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Invention kit takes tech design to kids - CNET News.com

Playful Invention Co., a child-oriented tech start-up, was warned that "gender-neutral robotics set" was an oxymoron--but the company is hoping to challenge that notion with its new PicoCricket Kit. The PicoCricket Kit centers on a small device, appropriately called the PicoCricket. The tiny computer can be attached to all sorts of building blocks, sensors, motors and lights; connected via USB or serial cable to a Mac or PC; and programmed with a piece of software called PicoBlocks. http://news.cnet.com/Invention-kit-takes-tech-design-to-kids/2100-11398_3-6110347.html
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SIMILE Project

S IMILE was focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. Learn more about the SIMILE project. A web-based highly-configurable faceted browser for RDF datasets.
Gmail Filesystem - GmailFS Gmail Filesystem provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. Gmail Filesystem is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail. GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.). http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

Gmail Filesystem

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours. I did the following power search at Amazon.com : pubdate: after 1992 and title: days and (title: learn or title: teach yourself) and got back 248 hits. The first 78 were computer books (number 79 was Learn Bengali in 30 days ). I replaced "days" with "hours" and got remarkably similar results: 253 more books, with 77 computer books followed by Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours at number 78.
Metasploit Pro helps enterprise defenders prevent data breaches by efficiently prioritizing vulnerabilities, verifying controls and mitigation strategies, and conducting real-world, collaborative, broad-scope penetration tests to improve your security risk intelligence. Prevent data breaches Metasploit Pro helps you improve your enterprise vulnerability management program and test how well your perimeter holds up against real world attacks: Metasploit Pro makes your security and operations team more efficient because it helps you prioritize the vulnerabilities reported by your vulnerability scanner: Import vulnerability management reports from more than a dozen third-party applications and verify their findings to eliminate false positives Metasploit Pro helps you verify that your remediation effort, such as a patch, new firewall rule or IPS configuration, actually stops the vulnerability from being exploited.

The Metasploit Project

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http://www.real-knowledge.com/transico.htm How To Restore Desktop Icons Back To Their Transparent State The labels to the icons on your Desktop are set to transparent in Windows XP to give them a smoother look and make them blend in better with the background you are using. This is a visual effects feature know as drop shadow. If your Desktop icons are no longer transparent and have a colored background around their labels, then this technical brief will show you how restore their look back to transparent view.

Transparent Desktop Icons - Making Desktop Icons Transparent - S

Want to get 2 different wallpapers on dual monitor set up in XP

Using Wallmaster Pro Want to set up, as topic states....2 different wallpapers simultaneously...would like Wallmaster to shuffle pics and change at specified intervals Tx folks. Think I'm going to stick with same wallpaper on both monitors. Presently I have Wallmaster randomly changing the wallpaper every 5 minutes. I'm not sure what sticking 2 wall papers together involve.....but it seems that the same 2 pics would always be associated reducing the randomness. http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8841.html
Coding techniques incorporate many facets of software development. Although they usually have no impact on the functionality of the application, they contribute to an improved comprehension of source code. All forms of source code are considered here, including programming, scripting, markup and query languages. The coding techniques defined here are not proposed to form an inflexible set of coding standards. Rather, they are meant to serve as a guide for developing a coding standard for a specific software project. The naming scheme is one of the most influential aids to understanding the logical flow of an application. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa291593(v=vs.71).aspx

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