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QR Code Generator - Create Your Own QR Codes - Delivr. How to Use Google Alerts - 5 Quick Ways to Get News About You & Your Blog - Food Blog Alliance. Google Alerts are a simple and free way to get regular updates about something that interests you (other than Twitter, which is for another article). Google Alerts will send you an email any time a new web page appears in the top 20 web results or top 10 news results for the terms you specify. As a caretaker and author of a blog or website, you’ll definitely want to be on top of news and happenings that interest you and your blog.

I have about 30 alerts at any one time and you can add and delete as you need to since it takes only about 6 seconds to set up an alert (yes, I timed it). You can create up to 1000 alerts! Here are 5 quick ways to use Google Alerts. Note that you’ll need to have a Google login to use the service (and emails are consequently sent to that email address or Reader account), but you probably already have one, don’t you? For each Alert, you’ll need to decide the following: Here are some suggestions for some Google Alerts to set up if you’re just getting started:

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Newsroom. 3D display. Laser plasma volumetric display A stereo display (also 3D display) is a display device capable of conveying depth perception to the viewer by means of stereopsis for binocular vision. Types of stereo displays - Stereoscopy vs. 3D[edit] Stereo displays[edit] Based on the principles of stereopsis, described by Sir Charles Wheatstone in the 1830s, stereoscopic technology provides a different image to the viewer's left and right eyes. The following are some of the technical details and methodologies employed in some of the more notable stereoscopic systems that have been developed. Side-by-side images[edit] "The early bird catches the worm" Stereograph published in 1900 by North-Western View Co. of Baraboo, Wisconsin, digitally restored. The side-by-side method is extremely simple to create, but it can be difficult or uncomfortable to view without optical aids.

Stereoscope and stereographic cards[edit] Transparency viewers[edit] A View-Master Model E of the 1950s Head-mounted displays[edit] 3D optical data storage. 3D optical data storage is the term given to any form of optical data storage in which information can be recorded and/or read with three-dimensional resolution (as opposed to the two-dimensional resolution afforded, for example, by CD).[1][2] This innovation has the potential to provide petabyte-level mass storage on DVD-sized disks. Data recording and readback are achieved by focusing lasers within the medium. However, because of the volumetric nature of the data structure, the laser light must travel through other data points before it reaches the point where reading or recording is desired. Therefore, some kind of nonlinearity is required to ensure that these other data points do not interfere with the addressing of the desired point. No commercial product based on 3D optical data storage has yet arrived on the mass market, although several companies are actively developing the technology and claim that it may become available "soon".

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Three weeks with the iPad: a love story. April 26, 2010, 8:04 AM — It's been a bit over three weeks since the iPad launched, and the hype has quieted somewhat. We've all seen the reviews that came out right around launch and we've heard all the arguments both for and against Apple's tablet device. It's also been exactly three weeks since I bought an iPad and I thought this would be a good time to share my experience with it. This isn't an objective review; this is just me sharing my personal experiences with a new device. Before launch a lot of people wondered what the iPad was for, and this is my answer. . [ Get news and reviews on tech toys in ITworld's personal tech newsletter] First a quick bit of background information on me. Now I'm going to confess something to you. That little voice was wrong (so far). Let's start with the problems I've encountered. Next, if you want to get work done, be warned: the iPad isn't an office tool (in my opinion, I know others feel differently).

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Reforbiz - Outsourcing made safe & easy. TechCrunch. CNET. APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us. The web professional's online magazine of choice. In: Articles By Gareth Rushgrove Published on June 4, 2007 All the latest and coolest web apps seem to have an API these days. From the hacker’s point of view, APIs provide a great way of standing on the shoulders of giants, as well as making a service more useful for themselves and others. This article, the first in a series of two, aims to lift the lid on all things API; the second article will give you some hands-on tools and tips to get you started.

What is an API? Let’s get the acronym out of the way first. …a language and message format used by an application program to communicate with a control program. We’ll get to what that actually means a little later. Historically, the web was all about places to visit. Fast-forward to the present-day—all that is starting to change. An API, in very simple terms, is the definition of what can be done programmatically with a particular application. That leaves only one question. Why sites have APIs. Perceptive Pixel Founded by Jeff Han Developer of Advanced Multi-Touch Solutions. Microsoft Surface Video - Touchscreen, Multi Touch Coffee Table - Behind the Scenes. Microsoft's corporate campus is a sprawling affair, with more than 100 buildings scattered over 261 acres. To make sense of it all, you have to navigate by numbers. The Microsoft Visitor Center, for instance, is in Building 127, north campus, while the Microsoft Conference Center is in Building 33, just down the road from the company soccer and baseball fields.

About 4 miles away, however, there is an unnumbered building that is decidedly "off campus. " In that building, Microsoft has quietly been developing the first completely new computing platform since the PC — a project that was given the internal code name Milan. This past March, when the project was still operating on the down low, I became the first reporter invited inside these offices. My hosts politely threatened legal consequences if I blabbed about the project to anyone not directly involved in it, then escorted me down a dark hallway to a locked corner conference room.

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