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Sites that I found interesting for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009:

• It’s Official: Water Found on the Moon – New observations from three different spacecraft return what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. via @Macht_Nichts on Twitter.
• Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux – Want the same kind of facial recognition, name tagging and easy geo-location of Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac on your Linux desktop? There’s no official release, but you can fairly easily plug Picasa into your system.
• Microsoft’s Chiller-less Data Center – Microsoft today announced that its huge facility in Dublin, Ireland is running without any chillers. Outside air is drawn into the facility to cool the thousands of servers powering the company’s “Live” suite of online services for users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sites that I found interesting for August 26th 2009 through August 29th 2009:

• IBM 'X-Rays' A Molecule – IBM scientists claim to be the first to image the inner structure of a molecule, opening up new possibilities in building smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient computing components.
• The Evolution of Retweeting – Twitter has announced that a user-generated communication technique called retweeting–reposting someone else's message, similar to quoting–will be formally incorporated into Twitter. Some experts say Twitter's approach will hinder the conversational aspect of retweeting; others predict that it will create a new way of communicating.
• Fewer Unencrypted QAM & Analog Cable Channels Coming Soon – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled to allow cable companies to use cheap, one-way digital set top boxes with encryption on them via a three-year granting of a waiver to the FCC rule that had prohibited the use of set-top boxes with integrated security functionality. Sounds harmless enough, but its really a bad thing for many consumers – especially HTPC users.

Sites that I found interesting for August 22nd 2009

• 5 Awesome facts about Moon you didn't know – In salute of the lunar landing and this brilliant stone and all the dreams she inspires, we present five things you didn’t know about the moon.
• Wakali Wa Downtown – In the fall of 2008, Urban Project, a grass roots Canadian charity helped a group of talented Tanzania street youth record this Bongo Flava hip hop album. By purchasing this album, you are contributing to a fund that goes directly back to these artists.
• 64-Bit Chrome Emerges for Linux First – Google Chrome will soon be available in 64-bit form, but only for Linux.

Sites that I found interesting for August 11th 2009

• Saturn's Rings to Disappear August 11th – In a celestial feat any magician would appreciate, Saturn will make its wide but thin ring system disappear from our view Aug. 11.
• Skywatchers set for meteor shower – Skygazers are preparing for the high point of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
• Google's super secret search upgrades: They want your feedback – Google is upgrading its search infrastructure and it's being very secretive about it.
  In a post on its Webmaster Central blog, however, Google engineers Sitaram Iyer and Matt Cutts insist that ordinary users won't even see the difference.

Sites that I found interesting for July 16th 2009 through July 24th 2009:

• Guide: How to Enable Concurrent Sessions in Windows 7 RTM – Missing Remote shows us how to enable concurrent sessions in Windows 7 Ultimate. Concurrent Sessions allows you to Remote Desktop into a system that someone else is on, under a different user account, and access the system without kicking the user off.
• Engadget’s guide to building a HTPC for under $1,000 – This is an interesting build. Worth reading if you are thinking about building an HTPC. I wouldn't use a video card with a fan on it though. Try to keep fans to a minimum.
• New element named 'copernicium' – Discovered 13 years ago, and officially added to the periodic table just weeks ago, element 112 finally has a name.

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 17th 2009 through June 18th 2009:

• Intel Rebrands Chips, Announces Core i3 and i5 Conventions – Going forward, the Core family will fall into one of three tiers: Core i3 (entry-level), Core i5 (mid-level), and Core i7 (high-level).
• ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 3 public beta – Looks like some issues with Windows 7 and Media Center have been fixed.
• 'Cloak of Silence' Tech Could Hide Submarines – A new invisibility cloak for sound could help doctors find tiny tumors or hide submarines from enemy sonar.

Sites that I found interesting for June 11th 2009 through June 12th 2009:

• Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified – Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.
• Ain’t She a Beauty? – A Look at Some HTPC Chassis Solutions. Via @Java_Jack on Twitter.
• LG Ships First Netflix-Ready HDTV Sets – LG Electronics said Thursday it has started shipping a pair of flat-panel TVs that are among the first with built-in capability to stream movies from the Netflix online service.

Sites that I found interesting for April 9th 2009 through April 15th 2009:

• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories – Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
• MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
• 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries – Epidaurus Theater Acoustics, Crystal Skulls, New England’s Dark Day, Face on Mars, The Barreleye Fish, Solving Checkers, The Unknown Titanic Child, Ancient Tablet Deciphered, Sharks Virgin Birth, Flight of the Bumblebee

Sites that I found interesting for March 16th 2009 through March 18th 2009:

• Amazon Sued For Kindle – Amazon.com was sued today by Discovery Communications for patent infringement by its Kindle e-book reader, the parent of The Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.
• Students tie £56 camera to balloon and send it to edge of space to capture stunning images of Earth –
• Twitter Search Results on Google for Greasemonkey – It displays the most recent 5 tweets for the query that you are search for, giving both real-time Twitter search results and Google results on the same page