Archive for August 22nd, 2006
10 surprising six-figure jobs
Want to make six figures? You’re probably thinking you’ve got to work on Wall Street or at a law firm, or have gone through years of medical school, to earn that kind of a salary. While all that helps, we found some surprising jobs that pay $100,000 or more. Even for those without an advanced [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Windows Live Contacts Beta Launched
Yesterday George Moore, GM of Windows Live, announced the Windows Live Contact Gadget. He announced it at the Microsoft TechEd 2006 conference, in Auckland New Zealand (I’m here at the conference courtesy of Microsoft NZ). Live Contacts provides programmatic access to a user’s contact list, providing secure access to 400+ M active users with 12B [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Why Europe, unlike America, finds it so hard to love Israel
THE ugly little mid-summer war that has just ended in Lebanon spilled over into the parliaments, streets, television studios and dinner parties of Europe. By and large, Israel got the worst of it.
The Council of Europe said that Israel’s response to Hizbullah’s cross-border attacks was “disproportionate” and accused Israel of “indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets”. [...]
The Loose Cannon of 9/11
How a 23-year-old Army grunt-turned-film producer is undermining the 9/11 Commission Report with $8,000 and a laptop.
It took two governors, four congressmen, three former White House officials and two special counsels two years to compile. They reviewed over two and half million pages of classified and declassified documents, consulted 1,200 sources in 10 countries, and [...]
More ways to connect and share with Google Talk
Millions of you use Google Talk every day to connect with friends, family, and colleagues via chat and calls. Google have recently released a new version of Google Talk that introduces several more ways to share and connect.
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You can download it here.
Game Trailers
Collection of new and old video game trailers, teasers, previews, and downloads, most of which are in both Quicktime and Windows Media format.
A great place to check out all of the new and expected titles (Command & Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars, Lego Star Wars II, Battlefield 2142, Call Of Duty 3, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance etc.)
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Weekend Project: Make a panography
Photography blog Photojojo has a simple tutorial on how to make a panography, “wide-angle pictures composed of several individual photos manually stitched together.” More from the site:
“Do you ever look up at the sky, a towering office building, or an expansive landscape and wish your photos could capture everything you can see with your eyes? [...]
Your new favorite bittorrent site
Web site Scrape Torrent is a bittorrent search aggregator that scours the most popular torrent sites to find you the best download available.
Next time you’re searching out a torrent, before you go looking all over the interweb for that one special download (you know, the totally legal one?), you might want to give Scrape Torrent [...]
Manage diarrhea of the brain
Blogger Glen Stansberry offers 7 tried and true tips for capturing ideas from your overactive – yet uncooperative – brain.
“The second I sit down and “make” myself be creative, my brain goes on lockdown. Nothing in, nothing out. There’s no such thing as forced creativity. I’ve found that the best way to allow your mind [...]
Bake lighter cupcakes
A calorie-counting buddy of mine shared a trick she uses to make low-fat cupcakes from a mix: skip the eggs and oil and use diet soda instead.
Sounds wacky, but I tried it last night with Betty Crocker vanilla cake mix and a can of diet 7-Up. The result was really good! Granted, not exactly the [...]
