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| Posted: 02 Aug 2009 10:58 PM PDT  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Nissan unveils its electric car, the Leaf Nissan has unveiled what it claims to be the world's first mass-market electric car — a five-door hatchback called Leaf which its Sunderland plant is vying to build for the European market. More @ Guardian.co.uk 2. Interorbital Systems – TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but still offers plenty of room for most experiments or functions. More @ spacefellowship.com 3. Power up your website with the might of APIs The popularity of application programming interfaces (APIs) is now such that they're considered just another part of a web developer's arsenal. More @ TechRadar 4. Lazy man's USB RFID reader 5. Linux Doomed to Virus Plague. (Again.) As sure as spam levels rise so does the misinformation about computer security. Regular readers are probably tired of me griping at news stories that say "Computer virus" instead of Windows virus, and even worse articles that pretend to be fair and balanced by claiming that Linux and Mac are just as prone to compromise too, except their tiny market shares make them unattractive targets. More @ LinuxToday 6. Google Launches A Major Offensive Against Microsoft With "Going Google" Microsoft and Google have seen their rivalry kicked up a notch in recent weeks. First, Google announced Chrome OS, the company's first operating system. Then Microsoft announced the new version of Office with major cloud app support. More @ TechCrunch 7. Nintendo warns iPhone may damage its sales Known equally for its DS handheld and its Wii console, the company said on Thursday that it anticipates its first profit decline in four years not only because of a rough economy playing havoc with game sales but also due to harsher competition in the portable arena stemming directly from Apple devices. More @ AppleInsider 8. Coconut Headphones Are Built for the Beach 9. OSCON: Programmer Insecurity and the Genius Myth Two of my favorite presenters, Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, did an OSCON session on "Programmer Insecurity and the Genius Myth." Brian and Ben talked about how programmers' insecurities cause all manner of troubles in programming projects, and then presented a number of tips for how to avoid these problems. They also asserted that there are very few genius "lone ranger"programmers in the real world -- most highly successful and productive programmers work smart and collaborate well. More @ OreillyRadar 10. Top 10 Amazing Lost Or Suppressed Inventions This list looks at some amazing past inventions that have been lost. Some may be cause for skepticism but almost all of the items here are things that we would definitely love to understand better today. Keep an open mind as some entries are famous for their part in conspiracy theories. More @ Listverse  |
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