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Sites that I found interesting for July 7th 2009 through July 8th 2009:

• A Twitter Augmented Reality App for iPhone – There's a fascinating new Twitter app in development called TwittARound, an augmented reality Twitter viewer for the iPhone 3GS. With the app, you can see live tweets around your location and you can even see how far away they are. To accomplish this, TwittARound uses a combination of the iPhone's compass and its accelerator-enabled GPS to determine the location of tweets and then layers those on top of a live video feed. Cooool!
• Interplanetary internet gets permanent home in space – While the Earth-bound internet uses a protocol called TCP/IP to allow distant machines to communicate over cables, the ISS payload uses delay-tolerant networking (DTN), which is being developed to cope with the patchy coverage in space that arises when spacecraft pass behind planets or suffer power outages.
• Scientists Develop Echolocation In Humans To Aid The Blind – A team of researchers from the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) has shown scientifically that human beings can develop echolocation, the system of acoustic signals used by dolphins and bats to explore their surroundings. Producing certain kinds of tongue clicks helps people to identify objects around them without needing to see them, something which would be especially useful for the blind.

Sites that I found interesting for June 30th 2009 through July 2nd 2009:

• Leaping from Windows XP to 7? Some important stuff to consider – There are a number of important issues to consider before making the jump to Windows 7 on an existing Windows XP machine. via @edbott on Twitter.
• Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 – Firefox 3.5 is fast, all right, but not fast enough to beat Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari.
• BackTweets – track your urls on twitter – This is a brilliant way to see who is linking to your site from Twitter. This is now part of my Information Monitor because it outputs in RSS. Via @steverubel on Twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for May 6th 2009 through May 8th 2009:

• With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like – Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). Provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot. via @CantonDog on Twitter
• TweetMyPC – TweetMyPC lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff your windows PC remotely. via @isdixonon Twitter
• Using Saved Searches To Optimize Your FriendFeed Experience – Saved searches allow you to customize by user, subject, likes, comments, service, ect and really make FriendFeed work for you and bring the information you are looking for. via @jeffisageek

Sites that I found interesting for April 30th 2009

• Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8 – The Internet Explorer 8 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 8 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.
• Streaming Media in Windows 7 – PlayTo –
• Disney to join NBC Universal, News Corporation and Providence Equity Partners as an equity owner of Hulu – From the press release: Full Episodes of Hit Current and Library Programs Like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Dancing with the Stars, Ugly Betty, Private Practice, Scrubs, Wizards of Waverly Place, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, General Hospital, The View, Greek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager And Other Hit Series From ABC, ABC Family, Disney Channel and SOAPnet To Come To Hulu.com and Its Distribution Sites.

Sites that I found interesting for March 31st 2009 through April 2nd 2009:

• Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart non-browser apps –
• Time Warner Cable to Begin Charging on Usage – Time-Warner will soon begin charging its RoadRunner customers based on usage and data consumption.
• Information about certain file types that are blocked after you install Office 2003 Service Pack 3 –

Sites that I found interesting for March 23rd 2009 through March 24th 2009:

• Worm breeds botnet from home routers, modems – Security researchers have identified a sophisticated piece of malware that corrals consumer routers and DSL modems into a lethal botnet.
• Twitter Tweaks Its Title Tags For Better Google Juice – My blog still comes up before twitter. Fine by me.
• Microsoft moves crash analysis tool to open source –

Sites that I found interesting for March 10th 2009 through March 13th 2009:

• Footage from 2/3" 3k Scarlet with 100mm Red prime – So cool!
• Selective Twitter Status on Facebook – A simple hashtag added to your twitter status will send your status over to Facebook. Cool for sending other things over to Facebook like TwitPics and other 3rd party Twitter tools that might not have FB integration.
• 4 Annoying Twitter Myths –

Sites that I found interesting for March 8th 2009 through March 10th 2009:

• A Hidden Message inside Lincoln's Pocket watch – Watchmaker Jonathan Dillon inscribed a message inside Lincoln's Pocketwatch. Just a Dillon family legend until today. Cool!
• Verizon Customers – Just Say No! – Weinberger, unlike the majority of us who rarely read the associated paraphernalia that arrives with bills and the like, noticed that Verizon's modus operandi was to share Customer Proprietary Network Information – the data created as a result of your relationship with Verizon Wireless – unless you ask them to stop.
• French town of Eu to change name because of Google searches – The French town of Eu is planning to change its name after failing to attract potential tourists on the internet.

Sites that I found interesting for February 18th 2009 through February 26th 2009:

• Windows7: Changes Coming to Windows 7 Release Candidate that Weren't in the Beta –
• WebMynd · Personalized search in your browser – Firefox Extension. Enhance your Google searches with customized results from sources like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Twitter.
• Building/Customizing your own WordPress theme: Beginners and Intermediate –

Sites that I found interesting for November 12th 2008

• Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year – Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault.
• Design Guidelines and Considerations for Building Windows Certified Network Media Devices – Ian Dixon's Blog – The Digital Lifestyle.com: Windows Media Center news, podcasts, videos, forums and wikis – This paper describes requirements and recommendations for building Network Media Devices that work well with the Windows 7 operating system.
• Silverlite – Nice look at what the new Video Chat features could mean for the Google Platform.