Giant bunny formed from GPS path
by Darren Murph on May 31st, 2008
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Prototype iControlPad proves itself on video
by Darren Murph on May 31st, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones
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China’s Cyber-Militia
by kdawson on May 31st, 2008
D. J. Keenan notes that the cover story of the current issue of National Journal reports in depth on China's cyber-aggression against US targets in the government, military, and business. We have discussed China's actions on numerous occasions over the years. The news in this report is the suggestion that Chinese cyber-attakers may have been involved in major power outages in the US. "Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of US companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to US government officials and computer-security experts..."
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ReplacementDocs Finds Manuals and Maps for Video Games [Games]
by Kevin Purdy on May 31st, 2008
You can find some great deals buying video games used and secondhand, but there's often the trade-off of not getting a manual or the original maps and cheat sheets with your disc—annoying with some games, near-deal-breakers for others, (I'm looking at you, StarTropics.) ReplacementDocs has over 1,000 manuals and reference guides available for games of all kinds, and helpful users are adding to that number. Use the search box to find your game's pages, or browse around by platform. It's somewhat hit and miss, with a lean toward involved role playing games, but a great place to look before throwing up your hands and giving up on navigating that unbeatable level.
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FCC To Hold Hearings On Early Termination Fees
by kdawson on May 31st, 2008
Isaac-Lew sends word of an article in the Washington Post reporting that on June 12 the FCC will hold a hearing regarding cellphone early termination fees. The Commission may look at early termination fees for TV and Internet service as well. The wireless carriers are taking a Bre'r Rabbit approach toward possible FCC regulation of early termination fees — the FCC's intervention would pre-empt a number of class-action lawsuits going forward against Verizon, Sprint, and others. These suits, stemming from state regulations, could cost the carriers billions. "...the carriers have renewed a lobbying effort in recent weeks to persuade the FCC on a legal definition that would stave off the state lawsuits on cancellation fees. On May 6, 2008, Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam and the company's chief lobbyist, Tom Tauke, met with [FCC Chairman] Martin, urging him to adopt a federal policy, according to FCC records."
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Creative’s Vado Pocket Video Cam unboxed on video
by Darren Murph on May 31st, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras
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Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs
by kdawson on May 31st, 2008
FnH writes "Researchers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have created a new supercomputer with standard gaming hardware. The system uses four NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards, costs less than €4,000 to build, and delivers roughly the same performance as a supercomputer cluster consisting of hundreds of PCs. This new system is used by the ASTRA research group, part of the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp, to develop new computational methods for tomography. The guys explain the eight NVIDIA GPUs deliver the same performance for their work as more than 300 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors. On a normal desktop PC their tomography tasks would take several weeks but on this NVIDIA-based supercomputer it only takes a couple of hours. The NVIDIA graphics cards do the job very efficiently and consume a lot less power than a supercomputer cluster."
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Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic
by CowboyNeal on May 31st, 2008
Xiroth writes "In what could cause an escalation of tensions between the two internet giants, an anonymous critique of eBay's upcoming move to accepting only PayPal as the payment method in Australia has accidently been revealed to have been submitted by Google thanks to PDF meta-tags."
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Defrag Your Office for Increased Efficiency [Workspace]
by Gina Trapani on May 31st, 2008
One of the side effects of having so much stuff to help us get work done is dealing with the clutter it creates in our workspace. But just like you can defragment a hard drive—organize the bits and bytes so that related ones are closest to one another for faster access—you can also defrag your office to make it more efficient. Put your stuff out of the way but within reach, and make it easy to find and put back with a few workspace organization techniques. Photo by lenski.
Defrag Your Gadgets, Appliances, and Supplies
The key to a good office defrag is grouping related items together. Put paper and ink refills near your printer, the recycling bin near your shredder, the camera USB cable and extra memory card in the camera bag, stamps near envelopes, the box of refill folders near the filing cabinet—you get the idea. Fact is that it's a lot easier to print a document or send a letter when all your supplies are in one place.
Make that one place easy to use, too. If you have to reach up to the back of the top shelf just to get new hanging folders, you're probably not going to add folders to your filing cabinet very often. One time, in a fit of decluttering my office, I stowed my printer on a short table under my desk just to get it out of the way because it looked better. To fit it under there I had to remove the back tray and folded up the front tray. After that I barely ever printed anything when I needed to, because it was a big hassle to move the printer out, assemble it, and load paper. Now I keep it out, assembled, and loaded with paper so I can just hit that Print button without a second thought. The point is to make things easy to get to and use, because that's why you own them at all.
I picked up a small plastic drawer set to hold all my small office supplies—scissors, paper clips, markers, stapler, label maker, etc. When I got sick of going through all the drawers just to locate a Sharpie (and answering the question, "Where's the Scotch tape?"), I put my label maker to work and "indexed" the drawers, as shown above.
Clear a Landing Strip, Set Up a Charging Station
Home organization blog Unclutterer suggest keeping a "landing strip" near the entrance of your home to drop keys, mail, and pocket change when you enter. The same concept works in an office as well: set up an inbox to catch incoming paper and mail, a charging station to drop off gadgets when they're not in use, and just a clear place to set your bag or any stuff you walk into the office with.Speaking of charging stations, there are quite a few spendy options out there, but you can also mod an existing space or piece of furniture to get the job done. Here's my Ikea night stand station:
You can also use a simple basket or an affordable but good-looking media box.
Clean Out and Reorganize Your Filing Cabinet
No matter how much business you conduct digitally, fact is, in the year 2008, we still have to deal with actual pieces of paper. Luckily, the right size filing cabinet, a label-maker and some folders can make it almost fun to organize and track your documents. Here's how to give your filing cabinet an extreme makeover.
Hide Your Cords
A good way to keep your workspace looking dusty and messy is with a pile of spaghetti cords under and around it. With a simple tray and a long power strip you can get cords off the floor and under control. There are dozens of neat cord management tricks out there; see our top 10 ways to keep cables under control.
For more organized workspace eye candy, check out some of the contenders from last year's coolest workspace contest.
How do you keep your workspace clean, mean, and efficient? Share your tricks in the comments.
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Opera Bringing Support For Google’s Gears Utility To Desktop, Mobile
by Paul Glazowski on May 31st, 2008
Though Opera may only see iterations of its mobile browsers maintain a truly popular presence among Web users, while its standard desktop-based client holds a significantly smaller portion of its respective market, the company is pressing forth with development across its entirely lineup. This week marks Opera’s pledge to support Google’s increasingly useful Gears engine, which helps to bridge and synchronize software created for both online and offline use.
While Gears, which recently celebrated its first anniversary in public operation and had its name changed to Gears only, has been available for many months as a desktop offering for Firefox and Internet Explorer users on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms alike, only in early March of this year did Google make Gears available for mobile use. And Opera seems to be wasting little time in capitalizing on that newly available development. The company says it intends to make the next release of Opera Mobile, designated version 9.5, compatible with Gears. 
Its soon-to-launch desktop offering of Opera 9.5 will provide similar support as well.
Naturally, Opera hopes that developers will see the upcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 browser as further incentive to create applications fitted for use on Symbian- and Windows Mobile-enabled devices installed with the browser. Given Opera’s strong adoption numbers in the handheld space, both for its particularly popular Mini build as well as its increasingly attractive smartphone-specific Mobile provision, it seems sensible to assume a number of engineers of Web applications will find Opera’s newfound support for Gears worthwhile to harness to better serve their own user bases, whether they be at home, in the office, or on the go, and perhaps grow their ranks considerably more as a result.
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