Quoted: Google has launched a dedicated portal of Google services for non-profit organizations. Google for Non-Profits offers “a one-stop shop for tools to help advance your organization’s mission in a smart, cost-efficient way.” This site includes ideas and tutorials on ways Google tools can be used to promote non-profits, raise money and operate more efficiently.
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Quoted: Arthur C. Clarke has died at his Sri Lankan home, aged 90. Clarke is best known as the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but his reach stretched beyond Science Fiction. In 1945 he accurately predicted the use of Satellites as a communications tool, and later joined Walter Cronkite in covering the Apollo space launches. Clarke was knighted in 2000 and
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Quoted: What it does It’s true, reading for the sake of reading isn’t very popular anymore. Either, there’s no time or no interest. Why read when you could be watching the latest Lost, or getting up to date on exactly how much Spitzer spent on his entertainment? Nevertheless, there’s an interesting reading tool on the nets called BookLamp that might lure
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Quoted: Google is getting more comfortable with its inner wiki. It is now allowing anyone in the U.S., Australia, or New Zealand to improve Google Maps by editing places for everyone else to see. So if a restaurant listed on a map of your local neighborhood has closed or moved, you can correct the map. You can also add your own places. It was possible previously
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Quoted: What it does justincaseidie.com is a site where you can let the people that care about you know if you are dead. The way it works is simple, you enter a phrase to go to the individual of your choice if you are dead. Tell your mom you love her, or tell your ex boyfriend that you never loved him, whatever you need to say to give you peace before your
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Quoted: What it does NowTorrents is a great real-time torrent search engine that only shows real results unlike some other sites claiming to do the same. It has great Firefox and IE 7 plug-ins, clear and easy to read layout and fast results. NowTorrents does not host any torrents, they just make them findable. All the results show up in the appropriate
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Quoted: Facebook announced new privacy controls at a press event at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters today, and also demoed their new chat application - called Facebook Chat - that has been rumored since last week. Our real time notes and pictures from the event are here. See CNET for more. New Privacy Controls The new privacy controls, which will launch
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Quoted: What it does Lingtastic is translation on the cheap. We’ve all been there before—stuck in a foreign country trying to do the simplest task, whether it be getting the waiter to bring you the bill, transferring money from your bank, attempting to find a cab that’ll take you back to the hostel, and the list goes on. Or maybe you’ve procrastinated a
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Quoted: Filed under: Wireless Well, what can we say? The new 802.11n AirPort Express looks exactly like the 802.11g AirPort Express we've been using to stream iTunes and wirelessly print to an el-cheapo USB laser printer since 2004. In fact, if not for the different model numbers (A1264 now, instead of A1084) and the fact that our old unit has some random
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Quoted: Filed under: Cellphones Remember those dirt-cheap refurbished iPhones we mentioned you could snag in-store? Well it looks like AT&T has decided to share the bounty with the public at large, and has begun taking orders for the $249 8GB models online. If you've been on the fence, here's your chance to get in for $150 less than retail (and sadly
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Quoted: Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Although we've got a special place in our hearts for Cisco's 1080p-lovin' TelePresence Meeting system, HP's own Halo Collaboration Center ain't too shabby. Announced today as the newest member of its expanding Halo platform, the aforementioned center comes in two- and four-seat iterations and prides itself on being simple
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Quoted: Elecrolux's Inspiro oven launches this week, using technology that could be the future of cooking. Using a heat management technique rather like auto focus on a camera, the Inspiro's sensors first analyze what is to be cooked before calculating the temperature and time needed. The company's CEO, Hans Stråberg, likens it to the way cameras now automatically
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Quoted: Update: Testing the new features now (with video.) Impressions after the jump. Safari 3.1 is out now, and according to Apple is the first web browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5, as well as CSS Web Fonts and CSS animations. First, it requires a restart (damnation) but it's worth it. So far, it seems faster loading pages than the
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Quoted: What it does Gizj.com is a personal aggregator site where you can customize all of the content and feeds. Users can choose to have their page private or public. To begin using Gizj.com you must create your page by choosing modules. You can choose the language you want when you are search for modules and then you can perform a keyword search of the
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Quoted: What it does TurnKey.org offers high quality turnkey apps for your website. Rather than spending your valuable cash on a professional developer whose work may not be up to par with your standards, you’ll get professionally coded, easily integrated scripts for an affordable price with Turnkey. Currently they’ve four products available, all of which
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Quoted: What it does ReadtheWords is an absolutely free service which converts text into MP3. All you’ve got to do is sign up and select what files you want to convert. Read works with PDF documents, Word, HTML files, and even RSS feeds. From there, you’ll need to select from one of 15 readers (luckily,you’re not stuck with a single, boring voice and there
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Quoted: What it does FtpBin is a web based FTP client which works right in your browser. There’s nothing to install and it can be accessed from any internet enabled computer. FTPBin allows three types of file upload: standard upload form, upload and unzip, and via the Java Applet. Users can download files one at a time or as a zip batch. These in turn
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Quoted: What it does Worried about your website? BasicState’s got your back. BasicState runs a website monitoring service which ensures that your site is up and running properly. It will alert you whenever there’s a problem with your site via email and SMS text message. The service checks your site every 15 minutes and you’ll be sent a daily email report
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Quoted: Yeah, you read that headline right. Apple couldn’t pay for better press than this. Viewers of the Charlie Rose show tonight were stunned to see the normally composed Rose looking like he’d just been in a bar fight. He has a very bad black eye and a bandage over part of his forehead. I contacted the show’s producers to hear what happened. Earlier today,
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Quoted: Filed under: Transportation Remember a few dozen years ago when we heard the first batch of 100 Tesla Roadsters had sold out? Us neither, but we're assuming those were heady days. Since then we've seen delays, setbacks and untimely retirements, but Tesla Motors claims it finally has the car under production, and is naturally taking orders for the
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Quoted: What it does Mapness.net is a Google Maps mashup that allows you to create an interactive travel journal for sharing your travel experiences with family and friends. Your Mapness travelogue starts with a Google Map charting your trip, on which you can pinpoint stops made along the way. Anywhere on your route, you can add photos, videos, or written
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