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Make your own solid-state hard drive and save
via Crave: The gadget blog by Dong Ngo on July 02, 2008
The CR2T has the same form factor as a regular 2.5-inch SATA hard drive.(Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET Networks)No moving parts, shock resistant, and incredibly short seek time are some of many benefits you get from a solid-state hard drive. However, for now, the price for a SSD ...
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Could Anything Disrupt Google?
via RB | New | min 3 by (author unknown) on June 29, 2008
Shared by Zahra HB :))))Sam via Leveraging Ideas shared by 4 peopleGoogle seems to be on a tear. The 100 pound gorilla in the technology space. Unstoppable.But…Storage space is increasingly a commodity as evidenced by Google’s Gmail.What happens when a user can download the entire Internet?Searches could then be conducted instantaneously. Advertisements would be unnecessary.Thoughts?
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Where to run the One Machine?
via RB | Top by (author unknown) on June 26, 2008
Chris Anderson via The Long Tail shared by 16 peopleIn the new issue of Wired, Kevin Kelly has written another one of his patented mind grenades: the observation that the Internet has now hit approximate computational equivalence to a single human brain:A hyperlink is much like a synapse in the brain. Both work by making associations between nodes. Each unit of thinking in the brain — an...
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Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future
via RB | Top by (author unknown) on June 26, 2008
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz via Smashing Magazine shared by 11 peopleThis article is a guest post written by Dirk Jesse, the developer of YAML (Yet Another Multicolumn Layout), an (X)HTML&CSS framework which explains his motivation for YAML in the last paragraph of the article. This article is supposed to initiate the discussion about the need for more flexible layouts in modern web...
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The Next Big Thing
via Geek And Poke by (author unknown) on June 26, 2008
Shared by Nico haha :)It may be that I've already done a similar cartoon. I can't remember. If so, sorry!Download next-big-thing.comicdoc
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Google's view: Three trends in social networking
via Webware.com by Rafe Needleman on June 17, 2008
... social Web.(Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET Networks)Discovery is becoming socialThis was the most telling tidbit from Kraus' talk. He noted that searching on Google is good, but having your friends help you find what you're looking for is better. He gave an example of how social discovery can work--putting a status message in the IM field in Gmail and waiting for people to chime in to h...
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Firefox 3.0: available now (almost)
via Engadget by Thomas Ricker on June 17, 2008
Go get it kids, Firefox 3.0 has just been released. We're out of beta and looking at web page loads 3- to 4-times faster than Firefox 2.0 and more than 7x faster than IE, according to its makers.Update: Looks like we're getting ahead of ourselves. Although a file titled, "Firefox 3.0" (without the RC# associated with previous release candidates) is active and available to download, it...
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How Canada's DMCA will criminalize everyday Canadians
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on June 17, 2008
Michael Geist has begun a new series on the Canadian DMCA, Industry Minister Jim Prentice's no-consultation copyright law. In the five part series, Geist will show how the Canadian DMCA will criminalize out of the daily activities of a hypothetical Canadian family.Jim and Josee live in a Calgary suburb together with their three children Stephen (age 16), Rona (age 10), and Diane (age 4). ...
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Homestar Spa Planetarium
via Ubergizmo by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
Sega Toys has breathed new life into its home planetarium toy by introducing a new version that is meant to function in the bathroom while packing in a smaller size. Dubbed the Homestar Spa, this tiny planetarium is shaped like the planet Jupiter and will turn your bathroom into a night wonderland for approximately $70. Of course, at that price you would expect more than just that and the...
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Why You Should Carry a Digital Camera At All Times [Nature]
via Gizmodo by Adam Frucci on June 16, 2008
Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover. This, my friends, is why always having a camera nearby is handy. Oh, and no one was injured during this tornado, fortunately. [NY Times]
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