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Professor Manos Tentzeris from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed a new ulta-wideband antenna that is printed using an inkjet on paper or...
I came across a new tool this week called PDFMasher. PDFMasher converts PDF files containing text into HTML files.
Most e-Book readers support PDF file, but doesn't create a very good user experience because there is limit control over formatting, such as font sizes. PDF on e-Bo...
A team of researchers at MIT have developed a way to print solar cells, just like printing out of an office printer. Almost as inexpensive as printing a photo from your inkjet, the simple solar c...
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I'm spending time this week updating my social sharing buttons,
I made some more changes to my network over the holidays. I'm working to better tie together my blog(s) and my social network profiles using the rel="" property.
The process is a three part process, meant to link the various places I write with my author brand, that is represented in my social net...
I updated the sharing tools on blog.apievangelist.com today. Previously it had eight buttons, representing the top social network channels that drive traffic to the blog.
I'm changing it, putting emphasis on:
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Amazon sent me an email about the recent signing of the online sales tax law by California G...
I like how my Google account settings have evolved. Off the top toolbar, I click on my name, then account settings, you then get an option called data liberation. All apps accounts should have a data liberation option!
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There has been a lot of requests for .NET code samples for integrating applications with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
I was telling too many potential customers that I do not have .NET code samples, and they would have to write from scratch.
So I finally...
Google updated the Google Cloud Print website today with all new documentation, code samples and other goodies to help get up and running using Google Cloud ...
I never view closing down a project as a failure, if I make sure and record information about the project throughout its life. Then I have access to what was learned over its life. Good or bad.
I have many crazy ideas, executed in a variety of ways. All of them I learn something, otherwise I wouldn't do them.
I was just reading a po...
The New York Times just covered the problems faced when opening up government data, in the article, How to Break an Information Bottleneck?
At the beginning of his presidency, President Obama expressed that, All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor o...
Github just released a new Github client for the Mac. It provides a GUI alternative to the Github command line.
Some features of the new Github for Mac are:
Box.net has announced new integration with the Google Docs Platform. Box.net users can now create, edit and collaborate using
Cloud computing holds the promise of infinite scalability and capacity. We hust pay for what we use, and whatever capacity you need is there.
This holds true on the server and back-end of the cloud. Where this promse will begin to break down is on the front-end of the...
Dropbox is a dead simple, web-based file hosting service, that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files with others across the Internet using file synchronization.
Dropbox is a perfect platform for printing from...
I really enjoy web applications that focus on doing one thing, and doing it well.
Pen.io is one of these apps. Pen.io is the fastest way to publish online. period.
Pen.io allows you to add, edit, and delete pages. Thats it.
You just give your page...
I was sitting in on a session at the O'Reilly Velocity Conference today, by Chris Blizzard of the Mozilla Foundation...
A Quick Response (QR) code is a two-dimensional code that is readable by barcode readers as well as camera phones.
QR Codes have been around since 1994, and every couple years seem to get heralded as the next big thing.
QR Codes can be used to link the offline world, with onl...
Apple's new iCloud platform includes a new key-value data store, along side its
Google Apps provides a very powerful document management solution, Google Docs.
With Google Docs you can upload and create many different types of documents. The G...
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I am making some adjustments to my Google Alerts today.
I removed a few and added a few alerts.
Here are my current Google Alerts:
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Its been a month since Google I/O. I figured its about time to do a write-up about the Samsung Galaxy Tab that Google was so kind to give me at the event.
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