Ever been confused by what money actually is? Hint - it’s not paper or coinage. This article takes a look at what money is, and what it means in an age of technology, as well as being a good guide for how technology is changing the world of money for average Diggers. Now Kevin Rose can work out what his $60m is actually worth…
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A very simple tutorial on how to create an attractive dashboard-like dimmer for your webpage and draw your user’s attention to a certain object. Very cool web effect.
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DirecTV is set to release a new portable satellite TV player. Its an odd looking thing with a breifcase design with 1970s brown and beige colors. Since the satellite forms part of the case you will likely need to keep the TV facing a certain direction to get good reception. Pretty annoying. Think I’ll stick to my cable TiVo DVR, slingbox and PMP.
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Gobo Linux manages to completely remove the UNIX directory structure in their distro! What they’ve come up with you might find very surprising!
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Short HOWTO on installing Ubuntu on a PC without CDROM drive, and with no USB CDROM support, using etherboot and tftp.
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Second space shuttle flight since Columbia tragedy to launch.
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Pour me a drink. Anything that touches the bar counter surface lights up and connects together - kind of freaky and hard to explain. Just watch, you’ll be glad you did: “The intelligent tracking system detects all objects touching the surface. This input is used to let the projected content interact dynamically with the movements on the counter.”
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His name is Paul Young; Lucky this is just a hobby for him because after 175,000 Downloads, he only got dotations from 10 people. I know it’s Freeware and NOT Shareware but Jeez….10 Donations?
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There can be a guilty little pleasure in buying that $350 iPod or $1,200 laptop online: avoiding the sales tax you’d have to pay at a local store….there’s nothing to stop Congress from authorizing states to require collection by out-of-state sellers. Nothing in the Constitution, that is. Politics are another matter
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