Make an Über-Blog Using FriendFeed's API (11)
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The all-seeing über-blog. Take a drink from the RSS firehose using FriendFeed's API to aggregate all your liveblogging services into one hosted blog. With a little PHP code, we'll show you how to parse your feeds together into one Eye of Sauron -- Skynet style. Obey the über-blog. Be the über-blog.
HearWho Converts Text to MP3 [Reading] (27)
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Free webapp Hearwho converts text you enter into an MP3 audio file you can download. Select from a male or female voice, English or Spanish text conversion, and choose the quality of the resulting file at Hearwho. Similar to previously covered VozMe, the results are no substitute for a professional actor hired to read an audio book, but if you've got text you'd like to listen to while commuting or working out the results aren't ...
Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation (26)
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Penguinisto writes "According to a somewhat jaw-dropping story in The Register, it appears that Microsoft has performed a trifecta of geek-scaring feats: They have joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Platinum member(at $100K USD a year), submitted LGPL-licensed patches for ADOdb, and have pledged to expand their Open Specifications Promise by adding to the list more than 100 protocols for interoperability between its Windows Server and the Windows client. While I sincerely doubt they'll ...
Nokia E71 Is a Legit iPhone Killer We're Serious This Time (14)
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There may be a glut of devices trying to beat the iPhone out there but none of them come close to eclipsing the Jesus phone. Now we have a true contender. The Nokia E71 is everything the iPhone 3G isn't: open source, easy to type on, loaded with a decent camera and great business apps. Oh yeah, it's unlocked too.
CMC 2009: International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (China) (1)
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RAFFY'S WORLD (Random Notes, Random Thoughts of a Pisay '77 and Atenean Blogger) (0)
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.2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING (CMC 2009)January 6-8, 2009Kunming, Yunnan, ChinaCALL FOR PAPERS:CMC 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in communications and mobile computing. We invite you to submit your original papers on the most recent results and technology trends to one of the 5 symposiums listed below.CMC 2009 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer ...
Furoshiki how-to (16)
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Here's an Instructable and video on Furoshiki, the Japanese art of cloth-folding to make various bags, carry-alls, and sacks. Paper, Plastic, or Furoshiki? Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Toolbox | Digg this!
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Raleigh said:
Really cool!Here's one you should like Rachel...
Ambidextrous drawing (9)
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Citizen Engineer - Phones: SIM card & payphone hacking (10)
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Citizen Engineer is an online video series about open source hardware, electronics, art and hacking. The first video debuted at "The Last HOPE" conference today in New York City. Volume 1is about phones: SIM card & payphone hacking. Learn how a SIM card works (the small card inside GSM cell phones) make a SIM card reader, view deleted messages, phone book entries and clone/crack a SIM card. Modify a "retired" payphone so it can be ...
Gallery: VC Money Drives Solar-Tech Innovation Around the World (9)
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: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comSAN FRANCISCO -- Despite uneven support from the U.S. government, solar power is experiencing a global explosion. Concerns over climate change and rising energy prices have driven billions of dollars into developing the efficiency and variety of technologies that capture power from the sun. And we're not just talking about new photovoltaic panels. The entire production chain is being re-engineered, from materials to manufacturing process to solar tracking. Check out the hottest ...
