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Weekly Software Wrangle - Week 10

It's time for this week's Software Wrangle. We're featuring several apps this week for you to check out. This week we are featuring new software for WM Standard, Just Tones and Elecont Launcher. Updated software includes Pocket Informant 8 and Extreme Agenda - Your Organizer. Free software is Beyond Pod. WM Professional new software is Message Alerts for WM and MASPware Checklist. Updated software includes Shopping List Deluxe and HiCalc - Your Trusted Calculator. Freeware is MSS Converter
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Walden: a personal view

Jeff Zbar is the Chief Home Officer and creator of Home Office Highway. On his three-week "workation" this summer, he toured the American East to reveal how one entrepreneur can work and play in that place where Vocation Meets Vacation on the open road (learn more at www.homeofficehighway.com). He also found time to visit Walden and send his thoughts about his time there to Shedworking:Almost all writers are work-at-homers. Some, like me, write from an erstwhile bedroom-turned-home office. Other
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Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them?

Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts. My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further: When you put a date on a post you signal to your reader when the post was written. This is useful to readers wanting to make a judgment on how relevant the post is for them at any point of time. It signals to them that a post is
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FamilySearch and Ancestry.com Team to Publish New Images and Enhanced Indexes to the U.S. Censuses

New 1900 Census Images Now Available on Ancestry.com; Volunteer Indexers Sought to Improve the 1920 U.S. Census Index SALT LAKE CITY
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Podcast: Mr. Multi-Core on Pervasive Parallelism

Podcast: Mr. Multi-Core on Pervasive Parallelism In this episode of Semi-Coherent Computing, Ashlee Vance at the Register sat down with Kunle Olukotun to talk about his life, his work and his vision for computing's future: "As head of Stanford's new Pervasive Parallelism Lab, Olukotun is looking to create software tools that will make it easier for programmers to embrace multi-core chips. He and other researchers will focus on building development environments for 3-D worlds, robots and massiv
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Once upon a time...PR with a passionate heart

Isabelle Allende opens her TED talk with a favorite Jewish saying, "What is truer than truth? Answer: The story." Now, isn't that the truth! The longer I practice public relations, the more I realize I was born into this career. Here, I thought I had stumbled into my profession because the university program for museum curatorship was unavailable. No, I was born as a storyteller and this has become my number one asset as a public relations professional. So why isn't storytelling taught in u
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Big Brother is Bluetoothing You

Big Brother is Bluetoothing You - Via TechRadar UK: Secret Bluetooth surveillance study in Bath - CCTV of the mobile age? A controversial new study that uses Bluetooth technology to track UK citizens, without their knowledge, has come under fire from privacy campaigners. The Cityware study - has been set up with the objective "to develop theory, principles, tools and techniques for the design, implementation and evaluation of city-scale pervasive systems as integral facets of the urban land
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Patch management approaches using decent CSM

Following Ayende's post on Patch management approaches using centralized SCM, here are how I would have dealt with the 4 issues that he brings up, using a Decentralised SCM. ? I use git, so I'll use git terms here. I guess it's quite similar for other DSCM systems. ? Note that I haven't used patches on git development as until now all of my git work was on repositories I had write access to, However the principals are the same (i.e. - all of the tree is local to my machine, thus I can reach
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Print Journalism Officially a Crisis, or, Put Your Hand in the Hand of Your Strongest Competitor?

Maybe just to make it all official, a recent study was conducted on the effects that recent layoffs and budgets cuts are having on the country's newsrooms (spoiler alert: it's bad). The study concluded that newsrooms are smaller despite a greater online need for content, there is less foreign news now than there was three years ago (Lara Logan fans will already be aware of this), and there is even less national news (though as New Yorkers one wonders how long it would take for us to notice th
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Bits: Economy Down, but PC Sales Are Up

The worldwide economy may be faltering, but PC sales are in growth mode, according to numbers released Tuesday Apple
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Bits: Venture Financing Drops for Youngest Companies

In an ominous sign, venture capital firms are cutting back on their investments in companies at their earliest stage of development to provide extra financing for later-stage companies.
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Ping: Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

A relatively small number of places
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Novelties: Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot

Robots already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras.
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Media Talk: Protest Blog Aims at Tribune Boss

One problem with managing a bunch of print journalists is that when you fire them, they are still journalists, prone to grumbling about whatever they consider unfair.
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Drilling Down: Ahh, Remember Your First Cellphone?

Teenage boys and teenage girls acquire cellphones differently, according to a recent study by MultiMedia Intelligence.
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Advertising: Reading Device Enlisted to Help French Papers

Through a project called Read & Go (yes, in English), a new device allows users to download the contents of the newspapers over France T?l?com
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News Flash From the Cover of Esquire: Paper Magazines Can Be High Tech, Too

Esquire
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Link by Link: In Egypt, a Thirst for Technology and Progress

In Egypt, where half the population is under 25, there is a thirst for new technology and a chance to escape the backward conditions its young people have been born into.
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The Media Equation: Hey, Friend, Do I Know You?

When a new media winner like Facebook comes over the horizon, who loses? In my case, it
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Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry

In a tale of sales success breeding resentment, computer firms are worried the new breed of computers
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Fallon Will Start

NBC
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My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors

Dr. Arnold Kim
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They Can Hear You Now - Elaine Jones, TechLearning

Over the past few decades, school teachers have been embracing a number of electronic technologies for use in the classroom. Computers are now prevalent; overhead projectors are being replaced with dynamic teaching tools such as data projection, electronic whiteboards, and video media. But one key technology is just beginning to catch up to the others: audio amplification and reinforcement.
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Web 2.0 Project Book

The free Web 2.0 Projects book contains nearly 60 projects using Web 2.0 tools, organised in age groups. The purpose of this booklet is to give some practical ideas about the kinds of things one can do with Web 2.0 technology. This is not intended to be a compilation of projects using cutting edge applications. Freeman invited teachers to share what they have been doing. In many cases the
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Dean

As promised, I
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The burden of public markets and startups. . .

When I was in my twenties I had this secret (not so secret) dream of being the CEO of a publicly traded company.? I imagined standing on the floor of the NASDAQ ringing the opening bell as I took my idea from paper to reality.? I almost did, but that is a story for another time.? That was before Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) freed me from that fantasy. James Freeman from the WSJ asks,
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Jessica Simpson Getting "Fancy" with Her New Perfume

Fans of Jessica Simpson will get two-for-one soon, as she's set to launch her new perfume called "Fancy," to coincide with her debut country music album "Do You Know?" In her advertising she's draped in a pink silk bed sheet, while laying on a bed threading her fingers through her hair. One story says she was inspired by actress and pin-up girl Brigitte Bardot. That's interesting in that the two are probably opposites in their personal views on a lot of things. What I like about it is Simpson
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Links (7/20/2008)

.NET LINQ to SAP Web **** Using jQuery To Call ASP.NET Page Methods and Web Services How To: Call a Java EE Web Service from a .Net Client How To: Call Java EE Web Service from Silverlight Client Time-taken and LogParser for web site statistics ASP.NET:How to write error messages into a text file using a simple httpModule Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership Call Synchronous Web Services Methods Asynchronously Launch Firefox Instead Of Internet Explo
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Create a DVD slide show of jpg files

Do i have the tools in Vista sp1 to create a slide show of jpeg files on a DVD for viewing on a DVD /TV Player?
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Top Design 2: Meet the Designers

Bravo will bring back its terrific interior design competition, Top Design when the second season premieres on Wednesday, September 3 at 10/9c. This season, Todd Oldham will be the mentor to the designers, instead of the host. I think this will be a great change, since he did such a good job of that last season. Top Design will now have a new host, fashion model and design aficionado, India Hicks. Once again, we
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37 Signals Jason Fried speaking July 31

Crispin Porter + Bogusky asked me to post this information here on the blog. You
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So you want to create accessible online video, huh?

This is a short explanation as to what I consider a good way to make online video accessible. I
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iLinkPhone - iPhone Backup To A USB Device

iLinkPhone 1.0 is a free application for OS X, that allows you to backup your iPhone to a USB device. It works on all 2G iPhones with firmware 1.1.4 or 2.0 and requires OS X 10.4 or higher. Make sure you read the instructions on the developers site and inside the application. Technorati Tags: Backup Your iPhone To A USB Device, Best Mac App, Best Mac Apps, Cool Mac App, Cool Mac Application, Cool Mac Applications, Cool Mac Apps, Cool Mac Freeware, Cool Mac Program, Cool Mac Programs,
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Value Creation And New Tech Ventures

I read Paul Graham's list of ideas Y Combinator would like to fund and I couldn't help but come away a little unfulfilled. Paul admits that it's not a complete list but I don't like the way the list has the potential to limit an entrepreneur's frame of thinking. Better dating, better craigslist, better ebay, etc. are all compelling ideas, but they are value capture plays. In my opinion, the big home runs were predominately value creation plays that looked at secular variations and built com
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This Week in Downloads

This Week in Downloads Posted by on July 20th, 2008 Welcome to the first installment of a weekly post to outline updates and changes in the world of WF and WCF materials. As I said in my apologetic post yesterday, most of the updates are in a holding pattern this week, so it
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Track and Visualize Your Work with Personal Task Mangager Free (Open Source) Windows Software Download

Links for this Post: Download Free Personal Task Manager Windows Software Track and Visualize Your Work with PTM.on Life Hacker If you are a window user, you are already used to using the operating systems Task Manager to manage the various tasks running on your computer Now you can use this same familiar interface to manage the tasks in your life. Here is how the popular productivity blog Lifehacker describes the program: Windows only: Free, open source application Personal Task Manage
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4Poyntz Dezign: The hierarchy of customer-centered design

I
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[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Live CD [SEEDERS (4)/LEECHERS (1)]

Patrice Guay announced the release of CentOS 5.2 i386 live CD: 'The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD. This CD is based on our CentOS-5.2 i386 distribution. It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software: openoffice.org 2.3.0, firefox 3.0, thunderbird 2.0.0, pidgin 2.3.1, scribus 1.3.3.2, xchat 2.6.6, k3b 0.12.17, gimp 2.2.13. It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools: memtest86+-1.65, Full set of LVM an
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Inet Software Borrowing Register

I haven
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Hack A Day: HOPE 2008 - Cold boot attack tools released

# tuaw: Pwnage 2.0 released "The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 2.0, thus bringing jailbreak and non-App Store third-party application support to iPhones/iPod Touches running firmware 2.0"
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70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

by Dirk Metzmacher Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results. Of course, beauty-retouching
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BASH Shell Programmierung

synchiropus_splendidus Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh [...]
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Cocktails: What You Need to Know Now

"So what do you do for a living?" you ask a tablemate at a marketing lunch in an upscale hotel. "I'm a cocktail guru," he responds. A cocktail guru? Is that really a job? And if so, how can I get one? The guru's name is actually Jonathan Pogash, and yes, making drinks (or in his case, consulting with high end companies about improved cocktail service) seems an enviable life. Jonathan tells me he learned the trade at the knee of master mixologist, Gary Regan, and began his career at the LeRoy
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[IMG Newspapers]

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source of information on calculating stats

I'm aware that poker tracker and others are good tools for improving your decision making but they are not yet available for Macintosh and not wanting to buy a new machine just to play poker on, I am trying to roll my own tracking system. I'd like to find some definitive guidelines for the calculations for the various stats (vpip pfr agression etc). Most of the sources are rather vague about how to account for various actions. For example vpip is defined as "voluntarily put money in pot" in s
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FREE Podcasting Bootcamp Tuition

FREE Podcasting Bootcamp Tuition Hey there! If you're new here, it'd be great to have you sign up for my RSS feed. If you need a feed reader, you can download one for free here. Thanks for visiting and your comments are welcome anytime. If you
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Links of the Week #45 (week 29/2008)

Development WCF Gotcha 1 - A tip on disposing WCF client instances. WinForms and WPF Interop - Tutorial for devs looking to use WPF but prefer to keep their feet on WinForms. Like me! :) HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST) - "An activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes, given various headers." Threading in C# - Free E-book Restore Notification Area Icon after Explorer Crash Gadgets Samsung Instinct - iPhone competitor
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Amazon S3 service failure is the harshest I

If your net-surfing adventures today have been disrupted by missing images, files failing to download, and other wack borkery, it could be related to the Amazon S3 service failure. Linden Lab and Second Life are affected too, because we host a number of things
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Comic Origins: The Joker [Dark Knight Mania]

Things come better in pairs. What good is T without A? Who would want something that was only new and not improved? What good is a black and white cookie if its just a black or white cookie? That
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HelpNDoc 1.15

MD5: D91782F3CB322C44F86099103E1931ED Information: website Size: 2.27 MB eSnips.com: Download SkyDrive: Download License: Freeware HelpNDoc is an easy to use yet powerful and intuitive tool to create html help files and help web sites. HelpNDoc provides a clear and efficient interface to build the most amazing html help files without worrying about the inner working of help file generation. You just have to enter your text in the built-in word processor and hit the
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Motorguru.com - The Car Consumers Website

What it does Founded by proclaimed professional racing driver Justin Bell and Mark Ramsey, who has plenty of experience and insight after working in Mercedes Benz USA, Motorguru is the new website for car consumers. Motorguru features a video web platform that offers reviews, news and information for everything automotive. It
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MUO Polls: Top 5 Windows Shortcuts you Can

Last week we did a poll on Top 5 Firefox shortcuts. It turned out great, after 550 + votes we had our top 5 shortcuts. The cool part about running such a poll was that it especially helped those users who had never used shorcuts before. Instead of randomly jumping at the long list of shotcuts ,they could see what are the top recommended ones and start with them instead. Today we are extending the top shortcuts idea to Windows. This time, tell us about your favorite Windows shortcuts. So ple
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ATI Moblility 2600 problem

Good Evening Driver Heaven. Greetings 4 everyone:) My problem concerning - Notebook 15,4" Asus :: F3SA-AS133C T8100/2048/250/DVD-RW/VHP + vista home premium with sp1. I prepared ATI desktop drivers according to instruction from Mobility Modder Net (Among others I tested versions 8.5-8.6). The process of instalation proceeded properly; It is worth to note that vista indicated - "Driver is not WHQL certified". After I've had installed new drivers, vista showed
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iRobot Releases Survey on Work-Life Balance

At the BlogHer conference cosponsored by iRobot, our favorite robotics company announced a new survey showing the difficulty families have finding time managing household chores. (I would have thought this would appear in the "duh" category of surveys, a la "Survey shows kids like sugar!") At any rate, 49 percent say they are stressed out by household chores. Here's the company chatter, from a guy I hadn't heard of before, Matt Palma, veep of sales and marketing, who presumably will be speaki
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How Can I Translate Phrases From Hebrew To English?

I have found good online tools for translating from Hebrew to English. There are also numerous Hebrew to English books and Bibles that you can find at...
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Trouble compiling Binutils in LFS step.

I get an error that says no cc (I'm guessing C compiler) is found on my system, when trying to compile binutils. I'm following through the linux from scratch guide, and have a fresh installation of openSUSE 11. binutils is located on another partitions (seperate from my host system.) I'm using the command: CC="gcc -B/usr/bin" ../binutils-2.17/configure \ --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror and the errors i get are: checking for gcc... gcc -B/usr/bin/ checking whether t
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Call for Papers: 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop

Call for Papers: 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop Posted by on July 20th, 2008 http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/escience2008/ The use of computers in scientific research creates challenges even as it expands the realm of the possible. Many of these challenges are common across research disciplines and areas of endeavor. Insights gained in one area of science can act as a catalyst for change and accelerate discovery in many others. This cross-disciplinary workshop will bring toget
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Web 2.0: A Movement Within The Health Community

Dr Iain Doherty (Director, Learning Technology Unit; Faculty Medical and Health Sciences; The University of Auckland) published a fantastic and comprehensive article in Health Care and Informatics Review?Online about web 2.0 and health. And Scienceroll was mentioned: Web 2.0: A Movement Within The Health Community Pedagogy 2.0 and Health Education Medical and Health Science students are now utilising Web 2.0 tools. For example, undergraduate students in health, medicine and nursing have us
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Palm Treo 800w has been Officially Released

Sprint has released new Palm Treo 800w packed with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system. Palm was for long time the king of Personal Digital Assistants that eventually began to be replaced by powerful handheld devices running with operating systems other than Palm OS, forcing the company to develop new devices from which Palm Treo has been challenging with other contenders in the market. Palm Treo 800w is still considered a PDA with phone capabilities by purists who have tried most
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Monitor Your Hardware Temperature With HWMonitor

With many innovations being made to today
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computer management wont start!

As the title says Computer management in Administrative tools refuses to start. I double click on the icon and it comes up with the UAC popup i click yes and then nothing happens. i tried it like a half hour ago and still nothing. someone please help!:confused:
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Scientists: Humans and machines will merge in future

At a recent Global Catastrophic Risk Conference, experts discussed what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens. Transhumanists, according to Bostrom, anticipate an era in which biotechnology, molecular nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence and other new types of cognitive tools will be used to amplify our intellectual capacity, improve our physical capabilities and even enhan
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Pick No. 1 is trip to the zoo by boat

Pick No. 1 is trip to the zoo by boat Jaguars training camp schedule Hard work ahead First Coast Games get workers fit Injury to Porter not major issue Depositors have options to make sure their money is insured Mayor's high-priced lobbyists an extravagance New Town: A new beginning Ed Gamble: Take our city back! Wayne Ezell: Readers help police comments Transfer students won't be prepared Ed Gamble: Caption contest: Gas prices make it to pets Guest column: Mayor declares war on crime,
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Table Talk

This photo from last year
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Proto.in goes?north

The fourth edition of Proto.in (the famous product showcase and networking unconference )was held at IIT Delhi on 18th and 19th of July. As one of the compeers jokingly said, Delhi was chosen to remove the madrasi tag associated with the past Proto conferences. Day 1 I entered the Seminar Hall a few minutes late on the first day and the punctuality startled me. Kiran Karnik, the President of NASSCOM was already midway through his speech saying, how there
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Dear Hugh Martin, why didn

Hugh Martin of APN Online has commented on the ongoing artificial journalist vs. blogger thing. His post seeks to establish him as both experienced professional journalist and experienced
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How to start your first website (eBook)

How to Start Your Own Website How to start your own website ebook Ever wanted to start your own website? Many say that making a successful website is impossible nowadays. Well, they are wrong. I did not say it is a peace of cake, but with the right tools, knowledge and off course patience, you too can start an online business that will bring you money and a lot of visitors. In this ebook I have written all you need to know in order to start your first successful website. Here you will f
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40+ Greatest Web Interface Design Tutorials [Photoshop Tutorial]

Whether you kick off a web interface design by sketching on papers or blank Photoshop canvas, it
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118forex.com---Forex trading mistake, Forex psychology

The foreign exchange (Forex) market is a market where crowd of intelligent and novice Forex traders, reading the same Forex news and market material, using the same analysis forecast technique, abide the transaction rule and procedure, playing the game of Forex trading. As for the majority Forex traders, their situation is always on the more disadvantageous side. Limited experiences, most novice Forex traders have to pay large amount of "tuition fee" for Forex trading mistake that they made
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One state gets aggressive with affordable housing

During the housing boom of 2001 through 2006, one group of people was constantly ignored: Those buyers who could only purchase affordable housing. As housing prices rose to record levels across the country, it was getting more difficult for many hard-working people to be able to afford a home. Even during the housing slump, in which houisng prices have steadily dropped in many areas of the country, it
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Software to defeat Disk Encryption released

You might remember the research paper published by the Center for Information Technology Policy at the University of Princeton that described how disk encryption could be defeated by taking a snapshot of the system memory and analysing that memory for data and keys. I covered the Defeating Disk Encryption story here at Ghacks in February) The developers of the application have released the software, or more precisely the source code, that they have created for their research paper which can be
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25 Great Web 2.0 Resources You (Perhaps) Never Heard Of

So, we are in the era of everything being web 2.0, and I don
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Clearing up Confusion

Clearing up Confusion Posted by on July 20th, 2008 There has been some confusion and a few mixed messages coming out of Microsoft since the release of StyleCop, most notably around extensibility support for the tool, and licensing. We
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Second category winner of the System Center Solutions Contest - SDK Connector Tool for OpsMgr 2007

Second category winner of the System Center Solutions Contest - SDK Connector Tool for OpsMgr 2007 System Center Virtual User Group Weblog: Congratulations to our second category winner, for the Command-line or Web-based Tools category, Vicent de Vries, who submitted the SDK Connector Tool for System Center Operations Manager 2007. You can download the SDK Connector Tool for System Center Operations Manager 2007 at http://www.systemcenterusergroup.com/files/folders/contest/entry117.aspx | 20
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Musing about lifestreams, subscribe-aggregation and publish-aggregation

For years I
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You suck at Photoshop #4 - Paths and Masks

In this tutorial, Donnie shows the uses of Path tools and Layer Masks in selecting an object out of an image and inserting it into another image (basically the elegant way of changing and object
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Comparing Tactics Of WTO Negotiations To Nazis

Comparing Tactics Of WTO Negotiations To Nazis The headlines all sound like everyone is so shocked that Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, made a comment which is true. He said that certain tactics employed by certain governments negotiating in the Doha trade round reminded him of the sort of things Nazis did. What
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Where did WordPress go wrong?

About a year ago, I was introduced to WordPress as an alternative to Blogger, and it was an attractive alternative - simple to use, and if you needed help, it was straightforward to figure out. Another thing that was beautiful about WordPress was that it was small - just about 1 meg to download and install on your server. Something else that I thought they were good at, at least at one point in time, was backwards compatibility - i.e. a new version would come out and the immediately previous
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The fraud

Fraud - Hackers, crakers, spam and other pirates There are several kinds of fraud, whose goals are different, but equally damaging consequences. The first is a kind of games, challenge for small (or grandparents) of the computer geniuses who
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I Want A New Image

One of the problems in starting up logs with students is that they want to inserts images and they don
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Gaming and Widgets: The Perfect Team

Similar to any relationship, complementing one another would be the key ingredients to the success of anything. Now this does not solely limit itself towards people, it happens in the world of business and technology itself. For a business to flourish, it needs the cooperation of various sections that make it successful. In this case, the gaming world will only be successful with the support of proper channeling to draw in the ones who will be endorsing them. In the case of games brought to
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S14 PSA for July 2008

Knives don't kill people - people do. Grey hair is really white - it's just white man's scheme to make all things white good. It is beauty at it's finest when music is created inexpensively with existing tools. The best gun cocking scene ever in a movie has got to be Amon Goeth's gun jam in Schindler's List. I think the late Gene Siskel would agree with me. I know, you're asking - "but salty, what about the best beach scene of all time?" - well, lets break it down to Heaven and Hell
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Is Flash Getting Too Complicated?

As I
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Unlock and Jailbreak iPhone 3G (Download Pwnage Tool 2.0)

The iPhone Dev Team has finally released one of the most awaited iPhone hacking tools of this year i.e. Pwnage Tool 2.0. This tool is specially meant for users who want to unlock/jailbreak their new iPhone 3G and also for users who want to unlock/jailbreak their iPhone 2G or iPod Touch on Firm ware 2.0 As of now the Pwnage Tool 2.0 only works on a Mac and supports the following devices and firmwares: iPhone (1st Gen) with 2.0: Activated, Unlocked & Jailbroken, (with support for thir
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Quick Optimizer

Quick Optimizer is an easy tool to clean and optimize your Windows System. Quick Optimizer is a fast, powerful utility software that speeds up your system, giving you maximum performance. It includes innovative tools for the Internet.
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Windows: Set up symbols for debugging

In our post
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Twids for 2008-07-19

simian is a real word and some of them have tails. # http://tinyurl.com/6o2opy - Boyd
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Twitter Talks for 2008-07-19

Holy shit
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Wordpress 2.6 and Firestats

Wordpress 2.6 was released late last week, so I updated my test blog to check that everything worked before updating my live blogs. The upgrade was straight forward and all my plugins activated without any apparent issue. However, when I checked my stats, the page wouldn
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A food diary can shock you

Remember that episode of Seinfeld when Jerry and company put on weight even though their yoghurt was "low fat"? Discovering the true calorie count of a favorite food can shock you away from it, and may even kick start your weight loss. 4 Ways a Food Diary Can Help You Lose Weight - US News and World Report reports: "It's eye opening. In fact, some people will be so shocked at how many calories are in their thrice-daily Coke that the 'aha' moment will make going on an actual diet unnecessary
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Video DVD Maker Free

Video DVD Maker is easy software? for mastering DVD disks from your own home-made videos right out of the box. Also with this program you can capture video from a TV tuner, a web camera, a DV camcorder, or any other video device. You can save the captured data as an uncompressed AVI file, or use one of the compression methods to save it in the format you want. In addition to the video devices, you can import video from video files in different formats, including AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV,
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Hyper-V: CoreConfigurator tool discontinued

Guy Teverovsky reports the discontinuation of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V CoreConfigurator (or read here) tool and the corresponding download of the tool is not working anymore. He explains that:
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GMap for FSX (Garmin Edition) Released!

FSWidgets has released a third edition of the GMap for FSX freeware moving map system. This latest incarnation of GMap - the Garmin Edition - utilizes a Garmin 530 background or
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Optical Networking Systems IP Management Solutions (Digital Short Cut)

Optical Networking Systems (ONS) is a group of optical products from Cisco providing backbone transport, metro access, and wavelength division services. Effective management of these ONS devices requires careful planning and design and clear understanding of the characteristics of the devices and the tools and options that are available. ONS IP management is a complex subject [...]
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New Technolgy Breakthrough: Car Runs On Water

by Hillary Clear A water powered auto. is finally something that is achievable. In the past several years, a number of great programs have been created allowing water to be used along with gas as energy. This means huge savings at the gas pump and a cleaner environment by cutting down on emissions. Today, fuel costs way too much. The result is people are looking for ways to save money or get better gas mileage. With the announcement that there is now a way to run a car on water, it has receive
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OutTwit

Twitter is an interesting phenomenon. I first started using it in April at the MVP Summit. Since then, as anyone who is following me has seen, my use has been intermittent at best. The biggest reason is that I haven
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Little Jet Set: Stuff for Traveling Kids

There are a gazillion of travel websites out there for various destinations and all types of travelers, but being a mom of two little travelers, I
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SWAT Summit: What went down

The SocialCash team and I are camped out in SFO for a bit, so we wanted to give everyone a quick debrief from the SWAT Summit yesterday. Here
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Goals that Motivate and Inspire

It
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Hacking for Dummies

In order to stay up to date with the latest and greatest ethical hacking tools and resources, you have to know where to turn to. This Web page contains my favorite security sites, tools, resources, and more that you can also benefit from in your ongoing ethical hacking Download Here
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NE Portland Tool Library Now Open!

The Northeast Portland Tool Library is a lending library of tools. Yes, a library. If you live in NE Portland and need a tool, a form of ID is all that is required to check one out. Then, when you are finished, simply return the tool. How cool is that? The tool library is located in the garage in the church parking lot at NE 20th and Killingsworth and they open on Saturday, July 19th. A lot of details are still being worked out and, of course, volunteers, donations and the like are always welc
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How To Turn Off Auto Update In Firefox

Firefox has this bad habit of checking for update for the browser,search engines and the installed addons.And if found any Firefox installs the update for you in the background which obviously retards the performance of your browser.It may come up with this just at the wrong time when the last thing you want is a browser update.This a tutorial on how to turn off this habit of firefox and enjoy peace of mind. 1.Click Tools 2.Options 3.Go to Advanced 4.Click on Updates 5.Uncheck all the boxes be
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Bandai Smart Berry to Train Next Generation of Female Executives [Toys]

Bandai Smart Berry to Train Next Generation of Female Executives [Toys] Saturday, 19 July 2008 1:17 P GMT-06 Little girls in Japan will get their chance today to act out their fantasies of being American corporate tools, thanks to Bandai's new mobile communicator
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Teaching and sharing are an important part of any career

Teaching and sharing are an important part of any career By Douglas E. Welch Listen: Teaching and sharing are an important part of any career Subscribe to Career-Op Podcast Email: Visit this group In the past, you might have been told to jealously guard the secrets to your success and only give away as much information as it took to achieve your goals. Each piece of information you had, that someone else lacked, gave you a bit more power
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My garden

When Mudmama came to visit last month she totally cracked me up by saying
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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: How to Invest Like a Pro

Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: How to Invest Like a Pro Cramer discusses how to avoid five amateur mistakes. Tickers in this article: NONE Earnings Watch Laurie Kulikowski Citi Earnings Beat Spurs Optimism (Update2) The bank shed $2.5 billion, driven by $7.5 billion in writedowns. 2008-07-18 16:54:03.0 Google Could Catch a Cold From the Economy Analysts say the company might be vulnerable to the downturn in the economy. 2008-07-18 13:36:25.0 H
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So What

Responding to my previous post, On Two-Year Olds Walking to Church, one reader dismissed my conservation ethic as
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oliverg's list of Twitter Tools

OK, some of them, are annotated in German, but here is my always growing list of Twitter Tools, Gadgets and Meta-Apps- enjoy. If you wanna suggest some tools: Feel free to comment. (And mention your Twitter ID pls ) twitter tools
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LiquidID.net - Protective Aliases for OpenID Accounts

What it does If you want an OpenID provider that gives you email aliases so that websites don?t have your private email information, LiquidID is the perfect provider for you. LiquidID is an extension of OpenID in that it provides protection against abuse of your email and works with OpenID accounts such as Springnote, LiveJournal, WikiTravel and others. LiquidID provides different aliases to the different OpenID enabled sites so that if your email address becomes compromised, LiquidID will rej
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The iPhone Cover Nobody Saw Coming

The iPhone Cover Nobody Saw Coming Gary Krakow demonstrates what he calls one of the best ways to protect the new iPhone 3G: Zagg's Invisible Shield. It's a super-strong, thin, flexible covering made from plastic originally developed for the U.S. military. Don't Miss Coming Week: Never-Ending Earnings Jim Cramer's Best Blogs This Week on TheStreet.com TV Citi Propels Dow Higher, but Nasdaq Dives Energy Funds Tumble Along With Oil in Week How to Play Social Technologies Fredd
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Free Tools and Wallpaper

Free Tools and Wallpaper Posted on 07.19.08 by The Mommy Blogger @ So, I went to the site Typhoon Tools and I was impressed with the site. It is very user friendly and very well organized so I very easily browsed through the site looking through it and finding things that I could benefit from
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Keyword Research - SEO Management Step One

by Terry Stanfield Keyword research is a discipline embraced and used in SEO management by experts to allow them to determine which search terms people are searching on in the search engines. At its simplest level, this research is about studying the phrases that work for your audience and it is a real art. It is one of the most effective ways to identify niche markets that others have failed to recognize. Keyword research is very important so that the content of the pages are more attractive a
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Happy Birthday He-SaysShe-Says....Click Contests!!

Happy Birthday He-SaysShe-Says....Click Contests!![ 0 comments - 9 reads ] [ More in News Section ] Last 10 Forum Threads been paid by Adstab! New Payment Processor Added - Alertpay Support for 01Clix BeenPaid Welcomes Member #9000 Welcome 01Clix Server not found for My-PTR Gold Member in Adpaid Been paid by Anything-Goes wondering BeenPaid Forums [ Add Link | New | Popular | Top Rated | Random ] Links Main Categories
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Oracle Distributed Systems

Any organization that uses the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS) these days needs to use multiple databases. There are many reasons to use more than a single database in a distributed database system: Different databases may be associated with particular business functions, such as manufacturing or human resources. Databases may be aligned with geographical boundaries, such as a behemoth database at a headquarters site and smaller databases at regional offices. Two different
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Veterans Medical Claims denied to reduce backlong numbers.

If you TAKE THE TIME to read the 'talking points' and careful research in the links, you will have to agree with us Combat Veterans about our ill treatment, and rough, discourteous, rude behavior from the VA system [hospitals, etc., and Gov't] that we must go thru every time we deal with those liars! They hope that we would just curl up and die, so this issue of Agent Orange would die with us !! And yes, our Vietnam Vets are dropping like flies these days. Now you all know why we have l
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A Generation Of Indignant Butter-Butts

Many of the issues that our culture collectively wrings its hands over and wails about today, on a comprehensive scale, can be tied directly to the rise of the self-centered behemoth that is 'The Boomer Generation', its coming of age and the rise of it's influence on the Nation. This is not to say that I'm assigning all the ills and angsts of past, present and future to a single Generation; but I can't help but notice some patterns
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Tweets for 2008-07-18

Mygallons.com folded after being open only 17 days!! # Ugh, I can
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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-18

@truejerseygirl I know you
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Listen To The Wisdom Of Your Network

Thanks to everyone who helped me demonstrate the power of personal learning networks for my presentation yesterday. Your comments, tips and advice were THE essential part of my presentation because I wanted to demonstrate a personal learning network in action to show how it extends our learning and reflection beyond what is normally achieved during traditional professional development and enables us to share our learning with global educators. The aim of this post is to show how I used yo
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Will venture capital keep flowing and when will new exits appear?

I visited several venture capital firms in Silicon Valley this week and also met the CEOs of a number of VC-funded companies. Not surprisingly, much of the talk was about the climate and outlook for venture capital, which is the spigot from which much of Silicon Valley drinks. The MoneyTree Survey of venture capital, summarized in GigaOm , shows that total VC investments in the second quarter were basically flat over the last year or so, however with a slight continuing decline in early-stage
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How to track commercial spy satellites over Sri Lanka

nIKONOS2 imaging satellite (orbital path and overfly times in the screen grab below ) is one may commercial
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Dropping the Dime

Everyone has a cell phone, or one of those handheld combination cell phone and wireless everything else things, so payphones have disappeared. AT&T got out of the business. Have you seen a phone booth lately? There are none. Poor Superman
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That Better Not Be What I Think It Is

Jill: Jack, what
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Gujarat cardiologist

Kathvada, July 19 (IANS) A practising cardiologist for 25 years, Dinesh Patel spends long hours cultivating grain, fruit and plants in his organic farm on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Multitail - view multiple logfiles windowed on console

MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of 2 or even more logfiles is possible. It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles (through regular
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A SINGLE STEP

Therapy has been good for me. It hasn't been easy, but it has been good. It has given me the tools and knowledge to connect the dots with my past and present. Some things were easier to talk about than others. Some topics I ignored. Some I paid lip service to, basically wasting my time. The issue that has been the hardest to deal with was rape.(It just took me about 5 minutes to type that last word). For many years I refused to even say or use the word as it applied to me. Dr M warned me when I
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Best Beauty Tools on a Budget: Reader Advice

Best Beauty Tools on a Budget: Reader Advice July 18, 2008 07:00 PM While we're all about focusing on natural beauty, sometimes a girl just needs a little help to look her best, in the form of some kind of tool that heats, dries, straightens, cleanses, trims, shaves, exfoliates . . . well, the list goes on. If you've ever set foot into a beauty supply store you know you could spend a small fortune on an arsenal of beauty tools, but you didn't really want to pay off those college loans anyway
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Pentagon

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency has been reaching out to a wide range of companies to learn about their IT approaches, including the use of cloud computing.
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Large Yahoo Shareholder Backs Board

Yahoo got a show of support on Friday from one of its biggest shareholders for its efforts to defend itself against a proxy fight by the activist investor Carl C. Icahn.
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To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click

A number of retailers are experiencing double-digit sales growth on their shopping Web sites at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree.
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Bits: There

A new service says it will pay for your new iPhone if you hand over your old one. But there are better deals to be had elsewhere, thanks to unusually strong demand for the used phones.
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Bits: Wii Remote, Take Two

The new Wii MotionPlus is essentially an upgrade to the motion control mechanism of the Nintendo Wii, and will work with a new generation of games.
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Bits: Economy Down, PC Sales Up

The worldwide economy may be faltering, but PC sales are in growth mode, according to numbers released Tuesday Apple
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Pick and Place Unit suits mid- to high-volume SMT assembly.

Optimized for speed and flexibility, Hi Output Line features Cognex® flying vision-controlled MC683 conveyorized dual gantry system with 2 heads that pick as other 2 simultaneously place with repeatable accuracy of ±0.01 mm. Off-line loadable plug-and-play modular smart feeder trolley facilitates changeovers, while 10,500 cph placement speed promotes throughput. Automated, turnkey solution also includes automatic inline stencil printer, 8-zone reflow oven, and pass-through conveyor. This story is related to the following:
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Compact Ball Screw is optimized for high speeds.

SBK Ball Screw employs THK Caged Technology, which promotes smooth operation as well as long-term, maintenance-free operation while also preventing collision noise between balls. Recirculation structure, where balls are picked up in tangential direction, and lead-angle direction by end caps makes this product suited for high-speed operation at DN value of 130,000. Models are available with screw shaft ODs from 15-32 mm and nut diameters from 38-58 mm. This story is related to the following:
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Rubber Belt Tumble Blaster effeciently prepares metal parts.

Designed for cleaning metal parts, 24RTB model can also performs deburring, descaling, peening, and surface preparation prior to or after other processes. This 24 ft³ machine is built from ½ in. steel plate with welded construction and includes air-operated door. Replaceable manganese alloy drum heads and liners, strategically positioned inside cabinet, absorb brunt of impact from abrasives. Options include automated cycles, loaders, and conveyor systems. This story is related to the following:
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Twin Turret Chucker provides 4-axis ID/OD diameter cutting.

Suited for medium to high-volume production, Model PBS-300TT features rigid box way construction and 3-axis dual hand gantry robot offering carrying capacity of 6.6 + 6.6 lb and conveying diameters up to 7 x 4.7 in. Robot controller facilitates simultaneous multi-axis movement to access front, back, left, and right of traverse axis. Operating at max spindle speed of 3,000 rpm, chucker generates 20 hp at spindle motor. Fanuc 320i-A CNC with decimal positioning control is standard. This story is related to the following:
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Index-Type Machine performs secondary operations.

Used for drilling, reaming, tapping, and threading operations, machine employs geneva motion index table featuring 6, 8, or 12 stations with air, electric, or hydraulic drive. Parts requiring consecutive follow-up operations can readily be tooled to this basic system. Horizontal and vertical drilling and tapping heads are available in sizes from ½-2 hp, with spindle thrust from 300-2,500 lb. Fully mechanical clamping mechanisms automatically open/close fixtures during table index. This story is related to the following:
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Screw Inspection Machine detects, sorts out malformations.

Incorporating continuous or index-dwell rotation of part transfer disc, PACE CCD Camera and Vision Analysis Sorting and Inspection Machine delivers 100% detection of malformed threads of headed parts. Normal inspection for shank length, thread no-thread, head height, grooves, and pilot dimension are run in conventional continuous rotation mode, while index-dwell mode provides 360° rotation of part. During latter, 8 synchronized shots are taken of thread area and other features. This story is related to the following:
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Honing Systems produce precise geometry in part bores.

Featuring spindle alignment that exceeds DIN 8635 standards for vertical honing machines, VSS Series 2 Single Stroke® Honing machines are suited for precision sizing of bores 0.149-2.0 in. dia in stamped parts. They incorporate up to 6 spindles to progressively size and finish part bores with tools of preset diameter and grit size. Units utilize belt-drive spindle cartridge with 28.5 in. stroke and 2-250 ipm stroking speed for flexibility with variety of parts and tooling combinations. This story is related to the following:
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Thread Verification Module checks threads successively.

Designed for use in inspection of internal/external threads in production parts, TVM-SC Thread Verification Module checks thread size, depth, and quality by powering gage probe into and back out of thread. Models are available with torque from 10-250 in.-oz, for inspecting threads from M3 to M50. Suited for applications where there can be variety of part types and thread sizes, unit meets both high and low volume demand, and offers GO gaging, NO GO gaging, and combination gaging. This story is related to the following:
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Waterjet System suits large scale precision machining.

Measuring 265 x 152 in., Model 80X JetMachining® Center has Intelli-TRAX traction drive that enables expansion of cutting envelope to 20 ft. It features X-Y travel of 165 x 80 in., Intelli-MAX® Software, programmable motorized Z-axis with precision MAXJET® 5 Nozzle Assembly, high pressure direct drive pump, and rapid water level control for submerged cutting. System can calculate velocity of tool path at over 2,000 points/in., enabling complete control over motion of abrasivejet. This story is related to the following:
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Pentagon's IT unit seeks to adopt cloud computing

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency has been reaching out to a wide range of companies to learn about their IT approaches, including the use of cloud computing.
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DealBook: Big Yahoo Shareholder to Support Current Board

Bill Miller, the portfolio manager at Legg Mason whose funds hold a large stake in Yahoo, said that he would vote its shares in favor of electing Yahoo
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MTN and Reliance Fail to Strike Telecom Deal

South African mobile phone group MTN and India
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Automate Backups on Linux

Automate Backups on Linux Posted in News - Comments Off July 18th, 2008 by admin If you use Linux, you already have access to extremely powerful tools for creating custom backup solutions. The solutions in this article can help you perform simple to more advanced and secure network backups using open source tools that are part of nearly every Linux distribution.
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Build 83: Return of IRC, New Facebook support, and more.

Build 83 features some massive new features for Trillian Astra, including official IRC and Facebook support with a few additional improvements to the user interface.? As always, we
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Horizon Christian Fellowship & Pastor Bob's Sermons!

I received an email from one of my billiards buddies asking me for my personal thoughts on family life. I was quite surprised with the subject heading of his letter
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A Map to Destinations Uncrawled

As part of what we
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Xootr Swift Folding Bicycle - Blue/Silver

We now are selling folding bicycles. Yep you heard right bicycles that fold. No more worrying about bike racks or parts or tools. All you need to fold the bike are your two hands, that
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Tour de Dope by Aynimated Rand

As a point of full disclosure, I ride a lot
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iPhone App Avalanche 1

Beginning last Friday, it
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Citi Propels Dow Higher, but Nasdaq Dives

Citi Propels Dow Higher, but Nasdaq Dives As tech stocks like Google, AMD and Microsoft fall, IBM is one positive for technology. Citi climbs. Frank Curzio recaps the action in The Real Story (above). Don't Miss Mad About Options: Mastering MasterCard Airlines Scale Back, Slowly Google Could Catch a Cold From the Economy Downey Plummets Ahead of Weekend The iPhone's Best Business Tools 3 Stocks I Saw on TV Financial Winners & Losers: Citi Freddie Eying Bigger Capital Raise
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World Economic Outlook Update

The IMF released an update to its World Economic Outlook report yesterday. The headlines: "The global economy is in a tough spot, caught between sharply slowing demand in many advanced economies and rising inflation everywhere, notably in emerging and developing economies. Global growth is expected to decelerate significantly in the second half of 2008, before recovering gradually in 2009." No surprises there ..... Growth for the USA in 2008 likely to be 1.3% on an annual-average basis, h
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Shop Socially Across the Web with Fling it Girl

Fling it Girl is a new social bookmarking and shopping site aimed at the Web-savvy consumer crowd (the site is pink and has
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The Logitech MX 610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse

The Logitech MX 610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse
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glibc compile problems

keep getting errors like this when trying to compile glibc host glibc is 2.6.1, so this glibc is for the LFS system. gcc -B/tools/bin/ ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S -c -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -D__LIBC_INTERNAL_MATH_INLINES -I../include -I/mnt/linux/sources/glibc-build/math -I/mnt/linux/sources/glibc-build -I../sysdeps/i386/elf -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../nptl/sysdeps/pt
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Monitor110: A Post Mortem

Turning Failure into Learning Writing a post mortem is hard, particularly when the result is failure: a failed deal; a failed investment; a failed concept. That said, without a post mortem, without deep reflection, honesty and introspection, how can we get better and do better the next time? Quite simply, we can't. My involvement with Monitor110, as an investor, Board member and leader, was one of the most interesting and informative experiences of my life. I learned about areas I never dreame
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Forrester Report: Best And Worst Of Social Network Marketing, 2008

It
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Binsor : The Castle Windsor XML Configuration Killer

As you might have noticed from my previous post, I
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"Mad Men" to BlogHer: 40 Years of Women's Rights

So I'm sitting here in a large, mostly empty ballroom at BlogHer2008 at the Westin St Francis with @Geekmommy and @MariaNiles, watching Erin Kotecki Vest participate in an Oovoo video stream with some participants from Netroots Nation, which is taking place in Austin. Technologically, it's a disaster: the audio sounds like everyone's in a nightclub at 3 AM on drugs or underwater in a diving suit, and the video freezes and wavers. But the audacity of trying to live-stream these kinds of commu
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the new GNOME duality

Havoc mentioned that he had talked to me about the emerging GNOME duality after coming back from GUADEC. He also suggested that I post something about it. I
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Heat Me USB Coffee Warmer

If you don
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Drill-Powered Mini Bike

If the mowercycle seems like too much work, how about using power tools? This bike is powered by a cordless drill! It will carry up to 250 pounds at about 15 miles per hour, and has a range of 2-6 miles, depending on the drill. Link -Thanks, SenorMysterioso!
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Football Stars Sign Seven-Figure Deals

Football Stars Sign Seven-Figure Deals Posted Jul. 18, 2008 8:17 am by Jim Callis Filed under: Signings Two of the best football players in the 2008 baseball draft signed for seven-figure bonuses on Thursday. The Red Sox landed first-round pick Casey Kelly for $3 million, while the Nationals inked second-rounder Destin Hood for $1.1 million. Both players will have their bonuses spread over five years under MLB
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The Definition of "Unified Communications" (Revisited)

The other day I wrote a post about unified communications, and how I feel the term "Unified Communications" (UC) is in danger of becoming too fuzzy to be practically useful. While anecdotal evidence suggests that the term is gaining momentum at incredible speed, I noted that its definition seems to be becoming muddied in direct correlation with its popularity. Don Price does a good job of summing up my view on this topic: "It is interesting and I tend to agree in a perverse way [that] just ab
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Gspace stores data in the cloud with your unused Gmail capacity

Last time I checked, I had roughly 6939.765312 megabytes of storage for my Gmail. No wait, it's 6939.765328... er, 6939.765341. OK, I give up since it increases every second. Let's try this again. Last time I checked, I had close to seven gigabytes of storage for my Gmail. I only use a quarter of it, so why not gain some free storage space for data? There's a number of tools out there to do this, but Joel turned me on to the Gspace extension for Firefox so I could keep everything integrated
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Venture Capital Loves Virtual

Startups selling virtual goods and offering virtual experiences are raking in the venture capital these days. Perhaps it
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How to Delete Internet History and Search History from Internet Explorer, Safari, IE7, Firefox and Google Toolbar

For any number of reasons, you may want to know how to delete Internet history from your computer. Oh sure, there are lots of questionable reasons, like you don
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How to Build Your Online Brand

This is a guest post written by Chris Brogan, who blogs about social media for business at chrisbrogan.com. There are only so many hours in a day, and you
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ShoeMoney Tools Preview

A lot of people have been asking about the ShoeMoney Tools system, so I put together video showing a couple of the tools: Obviously at this stage we are purely focused on functionality and not so much about design/interface.? We will be accepting some beta testers this week so if you interested please submit your name on the form on the site.
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Maybe They Wised Up?!

Investment News writer Darla Mercado reported that fixed and variable annuity sales by banks fells 4% in April and that for the third consecutive month, fixed annuities out sold variable. She quoted Jackson National Life Distributors, LLC as blaming the decline and the change in the mix of sales on
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EasyTweets.com - Tweet in Multiples

What it does Communication worldwide has never been easy. Thanks to the power of the internet and Web 2.0 technologies, users in Ghana can have a chat with, say the entire Swiss army. You can video conference, buy, sell, blog, and thanks to the phenomenon that is Twitter, you can microblog every minutia of your life via Tweets. EasyTweets is a new Twitter application that takes advantage of microblogging and leverages it for use on multiple platforms. Essentially, with EasyTweets, which is aim
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Judas of Cantabury

The Marxists who control the State are systematically working towards the destruction of Great Britain, its way of life, and the removal of Christianity as the central faith within our Nation because it is a stumbling block towards their Marxist master plan which is a Totalitarian Nanny State where those few in power control every area of our daily lives like under communism just a different form for a different era. They are working towards the implementation of the Islamic religion as a domin
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Something for the Weekend

It has been a busy week for Google Maps Mash-ups. Here are few maps to tide you over the weekend: Two UK Entertainment Guides and a 007 Map: SoGlos SoGlos.com have produced a hugely impressive map for the county of Gloucestershire in the UK. The map geo-tags over 3,000 restaurants, theatres, nightclubs, pubs and cinemas in the county. You can filter the results on the map by selecting specific layers to view. Family Activity Planner The Daily Telegraph newspaper in the UK have produced a hu
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Social Web: Blogging Constant Change

I
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Creative ways to leverage Twitter.

Creative ways to leverage Twitter. Posted on: July 18th, 2008 by Matt Tharp Social media is a phenomenon. No one will argue with it
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Lessons from WALL-E

As the father of an (absolutely adorable) baby girl, I don't get to go to the theater much. Though I hope my little girl doesn't grow up too fast, I'm looking forward to the time when I can take her to the movie and not have to worry about whether she can sit through the entire thing. As such, I've never seen Pixar's latest movie, WALL-E, but today I read an interesting review that got me thinking about the way today's Web tools allow us to communicate without the closeness that personal cont
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Daft names syndrome

Steven Maher makes a good point regarding the names chosen for many Web 2.0 tools. Is it possible that the sheer silliness of the names given to many of these tools mitigates against their wider acceptance? Thanks to Doug Johnson for the link. Technorati Tags: steven maher, doug johnson, web 2.0
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NVIDIA updates GLExpert among other developer tools

NVIDIA recently updated GLExpert, a component of NVPerfKit that helps OpenGL developers by identifying errors and performance issues. You will also find a link to GPU Performance Tuning with NVIDIA Performance Tools, a talk showcasing the latest suite of OpenGL GPU performance analysis tools from NVIDIA, including NVPerfKit 2 (featuring NVPerfSDK and GLExpert) and NVShaderPerf 2.
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Risks of Riding

comments (0) Expanding Results There was a good thread on the IAI Members List recently about expanding results during faceted search. For those not on the list, here are a few highlights: Q. I'm restructuring the faceted search sidebar on an e-commerce search results page. What's your opinion about the user being able to expand results within a given search term, as well as narrow them? A1. I do think it's worth enabling users to expand as well as narrow. NCSU's stacking breadcrumbs are an
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Life Events and Web 2.0

This has been an eventful week for the ContentRobot team! Please indulge us for being a bit personal in this post. On Monday, Dana and his wife welcomed their new son (Decker Scott Rockel) into the world - many congratulations to them. On Thursday, Karen celebrated a birthday - while certainly not a milestone, this web entrepreneur enjoyed her day. What does that have to do with Web 2.0? Check out how social networking tools and life events converged: Plaxo Our social networking savvy frien
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Indicators of a Falling Market

Is Calling a Bottom Premature? As I wrote last week, it
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Standout Jobs Picked as Top 20 Web 2.0 Sites by KPMG and Backbone Magazine

Standout Jobs Picked as Top 20 Web 2.0 Sites by KPMG and Backbone Magazine by Benjamin Yoskovitz Standout Jobs was recently awarded a Top 20 Web 2.0 award by KPMG and Backbone Magazine. They ranked the top 20 and gave us the #9 spot. Thank you! Kate Trgovac, one of the judges, called the site a
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Top green tips for

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Tracking System Ensures That Your Kids Really Are At The Mall

By Luke Anderson Have you ever wondered where your kid was, and thought it would be nice if you had some way to track them down at any time? I don
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Hollywood's Top Prospects

One of my favorite baseball events every year is the Futures Game. I love seeing every team's top prospects lining up against each other in a preview of what baseball has in store for us. Sunday I was checking out the game and getting fired up about all of the young talent on the way, when I thought about how the game was so incredibly unique. Rarely do we get a look at a group of young prospects all in the same place, on display. It's time to change that. So I decided to put together a list of
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Online tools can offer better experience than offline tools

The internet is offering up a whole new collection of online software appropriate for whichever tasks you can imagine. The traditional download and use model is reaching its zenith in my view as websites are hosting and enhancing functionality to tasks we never even imagined. Some software just belong online. The truth is, our imaginations are only now waking up. Mankind doesn
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PodTech goes cheap; gets half a million from ViewPartner

PodTech, a company that is set at developing social media strategies and target content to spread messaging and conversation; publishing online and downloadable videos related to latest technology has been sold for $500k as reported by Eric Eldon. The company that now holds its reign is ViewPartner; which is a communications technology company. Considered to be the pioneer of Podcasting; PodTech made it big as a startup offering everything from podcasts to videos and video players. The bigger
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Daily Links 07/18/2008 (a.m.)

Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop with VMware Tools VMWare image containing Ubuntu tags: OB, Ubuntu, VMWare Running Ubuntu as a Virtual OS in Mac OS X
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Windows Vista, Word and Google Desktop circumvent TrueCrypt DFS

Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, in conjunction with a research group, has studied the security of TrueCrypt, to see whether it meets the specifications for a
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Q & A with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing director

Q & A with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing director Posted by Daniel Altman in Q & A Leave a Comment Dominique Strauss-Kahn (International Monetary Fund) As promised, here are answers to your questions for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Strauss-Kahn has chosen a selection of questions that encompass many of the most pressing issues facing the fund, including those that challenge its very existence. I hope you
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Vinten Set To Support 4th Season Of Hit US Comedy

Now the writers' strike in Hollywood is over and first-run programming begins to shoot, one of the first tools Director of Photography Christian La Fountaine will want on the set of How I Met Your Mother is Vinten heads
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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-17

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-17 Published by Donald under General Grateful Dead for $1.99 no DRM got my copy @indigoprime Cool, always wanted to be a Dead Head # Off to pick up truck from shop, got her glued back together. Literally! # Powered by Twitter Tools. [IMG [Slashdot]] [IMG [Digg]] [IMG [Reddit]] [IMG [del.icio.us]] [IMG [Facebook]] [IMG [Technorati]] [IMG [Google]] [IMG [StumbleUpon]] No responses yet
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Applause machine

Dug North writes in -When the you push the button, The Applause Machine claps it's hands for you. The Applause Machine is a motorized automaton designed by Martin Smith that will be widely available in September of 2008. The piece is constructed of coated steel, brass, Walnut, plastic and a small motor. It measures about 45cm in height and is powered by 2 AAA batteries. It will be available in a number of very nice colors. More: The Designing Automata Kit is great value and fantastic
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The Garden We Plant

I am preaching at two churches, Fort Montgomery UMC and The United Methodist Church of the Highlands (Highland Falls, NY) this coming Sunday, the 10th Sunday after Pentecost. The service at Fort Montgomery United Methodist Church at 9:30 am with the service in Highland Falls at 11 am. Fort Montgomery United Methodist Church United Methodist Church of The Highlands US 9W South, Fort Montgomery, NY 10922 341 Main Street, Highland Falls, NY 10928 Directions View Larger Map T
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Moopz Merges Fragmented FriendFeed Conversations Into One Place

It used to be that if a user posted a link on FriendFeed, they would get a few comments and likes and that would be it. If someone reposted that link, it would have its own set of comments for the user who reposted it. If that was a popular link, there could be 10 reposts and 10 sets of comments. Then Moopz came along. Moopz is a site that aggregates comments about the same link, and puts them into one place. The front page displays recent active FriendFeed posts and conversations. Instead o
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5 Steps to Optimize a Blog Post

5 Steps to Optimize a Blog Post Optimizing an article for search engines is as important as writing a great post. This is especially important for sites which do not have high PR or thousands of RSS subscribers, in other words for sites which are trying to come up but are not there yet. If the article is not properly optimized then the chances of it making to Google
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iPhone SDK Beta 7 (WWDC08)

The package contains full version Xcode 3.1 Developer Tools. As there is a simulator of a platform with established iPhone OS 2.0 by means of which it is possible to test all the appendices at all not having the real device Phone SDK Beta 7 (WWDC08) and Xcode 3.1 Developer Tools for Mac OS X v10.5.3 (more
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The Social Marketing Guide You Need For Online Profits

I have just read one of the best guides on social marketing ever. It is called the Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey. http://contentdesk.com/ Jack is the go-to guy who consults gurus and experts the world over on link building and social marketing strategies. I have watched my traffic and rankings improve drastically by applying what Jack has in the Black Book. What is strange to me is that Jack is just giving it away. Its jam-packed with resources and tactics to immediately start drivin
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call: MEDIATOPIA/ISEA SINGAPORE 2008

Call for entries Deadline 28 July 2008 Mediatopia {mashup, remix, transmit} MEDIATOPIA/ISEA SINGAPORE 2008 Submit any media files, playlists, links,node coordinates, live webcasts or URLs. Please read criteria for Border Transmissions at ISEA 2008 Singapore for related context. Your media can be uploaded or linked into the Mediatopia database and be included in the participatory sequence produced onsite at the National Gallery of Singapore and viewable / re mixable / mash-up-able on the
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Brad Sucks: Making Me Nervous Remixed

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How to Disable SuperFetch on Windows Vista

The SuperFetch service in Windows Vista preloads your system
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Rise in research journals online causing researchers to cite fewer, newer papers

Washington, July 18 (ANI): The Internet may be the most vital tool for researchers worldwide, what with quick searches opening detailed studies just with a click of mouse. But there
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Bits: Wikipedia Tries Approval System

The change to its editing philosophy would a layer of checkers to approve changes, eliminating some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of news.
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Earnings Up 29% at TD Ameritrade

Quarterly net income soared 29 percent at the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade Holding because of growth in the number of trades handled and in asset-based revenue.
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Europe Expands Intel Antitrust Case

The European Commission said that it had added three new charges against Intel, and warned that it might order Intel to change its behavior under threat of large fines that could total 10 percent of its global revenue.
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Bits: Google Deliberately Sells Fewer Ads - and May Have Gone Too Far

Even though its second-quarter results disappointed Wall Street, Google insisted it is doing well.
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In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint

Google and Microsoft issued quarterly results on Thursday that disappointed investors.
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Bits: Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web

In a series of blog posts, Google has been explaining how its search engine works. It has a lot of technology that is meant to understand what users and Web pages actually mean.
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Bits: Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

The change to its editing philosophy would a layer of checkers to approve changes, eliminating some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of news.
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Another Loss at A.M.D. Leads to Chief

Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that its chief executive, Hector Ruiz, was stepping down, to be replaced immediately by Dirk Meyer, the president and chief operating officer.
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Parts Accumulator promotes manufacturing automation.

Comprised of heavy-duty, welded steel turntable; solid-state PLC control; and optional integrated conveyor, Rota-Rack(TM) enables any bar-fed CNC lathe equipped with parts catcher to run unattended for extended periods of time. It indexes each time finished part exits machine, safely collecting and protecting finished workpieces. Height-adjustable from 11-50 in., product has 1 m dia turntable that provides 850+ in.² of usable surface area and payload capacity of 700 lb. This story is related to the following:
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Milling Cell achieves 5-face machining in one chucking.

Featuring 4-axis (X/Y/Z/C) simultaneous control, HM-3000 is equipped with gantry robot for work piece loading and unloading efficiency. For accelerated and smoother simultaneous multi-axis movement to access front, back, left, and right of traverse axis, milling cell comes wi