup and started in programming, compiling, and simulating your PICs in a Linux environment. Ideally you have a basic knowledge of PIC programming.

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Intro to Programming PIC Microcontrollers in Linux

This article is inteded for people who are familiar with PIC programming. It's not a beginners guide to programming PICs, but not far from it. It's intention is to get you setup and started in programming, compiling, and simulating your PICs in a Linux environment. Ideally you have a basic knowledge of PIC programming.

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R/C Car VR System

This followup to the R/C Plane VR System builds upon that creation � allowing you to control the R/C vehicle using a gyroscope mounted on a VR headset. Video after the jump

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Non alcoholic mojito

For the relative with drinking problems.

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How to create Elephant Dung paper

And you thought outsourcing was something bad for you?.

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Two Slick QuickTime Tricks

The more I play with QuickTime, the engine that seemingly powers all of Apple's impressive multimedia software and presentations, the more useful tricks I discover.

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Most Popular Myths

Or the Mythbusters big To-Do list.

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KungFu vs. Yoga

Yoga certainly ain't for pussies.

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Office Multi-Tasking makes you dumber

Those distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a 10-point fall in their IQ.

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Learning to use mod_rewrite

Apaches mod_rewrite is the packages greatest and most horrifying module. Mod_rewrite gives you the ability to manipulate URLs based on almost any condition imaginable. Server variables, environment variables, HTTP headers, and time stamps can be used to match rule sets based on regular expressions.

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Use Apache's Derby as a data store for OpenOffice.org Calc

This tutorial, the first in a series, shows how you can use Derby as a data store to overcome row-length limitations in OpenOffice.org's Calc and use that program's interface for data analysis while leaving the storage to Derby.

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OpenSSL adds the necessary power

Without secure server applications, the need for secure client applications is nonexistent. With OpenSSL, you can create secure server applications, and although the documentation makes it look intimidating, it's really not difficult. Learn how to build a secure server app by building on the concepts covered in Part 1 of this three-part series.

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Robots that play with fire

Robots able to destroy and cause mayhem. Here is a preview of the enemy we will have to fight in the near future.

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Versatile and Low Cost Digital Counter

This hack will transform a cheap easily sourced calculator into a versatile counting machine. It can be used as a cheap method to measure distance using a wheel, reed switch and magnet (think bike odometer).

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Hacking your cellphone for better reception

Poor cell reception at home? Install a cellular amplifier, and put an end to frustrated redials

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PLEXI-GLASS PHOTO DISPLAY

This simple but impressive project comes from Ahn-Minh. She had the plexiglass cut to size and the mounting holes drilled at Tap plastics, and used double sided tape to mount photographs inside.

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Get Those Questions Answered with your cell phone and Mozes Mob

Looking for the "best" coffee shop in an unfamiliar area? Mozes Mob, the newest SMS-based tool from Palo Alto-based Mozes (previous post), lets you get answers to questions from other people who you probably don't know, but who may know just what you are looking for.

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MILFS: Moms I'd like to Face Off

Gameworld: Older women rule ... the casual games market

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Squirrelmail On Your ISPConfig Server Within 10 Easy Steps

This how to will help you to setup Squirrelmail on your ISPConfig server. My how to is only a basic setup for Squirrelmail. With this how to, you can run Squirrelmail in the webspace of your choice and it will run on port 80.

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The Paint Roller Bot

The Roller-Bot I
© is a small dumb light activated robot built on a paint roller and can be activated by a flashlight. It is part of my personal interest in "minimal engineering" and the notion of inspiring young minds by the application or unusual or unorodox materials in an exhibition type design.

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Managing a Honeypot

If intruders are always scanning the Internet for potential victims--and they are--can you find the intruders and their exploits by putting up fake networks that only a deliberate scan could find? That's the theory behind honeypots. Peter Mikhalenko discusses the implementation, theory, and legality of using a honeypot to protect your network.

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How to build an USB device with PIC 18F4550 or 18F2550

In this page, I will describe how to use the CDC firmware from Microchip. It permit to emulate a serial port with a PC running Windows or Linux. It's also very easy to build HID devices.

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NASA Study Finds World Warmth Edging Ancient Levels

A new study by NASA climatologists finds that the world's temperature is reaching a level that has not been seen in thousands of years.

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Microsoft unveils Xbox HD-DVD price, games partner

On Wednesday M$ announced U.S. and European pricing and availability for its Xbox 360 HD-DVD player and a new video game partnership with the Academy Award-winning husband-and-wife creative team behind "The Lord of the Rings."

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Sharp develops triple-vision LCD panel

Japan's Sharp Corp. said on Wednesday it has developed the world's first liquid crystal display (LCD) panel that allows the viewing of three different images on one screen at the same time.

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Game not over for Playstation

It may have been late, pricey and facing a crowded market, but the PlayStation 3 still created a buzz at a Tokyo game show as Japanese gamers got their first chance to play the new console.

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'iWoz' -- Apple co-founder tells his story

There was excited chatter as the revolutionaries met in a nondescript garage in Menlo Park, California, but in the beginning few of them really knew how they would change the world.

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Peter Jackson + Microsoft = "new form of interactive entertainment".

The Oscar-winning film-maker said he would be creating a series based on the Halo video game franchise.

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DIY LED Dancing Lights

Here is a simple circuit which can be used for decoration purposes or as an indicator. Flashing or dancing speed of LEDs can be adjusted and various dancing patterns of lights can be formed.

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Sushi's Popularity Threatens Tuna Population

Experts Say Bluefin Tuna in Jeopardy Due in Part to Growing Sushi Consumption

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Tools to help learn or improve your Morse code skills.

Morse code is fun. It's fun to know, fun to use, and has roots in the earliest days of radio. Copying and sending morse code are skills that require practice.

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Turn your SOHO router into a powerhouse with DD-WRT

Linksys makes some fine wireless broadband routers, but one of the best things about these devices is that their firmware is based on Linux and can be replaced with third-party software, allowing anyone to have the functionality of an expensive, professional-grade router for less than $100.

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Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process

Why isn't Linus Torvalds involved with the drafting of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL)? Torvalds has frequently criticized the process and the drafts of the GPLv3, and recently voted against the license in an informal poll of kernel developers, so it seems obvious to question why he chose to sit out the process.

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DIY Zip Line

Zip lines allow you to quickly slide from one location to a lower location. They are great additions to treehouses as long as the users are old enough to hang on.

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SQLyog is now FREE

SQLyog is an all-round Management Tool (/'GUI'/'Frontend') for the MySQL database. MySQL versions from 3.23 to 5.1.x are supported. SQLyog provides an efficient and intuitive User Interface for management of MySQL.

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Prison Break's new web site

This is the forum Michael Scofield uses to communicate over the Internet, don't digg this story else the FBI will know.

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Creative Vision and Material Benefits

Principles of graphic design that online marketing companies should adopt

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Daltonize any web site

A great prank for the office or a site to create awareness on this health condition.

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LINUX: See changes word by word with dwdiff

Unix text utilities were designed primarily for programmers and admins, but here's a little secret: the utilities also work well for writers. Instead of using diff to see changes between programs, I often use diff utilities to see what has changed between one version of an article and another. A few weeks ago, I found dwdiff, and found it works eve

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Open source search technology goes beyond keywords

For several years a group of academic researchers has been quietly working on a new kind of search engine -- one that recognizes the semantic meaning of a query instead of only taking input as a keyword to be literally matched. The technology is licensed under the GPL, and a desktop version is imminent.

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HOW TO - Build your own garage locator device

Not satisfied with the low-tech method of suspending a tennis ball from a string, Ken Swanstrom devised a better garage locator device from a laser pointer.

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A cheap POV project

A cool POV project you can make in no time and learn a lot at the same time.

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Pop cans art

These creations sure make awesome desktop decorations.

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Drive your Roomba with your cell phone

So here
�s �RoombaCtrl�, a small Java program for your Bluetooth- and J2ME-compatible phone that works with the build-your-own Bluetooth adapter shown in the book �Hacking Roomba� or the pre-built RooTooth.

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Electrolysis of water - Exploding hydrogen (video)

"This movie explains the process of separating water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, among other things. It also provides a brief scientific explanation of how this works, and, of course, combustion of the produced Hydrogen."

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DIY Can in Can Grill

Inspired by the Vesto Stove, I set out to take some garbage and make my own high efficiency barbeque.

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Pump Up Your Home Network

We have a plan for your LAN. Find out how to surf, stream, and access files faster, as well as add cool features.

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Control the NES "ROB" robot with a PC parallel port

Here's a fun project if you have one of those old NES robots, control'em with your PC!

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Honda unveils diesel system to rival gasoline cars

The car maker that floored the world in the 1970s with the first gasoline engine to meet U.S. clean air guidelines without a catalytic converter said it has developed a new and simple diesel powertrain that is as clean as gasoline-fuelled cars.

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Build your own paintball safety system.

Looking to paint the town red (or his buddies at any rate), Nathan Loden devised this simple device to detect if the paintballs are traveling at a safe speed (< 300 ft/sec).

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Simulating Infrared Photography with The GIMP

In this tutorial I'll show you how to simulate black and white infrared film. Infrared film is sensitive to both ultraviolet and infrared wavelength light. Green foliage reflects a lot of infrared light, which is why infrared film is often used to take "supernatural" landscapes.

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Create training videos with pyvnc2swf

How many times has someone verbally explained how to do something on a computer to you? How many times do you end up asking them to just show you? For these situations there is pyvnc2swf, a program that turns screen input into video files. Let's see just how easy it is to use it to producing training videos.

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New laptops will give you a hernia

Laptop magazine's Attack of the 20-inch Notebook is a tongue-in-cheek look at using the Dell XPS M2010 as a portable system in a few different locations.

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Online puzzle extravaganza

Sudoku doesn't stand a chance against this challenge.

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Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine Utopianism

Due to automated operations, people often mistakenly assume that search engines display search results neutrally and without bias. Like any other media company, however, search engines affirmatively control their users' experiences, which has the consequence of skewing search results (a phenomenon called "search engine bias").

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Making a stealth boat

After trying out our simple demonstration of magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) propulsion, you might want to make something a little more "practical." Here's how to build a simple little boat that moves through salt water (at a snail's pace) via MHD propulsion. No propeller noise = They won't hear you coming.

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Leaving web navigation bread crumbs made easy

This service lets you leave a trail of the sites you visit, now grandma can follow up what you need her to see without pesky miniaturized links, leave a message for the a dear one or comment with your friends about the content of ANY web page. Comes with a Frefox plugin too...

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Backdooring PDF Files

This article will give two practical examples of how Adobe Professional and Adobe Reader can be backdoored. There are 7 or more points where an attacker can launch malicious code. Both of the attacks discussed below are attached to the �Page Open� event.

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Google Search API Worms

In this article I will cover how to mashup with Google
�¢ï¿½ï¿½s new service in a very simple way and explain why and how it can be used by web malware to propagate. The source code provided in this article will be available in the next AttackAPI 0.7 release.

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Backdooring MP3 Files

QuickTime is quite versatile and flexible media platform which has a lot of functionalities. I quite like it I must say. I even use iTunes on daily basis. Unfortunately because of its flexibility QuickTime seams to allow execution of malicious content in a form of JavaScript from media files such as mp3, mp4, m4a and everything else that is support

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How several configurations can keep your system safe from attack

Learn techniques for making your Linux
� system more resistant to attacks, including securing the boot process and local filesystems, locking up services and daemons, enforcing quotas and limits, enabling mandatory access control, and recognizing security vulnerabilities that can be introduced when updating security with new software.

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A simple but powerful way to manage your windows

Take a look at the Ion windows manager, a powerful and simple program that manages the windows that applications bring up on your desktop. Ion isn't flashy, but once you get used to it, it can greatly enhance your productivity and make you wonder why you ever used those other window managers.

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Boot Linux faster

This article shows you how to improve the boot speed of your Linux system without compromising usability. Essentially, the technique involves understanding system services and their dependencies, and having them start up in parallel, rather than sequentially, when possible.

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Robber Tricks ATM machine

The infamous hack everyone is talking about.

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Windows Vista in a can of pop???

it even comes with a twist of lime.

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New Coke Machine Hack - Drink + Refund!

Drink your favorite coca-cola brand pop for F R E E !!!!!!.

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Point, click, root: System exploitation with open tools

Conducting a successful penetration test involves a great deal of knowledge and a wide variety of software, including some of the following open source tools.

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VCR Remote Control via SMS

Is monday, you are getting late home and want to tape Prison Break?, use your cell phone.

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How to solder surface mount components

More and more ICs come in surface mount packages only these days. And I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say 'Well I can't solder that because it's SMD'. They're wrong! You can solder anything. That's right, anything from your own dorm-cell-room.

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Awesome foldable bike

This is an advancement for the bus commuter.

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Great Looking Racks

If you have nice racks you should show them proud, maybe you'll get a prize.

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Nintendo Wii starts with the right foot: Red Steel

Is all about the software and Nintendo will capitalize big with this sword game.

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Out-Of-Office Processing with Asterisk

With Asterisk, I could set those rules down in code and allow callers to use one number to reach me. My initial project was to enable remote SIP extensions to keep track of the local time at my remote site and avoid bothering me at inappropriate times.

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Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries

In my previous article on this topic, we looked at how same computer sharing works in Windows XP. Same-computer sharing provides a simple way for users sharing the same computer to share files with each other by dragging them into the Shared Documents folder.

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Cryptography for the masses

In today's society, cryptography is one of tools for privacy & trust. It is used extensively for access control, electronic payments, enterprise security besides other

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Google plugs phishing hole

Google has acknowledged the presence of a phishing hole on its Public Service Search application and has blocked access to the service until the problem is fixed.

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Eight Severe Vulnerabilities in Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey

Eight vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. Some of the vulnerabilities might allow a remote intruder to take complete control of an affected system, or to disclose sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.

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Caregiving: WTC's toxic dust clouds

Residents of Lower Manhattan caught in the toxic dust cloud after the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, were told by city officials to clean their homes "with a wet rag."

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C For Cookie

Remember remember .....

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Move on google maps, a web 2.0 map service is here

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

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Guardians of the North: a guide to Canadian superheros

This site covers a long list of Canadian superheroes from the forties on.

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10 Worst AdWords Campaign Management Mistakes

On today
�s highly competitive Google AdWords pay per click (PPC) search engine, it is now more important than ever to ensure that your PPC campaigns are optimized to their utmost potential.

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RFID Enabling Your Front Door

How I RFID enabled my front door with a Parallax RFID reader, a TTL serial to Ethernet module, and some custom C# .net code.

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starting and stopping the session part of dbus with KDM.

Since some time now a lot of applications make use of D-BUS. This is the case with KDE 3.5, the current stable release of KDE. With the upcomming KDE 4, D-BUS is getting more important, replacing DCOP. In this howto I want to describe a way to start and stop the user and session dependent part of dbus.

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Installing Zenoss network monitor on a Ubuntu Server

This tutorial shows how to install and configure the Zenoss network monitoring tool on a Ubuntu 6.06 system.

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Java's Father Gosling points New Way in Old Bangalore

Why not, then join James Gosling, who on this bright poster in Bangalore below says that Sun needs you.

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Microsoft to lose the handset DRM battle

INDUSTRY OBSERVERS have highlighted the advantage that Apple may gain in the fledgling movie download sector as a result of FairUse4MW - a hack which removes the DRM (Digital Rights Management) from .wma files.

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Easy to make Mac based PVR

the Miglia TVMicro,It's a small USB device and comes bundled with a remote control and the renowned EyeTV application, which makes it trivial to pull up program listings, schedule recordings, and more. Costing roughly $100, this is a purchase that might just pay for itself sooner than you think, if you frequent iTMS to keep current on your favorit

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Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way

Eddie Tapp, 2006 Photoshop Hall of Famer, award-winning photographer, and much sought after educator, discusses his new book from O'Reilly.

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Sharpening with Camera Raw

Almost every RAW file requires some degree of sharpening to counter the effect of blurring that occurs at some stage of image capture or image processing. But when do you apply the sharpening? In Camera Raw or later in Photoshop? The answer isn't as straightforward as you might think.

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3D animation tutorials galore

Learn at our own pace with these superb tutorials.

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Putty is DEAD Poderosa is here to stay

It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time. Moreover, you can split the window into panes and allocate each connection. In addition to Telnet and SSH1/2, local cygwin shell and serial ports are supported.

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DIY Faux Airport

My dell 600m running OSX 10.4.7 wasnt recognizing the intel 2200 wireless card, so I took apart my old linksys WMP54g PCI card to get the broadcom chipset based miniPCI card out of it.

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DIY 9v LED flashlight - teh best evarrr!

I whipped up this little project from scratch as a means to teach my thirteen-year-old cousin how to solder about a month and a half ago. He did all of the soldering that you see in this instructable (and not bad at all! He's a natural!) He liked the flashlight so much that I think he still carries it around with him!

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First Look: Excite Truck (Wii)

Excite Truck for the Nintendo Wii is � a wild, off-road race in which players hold the Wii Remote like an NES controller to control the truck.� Gameplay footage after the jump.

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Fish-Powered Vehicle

A camera mounted above the tank tracks the fish
�s movement and relays that information to a computer, which then drives the robot in the direction the fish was traveling.

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BMW 7 Series Infrared Night Vision - Video

We are sure you have heard of the new Infrared Night Vision systems available in the new BMW 7 series and Merc S-Class 2007 but, here's a video of the system in action in the BMW 7 series.

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Robo-roach: The Cockroach Traitor

A matchbox-sized robot that can infiltrate a pack of cockroaches and influence their collective behaviour has been developed by European scientists.

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FX channel tries commercial to combat ad-skipping

Niche men's channel FX plans to show what it calls the first UK advert specially designed to combat viewers using digital recorders to avoid commercials.

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Mozilla Fixes Critical Firefox Flaws

Mozilla developers have released an updated version of their Firefox browser that fixes a number of security issues, four of them rated critical.

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i -swing Wearable Car

Toyota says they are dedicated to the idea of �personal mobility,� cars meant to blend in with pedestrians on the streets.

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Will the Real Paul McCartney Please Stand Up

Actually, he can't because he is dead!!!!.

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Seamless network access

A handy solution to distributed file system access

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MS Access Functions

Here is a list of the most commonly used functions in Access. This is alphabetical listing of pointers to those articles which explain these functions in more detail.

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Backup and Recovery Utilities for the Unix Geek

This article reviews some of the common backup and restore tools available on the Solaris Operating System (and Linux). The examples provided here allow you to start using a utility immediately, without having to understand all of its features. Having some knowledge of these tools is crucial to general system administration.

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From paper to html with a click and Linux

Here is a toolchain to transform a traditional paper magazine into HTML. I will explain the process form the scanning until htmlization.

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A digital DC power supply -- part 3: command control from the PC

A very important device for hobby electronic is a reliable DC powersupply. A proper electronically stabilized powersupply can easily cost over 150 Euro.
Using a clever microcontroller based design we can build a power supply which has more features and is a lot cheaper.

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DIY 5 Element Yagi for BlueTooth or WLAN applications

I decided to build this antenna for a great friend of mine who needed a bit more range from his new electric blue Microsoft bluetooth wireless mouse.

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$250 for the Nintendo Wii

Nintendo's new Wii console will go on sale on 19 November in the US, two weeks ahead of its Japanese launch.

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A multi-stage approach to securing your email communication

When speaking of mail server-related security, one tends to limit the issue to message applied security measures, and even more to Antivirus and Antispam protection. This article aims at identifying and explaining all security layers, highly important when choosing a certain mail server and consequently when configuring and using it.

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Ants find their way home using pedometers

Pheromones are a hoax!!!

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DIY Disposable camera coilgun

It doesn't require much money (if any), but you need some basic soldering skills and electronics knowledge to finish it successfully...

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THE MOTHER OF ALL TRAILERS

After this you won't need to watch any other movie again.

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Compact Laser Projector

Here is an amazing product, its a video projector which plugs right into an existing lightbulb socket on our ceiling, it then uses a wireless LAN to transfer video content to it.

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Smart Car Diablo VS Ferrari 430

Seeing is believing.

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Pakistan Airlines Poster from 1979

Coincidence anyone?.

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THC group gets pinned with copyright infringement lawsuit by Nokia

Guess what was their answer...

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Making wireless work in Ubuntu

One of the greatest new features for laptop users in Ubuntu is network-manager. With this shiny new application it is finally easy to connect your Ubuntu system to any wireless network. Where previously you had to jump through hoops to do WPA or 802.1x authentication, network manager makes this completely transparent.

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Making Windows Trojans with EXE Binders (AKA:Joiners), Splice and IExpress

Let the mayhem begin.

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Official SAW III (3) Trailer

Hello America, do you want to play a game?.

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DIY Insulating Laptop Pad

When using a notebook/laptop computer actually in your lap, the heat buildup can get annoying. This pad is meant to insulate you from the computer-generated heat, while still allowing it to dissipate heat from below.

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Not your ordinary electronic detonator

This detonator uses only 1 AA battery, some switches, and a few simple electronics that can be had for FREE at any walmart or photo developing shop.

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How to make a RAILGUN!

Warning: if you screw up with this you could electricute yourself.

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1980�s DIY C64 Light Interface

This is an extract from an episode of �4 Computer Buffs� which was a computer software and hardware programme broadcast in the 80�s by Channel 4 Television in the UK.

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Open scientific software

Science is an open process. Experimental information and results must be published so results are verifiable and reproducible. These results are then shared with the larger community to benefit all humanity. It makes sense that the software used for scientific computations should also be open. Here are a few scientific programs of general utility.

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What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux

Running 64-bit Linux has its pros and cons. Unfortunately, a lot of the cons are out of your hands -- but they're not really Linux's fault, either.

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Running Ubuntu on a G3 iMac DV

When attempting to install Ubuntu Dapper on an old G3 iMac DV, I kept running into stupid display problems (the boot process simply stopped at a blank black screen). After a bit of research, I finally discovered how to fix this problem, and will record it here for myself�

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Kismet sniffs out Wi-Fi access

Today, Wi-Fi access points everywhere, and users becoming increasingly more sophisticated in their wireless network knowledge. One good tool for discovering Wi-Fi access points is a command-line utility called Kismet.

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Linux4Kids: Tools and toys for all ages

Linux4Kids is a collection of more than 80 GPL-licensed "edutainment" games and educational software available to download for free from the FileGate File Distribution Network.

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Get your network's weather from Weathermap4RRD

When I was investigating the Abilene/Internet2 network sometime back, I found its "network weather map," which graphically shows the load on network segments, to be an interesting tool. I thought something similar could be helpful on our network. Today, we're using Weathermap4RRD to show a high-level graphical representation of our network.

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Working without a net: advice for small companies and consultants

Lewin Edwards presents five engineering tips that are crucially important to successful product engineering, but which are rarely brought up in discussions of engineering practices.

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Guerrila Marketing takes YouTube.

Motorola was behind the production of an Internet video clip mocking Samsung Electronics
� slim mobile phone ``Ultra,�� according to the Web site that first showed it.

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China Tightens News Control

"Xinhua News Agency on Sunday promulgated a set of measures to regulate the release of news and information in China by foreign news agencies and the subscription of such news and information by users in China and to promote the dissemination of news and information in a sound and orderly manner."..more background there.

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Google says it will hire more engineers in Japan

The world's biggest Web search engine, said on Friday it is looking to hire more engineers in Japan to develop new technologies in one of the most advanced markets for mobile technologies.

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3D Guide to the Galaxy

As technology brings us all closer together the world seems to get smaller and smaller.

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Convenient disposable email address

Next up is a brilliant resource for helping you to avoid the unwanted spam associated with registering your e-mail address on unreliable sites.

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Teen Makes $35,000 in Video Game, Now the Taxman Cometh

Whoever said "you won't get rich playing video games," never played Entropia Universe � an online computer game where players adventure, build, buy and sell everything from real estate and services to weapons and armor for real dollars.

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EM Rocketry or Start your own NASA on the cheap

Create your own aresenal or rockets.

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Christian Guide to Small Arms Online v.1.0

The Christian's Guide to Small Arms was developed in response to the fact that most American Christians have fallen into ignorance concerning the responsibilities and skills required of the Christian freeman.

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Pope's top exorcist says Harry Potter is 'king of darkness'

Pope Benedict XVI's chief exorcist, Rev. Gabriele Amorth, has called fictional wizard-in-training Harry Potter the "king of darkness, the devil."

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Orientation for The Time-Warped

If you are reading this in the future, odds are good you have been plucked out of your own era and dropped into an advanced civilization which has mastered the science of time travel.

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8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons

We'd like to point out that we're aware of the fact that some of the cartoons listed below did not originate in the '80s. However, they were on during the '80s, that's when we watched them, so they're '80s cartoons to us. It's like when we refer to bedwetting as "late '90s behavior." Without further adieu...

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Creating DVDs under Linux

tovid is a collection of video disc authoring tools; it can help you create your own DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs for playback on your home DVD player. It has a command-line interface as well as a graphical frontend. tovid is free software.

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Hacking the Linksys NAS EFG120

The EFG120 is a so called Network Area Storage (short NAS). It is very similiar to the famous NSLU2 but has (an) internal harddisk(s). Like the NSLU2 the EFG120 runs an embedded Linux and thus could easily be used for additional purposes.

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Hand Painted Satellite Dishes

Satellite dishes don't have to be dull but decorative.

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EBay Sellers Go Back to School: 10 Tips

Several recent academic studies have centered on the behavior of eBay buyers. See how the information gathered can help you sell for more.

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Inmates hid cell phones + chargers where the sun doesn't shine

The discovery was made Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca, in central El Salvador, after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the inmates, federal corrections chief Jaime Villanova said. Imagine this 10 years ago.

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How to Configure OpenVPN

OpenVPN may seem a little daunting at first, but once you get your feet wet this can be an incredibly useful (and free!) tool. In this article, Michael Riley shows you how to use OpenVPN for secure internet surfing on your client PCs.

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Electromagnetic Pulsed Guns & Disc Launchers

This page is devoted to launching projectiles using only electro-magnetic force!, the enemy won't know where the shot came from.

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Applying 240V AC to PC Components

Check out this video by Legs & MrPinky showing you exactly what happens when you apply 240V of AC power to various different computer hardware, there
�s also a sledgehammer introducing itself to a hard drive thrown in for good measure�..

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PC hard disk system warns of tsunamis

Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the undersea earthquakes that cause tsunamis.

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Build a Holodeck!

A cool computer 3D digital display and interface ala Minority Report.

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Building the Simple Bat Detector

I thought it would be useful to write some web pages that show how I assemble the Simple Bat Detector, using the parts that are listed in the parts list. I hope that these pages are useful in answering questions relating to parts layout, mounting the ultrasonic transducer and detuning coil, etc.

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DIY Foldaway bike racks

I always have people staying with me who have bikes. I needed a way store all of there bikes in my garage and still have space to parka car and build. This simple project lets you make cheap fold away bike racks.

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Create your own book cover art with open source software

Print-on-demand sites like Lulu allow you to create and publish your own book. If you're primarily a writer, you might be tempted to hire a professional designer to create a cover for your book. Before you do that, consider creating a simple yet elegant book cover using the open source Kooka scanning software and the Inkspace vector drawing applica

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Open source robotic simulation packages

Open source robot simulation software simplifies the creation of physical Linux-based robots, according to an overview article at IBM's DeveloperWorks site. Simulators such as ODE, Simbad, TeamBots, KControl, Gazebo, and Carmen can help test ideas before putting them into hardware, writes author M. Tim Jones.

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OpenVG library does 2D vector graphics with 3D hardware

Italian start-up Mazatech is offering the second technology preview of its commercial library for hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics on small-screen embedded devices. The company's AmanithVG library implements the Khronos Group's entire OpenVG specification, using a pair of 3D APIs, also from the Khronos Group.

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Geotagging files with libferris and Google Earth

Here's how you can tag your photos, documents and other files so you can search for place-related information on your PC using Google Earth.

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Quick way to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa

Faster swithing is just a click away.

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Grid Computing 101

Grid computing is a critical shift in thinking about how to maximize the value of computing resources. The technology is still fairly nascent, but here at the developerWorks grid computing zone, we're publishing a steady stream of new articles, tutorials, resources, and tools to bring developers up to speed on this important cutting-edge technology

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Linux remote access with minicom and conserver how-to

With all of the redundancy in today's servers, its easy to think that you will never need serial port access to your shiny new server. But what do you do when you're at home and your server is at the data center, and your trusty friend SSH fails you? Go back to where remote access started -- a console server.

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Wipe all the data for almost any cell phone

Now you can sell, donate or recycle your old cell phone worry free! The Cell Phone Data Eraser gives you all the tools you need to remove personal information like contact names and phone numbers from your cell phone.

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Photo cube - frameless, cheap and easy!

I made this as a birthday card for my sister, but it's also a great cheap way to display photos without having to buy a frame. It would also make a lovely personalised bauble or gift box.

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DIY Laptop Bag Organizer

This is what I made: an insert for my laptop bag to organize my junk, and that I can rearrange when I get the urge to do so next week. It's modular, like some homes.

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Watch HDTV on your PC

No need to pay for cable subscription when you can get it over the air, plus building a PVR at the same time.

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Compendium of Hacking How-To Videos

IronGeek will save you a ton in books and time with this list of easy to follow How-To videos in various interesting subjects.

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29 ways to cook a stingray

A stingray took Steve Irwin from us, well, is payback time.

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Mission Impossible Original TV series on DVD, September the 12th

Finally the BEST cold war TV series will be available on DVD.

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The Geekword Puzzle

Welcome back to the LG Geekword Puzzle! I hope everyone had a good time solving it... given the email that I've received in regard to it this past month, it seems that many people found it challenging and fun.

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Mosaic Made out of Rubik's Cubes

This Space Invaders mosaic is made completely out of Rubik
�s Cubes. I was a little disappointed when I learned they were using cubes that were solved - I thought it would have been cool to arrange the pixels in such a way that the cube would have to be re-arranged somehow.

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DIY Canon EOS Remote

I made a remote for my new Canon Digital Rebel XT/350D. It's a wired remote, cost about $10 in parts, and works pretty well.
A friend did the soldering, cause my skills are lacking in that department.

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Open source robotics toolkits

Building a robot involves skills from many disciplines, including embedded firmware and hardware design, sensor selection, controls systems design, and mechanical design. But simulation environments can provide a virtual arena for testing, measuring, and visualizing robotics algorithms without the high cost (and time) of development.

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The Complete Open Phone

Matthew Hamrick proposes a completely open source mobile phone platform. Just add a good idea and some talented software engineers and you're half-way to changing the world, one handset at a time.

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New Features at DZone

August has been a fairly busy month here at DeveloperZone, and DZone has reaped some of the rewards. We have been hard at work on some nice features and on Friday they were finally deployed.

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How to Create a Color Picker in JavaScript

This week you're going to learn how to create a Color Picker similar to the one used in Photoshop, but entirely in JavaScript!

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Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial A Beginner's handbook

Most of the other tutorials on Linux shell scripting are either too basic or skip too many important intermediate steps. The concept of this tutorial is to maintain a balance between these two. It covers many of the real life examples of shell scripting that are missing from many other tutorials.

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Learn about Parkour

Life is made of obstacles and challenges - To overcome them is to progress. if you become skilled at Parkour you gain something for the rest of life.

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Expect fresh faces for Team USA '07

It's time to close the book on the 2006 version of Team USA and take a look into the future in an effort to determine what the 2007 team might look like.

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The Art of Unix Programming FREE ebook

The Art of Unix Programming attempts to capture the engineering wisdom and philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today � not merely as it has been written down in the past, but as a living "special transmission, outside the scriptures" passed from guru to guru.

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An introduction to the NEW worldwide web FREE ebook

Coming of Age should go some way to de-mystifying the present hype around Web 2.0 for education. It provides practical insights from a range of educators who have been exploring how Web 2.0 technology can be used

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Hack almost any Epson Stylus Printer

Want to refill Epson printers cartridges?, want to avoid hefty bills for sending your printer to unnecessary repairs?, this is the link for you.

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Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Boasts Enhanced Look, Features

Mozilla released Beta 2 of its upcoming Firefox 2 browser for developer review Aug. 31, emphasizing that it is being made available for testing purposes only. The release contains a number of new features, as well as some enhancements to look and feel.

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MySpace gets into the music business

Popular social networking site MySpace has announced its intentions to begin selling digital music. Unlike the established music stores, which have built their success on selling tracks from bands on the larger record labels, MySpace will concentrate on independent bands lacking record contracts.

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ExoMars rover cutout mode

Below are links to a 1:15 scale cutout model of the ExoMars rover, designed in the Concurrent Design Facility of ESA's European Space Research and Technical Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands.

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How to Make a Digital Toy Infrared Camera

While conventional photographs record visible light from a scene as you might see it with your eyes, infrared (IR) photographs record invisible infrared light, producing interesting and unexpected results.

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LEGO Domino Bot

This is an interesting LEGO robot. Is there anything the NXT LEGO system can�t do?

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Howto: build Linux kernel module w/o full kernel source

To be frank you do not need a new full source tree in order to just compile or build module against the running kernel i.e an exploded source tree is not required to build kernel driver or module.

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Now run your windows applications, seamlessly on Mac OS X

This is Great news for all Mac fans.

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Tribute to Carly Fiorina's Legacy

Die HP Die!!!!.

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Be Prepared For Any Interview Question

Things can go really against you despite your thorough preparation for a just a couple of types of interview questions. However, it is possible to ignore or forget the other types of possible interview questions.

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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename sarge). This update mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included

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Fred Flintsotne Father Dies

Ed Benedict, 94, an animator who designed many famous cartoon characters including Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, died Monday, his friend David Scheve said. Benedict died at home in Auburn, Calif. Scheve did not know the cause. Thanks fo the good memories sir.

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MultiPlatform FOSS Multimedia Center

Elisa is a project to create an open source cross platform media center solution. While our primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems we also currently support Microsoft Windows and also hope to support MacOSX in the future.

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I hump things

Yep, a site where people is shown humping anything in their path.

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More Nicotine in Popular U.S. Cigarettes

A report by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health says the nicotine levels in popular cigarette brands sold in that state have increased an average of 10%, and in some cases 20%, over the time period 1998 to 2004.

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Pay-per-Copy Machine Exploit

This proof of concept instructable will go over how to exploit a popular pay-per-copy type machine with a paperclip.

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Creating a Killer Panoramas in Photoshop

Believe it or not, a lot of people don
�t know that Photoshop can automatically stitch photos together to create a panorama. If you continue reading, then I�m guessing you fall into the "believe it" category.

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A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

A cool geeky webcomic to keep around.

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Make your own paper models of motorcycles, rare animals and more

Lots of models you can print and make in minutes.

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Paper plane in a business card

This is a design for a business card that I use. The first version was done in 1995, but I still carry them around. It usually gets a good response, although most people don't actually get down and use their glue and scissors. Suits!

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