Saturday, May 13, 2006
Turn Your Monitor Into a Touch Screen Monitor
NAVIsis has come out with a technology that allows you to turn your regular and boring LCD monitor into a useful touch screen monitor. Called the NAVIsis EZ-Canvas, its a pair of sensors that you simply attach to the top corners of your monitor and use a special stylus to write and draw on your screen.
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Build RSS reader using AJAX and PHP
Learn how to build an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader, as well as a Web component that you can place on any Web site to look at the articles in the RSS feeds.
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How to run your own Unix web server. (3 part series)
Learn how you can run your own web server from a master! Goes over FreeBSD installation, Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc, and all the configuration. This is part 1, links to part 2 and 3 at the bottom of the page.
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Ballmer: Microsoft To Focus On Linux Competition...AGAIN!
"[Ballmer] said Linux has been outselling Microsoft in areas such as file services, e-mail security and e-science, and that demonstrates that the Redmond, Wash., software marker needs to innovate." Ya think?
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Company converts hydrogen directly from biomass.
Virent Energy Systems has developed a way to get hydrogen from corn syrup without having to make ethanol first. The process allows which allow 15 times more hydrogen to be converted. It is cheaper, safer, easier, and more efficient.
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CPU overclocked to 7.104Ghz!
FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux
Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition.
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Honest Tips for those Switching to Macs
"There are already scores of religious fanboy zealots who are going to tell you - in great detail - how great the Mac is, and why you should switch. I'm not going to. But beware. Just because the Mac is an excellent computer, that doesn't mean it's panacea. Here are some things you're going to want to pay attention to as you switch."
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Cancer-Causing Chemicals from Tobacco Smoke Found in Baby Urine
The finding, detailed in the May issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, supports the idea that persistent exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in childhood can contribute to the development of cancer later in life, said study team member Stephen Hecht of the Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota.
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Stand Up and Say NO to NSA Wiretaps: EFF form to contact your congressman
Follow the link, click a few buttons, type a few words. You'll recieve a hand-signed letter from one of your representatives, and let someone higher-up know how you feel about the NSA's spying.
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Learn CSS
This CSS Tutorial will get you started with CSS in just a few minutes. It is easy to understand and will teach you all the sophisticated techniques.
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Linux Distributions Trends
Linux Distributions Trends
Sony denies copying Nintendo controller ideas
Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison says Sony had been thinking about a developing motion sensitive controller "since 1994" but was restricted by technology limitations. Yeah, Phil, and I've been thinking about flying cars since I was 5.
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Russian MP3 sales site AllofMP3.com second only to iTunes
A Russian company labelled by the music industry as as an "unlawful" operation was nonetheless second only to iTunes as the favoured destination of UK digital music buyers during April 2006, figures from UK-based market watcher XTN Data reveal.
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Web 2.0 is just getting started
"For those who are wondering, Web 2.0 is just getting started. Yeah, I said it. Witness the frenzy at marquee venture capital firms. Given the piles of money they're deploying, we've probably got three to five more years of new deals ahead of us."
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Google Notebook screenshots
Half the music on iPods stolen, alleges Real boss
Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser has tacitly alleged that iPod owners are music thieves, a claim that echoes the words of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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Google Has Its Eye on Vista Search
Google executives downplayed their legendary battle with Microsoft but said they were keeping an eye on their larger rival's plans for embedding Web search functionality into Vista, its delayed next-generation operating system.
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Interviewing Web Developers - 20 Good Questions to Ask
A list of 20 good (and somewhat common) questions to ask when conducting a job interview for a web developer. The list doesn't focus on one particular development language and was intended to be useful for all spheres of web development, and benefit both interviewers and interviewees (know what to expect!)
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Solving the "Eternity" puzzle
Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan, two mathematicians, with the help of a couple of computers, have shared a £1m prize by solving the "Eternity" puzzle. The puzzle was like an enormously difficult jigsaw. There were 209 pieces, all different, but all made from equilateral triangles and half-triangles.
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Microsoft sides with Nintendo in fight vs Sony
Microsoft Corp. sided with rival Nintendo Co. Ltd. on Wednesday in the fight to unseat video game leader Sony Corp., saying many consumers will choose to buy both of their machines for the price of one PlayStation 3.
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Google -- Dude, seriously, for real, we are still totally all about search.
In a world of Google Earth, Blogger, Writely, Picasa, Hello, Gmail, and Google Talk, it's easy to forget that Google is ultimately a search engine. Today Google announced 4 products to try and remind the world "Yes, we are still all about search."
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Tens of millions of Americans have been spied on by the NSA
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
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Linux System Administration: Growth in the Enterprise
Trout Creek, Montana hardly seems like a place one would expect to find a center of Linux learning. Please do not tell Mike Weber of SpiderTools that. He spent the last six years developing one of the more robust training facilities in the US.
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Men Pay the Ultimate Price to Attract Women
While it is tough to be a woman, being a man can be downright deadly. Women live longer than men. And now scientists suggest a simple Darwinian reason: Competing for a mate can wear a guy out or get him killed.
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See the World Through the Eyes of a Baby
A group of visual researchers have come up with a method that alters pictures so that they look like what babies see. (Just ignore that terrible phrasing and take a look at the picture to understand better.)
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Wired: Sony Blows E3
"Sony is really good at pretending to be innovative by taking things that other companies have done"
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