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After fire, spark went out for Woodward's owner
via GoUpstate.com Business Headlines by (author unknown) on February 04, 2008
Charles “Spot” Whitmire, who operated one of the oldest black-owned businesses in Spartanburg, died Sunday after a brief battle with cancer. He was 76.
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Duke Energy profit down on discontinued operations, higher costs
via GoUpstate.com Business Headlines by (author unknown) on February 04, 2008
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Duke Energy Corp., one of the nation’s largest electric power companies, said today its fourth-quarter profit fell 30 percent hurt by discontinued operations and higher maintenance costs.
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Convert PDF Files Into 3D Magazines, Embed in Web Pages - Issuu
via Digital Inspiration by Amit on February 04, 2008
Issuu (prononced “issue”) is an impressive service where you upload PDF documents and they are instantly converted into 3D flip magazines which you can embed in blogs or websites. Your visitors can turn the pages of the PDF with their mouse or jump to any specific page by clicking the thumbnail image of the page. In other words, Issuu makes your PDF files look almost the same as a physical...
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Measure Distance Between Two Locations Using Google Maps
via Digital Inspiration by Amit on February 04, 2008
... for more accurate numbers, trace the complete route by clicking at all the curves and deviations as below:In this example we measured the distance between the car parking of Taj Mahal and the actual monument - one has to cover 1.4 km on foot before he gets in.Related: How to Find Latitude Longitude from Google MapsMeasure Distance Between Two Locations Using Google Maps - Digital Inspiration
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Podcasting Becoming More Popular, Advertisers Take Notice
via ReadWriteWeb by Guest Author on February 04, 2008
This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips.The US podcasting market has steadily been increasing in size over the last couple of years and is expected to double within the next two years to almost 38 million people, according to eMarketer. With these kinds of numbers, podcasters and advertisers are starting to look into ways to generate...
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Keeping Tabs on Super Tuesday
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 04, 2008
Today is so-called "Super Tuesday" in the US. Voters in 24 states are heading to the polls -- including in large population states like New York, California, and Illinois -- to decide who get to face off for the job of US president as the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties. After the votes have been counted tonight, 52% of the Democratic and 41% of the Republican delegates will...
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Yes we can?
via dwax.org - . Homesite of Dustin M. Wax: anthropologist, writer, educator, and freelance thinker . by Dustin on February 04, 2008
This blog started in political disappointment. I started blogging in the days running up to and immediately after the 2000 election that essentially destroyed America. I hated seeing the Democrats going after the staunchest defenders of progressive values in attacking the Nader campaign, I hated seeing Bush take the White House despite his clear lack of an electoral mandate (losing by a loophole...
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From the Desk of the WGA President
via the TV addict by theTVaddict on February 03, 2008
To Our Fellow Members,While fully mindful of the continuing media blackout, we write you to address the rumors and reports that undoubtedly you have been hearing.The facts: we are still in talks and do not yet have a contract. When and if a tentative agreement is reached, the first thing we will do is alert our membership with an e-mail message. Until then, please disregard rumors about either...
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The mother of all USB hubs
via Terry White's Tech Blog by terrywhite on February 03, 2008
You may remember that I put out a call to the readers of this blog for recommendations on a good USB hub. Most readers came back with Belkin as a suggestion and well, I took your suggestions and standardized on Belkin USB 2.0 hubs throughout my house. In most cases the Belkin 7 port USB 2.0 hub provided enough ports for most of the computers in my house. However, my main production desktop...
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