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Friday Fish Post: Weird Earth-iridescent Beta fish bowl
Right To Left By host on 10/30/2008
It is amazing to me that Betas can live in anything. You wouldn’t think a fish from such a bad environment would look so pretty. http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/09/26/fish-tank-friday-teach-your-fish-hollow-earth-geography/
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Motion and Mobile Gaming!
Right To Left By host on 10/29/2008
I have been thinking about motion in mobile gaming for a while. I guess Sony is looking into that as well: http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/17/sony-ericsson-makes-good-on-motion-gaming-f305-and-s302-snapshot/ My boss just got an iPhone (I am the only one in my group that is still on Windows Mobile). He showed me this motion sensing dice roller: http://gizmodo.com/5023627/iphone-dice-game-simulates-real-dice-rolling-using-sensors-and-physics WOW!
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Book Review Tuesday: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Right To Left By host on 10/27/2008
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill I just read this book and it is really long! It has some interesting parts. I think the author was a bit too obsessed with the correlation with “Christianity” and Blackwater’s owner. If you look on Amazon you will see that either people gave it one start or five starts very few in between. Very much a bell curve. I did like the amount of research that seemed to go into the book. The story of the “contractors” that were killed in Fallujah was very well written. It was a bit unnerving to see that the government is outsourcing this type of work because the accountability seems questionable. Blackwater seems to play both sides of the road, which is dangerous (claiming to be civilians when legally convenient and being a part of military in other instances). It opened my eyes to how much money is being made by war. It is sad. Historically, war is good for the economy. In this case it seemed that contractors (H
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Why is SYNC so hard?
Right To Left By host on 10/27/2008
ActiveSync and Vista Mobile Device Center are a great disappointment. So many things like sharing Internet connections and playing music on you PC from your device just don’t work well. Here are just some of the sync programs on the market today. CompanionLink for Google Calendar (http://www.companionlink.com) Intellisync (http://www.intellisync.com) Missing Sync (http://www.markspace.com) MobSync (http://doosoft.seesaa.net/) PocketMirror Professional (http://www.chapura.com ) XTNDConnect PC (http://www.extendedsystems.com) SugarSync (http://www.sugarsync.com/) OggSync (http://oggsync.com/) SyncMate (http://mac.eltima.com/sync-mac.html) gSync (http://googlesync.sourceforge.net/) GCALSYNC (http://www.gcalsync.com/) NuevaSync (http://www.nuevasync.com/) GooSync (http://www.goosync.com/) GmobileSync (http://rareedge.com/gmobilesync/)
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Friday Fish Post: WIFI remote control aquarium!
Right To Left By host on 10/23/2008
This is cool for someone who wants to watch their fish remotely like on vacation or something. Probably very expensive. A friend of mine converted an old iPaq to do something similar. http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/wi-aquarium-the-wifi-enabled-fish-tank/
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Another cool disk space virtualization app.
Right To Left By host on 10/22/2008
This one is written in WPF and looks really nice. http://www.diskspacefinder.com/index.html
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Line of Business Applications Showcase
Right To Left By host on 10/20/2008
This used to be a website written using Silverlight that showed some of the coolest LOB applications. But now it redirects to what looks like a Microsoft Mobile App Store. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/windowsmobileapps/default.mspx
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Restaurant Inspection Database
Right To Left By host on 10/15/2008
This is surprising. Even some of my favorite high-class restaurants are a surprise! http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=743049
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Open Source Alternatives
Right To Left By host on 10/13/2008
A great idea for a data website. This site allows you to search on any application and it will show you corresponding open source applications. http://www.osalt.com/
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Friday Fish Post: Fish in the bathroom?
Right To Left By host on 10/10/2008
I have a couple of friends that have fish tanks in bathrooms. I thought that was strange, but then I ran across this link: http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/09/19/fish-tank-friday-bathroom-aquaria/ I guess there are a lot of people in this market!
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