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You're six miles up, alone and falling without a parachute. Though the odds are long, a small number of people have found themselves in similar situations\u2014and lived to tell the tale. Here's Popular Mechanics's 120-mph, 35,000-ft, 3-minutes-to-impact survival guide.
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It was too early for most hungover CES attendees, but the brilliant computer scientist and former Apple Fellow Alan Kay explained the basis of all knowledge at a 9AM keynote speech here. All human knowledge can be explained by the simple logical expression NOT BOTH, Kay said. \u201cIt\u2019s a logical expression that explains all thinking,\u201d he said in the middle of his speech, which was about the failures of computers in modern education.
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Nice battery add-on for MacBook - also has USB port to add juice to other devices.
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Fusion-io is a producer of enterprise-class SSDs. Their silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory applies flash memory to large-scale enterprise storage products like Storage Area Networks.
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Kindle + Instapaper + Mac = semi-automatic news to go
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A robust application programming interface (API) has become essential for today\u2019s successful SaaS independent software vendors (ISVs). As a SaaS vendor, you should expect that a majority of your customers are going to require interoperability with other SaaS applications, web services, and legacy systems. As demonstrated by internet pioneers Google, Amazon, and Facebook, an open application strategy facilitates deeper customer usage and enables new revenue streams. Integration is critical for SaaS vendors, and developing a reliable API strategy is the first step toward achieving that goal.
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Continuously deliver data from across domains. Free source code and programming help
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As the gates swing open upon another October, baseball will once again attempt to divine one of the game's great mysteries: how a man, closing fast on 40 and armed with but a single pitch, continues to dominate in the clutch like no other player.
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Adobe now makes it possible to create applications for the Apple iPhone using the Adobe Flash Platform. You heard right: We're really excited to bring this new capability to Flash designers and developers\u2014the ability to target the iPhone with ActionScript 3 projects. You will be able to test this functionality in the forthcoming beta release of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 on Adobe Labs.
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Push gmail is released. It doesn't seem to be actually pushing my mail yet, but we'll see. We'll also see how well the battery lasts with this on.
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Panama's quality health care, low costs, and proximity to the states are attracting American professionals as a retirement haven
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If you\u2019re looking for an iPhone dock but don't want to shell out $49 for it then you should checkout this do-it-yourself iPhone dock designed by folks at French design site Dessine moi un objet (translated as 'Draw me something').
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Novell has launched a new SDK for the iPhone that will allow developers to build native iPhone applications with .NET. It uses ahead-of-time compilation to avoid Apple's rules against embedded runtimes.
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This is a great iPhone spotlight search improvement that is currently only available on jailbroken phones for $4.99. It allows spotlight to access mobile search sites to give location-based results.
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A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight
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Yesterday, Spectrolab announced that its newest triple-junction solar cells had achieved the world record in efficiency, converting 41.6 percent of specially concentrated sunlight into electricity. All told, a tiny cell just 0.3174 square centimeters turned the sunlight equivalent of nearly 364 suns into 4.805 watts.
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Health care in France is often held up as a model the U.S. might follow. Yet the French have their own problems that show there's no such thing as a free lunch or a free doctor's visit.
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Researchers at Stanford University found that multitaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who do less multitasking.
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According to news reports, the Obama administration \u2014 which seemed, over the weekend, to be backing away from the \u201cpublic option\u201d for health insurance \u2014 is shocked and surprised at the furious reaction from progressives.
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Roger Ebert talks about text-to-voice technology
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Adam from Boston sends me this cheap but functional laptop desk, hacked from ikea's benjamin stool.
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Jennifer Senior wrote a massive cover piece on the Obama communications machine for this week's issue of New York that is, to put it mildly, a nauseatingly fawning tribute to the communications genius of our president and his advisers.
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Nikon, known for its skills as a camera maker, is now in the pocket projector business. That seems to be the news coming from the introduction of the Nikon s100pj, a 12.1-megapixel digital camera that also includes a VGA projector.
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The Segway hasn't delivered on its initial promise, to put it mildly. There are several reasons why, but one is that people don't want to be seen riding them. Someone riding a Segway looks like a dork.
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Instead of using Gmail's servers to send the message, we'll use the servers where your other email address lives. Since Gmail isn't the originating domain, we don't have to include 'Sender' info in the header. No more 'on behalf of.'
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Very cool presentation tool
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Is there a formula\u2014some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation\u2014for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition\u2014and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study\u2019s longtime director, George Vaillant.
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EVGA\u2019s UV Plus adapter allows you to add external monitors via USB. I'm sure the performance isn't great, but it's a good way to have a 3rd, 4th or 5th monitor.
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Opera Unite allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser, giving you greater privacy and flexibility than other online services.
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Redsn0w is a revolutionary way to jailbreak, activate, unlock an array of Apple\u2019s devices based on iPhone 3.0 firmware. Devices like iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 1G\/2G can easily be jailbroken, activated and unlocked (iPhone 2G \u2013 Automatic, iPhone 3G \u2013 Manually via Cydia & Ultrasn0w). [Windows and Mac]
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Title says it all
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Here are 16 free image galleries and slideshows for you to take a look at. Though the effects are smooth and their features are robust, none of them use Flash, only JavaScript, and they require very little coding on your part.
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Self-serving college presidents and politicians should drop the scam. Higher enrollments and government loan programs may be good for them, but they are making lots of our kids miserable and poor. For many, the good life can be lived without college.
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Adam Carolla's radio show was dumped at the end of last week. He is not doing a short podcast.
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Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 for IIS 7 is a proxy-based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms
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We live in the age of distraction. Yet one of life's sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.
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Google just announced a new service for pushing Gmail contacts and Google Calendar updates to mobile devices. For iPhone and Windows Mobile devices Google is using Exchange ActiveSync with some limitations due to the beta nature of the service, but it'll also work on many other devices that support SyncML.
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This is from 'Seven Sunny Days' a Matchstick Production.
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This list is a combined effort of professional web designers and art directors to speeding up your project development time so you can save money and focus on making great applications. All the screenshots again made in usual way so there is no confusion in checking the actual preview and corresponding font types.
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