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08 Apr 2008
Works For Me: Free Fonts
I was chatting with my designer buddy Jules last week, when she casually mentioned that I should check out Urban Fonts, home to roughly 38 quadzillion free fonts. Free! Fonts! And now, my poor little Dell laptop is wailing and gnashing its teeth, groaning under all the weight of the. ...
Oracle scans BEA code for GPL and LGPL
April 8, 2008
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'Business-friendly' OK Oracle is sifting through millions of lines of code in BEA Systems WebLogic and AquaLogic, to check that products are, as claimed free of unwanted open source licenses.… ...
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Hands-On: HP Mini-Note
April 8, 2008
LAPTOP Magazine: The Pulse of Mobile Technology
In the words of Nelly, “It’s getting hot in here!” In the low-cost laptop market that is. We can now welcome HP, the number-one PC manufacturer in 2007, to the sub-$500 notebook club ...
Discussions:- dailywireless.org: HP’s Mini-Note UMPC
- LaptopMag.com RSS Fe ...: HP 2133 Mini-Note
- Engadget: HP Mini-Note 2133 officially official, reviewed
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Google App Engine: An Early Look
April 8, 2008
Mashable! / Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
So the big news of the midnight is that Google has launched their application cloud service. It has hands down the cartooniest looking logo of any Google service I’ve laid eyes on. It has the ...
Discussions:- UX Magazine: Google App Engine
- Product Reviews Net: Google App Engine: What is it?
- fudge.org: My first Google App Engine: Are my cats sleeping?
- maxdesign.com.au: Some links for light reading (8/4/08)
- Socklabs's Activity ...: Nick Gerakines saved the link YouTube - Developing ...
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Put a finer point on your Gmail searches
April 8, 2008
CNET News.com - Media
Apply operators to find the messages you're looking for faster; plus, lighten your workload by using keyboard shortcuts. ...
Discussions:- Webware.com: Speed up Gmail searches the old-fashioned way
- Infomaniac: Behind t ...: American tribes, another election story (myth?) gr ...
- Andy Beal's Marketin ...: Pilgrim’s Picks for April 8 - “How to” Editi ...
- CNET News.com - Medi ...: IBM introduces security for virtual computing envi ...
- CNET News.com | Tech ...: Put a finer point on your Gmail searches
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Google App Engine: Cloud Control to Major Tom
April 8, 2008
ReadWriteWeb / Richard MacManus
Google has just launched Google App Engine, "a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google's infrastructure." This will allow startups to use Google's web servers, ...
Discussions:- RIApedia: Google Launches Web App Hosting Service
- SearchViews.com: Google Launches App Engine
- A Media Circus: Links for 2008-04-07 [del.icio.us]
- SmoothSpan Blog: Bob Warfield
- //steve clayton: gee ...: Cloud Programming for Dummies
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Video on Flickr! (Heather Champ/Flickr Blog)
Heather Champ / Flickr Blog:
Video on Flickr! — Also available in: Deutsch, , Español, Português — Video! Video! Video! The rumours are true and “soon” is now. We're thrilled to introduce video on Flickr. If you're a pro member, you can now share videos up to 90 glorious seconds in your photostream.
Front Row Crew
Tonight on GeekNights , we finish out our first run of IT/CS shows with Network Monitoring. In the news, the College Board d rops AB Computer Science , and… Windows 7 . Scott's Thing - Flintstones Car Wins
Flinstones car victory in court
The driver of a four-person pedal-powered vehicle covered in an old Buick shell beat a traffic ticket ("operating an unsafe vehicle") in a Toronto court last week. It has no floor. No engine. No transmission. ...
Google App Engine lets non-Googlers tap into Googly cloud
Salon - By Farhad Manjoo - Apr. 9 (Blog Post) - Lately there'd been a bit of tech-blog speculation that Google would do this, and then it went and did it: Last night Google opened up its data centers to developers outside the company.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Anticipating A Laugh Reduces Our Stress Hormones, Study Shows
ScienceDaily - Apr. 9 (News Report) - In 2006 researchers investigating the interaction between the brain, behavior, and the immune system found that simply anticipating a mirthful laughter experience boosted health-protecting hormones. Now, two years later, the same researchers have found that the anticipation of a positive humorous laughter experience also reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones. According to Dr...NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 from source rating - Review It
How Much Progress Have Psychology and Psychiatry Really Made? A Freakonomics Quorum
New York Times - By Stephen J. Dubner - Apr. 9 (Blog Post) - The debate about the effectiveness and safety of psychiatric drugs rambles on while new (if not conclusive) psychological studies come out with the frequency of fad diets. We invited some people who think a lot about such issues -- David B. Baker, John Medina, Dan Ariely, Satoshi Kanazawa, Peter D...NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It
Misogyny Vs. Sexism
New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Apr. 9 (Blog Post) - Some readers scolded me in comments below the previous post for suggesting that sexism is more a problem in this election cycle than misogyny. Frankly, I'm trying to think through these issues -- in part because of a book my wife and I are writing on women in the developing world -- and so I'd welcome some more discussion on this issue...NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It
Biotech and IT Innovations Compete for 2008 Millennium Technology Prize
Helsinki, Finland, Apr 9, 2008 - (ACN Newswire) - The finalists for the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize have been announced by the Technology Academy Finland. Those competing for the world's largest technology prize are: Professor Sir Alec JeffreysProfessor, Department of Genetics, University of...Report: Millions Blown On Government Cards
A government report says federal employees wasted millions of taxpayer dollars by charging fees for Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie and lavish dinners on government credit cards. ... GAO Says Federal Employees Paid For Online Dating, Suits And Lingerie With...Reprogrammed stem cells reduce Parkinson’s
U.S. scientists say transplanted neurons from reprogrammed stem cells reduced symptoms of Parkinson's disease in laboratory rats. ... Lead author Marius Wernig of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., said it is the first demonstration that...Analysis: Google App Engine alluring, will be hard to escape
Rather than offering up its technology and services piecemeal à la Amazon, Google has launched the Google App Engine, an application hosting service. Ars looks at how the Engine works and why developers will want to embrace-or steer clear-of the new service. ...
Food price rises threaten global security
A farmer sprays pesticide at a rice field in the Karawang regency, Indonesia. Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the UN's top humanitarian official warned yesterday after two days of rioting in Egypt over the doubling of prices of basic foods in a year and ...