Monday, December 24, 2007

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications

Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.


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How to Build a Web App in 48 Hours

Do you have an idea for a web app? Looking to get it ramped up with a quickness? Here are some steps that will help you fly through a 48 hour development blitz.

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Chat Rooms Are Dead! Long Live the Chat Room!

Columnist John C. Dvorak's showing his age in his latest column, going way back to CompuServe's CB simulator from 1979 to make a point about today's dying chat rooms. The point of this column, which I kind of agree with, is that people still want to chat, but the current systems are a mess

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

12 Lessons from Top Business Masters

Warren Buffet, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey and many more share their wisdom with you.

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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Ars Technica: Who should Apple buy? Nintendo? Adobe? TiVo?

To put these spectacular numbers in a larger, more spectacular perspective, six months ago Apple was valued at some $100 billion. Today, it is over $170 billion, and will almost certainly break $200 billion by Macworld Expo next month.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Extreme Home Engineering: How To Build Your Own TiVo

Building your own TiVo—or FreeVo, as some call it—is more than a dream. It’s more than a trend. It’s the new cool way to stick it to The (TiVo) Man while impressing your friends.

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Three Communication Tips that Will Take You to the Top

A handful of core assets that are consistently sought out and rewarded.

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Friday, November 23, 2007

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Vodafone AUS data plans 3 dec 2007

looks like we will see 5gb for $39.95 from voda this year... looks good

How to take a course at MIT free -- at home

"You may not have the grades, the money or even the means to get to a physics class with one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's best lecturers."

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20+ Public Domain E-Book Sources

"...list of 20+ sources for e-books for your use."

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Top 4 Most Compelling Theories of Everything

There have been numerous theories of everything proposed by theoretical physicists over the last century, but as yet none has been able to stand up to experimental scrutiny, there being tremendous difficulty in getting the theories to produce experimentally testable results. So here are the top 5 most important Theories of Everything nowdays

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49 Open Source Projects in the Spotlight

Open source projects that deserve a round of applause, from the desktop to multimedia to games. Even one called "Gramps." Who names a GPL project Gramps?

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

An early look at Google's Android (photo slideshow)

Here's what you, the consumer, would really want to know: An Android phone will most likely support a webkit-compatible browser, Wi-Fi, GSM technology (like EDGE and HSDPA), 3G, threaded text messaging, a photo gallery (with a filmstrip plus grid album view), plus a touch screen.

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What Web Writers Can Learn from the Writer’s Strike

The point for you is this. If you’re freelancing for online producers or blogging for hire, you’re setting yourself up to be exploited. No wait… you are being exploited

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Why I don't go to the movies

This says it all! Too much to comment here... check out the post!

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Top 10 Mistakes of Rookie Filmmakers

Nobody can can cover everything you need to know in a short article, but I can point out the ten most common mistakes I see over and over. Make sure the time you invest into videography is time well spent and not time wasted.

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Picture: Yahoo vs. Google 1996 to 2005

The power of simplicity versus the portal mistake.

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gOS: Where Computers Are Headed

We reported Thursday on the gPC going on sale at Wal-Mart, a $199 bare bones PC that runs a Linux package by the name of gOS. Unlike some initial reports suggested, this isn’t the long fabled Google Operating System, but the folks behind it most definitely had Google on their mind.

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