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Autonomous Handbrake Park

And I, for one, welcome our new handbrake-parking robotic vehicle overlords. YouTube - Autonomous Sliding Parking (video only).
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How to destroy angels.

Trent comes out with his first new music release since NIИ: HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS. Debut single is nice, downtempo, quite haunting and very listenable. I'm quite happy to see that as my musical tastes are mellowing, Trent is chilling...
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THX Certification for HDTVs

For once, THX certification may be something that I actively look for with my next display panel purchase. I'm not a huge fan of the current trend for glossier and glossier displays, especially for a wall-mounted TV. If the THX...
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Rudix

Rudix is a package-based, user-friendly way to extend the Unix portion of Mac OS X with additional network utilities, computer languages, development libraries, text tools and everything else you missed from command line. via Rudix.
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The mobile phone market

How many models of mobile phones do Motorola sell? 117. http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/ How many models of mobile phones do Apple sell? 2 (iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS) http://www.apple.com/iphone/ How many smartphones did Motorola sell, in the US, in the first quarter...
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Allow network users to manage printers

When rolling out a Mac OS X SOE, sometimes it will be advantageous to allow regular users, with mobile or network accounts, to be able to manage printers on their computers. For instance, pausing or resuming a print queue can...
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Over half your news is spin – Crikey

Today Crikey launches an investigation six months in the making. Spinning the Media is an investigation in conjunction with the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney into the role PR plays in making the media. Under UTS’ Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ)...
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Solid State Drives are the new black…

Solid State Drives (SSD) are one of the biggest performance increases to hit personal computers for quite some time. For many years, a solid rule of thumb was that a given computer didn't have enough RAM and therefore the cheapest...
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