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Prime Minister of UK, Mr Gordon Brown is expected to promise later that every UK home will be able to access superfast broadband by the year 2020. He is expected to announce that superbroadband which may be called “the electricity of the digital age” is a must for all citizens. He will warn “the ..

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Every UK Home will Get Superfast Broadband by 2020

It’s the weekend of March Break and a slow news day, so it might be time to publish a ramble that I’ve been working on for a few weeks now. This post probably falls under the “ too long to read ” category for many (if so, you can always rummage through our Snippets for bite sized morsels)

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What plumbing and plumbers can teach us about do-it-yourself design, designing logos and designers

The idea that people will be able to talk to computer and the computer will understand the command, is surfacing since the days of 70s. But, it has never been able to get into mainstream. In the recent months, voice activation technology got enough momentum and it is going to be the next big …

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Is Mobile Voice Technology Going to be the Next Technological Resurgence?

MUMBAI, INDIA, (GaeaTimes.com)- The current scenario of life where people seldom get time for themselves, social networking is one such medium which keeps each and everyone in touch and offers a host of features that prove beneficial and entertaining at the same time. After Facebook, Twitter and Orkut already invading our lives, it is now ….

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Gojiyo Goes Live

Activist charged over sat phone can leave India JAIPUR, India ? A London-based environmental campaigner traveling the world in a biofuel-driven bus has been has been ordered to pay a fine for illegally using a satellite phone and is now free to leave India two months after his arrest, his lawyer said Sunday.

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London-based activist who illegally used satellite phone in India free to leave country

Author’s statement: Neither I or SitePoint condone the website referenced in this article. This is a topical news story and we take no responsibility for any loss of productivity! Many of the visitors to SitePoint are freelancers and small business owners. Wasting time at work is our prerogative and it’s directly related to our profitability

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Can’t You See I’m Busy … Playing Games?

Despite all precautionary measures, firefighting remains a risky task that poses life-threatening challenges in front of the firefighters all over the world. Making the life a bit easier and safer for the firefighters, the Firegard is an autonomous firefighting robot that reduces the exposure of the firefighters to intense situations. Capable of operating in different conditions and terrains, the Firegard records important pictures and information via built-in sensors and cameras, which helps the officials assess the situation and execute their operation without risking the life of the firefighters.

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Firegard: Autonomous firefighting robot makes life easy for firefighters

Slated to be launched at DistribuTECH next week, the “Vision” from Tendril is a next gen in-home energy display that reduces energy consumption by an average of 10-15 percent and envisions low electricity bills. Connecting to the electric grid, the energy smart device not only provides the real-time information of the users’ energy consumption but also the cost of energy throughout the day, so you could manage your household work during the hours when the cost of electricity is minimal. Via: Treehugger / Gizmodo

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Tendril Vision Clock envisions low electricity bills

Fotomoto is a service that’s been around for a couple of years but I only became aware of it a few weeks ago thanks to a Twitter friend. Since then I’ve been playing around with it on my own photography site and thought it might be of interest to photographers or web designers who are creating sites for photographers

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Fotomoto: An Easy Way To Sell Prints Or Send E-cards From Your Site

Episode 53 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Stephan Segraves ( @ssegraves ) and Kevin Yank ( @sentience ). Listen in your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser! Just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can also download this episode as a standalone MP3 file.

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SitePoint Podcast #53: “I’m here with the booze!”

At one time or another, anyone who runs a graphic design website has written the ubiquitous ‘ Rules of Logo Design ‘ article. Oh, it’s not like we haven’t been guilty too.

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Logo design heresy? A Devil’s Advocate look at The 10.5 Commandments of Designing a Logo

After a quiet holiday season, the PEAR community has started rumbling again. Digg gave PEAR a plug , new versions of Mail , Services_Facebook , System_Daemon , and html_Template_IT were released, the number of bugs reported dropped to less than one per package for a brief time, and two promising new proposals in PEPr arrived.

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PEAR in March 2010 – Official Blog of the PEAR Group/PEAR President

Brandon Savage approached me with an interesting issue regarding ZF bootstrap resources, and accessing them in your action controllers. Basically, he’d like to see any resource initialized by the bootstrap immediately available as simply a public member of his action controller. So, for instance, if you were using the “DB” resource in your application, your controller could access it via $this-> db

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A Simple Resource Injector for ZF Action Controllers – Matthew Weier O’Phinney

From findingada.com : Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do

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Ada Lovelace Day 2010 is March 24th! – Maggie Nelson

It’s Friday, and inbox zero claims are popping up all over the place as we wind down the week and try to get ourselves to believe that we really do control our email and not the other way around. What is “inbox zero,” why is it such a coveted status and is it realistic in today’s email-focused world

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Inbox Zero: Don’t Believe the Hype

The last SabreDAV announcement I made here was 1.0.4, which happened in January. Just today I’ve released 1.0.9, so I figured it’s time for a small update. A public demo site I’ve bought the sabredav.org domain, and placed a live demo on it for people to try out

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SabreDAV 1.0.9 released & CalDAV news – Evert Pot

Many books have been written about guerilla marketing, but few small business owners can define it. The same way a guerilla uses creativity to win a war, the small business owner can use ingenious and original methods to triumph over the competition. Here are a few ways you can use guerilla marketing to find success in small business

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Guerilla Marketing for the Small Business Owner

Anyone using SimpleDNSd is strongly encouraged to update to latest SVN (you will have to erase the php-5.3.1 directory and recompile php to get it patched correctly). The current SVN version will most likely go release candidate and be released later. Current SVN release includes many fixes and improvements, including for SimpleDNSd, the DNS daemon written in PHP

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SimpleDNSd: new features & bugfix – Mark Karpeles

Heads up, Aussies! In April and May, I’m hitting the road to teach JavaScript workshops all around Australia, and I’d love to see some of the SitePoint crowd there when I do! In case you don’t know me, I’m the co-author of Simply JavaScript and host of the SitePoint Podcast . I also help write the SitePoint Tech Times newsletter , and manage the motley crew of developers who put SitePoint together

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Aussies: Learn JavaScript with Kevin Yank in April/May

One thing I really liked in Python is the data structure set , which is built into the language core. A set in Python is defined as known from mathematics and beside mathematical use cases, it is helpful in everyday programming live. In this episode of my series on Python, I give you a short insight into how sets work in there, how you can achieve similar results in PHP and why I like the Python approach.

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Python. Good, bad, evil -2-: Native sets – Tobias Schlitt