March 26, 2006

PS3 Game Photos from Sony's GDC Keynote!

Despite Sony asking attendees not to take pictures during Phil Harrison's keynote speech at GDC, a member of a Spanish forum managed to sneakily snap pictures of the games that were shown and has now posted his roll online.

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Who's Building the Next Web?

Digg is one of them!!! (according to Newsweek)

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Wanna know how China intercepts and censors the internet?

This slide show presentation on CNN.com shows you how China can monitor emails and website visitation with a click of the mouse? Thank God the U.S can't do this. Right? Right?

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AJAX Site Design using Prototype

The internet is full of tutorials explaining those little tricks about AJAX, all that low level stuff, but nobody gives you the overview on how all these things should work together. We have libraries to abstract from the Browser dependant things, and we should concentrate on higher level design for good and usefull applications.

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Life without a Mouse - Keyboard's Glory (Great Tips!)

A mouse may have become an integral part of our day-to-day life but there exists a life without a mouse that most computer users may be stunned to here about. Infact check out great tips to do everything that you can with a mouse, without it. For newbies & pros! Keyboard rocks!

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How To Program Windows Screensavers

The tutorial demonstrates jpegs, transparent sprites, playing audio, using zipped data, using zips/bitmaps/audio embedded as resources, 3d OpenGL, multi-monitor support, and integrated installation/uninstallation. It also includes project files for Visual C++6, Visual Studio.NET, and Borland C++Builder 5.

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Upload a picture and AMD/HP donates $1 to Lance Armstrong Foundation

HP and AMD have come together to create an incredible picture. For each picture uploaded to their site, $1 is donated to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

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Want free satellite TV?

Check out this list of free to air satellite TV channels. Now all you need is a satellite dish and a receiver. Check comments for some more info!

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Programmable Soda Bottle

What will they think of next?

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DeviantArt reaches 20,000,000 deviations.

DeviantArt is a webpage where you can download wallpapers, skins... It's where artists meet.

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Researchers: Supersonic Jet Test A Success

Defense researchers believe the test of a new jet engine succeeded in hitting Mach 7.6 speed as they develop technology for faster air travel. Although officials will need to analyze the data, researcher Rachel Owen said initial reviews look like the test was successful.

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Sexiest videos on YouTube

Title says it all.

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March 24, 2006

8 Web Design Warm Fuzzy Feelings

8 times when web designers feel warm and fuzzy inside. For example "when a site works in IE without fuss". Also talks about making sites with sensible urls and creating functionality that degrades gracefully.

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Sell your used books to Barnes & Nobles (Shipping covered)

You can see how much they pay for any book with ISBN. If interested, you can complete the transaction and they will send you a prepaid postal cover to send the book. After the book is received they will mail you the check. Though the rate offered is pretty less (it depends on the demand for a book), you can make some money out of the unused books.

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New Satellite Data for Google Earth

Google just updated the satellite data for Google Earth (Google Maps/Local will follow later). All of Germany in high res, new TrueEarth data for base-level for entire Earth (replacing Landsat). Details at the Google Earth Blog.

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