Archive for Technology
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How to Create iPhone and iTouch Apps.
The response to the iPhone is overwhelming. The App Store has captured the hobbyist’s imagination like no other platform in recent memory. Hobbyists have made—and will continue making—money from their creations sold on the App Store. And we aren’t necessarily talking about high-minded techni...
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IPTV Meets Video On Demand at 1080p
UBalance, an IPTV provider, has partnered with MatrixStream to launch the first Video on Demand (VOD) and live HD 1080p IPTV deployment over a best effort network without QoS (quality of service) in South Korea. With the world’s highest rate of broadband penetration, South Korea is already wir...
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Companies Aren’t Archiving Emails. Are You Archiving Your Own Emails?
Remember that email you got with that password you needed? Where is that email with your bank information or vacation itinerary? We've all seen Microsoft Outlook email archiving pop up and often they hit yes to archive old emails without knowing what it does. What is email archiving and how do...
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Did you ever want to completely erase everything on your computer?
Did you ever want to erase everything on your computer? This is a program I found that does that for you quickly and easily. Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibil...
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Finally the iPhone Gets MMS This Friday
So much for the "late summer" release date Apple. At least the iPhone is getting it's upgrade to be able to send and receive images and video via MMS. I knew the iPhone was good for more than just talking on the phone and finding local prices of houses. via AT&T's Facebook page: MMS Update: We kn...
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How to Pick and Bump a Lock – Just In Case You Need To
Pin tumbler locks, from the cheapest to the most expensive all work in roughly the same way. The key slides down the keyway in the inner cylinder of the lock. As it moves, the cuts in the key move stacks of two or more pins, moving in holes drilled through the outer and inner cylinder. Small springs...
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A Cure for Crohns Disease with Viagra?
Researchers in London have discovered that a weak immune response instigates Crohn's disease, possibly laying to rest the popular belief that an auto-immune condition is to blame. In a recent study, scientists at University College in London found that people with Crohn's disease, a chronic infl...
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Using the iPhone and Internet to Find Local House Prices in a Neighborhood
A number of websites compile data about housing prices and communities which has made the process of researching real estate values much easier. When a home sells, the sales price is entered into the public record, which means that it is possible to look up sales prices for a particular community, a...
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Show Us Your Desk and Win the LG 23 Inch Smart Monitor
I got up last saturday morning and got an email from Nick at LG saying he dug this blog and some of the technology articles we've wrote. He wanted to see if I would be interested in trying out one of LG's new Smart Monitors and doing a little review on the blog about my experiences. I have a pair of...
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Most Popular Ringtones for Your Cell phone
How do you know if your cell phone ringtones are popular ringtones? Just check the Billboard charts for the Popular Ringtones. Billboard magazine, a weekly publication that keeps track of the most popular songs and albums, also ranks the hottest ringtones available for download. Get your 1...
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Blue M&Ms Prevent Paralysis and Reduce Spinal Injury
A new study has revealed that a common food dye that gives M&Ms and Gatorade their blue tint might help in treating spinal cord injury. It has shown promise for preventing the additional – and serious – secondary damage that immediately follows a traumatic injury to the spine. In the new s...
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Brain Performance Exercise Games Make You Smarter… Kinda
As we get older... and we are getting older, there are certain brain functions that could benefit from a brain sharpening exercise game. What? Now I have to have an exercise routine for my brain? It doesn't involve heavy lifting don't worry. Thanks to brain improvement sites you can play fun game...
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Windows Loves RSS
Earlier today, I went to downtown Seattle to Gnomedex 5.0, and stood up in front of 300 tech influentials, enthusiasts and leaders to talk about some really exciting things that we’ve been working on for the past several months. The main thing I talked about is the deep platform support fo...
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Cool Your PC With Parts From Home Depot
So the other day I'm sitting in my home office and the GPU fan in my PC decides to start doing the dry-bearing death rattle. Just great, more noise. With the bad GPU fan, the inefficient CPU fan, PSU fan and two case fans the thing sounds like a garbage disposal ingesting a hand full of TTL logic ch...
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Visit anyplace in the world in 3D. FREE!
Want to visit anyplace in the world from 3D satelite images right from you computer. Want to do it for free? Download World Wind from NASA. World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, Wor...
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Cheap Cool stuff
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How Handmade Wood Pens Are Made
Recently I acquired a handcrafted wood pen. If you have never owned or seen a wooden pen you really don't know what you are missing. Wood pens are definitely the most elegant writing utensils one can own. But what goes into making a handcrafted wood pen? Considering the fact that a wooden pen sta...
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Dont Install Firefox 3 Over Firefox 2 Or You Will Lose Some Add-on Funtionality
Download the New Firefox 3 But Don't Install it Yet Mozilla has just announced their release of Firefox 3. Are you going to help break the world record? This newest version of Firefox is said to be much faster and will consume far less memory than it's predecessors with a few extra enhancements to ...
