Monday, April 30, 2012

MC2 Post 1258 Google Drive Launch Delivers 10 Good Reasons to Try It Out







PIX: Google Cloud Drive Logos.

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Google Drive is all the rage in today's hotly contested cloud-storage space. The offering, which was first announced on April 24, is widely believed to be the next big answer to services like Dropbox and Box and could very well become a popular option for those who already work with Google Apps or are looking to move their data away from their current storage service.  

From:  http://www.eweek.com


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MC2 Post 1259 COMICS--ER Graphic NOVELS___Before The Watchmen ART





PIX:  Before The Watchmen

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Before Watchmen will cover the back stories of each of the major characters in the original graphic novel.

There’s been quite a bit of controversy about the creation of the prequel, with the original writer and artist split on whether it should move forward.

While artist Dave Gibbons supports the project, writer Alan Moore has become more belligerent about his hate for DC and the way they treat what he perceives as his intellectual property.


From:  http://www.tgdaily.com 






 
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MC2 Post 1261 Firefox 13 What’s New





                       PIXS:  Firefox 13 About Firefox Page

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About a month ago I highlighted what Mozilla had in store for Firefox 13. The information back then were based on the aurora release channel, and information that Mozilla had posted at that time. Firefox 13 has now been moved to the beta channel where it will stay for the next six weeks before it will become the the stable version of the web browser replacing Firefox 12. 

From:  http://www.ghacks.net 







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Sunday, April 29, 2012

MC2 Post 1261 Is Nvidia's New GeForce GTX Just Too Too Much ???



NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 Graphics Card, Loads it with Dual Kepler GPUs,  charges $1000 Smackers.


         And If You're Really Cool....You Need 2 ! 



From:  http://www.engadget.com

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MC2 Post 1260 There IS SOME Alien DNA is in Prometheus






PIX: Prometheus SHIP

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It's really shaping up to be one amazing genre summer 
at the movies.

We've got The Avengers right around the corner, The Dark Knight Rises, and the film a lot of my genre friends are really looking forward to, Prometheus. It's pretty much believed to be a prequel to Alien, and with Ridley Scott at the helm, it promises to be a terrifying trip back into space.  Alien DNA is in Prometheus and Prometheus is also Scott's first foray back into science fiction since Blade Runner thirty years ago.

From:  http://www.tgdaily.com






 
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

MC2 Post 1257 House Approves CISPA Despite Last-Minute Push By Opponents






PIXS: CISPA Bill and Stop CISPA Logo 

Header:  By a vote of 248 to 168, a bipartisan majority approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which would permit Internet companies to hand over confidential customer records and communications to the National Security Agency and other portions of the U.S. government. CISPA would "waive every single privacy law ever enacted in the name of cybersecurity," said Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat, during today's marathon floor debate. "Allowing the military and NSA to spy on Americans on American soil goes against every principle this country was founded on." 


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Friday, April 27, 2012

MC2 Post 1256 Apple Pulls Bluetooth OnOff from the App Store



Fromhttp://www.zdnet.com






PIX Bluetooth OnOff App Logo.


Header:  Summary: Apple’s removal an app from the App Store that allowed users to quickly access a popular setting demonstrates how it has become lethargic and how iOS innovation slowed to a crawl.

Apple pulls Bluetooth on/off from the App Store - Jason O'Grady It should come as no surprise that Apple has removed the wonderful Bluetooth OnOff app from the App Store.

The wonderful, single-purpose $0.99 app allowed you to turn Bluetooth on and off with one touch, something users have been clamoring for since the iPhone came out in 2007.
I hope that you grabbed it while you could!






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MC2 Post 1255 Gigabit WiFi? 802.11AC Router Makes it Possible, Starting in May


From:  http://arstechnica.com



PIX:  Netgear 802.11AC Router

Header:  Netgear is poised to be the first networking company with a next-generation router on the market—one that has been shown to reach speeds of up to 1.3 Gbps in the 5 GHz band. The company's new router is based on the as-yet-unratified 802.11ac standard, which is theoretically three times faster than the preceding 802.11n standard.



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Thursday, April 26, 2012

MC2 Post 1254 Walmart has Better IDEA



Walmart Adds “Pay With Cash” For Online Shoppers At Walmart.com 



From:  http://techcrunch.com
 

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

MC2 Post 1253b Asus Motherboards Break 7GHz Speed





And Sets New World Record




Smokin' (the Mask snapshot). 




Asus has announced that it is breaking all sorts of world records in the semiconductor world, thanks to Intel’s latest Z77 chipset and third-generation Core i7 processors. Among the high-level achievements are the P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard, which reaches an astonishing 7 GHz CPU clock frequency when using the Intel Core i7-3770K processor with 16 GB of DDR3 and clocked at 2800 MHz.






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Mated with ASUS HD7970-DC2-3GD5 Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0




x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Free Dirt3 game coupon w/ purchase, limited offer

NEWEGG Priced at $489.99

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MC2 Post 1252 A Real Far Out Place To Go Mining


From:  http://news.cnet.com 

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The first step in Planetary Resources space missions: prospecting by telescope to determine resources available on near-Earth asteroids.

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MC2 Post 1251 Still Having Problems Controlling Your ROBOT




No Problem, there's a New Update to ROS

A New version of ROS robot operating system arrives

From:  http://www.h-online.com



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For the newest version of the ROS open source robot operating system, the developers have substantially revised their software. In this release, which is code-named "Fuerte Turtle", they completely rewrote the central libraries to improve interoperability and make them usable with other robotics frameworks.

ROS Fuerte Turtle includes version 1.0 of the Gazebo simulator environment, which has a new user interface that has been migrated from WxWidgets to Qt. The developers say that this change provides improved integration under Mac OS X. The RViz visualisation tool has also been migrated to Qt. ROS Fuerte Turtle also includes version 1.5 of the Point Cloud Library (PCL), with the long-awaited object-tracking library.

Yeah, this is Pretty Serious Stuff.  But then, You Don't want your Robot to get out of Hand, do you.   

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Monday, April 23, 2012

MC2 Post 1250 Where Did I Leave My Muscle Pack ???




Or as Ripley would say:  

"Where's my #$& Mech Suit?"


From:  http://www.newscientist.com




Wearable Muscle Suit Makes 
Heavy Lifting a Cinch











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Sunday, April 22, 2012

MC2 Post 1249 Re-Visiting The TRS-80 Model 100 30 years Later...



From:  http://www.thepowerbase.com


TRS-80 Model 100: Interview With 
John R. Hogerhuis

by Tom Nardi

Last month, on something of a whim, I wrote up an introduction and guide to working with the TRS-80 Model 100, one of the first ever “notebook” computers, released in 1983. The Model 100 was something that had always interested me, and I thought I would share some of my experiences with 
getting software installed on it, and maybe introduce this nearly 30 year old piece of hardware to a new audience.






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Get The Model T Emulator

and Yes, It runs fine on Windows 7

Wingman.
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Ken Pettit also created the Model T emulator 
the “VirtualT” which in turn made other
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VirtualT running on Wingman's
Windows 7 Desktop.

Talk about back from 
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

MC2 Post 1248 The Year's Best Blu-Ray Player is 135





Panasonic DMP-BDT220


The good: The Panasonic DMP-BDT220 has built-in Wi-Fi, 3D compatibility, and the Viera Connect suite of streaming-media services, which includes Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant, Pandora, and Vudu. The user interface for the streaming-media apps is straightforward, plus you can jump right to Netflix with the dedicated Netflix button on the remote. There are a few other minor perks, including Skype compatibility, a front-panel SD card slot, and a superfast quick-start mode.





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Friday, April 20, 2012

MC2 Post 1248 The Little Raspberry Pi That Could and a New Tablet Deal From Toshiba


Fromhttp://www.neowin.net







$35 Raspberry Pi PC pre-orders Hit 350,000 units


The first wave of 10,000 units made available by the manufacturer sold out within minutes, and with such a level of demand, the Raspberry Pi Foundation was quickly able to establish more flexible production and distribution arrangements, compared with its original restrictions of only being limited to batches of 10,000 units at a time








TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7enpd9v   

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Get a 32GB Toshiba Thrive 
Android tablet for $259.99





From:  http://news.cnet.com

Much as I like 7-inch tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet, I can definitely see the appeal of a 10-inch model -- especially when it's priced only a little higher. For example, 1SaleADay was recently selling the refurbished 10-inch Toshiba Thrive Android tablet for $259.99. Of course, that was the 16GB model.

Today, and while supplies last, 1SaleADay (via Ebay) has the 32GB Toshiba Thrive Android tablet for $259.99 shipped. That's without a doubt the best deal I've seen on a 10-inch tablet with that much storage.






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100 Years at This Ball Park...



 
Yankees -  Red Socks

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

MC2 Post 1247 Read Website’s Feed in Magazine-like Style Using Google Currents







I Know We all like those Magazine Style Formats that deliver popular websites in a Very Cool Way on  Mobile Devices...






The Recent Update to Google Currents, Lets you Do That Too!  Here's How: (from techmadly.com)


From:  http://www.techmadly.com


When you open Google Currents app on a network connected mobile device, it automatically synchronize content from publishers and available feeds and deliver them on your phone in a beautiful magazine like look. You can read these articles later whenever you want.

Currents has a great list (over 400) of well established websites from various categories of interest. These publishers are from Science, Sports, Business, Technology, Celebrities, Health & Wellness, Design and News categories. Each category has many publishers to choose from. Apart from predefined Currents you can manually add particular websites feed to read. You can add editions by searching them on Google Currents producer page or search from inside the app. Click on the desired edition in search list and then click on ‘Subscribe to this edition’ button to make it available within your app. 



TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/752w9md   

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Web-based courses from Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania are now available for free from start-up Coursera.

The company's also signed up Stanford - where it was founded - and the University of California atBerkeley.

It's raised $16 million in venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) for the venture.




It's 198....That's Just Great...Phooey. 



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