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Kyte.tv : Put Video Anywhere
2007-04-26 15:11:00
Kyte.tv is joining the online rush to make big money from the little screen with a new interactive twist by bringing together two of the Internet's most successful concepts online video and social networking. Kyte.tv allows us to upload photographs or video, add music or text, then broadcast our show, all from a mobile phone or personal computer. Viewers can log on, contribute to our channel, and talk with us and others via live chat. We can embed our channel on our blogs or MySpace page. >>
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How to Send E-mail Without a Server ?
2007-04-24 15:35:00
Sometimes it's useful to try to bypass our e-mail server when diagnosing a mail problem. Or perhaps we may want to see if another mail system is actually up and running and receiving mail. We can test it by talking directly to the recipient mail server. Checkout this interesting instructions. >>
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TIME 100 : Vote for the Most Influential People of the Year
2007-04-24 15:10:00
TIME Magazine has presented the TIME 100, the most influential people of the year. Read through the profiles of the 200 candidates and rate your top choices. Do check out their list below to see the full results. Who do you think should be on this year's list of TIME's most influential people?. >>
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NASA Creates First 3-D Images of Sun
2007-04-24 15:07:00
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first 3-D images of the sun. For the first time, scientists are able to see structures in the sun's atmosphere in three dimensions. This new view will greatly aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics and there by improve space weather forecasting. To view this correctly, you must have 3D glasses :). >>
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Blogosphere Map
2007-04-23 15:08:00
Blogosphere is the most explosive social network, recent studies suggest that nearly 60 million blogs exist online, and about 175,000 more crop up daily that?s about 2 every second. Even though the vast majority of blogs are either abandoned or isolated, many bloggers like to link to other Web sites. Social media expert Matthew Hurst recently collected link data for six weeks and produced this plot of the most active and interconnected parts of the blogosphere. >>
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Best Windows Skins/Look and Feel of 2006
2007-04-23 15:05:00
WinCustomize.com has listed down the best ten skins in 2006. The skins allows us to customize everything from media players to the entire Window s applications GUI. Checkout them and change the way you are looking at your Windows look and feel. >>
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Discovery Message Magnet Set
2007-04-21 16:48:00
Discovery Message Magnet Set helps to easily create quick personal messages for up to six of our family members or roommates with this photo enhanced voice recorder. We can records messages up to 10 seconds long and Personalize each message with photos. It can be easily be placed on our refrigerator or by our phone and by simply press the record button to begin leaving our message. >>
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Top 15 Great Free Utilities Never Heard Of Before
2007-04-20 15:12:00
There are plenty of very good free programs that do everything from protecting us against spyware, to giving us a comprehensive look inside our PC, and cleaning our Registry, to managing our media, and plenty more. PC World has scoured the Web and come up with 15 favorite free utilities that most people have never heard of. The list focused on three popular categories like the security software, system tools, and graphics and multimedia. >>
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Making Computers to Think Like a Human
2007-04-20 15:08:00
By the age of five, a child can understand spoken language, distinguish a cat from a dog, and play a game of catch. These are three of the many things humans find easy that computers and robots currently cannot do. Despite decades of research, the computer scientists have not figured out how to do basic tasks of perception and robotics with a computer. Independent artificial intelligence researcher Jeff Hawkins explains how computers can be made to think like a Human s. >>
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Rainlendar : Customizable Desktop Calendar
2007-04-19 16:23:00
Rainlendar is a feature rich customizable calendar application that is easy to use, runs on both on Windows and on Linux. It uses the standard iCale ndar format to store its events and tasks so we can easily transfer them between applications. We can also subscribe to online calendars and see our Outlook appointments directly in Rainlendar. >>
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Mobile Life 2020 Competition : Predict the Mobile's Future
2007-04-17 14:53:00
What will the mobile phone look like in the year 2020? Is it even smaller maybe integrated with the ring on our finger? Will it be a multipurpose tool that communicates with all the other tools we own? Submit your design of the future mobile phone, with a description of what it will be used for and a set of drawings describing its visual appearance in case it has one? The winner wins a 6 month employment to realize parts of the vision. Mobile Life Center at Stockholm University in Sweden conducts the competition and requires no entry fee, 31st May is the last day for submission. >>
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Google + Apple = Goopple
2007-04-17 14:46:00
Google and Apple already share plenty of ties. What would happen if they actually worked together?. It?s easy to see why tech fantasists root for a future tie-up between the two companies. Their fan bases would view a Google -Apple collaboration like a super group, all-star sports team or celebrity romance all in one. Imagine a Google integrating its search prowess deep into Apple's slick operating system. Or iPods that come loaded with Google maps, plugged into a wi-fi system powered by the search giant. slide show >>
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Silverlight : Microsoft's Flash
2007-04-17 14:37:00
Microsoft plans to introduce Silverlight software that puts videos on websites in a bid to win users from the market leader, Adobe Flash . It will be used by companies such as Netflix and Universal Music Group. The technology will help them create video-intensive Web pages that will appear the same on almost all operating systems. Microsoft is touting the program as cheaper and easier for Web developers to use than Flash. >>
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Future of the Car : Commute 2.0
2007-04-16 14:58:00
PopularScience Magazine takes an in-depth look at top ten automotive breakthroughs that promise to save us gas money and maybe even save the planet. From sexy electric sports cars to diminutive gas sippers, get ready to test drive the vehicles of tomorrow - The Comm ute 2.0. >>
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CrossLoop : Free Secure Screen Sharing Tool
2007-04-16 14:51:00
CrossLoop is a free secure screen sharing utility, which extends the boundaries of VNC?s traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings. It only takes a few minutes to setup and no signup is required. The session data is encrypted at the end-points before being sent using a 128-bit encryption algorithm using a randomly-generated 12-digit access code. >>
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How to Get the Web's New Lingo Right ?
2007-04-12 15:02:00
Unsure of the difference between vlipping and vlogging? Can?t tell a Digg from a crog? Keep this glossary handy next time you log on to the web. The World Wide Web is adept at speeding up communication. So there?s little wonder it has given rise to a new language of abbreviations, acronyms, and other shorthand for activities and innovations. view slide show >>
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Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Avoid !
2007-04-11 15:15:00
Firefox has a big bunch of great extensions, but there are some extensions to be best avoided, including some of the most popular one. The popularity shouldn't be the acid test to determine if we should install an extension. Most extensions that are truly broken and crash our browser or suck up all our CPU power either, get fixed quickly or simply vanish. Some extensions are bad in unapparent ways, or just don't provide enough benefits to be worth running. >>
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Hip E-mail Addresses Bad for Resumes
2007-04-11 15:12:00
Finding that perfect snarky, witty, so cool nickname to attach to our e-mail address, the one that fits our likes our fave jeans, can be a creative coup. But alas, for job-seeking, the hip moniker might be a career killer. A new study finds that electronic resumes linked to job candidates with quirky and ?unprofessional? e-mail names are rated lower by potential employers than those with professional names. With the increasing use of online screening, an applicant?s e-mail address could influence whether a resume gets tossed into the cyber-trash or makes it to human resources. >>
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Googling Your Date !
2007-04-10 14:54:00
In the Internet age the ability to check people out before they ever meet up has forever changed the rules. For better or worse, "Googl ing " your date has become standard practice. The results can be enlightening, surprising and sometimes, a little disturbing. With a little creativity and Internet savvy, a person can find anything from blog postings to news stories that might include personal details. It helps to know some basic details upfront, such as an e-mail address that could help turn up an online nickname; some go as far as paying for an online background check. >>

CosmosCode : NASA's Open Source Software Development for Space Exploration
2007-04-09 15:05:00
NASA scientists plans to announce a new open source project called CosmosCode, which aimed at recruiting volunteers to write code for live space missions. These projects are creating a sort of SourceForge for space. It will build a core offering of free and open source space software through an independent project hosting website, and the development and management of a free software community specific to the challenges and opportunities afforded by space. This community will provide a common access point for individuals, academics, companies, and space agencies around the world using, contributing to, or supporting re-usable, modular, extensible, or standards driven space exploration software. >>
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Anatomy of Microsoft Animated Cursor Attack
2007-04-09 14:53:00
Earlier this week, Microsoft shipped an emergency out-of-band patch to block zero-day attacks against a code execution hole in the way Windows handles animated cursor [.ani] files. Here's a visual look at elements of the hacker attacks, including malicious Web sites, the exploit in action and the adult-themed spam-run linked to the attacks. >>
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Top 50 Best Tech Products of All Time
2007-04-06 14:52:00
PC World has listed down the top 50 best tech products of all time. From breakthrough hardware to time honored software, the amazing products that changed technology and our lives forever and that we can't live without. This products have attained a certain level of popularity, had staying power, and perhaps made some sort of breakthrough, influencing the development of later products of its ilk. >>
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Podloso : First iPod Virus Reported
2007-04-06 14:05:00
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions said it has discovered the first virus designed to infect iPods. The virus will only work if Linux has been installed on an iPod. Also, the user has to load the virus onto the iPod, Kaspersky. It cannot be launched automatically without user involvement. Once launched, Podloso will scan the iPod's hard disk and infect all executable files. Any attempt to launch these files will cause the virus to display: "You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus ". >>
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Memory Hacking for the Future
2007-04-05 14:32:00
USC laboratory scientists Ted Berger and Vijay Srinivasan, has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip they found could remedy everything from Alzheimer?s to absent-mindedness?and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch. >>
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Next Generation Image Search Engines
2007-04-04 16:37:00
A Google image search for tiger yields many tiger photos but also returns images of a tiger pear cactus stuck in a tire, a racecar, Tiger Woods, the boxer Dick Tiger, Antarctica, and many others. As today?s large Internet search engines look for images using captions or other text linked to images rather than looking at what is actually in the picture. Electrical engineers from UC San Diego are making progress on a different kind of image search engine one that analyzes the images themselves. This approach may be folded into next-generation image search engines for the Internet and in the shorter term, could be used to annotate and search commercial and private image collections. >>
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53 Interesting Twitter Links for Fun, Geeks !
2007-04-03 09:37:00
Twitter needs no introduction, checkout few of the Interest ing Twitter links for fun, geeks:TwiTunes is an AppleScript for Mac OS X that posts the current iTunes track to Twitter: http://tint.de/twitunes-applescriptUbuntu Deskbar plugin, script to let's us to post twitter messages from the Ubuntu Deskbarhttp://philwilson.org/blog/2007/03 /post-to-twitter-from-ubuntu-deskbar.html Twitter Perl command-line status ScriptA Perl command line status script to answer the age-old question from the comfort of the command-line, via twitter. http://polydistortion.net/sw/twitter/wdCa tch-up Your Favorite Celebrities on TwitterBritney Spears http://twitter.com/britneyDavid Beckham http://twitter.com/davidbeckhamTom Cruise http://twitter.com/tomcruisePamela Anderson http://twitter.com/pamelaandersonRobbie Williams http://twitter.com/robbiewilliamsAngelina Jolie http://twitter.com/angelinajolieMadonna http://twitter.com/MadonnaSimon Cowell http://twitter.com/simoncowellJohn Travolta http://www.twi...
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Interesting April Fool's Pranks For Geek's !
2007-03-30 15:19:00
Geeks love April Fools' Day. Once a year, we get to take advantage of our non-geek friends' and co-workers flimsy grasp on technology. The best geek pranks involve making a gadget or a piece of software appear broken. Since the tech savvy will quickly notice these pranks, they are best performed on the inept, the perpetually preoccupied and the woefully unaware. >>
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TestTube : YouTube's Lab
2007-03-30 14:07:00
TestTube is the YouTube ideas incubator where YouTube engineers and developers test recipes that aren't fully developed. Currently two new services are available for testing AudioSwap and Streams. AudioSwap allows users to create song tracks for their videos by adding songs from artists and record labels. While, Streams lets several users create an online YouTube room where they watch and interact with each other in real-time while sharing videos. >>
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Students Give up Social Networks for Six weeks
2007-03-30 14:04:00
Many users describe the popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace as addictive, which is why they say giving up these 21st-century temptations is a sincere sacrifice, as the Easter approaches."It's been hard, especially in the beginning," said Kerry Graham, who says she gave up Facebook for Lent. During the first days of Lent, she admits she had to stop herself from typing the site's Web address nearly every time she checked her e-mail. >>
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Users of Digital Devices, Potentially Dangerous on Roads !
2007-03-29 14:05:00
Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Several research reports, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking. The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise to curb their multitasking behavior when working in an office, studying or driving a car.In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages or browse news, sports or entertainment Web sites.“Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the chances of mistakes,” said David E. Meyer, a cognitive scientist and director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan. >>
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