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Future phones to read your voice, gestures

Wired’s Gadget Lab blog contemplates the future of the mobile phone: Buttons are on their way out. Five years from now, it is likely that the mobile phone you will be holding will be a smooth, sleek brick — a piece of metal and plastic with a few grooves in it and little more. Like the iPhone, it will be mostly display; unlike the iPhone, it will respond to voice commands and gestures as well as touch. “So much of how we understand technology is visually driven,” says Rachel Hinman, a st

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Some Configurator Love

Dave Cross puts Configurator through its paces as does Webmonkey from Wired Magazine. To me Configurator is the start of an amazing transformation in the way we use and interact with applications. I have been using Photoshop since 1.0.7 and have seen it transformed from a simple pixel pushing and paint application into something humungous. There are many parts I use, but there are also parts I will probably never use. Configurator is an easy way to cut down on the cruft and focus on what you r

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Reciprocation, blogrolls, link love, and English lavatorial slang

Yes, you have to love the title of this blog entry, really. Or perhaps that’s just me, preening as I flex some writing muscles and engage my brain this morning. If so, my apologies. Truly. Reciprocation, though, is one of those words I’m almost in love with. It just sounds great when you say it out loud. It means, of course, to respond to a gesture or action by making a corresponding one. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours (although that makes us all sound like monkeys in a flea-pit vyin

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A freshly stirred Cauldron with new features

The keen-eyed among you who regularly visit my blog (and whose visits I am always grateful for) will have noticed big changes this week. No more minimalism, in three words. I got bored of all the white space. Forgive me if you liked it but change of all kinds is said by some to be the very reason for, and motivating engine, of existence. Go with the flow, I say. I truly hope everyone visiting The Spicy Cauldron likes the changes. Here’s a list of them: A snazzy new search box at the top of th

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What Can I Do To Regain Confidence In Prayer by John Piper

The following is an edited transcript of the audio. What can I do to regain confidence in prayer? The main way that God deepens, strengthens and awakens confidence in prayer is not through answered prayer. It’s by the word of the living God! When God says, “I hear you,” we should believe him. So when my confidence in prayer languishes and I feel like, “Why spend 10 or 15 more minutes here?,” my strategy for rebuilding my confidence is not to catalog all the answers. One of the reasons for

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SVIIB - ‘Wired For Light’

Bewitching shoegazing electronica from School of Seven Bell’s beautiful new album Alpinisms. That is all. School of Seven Bells - Wired for Light http://www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells If you like this try: nialler9 Podcast #20: Oct 08 School of Seven Bells - ‘Connjur’

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Help, cannot access bio after hardware change

As stated above after a rough night of installing some new parts, i got a new hdd along with a new video card and some new sticks of ram. Now i had been playing around with the bios and oc'ing prior to these hardware changes. Now i turned the pc back on and it doesn't boot.. it just stays on the Logo and at the bottom saying press DEL to enter setup. I do but nothing happens, i tried a regular wired keyboard and nothing. Sorry by the way this is an Asus m2n sli deluxe. I cleared the CMOS as stat

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Beware the Transparent Proxy...Your Faith In VPNs Might Waiver

Aviram from the Securiteam blog wrote a post titled "Who's Your SMTP Daddy?" that caught my eye regarding the false sense of security that use of corporate IPSec VPNs brings to traveling road warriors due to the use by providers of so-called transparent proxies. Let's say that you've got some sort of IPSec VPN solution installed on your laptop using the standard corporate configuration with your mail client pointing to mail.foo.com.  Your machine has AV, HIPS, firewall, etc. You connect to a p

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Let Crowdsourcing Do Your Marketing Research And Development

Let Crowdsourcing Do Your Marketing Research And Development November 20, 2008 6:40 AM Posted by Mitch Joel What if you took everything you had and made it publicly available on the Internet? What if you opened up your most secret of secrets and encouraged your customers, friends, family members, peers and, yes, even your competitors to play with, tinker and devise that better mousetrap? It sounds a little insane. Welcome to crowdsourcing. "For the last decade or so, companies have been loo

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Black Friday: Toshiba Satellite L305D for $379 at Best Buy

Best Buy will feature the Toshiba Satellite L305D for $379 on Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving). As one of Best Buy’s Black Friday doorbusters, the Satellite L305D will be available in extremely limited quantities and you’ll probably have to camp out to get one. This $379 price is a $270 discount compared to Best Buy’s normal pricing on this configuration of the Satelite 305 (L305D-S5892). The Toshiba Satellite L305D is a mainstream 15.4-inch notebook. The Toshiba Satellite L305D on sale

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UPDATE: Opening Arguments Begin in Lori Drew’s Federal Trial

Prosecutor: Lori Drew Intended to ‘Prey’ on Girl’s Psyche By Kim Zetter, Wired Magazine (http://blog.wired.com/) LOS ANGELES — The woman accused of making unauthorized use of MySpace to  inflict emotional harm on a 13-year-old girl, who then committed suicide, “fully intended to hurt and prey on Megan Meier’s psyche,” a prosecutor charged Wednesday, as opening statements began in the first federal cyber-bullying trial. After some initial problems finding unbiased jurors, a jury of six men an

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Hammering the SEO about Oranges and Sardines: Amy Sillman

With apologies to the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, for picking on your gorgeous new Web site, here is a constructive suggestion: do some SEO (search engine optimization). As The Wired Campus reports the Hammer Museum has raised the bar for museum offerings: On Monday, though, the museum surpassed itself — and every other museum I can think of, either on a campus or off — by unveiling a new Web site that all but vibrates with podcasts, videorecordings of presentations, blog posts, slide shows

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The Dismal Gay Legacy of the George W. Bush Years - Gay Wired

Gay Wired The Dismal Gay Legacy of the George W. Bush Years Gay Wired, CA In fact, there is perhaps no president who has done more to actively deny gay and lesbian Americans equal rights than the man who will leave 1600 …

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Pin Artists

I can’t believe this has been sitting in my draft folder since MAY! It took an age to research, mostly because Americans will insist on using the word ‘pins’ to mean badges and brooches, which made googling for other artists who use dressmaking pins rather tedious and time-consuming. In this post I’ve concentrated on art where the pins are the main focus, rather than a way of anchoring or enhancing other things; I may do a post on pins as a secondary medium at some later date. I’ve written ab

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Marijuana good for the brain.

Marijuana Could Be Good for Memory ? But Not if You Get High | Wired Science from Wired.com

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Petition against Wi-Fi

Petition against Wi-Fi Posted by inthesenewtimes on November 20, 2008 We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to introduce legislation to require all UK schools to remove Wi-Fi installations and replace them with wired alternatives   Click here to sign More details from petition creator Wi-Fi is an untested and under-regulated technology. Sir William Stewart called for government and regulators to apply the precautionary principle and to review the use of Wi-Fi in schools. The Germa

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Future of Forestry Christmas EP

Vanessa at Wired For Sound is tipping us off to some exciting news for Future Of Forestry. The “Advent Christmas” EP is out now. This is the band’s first Christmas release and they took many of the traditional Christmas songs and infused them with their signature atmospheric tones, orchestral arrangements, and celestial melodic rock qualities. If you love Christmas songs but are tired of hearing them the same way, this project will give you a new perspective. Here’s “O Holy Night” from the stud

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GE Consumer & Industrial showcases energy efficient home automation technology in Dubai

• Complements GE’s ecomagination initiative for sustainable development • HabiTEQ is a flexible solution for energy efficiency, safety and comfort in homes Dubai, UAE; November 20, 2008: General Electric Consumer & Industrial showcased an innovative home automation solution, HabiTEQ, in Dubai that promotes energy efficiency, safety and comfort in homes. In line with GE’s ecomagination initiative that enables customers and users to meet pressing environmental challenges, HabiTEQ is essenti

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Google Earth goes to Ancient Rome

Anyone who has followed the current TV adventure/soap opera Rome, knows that modern technology may bring the world of antiquity back to life. Google is now doing its part, by adding an Ancient Rome module (”layer”) to Google Earth, its free software package for exploring the surface of the Earth. According to Wired the The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in conjunction with the Rome Reborn Project 2.0 at University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. The i

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Get Free Publicity for Your Business as a Radio Expert

In another Bigg Success Show Expert Session, we talked with Barbara Rozgonyi from Wired PR Works. Barbara is a consultant and speaker, helping people get more media attention for their business by positioning themselves as experts. Here are some highlights from our conversation: ___ ___ ___ Every business owner today is looking, more than ever, for ways to gain a competitive edge and stand out. Yet we’re reluctant to spend money. So if you can find a way to get publicity for your compan

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