Over 175 Free Online Educational Resources (v.1.1)

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Over 175 Free Online Educational Resources (v.1.1)

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Here is decades' worth of knowledge freely available online for those who love to learn. Links that fit under multiple categories are listed only once.

What are your favorite sites to learn from? What sites would you add to this list?

CONTENTS:

I. Top Picks
II. Universities and Higher Education
III. General Collections
IV. How-to & DIY
V. Studying with Peers
VI. Online Books, eBooks, & Journals
VII. Computers, Software, & Programming
VIII. Science & Math
IX. Logic, Words, & Memory
X. Languages
XI. Music
XII. History
XIII. Business, Finance, & Investing
XIV. Food, Nutrition, & Cooking
XV. Survival Tips
XVI. Other


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I. TOP PICKS

Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/

Academic Earth - Online courses from the world's top scholars
http://academicearth.org/

TED - Technology, Entertainment, & Design
http://www.ted.com/

MIT Open CourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

Stanford Engineering Everywhere
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

Open Yale Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/

About U. - Collection of free online courses from About.com
http://u.about.com/

Wikiversity
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

YouTube EDU
http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400

The Open University - Study at the OU
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

University of the People
www.uopeople.org

University of Reddit
http://ureddit.com/

Open Culture - The best free cultural & educational media on the web
http://openculture.com/

VideoLectures - Exchange ideas & share knowledge
http://videolectures.net/

CosmoLearning - Free educational website with thousands of courses & documentaries
http://www.cosmolearning.com/


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II. UNIVERSITIES & HIGHER EDUCATION

Lecture Fox - Free university lectures
http://lecturefox.com/

More Open Courses:

Open Courseware Consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

Harvard Extension School - Computer Science & Technology
http://computerscience1.tv/2010/spring/

Johns Hopkins University
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

Kaplan University
http://ocw.kaplan.edu/

Notre Dame
http://ocw.nd.edu/

Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study
http://video.ias.edu/all

Tufts
http://ocw.tufts.edu/

Utah State
http://ocw.usu.edu/

Google in Education
http://www.google.com/edu/index.html

ArsDigita University - Computer science and math lectures
http://aduni.org/courses/

UC Berkeley Webcast - Central service for online video & audio for learners around the globe
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

UC Berkeley Video Courses - Free education online
http://education.jimmyr.com/

Capilano University
http://ocw.capilanou.ca/

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

Delft University of Technology
http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/

Rice University Connexions - A place to view and share educational modules
http://cnx.org/

Stanford on iTunes U - Stanford-related digital audio content
http://itunes.stanford.edu/content/overview.html

UC Irvine
http://ocw.uci.edu/

UC San Diego Podcasts
http://podcast.ucsd.edu/

University of Chicago's Mind Online - Thought-provoking samples of critical thinking & debate
http://news.uchicago.edu/multimedia

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
http://www.uccs.edu/~math/vidarchive.html

University of Massachusetts
http://ocw.umb.edu/

University of Michigan
http://open.umich.edu/education

University of Southern Queensland
http://ocw.usq.edu.au/

University of Sydney - Podcast episodes
http://sydney.edu.au/podcasts/2011.php

University of Virginia - Podcasts & webcasts
http://www.virginia.edu/uvapodcast/

University of Washington - Computer Science & Engineering
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/course-webs.html

Utah Valley University - Online courses & open educational resources
http://open.uvu.edu/

YouTube Channels:

Stanford
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

UC Berkeley
http://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley

University of New South Wales
http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning

Yale
http://www.youtube.com/yalecourses


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III. GENERAL COLLECTIONS

Free Video Lectures - 800+ Online Courses and 19,000+ Videos from Top 30+ Universities on 35+ Categories
http://freevideolectures.com/

100 Intro Open Courses on Everything You've Ever Wanted to Learn
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/05/12/100-intro-open-courses-on-everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-learn/

Annotum (formerly Google's Knol)
http://annotum.org/

IncrediCampus - Lectures and preparation/admission advice for college & graduate schools
http://www.incredicampus.com/

Learners TV - Thousands of downloadable video lectures on liberal arts, science, engineering, and more
http://www.learnerstv.com/

Online Education Database - 200 free online classes to learn anything
http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything

Infoplease - All the knowledge you need
http://www.infoplease.com/

MERLOT - Multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

101 Online Self-improvement Resources
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/101-self-improvement-resources/


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IV. HOW-TO & DIY

WikiHow - The how-to manual that you can edit
http://www.wikihow.com/

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Wonder How To
http://www.wonderhowto.com/categories/

Instructables
http://www.instructables.com/

Make Magazine
http://www.makezine.com/

How-to Help & Videos for Dummies
http://www.dummies.com/

VideoJug - Get good at life
http://www.videojug.com/

How to Create a Book in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books

Let's Make Robots
http://letsmakerobots.com/


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V. STUDYING with PEERS

Open Study - Study together
http://openstudy.com/

P2P University - Learn anything with your peers
http://p2pu.org/en/

Study Blue - Your digital backpack
http://www.studyblue.com/


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VI. ONLINE BOOKS, eBOOKS, & JOURNALS

Google Books
http://books.google.com/

WikiBooks - Open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Planet eBook - Home of free classic literature
http://www.planetebook.com/about.asp

Open Book Project
http://openbookproject.net/

The Free Library
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

Many Books - Ad-free eBooks
http://www.manybooks.net/

WorldCat - Collections & services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
http://www.worldcat.org/

iBiblio - The public's library and digital archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/

LibriVox - Free public domain audiobooks
http://librivox.org/

The Assayer - Web's largest catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free
http://theassayer.org/

Amazon.com Free eBook Collection
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_85650291_15?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011

Scribd - Reading and publishing evolved
http://www.scribd.com/

Textbook Revolution - Student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/

eReaderIQ - Recent non-public domain freebies & price-drop alerts
http://www.ereaderiq.com/

Longform - New and classic non-fiction articles curated across the web
http://longform.org/

Flatworld Knowledge - The first and largest publisher of free & open textbooks
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/


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VII. COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE, & PROGRAMMING

W3Schools - The world's largest web development site
http://www.w3schools.com/

Google Code University
http://code.google.com/edu/

The New Boston - Step-by-step tutorials for multiple coding languages
http://thenewboston.org/

UDacity - CS 101
http://www.udacity.com/

PHP Academy
http://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy

Better PHP
http://www.youtube.com/betterphp

NetTuts+ - A large collection of coding tutorials
http://nettuts.com/

Tutorial Guide - The site for all your tutorial needs
http://www.tutorialguide.net/

Codecademy - Fun & interactive way to learn how to code
http://www.codecademy.com/

Free Technology Academy - High quality educational material based on free software & open standards
http://ftacademy.org/

Higher Computing for Everyone - Writing basic programs
http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com/

HTML 5 Please
http://html5please.us/

Rails for Zombies
http://railsforzombies.org/

Ruby Warrior - Open source game to teach Ruby language
http://www.trybloc.com/courses/ruby-warrior/chapters/beginner#/1

Got API - Documentation search engine
http://start.gotapi.com/

Lynda - Online software training videos
http://www.lynda.com/

Intro to Linux
http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/bbnkp/ive_tinkered_in_ubuntu_before_but_its_the_primary/c0lzpwk

Stack Overflow - Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers
http://stackoverflow.com/

DZone - Fresh links for developers
http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html

Photoshop & Graphics:

Tutorial Hero - Photoshop & Flash tutorials
http://www.tutorialhero.com/

PSD Tuts+
http://psd.tutsplus.com/

Photoshop Tutorials
http://photoshoptutorials.ws/

Graphic Tutorials
http://www.graphictutorials.net/

Photoshop Pack Graphic Design Resources
http://www.photoshop-pack.com/

PSD FanExtra Tutorials
http://psd.fanextra.com/category/tutorials/

Vandelay Design - Photoshop Tutorial Hall of Fame
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshop-tutorial-tutorials/

Grokking the GIMP
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html

Video CoPilot - Tutorials for VFx & motion graphics
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/


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VIII. SCIENCE & MATH

Scirus - The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web
http://www.scirus.com/

Cite Seer X - Access scientific and scholarly knowledge
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/

getCited - Academic database, directory, & discussion forum
http://www.getcited.org/

National Science Digital Library - Explore, share, create
http://nsdl.org/

Science Magazine Podcasts
http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/podcast/

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning - Science, Engineering, & Technology
http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/

KQED's Quest - Explore science, nature, and environment stories from Northern California and beyond
http://science.kqed.org/quest/

Freelance Teacher - Videos on physics, chemistry, math, & biology
http://www.freelance-teacher.com/videos.htm

FHSST - Free high school science texts in physical sciences & math
http://fhsst.org/

cK-12 Flexbooks
http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

Paul's Online Math Notes
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

Reddit's List of Useful Online Math Resources
http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/bqbex/lets_list_all_the_useful_free_online_math/

Math, Better Explained
http://betterexplained.com/

Astronomy & Outerspace:

Space Engine - Free space simulation software
http://en.spaceengine.org/

Google Sky
http://www.google.com/sky/

NASA for Students
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html

Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation
http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/

Statistics:

Vassar Stats - Concepts and applications of inferential statistics
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html

StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

Connexions Collaborative Statistics
http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

Handbook of Biological Statistics
http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/statintro.html


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IX. LOGIC, WORDS, & MEMORY

Mind Tools - Memory improvement techniques
http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html

The Nizkor Project - List of logical fallacies
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html

Wikipedia's List of Logical Fallacies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Wikipedia's List of Figures of Speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech

Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis
http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetorictoolkit/Tool_Kit_for_Rhetorical_Analysis.htm

KnoWord - Expand your vocabulary
http://knoword.org/

Vocabulary.com - Learn new words & explore language
http://www.vocabulary.com/

Brain Workshop - A Dual N-Back Game
http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

Argument Mapping Tutorials
http://austhink.com/reason/tutorials/

Philosophy Bites - Podcasts of top philsophers
http://www.philosophybites.com/


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X. LANGUAGES

Basic Composition - Reading & Writing
http://www.basiccomposition.com/

BBC Languages - Beginner courses in multiple languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

Foreign Service Institute Language Courses
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php

Language Guide - Foreign language vocabulary, grammar, & readings
http://www.languageguide.org/

eLanguage School - Free foreign language lessons online
http://www.elanguageschool.net/

Free Online Language Courses via About.com
http://distancelearn.about.com/od/onlinecourses/a/freelanguage.htm

DuoLingo - Learn a language for free & simultaneously translate the web
http://duolingo.com/

Babel Nation - Learning languages online for free
http://www.babelnation.com/

Transparent Language - Language learning software & resources in over 100 languages
http://www.transparent.com/language-resources/languages.html

Survival Phrases - Learn essential travel phrases, tips, and insights
http://survivalphrases.com/

Talk to Me in Korean
http://talktomeinkorean.com/

Chinese Toolbox - Software for learning Chinese through reading
http://www.chinesetoolbox.com/

LiveMocha - World's largest language learning community
http://www.livemocha.com/

American Sign Language (ASL) University
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lesson01.htm

Handspeak - Sign language
http://www.handspeak.com/

Signing Savvy - Your sign language resource
http://www.signingsavvy.com/index.php


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XI. MUSIC

Music Theory - Lessons, exercises, & tools
http://www.musictheory.net/

Ear Training & Music Theory Software
http://www.trainear.com/

Basic Music Theory
http://www.howmusicworks.org/

About.com Music Education - Music theory
http://musiced.about.com/od/musictheory/u/musiced_musictheory.htm

Teoria - Music Theory Web
http://teoria.com/

Ultimate Guitar - Lessons, techniques, & styles
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/

Justin Guitar - The best guitar instruction on the web
http://www.justinguitar.com/

Chorder - Chord fingering and guitar resources
http://www.chorder.com/guitar-chords/

Funk University - Assembly of Music's Finest
http://www.thefunkuniversity.com/

Play Bass Now - Lessons, licks, and low notes
http://playbassnow.com/

How to Play Piano
http://www.howtoplaypiano.ca/


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XII. HISTORY

Teacher Resources - Western Civilization (52 half-hour video programs)
http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/


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XIII. BUSINESS, FINANCE, & INVESTING

Investopedia
http://www.investopedia.com/

Google Advisor
https://www.google.com/advisor/home

Google Finance
http://www.google.com/finance

MarketWatch by WSJ
http://www.marketwatch.com/

Main Street - Business & financial headlines & advice
http://www.mainstreet.com/


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XIV. FOOD, NUTRITION, & COOKING

Good Eats Fan Page
http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/GEFP/index.htm

Jamie's Home Cooking Skills
http://www.jamieshomecookingskills.com/

Chef Todd Mohr's Web Cooking Classes (YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChefToddMohr

Nutrition Data - Self nutrition data; know what you eat
http://www.nutritiondata.com/

Nutrition.gov - Smart nutrition & practical tips
http://www.nutrition.gov/

Choose My Plate via USDA
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/

The World's Healthiest Foods
http://whfoods.org/foodstoc.php

Calorie King
http://www.calorieking.com/

Start Making Choices - Simple ideas for living healthier on a budget
http://www.startmakingchoices.com/index.jsp

Eat Right Nutrition Tips
http://www.eatright.org/Public/content.aspx?id=206


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XV. SURVIVAL TIPS

Off Grid Survival - Wilderness and urban survival skills
http://offgridsurvival.com/

Backwoods Magazine - Self reliance and self sufficiency
http://www.backwoodshome.com/index.html

Survival Topics - Your online survival kit
http://www.survivaltopics.com/

Wilderness Survival - Free info covering all aspects of survival
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/

Discovery's Worst-Case Scenario Video Clips
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/worst-case-scenario/


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XVI. OTHER

Advanced Yoga Practices - Directory for Main Lessons
http://www.aypsite.com/MainDirectory.html

Creative Live - A live, worldwide creative classroom
http://www.creativelive.com/

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Alpine Heath Groupon deal - Be Careful!

I've bought a few deals on Groupon in the last year, without any problems, magazine subscriptions, restaurant deals, etc. The last one however turned out to be a disaster because of Fineprint which means more than it says. When purchasing an Alpine Heath deal, be aware that 'subject to availability' means subject to availability of 'groupon allocated chales'. I bought the deal last year after phoning and confirming that there were available chalets during the period I was looking for. When I called back to confirm the booking and mentioned the Groupon code, the Chalet suddenly became unavailable. Instead of explaining the situation, the staff at Alpine Heath kept trying to hide the fact that they only made a few chalets available to Groupon and refused to let me talk to anyone with authority. Bad customer experience combined with Fineprint make for a bad experience. Be careful!

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Specs of forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S III...

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Specs of forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S III...

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Samsung Galaxy S III - Full phone specifications
Samsung Galaxy S III Android smartphone. Announced Not officially announced yet. Features 3G, 4.6″ Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, 12 MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth.

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Google employs more than 20000 people worldwide and the number of them working on Android are in the single digit percentage range. Google's business is search, but it has always had aspirations o...

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our Trevor :)

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our Trevor :)

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Apply today! The Google Science Fair 2012 has now launched

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Apply today! The Google Science Fair 2012 has now launched. It is a competition for students ages 13-18 around the world. Visit www.google.com/sciencefair

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Everyone has a question. What's yours? We are after the most curious brains from the four corners of the globe. Anybody and everybody between 13 and 18 who has a fantastic idea to share can enter the ...

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Beginning June 6, 2012, virtually all our services will be available to the world...

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Beginning June 6, 2012, virtually all our services will be available to the world over IPv6 permanently as part of World IPv6 launch, a coordinated launch of the next-generation Internet protocol. Read more about World IPv6 Launch and how it applies to you in our blog post:

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Official Google Blog: IPv6: countdown to launch
Today, we're joining the Internet Society and several major Internet companies to announce World IPv6 Launch, a coordinated launch of the next-generation Internet protocol on June 6, 2012. This bu...

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Join US-Israeli military exercises will be the biggest ever, and they are being delayed...

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Join US-Israeli military exercises will be the biggest ever, and they are being delayed to the second half of the year to coincide with the US & EU Iran bank sanctions.

Military missile-defense exercises postponed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/world/middleeast/major-us-israel-military-exercises-delayed.html

Description from November:
US & Israel plan largest military exercise in history

There are two ways hostilities may begin.

1. Sanctions leading to Iran closing the Strait being responded to by US Naval forces
2. USraeli's taking action in Syria

See:

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Why are both US and EU Iran sanctions being delayed 6 months? Here's a clue,…

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Good to see some South Africans in the list, but we need many more!

Good to see some South Africans in the list, but we need many more!

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Looking for some of the best #Android developers in #Africa? Look here

#adcssa

http://code.google.com/android/adcafrica/finalists.html

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Android Developer Challenge — Sub-Saharan Africa
Google's Android Developer Challenge: providing awards for great mobile apps built on the Android platform

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And it hits "mainstream" media 6 hours later...

And it hits "mainstream" media 6 hours later...

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The Google-Kenya scandal

Mocality is an African startup that has a Kenya-wide business directory. There is no Kenyan yellow pages, so the directory was crowdsourced, paying thousands of Kenyans to help create and validate its database.

When the businesses in Mocality's database started asking them about the premium service they were offering with Google, Mocality was puzzled. They had no joint venture with Google, and they had never charged any business for inclusion in their database. When they examined their server logs, they saw a large number of hits to the records for the businesses that had been cold-called from the same IP range.

So Mocality laid a trap: when that IP range next visited the Mocality site, they fed it fake phone numbers that went to Mocality's own call center, where a Mocality operator pretended to be a business-owner and recorded the conversation. In that conversation, the caller identified himself as a Google employee, calling about a joint Google-Mocality venture, and asking the business to pay Google for a Kenya Business Online website with its own domain on that basis. This was, of course, absolutely fraudulent. There was and is no Google-Mocality joint venture.
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/13/google-fraudulently-solicits-f.html

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The Google-Kenya ripoff - Boing Boing

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The plot thickens...

The plot thickens...

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We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new websites. We’ve already unreservedly apologised to Mocality. We’re still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people involved.

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A decade of Guantanamo
Few places have done more to conjure up anti-American sentiments, but has Guantanamo aided intelligence gathering?

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Anyone in my circles running Ice Cream Sandwich on a Samsung Galaxy S2 yet?

Anyone in my circles running Ice Cream Sandwich on a Samsung Galaxy S2 yet?

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You are invited to the first Johannesburg GTUG Meetup of 2012 this Saturday 14.01...

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You are invited to the first Johannesburg GTUG Meetup of 2012 this Saturday 14.01 at DSG (www.dsg.co.za) in Rosebank from 10am. As you might now StartupWeekend and Google are collaborating and the next StartupWeekend is just a few weeks away - Jarrod will tell us more about it.

Please join us and invite some friends to come along.

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We're excited about the new personal search experience! Have you spotted it...

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Google Merges Search and Google+ Into Social Media

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Google Merges Search and Google+ Into Social Media

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Thank you, friends, yes, losses continue unabated

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Thank you, friends, yes, losses continue unabated. At current trends, predictions for end 2012 is that we will lose, through non-natural deaths, more than 1 000 Rhino. According to ethical SA conservationists, this represents probably in the region of 12% of the world's Rhino population. This is why Rhino Ultimatum is so critical and time is not on our or Rhino's side. Pls help to support this Rhino Ultimatum wherever you can. SA Govt MUST be taken to task for this atrocity against the natural world. Thank you for your care.

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WE DEMAND AND EXPECT THAT SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT ACT IMMEDIATELY AND DECISIVELY TO END RHINO KILLING CARNAGE AND AVERT IMMINENT RHINO EXTINCTION...

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25 clever ideas to make life easier
Check out these these ingenious tips, tricks and household ideas that solve everyday problems - from how to fold a fitted sheet, to fab storage solutions.

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looks like a work of art :) #coffee #stumbled

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looks like a work of art :) #coffee #stumbled

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We're one step closer to quantum levitation

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We're one step closer to quantum levitation. Watch the video to see two toy race cars literally fly around the track. (Via +Creative Social) Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track

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Wish I'd seen this before investing in a stylus for the iPad!

http://www.techiesnoop.com/how-to-make-your-own-stylus-pen/

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Quantum Mechanics by The Cassiopeia Project

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Quantum Mechanics by The Cassiopeia Project
Chapter 1: A Brief History Of Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 2: Quantum Mechanics: The Structure Of Atoms
Chapter 3: Wave Function And Wave-Particle Duality
Chapter 4: Quantum Mechanics: The Uncertainty Principle
Chapter 5: Quantum Mechanics: Properties Of Elementary Particles
Chapter 6: Quantum Entanglement - The Weirdness Of Quantum Mechanics

All episodes: http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com/vid_courses3.php?Tape_Name=QM

The Cassiopeia Project is an effort to make high quality science videos available to everyone. If you can visualize it, then understanding is not far behind.
http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com/

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Convert your toyota into a Jaguar...

Convert your toyota into a Jaguar...

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Dear +Google , why is Google Currents for Android not available for download in South Africa? #SouthAfrica #absurd

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Looking at the update, it seems like my Circles are quite subdued

Come on people, work for your Circles!

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The Great G+ South Africa Ripples Experiment

I'd like to do a bit of an experiment with everyone on G+ in South Africa. If you live in South Africa, please share this post publicly and ask your friends to re-share it. The share must be public for ripples to see it.

I'm very interested to see what the ripple will look like. If you don't know what a ripple is, look here https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/5vf9cwNVPGD

UPDATE
The ripple is starting to grow. Have a look here https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=z12tyjt5grq1xfkss221i53o0zbkcfe1x

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Samsung today announced the launch of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus in an exclusive partnership with MTN.

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Any FNB people on G+ yet?

Any FNB people on G+ yet?

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FNB just offered me to activate Verified by Visa on my cards. Its an extra layer of security, whereby when you purchase online, FNB will send you an OTP to your mobile which you have to them confirm the purchase with.

However, how will this affect Android Market purchases? Since Android Market and Google Wallet/Checkout does not have the option to input a pin, will VbV break the purchase.

Or will VbV be bypassed by Google Wallet/Checkout, so Android Market purchases will not be affected?

Anybody know?

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Getting your business mobile

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Giggled despite myself

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Giggled despite myself. +1 for Kimbo Slice reference.

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The Great G+ South Africa Ripples Experiment

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The Great G+ South Africa Ripples Experiment

I'd like to do a bit of an experiment with everyone on G+ in South Africa. If you live in South Africa, please share this post and ask your friends to re-share it.

I'm very interested to see what the ripple will look like. If you don't know what a ripple is, look here

https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/5vf9cwNVPGD

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Freakin' awesome!

Freakin' awesome!

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Mythbusters gone wrong - or awesome:

MythBusters Cannonball Experiment Gone Wrong... Hits Houses and Car in Dublin, CA

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W00t, apps for R0.80 !

https://market.android.com/details?id=apps_timed_promotion&feature=banner#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDIwMSwibnVsbC10b3BfZmVhdHVyZWRfYXBwc19HQl9fMV9wcm9tb18xMzIzMTg3MDYzMDczIl0.

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10 Billion Downloads! - Android Market
Shop Android Market on the web. Purchase and enjoy instantly on your Android phone or tablet without the hassle of syncing.

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The Done Manifesto Lays Out 13 Ground Rules for Getting to Done
Sometimes (or maybe all too often), you have to churn out work—good, creative work done with tight deadlines. The Done Manifesto is a set of working rules based on a sense of urgency.

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If you have an Android phone, read this

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If you have an Android phone, read this.

I'll be interested to see how the story develops...

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Carrier IQ Tracking Scandal Spirals Out of Control
Carrier IQ, a diagnostic tool installed on most Androids, is gathering a lot of info about your activity, and sending it to a third party.

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Idea for Hangouts app:

Google Map showing participants location. Or will that kill part of the conversation?

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Tablets by the numbers

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Tablets by the numbers. The state of play in South Africa: more than 150 000 tablets sold, most of them iPads. Biggest contributor right now is FNB: http://bit.ly/v8n0hK

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Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad on 27 January 2010, which happened to be the day my mother turned 88. Back in 1922, the year she was born, sales of the Model T

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Cool retro toaster!

Cool retro toaster!

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May Allah bless him and grant him peace

The duah (prayer) Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam (صلى الله عليه و سلم) "May Allah bless him and grant him peace." is used after stating Prophet Muhammad's name. Unfortunately however, this has been translated incorrectly by many to mean "Peace be upon him", which to me is quite different. The correct translation, is a prayer to Allah, while the latter is almost a statement, not directed to anyone. It may seem like a petty semantic issue, but I think our intention when saying it is affected by we understand to be the translation and after all, we are judged by intention.

New Samsung ad mocks Apple fans

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New Samsung ad mocks Apple fans

I smell a viral video in the making...

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Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker
As one of Japan's last remaining swordsmiths, Korehira Watanabe has honed his craft for 40 years while attempting to recreate the mythical Koto sword.

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Sometimes I read an article about open source that drives me nuts

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Sometimes I read an article about open source that drives me nuts. A recent one stated, without irony, that 'critics have been pounding the table for years about open source being inherently insecure' and that android is festooned with viruses because of that and because we do not exert apple like controls over the app market.

Let me speak to the first one: Open source, which as you know is present in a major way in all three major mobile phone operating systems (android, ios, rim) is software, and software can be insecure. I would posit that popular open source software only gets to become that popular if they pay close attention to security and respond to users concerns about the same, otherwise other projects come to the fore.

For example, in the dusty spans of time, both sendmail and apache went through a year or multiyear period when after they hit 95% and 70% marketshare where the security flaws started becoming a problem on the growing internet.

Sendmail saw multiple oss and proprietary competitors (qmail comes to mind) and over a period of years educated enough sysadmins on how to wrestle sendmail.cf appropriately and fixed problems with the system to stem the loss of marketshare to other vendors and projects.

Similarly, Apache saw people rejecting many of the modules that were perceived to be (And often were) problematic. Some modules didn't come back, some came back stronger or with stronger default options.

So in the spirit of making a positive post here are some facts for future writers of articles about open source, mobile os' and security. A Cheat sheet, if you will:

IOS and Android both use webkit derived browsers, Webkit is coded by android, chromuim and apple developers, and (edited: to fix a sentence here) both use code from the original khtml projects out of KDE.

Both use , at their core, open source kernels (ios uses a bsd derivative, android, a linux one).

Every single CE device uses tons of libraries from open source, especially openssl.

Every single CE device owes a huge technical thank you to GCC. most are built using gcc.

All the major vendors have app markets, and all the major vendors have apps that do bad things, are discovered, and are dropped from the markets.

No major cell phone has a 'virus' problem in the traditional sense that windows and some mac machines have seen. There have been some little things, but they haven't gotten very far due to the user sandboxing models and the nature of the underlying kernels.

No Linux desktop has a real virus problem.

Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.

Yes, a virus of the traditional kind is possible, but not probable. The barriers to spreading such a program from phone to phone are large and difficult enough to traverse when you have legitimate access to the phone, but this isn't independence day, a virus that might work on one device won't magically spread to the other. (and yes, I saw the deleted scene http://www.cracked.com/article_18720_7-famous-movie-flaws-that-were-explained-in-deleted-scenes.html )

If you read an analyst report about 'viruses' infecting ios, android or rim, you now know that analyst firm is not honest and is staffed with charlatans. There is probably an exception, but extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.

If you read a report from a vendor that trys to sell you something based on protecting android, rim or ios from viruses they are also likely as not to be scammers and charlatans.

Please note: Policy engines, and those tools that manage devices from an corporate IT department are not the same thing at all, but sometimes marketers in companies that sell such things sometimes tack on 'virus' protection. That part is a lie, tell your vendor to cut it out.

So there you go. I'm sure people will now chime in about some worm or malware they downloaded from some app market or something, which will be moderately fun, then it will devolve into a discussion about something unrelated, then I'll cancel comments. :-)

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Hackers find a way to control Siri using brainwaves
Siri uses your voice to perform its tasks, but what about taking it to the next level by using your [...]

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MTN To Roll Out R8 Billion 3G Upgrade in 2012 | 2oceansvibe.com

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MTN have announced the roll out of R8 billion worth of 3G wireless stations to enhance service provision across the country. MTN is Africa's largest provider of mobile telecommunications services, and has around 3000 wireless 3G base stations in South Africa alone. “Data is the future,” ...

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True axis of terror?

http://www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=77164

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EWN Logo. 08:38 CAT / Tuesday, 08 November. Home; Local; World; Sport; Business; Weather; Features; Multimedia; iWitness; Traffic; SMS Alerts; RSS Feeds; Contact. AT A GLANCE >; ZAR/AUD : 8.1317; Z...

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The Hackathon project made it onto Engadget! How friggin AWESOME!

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The Hackathon project made it onto Engadget! How friggin AWESOME!

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Google+ laser hack, Hangout shoots first (video)
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http://hackaday.com/2011/11/07/google-hangout-laser-turret/

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Google Hangout laser turret - Hack a Day
The guys from the House4Hack hackerspace in Johannesburg won the 2011 Google+ Hackathon with their Friggin' Laser Turret. The build started off as a remote-controlled webcam that can be controlled by ...

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Rainbow willow

there's nothing like the rains down in Africa.

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Colour me impressed by #FNB

In less than a week, I went from no account to iPad 2 delivered to me, paying less in fees with the iPad than I was at #StandardBank , who have been less than standard in terms of service recently.

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Who would you recommend as the best Mobile Application Developer houses in South...

Who would you recommend as the best Mobile Application Developer houses in South Africa?

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The world's first "spherical flying machine" developed by Japan's...

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The world's first "spherical flying machine" developed by Japan's ministry of defense. It can hover like a helicopter and take off and land vertically. If it hits an obstacle, it can maintain its trajectory through the use of gyroscopes. It can roll along the ground and walls to maneuver into position. The prototype is made of commercially available parts costing just $1,400. It's equipped with a camera.

I realize this was made for defense and spying, but at this price I'm guessing someone will be able to make a toy out of it as well. :-)

PS: I was going to share the throwable ball camera this morning, but +Trey Ratcliff beat me to it (http://bit.ly/t4tAR7), so I'm going with the Japanese drone instead :-)

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The 147 Companies That Run The World

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The 147 Companies That Run The World

Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who owns what and what their revenues are and mapped the whole edifice of economic power.

In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network, says Glattfelder from the New Scientist. Most were financial institutions.

source: TheNewScientist ~ http://goo.gl/cROKl

The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies

1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
26. Lloyds TSB Group plc
27. Invesco plc
28. Allianz SE 29. TIAA
30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company
31. Aviva plc
32. Schroders plc
33. Dodge & Cox
34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*
35. Sun Life Financial Inc
36. Standard Life plc
37. CNCE
38. Nomura Holdings Inc
39. The Depository Trust Company
40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
41. ING Groep NV
42. Brandes Investment Partners LP
43. Unicredito Italiano SPA
44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
45. Vereniging Aegon
46. BNP Paribas
47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc
48. Resona Holdings Inc
49. Capital Group International Inc
50. China Petrochemical Group Company

#OWS #occupywallstreet #news #economy #banks #finance #MAnews

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A senior NTC military official says Gaddafi has died of wounds suffered during reported...

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A senior NTC military official says Gaddafi has died of wounds suffered during reported capture.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-libya-idUSTRE79F1FK20111020

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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs near his hometown of Sirte at dawn on Thursday, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid ...

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Hồ Plitvice, thiên đường là đây

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Hồ Plitvice, thiên đường là đây

Công viên quốc gia hồ Plitvice có phong cảnh cực kỳ đẹp nằm trong khu vực Lika của Croatia. Công viên được bao quanh bởi các ngọn núi Plješevica , Mala Kapela, và Medveđak, nó cũng chính là một phần của dãy núi Alps Dinaric. Có tất cả 16 hồ với màu xanh lục và xanh dương xen kẻ tại Plitvice, được phân cách bởi các vách đá vôi tự nhiên nằm trên cao nguyên Plitvice. Thác nước kết nối các hồ với nhau. Thác nước cao nhất tại đây có tên là Veliki Slap, có độ cao khoảng 70 mét (230 feet). Các khu vực quanh hồ Plitvice có thể tự hào với một lượng lớn các hệ thực vật phong phú đầy màu sắc và các loài động vật thú vị . Du khách có thể đi bộ theo nhiều con đường mòn và nhân tạo xuyên qua các tán lá cây và hồ nước trong xanh, hoặc khám phá mặt hồ bằng thuyền. Công viên có 3 khách sạn và một khu cắm trại, nếu không thích ở đây du khách có thể lựa chọn nơi nghĩ khác tại các làng mạc và thành phố lân cận.


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http://cong1.com more coolest stuffs

In album The stunning Plitvice Lakes National Park lies in the Lika region of Croatia (12 ảnh)

waterfalls at Plitvicka Jezera National Park

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Bah!

Bah!

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YouTube Space Lab - What Will You Do?

YouTube Space Lab - What Will You Do?

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"Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005" on YouTube

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

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Tobacco Industry Refused To Reduce Radioactivity In Cigarettes In Order To Maintain Addictive Potential
Technique to reduce radioactivity in tobacco would have lowered the strength of nicotine, so the tobacco industry ignored it...
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#mindblown #universe

The Known Universe

A few days back I posted a youtube video that gave us an idea of how planets from the solar system would look like if they were as close to us as our Moon. The realization of how small we are is actually quite over whelming.

Usually we're presented with numbers and light years of distance which doesn't really give us the kind of visual representation of scale we're looking for. Hence, when I say that at 13.7 billion light years from earth we reach the extent of our known universe, even though it's a seemingly massive number the scale of it still doesn't sink in properly.

Therefore, today I give you this video from a couple years ago. It does an amazing job of showing us our known universe and how our Earth fits into it. The video has 8 million views thus far but the whole planet needs to watch this.

Everytime I am faced with some big hurdle in my life I watch this and realize:
- how insignificant I am in the grand scheme of things
- there is so much out there to explore and discover
- we're slowly destroying earth, our only home, in so many ways
- and most importantly how frikking big the universe is and that's just the known bit

So share this with everyone everywhere. We all need to watch it.

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Permalink to post: bit.ly/a_knownuniverse

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26 Billion Dollars of the Alphabet

http://remythequill.com/head-space/billionaire-alphabet

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Double whammy gene therapy clears HIV from body - New Scientist - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/dn20948-double-whammy-gene-therapy-clears-hiv-from-body.html

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Thought about this just last week on a flight!

TrayVu: In-flight Android with your peanuts
Please make sure that your Android tablet is in an upright and locked position...
http://pulse.me/s/1ETin

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First it was the Nike Mags and now this -- the Ford E-Bike Concept. I think it's safe to say, the future has finally arrived. This Android powered hybrid

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Audi Introduces A2 Concept In Frankfurt

With the Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 set to kick off, luxury automobile manufacturer Audi is releasing details of a concept vehicle called the A2,...
http://pulse.me/s/1ATQV

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The million dollar space pen hoax [Debunkery]

There's a famous legend that America spent millions on the development of a 'space pen' that writes upside down, while the ...
http://pulse.me/s/1AWXK

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Fancy a coke, sweets, kruger rand?

Fancy a coke, sweets, kruger rand?

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Only in Dubai....

Only in Dubai....

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MTN Internet still World Class: ASA « Cellular « MyBroadband Tech and IT News

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Watch "Danny MacAskill Plays Capetown (complete video)" on YouTube

Danny MacAskill Plays Capetown (complete video)

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Like a diamond in the sky?

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RIM’s New QNX BlackBerrys Will Run Android Apps

RIM announced well in advance of the PlayBook's launch that it would be able...
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Preparing Multimedia for Sony DAV TZ130 DVD player USB

Bear with me while I attempt preparing a mencoder command that converts my multimedia files into something that this darn DVD player can understand.

mencoder -mc 0 -noskip -vf expand=:::::16/9,scale=720:480,hqdn3d,harddup -ovc xvid -oac lavc -channels 6 -xvidencopts fixed_quant=3.8:me_quality=6:noqpel:nogmc:trellis:chroma_me:
chroma_opt:hq_ac:vhq=4:lumi_mask:max_key_interval=300:quant_type=mpeg:
max_bframes=2:closed_gop:nopacked:profile=asp5:autoaspect:bvhq=1
-lavcopts acodec=ac3 -o outfile.avi

The player thinks about playing the file..... then stops thinking and returns to the menu. :(

This works, but only 2 Audio channels:

mencoder -mc 0 -noskip -vf expand=:::::16/9,scale=720:576,hqdn3d,harddup -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts fixed_quant=3.8:me_quality=6:noqpel:nogmc:trellis:chroma_me:
chroma_opt:hq_ac:vhq=4:lumi_mask:max_key_interval=300:quant_type=mpeg:
max_bframes=2:closed_gop:nopacked:profile=asp5:autoaspect:bvhq=1
-lameopts vbr=2:q=6:aq=2 -o output.avi input.m4v

Halaal Gelatine – Should you know better? (Part 2)

This post is a follow on from here.

After some informative comments from a reader, Emre Metin, I've decided to highlight some of the things that he's researched on the topic.

Emre referenced the following sources:

1. Bazmool M. The Fiqh Principle of Istihala – Changing from impure to pure, (translated by Moosa Richardson and a fatwa given by Shaykh al-Albaani)


2. Venien, A., & Levieux, D. Differentiation of bovine from porcine gelatins using polyclonal anti-peptide antibodies in indirect and competitive indirect ELISA. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2005;39:418–424.


3. Zhang G, Liu T, Wang Q, Chen L, Lei J, Luo J, Ma G, Su Z. Mass spectrometric detection of marker peptides in tryptic digests of gelatin: A new method to differentiate between bovine and porcine gelatin Food Hydrocolloids,2009;23:2001-2007

The crux of the argument is summed up in the following statement from Emre:

According to Islam, when something changes its composition until it can not be related to its source, it is considered as a completely different material. This is called istihala.

The paper referenced above in [3], finds that it is possible to identify the source of Gelatin by looking for "marker peptides" that will point the source of the Gelatin as being either Bovine or Porcine. So, has the Gelatin then in face been changed in composition to the point that "it can not be related to its source" ?

Allah knows best. Let's not deceive ourselves thinking we can deceive our Creator?

Huge Rose

MashaAllah! This one has a 'Sarbat' fragrance too.

 

 

Android Web Gallery Example

I’ve been dabbling since last Friday with Android development. So far, I’ve already released one app on the marketplace because its pretty straight-forward to get something done on the Android platform.

My next challenge was to implement a picture gallery app and I found the following example:

http://www.androidpeople.com/android-gallery-imageview-example/

Also found an example of how to fetch images from the Web:

http://www.androidpeople.com/android-load-image-from-url-example/

So, all I needed to do was merge the two together…

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical">
<Gallery xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/gallery"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<ImageView android:id="@+id/ImageView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>

webGalleryExample.java

package za.co.mtn.webGalleryExample;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.Gallery;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;

public class GalleryExample extends Activity {
private String[] jamCamURLs = {
“http://path.to.image1.jpg”,
“http://path.to.image2.jpg”,
“http://path.to.image3.jpg”,

};
Drawable[] drawablesFromUrl = new Drawable[3];
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
for (int i = 0; i < drawablesFromUrl.length; i++){
drawablesFromUrl[i] = LoadImageFromURL(jamCamURLs[i]);
}
final ImageView imgView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.ImageView01);
imgView.setImageDrawable(drawablesFromUrl[0]);
Gallery g = (Gallery) findViewById(R.id.gallery);
g.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this));

g.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position, long id) {
imgView.setImageDrawable(drawablesFromUrl[position]);
}
});
}
private Drawable LoadImageFromURL(String url)
{
try
{
InputStream is = (InputStream) new URL(url).getContent();
Drawable d = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src name");
return d;
}catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exc="+e);
return null;
}
}
/*public static boolean StoreByteImage(Context mContext, byte[] imageData,
int quality, String expName) {

File sdImageMainDirectory = new File("/sdcard/myImages");
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = null;
String nameFile = null;
try {

BitmapFactory.Options options=new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 5;
Bitmap myImage = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(imageData, 0,
imageData.length,options);

fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(
sdImageMainDirectory.toString() +"/" + nameFile + ".jpg");
BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(
fileOutputStream);

myImage.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, quality, bos);

bos.flush();
bos.close();

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

return true;
}*/

public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
int mGalleryItemBackground;
private Context mContext;

public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
mContext = c;
TypedArray a = obtainStyledAttributes(R.styleable.JamCam);
mGalleryItemBackground = a.getResourceId(
R.styleable.JamCam_android_galleryItemBackground, 0);
a.recycle();
}

public int getCount() {
return jamCamURLs.length;
//return mImageIds.length;
}

public Object getItem(int position) {
return position;
}

public long getItemId(int position) {
return position;
}

public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
ImageView i = new ImageView(mContext);

i.setImageDrawable(drawablesFromUrl[position]);
i.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(70, 57));
i.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_XY);
i.setBackgroundResource(mGalleryItemBackground);

return i;
}
}
}

And voila!

The Mountain

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