Guide to speeding up your PC

Check this list for speeding up your PC

MashUp web sites together

Some hackers are mixing together information on webisites into interesting combinations called Mashups. Try these:

Local events and places: http://mashfu.com/

World news: http://www.maptalk.co.nz/infographics/worldnews.cfm

For a list, go here: http://www.programmableweb.com/popular

[Newsclip] Bad Samaritan Keeps Lost Camera; only sends CDs with Lost Photos

A woman's trip to Hawaii goes sour when she loses her Digital Camera with over 500 photos on her Memory Card. The good news was that some guy finds her Camera; the bad news was that he only sent her Burned CDs of the Photos ...

[Newsclip] Google Maps Nighttime

Google Maps Nighttime takes the 128 megapixel NASA's "Earth Lights" image and adds a Google Map interface to it using the Google Maps application program interface (API). There are 7 zoom levels to it.

http://digg.com/links/Google_Maps_Nighttime

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[Newsclip] Javascript Shows More GMail Features

The same guy who predicted the Gmail for domains last week has found two new lines of code that hint at voicemail and evites.com integration.

http://digg.com/technology/Javascript_Shows_More_GMail_Features

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[Newsclip] How Computers Work

"Roger Young has a great free PDF on how computers work "This is a tutorial web book. All 152 pages of the large paperback book with 96 diagrams are on 38 web pages here. Even if you know nothing about electronics, you have come to the right place. If you are wondering how microprocessors work, you have come to the right place."

http://digg.com/technology/How_Computers_Work_2 "

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[Newsclip] Randy K. Milholland

"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing."
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/quotationspage/qotd?a=QpTM07"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/quotationspage/qotd?i=QpTM07" border="0"></img></a></p>

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Randy_K._Milholland

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Olympics

We're watching the Olympics with our friend Susan. Here's the trivia as it comes up:

During the parade of nations, we were discussion the way each country has a different name in very language here are the Countries by native names from Wikipedia.

Happy Chinese New Year

If you would like to see your name in Chinese, go here.

If you prefer ancient Egyptian, try this.

More gift ideas for techies

Other gifts fromThink Geek: Original Ring Thing; cellphone headset, drink mug with lightning in it, PC remote control, electronic binoculars.

Happy Holidays!

Aside from the graduates of RPI, another product of Troy NY was the first publication of "The Night before Christmas"

P.S. If you are thinking of getting me something for Christmas: Landroller skates, Nokia N90, more to follow...

Virtual Acquarium

Brush up on your Jedi Lightsaber skills!

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Pneumatic Home Elevator

Check out this new home elevator. No winches or hyrdaulics. It moves you up and down like one of the old pneumatic mailing tubes.