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Google Earth http://earth.google.com/ Not too long ago Google acquired Keyhole, which offered a great desktop application allowing you to see satellite imagery. Renamed Google Earth and souped up with a great set of controls and much more available imagery, this is a great free application. Whether you want to see your own neighborhood, look at an area where you are thinking of buying a home, or checking out a vaction spot, this one is just plain fun to have and use. Google Earth now allows you to search for schools, parks, restaurants and hotels. You can even get driving directions. And for some 38 cities, you can tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings. AT&T's ISN To Be CNN-like Web Video Channel for Information Security http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/23/HNattsecuritychannel_1.html According to the IDG News Service, AT&T is planning to launch "Internet Security News Network (ISN)" sometime in the next year. AT&T plans present interviews with security professionals, warn of security vulnerabilities in real-time, and provide analysis of threats. Beershooting Game http://www.coolmen.ch/biergarten/biershooter.htm The crowd is thirsty. Time to help 'em shoot a few beers. Aim and click to see how many thirsty people and critters you can keep happy. Science Fiction May Become Science Fact http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4102018.stm From those first heady days of watching the original Star Trek episodes, we have considered teleporting objects to be largely science fiction. Now, the BBC reports, computer scientists are developing a capability to allow Internet users to "teleport" a solid three-dimensional representation of themselves constructed of synthetic atoms. Story. In an earlier story the BBC reported that scientists were able to teleport atoms in June 2004. Build Your Own PC Tom's Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Building Your Own PC Tom's hardware guide for building your own PC has to be one of the best on the net. For those of us that are challenged by written directions with terms that may not at first make sense, this site comes to the rescue with pictures and lots of them. If you are thinking about building a PC, this is a very good place to start. Additional resources:
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Getting Rid of Tecno-Junk the Green Way A Mountain of Electronic Junk - Or Something Better? Attics, closets, and deskdrawers around the country abound with the detritis of aged and obsolete home computers, PDAs, cellphones and other gadgets. When clean up time comes, the first impulse may be to put them out with the garbage to be sent to a dump or landfill. But we know now that this can cause ground water problems and so we need a better solution. So what is an environmentally conscious geek to do? Here are some links to recycling possibilities. Many vendors offer trade-ins, low cost disposal and help in geting old gear to charities. Personal Computers
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General Finally you may want to look at the Electronic Industries Alliance Consumer Education Initiative site for a clickable map leading to locations for recycling. $29.95 One-Time Video Camera! http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-06-05-video-usat_x.htm Drug chain CVS plans to introduce the very first one-time-use video camera into its Northeast stores later this week according to USAtoday. The camera is a bare-bones video recorder that can capture about 20 minutes of action. To get the video in a usable format, the consumer will have to shell out $12.95 to have CVS process the footage onto a DVD. Search Engine Wars - Mobile Alerts MSN, Yahoo, and Google Mobile Services - What Do They Offer? Yahoo! Mobile offers:
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