Full WEB 2.0 API List

A comprehensive list of hundreds of Web 2.0 APIs.

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Filmmaker's Tool Kit: Creating a Movie with Web 2.0

I n this post I will show you the tools you need to go from idea to finished film using as many web 2.0 products as possible. The tool kit below will help you take your idea from start to finish and fulfill your dream of winning an Oscar (okay, maybe not, but you have to start somewhere). This is film making on a budget...

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Geek To Live: Partition and Image Your Hard Drive with the System Rescue CD

You've reinstalled Windows from scratch again but this time you want to preserve your sparkling clean setup for instant restoration down the road. Instead of dropping cash on Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, burn yourself a free, bootable Linux-based System Rescue CD. The System Rescue CD includes open source tools GParted

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Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux

Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.

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Hacker accesses a Nuclear plant as easy as opening a can of beans

The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet. Lunsford, a researcher for IBM's Internet Security Systems, found otherwise.

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12 Great Do-It-Yourself PC Projects

With a few hours of time and a little D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) spirit, you can make some major improvements to the PCs and networks you use at home or for your small business. We picked out twelve such projects, and asked some of our experts to step you through them. Turn a PC Into an HD Media Server

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Sony to Sell TV Downloading Device

TOKYO -- Sony Corp. said it plans to sell a device in Europe that lets users record television programs onto their PlayStation 3 videogame console and then transfer them to the PlayStation Portable, as it aims to boost lagging sales of both devices.

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Dear Palm: It's time for an intervention

We know things haven't really been going your way lately, but we want you to know that we haven't given up on you, even though it might seem like the only smartphone anyone wants to talk about these days is the iPhone.

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Mobile Minute goes back to school - using Windows Mobile on Campus

Windows Mobile devices include some great tools for students, including a basic calculator, calendar, and mobile versions of Word and Excel. But if you want to get the most out of your PDA on campus, you'll probably want to check out some more advanced tools for text entry, note taking, and organization

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5 ways to speedup javascript

a great article on ways to make your javascript apps faster.

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Just for laughs: 8 comedy video sites

If comedy is your thing, the Web can be a funny place. Finding the laughs, however, is no laughing matter.

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EasyCropper Launched: Crop images for the web

EasyCropper is a dead–simple way for you to crop any image for use on the web. It has a ton of javascript goodness and even looks pretty too! EasyCropper was built with Merb (Ruby framework similar to Rails), ImageMagick, and MooTools.

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Want to learn Php? Easy!

This website has some of the most helpful tutorials on php I have ever read. Reading all these tutorials will make you learn more about php than you have ever known, and humor is also included.

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27 Great Tips to Keep Your Life Organized

"It’s a rare person among us who doesn’t feel the need to get more organized. I consider myself fairly organized, for example, but there are times when I get a little lax about my organizational rules, and there’s always room for improvement."

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Microsoft's Biggest Purchase Ever

Microsoft has completed the largest purchase in its history, sealing its $6 billion takeover of Internet advertising firm Aquantive. "Today we take a significant step forward in our ability to capture share of the $40 billion online-ad opportunity and the larger $600 billion ad market, which is rapidly shifting to the world of online"

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Cool Tool: Find Out What Technologies a Site is Built With

Ever wonder about the technologies that power your favorite websites? BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

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PingMe: What *should* you be doing?

PingMe is a free interactive reminder service for e-mail accounts and mobile devices that provides facilities to create new reminders and reschedule pending ones from your mobile device. It's cool because there's no need for additional software or syncing, you interact with the service via text message (aside from initial setup on the website).

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Nokia: Woops! 46 Million Batteries May Overheat

Nokia Corp. is offering to replace 46 million batteries manufactured by another company for use in its mobile phones because of a risk of overheating, Nokia said on Tuesday.

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What makes a great movie?

A film that wins critical acclaim is likely to be an R-rated drama, adapted from a prize-winning play or book and based on a true story, with the original author or director involved in writing the screenplay.

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8 Foods That You Should Eat Every Day

Eat these eight foods every day to cover all your nutritional bases. Our all-star panel of doctors, scientists, nutritionists, and chefs will tell you why and show you how.

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11 Steps to a Better Brain

It doesn't matter how brainy you are or how much education you've had - you can still improve and expand your mind. Boosting your mental faculties doesn't have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive book worm. There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you.

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Hardening your systems with Bastille Linux

System administrators need to secure their systems while avoiding locking them down so strictly that they become useless. Bastille is a software tool that eases the process of hardening a Linux system.

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IBM readies Lotus Notes 8

IBM is preparing to ship a new version of its Lotus Notes and Domino applications on 17 August, according to a company website that was published on Tuesday.

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Kazacos acquires Sensis' Invizage - www.crn.com.au

Peter Kazacos, the man that left Kaz to Telstra has returned to buy up an arm of Sensis.

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Xandros celebrates Microsoft union with patents

The open source specialist will implement Microsoft's ActiveSync and Outlook-Exchange Transport protocols, enabling over-the-air synchronization of email and calendaring between mobile devices and servers, and improved communication between email on Windows clients and Xandros's Scalix sever

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Researchers Create Paper-Like Battery

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a paper-sized device that functions as a high-energy battery and a supercapacitor that can use human blood and sweat to recharge.

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How to "Fail Proof" Your Day and Your Life

Are you constantly forgetting things when you leave the house, missing appointments, searching for your keys, and more? If so, you're not alone. Modern life is very hectic. We've all got a lot going on and consequently our minds are scattered. You'll be happy to know that there is an easy solution.

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The 11 Best Movie-Effect Photoshop Tutorials

11 of the best tutorials that make your photos look like the movies. From Scarface to Pirates of the Carribean to '300' to A Scanner Darkly. It's all here.

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Power replacements for built-in Windows utilities

Power users need power utilities, and Windows' default system programs barely get the job done. Over time third-party developers have stepped and build superior replacements to programs like Notepad, Paint, Windows Explorer and the Command Prompt. Get the simple jobs done smarter, faster and more efficiently with these free utitlites

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Green Basics: Hybrid Cars

One of the most symbolic and popular symbols of the "green" movement is the hybrid-electric car, known better as simply the hybrid car. These vehicles extend the functionality of traditional internal combustion engines by combining them with a battery-powered electric motor, which takes some of the work off the combustion engine's hands.

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No More Hard Drive: 100 Free Apps to Go Online-Only

Why is it that despite the fact that you can do virtually anything from anywhere through the Net, most of us are still tethered to our computer because of the need for access to basic desktop software? In this article, we highlight 100 free webware apps which will help you cut the cord from your computer and its traditional desktop software.

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The New Psychology of Leadership Discovered

Recent research in psychology points to secrets of effective leadership that radically challenge conventional wisdom

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Leaked Vista Hotfix Packs Now Official

You may now download two Windows Vista updates that had leaked to the Internet at the end of July. No word on when they reach Windows Update.

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Google Rolls Out Storage Services

Web search and Internet services company Google Inc. on Friday began selling expanded online storage, targeted for users with large picture, music or video file collections.

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An Entire Bookshelf, in Your Hands (on your mobile)

A variety of digital tools, from cell phones to dedicated readers, are now available for cracking open electronic books. This is why I use the nokia 9300.

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How to Work Like the Masters

When I need work done on my car, I consult with a mechanic. When it's time to build a deck in the backyard, I will search for an expert and listen to what he says. So when it comes to life itself, why wouldn't you at least consider what experts think? Trust me, I completely understand that the term 'expert' is often self-proclaimed.

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A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality

An article on why hiring average, or even below average, programmers costs your company more money than it saves. Tips for hiring experts.

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10 Things You Should Know About Microsoft's Silverlight

With the public release of Silverlight imminent, now is the right time to become familiar with the software and how it might affect your Web application strategy. Find out what is important and what is hype.

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Awesome List of Office 2.0 Web Applications

I don't think there is a better list.

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350 TV like channels you can watch in your browser

Index of around 350 TV like channels you can watch in your browser. Some are really cool.

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Google Video gets it wrong 3 times

Description: Google now dominates the internet video owning more than 50% or the market. But Google messed up 3 times before it got there.

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5 Ways to Send Mail on the Go

Sooner or later, you’ll hit some combination where the network and the outgoing email refuse to speak to each other. Perhaps your ISP blocks access to your SMTP server when you’re not logging in directly through their network. Perhaps the standard port 25 is blocked at your location. Here's what you gotta do.

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Six things you need to know about developing mobile applications

There's a revolution underway in which intelligent mobile devices are becoming intelligent front-ends for enterprise applications

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Amazon Launches Payments Service to Rival PayPal

Amazon’s Jeff Barr is announcing tonight the launch of another web service that should appeal to developers. The previously rumored Flexible Payments Service provides everything developers need to set up payments on their sites, far more so than the Paypal API

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Your mobile will tell where you can find your alternative fuel of choice

One of the biggest barriers to switching over to new, cleaner fuels is that they're harder to find than good ol' unleaded. It's great if you have a truck that runs on E-85,

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Sorry Guy It's Not So Easy: The Flip Side of Entrepreneurship

Great guest post by Glenn Kelman, who offers a counterpoint to Guy Kawasaki's posting about how easy it is to make millions of dollars with "user-generated, long-tail, Web 2.0, social-networking, open-source content." Glenn brings things back to reality and shows how hard, not how easy, it is to build a new company.

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YouLicense, The Music Licensing Marketplace Is Out of Closed Beta

YouLicense, the site that offers artists the chance to license their music online is now open to the public.

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100 Tips to Improve your Life

A group of high profile 'personal productivity' bloggers collected a list of the 100 best “tips to improve your life.” Leo Babauta, author of Zen Habits compiled the list. While not specific to creative professionals, the list includes tips that are likely to boost overall effectiveness and the impact we are able to make with our ideas.

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10 Tips for Razor Sharp Concentration

Writing to-do lists and keeping a schedule may keep you organized, but does it really help you get more done? I believe that organization is important, but what you really need is focus.

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How To: Bulletproof Server Backups with Amazon S3

"We all know that it is important to keep recent backups of anything you value at all, so why not automate the process?"

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150 Resources to Help You Write Better, Faster, and More Persuasively

"As a student, writer, author, journalist, poet, or screenwriter, you know that you probably spend more time on research, editing, and proofreading than you do on the actual writing... our list comes to your rescue, as the following links focus on taking the "monkey work" out of writing."

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Cell phones light up operating room during blackout

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout in a city in central Argentina, reports said on Saturday.

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Predict the Weather Without a Forecast

Some nice tips on ways to possibly predict the weather

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Design Better with CRAP

Probably not what you were thinking :) CRAP = Contrast / Repetition / Alignment / Proximity and all design starts from these four basic principles.

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467 + Ajax/Javascript/Dhtml examples and demos to download

A great and useful collection.

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Lessons from J.K. Rowlings: Protecting Intellectual Property

How J.K. Rowling protects her "Harry Potter" intellectual property rights is a lesson that IT professionals should learn.

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384-Page Book Written by a Commuter on His Mobile Phone

IT professional Robert Bernocco took advantage of his long commute by writing a book on his Nokia using T9 predictive text.

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Who's Minding the Mind?

The subconscious brain is more active, independent and purposeful than once thought. Sometimes it takes charge.

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How To Know When Being Given A New Title Means You Just Got Fired

There are lots of ways to be shown the door as an executive. Being given a meaningless, bad title is the weapon of choice for acquiring companies.

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