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PIN TUMBLER LOCKS CAN BE PICKED through a series of taps (known as “lock bumping”) with a specially crafted bump key, according to Wikipedia. Apparently, one bump key will work for all locks of the same type. And this Action News 5 video illustrates how:(Found this on CESBloggers.com who in turn references SlashDot.)
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ALEXA RANKINGS ARE BIASED, reported Loren Baker in Search Engine Journal last week. Apparently, Google Director of Research Peter Norvig recently compared his site’s Alexa score with those …
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I’VE BEEN BLOGGING CASUALLY since 2003, that is, until four months ago. Now that I’m offering training workshops on blogs, I decided to revamp my blog towards the end of last year. Recently, it occured to me that the pagerank of my blog is quite important. However, I’ve been quite mystified ever since I tried ...
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FIRST, Vatican website editorial director Sister Judith Zoebelein was interviewed by Robert Scoble at the recent LIFT conference. They discussed the challenges of building and running a site for a 2000-ish-year-old organization.SECOND, the Podcast Awards for 2006 are out (don’t know when… does it matter?). Among the winners were:
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THIS IS A REACTABLE, a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Looks futuristic, tactile and based on physics laws. (Thanks to Chris Sessums’ post on this.)According to the designers, this instrument is intended to be:collaborative: several performers (locally or remotely)intuitive: zero manual, zero instructionssonically …
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LINKEDIN CAN BE ADDICTIVE! :-pAlthough I’ve been a member on LinkedIn since August 2006, I’ve not published my LinkedIn profile to the Web NOR tried to connect with anyone there. That is, until Lunar New Year’s eve three days ago, However, now that I’m running a business, professional networking has become important. Further, my ...
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“OH NO! Not another social network!” Do you get this feeling nowadays? Social networks seem to sprout out like wild grass every week, don’t they? Perhaps you even get tired looking at the numerous familiar and unfamiliar icons in the GoToWeb20 website (screenshot below, right), or simply reading Roundup#2: Best of Web 2.0 in 2006 ...
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“OH NO! Not another social network!” Do you get this feeling nowadays? Social networks seem to sprout out like wild grass every week, don’t they? Perhaps you even get tired looking at the numerous unfamiliar icons in the GoToWeb20 website (screenshot below, right), or simply reading news summaries? Are you like me, wishing that these ...
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A summarized list of 2007 Web predictions made by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele on the Read/Write Web blog:Structured Data: RSS integrated into Microsoft’s new Vista OS, Yahoo Mail, Google Base. Interesting RSS services. More e-commerce and multimedia widgets expected. Google forging ahead with its own standards, largely ...
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Yes, it’s already Feb. Still, utility is valued here much more than the latest and the coolest. So, here’s a handy list of the best Web 2.0 software in 2006 from Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 blog:Social Network: MySpace. Runners up: Bebo, Facebook, Vox, XuQa, MyBlogLog (Me> Personally, I find MySpace rather sleazy. Academics, ...
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Is this how the actual Google “office” is like? I wanna be there too!Note: Found this video because someone from Harro left a note on the shoutbox on one of my websites. So I checked out his/her website. It happened to be Harro Channels which has a link to ping.sg, a community meta blog for ...
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Zoho Notebook, currently in alpha, looks amazing — just what I would want. Hope it’ll be available soon and that it’ll work as expected.Key Features (extracted from the Z …
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Here’s a wonderful speech by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple & Pixar, at the Stanford Commencement 2005 ceremony. Yes, it is not new. I myself have read the three real-life stories that he told the young graduates about two years ago. Still, I find what he said very moving and inspiring, especially when I can ...
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SIX INVESTORS told The Straits Times recently said they would: (1) Advertise a website, (2) Buy index futures, (3) Buy growth stocks, (4) Go on the Silk Road, (5) Buy an apartment and (6) Switch to Reits respectively. Personally, I would drop everything, apply for an assistantship and pursue further studies in educational psychology in ...
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“The advances in all of the arts and sciences, indeed the sum total of human knowledge, are the result of the open sharing of ideas, theories, studies and research.” – Terry VesselsF …
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Noteworthy news over the past week or so:FIREFOX 3 will go beyond HTML rendering to provide Information Broking services based on microformats (which add semantics to markup). For example, “the contact information you see on a Web site will be associated with your favorite contacts application, events will be associated with your favorite calendar application, ...
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