April 21, 2006

Google Sees Revenue Rise, Beats Expectations!

Google's first-quarter revenue rose nearly 80 percent and, along with an increase in profit, beat analyst expectations as the search giant continued to grow market share!

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How to Invest in the Net Boom Without Getting Burned

The boom is back Net companies are on fire again.

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Audience Attention and RFID

"Attention Please! is an experiment taking place at the Box, an exhibtion space in FACT, Liverpool, UK. The aim of the experiment is to explore the use of RFID in measuring audience attention and presence. The project members are looking for individuals and groups to participate in the experiment."

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How to Add a Google Map to any Web Page in 10 Minutes

Great tutorial for anyone wanting to how to use the latest version of Google Maps. Walks you through signing up with Google, adding a basic map and customizing it to your location.

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CSS Navigation Techniques

A very cool gallery of CSS drop-down menu

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Xbox 360 premium to drop $100 and HD-DVD addon only $100

More strong rumours in the link concerning price drops and games on Xbox 360

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Big Brother is Listening!

Whistle blower speaks with Richard Stiennon and Barrett Lyon about AT&T's funneling of data and voice traffic into the NSA�s analysis centers. A chilling podcast!

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Top 10 Strangest Home Gadgets

So you�ve seen the strangest iPod accessories, Lego creations, and even MP3 players, now our editors bring you the �Top 10 Strangest (or coolest) Home Gadgets�.

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40% off Desktops and $750 off Notebooks- Dell coupon codes

Dell must really want to move some product. These are as big as their discounts ever get.

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GOOGLE EARTH + USB FLASH + GPS = SPY GADGET

The Portable GPS Tracker is pretty small so you could either always carry it on you or use it in 007 spy mode by planting it on a person or vehicle you want to monitor. You may be wondering how you retrieve the stored info and secret routes, well that's where it gets really cool.

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E-mail Authentication Gaining Steam

A host of software companies, security firms and Internet service providers met in Chicago on Wednesday to urge corporations and bulk message senders to adopt e-mail authentication technologies.

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It's Official, The Smashing Pumpkins Working on New Album

It's official, The Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs for their upcoming album, their first since 2000. No release date has yet been set, but the band plans to begin recording this summer.

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April 20, 2006

GMail Drive v1.0.10 Released

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. Latest Changes: Fixed: A change in the Gmail.com login may cause a "Disc is full" error

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How Evil Are You?

Machiavellianism is the term psychologists use to describe a person's tendency to deceive and manipulate others for gain. So how evil are you? Take this Machiavelli personality test and find out...

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Apple's $410m profit beats estimates

Apple today announced revenue of $4.36 billion and a net quarterly profit of $410 million, beating analyst estimates for net profit. The March quarter results compare to net profit of $290 million in March 2005. Go Apple!!!

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AOL To Launch �Myspace Killer�

AOL may be preparing to launch a Myspace-type social network sometime in the next few weeks, says Dave Winer.

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The armchair that thinks it's a bookcase.

A very unusual piece of furniture: Italian designers Nobody & Co. have created the Bibliochase, an armchair that thinks it's a bookcase.

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Top 10 Free AdSense Tools-- Getting The Most ($$$) Out Of Adsense

This is a pretty darn good list of some of the best tools to help you optimize and get more bang for your buck (or ad-space) with Adsense. Some of them I�ve heard of before, but others were completely new to me. Worth a read if you have/use Adsense.

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Miller Beer to be first to use High Tech (Cold Can) Technology

Lowers Temp. by 30° Fahrenheit in just three minutes.

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100 Interesting science facts

Some that caught my attention: -10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment. -There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

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Dual Monitors Increase Productivity by up to 30%

"Survey after survey shows that whether you measure your productivity in facts researched, alien spaceships vaporized, or articles written, adding an extra monitor will give your output a considerable boost 20 percent to 30 percent, according to a survey by Jon Peddie Research."

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April 19, 2006

FULL List of Google Resources with Descriptions

Ever wanted to use Google to the max? This Wikipedia article lists all of the services, tools, downloads, features, programs, and even hardware offered by Google. There are many little known services and tools of great value that I'd never even heard of before.

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10 Best Designed Blogs

The particular platform (WP, Moveable Type, Typepad, Handcoded) doesn't matter. It's what you do with it that counts. This isn't about prettiest blog, or the best written blog. This is a list of the most groundbreaking, cutting edge blogs out there. You see these blogs and cry, because they're creatures of fierce untameable beauty.

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Yahoo to offer PC DVR services - free!

Yahoo just picked up HTPC software maker Meedio for the Y! Go TV initiative. Why reinvent the wheel when you can buy it? No word on launch date, though current Meedio subscribers guide data ends July 1. Guess this means they aren't buying TiVo...

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Beautiful Tutorial MPEG-4 Compression

Very solid information that is most likely valuble to any proffesional video creator or if you just want to make a good quality, small file sized video of your DVD on you computer.

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Cooking With Google

Choose a main ingredient and a cuisine, let Google do the rest. Unfortunately, no "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

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How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?

We learned that good design is based on the C.R.A.P., and when Creative Directors tell you that your design is crap, they�re actually giving you positive reinforcement.

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April 17, 2006

Giant Deep-Sea Volcano With "Moat of Death" Found

Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies a volcanic realm nearly as strange as that featured in TV's hit drama Lost. The volcano found in the South Pacific is dazzling scientists with its weird features, including a swirling vortex, strange animals, and a toxic zone that only one creature can survive.

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Convert any Photo into 1,024 Stadium Flipcards held by a Pixel Army

The Japanese site was translated by Google so the english may appear strange. They use the Linux Mascot "Tux" as the illustrated example...

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The Barriers to Starting Your Own Business (why you aren't running one now)

Details the major reasons that people come up with for not getting a business started.

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Unofficial Google Calendar Homepage Module

Ever since Google Calendar was released I've been looking for a module that will display the calendar in the Personalized Google Homepage. An unofficial module (adapted from a previously written 30 Pages module) has been released until Google writes their own "official" module. It was written by Paul Russell.

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Screenshots of Teacher's MySpace page that might put her back in jail.

Pamela Rogers, the hot 28-year-old teacher that had sex with a 13-year-old student multiple times, might be going back to jail for sending him not-so-secret MySpace messages. Check out the right side of the article for the actual screenshots.

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Exxon Chief Made $144,573 Per Day

This kind of news makes you really ponder when oil companies feed the line of crap like "We're all in this together," or "We're feeling the strain too." Meanwhile gas is darn near $3.00 a gallon while fat cats laugh all the way to the bank.

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Firefox Extension for Xbox Media Center - Send media to your TV

This Firefox extension will allow you to right click on a media url and send it to your XBMC for on-screen playback. Also adds a new option in Tools which lets you paste a url to XBMC.

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How To Change People's Perception Of You

Other people's perceptions are very important in business. First impressions are made within seconds and office gossip has the potential to damage a reputation almost beyond repair. Do you know how your colleagues perceive you?

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Supercomputer vs Superflu

Statisticians simulate an avian flu outbreak. Three researchers at Los Alamos National Lab and one biostatistician from the University of Washington made the projections using a detailed simulation run on a Los Alamos supercomputer called Pink.

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World Population TreeMap

A cool way to view the world's population: this Treemap application was created by the Hive Group using CIA Factbook data (2004)

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China president at Gates house, not White House!

The first dinner of China's President's historic visit to the United States next week will be in a big, secure house in Washington where the host is one of the world's most powerful men. The White House? No. The Tuesday dinner will be held at the $100 million lakeside mansion of Microsoft founder and the world's richest man, Bill Gates.

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Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen

Transform a $3 pen into a $200 pen in just seconds. Mont Blanc pens are the worlds finest writing pens but they make specialized refills so you must buy their $200+ pens to use their amazing ink...until now.

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Top 10 CSS Tutorials

A top 10 list of some great CSS tutorials. Complete with descriptions and images.

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Canadian Recording Industry Association Falling Apart

Hopefully the RIAA will be NEXT!!

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THE Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities

A good summary with a description and links of some of the top tools in the Hacking/Security arena. For old hands it will be a familiar list but most people will find a thing or two they didn't know about.

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Hybrid Cars Not Always More Fuel Efficient

Life in the Green Lane

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Top 10 Low Cost Digital Cameras

In our latest tests, Olympus's $230 FE-120 surpassed more expensive models in image quality.

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10 things every Microsoft Word user should know

Get out of the word-processing stone age and learn how to use your word processor the smart way.

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Storm Chasers capture insane twister footage (CNN)

Link leads directly to a video stream. It has an advert in the beginning but you can disregard that. The footage is insane!

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High Performance Site Coding

Ever wondered what has been done to optimize sites like Digg and Zooomr so they do not crumble under the load of many simultaneous users? This article explains some of the things you can do to gain as much from your site as you can.

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SA-MP (San Andreas Multiplayer) Public Beta Test

This modification allows you to play GTA:SA over the internet. You can shoot, drive, swim, fly and much more with up to 89 other people.

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