Snow Day (1)
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I love that it snowed last night on the upper mountain at Whistler. Summer is wonderful in the mountains, but the first signs of a shift to fall -- cooler nights, surprise snowfalls, etc. – always make my heart beat a little faster. The current picture from Whistler’s Roundhouse webcam is here.
OpenSolaris supports EBS - provides capability to create ZFS (1)
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How to use EBS with OpenSolaris AMI Today Amazon Web Services announced availability of most awaited feature of Persistent Storage (officially called as Elastic Block Storage) on EC2 cloud. And we are excited to announce that OpenSolaris does support creating ZFS file system on EBS. ZFS is the default filesystem in OpenSolaris and provides data integrity by 128-bit checksumming and has Rollback features to roll back any changes in the filessystem to previous consistent state. ...
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Michael said:
Still waiting for mount point details for Solaris instances
Why You Should Never Talk to the Police (61)
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This is an engaging and fascinating video presentation by Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law, explaining why -- in a criminal matter -- you should never, ever, ever talk to the police or any other government agent. It doesn't matter if you're guilty or innocent, if you have an alibi or not -- it isn't possible for anything you to say to help you, and it's very possible that innocuous things ...
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Ben said:
In case you need a few more reasons never to talk to cops.
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André said:
Para quem vai aos US.
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Michael said:
Yes officer, I confess. Errr, wait a minute... ahhh nevermind.
First Look: Exposure for the iPhone (Scott McNulty/The Unofficial Apple Weblog) (1)
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Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: First Look: Exposure for the iPhone — It seems like only yesterday I was writing about Exposure, the iPhone native Flickr browser, in a rather circumspect manner. Now that the App Store is out I took Exposure (available in a free version and a premium version) for a spin and I really liked what I saw.
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Michael said:
Photos Near Me is a groovy feature of this app. Not sure it's worth the $600 for a new iPhone.
Stuck With a Gen 1 iPhone? Flipswap It (2)
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Sending in your old phone or iPod for money isn’t anything new, but I recently found Flipswap and they’re a little bit different than other services out there. For one thing, everything is free and they even pay for your shipping costs. I’m not sure how their algorithm works, but they claim to give the highest trade-in value for your phone. Simply input your info, answer a few questions about the device and the phone’s ...
Swurl’s Lifecasting Generates Your Blog For You (4)
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Everyone likes to share their thoughts and activities with friends and family, but, narcissists aside, most people don’t have time to spend hours each week blogging about their life. Swurl, a new startup that just launched in public beta, is looking to fix this problem. Swurl is essentially a lifecasting aggregator that pulls your current activity from web services that include Last.fm, Flickr, Amazon, and nearly twenty other sources (you can see the full list ...
StrollAway (1)
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Strollers these days are huge, mammoth contraptions. Sure they fold up nicely, but you still have to find a place to put them. Once we got this hook, rather than just parking our stroller in the kitchen or dining room, we created a set, out-of-the-way place to store it. And since it's off the floor, that gives us more space to fill up with more baby stuff. The hook is strong (we have a Quinny ...
Jaxtr Finally Enables Out-of-Network Calling, Raises $10 Million (1)
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Jaxtr, the online VoIP service that also offers a social network, has launched out-of-network calling that will allow users to call phone lines around the world. The new service will allow users to call family and friends (even non-members) from their own phones for a fraction of the costs associated with traditional long distance calling. The company has also raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. To use ...
Easy Website Highlighting and Notes with Awesome Highlighter (1)
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I believe we’ve all experienced some of the repercussions that have come from having so much information at our fingertips. We’ve seen plenty of social bookmarking sites pop-up and we’ve also seen interesting developments with social annotating sites like Fleck and Stickis (we compared five social annotation sites here). All are attempting the same task - organizing and categorizing information on the web. Recently, a Y Combinator-backed startup called Awesome Highlighter has started to make ...
A Blooming Great Idea (2)
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Gmail Right Click Menu Speeds Up Navigation [Featured Greasemonkey User Script] (2)
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Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Gmail Right Click Menu adds a custom right-click menu to your Gmail inbox to take you to common Gmail navigation points. Currently that includes most of the links in the default Gmail sidebar, like your inbox, starred email, and drafts, along with a quick compose link. The script is still very new, but the developer has plans to incorporate labels and keyboard shortcuts, making this one very cool and promising script. ...
Open Source for the Cloud (1)
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Eucalyptus, an open-source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon’s EC2, directly using the Amazon command-line tools, was released today. For the full story, and a way to download Eucalyptus, head over to OStatic . If this story interests you then you should definitely check out our upcoming conference, Structure 08.
Goosh: a retro Web app with cutting-edge interface (Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com) (1)
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Goosh: a retro Web app with cutting-edge interface — If ever something was neither fish nor fowl, it's Goosh, a Web-based command-line interface for Google. — On the one hand, Goosh creator Stefan Grothkopp shows off the power of Web 2. applications, with the browser becoming …
Other Diddleys (1)
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Gosh, Bo Diddley’s gone. Which instantly reaffirmed one Internet lesson: if you want to boost the popularity of your YouTube videos, die. My two favorites (via Twitter today): Mona, with Tom Petty (listen to Bo’s guitar) and then this ancient B&W TV shoot with a young Bo and lots of screaming Sixties girls. But man, I love that rhythm, and lots of other people have played it well. I’ve always smiled at George Thorogood’s take ...
The Filter Launches, With A Message From Peter Gabriel (2)
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The Filter, the media recommendation engine that we covered last April, has opened its doors to the public. The Peter Gabriel-backed company offers an entertainment start page that provides recommendations on movies, music, and online video (it is mostly focused on perfecting its music recommendations for the time being). In the following video Peter Gabriel explains why we need sites like The Filter to reduce the overwhelming abundance of information available online down to a ...
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cgranier said:
Someone else who understands the need for editors and curators...
TC40 Startup BeFunky Gets a Seed Round (2)
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Turkish startup BeFunky has closed its first round of venture funding from Golden Horn Ventures in Istanbul. The amount raised was $550,000. Previously, the company raised $250,000 in seed capital in January, 2007. BeFunky launched at TechCrunch 40 last year. Founded by Tekin Tatar and Kemal Ozisikcilar, BeFunky offers two services: The Cartoonizer and Uvatar. The Cartoonizer lets you upload photos and give them a cartoon effect. Uvatar lets you create a more realistic avatar ...
