Mashable!:
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology described as, “a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.” AR is essentially a view of the real world with a (Read More)
Mashable!:
Amidst all the coverage of the new iTunes pricing structure - and the fact that purchased songs will be DRM-free from now on - not many reporters pointed out (there are exceptions, of course) that Apple is actually charging 30 cents for DRM removal from old songs. Yes, you can burn the songs to a CD and import them back int (Read More)
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WordPress 2.7 completely overhauled the admin area of your blog, so isn’t it time you treated yourself with an overhaul of the front end also? Why not pick something radically different than the usual blog look? Not only can you have a blog that stands out, you can completely change the function of WordPress to be a (Read More)
Gawker:
Why doesn't anyone ever write about the real victims of the current war in Gaza? That's right, the losers and freaks of Second Life. Palestinians and their terrorist sympathizers streamed into Second Life Israel last week, as Real Life Israel launched missiles at Real Life Gaza. The aggrieved protesters promptly began destr (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Early this morning social networking site Facebook announced that 150 million people across the globe are actively using Facebook—half of them every day. This includes people in every continent—even Antarctica. If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia (Read More)
Mashable!:
Ex-Yahoo Ryan Kuder started The Purple People Collective as a resource for newly laid-off Yahoos (and any other tech workers) looking to band together and find freelance work. The site, which launched last month, now has 100 listings including a few from ex-Yahoo potential acquirer, Microsoft.Kuder says that the site, built (Read More)