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Social bookmarking solutions like the already established del.icio.us, digg, stumbleupon continue to expand in new directions. One of the latest additions is the page-tracking solution Cluztr. Cluztr registers each webpage you visit, you can share pages you have browsed with … Continue reading
Along the release of Final Cut Studio 2, Apple also mentioned more about their new ProRes 422 format. The format features a 10bit 4:2:2 sampling system, a normal bitrate of 145 mbit/s and 220 mbit/s for HD. On Final Cut … Continue reading
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About a year ago I was excited about Google Docs, yesterday I found Peepel and enjoyed testing it out. Slightly innovating, you can move, rearrange and resize the word processor or spreadsheet windows. The interface is simple enough, and I … Continue reading
This new web 2.0 service, MyCyberTwin has caused some laughs and then made people think. I have even read of MyCyberTwin references to a so-called web 3.0. Basically MyCyberTwin is a bot, that can converse on various social-networking sites in … Continue reading
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Going through Del.icio.us’ popular bookmarks this morning I came across the column: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… at Discover Magazine. Basically there are several categories, of 20 Things You Didn’t Know About, ranging from topics like Aliens or Skin … Continue reading
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TechCrunch wrote this morning about the New “Social” Dictionary a Web 2.0 service dubbed: Word Source. Among its features you can listen to a pronunciation, tag words, rate words and play games. This approach is rather different from Visualizing your … Continue reading
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In December I wrote Study Effectively with Noise and Stu.dicio.us. However compared to actual studying for a quiz, test or exam it might not help you all that much. Quizlet on the other hand seems like a good cramming solution, … Continue reading
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Your next dictionary of choice? VisuWords – Visualizing words in a visual online graphical dictionary. Linking words together finding similar meaning, or suitable verbs or nouns that are connected to the word you chose to lookup. VisuWords uses an open … Continue reading
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While first beginning to read this guide over at LifeHack.org I was hoping this could help me towards my stationary free environment. But you have to install VMWare not necessarily a bad thing, but it is not something I want … Continue reading
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If you have played in Apple’s terminal, or any other *NIX system the chances are there that you have done some piping with your commands. Remember: || … Now Yahoo! offers a service they have called Pipes: Allowing you to pipe various … Continue reading
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Bruce Schneier at Wired analyzed 34,000 user names and passwords “spoils from a MySpace phishing attack” (This attack?). Schneier concludes that MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb. Less than four percent of the passwords were dictionary words, and the majority were … Continue reading
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Thinking of inventing a hoverboard, like the ones in Back to the Future? Well you might just want to find what technology is out there, and who has patented what. Google now lets you search patents. The United States Patent … Continue reading