June 12, 2010
Web sites crash under World Cup strain
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 13:17:00 ITV.com and TVCatchup suffer temporary glitches ITV’s web site crashed yesterday as millions went online to watch Mexico play South Africa in the first World Cup match of the 2010 tournament, highlighting the need for companies…
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The Yellow Ads Epson AcuLaser C3800: Print Photos With Laser …
Clicking the “Advanced” button on the same page will bring a tab with color management and printing resolution. On that tab you can select printing modes ( color and monochrome ), setup different color management preset. Also, you may manually specify color , ..
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Rock Band 3 to offer MIDI input – custom controllers anyone?
We don’t usually cover much in the way of gaming news here, but my brother Kyle sent this item my way, noting the potential DIY aspect – Thanks to Rock Band 3′s new Pro mode for guitar, drums and, yes, keyboard, every single note on the game’s song list will be tracked. The good news for actual musicians? If you already have a MIDI keyboard or MIDI drum set, you can opt for the Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro Adapter Box
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Latest Trends & Reviews of the Best Web Hosting Providers
At present, many are interested in hosting their domains for sharing their views and selling their products online through website. So it’s all necessary to register your domain with best web hosting provider. If you are searching for a better web hosting service, then just simply go through the WebHostingFan
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The Patchwork of the Red Hat Salsas
This month’s Technique Junkie Newsletter has the Patchwork Technique in it, and right away I thought that a photo of the quilt that Sue Gatza made for me would be perfect for this technique. This quilt gave me comfort as I had it on my bed for my five week hospital stay. I’m happy to say I’m now home
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Top 10 reasons for and against the iPhone 4
Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 08:01:00 Pros and cons of the new Apple handset In case you haven’t heard yet, Apple had a little do last week, and the star of the show was a new iPhone….
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Sony Digital eReader Touch Edition
The Paperless Orifice A Glimpse of Things to Come There was a time in this country, and it wasn’t that long ago, when paper was considered just too precious for some of the—er— hygienic purposes to which it is now routinely put. It was one thing for Pa to wipe his waste disposal port with a scrap of last year’s Sears & Roebuck catalog, but to do so with a pristine piece of otherwise unused tissue paper
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How to cancel a print job on a Samsung CLP-315
When a document gets sent to the Samsung CLP-315 printer, it is no longer in the printer queue. Therefore, canceling the job while it is being printed is not possible that way. The only way to cancel a print job is to: pull out the paper tray. wait til the printer stops printing. The green power light
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June 11, 2010
Amazing!Remanufactured HP 920 Ink Arrives In Stock
Are you ready for our remanufactured HP 920 ink cartridges ? YES, they arrive in stock now! Remanufactured HP 920 ink is another popular HP printer supply that 123inkcartridges.ca would love to introduce to our customers. No more hesitation to purchase contemporary HP printers such as HP Officejet 6500 , Officejet7000 , Officejet 6000 etc.
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Embracing decay at Sid’s Machine Shop
Via Dinosaurs and Robots come these amazing pictures of a derelict machine shop in the mountains of North Carolina. “No one on the mountain can remember it being open” says the Mondo-Blogo author who snapped the pics. It looked like, one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s, that they just up and closed without even clearing off their desks
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Chris Schaie’s mechanical irises for sale
When I first saw Chris’s gorgeous brass-and-wood irising door peephole mechanism in the ShopBot booth at Maker Faire, I knew it was something special: A beautiful piece of machinery, designed and built solely for the pleasure of operating and observing its operation. When Chris contacted us wanting to sell them in Makers Market , naturally I was excited, but I was also a bit skeptical
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• New offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates talked about the building process for the offense with the team’s Web site, saying that the organized team activities are coming up with a blueprint with the real construction beginning once the players put on pads at training camp. • Who do you blame for the NCAA sanctions against USC? Well, Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke says blame USC and the ego the program had .
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Friday site seeing
Control an Arduino project using an infrared remote
Benjamin Eckel from Gumbolabs wanted to be able to decode the signals from his universal remote, so he hooked an infrared receiver up to his Arduino and created this Radioshack infrared receiver . Could be just the thing for creating that remote-controlled robot! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
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Manhunt: Pentagon Fears Wikileaks Founder
Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast. Julian Assange – Wikileaks – Pentagon – National security – Iraq
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US hunts Wikileaks founder after national security disclosure
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 20:13:00 Soldier said to have passed on 260,000 military and diplomatic cables The US authorities are seeking to interview Wikileaks founder Julian Assange following allegations that he was sent a huge cache of classified State Department cables by a disgruntled soldier in…
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Jeri Ellsworth turns an LCD into an EL display
Jeri experiments with Dupont Luxprint Electroluminescent inks and converts an old LCD into a simple EL display. She also demonstrates that super glue can be used as the dielectric and that zinc sulfide glow powder does not work well as an EL phosphor.
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Daily Dispatch: Google launches short answers on mobile; iPhone 4 to enable advanced augmented reality apps
Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers.
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ESPN’s broadcast of the FIFA World Cup in 3D: How does it look?
Panasonic's VT20-series 3D TV, pre-game. While many of you were getting ready for work this morning, I, too, was preparing for my workday. But my guess is that for most of you, that didn't involve preparing a late breakfast, climbing back into bed, and turning on the TV
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Snow is a Technique Junkie Too
Snow made it into the Technique Junkie Newsletter . The technique I did was Faux Fossils. Sounds cool, eh?! When Pat said we could do scrapbook layouts, I was thrilled because I love to scrapbook and am so behind. Now I can catch up easily, so you will be seeing more layouts. How many of you are behind in your scrapbooks? Why not create a brick wall like I did, and stick a photo on it. It will help to get you started in catching up
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Almost halfway there: New York becomes 23rd state to adopt e-waste recycling law
If you live in New York state and have neglected your spring cleaning, you may want to hold onto your old electronics doo-dads a bit longer: Your state just passed what some are calling the “most progressive” electronics waste recycling law in the country. There are a couple of things that make this law unique (New
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