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Tech News
US Military Fail
Pentagon using Facebook and Twitter to recruit new employees, because if there’s one thing the military needs it’s someone who posts every minute detail of their life on the web. (Read More . . .)
Note : What is a Fail?
I Think Therefore I Move
Researchers develop wheelchair that can be controlled by the power of thought. “Get Beer” appears to be the most common user command (Read More . . .)
Amazon UnMasked
Amazon’s top sellers in the health and personal care store shows that various face masks occupy the first three places. (See More . . .)
That Instant Message is from Your Air Conditioner
Talk about convergence of energy, communications and IT: EnerNoc is using an instant-messaging protocol to update the energy consumption status of building equipment. (Read More . . .)
Minnesota is Big Brother
Public Safety bureaucracy gives AT&T, Comcast, and other broadband providers a 7-page document detailing what Web sites must be blocked. The state of Minnesota has handed Internet providers a 7-page blacklist of gambling Web sites that they’re supposed to prevent customers from accessing, a move that raises First Amendment and technical concerns. (Read Report . . .)
YouTube Assists in Baby Delivery
An engineer in Cornwall delivered his baby son after watching a instructional video on YouTube. (Read More . . .
Web Site Watch
Library of Congress (YouTube) :: This pilot project offers samples from the Library of Congress collection of early motion pictures, along with recordings of events, lectures and concerts. It currently includes 74 videos, as well as links to LoC’s webcasts, podcasts, motion pictures, and digital collections.
Timeless treasures and contemporary presentations from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. As the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, we are the steward of millions of recordings dating from the earliest Edison films to the present. (Read More . . . )
Blog Watch
Modern Gadget : “From humble beginnings to a modern phenomenon” is the tag line for http://www.midwaycommunity.org/. This weekly blog well written is a hero for those less over commercialised products. Modern Gadget has an rss feed and without any advertisements is on my list of weekly reads. (Go Here. . .)
Tech Quote
“The internet today is an open platform where the demand for websites and services dictates success. Youâ’ve got barriers to entry that are low and equal for all comers. “
-President Obama
Get that Gadget
Golf Master is a professional caddy. Take this tech gadget to golf with you in your golf courses today. Golf Master tracks traditional scores and popular betting games, helps choose your clubs, and knows each and every rule of golf, just like a professional caddy.
Product Features:
- Includes a carrying case that straps right onto your golf bag.
- At the touch of a button, scroll through a complete golf rules e-book with a built-in reader
- Includes the rules for seven popular betting games
- Save the details of four of your favorite courses
- Slim, rugged, and compact; clips onto golf bag or belt
- Scoring for up to four players
- Sixteen programmable player names
- Water resistant
- Carry the unit with the included carrying case or included belt clip (not shown).
Price: $26.99 (Regularly $130)
Cheap Amazon
Freeware Found
Thunderbird :: Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before and can also scale to meet the most sophisticated organizational needs.
OS :Linux, Mac, Windows (Get it Here . . .)
Video Watch
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