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Dangerous Prototypes Open 7400 Logic Competition - News - SparkFun Electronics

http://www.sparkfun.com/news/714 The folks over at Dangerous Prototypes are hosting a cool contest called the Open Logic 7400 Competition . Entries are due by October 21st, 2011 so now is the time to get started!
http://blog.makezine.com/2011/09/28/news-from-the-future-tiny-gps-sensors-in-everything/

MAKE | News From The Future: Tiny GPS Sensors, In Everything…

News From The Future: Tiny GPS Sensors, In Everything … With a tiny-enough GPS sensor, it’s possible to track the location of anything from your lost keys to a runaway pet.

Spoiler alert: The mouse dies. Touch and gesture take center stage - O'Reilly Radar

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/touch-gesture-mouse-interface.html The moment that sealed the future of human-computer interaction (HCI) for me happened just a few months ago. I was driving my car, carrying a few friends and their children. One child, an 8-year old, pointed to the small LCD screen on the dashboard and asked me whether the settings were controlled by touching the screen.
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about Vim : vim online

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.

The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone | The UberReview

Troy Lange might work for one of the more secretive spy agencies in the United States, but he is happy to talk about his work. http://www.uberreview.com/2011/09/the-nsa-wants-its-own-smartphone.htm
http://www.ubergizmo.com/ Windows Phone owners who happen to live in Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela, here is some good news for you, and hopefully it will be able to perk you up through the middle of the week as the weekend looms in the horizon. Microsoft has announced that they will be opening up the Marketplace in those countries, so may the downloading begin! This would mean the aforementioned 13 countries will be joining Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines for some Marketplace goodness, bringing the total number of Marketplace storefronts to 54.

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Rick Chin is the director of product innovation at SolidWorks , where he develops new products and researches how technology will make us smarter, simplify daily tasks and seamlessly fit into our everyday lives. http://mashable.com/2011/09/18/future-technology/

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How To Set Up A VPN Server On Windows 7 | TheDailyBuggle

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are an important tool in remote connectivity , especially in corporations and professional organizations, but their usage may vary from instance to instance. http://www.thedailybuggle.com/set-vpn-server-windows-7/