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GroupLens is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We conduct research in several areas
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a browser that’s been doing all this stuff the others are starting to do a long time ago.
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Great tool for converting a Wikipedia entry into a mind map that you can then export to Freemind. Useful for showing the uninitiated how mindmaps work, and how powerful they are. (thanks Roy of Topicscape for the link)
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Your computer has been breached by malicious hackers: it’s completely loaded with malware and spyware. You’re about to get online, connect to a financial institution, and make some transactions. Is there anything, at this point, that can keep your identity off the black market? SiteTrust, a tool released today by Waltham, MA, data-security company Verdasys, aims to protect users from fraud, even when their computers have been compromised.
links for 2008-09-14
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If using your brain to navigate makes it bigger and better, than what does using satnav and other technologies do for it?
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As Non-Resident Indians (or NRIs) we are among the most educated and highest earning ethnic minorities in our countries of domicile – making the term NRI a metaphor for success everywhere. By any measure, we have reached a critical mass and a critical achievement level but, alas, there has been no global media platform to talk about our achievements, aspirations, our culture or multitudes of cultures, and even our idiosyncracies. We believe it is time for a magazine which does just that.
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discussion on software piracy. The problem of free: it creates a free culture.
links for 2008-09-13
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Over 18,000 (classical) recordings in high-quality (320Kbps) DRM-FREE MP3 files. Seems to work out about $15 for an album, so not sure it’s a huge saving
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Brian Eno’s inspiration pack
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Kleptomania lets you select text anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight with your mouse, such as columns of data from a word processor or error messages from any Windows program.
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nice tourist maps in SimCity-like 3D
links for 2008-09-11
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Avego.com is where travelers cooperate to make the whole transport system more efficient, saving us all money, wasted time and reducing pollution.
A 5-seat car traveling with only a driver is inherently inefficient, and yet 85% of the time, that’s how cars travel in much of the world. With our iPhone GPS technology, web services and your participation, we can fill up those empty seats.
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Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.
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Swype was developed by founders Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden, along with a very talented team of software programmers and linguists.
Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on over 2.4 billion mobile phones worldwide. He is the named inventor on multiple patents related to alternative text entry.
Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over a half a billion units. He is a recognized leader in the field of assistive technology and alternative computer input.
Together, their experience is unmatched in developing onscreen keyboard-based text input solutions for mobile touch-screen devices.
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ShiftSpace (pronounced: §) is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.
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# Create and track invoices you issue to clients.
# Determine what you’re owed, by whom, and when it’s due.
# Keep track of timesheets for yourself and your employees.
# Notify your clients of new invoices.
# Create interesting reports and analyze payment history
# Save time & collect your money.
Google Maps and Rising Sea Levels
Is Google Maps getting radical? Switch into terrain mode and you can see what the future is going to be like. The screenshot above shows the northeast tip of Singapore, much of it underwater.
This is what it looks like in Map mode:
No doubt a glitch that is soon to be fixed, but
a) I’m not quite clear what the glitch is. Old elevation data? and
b) you can’t help feeling it would be a great feature to have a “10 years’ time” button to see whether you should be thinking about selling up and moving to higher ground. Especially if you live in Changi Village.