Saturday, November 17th, 2007
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Like the Nabaztag, its aim is to bring information services into the intimacy of home and family via wifi and configurable over the web. This is however a full-fledged media player, open source ad with an open architecture.
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Widget using Google apis to move email, contacts and calendar:
* Gmail account to a Gmail account
* Gmail account to a Google Apps account
* Google Apps account to a Gmail account
* Google Apps account to a Google Apps account
(make sure to change pswd!)
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example: gMOVE from LimitNone, a tool that migrates your email, contacts and calendars from Outlook to Google Apps. gMOVE also migrates the tasks from Outlook to an iGoogle gadget. The tool costs $19 and it works with any Google Apps account.
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some ways to disable [Google] filters or to create custom filters:
- add + in front of the word to avoid different morphological forms or related words
- add &filter=0 to avoid duplicate filtering,host crowding
- /webhp : noUA detection
- /ncr: no country
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custom Wordpress admin interface for your phone. It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface:
an iPhone / iPod Touch specific interface with full Javascript and animation support
a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types
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Search engines drive shopping comparison sites out of the market…
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“During WWII, the world’s first software developers were recruited by the Army to program the quirky ENIAC,the first all-electronic programmable computer.These six pioneers invented many of the concepts of programming, and remarkably, they were all women”
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“What kills me… is how good the design is. At every step they’ve done things almost perfectly. They’ve pinpointed the motivations of users at each step, and designed the screens in such a way as to make the default action the seemingly best one.”
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NYT reporter testing personal DNA analysis service 23andme: “For as little as $1,000 and a saliva sample, customers will be able to learn what is known so far about how the billions of bits in their biological code shape who they are” ( New York Times)
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