Photographer J. Chris Hansen built the soup bowl beauty dish for his photography studio. It was all well and dandy while it was mounted on a speedlight.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
DIY Wax-Fen Flash Diffuser - Yet Another Bouncy Thingy
Here is a quick and easy way to make a "professional" flash diffuser without shelling out twenty or so dollars at your local camera shop.
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Free Java in Ubuntu 8.04LTS; Coming soon to Fedora 9
While the JDK had been in Ubuntu's Multiverse before, getting into Universe meant having JDK packages based on OpenJDK6 that were 100% free. This was made possible by the work of a lot of people at Sun and the community (most notably the folks at Fedora cranking on IcedTea).
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New bootloader to boot Linux
Scott Davilla of the atv-bootloader project has informed me that a new bootloader for Apple TV to boot Linux is now available.
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Starting with CSS and bug fixing tips
Learn about Web Standards and learn about coding with CSS for layout. There are a lot of good books out there to learn this from the start. This is the basis of good web design.
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Powerful Web Services with PHP and SOAP
You've tried your hand at building mashups, experimented with a few RESTful Web services, maybe even started your own. Sure, you've got data sharing working. But how do you make your Web applications really talk to each other?
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5 Myths About Coping With College
Congratulations! You've spent thousands of dollars on test-prep books and enrichment camps and sunk hundreds of hours into applications, to say nothing of enduring countless sleepless nights -- and it all paid off.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
How to Get Six Pack Abs
Since the dawn of human civilization, the quest to achieve a chiseled rock hard six pack has always been equated with almost a spiritual quest of attaining one’s ideals. The ideal of beauty has always drawn people towards devoting their lives to staying in shape and developing impressive abs.
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Pros and Cons of joining the Military
Once you sign there is pretty much no turning back. I don't care how small a pro or con is -- it will help the recruits for deciding to jon the military.
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PL/SQL programming made easy.
This Oracle PL SQL tutorial teaches you the basics of programming in PL/SQL with appropriate examples. You can use this tutorial as your guide or reference while programming with PL SQL.
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Six Twitter clients for the Linux desktop
Twitter is a popular social networking utility that's gaining popularity as a micro-blogging tool. Registered users can post messages -- also called Tweets -- via the Web interface, but many prefer to use desktop applications that offer additional functionality and move Tweeting out of the browser entirely.
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Digg valued at $125 Millions
There's fascinating list of company valuations on Silicon Alley Insider, slapping a price on 25 private start-ups.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Implement Drag and Drop in Your Web Apps
The ultimate in user interactivity, drag and drop is taken for granted in desktop applications but is a litmus test of sorts for web applications: If you can easily implement drag and drop with your web application framework, then you know you've got something special.
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It's Comcast vs. BitTorrent in the video sharing wars
Cohen’s peer-to-peer technology is so popular and powerful that it accounts at times for 50 percent of Internet data traffic and has the potential to alter the economics of broadband Internet for companies like Comcast Corp. and millions of consumers.
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Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2008 Pro Tour
James Foxall gives you a feel for the overall programming process and shows you how to build a simple yet functional Visual Basic Application.
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Of Torrents, SSH and Tunnels...
After the collapse of Napster, with places like donkax and the one and only original html suprnova, a brand new era of file sharing was upon mankind. Switch from the regular p2p networks to bittorrent seemed somewhere along the lines of changing a beat up dodge for a shiny new ferrari (blond included).
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GoLive is Dead Long Live Dreamweaver
Adobe on Monday announced that GoLive website creation tool has been discontinued in favor of Dreamweaver, the popular design tool acquired from Macromedia a little more than three years ago;
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Grand Theft Auto hailed as masterpiece
Video gamers geared up on Monday for the midnight launch of "Grand Theft Auto 4," as early reviews hailed the criminal action title as a brutal and satirical "masterpiece" equal to films like "The Godfather."
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Running Java in JavaScript
One project, in particular, really caught my eye. It's called Orto [PDF, Japanese] and is an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in JavaScript. This means that you can take an existing Java application, compile it to bytecode, run it through Orto (which produces the JavaScript, and embed it in a web page.
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Real Mario Kart Doesn't Have Banana Peels, Power-Ups
Mario Kart for the Wii is available today in all US stores, but if you want the real thing, you can pass on the lame wheel and get this Nintendo-licensed real-life Mario Kart Slot Car Racing set, with cute 1:43 Mario "B-Dasher" and Wario "Brute" cars
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One Laptop Per Child Controversy Centers on Windows
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative wants more kinds of Sugar, and some developers are not sweet on that idea. Sugar is the user interface created for the low-cost laptop developed by a team headed by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte.
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Choosing a camera for mom
If your mum's like mine, she adores her photos; framed photos of the grandkids are dotted around the house, family portraits hang on the walls and there's a cupboard in her room full of old albums.
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Failed Microsoft gadget dies a quiet death
Can it really be 4 years back that Microsoft produced that always destined to fail product the datacasting SPOT watch? Yep, apparently it can, and apparently it has finally been killed off once and for all.
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NASA + Nanosats...
Nanosatellites weigh between 11 and 110 pounds. A constellation of these satellites will be placed in low Earth orbit for the new telecommunications and networking system.
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The ASUS Eee PC 900 mess
Within a span of 10 days, both ASUS and HP announced their newest Netbook in Hong Kong, the Eee PC 900 and the 2133 Mini-Note on 15 and 24 April respectively. In order to outflank the HP 2133 Mini-Note, ASUS rushed their Eee PC 900 out to the market during the early hours on 19 April at the price of $3,998 (US$513).
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fc mobile game console plays original nes carts
I’ve seen plenty of Nintendo NES clone systems in my travels, but this is the first time I’ve seen a mass-produced portable that can play the actual cartridges from the classic 8-bit gaming system.
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What is wrong with this picture?
There are at least 40 things wrong with this picture, can you find what they are?
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Super Mario Singing Glow Star for Your Desk
This little desktop gadget companion flashes on and off and plays the Super Mario Brothers music with a simple push of a button on the back and the star.
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Image Sprite Navigation Using CSS
Why slice a new image for each item in a navigation when you can use the same image for all of them? If you’re thinking you can’t do that without sacrificing rollovers, think again. By creating a navigation using an image sprite, you can have a complete navigation, rollovers and all, by only using one image.
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Antics V3.1 free 3D animation software
The software, which is available as a free download, is designed to allow everyone from beginners to experienced designers the chance to create 3D animated clips quickly and easily, without the learning curve associated with creative tools of this kind.
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‘Hello, my name is’ in LED
Instead of the ubiquitous ‘Hello, my name is’ sticky, this programable LED badge scrolls any message up to 512 characters in length. It can even do multiple messages too. So, at conferences your salutation can scroll by followed by pleas like, ‘Get me outta here!’. The 1 5/8" by 3 1/8" by ½" scrolling badge is available at E-treme Geek for 20 bucks
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Ajax performance analysis
Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) continues to raise user expectations for interactivity and performance, and developers are increasingly treating Ajax as a must-have component of their Web applications.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
The Guitar Hero Tie
You might have already seen the 8-bit tie. You might have already seen the Air Guitar Hero t-shirt. But have you ever seen a Guitar Hero tie?
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GPS market at turning point with sliding
Consumer navigation devices have gone from expensive gadgets to mainstream gear in just three years, but Europe's largest maker is struggling.
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Nikon Beats The Crap out of Canon at TIPA Photography Awards
The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has announced to results of the annual camera Oscars. The European awards are coveted by manufacturers, mostly because they get to stick the TIPA logo on the camera box and thereby shift more units.
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9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know
At its core, JavaScript is more similar to functional languages. Inside is a list of JavaScript tips, some offer techniques to simulate features found in C-like languages (such as assertions or static variables). Others are meant to improve performance and explore some of the more obscure parts of the web scripting language.
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Eight tips to start with Python
A friend of mine is starting Python. I tried to sum up some tips for him, that may be useful to others. Don’t hesitate to comment it if you think something important is missing.
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Yahoo to become a social networks juggernaut
Yahoo plans to open its site to more applications and add elements of social networks
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Skype Offers Half Pregnant Java Mobile Phone Client
Skype is now available on many leading mobile phones, although depending on where you live you can’t use it to call people.
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'Grand Theft Auto' Release Victim of FUD
The Chicago Transit Authority is pulling ads for the game off its buses. The Parents Television Council is calling on retailers to keep it away from children. The PTA has a campaign to explain ratings.
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Creating charts on Web pages with Java and GChart
The Apache-licensed GChart utility lets you quickly generate nice-looking charts on your Web site.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Senate Passes Genetic Discrimination Bill
Senate passes bill banning employers, insurers from discrimination based on DNA tests
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Google AJAX APIs available from outside of the browser
The AJAX API team just posted about using Flash and the server side to access the AJAX APIs.
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How The GPL Can Save Your Ass
It is time to get serious about this multicore thing. No, for real, this time.
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Microsoft to Yahoo: All your Base Will Belong To Us
Microsoft Corp gave Yahoo Inc no hope of a higher takeover price, saying it was ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo maintains "unrealistic expectations" of a better deal.
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The Digestive System like the London Tube Map
The easiest way to understand the digestive system is using the clever design of the London tube maps.
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The Art of the Push-Up
Fitness guru Jack LaLanne knows push-ups. During his 30-plus years on television, he regularly demonstrated the proper push-up technique and wowed us with feats of strength like finger-tip push-ups and one-armed push-ups.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The 73 Biggest Brains in Business
Who really are the smartest folks in the room—and whom do they look to for inspiration? Condé Nast Portfolio talked to scores of C.E.O.'s, economists, and power players for a look at who's influencing the influencers. Here are 29 of capitalism's headliners, plus 44 others making a difference.
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Giz Explains: Digital Camera Image Sensors
Spring is the primetime for new cameras, hence the cheap cam battlemodo, an entry-level DSLR battlemodo, not to mention loads of rumors and breakthroughs. It's a lot to keep up with, and you may not even know what's going on with the camera in your pocket. If that's the case, don't worry, here's a quick primer an digital camera image sensors—just w
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Max Levchin Becomes the Internet’s New Wacky Pix Guy!
Still, you can be comforted to know, though, that you join a legion of other legendarily goony tech figures in the continued march of egregiously wacky pictures.
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Making A Wordpress 2.5 Sidebar Widget Plugin
A Wordpress Widget is a dynamic element that can be placed in the sidebars (or anywhere that is declared a sidebar) in your Wordpress theme. For example on this blog there is a right sidebar with these widgets: Search It, Recent Entries, Categories, Related Sites, Recent Visitors (by Feedjit), Recent Readers (by MyBlogLog).
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Spyjax - Your browser history is not private!
If you’re like most web users, you assume that your browser history is private. For example if you visit an online store, you assume they can’t see if you’ve been looking at their competitor. Just a few weeks ago I assumed this was the case. Guess what?
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Facebook PHP Tutorial
And I have to admit I think it’s pretty cool too. So I decided to create an application that uses the Facebook Platform. I’m writing the application in PHP and I thought it might be useful for others to know how to write their own Facebook applications with PHP. So here we are.
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Gadget Freak Case #118: Spying on Your Freezer
William Grill wanted to make sure his freezer didn’t cut out and ruin his frozen food. He was concerned that when he traveled, his food could defrost and re-freeze — thus compromising his frozen steaks — without his knowledge. So, he developed a gadget that measures freezer temperatures, keeps a history...
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How a donkey sanctuary pulls in £20m a year
My donkey, Little Vijay, is a light brown gelding with large brown eyes and a white muzzle. He was adopted for me a year ago and I'm told that he's very gentle and likes carrots.
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Live Mesh: A Developer`s Dream?
Microsoft's new software-plus-service initiative could mean a host of opportunities for programmers.
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Web site lets users make cartoon movie
Would you like to make a brief cartoon movie that might be aired on a new digital television network? That's the opportunity that Qubo is
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New Earthworm Jim Cartoon Coming
The Earthworm Jim revival continues with the news that a new animated series starring the heroic worm is in the works.
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Recession Survival: How to Catch and Eat a Rat
Renowned survivalist Cody Lundin demonstrates basic survival skills. Video was shot by one of his students in his Aboriginal Living Skills course.
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A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10
Perl is the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages: powerful and adaptable. It was first developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA in the late 1980s, as a way to make report processing easier. Since then, it has moved into a several other areas: automating system administration, acting as glue between dif
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WTF, PWN to OWN exploit 1 Year Old
Turns out the exploit used in the CanSecWest PWN to OWN zero day hack contest was known for about a year.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Hi-Res YouTube Hacks
Before YouTube, sharing video over the Internet was a pain. You either had to make people download the file, or embed it yourself in the Web page coding and hope they had the right plugin installed to play it back. That was hard on you, but even harder on your audience.
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Top 10 social networking sites see 47% growth
Nielson/NetRatings has issued a study showing that the top 10 social networking sites saw traffic grow 47% over the last year, with MySpace seeing the biggest growth (367% increase) and MSN Spaces (286%) seeing the biggest growth. Hosted blogging systems were included in the study.
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Location-based publishing and services
Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps.
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Three Linux HTML editors reviewed
Today's Web development tools offer capabilities that go beyond basic HTML editing. I compared three Web editors for Linux -- Screem 0.16.1, Bluefish 1.0.7, and Quanta Plus 3.5.7 -- to determine how well they handle today's Web editing needs.
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PHP5 - MIME type quirks
Simple, right? Well apparently not. I must have spent about 4 hours last night on Google trying to find out why the MIME typing was not working correctly, nor the various PHP extension libraries being loaded properly. I finally managed to figure it out this afternoon:
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Living la vida Chewbacca //PIC
If the size of the feet are an indicator, no wonder why Chewbacca is scoring BIG time.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
$3 Pac-Man
The new $3 Pac Man ticket is sure to bring back fond memories. With similar game play to the original game and the chance to win a top prize of $50,000, you're sure to have a blast with this nostalgic ticket!
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PHP: Easy payments using Paypal IPN
There are several PHP scripts and classes to process PayPal payments using their native IPN (Internet payment notification) feature. Because the whole process is based on the data you need to send via a web form to the PayPal payment processor these script look very similar.
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The art of spreading propaganda
Learn the basic designs of propaganda by the masters of masters: The Russians.
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Parse XML with the StAX Java API
Streaming API for XML (StAX) is an API that allows you to read and write XML documents in Java. StAX is a parser independent, pure Java API based on interfaces that can be implemented by multiple parsers.
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Star Wars: Clone Wars Images Online
Clone Wars Images Online The new issue of Empire is something else. I don’t get to see the magazine, but I wish I did. Previously we reported on some new images the magazine has for The Incredible Hulk, now the magazine has put out some new images from the upcoming Star Wars series, The Clone Wars that appear in the same issue.
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Huge OLED displays a reality
Displays based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have benefited from significant advances that have now made them commercially available. Due to the high efficiency of the technology, OLED-based lighting is expected to capture a promising market share
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
These are the BEST Burgers in New York PERIOD
If the city has a professor of patties, it's probably Josh Ozersky, the online food editor for New York magazine.
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A coffee table for the selfless moguls
Most Mr. Burns wanna be say: "Let's get rid of those pesky species and make something nice out of them."
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Is your stoner friend on Facebook a murderer?
A man charged with last week's stabbing death of an Edmonton senior appeared to be online almost continuously before the killing, occasionally talking about crack and getting high.
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The Sims are out to destroy Mario
That plucky Italian plumber with a penchant for hopping on turtles, Mario (of “Super Mario Bros.” fame) has long been the Mickey Mouse of the video game world, the lovable cartoon mascot that continues to help drive the success of game publisher Nintendo and attracts new children to the medium to this day. But now, apparently, he is in danger.
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The Mario Theme Meme’s Enduring Appeal
Mario is like the R.E.M. of Internet memes. While most memes Rickroll out of nowhere, take over our collective consciousness, only to evaporate almost as quickly, performing cover versions of the Super Mario theme song seems to endure.
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Microsoft: We've Won The Core Gamer Market News
Xbox 360's Group Product Manager declares the race for the core gamer is over; Greenberg admits Europe remains a battleground...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Has Microsoft become too corporate for its own good?
Do enterprises really want automatons that punch in and code to spec? Or do they want innovation that changes the game?
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IBM unveils world's fastest UNIX server, unique water-cooled
World's largest computer technology and consulting corporation, IBM Corp. has unveiled two high-end Power Systems models the world's fastest UNIX server and a unique water-cooled supercomputer, which have excellent energy-saving capabilities.
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Can monkeys form gangs and terrorize people?
Just ask the residents of Gibraltar where a pack of 25 macaques have broken into hotels through open windows, vandalized rooms, and have been seen rummaging through garbage in the center of town.
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Space Station Astronauts Land Off-Target
The International Space Station's (ISS) first female commander and two crewmates are safely back on Earth, but landed well short of their intended landing site as they capped a marathon mission to the orbiting laboratory.
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How to avoid a debt trap
Do you splurge? Well, nothing wrong with that, so long as you are careful. You have every right to spend your hard-earned money, but overspending should not lead you to misery and debt.
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The Lego Mindstorms NXT Zoo! from No Starch Press
When Fay Rhodes, co-author of The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book (No Starch Press) and contributor to The NXT STEP blog, found that most NXT enthusiasts were interested in creating big, bad robots, she decided to change things.
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See how the Wii Lightsaber works
LucasArts has ahem, 'unleashed' the latest web documentary for Star Wars: Force Unleashed, showing just how you swing a Lightsaber with the Wii Remote (and stylus).
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I'm not too old to play Indiana Jones: Ford
Hollywood star Harrison Ford is rebuffing critics' claims that he is too old to play the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones in the upcoming film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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How Big Is Google? Heres Another Measure
Google earned $803 million, about £407 million, in the United Kingdom in the first quarter. If you assume that rate won’t grow, that makes £1.6 billion for the year. And since Google’s British earnings are up 40 percent from a year ago, it is a safe bet it will grow.
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Stupidest Story on Digg's frontpage
This story got like 2000+ diggs. Is this news at all? Am I missing something?
No wonder why Digg is being slaughtered by Yahoo's Buzz.
RIP Digg whatever is left of you is now a memory.
No wonder why Digg is being slaughtered by Yahoo's Buzz.
RIP Digg whatever is left of you is now a memory.
Cylon Civil War and Rough Sex with Starbuck
Things are getting awesomely ugly on Battlestar Galactica, with the humans squabbling over sex and the justice system while their arch-enemies the Cylons march towards all-out bot-on-bot civil war.
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Professional Warcraft III players to carry Olympic torch
Adding more insult to injury, the Chinese pull another stunt to avoid the Olympics boycott.
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Professional Warcraft III players to carry Olympic torch
Adding more insult to injury, the Chinese pull another stunt to avoid the Olympics boycott.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Ditch Your Laptop For These Gadgets
The two companies are pushing for a new class of machines that combine the power of a personal computer and the portability of a personal digital assistant.
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Sea, Land, and Air Vehicle
Russian aircraft designer and inventor Alexander Begak has created a unique aircraft named Evolution. The aircraft can travel on land, in the water, and in the air. Evolution is designed to perform both military and civilian missions almost anywhere in the world, making it worthy of appearing in any future James Bond movie.
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Most Wii games look like crap
Developer High Voltage has attacked the mentality of developers making games for Wii, claiming most end products "don't even look as good as the latter day PS2 titles"
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Nikon firmware update reveals 24.4MP D3x DSLR
Nikon recently released a firmware update for its flagship D3 DSLR, version 1.10, that will enhance its usability as well as resolve some bugs with the old programming. What Nikon didn't account for was someone to go snooping through the code and finding mention of a 6048x4032-pixel, 24.4-megapixel resolution, something the current D3 is not capabl
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Going Virtual: Small companies reap cost savings
Yet unlike the offices of most of her competitors, Hutton's operates on a near-virtual basis. Her publicists stretch from Las Vegas to Tampa, each with a laptop computer and working from home. They have clear work parameters; they must be accessible to their clients and to each other during daily business hours and file weekly reports that detail m
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MTV's Rock Band to launch full-album downloads
MTV said on Friday it will start selling full albums that can be downloaded and played in its "Rock Band" video game, with the first title coming next week from classic metal act Judas Priest.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook
I kept telling myself that CSS should never be used for evil. That in the wrong hands, it could wreak havoc upon the face of the Web as we know it.
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Never Drink and Conduct a Train //PIC
M.A.D.E.: Mom's against drunk engineers was founded after this fatal incident.
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Drive by texting? Time to unplug
Sharon Sarmiento knew it was time to unplug when she realized she was blogging in her dreams and hearing imaginary instant messages.
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Musuem to Launch Biggest Robot Exhibit
How robots act, think and sense the world around them will be the focus of an upcoming exhibit billed as the largest and most comprehensive nationwide on robotics.
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How to Transform a CD-ROM Drive into a Car CD Player
To be used as CD player, the CD-ROM drive doesn't need to be connected to the computer. This way, it is possible to easily transform a CD-ROM drive into a Car CD player. Sounds crazy? Not so. With this tutorial you will be able to have a CD player in your car without spending almost anything.
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Build a fort in your home
Need a fortress of solitude? Need your own space? Build a fort!!! Remember you were good at it when you were a kid.
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Google releases Picasa 2.7 for Linux
Google has released Picasa version 2.7 for Linux, which promises many of the same improvements of the PC version, including (drum roll, please) uploading and downloading from Picasa Web Albums.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Speed Up Your Javascript Load Time
Users hate waiting, so here are a few techniques you can use to trim down your sites.
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Where's Waldo? Try Using Google Earth
Now a 22-year-old artist, Coles thinks people these days could spend hours poring over Google Earth images looking for things. Why not give them a Waldo to find? She recently made a 2,300-square-foot Waldo and put him on a roof in Vancouver. Now she's waiting for Google Earth satellites to pick him up.
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How To Control Access To Unwanted Websites
In this tutorial I will describe how to control access to unwanted categories of websites, by using URL Blacklist database with SafeSquid Proxy Server.
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Is the Chaos Over? MIT prof Edward Lorenz, dies at 90
Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday. He was 90.
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How to log in as Administrator on any XP machine
This should also be a reminder of an important point for all Windows users, and that's that the Administrator account is really not a good choice for your day-to-day computer use. Duh!!!
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Google paid click rate decelerates (again)
For the third straight month, the number of people clicking on Google ads didn't grow quite as quickly as it has in the past. At least, that's the word from market research outfit comScore.
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F**K SUN: MySQL reserves features for paying customers
Blog posts by some users claim that database vendor is turning its back on open source
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Javascript badges powered by JSONP and microformats
In this article you're going to create a JavaScript badge that can be added to any site and which will display relationship data from a service which exposes it (Twitter, in this particular example.)
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How to Give a Seminar in Your Underwear
Ever have that dream where you wake up, totally unprepared, and have to go to school to take a test in your underwear?
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Mario Kart Wii dumbed down?
Is Mario Kart Wii the first of the classic Nintendo franchises to be dumbed down for the new broader gaming audience?
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Screw Drive 1970s Russian Vehicle
I’ve just found the official Screw Asylum holiday coach. Take a look at these videos of a 1970s Russian all terrain vehicle. Pretty cool hey?
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Anatomy of real-time Linux architectures
It's not that Linux® isn't fast or efficient, but in some cases fast just isn't good enough. What's needed instead is the ability to deterministically meet scheduling deadlines with specific tolerances. Discover the various real-time Linux alternatives and how they achieve real time—from the early architectures that mimic virtualization
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The Planet Express Babydoll
Here at Planet Express, we're always looking for fresh recruits to join our spaceship crew.
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Use the YouTube API with PHP
Process and integrate data from YouTube into your PHP application with PHP's SimpleXML extension
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Math Genius Turned Into a Prostitute
IT’S terrible, but when I read about how Sufiah Yusof, the mathematics prodigy who was admitted to Oxford at the age of 13, has been found prostituting herself in London, the first thing that popped into my head was an old BBC comedy sketch.
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Apple's Greatest Innovations
Everywhere you turn this year, Apple's machines are on the march. Apple's iPhone is continuing to gobble up the smart phone market. Apple's PCs and notebook
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Linux Is No Longer The Cool New Kid On The Block
Linux usage has grown fast over the past several years as the operating system moved from perimeter Web servers to workloads much closer to the heart of the business, while gaining a broad following of contributors and commercial users. But the days of these easy advances may be past.
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Three ways to test Web form input with a CAPTCHA
This article investigates three CAPTCHA applications that you can use on a PHP Web site.
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China learns the price of a few weeks of global attention
In London, a man with a fire extinguisher hurled himself at a torchbearer using what a friend gleefully describes as a "rugby tackle." In Paris, the torch's omnipresent security
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
How to cope when your HDD dies
It's an unpleasant fact of digital life: If you keep your computer long enough, your hard drive eventually will fail. You're wise to recognize that and put a system into place to back up all of your documents and possibly your programs as well. There are a number of things to consider when choosing a hard drive.
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Howto Crack pdf File Password
If you want to crack pdf file passwords use pdfcrack.PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux (other POSIX-compatible systems should work too) tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files. It is small, command line driven without external dependencies. The application is Open Source (GPL).
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Forwarding X11 to OS X
Every now and then I feel the need to spark up an application from my Linux machine and view it on my Mac laptop. The process is quite simple -- I just always forget it and end up trawling through search results for it.
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It's Web 3.0, and Someone Else's Content Is King
The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, two books whose deep reporting, extensive fact-checking and long stories have no digital-world analogs. But with the expensive pursuit of professional content failing to jibe with profitability, media entrepreneurship looks to be reduced to a meta role of repackaging what's already out there.
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How do I… Create a scrolling content box in CSS?
there is an alternative CSS markup that will let you confine large blocks of content to a set width and height and let you scroll through them using a scrollbar control. This gives the effect of viewing content in a frame (remember those?), but the scrolling box stays put on one page and you can place it anywhere in your layout that you wish.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Boeing 787 LEGO-like Building Begins, Kicks Airbus Nuts
The cool thing about the 787 is that it only requires them to put together six big composite parts to build the final airframe and operators don't have to use huge tools and overhead cranes: all the parts can be slid along on the construction floor and put together like giant LEGO pieces.
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Flux Capacitor Available for Sale.
We’re hard at work getting ready for New York Comic Con, but we thought we’d take a short break to share pictures of our upcoming Back to the Future Flux Capacitor Prop Replica!
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NASA probe shoots 3D images of potato-shaped moon
The NASA spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken stunning false-color, three-dimensional images of the small, irregularly shaped Mars’ moon Phobos using its HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.
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Deal: Wii Guitar Hero III Wireless Bundle - $74.99
If you don’t already have a Wii, this game deal is reason enough to get one, assuming they’re in stock.
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Say cheese for the 'smile-o-meter'
THE breadth of a smile can now be measured, thanks to new technology from Japanese electronics and healthcare company Omron.
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Information architecture essentials
One of the most interesting challenges for information architects is the situation in which large, proprietary, widely distributed data stores are necessary to address a specific research question. Learn about the difficulties involved in mining distributed data sources and the strategies that have been developed to address these issues.
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Python Makes Robust Command-Line Tools
An article from IBM's developerWorks site has opened my eyes to the potential of Python for this purpose. The optparse library provides built-in parsing of command-line arguments, with automatic help display and error handling. The subprocess module handles system calls smoothly, and the ConfigParser module parses name=value config files.
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Fundraiser prepares to run marathon as The Iron Giant
Intrepid marathon man and fund raiser, Lloyd Scott is getting ready to run in Sunday's London marathon ... as a nine foot robot.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Lucas takes Star Wars Stormtroopers Granddaddy to Court
Lucas's production company Lucasfilm is suing designer Andrew Ainsworth - who is now selling replicas of the costumes to fans of the film for up to 1,800 pounds ($3,800) - for copyright infringement.
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The Only Roll You Need Is a Novelty Toilet Paper Roll
Have you ever noticed that going to the toilet, although necessary, can be rather boring. Bring some life back to your bathroom with these On-A-Roll novelty toilet papers. Each comes with its own amusing design that will have you cracking up.
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Charlton Heston, dead at 84, left political mark
"Charlton Heston was a complex individual. He lived a long time, and certainly, there were many phases. The phases we prefer to remember were certainly his contributions to Dr. King and civil rights."
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The 10 Geeky Childhood Crushes You Should Never, Ever Admit
We’ve all had the conversation: the subject of embarrassing childhood crushes comes up, and someone blurts out that his introduction to the whole concept of liking girls came from April O’Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We were all dumb kids back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, caught at some intersection of sugary diets, cartoon marathons and pre-pube
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Planning a Semantic Web site
The Semantic Web brings with it the opportunities for users to get smarter search results, and for site owners to get more targeted traffic as users find what they really want. But these benefits don't just magically appear. This article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure you need in place to t
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Don't throw out ActiveX (or Java)
Running a browser without ActiveX enabled can be a frustrating experience for end-users, as many popular and legitimate Web sites use ActiveX to enhance the user's overall experience.
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Can an Apache XMLBeans Help Speed Java Devs on XML?
BEA wants to jump-start the Java community's work on supporting XML standards and dev tools. Concerned that today's Java efforts are moving too slowly, BEA has handed over its internally developed XMLBeans technologies to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
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Devs Using Python to Boost Integration
As Sun and Microsoft both look to embrace scripting languages in web services run by Java and .NET, IDN spoke with IDN spoke with Alex Martelli, the author of O'Reilly's leading books on the topic of Python in the enterprise -- "Python in a Nutshell" and "Python Cookbook."
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Buffer overflow in Python (de)compression module
A hole in the zlib (de)compression module under Python is said to allow attackers to gain control of a system.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
DIY Simple Leather Backpack for the Adventurer Geek
This all suede leather travel pack is a great addition to any adventurers gear. Made from 4-6 ounce suede its flexible and comfortable for the long haul but durable enough for regular use. One of our favorite things about this pattern is its ability to be modified with ease.
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Battlestar Galactica: He That Believeth In Me
Battlestar Galactica returned in beautiful fashion with season 4 episode 3 episode He That Believeth in Me. During the off season of Battlestar Galactica, it was somewhat easy to forget why this show is so awesome. Within 2 minutes of this heart-racing, sit on the edge-of-your-set episode, you’ll get to know why BSG IS…The…BEST!!!
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On Teaching Programming With Python 3.0
In this paper, we explore some of the ways in which Python 3.0 improves on earlier versions of the language for the purpose of teaching programming. We highlight simplification of the type system and object model as improvements of particular significance, along with changes to some of Python's operators and its built-in capabilities for console I/
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How to Find Lost Objects
In this practical yet entertaining work, the Professor shows how to track down anything that’s been misplaced. Keys, cash, documents, jewelry, household items—all can be located with ease, using his method.
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Getting Started with WSGI
What is WSGI, and why should you care? WSGI, or the Web Server Gateway Interface, is a Python Enhancement Proposal (#333) authored by Philip Eby in an attempt to address the lack of standardization among Python web frameworks. Think of it as the servlet spec for the Python world, only simpler.
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Detecting Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
Web application source code, independent of languages and platforms, is a major source for vulnerabilities. One of the CSI surveys on vulnerability distribution suggests that 64% of the time, a vulnerability crops up due to programming errors and 36% of the time, due to configuration issues.
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Game On The PlayStation 3 80010514 Error Debacle
Various sites have started squawking about a new error thrown by fussy PS3's, an error somewhat obliquely referred to as 80010514. It turns out the error's been around for awhile, and that when it happens, it manifests with some pretty broad causal latitude.
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Diggers Digg YouTube, according to Search Engine War Blog
Diggers are more likely to Digg YouTube than any other domain. Using data from SocialBlade.com, MarkeD took a quick look at the last 5,000 front page stories on Digg. YouTube was the top domain, followed by Ars Technica, The New York Times, BBC News, and The Huffington Post.
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Fun with Instant Messaging and Ruby
As we all know, HTTP is the protocol used for communication between Web servers and Web clients (browsers). Similarly, XMPP [1] is a protocol for communication between Instant Messaging (IM) servers and clients. Most of the popular programming languages like C, Java, Python, etc., have XMPP libraries.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Puppeee: Puppy for your Eee PC
The Asus Eee PC ultraportable comes bundled with a version of Xandros as its operating system. If you would like to try a different Linux distro on your Eee, there are plenty of options to choose from, including eeeXubuntu, EeeDora, ZenEee, EeePCLinuxOS, and Puppeee.
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How to Create a Rock-Solid Tagline That Truly Works
Nike said, “Just do it.” Nortel told you to come together. Timex said it takes a licking and keep on ticking. And GE mentioned that it brings good things to life.
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Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
In this interactive tutorial, we'll cover many essential Python idioms and techniques in depth, adding immediately useful tools to your belt.
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Why Google puts privacy second
European regulators sent shock-waves through the search engine industry earlier this week, when they proposed significantly tighter rules for logging data. If the EU adopts the proposed rules, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will have to significantly reduce the amount of time they keep identifying search logs, and will have to start treating IP addres
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4 Ways to Keep Your Public Wi-Fi Secure
In this post, I’ll detail the four most important steps you can take to keep your public Wi-Fi sessions secure, and make some recommendations for free tools you can use, as well as ways you can approach your commonly used applications for optimized security.
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Play the Innov8 game to learn business process management
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to learn the fundamentals of business process management (BPM). Play the strategic IBM® BPM-simulation game, Innov8, in which you focus entirely on BPM activities. Interact with other virtual employees, participating in their daily activities in the fictitious company, After, Inc. In the process, you
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Ajax and Java development made simpler
Build reusable Ajax and Java components based on easily developed JSP tag files.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
You Are Here: Using PHP To Highlight Navigation
When you walk into a mall, one of the first things you come to is a map with a "you are here" indicator that lets you know where you are. On a website, we can accomplish this by higlighting the current location on a navigation bar, menu, or list. Since the primary navigation is the most prominent feature on a website, we will discuss an easy way to
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Free Passes to Google I/O
Google is having their first multi-day developer conference in May. The track descriptions looks great and promise content for developers:
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EMT Paintball Sentry Turret
At the request of many Scenario Game Paintball Enthusiasts and Field owners, the EMT Video Relay Paintball Turret was born. It has gone through 4 revisions from the prototype stage before being offered to the public. Evolving into a fast, accurate and robust design, the EMT Paintball Sentry Turret has far surpassed our expectations.
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Cool Home Pools Compilation
It's official: the days of unimaginative turquoise pools in backyards are truly over. Nowadays, home owners are ditching the traditional look for a much sleeker one.
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AIR + Linux + EeePC
Adobe recently released the first public alpha version of the AIR runtime for Linux on labs. This is great news! I felt compelled to "geek out" with it, and was able to get AIR running on an Asus EeePC, although with a few minor issues.
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How to investigate an online gadget vendor’s reputation
How else could we gloat to the coworkers that we nabbed that low, low price and wouldn’t-you-know-it got free shipping, too?
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In photos: 'Russian Space Shuttle Buran Transported'
Russian space shuttle Buran is transported across the river Rhine on a barge at Wesel, Germany, 07 April 2008. After being shipped from Australia via Bahrain to Rotterdam it now had to cross the River Rhine in order to reach its final destination, the Museum of Technology in Speyer.
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Google Earth Brings UN Refugee Camps Into Focus
Google Earth, the technology that combines Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to give users precise geographic images from around the world, is now being used to show the plight of refugees, with close-up views of United Nations refugee camps and aid projects.
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Hacker != criminal
The media shouldn't use the term hacker for sloppy shorthand for computer criminal.
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'Numerous fixes' get Digg.com back in service
In a blog post this afternoon, Digg's Eli White said that the outage was caused by "known bugs," but he did not elaborate.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Further steps with the Java Sound API
Do you think writing Java to record audio is difficult? It's not. A simple Java sound recorder is easy to code, and editing sound isn't so hard - with the right tools. Stephen B. Morris explores your options.
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Wii-like Remote in Development for Xbox 360
According to MTV News, Microsoft has been working on a Wii Remote-like motion sensitive controller for its Xbox 360 console since last summer, citing an unnamed developer who had been briefed on the controller.
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Firefox Vs. Safari: Small Features Make A Big Difference
Daring Fireball's John Gruber has a fling with Firefox, but comes home to Safari. He praises Firefox's extensions, memory management, auto-restore of closed windows, the way it handles history, and more. But he decides that he prefers Safari because of a laundry list of small features that seem big to him.
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Turkeys go postal on USPS workers
Rather than rain or snow, or even dogs, postal workers in a West Side neighborhood near Owen Conservation Park are being pestered by wild turkeys this spring.
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Dyslexia Differs by Language
Dyslexia affects different parts of children's brains depending on whether they are raised reading English or Chinese.
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Is Java Windows for Unix?
Java is an incredibly successful toolset - but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular?
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Host Your Apps with Google
Tonight at their second CampFireOne Google Code is announcing App Engine, a hosted platform for web developers. The actual service will launch later tonight in a closed Beta. 10,000 developers will be granted access on a first come, first serve basis.
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WTF!!! Pavarotti Lip-Synched Last Performance
Luciano Pavarotti, in severe pain months before his cancer diagnosis, lip-synched his last performance, according to the maestro who conducted the aria at the opening ceremony of the Turin Olympics. The late tenor's manager said Monday the bitter cold made a live performance impossible at the 2006 Winter Games.
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'Simpsons' Yanked for 'Baywatch Hawaii
D'oh! A Venezuelan TV channel has yanked "The Simpsons" off the air because it may be inappropriate for children. Taking its place: "Baywatch Hawaii."
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FREE Blender 3D Tutorials
This course is based on a successful DVD Video. I have decided to re-master the whole course for the web, it is a proven way to learn Blender 3d.
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Sunday, April 06, 2008
10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here--Yet
A high-definition TV you can carry in your pocket. A remote you talk to. A dongle for bringing HDTV broadcasts to your laptop while you're on the go. Sound great? Too bad, because you'll have to cross an ocean to get them.
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Could getting a transplanted heart drive you to suicide?
Terry Cottle committed suicide in 1995,his heart was donated for organ transplant. The recipient was Sonny Graham, who was on the verge of congestive heart failure. 12 years after Graham received Cottle's heart, he committed suicide in the same manner.
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Ten Momentous Moments in DOS History
It started as a humble product called QDOS. It became the most widely-used operating system the world had ever seen. And it's alive and kicking today.
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Planning skills make engineers good 'field operatives'
Engineers' personality traits make them excellent "field operatives"--that is, on--the-ground terrorists, according to an international security expert.
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Make a Cylon Contest
Use whatever you like: blinking lights for eyes, metal armor as a costume, toasters ... anything to show the world that you're a Cylon maker. The only caveat is that it has to be something physical (no Photoshop/art entries)
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10 Things You Can Do to Cheer Yourself Up
Whether you have the winter blues, you're suffering from a disappointment, or you're just feeling a little down, we all have times when we could use a little lift.
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Saturday, April 05, 2008
The Truth About PHP Variables
This article examines how PHP handles passing of variables internally, as well as how this relates to memory usage. This information is very useful for any professional PHP developer as it shows how passing variables by reference will normally result in more (not less) memory being used.
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2010 U.S. Census To Be Done By Pencil, Not Computer
The Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has gone in front of Congress to inform them that the next mandated census of the U.S. population will be done, once again, by pencil and paper.
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Lap dogs make Air Canada their Bitch
Transportation agency overturns airline's ban on small pets as cargo on passenger planes.
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Sam & Max Coming to Nintendo Wii
The Sam & Max series is headed to the Nintendo Wii this fall, with the six episodes of Season One set to ship sometime during late Q3 or early Q4.
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Friday, April 04, 2008
Python Fans Take Aim at the Enterprise
After years in the shadows, the open source Python programming language is becoming increasingly mainstream. There are more users and more tools. Backers of Python now argue that Python is ready for the enterprise.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Have a Baby in Australia and Get a Plasma TV for FREE
Move to Australia and multiply like a rabbit; Lots of sex + plasma TV = great deal.
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One Day of IDLE Toying with Python
This page is meant to help new users of Python who might feel a little disoriented. One question that might come to mind is: ok, we've installed Python... ummm... now what?
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Movie download services bypass discs
Forget DVDs. Several services now let you download movies and play them right on your TV -- no disc needed.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Social Engineering Primer
You can have the best security in the world, but if I can convince one person in the company to give me sensitive information, your security budget has been wasted.” - Kevin Mitnick (2007).
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Employee Jailed for Swiping Co-Worker's Dilberts
A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 23 days in jail after destroying dozens of "Dilbert" cartoons his cubicle mate had clipped from the local Sunday paper and hung around their shared workspace.
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The What, Why, Who, and Where of Python
Learn about Python, the language that wraps itself around a problem to squeeze out a solution, swallowing it whole.
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Nintendo holding back Wii due to weak US dollar?
An interesting, if perhaps somewhat far-fetched, idea has emerged for just why North American gamers are still struggling to find a Nintendo Wii console with the greatest of ease, nearly a year and a half after the innovative console’s launch.
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Ten Epic Halloween Costumes
The use of the word “epic” in the title could mean any of its uses, possibly “awesome”, could be “larger than life”, or it could mean “it’s a long story” as it pertains to these Halloween costumes.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Watchpeanuts: Watchmen as Charles M Schulz drawings
Watchpeanuts is a fantastic concept drawing from Evan of DeviantArt, a graphic answer to the age-old question, "What if Charles Schulz created the Watchmen?"
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