Make your photos come alive with twitter and SayTweet (1)
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You have a picture. It’s not that interesting. Of course, a picture is a lot better than a thousand words of text. But still, the picture isn’t up to the mark. You want to spice up the picture. Add a funny speech baloon or two. That’s fine, but then, it’s rather painful to keep adding a speech baloon every now and then, isn’t it? Meet SayTweet. SayTweet makes the best use of your photo and ...
GOD got created under GNU-General Public License (1)
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Most Programming Interviews are a Waste of Time (10)
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Interviewing a candidate is so much fun because you get to passively assert your superiority and be professorial enough that you can justify those nine years you spent in graduate school studying compiler optimizations only to get a job maintaining a failure-prone database driven web app.Interviewers spend almost as much time Googling for interview questions as candidates do.I've been on both sides of the interview, and I'm here to dump a big load of truth ...
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"For once, I'd like to have a 45 minute candid conversation with an interviewee. Talk about interests, shoot the breeze, and get a general idea of the guy's technical aptitude and fit with the company. Talk about projects, see if the guy gets animated. Combine that with some pre-submitted code samples, and you can get a genuine idea of how suited the candidate is."It works. Try it!
Five Best Media Converters [Hive Five] (26)
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We've all been there: you've downloaded an episode of your favorite TV show to watch on your commute or stream to your living room, but the file you downloaded isn't supported on the device you want to use it with. Once a significant obstacle to enjoying your media anywhere, this problem is easily solved by any number of free media converters. On Wednesday we asked you to share your favorite media converters, and today we're ...
Create a Secret Data Stash with a Fake Phonejack [Weekend Project] (18)
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While not as grandiose as having your own secret bookshelf door, constructing a hidden USB data stash won't take a whole weekend and involve a table saw. At the DIY website Instructables there is a step by step tutorial on hiding your data behind a phone jack plate. By wiring a USB cord to the phone plate and making a USB cord with a phone jack terminal at one end, you'll be able to access ...
Ubuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' Beta Delivers Improved UI, New Features (5)
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The first beta for the next major version of Ubuntu Linux is now available for download and testing. While it isn’t finished yet, the beta version of “Intrepid Ibex,” as this release is known, promises a number of important improvements for the popular Linux distribution. The first beta of Ubuntu 8.10 follows in the footsteps of Ubuntu 8.04, nick-named “Hardy Heron,” with incremental upgrades that, while not necessarily flashy and obvious, make for a much ...
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Really? This is improved UI?
Booting into Linux in 5 seconds Flat! & Sathya Says (2)
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At the recently held Linux Plumbers’ Conference, 2 Linux developers, Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds flat. To demonstrate this, they used an Asus EEE PC using a modified Fedora and modified Moblin. In-fact the bootup was so fast that the they actually had to hold the EEE PC, as the bootup was completed well before the projector could warm up and sync. To achieve this, ...
KDDI shows off Samsung-made 3.1-inch WVGA OLED display, 3D LCD panel (1)
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Filed under: Displays It's been almost a full year since Samsung first announced its plans for a 3-inch WVGA OLED panel, but it's now finally delivered, and found a partner in the form of KDDI, which was showing off the panel at CEATEC. As Tech-On notes, the panel is quite the upgrade over Samsung's current top-end 3-inch QVGA panel and, best of all, KDDI says that it'll be showing up in actual products "shortly," though ...
Python 2.6 released, now with json! :) (3)
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Python 2.6 was released yesterday, which has tons of cool new features including a new json library and a new multiprocessing library. The json library is basically simplejson (from a few months ago) minus the Python 2.4/2.5 support and refactored to take advantage of the latest future-compatible features (such as the new str.format method instead of using % format interpolation). The only downside is that I wasn't able to get the latest simplejson 2.0.1 performance ...
New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run For its Money (17)
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(author unknown) via Wired: Compiler shared by 4 people Shared by Thomas Stromberg Coupled with the new native GTK for Aqua on Mac OS X, this appears to kick much ass. Native support for HDR images. The developers behind the GNU Image Manipulation Program, better known as GIMP, have released a new version that features a major overhaul to the program’s user interface. The result is a version of GIMP that behaves much more like ...
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Sweet. Downloaded.
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Coupled with the new native GTK for Aqua on Mac OS X, this appears to kick much ass. Native support for HDR images.
Python 2.6 Arrives, Paving the Way to 3.0 (5)
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The creators of the Python programming language have announced the final release of version 2.6. The new version is the last of the 2.x series; the next Python upgrade will make the leap to 3.0, often called Python 3000. The transition to 3.0 promises to make some radical changes to the language and syntax of Python. With that in mind, the major theme of Python 2.6 is preparing the migration path to Python 3.0. Python ...
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Nerd Fight! Novell Engineer Blasts Ubuntu for not Helping Linux (2)
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Linux kernel developer and Novell engineer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, recently lashed out at competitor Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, for not contributing enough to the Linux community. Kroah-Hartman’s remarks came during his keynote address at the recent Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference, which just kicked off this year, is designed to bring together developers working on Linux’s, well, plumbing — the low level code that most of us take for granted. The ...
The future of mobile (56)
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The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We ...
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TelegramSam said:
Well written, and inline with what I see.
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*salivates*......
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the future for google android?
India cracks down on open WiFi to stem terrorism, chain letters (1)
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Filed under: Wireless Just when you thought you were doing your buddy next door a favor, turns out leaving your WiFi router open to the public is the first step in staging a terrorist bombing -- who knew? The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) reckons the country just isn't ready for that kind of responsibility, seeing as how email over WiFi is all the rage for transmitting instructions to fellow terror-ees these days. The ...
fit-PC slim, the 'world's smallest PC' -- just don't lose it on your desk (25)
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Filed under: Desktops fit-PC Slim is billed as the "smallest, most energy efficient PC available," and at 13 ounces it just might be. Slim is housed in a 330cc enclosure (4.3 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches), draws a mere 6 watts of power, and like the Linutop 2, runs on a 500MHz AMD Geode. This machine is available in a pared-down 256MB configuration (sans WiFi, hard drive) for $220; a 512MB WiFi version (with no ...
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if all your mom will ever do is run the web browser and whatever pre-installed apps you have put on there, this might be flawless.
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Source of terrorism can be traced back to millions of years when GOD got created under the first ever General Public License (Open Source Code) structure.Due to the early open source policy of creators of GOD, self appointed implementation partners may have completely modified the source code to localize the application of GOD. These may or may not include likes of Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Mahavir, Krishna etc. This was fine, as the localized code worked ...Shared by Ankur (20)Contribute commentArs Technica (2242) permalink
Developers of the open source Python programming language have announced the official release of version 2.6. This version makes a nice stepping stone, helping third-party developers migrate their code to the upcoming 3.0 release.Read More...Shared by adam (1079) Alex Dumitru (289) Alexandru Burciu (14) Ankur (20) Anton Kast (2) Arslan Zahid (153) badpazzword (20) Brajeshwar (31) Brendon Smith (6) Bryan Hughes (5) Chris (44) Chris Foresman (6) Christopher Yee Mon (141) DeadRinga (99) Eugene (44) Filip Salindrija (48) Frank Conradie (1) jayess (17) Joelle Nebbe (23) Joey Fan (9) Jonathan Eatherly (2) k00pa (140) Leena (1101) Manuj Darshan (31) Mark Tomlinson (7) Michael (130) Michael Mior (79) Mladen (66) Rakesh (35) Ron (20) Ruben (25) tarun (13) Trevor Wermund (278) Tyson Williams (95) xero (51)Contribute commentMoa's Web Clippings & Notes (2) permalink
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Researchers at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, India, are studying the potential use of carbon nanotubes--hollow carbon fibers--to filter viruses, bacteria, toxic metal ions, and large noxious organic molecules out of water. According to Physorg.com, "the smooth and water repellant interior of carbon nanotubes means that a filter based on this technology would be very efficient, allowing a high flow rate of water through the filter without fouling. Importantly, the power needed ...Shared by Ankur (20) Danielle (64)Contribute comment
