Whitney posted this as a comment to an earlier post I had the other day about comments funny enough. I thought it deserved it’s own attention. It’s a wonderful description of the power and potential of our portfolio company ExFM . In one sense, ExFM turns us into smart spiders.
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Extension.fm turns us into smart spiders
Inspired by one of the most wonderful creations of nature, the flower petal, Indian designer Rahul Shirbhate has developed an interactive study lamp that features a series of LED tubes to show the same unfolding and folding petal movement, while switching to standby mode, as the flowers.
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Nature-inspired interactive study lamp unfolds like a flower petal
We had brought news about Peugeot-Citroen’s Indian plans few days ago. Now the French car-maker has announced it is keen on exploring developing markets like India, China, Thailand and Brazil with market specific small cars and sedans
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Peugeot-Citroen developing small car, sedan for India
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) has launched a new limited edition version of its slow-selling Zen Estilo hatchback in Ahmedabad. The launch of this variant is aimed at boosting sales of this not so successful product of Maruti’s lineup. The Estilo Sports variant only possesses certain visual enhancements over the regular top end Estilo VXi
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Maruti Suzuki Zen Estilo Sports launched in Ahmedabad
Episode 66 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Patrick O’Keefe ( @iFroggy ), Stephan Segraves ( @ssegraves ), and Brad Williams ( @williamsba ) reminisce about WordCamp Raleigh and share live interviews they recorded with the conference organizers. 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 #66: WordCamp Raleigh with Michael Torbert and Steve Mortiboy
About a week ago Amsterdam was shaking since Ibuildings organized another edition of the Dutch PHP Conference at the RAI, hosted by Lorna Jane ( @lornajane ). This year was also the first time uncon sessions were available for the audience to give 15 minutes (lightning) talks or full 45 minutes presentations. Both Stefan Koopmanschap ( @skoop ) and I ( @DragonBe ) were given the honor to host these sessions as part of our community involvement with the PHP user group PHPBenelux ( @phpbenelux )
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Dutch PHP (un)Conference 2010 – Michelangelo van Dam
(Credit: EFF) The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project have released a public beta of a new Firefox extension that lets people encrypt their communications with Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension was inspired by Google’s encrypted Web search option, the EFF said in announcing the tool on Thursday
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Firefox add-on encrypts sessions with Facebook, Twitter
(Credit: Mozilla) Mozilla released a minor update to its tabbed e-mail program Thunderbird 3 this week, in anticipation of the release of its next beta version. Thunderbird 3.0.5 for Windows , Mac , and Linux includes several fixes to the user interface, improves message indexing and profile access on a network, and corrects an e-mail notification bug on Mac OS X. The changelog for version 3.0.5 is available for your perusal.
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Thunderbird gets minor point update
The Federal Trade Commission is planning to investigate Apple’s business practices to determine whether the company is damaging the growing mobile application market. The company is facing a number of challenges as concerns are raised about company’s dominance: Apple’s rules for application developers bar Google and other companies from selling advertising within iPhone and iPad applications.
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US Regulators Investigate Apple’s Dominance
Typography plays an important role in graphic and web design. Everybody likes clean and professional-looking work and the correctly chosen fonts can help you to make your design work more attractive. These 35 clean and professional fonts will help you to achieve simple and design results
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35 Professional Clean Fonts For Your Designs
2010 FIFA World Cup Index Latest Data After the first round of group matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup the Castrol Index shows the following players are the top performing players of the tournament so far. Rank Player Country Castrol Index 1 Gabriel HEINZE ARGENTINA 9.51 2 Waldo PONCE CHILE 9.33 3 Manuel NEUER GERMANY 9.22 4 Antolin ALCARAZ PARAGUAY 9.20 5 Gregory VAN DER WIEL NETHERLANDS 9.19 6 Gary MEDEL CHILE 9.19 7 JUNG Sung Ryong KOREA REPUBLIC 9.15 8 LEE Jung Soo KOREA REPUBLIC 9.12 9 Martin DEMICHELIS ARGENTINA 9.06 10 PARK Ji Sung KOREA REPUBLIC 9.06 Source: FIFA.com/castrolindex Defenders and goalkeepers dominate the first Castrol Index summary of the 2010 FIFA World Cup(TM) as the big name forwards failed to make an impact in low scoring opening matches.
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2010 FIFA World Cup Index Latest Update
THQ Inc. announced today that a slate of video games based on DreamWorks’ Megamind, the forthcoming feature film from DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., are currently in development for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, Wii and Nintendo DS. Scheduled to release this November in conjunction with the feature film’s release on November 5th, the video games will extend the film’s supervillain-turned-superhero storyline with new characters, environments and twists, giving players the chance to experience the comical and over-the-top adventures of the Megamind universe right in their own living room
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THQ Unveils Slate of Games Based on Megamind
Red5 – Revolutionizing Media Streaming With the increased use of Multimedia content on the Internet, there has been a requirement of dedicated multimedia streaming, a server that broadcasts live media over the web. Red5 is currently the best available software for this purpose. These are some features that give Red5 an edge as a media streamer – 1
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Red5 – Revolutionizing Media Streaming
How to ensure security for your website With the advancement in web technologies, technical flaws have also risen that pose threat to security of websites. Security measures have been invented to prevent these flaws and provide security to websites. Here are a couple of most important security measures.
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How to ensure security for your website
Using Google Analytics to optimize your website statistics Google analytics is a popularly used free service offered by Google, which is aimed at marketers, providing detailed statistical records regarding the visitors to a website. GA provides analytical data through techniques such as funnel visualization and custom visitor segmentation, which helps to identify poorly performing pages and advertisements
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Using Google Analytics to optimize your website statistics
Rebranding success story can be a great way to generate new interest in an old product. Logo Designs or emblems can often date products, companies, or sports teams. When interest flags a revision of the entity’s image can generate new business or interest by adding excitement both internal to the entity and externally.
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Re-branding: New Logo, New Interest.
We’re at the brink of shifts in the way we do things. The monks who have been toiling away on these new pieces of machinery are coming out of the monolith and starting to spread the word to the people. You might have seen my tutorial on creating an HTML5 iPhone app , highlighting the possibilities of open standards, client-side applications that leverage technologies we’ve traditionally used for websites and web apps
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The State of HTML5 Apps
(Marlborough, Massachusetts—June 15, 2010) Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that the Boris Continuum Unit family of plug-ins has been updated for Adobe CS5 and 64-bit operating systems. Boris Continuum Units for Adobe CS5 include: Cartoon Look to easily convert images and clips into cartoon-style roto animations Chroma Key for fast, precise keys Film Process to make your video look like film Glitters to add glints, glares, and glitter to your video Image Restoration for Smooth Tone, Pixel Fixer, and DV Fixer filters Lens Flare for fast, easy simulation of a lens flare Light Rays for nine Rays filters from Boris Continuum Complete Materials for creating realistic surfaces and animated organic backgrounds Motion Key for removal of moving foreground objects Motion Tracker for powerful, specialized motion tracking filters Optical Stabilizer to remove “camera shake” Pan and Zoom for easy, documentary-style animation UpRez for instant, high-quality resizing of image clips from SD to HD 3D Objects for Extruded Text, Extruded EPS, Type-On Text, Extruded Spline, and Layer Deformer filters The Boris Continuum Units are also compatible with Adobe CS4 and Adobe CS3
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Boris Continuum Units Updated for Adobe CS5
There are many different leadership styles that are directly related to the leader’s personality and character, and many more that are a combination of several different philosophies. Many leadership styles, though, can be successfully implemented with a quiet approach. Must-Haves for Quiet Leadership Quiet leaders are powerful
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How to Be a Quiet Leader and Have a Big Impact
Technology improves by leaps and bounds with each passing day and laptops are no exception. Growing out of the conventional laptop design is this new concept design from German designer Evgeny Orkin: the Rolltop. The Rolltop is more like a sleeping bag than an actual laptop – but it is an interesting case study of versatility.
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The Rolltop! New Concept Laptop