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Microsoft Soda
2007-03-08 16:35:00
Microsoft soda which is been offered for free in the lobby of Microsoft’s conference center for their employees.
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3B : Create Your Own Personal 3D Space
2007-03-08 13:50:00
3B is a fun new way to experience web, it allows us to take any web sites or photos and place them in a personalized 3D space, to create our 3B village. 3B is incredibly easy to use consists of groups like 3B Miss Teen, 3B comics, 3B Teen alternative and we can also create our own music. It's simpler than uploading a photo to the web and the 3B is FREE. >>
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Smart Finder : Locate Your Lost Items
2007-03-06 16:08:00
The average amount of time that a person spends looking for a misplaced things over the course of a lifetime is one year according to a report. But with Smart Finder we can quickly locate our lost items. It's available in four color coded receivers which can be attached to things like keys, wallets, purse, mobile phones, hand bags, TV remotes and anything even our the kids!. >>
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PC World's Top 50 Important People on the Web
2007-03-06 16:02:00
PC World has listed down the top 50 VIPs on the web, who are shaping what we read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online. The first top ten VIPs are:1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin Executives, Google2. Steve Jobs CEO, Apple3. Bram Cohen Cofounder, BitTorrent4. Mike MorhaimePresident, Blizzard Entertainment5. Jimmy WalesFounder, Wikipedia6. John DoerrVenture capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers7. Craig NewmarkFounder, Craigslist8. Peter LevinsohnPresident, Fox Interactive Media9. Marissa MayerVice president for search products & user experience, Google10. Chad Hurley and Steve ChenFounders, YouTubeCheckout the full list. >>
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Zapr, Sharing Files with File Links
2007-03-06 15:45:00
Zapr allows us to create links to any files in our PC. We can then send these links to others via email or IM and they can get the files directly from our computer via their browser. Viewers are not required to download the Zapr application or register to view the files but only people with the links can see them. It is very secure to use due to its highly secure architecture. Only draw back it requires Windows XP with .Net Framework 2.0 support. >>
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Father of Internet asks to Keep the Internet FREE
2007-03-06 15:43:00
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of World Wide Web has told that it's critical to shield his seminal innovation from control by a single company or country. That means ensuring anyone can use the web regardless of what software or hardware they're running, which Inter net service provider supplies their connection, which language they speak, and what disabilities they have. >>
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GUIDe : Eye Movement UI, Alternate Way to Interact with Computer
2007-03-02 15:57:00
Stanford university researcher Manu Kumar has created an alternative technology to the mouse called Gaze-enhanced User Inter face Design [GUIDe] that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard. GUIDe uses software called EyePoint that works with standard eye-tracking hardware. It works without a person needing to control a cursor. >>
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Adobe Apollo : To Run Web Applications Offline
2007-03-02 15:24:00
Adobe will be launching it’s beta version of new runtime called Apollo that will allow rich Web-based applications to run offline, said to be threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft .NET. The Apollo runtime must be installed on the desktop or embedded directly in the application to enable it to run locally, similar to how the Flash player runs Flash applications in the browser. Apollo will be available for free to both users and developers. >>
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i-Lighter : Yellow Marker for the Web
2007-02-27 13:28:00
i-Light er lets us to highlight and automatically save anything we want on any web page then get it back later from any PC or laptop. Just turn it on and start selecting the text, tables and pictures that we want to save. It supports both the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. >>
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Secure Password Generator
2007-02-27 12:34:00
The PC Tools Pass word Genera tor allows us to create random passwords that are highly secure and extremely difficult to crack or guess due to an optional combination of lower and upper case letters, numbers and punctuation symbols. It also has secured encryption SSL secured password generator. >>
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iPod now Common Learning Tool in Schools
2007-02-27 11:13:00
iPod is now turned in to a common learning tool with schools kids. Now, with the MP3 player's foothold in academia, universities and companies are quickly expanding the amount of study materials students can use with them. As schools embrace the iPod, mos of the companies are jumping in to provide content and offer a range of downloadable documents, including travel guides, a 40,000-word version of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the Encyclopedia Britannica and biographies. >>
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Pizza Party : Order Pizza From the Commandline
2007-02-26 17:20:00
Pizza Part y is a free text based software package for ordering pizza, or for throwing pizza parties. With pizza party we can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. We can save our pizza preferences and also select our toppings like mushrooms or pepperoni. The script runs on most of the unix-like operating systems. >>
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Forbes 25 Web Celebrities
2007-01-25 16:06:02
Forbes Magazine have listed down the top 25 biggest, brightest and most influential people on the Internet. From Bloggers to Podcasters to YouTube stars, these are the people who are creating the digital world from the bottom up. The list includes Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Glenn Reynolds, Jimmy Wales.>>
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iFIND : MIT's New Location Friendspotting Tool
2007-01-25 16:06:02
iFIND, a Java-based project developed at the MIT SENSEable City Lab aims to improve social networking location-aware application. Using iFIND, we and our buddies can instantaneously exchange our locations on the MIT campus, talk to users nearby, and microcoordinate more effectively.It puts us on our own map of campus, and not other people's, unless we give them permission. The iFIND project turns every laptop into something like a precise Global Positioning System unit that can spot users down to the room they're sitting in and then share that location with friends and colleagues, without uploading their personal information onto a central network. >>
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What's Running : Find What's Running Inside Your System
2007-01-24 22:04:01
What's Running is an application that gives us an more in-depth information about what's running inside our Windows system. It allows us to explore processes, services, modules, IP-connections, drivers and much more through a simple to use application. Find out important information such as what modules are involved in a specific process. It's Free for personal use, but carries a 25$ license fee for commercial use. >>
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Wired Wiki : The Wired Magazine's Wiki
2007-01-24 22:04:01
The Wire d Magazin e has started an Wiki called as Wired Wiki, through which we can share our vast knowledge with others by editing the big answers to the big questions. Some of the big questions like What?s at Earth's core?, Where did life come from?, What is the universe made of?, and other most useful questions ;) like Why do hot dogs come in packs of 10 while buns come in packs of 8 or 12? are also been answered by Wired editors. Checkout the answers or Change out the answers! >>

China Internet Population Leaps to 137 Million
2007-01-24 10:03:01
The number of Inter net users in China made its highest recorded jump to reach 137 million at the end of 2006. China's netizens grew by 23.4 percent, year on year the highest jump since the report began in 1997, to reach 10.5 percent of the total population. According to the report the most popular hobby among young people in China is surfing the Internet. >>
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Remember Rings : For Never Forgetting an Anniversary !
2007-01-24 10:03:01
Remembering your wedding anniversary is now easy with Remember Ring . The Remember Ring uses the Hot Spot technology to deliver a reminder that it's "That time of the year again!". Twenty four hours before your anniversary day, the Hot Spot on the interior surface of your Remember Ring will warm to 120ºF for approximately 10 seconds, and continue to warm up every hour, on the hour, all day long. It will be hot enough to cause discomfort but not hot enough to burn. It converts the heat from our hand into electricity, keeping the battery charged and microchip clock running perpetually. >>
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21 Firefox Extensions for Fun !
2007-01-23 10:02:03
BoingleBoingle is social annotation extension. With the Boingle toolbar for Fire fox , we can add our own comments to any web page. The result is a simple, unassuming link left in each page that allows other Boinglers the opportunity to read our comments and add their own. downloadPONG! MultiplayerPONG! Multiplayer is an online Multiplayer gaming extension which we can Play against people from all around the world. It connects to our opponent through the port 10997 and 10998. It also integrated with a full blown chat application. To chat with everyone in the Multiplayer lobby, or just with our opponent while playing a game. We can fully customize color schemes and add sound effects, and the option to disable them. downloadRaed Tihs! Scrambles all text on the current tab's page, but we will still be able to read it. This is a simple demonstration of the theory that letter-order within a word has no impact on readability, beyond the first and last letters. downloadGmail Skins Gmailskin...
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If you love the bed jumping on the hotel room bed like me :)
2007-01-16 15:55:01
If you love the bed jumping on the hotel room bed like me :) than BedJump is just for us. The BedJump is an exclusive blog about jumping on hotel beds, where we can post in our crazy bed jumping photos, videos. It's naughty, it's fun and it?s free. >>
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According to a new white paper from McAfee Inc's Avert Labs
2007-01-16 15:55:01
According to a new white paper from McAfee Inc's Avert Labs the latest computer and online identity theft trends, and features major increases in keyloggers and phishing scams. It reports that keyloggers increased by 250 percent between January 2004 and May 2006 while phishing alerts tracked by the Anti-Phishing Working Group multiplied 100-fold over the same period of time. So watch out before you entering your sensitive data in an untrusted computers! >>
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The Java Unlimited's annual Java 4K Programming Contest is o
2007-01-16 15:55:01
The Java Unlimited's annual Java 4K Prog ramming Contest is open. The contest challenges developers to create an new Java SE game which has to be less than 4096 bytes in the final executable and must be entirely self contained, pure Java. It should also use only JRE supplied classes [no JNI] and the deadline is March 1st, 2007. >>
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Nokia has released an report about the evolution of mobile g
2007-01-16 15:55:01
Nokia has released an report about the evolution of mobile gaming, based on the interviews conducted in China, United States, Germany, India, Spain, Thailand. According to the report:The mobile phone gamers surveyed are frequently playing mobile games with the vast majority playing at least once a week and 34% playing every dayThe average length of time spent playing mobile games is 28 minutesNearly two thirds of the respondents preferred the richer experience of Nokia?s next generation mobile games offering over existing Java 2D and Java 3D games offerings, particularly following game trialsThe majority would prefer to pay for a full game outright rather than buy a subscriptionWhen it comes to getting games, over-the-internet (OTI) distribution is almost as popular as over-the-air (OTA) distributionMultiplayer gaming is a regular part of mobile phone gamers lifestyles with 45% playing multiplayer games on their mobile phones at least once a month62% would send demos of games they l...
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In a U.S. government warning coins with tiny radio frequency
2007-01-16 15:55:01
In a U.S. government warning coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada. Intelligence and technology experts said such transmitters, if they exist, could be used to surreptitiously track the movements of people carrying the spy coins. >>
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Neural Systems Lab at the University of Washington has creat
2007-01-16 15:55:01
Neural System s Lab at the University of Wash ington has created a Humanoid robot, which we can control using brain waves alone. Their Humanoid robot has sophisticated capabilities, for example the ability to pick objects and carry them to a different destination table, also selected by the user via the brain-computer interface. video >>
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Wikileaks : Wikipedia of Leaked Documents
2007-01-12 21:51:02
Wikileaks is an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Wikileaks provides simple and straightforward means for anonymous and untraceable leaking of documents. >>
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Schools Should Allow Video Games !
2007-01-12 21:51:02
David Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor says schools should use games to prepare children to compete in the work force, where juggling technology is a daily requirement. According to him, "the children's should be given the chance to use their innate skills of simultaneously listening to music while playing games, watching videos, surfing the Web and messaging friends from computers or cell phones, while learning about things like biology, history or physics. The Epistemic computer games by David Williamson, help students learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, architects, and other innovative professionals, giving them the tools they need to survive in a changing world. >>
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Water Powered Clock!
2007-01-12 09:51:02
Water Power ed Clock is an attractive desktop clock that is powered solely on water or any electrolytic fluid like soda, coffee or even Beer. It will display the time and date in clear easy to read numbers just moments after we fill the liquid reservoirs in the back with the liquid of our choice. The clock's internal converter simply extracts electrons from water or other liquid molecules and provides a steady stream of electrical current acting as a fuel cell to generate power to the clock. >>
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Google Beats Microsoft in UK
2007-01-12 09:51:02
Google has beaten Micro soft as the UK's most popular brand in 2006. Microsoft came second with fellow tech companies Nokia coming fourth and Vodafone tenth in the top 10 of the most popular UK brands for 2006. >>
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9 Key Factors Behind a Successful Technical Career !!
2007-01-03 21:42:02
Long back, Bell Labs conducted an interesting study, closely watching the common characteristics among a group of technical professionals who rose to the top. The exercise revealed nine key factors outside just technical competence that differentiated brilliant technical folks from the masses.Taking InitiativeTaking Initiative is about accepting responsibility above and beyond our stated job. It is about volunteering for additional activities and promoting new ideas. The concept of initiative begins by looking for technical and other opportunities in the organization and volunteering for them. Initiative is also about two other things dealing constructively with criticism and planning for the future.Cognitive abilitiesConcept of cognitive development is about understanding the interplay of technology and trends in how they are getting deployed. It is also about recognizing the business eco-system in which technology works. The importance of consequence thinking is very critical. It ...
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