Saturday, October 31, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Fast and Sleek Font Viewer

HTTP:: Fast and Sleek Font Viewer
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Finding the best things to integrate into a personal or business-related project is what most of us look for and, if text is involved, then choosing the most appropriate fonts is a must. This task, however, can prove daunting if your library contains hundreds of typefaces. To meet the challenge, you will have to enroll the service of a dedicated viewer that can help you pick out the fonts you consider befitting for the job. Sure enough, the application you're after has to work fast and efficiently, while allowing you an effortless operation. As there are enough such tools for you to select from, it's mainly a matter of personal taste in deciding for a piece of software or another. An interesting and very likely candidate that meets all the requirements for this kind of utility is sFont, a freeware app designed exactly for this purpose: that of assisting you in making the right choice with no fuss and with a little bit of style. The package is lightweight, under 1 MB, and t!
he installation smooth, just like the interface you'll be meeting. The looks score the first points and the works will reveal more benefits for you, all of them preserving the simplicity without cutting out the quality. The main window is divided into two areas, one for the list of typefaces and the other dedicated to the preview. There are also several modules in bot...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Jailed after writing sex stories for himself

HTTP:: Jailed after writing sex stories for himself
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p2pnet news view | Crime:- A man who authored porn for himself has been jailed for two weeks.nHe had stories about “sex involving teen girls and incest he wrote himself and never tried to publish or share,” says the Ottawa Sun, going on, “Thomas, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography. The [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Weekend Reading PlayStation Network Versus Xbox Live

HTTP:: Weekend Reading PlayStation Network Versus Xbox Live
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The PlayStation 3 Slim and the Xbox 360 Elite versions have the same price, selling for 299 dollars or the equivalent on most markets and barring any special offer. The two companies seem determined from now on to match each other’s price cuts as the battle for sales heats up with second place behind Nintendo Wii being the prize for the winner. And with equal prices, the services offered appear to be among the elements that drive up sales.This is the probable reasoning related to Sony and Netflix finally entering into an agreement to bring the service to the PlayStation 3 beginning with November. They are now offering players the possibility of getting a disk to enable the service, with XMB integration coming in 2010. Sony has quickly pressed the point that those owning a PS3 only need to pay the 8.99 dollars of the Netflix subscription to get the service, as opposed to the extra price that Xbox Live Gold requires on the Microsoft console.The software giant quickly hit ba!
ck by saying that “For a little over $4 a month Xbox LIVE Gold membership is hands-down the best value in home entertainment, and gives you exclusive access multi-player gaming and early demos as well as Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Last.fm, "1 vs 100" and more.”The two companies are each exalting the qu...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Afghan rivals talk over vote boycott

CNN.C: Afghan rivals talk over vote boycott
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai was holding eleventh hour talks Saturday with main rival Abdullah Abdullah in a bid to prevent his former foreign minister from boycotting an election run-off vote amid claims it will be mired in fraud.
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Pingie: HTTP:: UK Three Strikes plan too costly ISPs

HTTP:: UK Three Strikes plan too costly ISPs
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- There they go again. “Lord Mandelson’s proposals to cut off ‘persistent’ file sharers do not make financial sense, according to estimates of its cost put forward by those who would have to implement it,” says the Guardian.nOf course they don’t make sense. Nothing about the plan makes sense.nAnd [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Bill Thompson s new job

HTTP:: Bill Thompson s new job
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p2pnet news view P2P:- There’s a new Twitter page set up by Bill Thompson.nHe’s a UK-based writer and broadcaster who generously allows p2pnet to republish his musings.nBill has a weekly column on the BBC WebWise site, and contributes both on and off-line to The Guardian, The Register and The New Statesman, among others. His [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Copyright and the blank media levy

HTTP:: Copyright and the blank media levy
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Regular p2pnet readers will recognise Christopher Parsons (right)  as someone who’s deeply interested in Deep Packet Inspection (DPI).nA doctoral student at Victoria University on Vancouver Island, BC, his research interests focus on how privacy is affected by digitally mediated surveillance, and the implications it has in, and on, [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Gedit Don 039 t Get Tricked by Its Simple Looks

HTTP:: Gedit Don 039 t Get Tricked by Its Simple Looks
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Every Linux user that has used the GNOME desktop environment must have had at least an encounter with its default text editor, Gedit. You start it up, and it looks like a simple notepad type application with a toolbar added on top. However, don't let yourself fooled by that simple appearance. If you know how to customize this application, it can be modified to serve almost any text exiting purpose, and you can even create an IDE-like environment.With Gedit, it's not the general appearance that counts, it's all the little details that make a great application. As a programmer, I know that simple things like auto indentation and syntax highlighting can make your job much more easier. Gedit's can do syntax highlighting for quite a large number of programming languages or file formats, over 70 in fact. Also, the customizable tab width makes it easy to structure your texts, and the option to fill tabs with spaces makes it so much friendly to many environments in which your files!
could end up. The line numbers make it easy to collaboratively edit text files like source code, and along with the jump to line function it provides a way to refer and return to a certain section of the document without scrolling through to it.Many text editors have trouble opening files that were created on other platforms, or with spec...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Microsoft plants mind worm in schoolkids heads

HTTP:: Microsoft plants mind worm in schoolkids heads
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p2pnet news view Advertising | Kids & Kartels:- You know how impressionable kids can be, so it’s simple.nGet ‘em while they’re young. That’s  corporate goal Number One with penetration of school classrooms around the world now a matter of routine.nUnscrupulous marketeers  know the value of corrupting children at the earliest possible opportunity, [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Twitter Formally Launches Lists Focuses on API Next

HTTP:: Twitter Formally Launches Lists Focuses on API Next
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Twitter has now officially launched and announced one of its most eagerly awaited features, Twitter Lists. The feature has been in beta for a while now and it has been rolled out to all users during the past couple of days allowing them to group the people they follow and to easily share them with their friends. “We’re putting the finishing touches on our new Lists feature and we're really excited about the folks who have already taken a lot of time creating awesome lists. From the @time list of funny people to your own list of people who make you laugh - it's easy to see how this feature increases discovery and adds value in lots of ways,” Twitter cofounder Biz Stone wrote announcing the launch.The feature is already becoming popular as people start creating and sharing their lists and searching to see what others have come up with. With the full-blown roll out, Twitter also enabled users to see who has added them to one of their lists. Lists is interesting enough on!
its own, but the real value is delivered by the API that comes with it. And with reports saying as much as half of Twitter users connecting through mobile or desktop clients and not through the site, it is easy to see why the API is crucial to the feature's success. In fact, Twitter is probably more interes...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Windows 8 and So It Begins

HTTP:: Windows 8 and So It Begins
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Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, and hit the shelves on October 22, generating obvious questions about what’s next for Microsoft’s proprietary operating system. And the answer is rather simple: Windows 8. This time around, the Redmond-based company made little efforts to hide the moniker associated with the next generation of the Windows client. Not that it could, given that the codename aspect of Windows development efforts is the only transparent aspect of the otherwise translucent communication strategy set in place by Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division. Back in early 2007, after Windows Vista shipped to customers worldwide, Microsoft shifted its focus on what was at the time referred to as Windows codename Vienna, and which ended up as Windows 7. The company delivered a taste of early plans, noting that it was aiming for a release ahead of 2009, but nothing more after that. In fact, it wasn’t until August 2008 that Sin!
ofsky started sharing crumbs from the development process of Windows 7, at a time when the operating system was between the Milestone 2 and Milestone 3 development stages. In this regard, it is interesting to understand just how early Microsoft actually started building the successor of Windows Vista. According to Larry Osterman, Microsoft Prin...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Examine Extract iPhone Application Contents

HTTP:: Examine Extract iPhone Application Contents
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Developed by atPurpose Technologies, atPeek takes advantage of Mac OS X QuickLook plugin framework to display fully functional previews of assets found in iPhone applications, whose contents are otherwise inaccessible using Mac OS system tools. iPhone developers can even extend the core functionality of atPeek by creating and installing custom QuickLook plugins.By default, atPeek is bundled with two custom QuickLook plugins developed by atPurpose Technologies, which can decode iPhone crushed PNG images and PVR textures. The plugins are also available as a separate download, for free.Before downloading atPeek, readers should note that the program uses brand-new UI components that are available only in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), the latest version of Apple’s Mac OS. Unfortunately, Tiger and even Leopard users cannot make use of the application, something that will undoubtedly affect the sales of this rather cheap developer tool. However, those who are running Apple’s S!
now Leopard will find atPeek to be extremely useful.By default, Mac OS X does not offer users the possibility to examine iPhone application (.ipa) resources. You can only go as far as moving the entire application package from one location to another, Quick Look its icon, or double click it and send it to your iTunes library. You can also get a bunc...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Firefox 3 6 Beta for Windows 7

HTTP:: Download Firefox 3 6 Beta for Windows 7
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The first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of the next generation of Mozilla’s open source browser is currently available for download. Testers and early adopters that have been waiting for Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, to evolve from Alpha stage are now free to access, download, install and start test driving the Beta 1 build. In addition to being the first Beta for Firefox 3.6, the development milestone offered by Mozilla is also the first example of a third-party browser to embrace Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client. Just like the native Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is designed to play nice with Aero Peek and Thumbnail Previews via the new Windows Aero Taskbar (Superbar) in Windows 7. As you can see from the screenshot included below, Firefox 3.6 Beta users can now take advantage of the some of the same graphical user interface enhancements in Windows 7 as those running IE8. While Google and Opera are lagging behind when it comes!
down to tailoring their browsers to Windows 7, the same is not valid for Mozilla. And as Windows 7 became available for purchase on October 22, 2009, customers running the OS in combination with Firefox 3.6 will certainly enjoy the bells and whistles of the new Windows Aero GUI. “The Mozilla community is proud to release Firefox...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Transfer Your Audiobooks from CDs to iPod

HTTP:: Transfer Your Audiobooks from CDs to iPod
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It is said that books could be perfect buddies. They do not judge, they offer free advice (and only when you ask them to) and they let you enter their world whenever you have the time. And, as the lack of time and the invasion of bad-quality media are two of the biggest sorrows of our times, the importance of books, and lately the importance of high-quality audiobooks, cannot be underestimated. Not only that â€" when read by a crystalline voice, an audiobook could bring joy into your life, but it could also be a wonderful tool to learn a foreign language, to put your mind to work while driving, jogging or even baking, and most important, to simply help you get familiar with the core of a world-famous, forever-young novel that you always wanted but you never had the time to read.But, I think there is no need to further emphasize the benefits of having and using audiobooks, because everyone who has bought himself at least one of these new media innovations has probably fell i!
n love with it. Nevertheless, I am not sure that everybody knows how to transform their audiobooks into iPod/iPhone compatible formats. And that’s the main purpose of this review: to guide you through the main features of the Audiobook Builder, a program that makes the transferring of any audiobook to your favorite music player devices a piece of c...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Uncertainty grows over Afghan poll

HTTP:: Uncertainty grows over Afghan poll
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Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah seen as "likely to withdraw" from runoff.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Honduras deal thrown into doubt

HTTP:: Honduras deal thrown into doubt
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Negotiator suggests ousted president will not be returned to power as line with agreement.
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Pingie: HTTP:: How Terahertz Waves Influence DNA

HTTP:: How Terahertz Waves Influence DNA
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Terahertz radiation occupies the wavelengths that connect microwaves to infrared and is currently considered to be one of the most promising areas of research out there. Over the past decade, more and more researchers have dedicated their work to this form of radiation, which has the amazing ability of penetrating through just about everything, including inanimate objects such as glass, paper, cloth, walls and other such things. It can also be used to “frisk” a human body from a distance, and to peer inside rooms, which makes it a potent monitoring tool. However, on the downside, the negative effects that terahertz wavelengths may have on the human body are not entirely known. Evidence of how they influence DNA is flimsy at best, and a clear conclusion has yet to be drawn from available research. Those who argue that the radiation is not harmful say that the photons making it up are not energetic enough to break chemical bonds or ionize atoms and molecules, Technology !
Review reports. “Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none,” Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Center for Nonlinear Studies expert Boian Alexandrov, the leader of a research team looking into the effects of terahertz radiation, says. The team adds that the energy in these p...
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Pingie: HTTP:: The Planet May Have Went Nuclear in the Past

HTTP:: The Planet May Have Went Nuclear in the Past
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According to a group of researchers, it may be that the earliest forms of life on the planet might have been made possible by the influence of thousands of small, nuclear fission reactors blasting everything around them with radiation. The model would account for the reason why a radioactive substance has all but disappeared from the Earth's crust, and also for how a source of oxygen may have been capable of doing all this, ScienceNow reports. New types of photosynthetic bacteria are generally credited with bringing about the massive amounts of oxygen that flooded the planet's atmosphere around 2.5 to three billion years ago. This oxidation event was crucial for the emergence and development of complicated life, as everything that lives today is heavily reliant on oxygen as a source of energy. Plants and other photosynthetic organisms are different, as they process carbon dioxide and sunlight to obtain oxygen and energy. Canadian researchers Laurence Coogan, a geologist!
, and Jay Cullen, a chemical oceanographer (both with the University of Victoria), believe that the mineral known as uraninite was made to vanish by the earliest concentrations of oxygen. In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal GSA Today, they explain that the volcanically produced mineral was most likely absorbed by the o...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Deal allows U S to use Colombia bases

CNN.C: Deal allows U S to use Colombia bases
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In a move that has already come under harsh criticism in Latin America, Bogota and Washington signed an agreement Friday that allows U.S. personnel to be stationed in Colombia.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Epic Mickey Does Not Support Motion Plus Likes the Vitality Sensor

HTTP:: Epic Mickey Does Not Support Motion Plus Likes the Vitality Sensor
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Epic Mickey seems to be shaping up as one of the big Nintendo Wii releases of 2010 and a media blitz following the official unveiling of the videogame is in full swing. The Disney universe-based title, which is being created by Warren Spector and his Junction Point team, aims to both reinvent classic characters from cartoons and to create a story offering all the values that Disney has come to project over the years.When he talked at length about Epic Mickey with 1UP, Warren Spector addressed the Wii Motion Plus issue head on saying that “Our goal for this game is to make sure it doesn't break if you have one installed. I am intrigued by it, and if we get to do more games that use this basic mechanic, I'd like to play around with it. I have some ideas about it, but not for this game.”But the game developer, who has also said that the Balance Board is not integrated into Epic Mickey, seems to have some plans related to the most useless looking of Nintendo Wii add ons, th!
e E3 unveiled Vitality Sensor. When asked about it, Spector offered the rather cryptic comment “Well, you know, now that you mention it. You never know. We have some time.”It's intriguing to think about how the Vitality Sensor might be used in a videogame, considering that you cannot in...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Nokia Siemens Networks Announces LTE Interoperability Testing

HTTP:: Nokia Siemens Networks Announces LTE Interoperability Testing
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Infrastructure telecommunications provider Nokia Siemens Networks has announced today that it is conducting end-to-end LTE interoperability testing with four of the world’s leading mobile phone vendors. The frequency bands the company is testing include AWS, 700 MHz and 2100 MHz, based on the fact that different regions use different frequencies.According to the infrastructure vendor, the testing includes end-to-end network configuration in accordance with commercial LTE hardware, such as the Flexi Multiradio Base Station and the Evolved Packet Core, as well as the necessary software solutions. The commercial availability of LTE handsets and the interoperability capabilities are one of the main necessities for the commercial launch of the first LTE services.Nokia Siemens Networks also says that it has recently managed to complete the first end-to-end calls on LTE, and that the new tests mark another important milestone in the commercialization of LTE. The company's LTE ra!
dio and Flexi NS and Flexi NG evolved packet core network elements have proved, through the new tests, to be compatible with real LTE terminals and compliant with the LTE standard.“Nokia Siemens Networks is playing an important role in the LTE ecosystem by enabling leading device vendors to conduct e...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Algae May Have Caused All Mass Extinctions

HTTP:: Algae May Have Caused All Mass Extinctions
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Over the course of the planet's history, there have been five extinction events that scientists know of, and each and every single one of them may have been caused by nothing more than algae. The new idea was proposed by a scientist on October 19, at the annual Geological Society of America meeting. As expected, his idea immediately sparked a heated controversy, LiveScience reports. Most scientists believe that the events may have been caused by an asteroid impacting our planet. The debris kicked in the atmosphere, coupled with the shock waves and the widespread fires that would have ensued, might have killed off many of the Earth's species. Some experts believe that the extinction events were caused by exploding supervolcanoes and massive tremors that suddenly and abruptly reshaped the world's map. There are, of course, those who believe that the extinctions took place on account of both of these scenarios happening at the same time. The cataclysmic events, which claime!
d the lives of between 50 and 90 percent of the world's species, span a period of time between 540 million years ago and 65 million years ago. According to the fossil record, and other telltale signs, the five events occurred as follows: 1. 440 to 450 Ma ago â€" the Ordovicianâ€"Silurian extinction 2. 360 to 375 M...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Capcom Boasts Its Figures

HTTP:: Capcom Boasts Its Figures
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It may not beat Nintendo as far as profits go, but at least for now, Capcom makes money by the truckload. The company announced in July that its April-June quarter managed to get a ¥19.5 billion or $213 million revenue. It has updated its situation today, and the April-September time segment brought it a total of ¥38.9 billion. That amounts to $426 million, and almost half a billion dollars has a very nice ring to it. Even if the April-June quarter didn't do as well as it had hoped, and it brought only a ¥2.23 billion or $24.4 million net profit to the company, it made up for it in the end. The total six-month income has an overall increase of 58.4 percent, mounting up to ¥2.96 billion, or $32.4 million.The Home Video Games segment was a big part of these numbers, as it grew in revenues by 68.3 percent, up to ¥27.7 billion yen or $303 million. As such, the operating income doubled to ¥7.3 billion, $79.9 million. If you feel all the numbers and time tables confuse you,!
don't worry, there's nothing to be ashamed of. The whole purpose of them is to confuse even the marketing analysts that work for the competition. As part of its report, Capcom said that "As for the video game industry, the Japanese domestic market has been on a downward trend, but it started to show some signs of recovery. Such an improv...
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Pingie: HTTP:: EU agrees climate funding deal

HTTP:: EU agrees climate funding deal
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Bloc agrees to contribute about $50bn a year to help poor nations tackle global warming.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Gamers Can 039 t Spot IEDs to Save Their Lives

HTTP:: Gamers Can 039 t Spot IEDs to Save Their Lives
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The attack on those people who play games, now a majority of the adult population in most developed countries, seems to be getting more and more bizarre. After being portrayed as being anti social and being blamed for every bit of violence in modern society, gamers are now said to be unable to actually detect roadside bombs when serving in the military forces.An article in the Los Angeles Times mentioned there are two groups of enlisted personnel that are very good at spotting roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices: those who hunted in their youth and grew up in the country and those who were raised in tough neighborhoods where they needed to watch out for gang attacks.The article then mentions a category that does not do so well. The Los Angeles Times says “Personnel who fit neither category, often young men who grew up in the suburbs and developed a liking for video games, do not seem to have the depth perception and peripheral vision of the others, even if thei!
r eyesight is 20/20.”It seems that the explanation is linked to the tendency of soldiers with a videogaming background to focus more on the windshields of the vehicles they move in, regarding them as videogame screens, so they are less focused on their surroundings.Another reason, not mentioned in the artic...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Handmark Launches Six New Apps for Android

HTTP:: Handmark Launches Six New Apps for Android
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Worldwide leading creator and distributor of mobile applications and services Handmark announced on Thursday the launch of six new applications developed for the Google Android operating system. According to the company, the new apps, New Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus, New Oxford Dictionary of English, New Oxford Dictionary of Spanish, Astraware Sudoku, Astraware Solitaire and Astraware Boardgames, are part of its initiative towards maintaining its position of leading developer for the Android platform. Handmark also announced that the new applications were available for purchase from the Android Market. “We see Android as one of the clear winners going forward,” said Evan Conway, EVP of Marketing. “Our expertise not only with the development of quality applications, but also our unique ability to widely distribute and effectively monetize mobile applications make us one of the clear partners for helping brands and other content providers reach the Android !
audience.”The company has already established itself as a key partner for the development of Android applications, as well as for their management, and mobile providers recognize its position. There are a wide range of applications distributed through its channels, and it is also in charge with the management of other appl...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Gorgeous Plus Size Crystal Renn Becomes Face of New Evans Collection

HTTP:: Gorgeous Plus Size Crystal Renn Becomes Face of New Evans Collection
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Crystal Renn is, at this point in time, the highest paid plus-size model, while also being one of the most appreciated. As such, it’s no wonder Evans has chosen her to be the face and body of the latest collection, a line that places lots of emphasis on style, class and keeping up with the trends, while also offering all of these in plus sizes, as the Daily Mail informs. It’s not so much for the fact that Renn weighs more than other models that both fashion people and regular women love her, they say, but rather because she used to be once close to a size 0 and she’s now willing to talk about that ordeal. In fact, this model, a very healthy size 16 right now, is using even the launch of the new Evans line to draw attention and warn other women of what is lurking behind the glossy, apparently fabulous façade of the fashion industry. And she does so from her own experience: as we also told you a while back, Renn suffered from anorexia and almost killed herself tryi!
ng to be the size accepted by the industry as “normal.” “They handed me a copy of American Vogue. It was filled with gorgeous, slender women like Gisele. They said, ‘If you want to do well in this business, you have to lose at least nine inches from your hips.’ I&rsqu...
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Pingie: TORRE: BitTorrent Meets IMDb on Files24

TORRE: BitTorrent Meets IMDb on Files24
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Most people view BitTorrent sites as massive Internet archives of digital entertainment, ranging from movies through music to software. Nevertheless, the structure of torrent search engines often lacks the navigation that a good archive should have. Files24 aims to fill this void.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Coast Guard probes fuel spill in San Francisco Bay

HTTP:: Coast Guard probes fuel spill in San Francisco Bay
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Friday it was investigating an early morning spill of bunker fuel from a refueling line between the tanker Dubai Star and a barge alongside it in San Francisco Bay.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Woman Ends Up in Burns Unit After Allergic Reaction to Hair Dye

HTTP:: Woman Ends Up in Burns Unit After Allergic Reaction to Hair Dye
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Hair dyes can, at times, cause allergic reactions, even in those cases when one uses the same brand and shade one has been using for years. This is why allergy tests are to be performed 48 hours before applying the dye, to see whether the chemicals in it have a negative impact on the body. In the case of 22-year-old Zoe Vernon, not even the allergy patch had any relevance, as she still ended up in the burns unit at the hospital after using a home hair-dye kit, Sky News reports. Just like many other women around the world, Miss Vernon had been dying her hair for years and she never had such problems. However, since, this time, she had bought a kit she’d never used before, she chose to play it safe and follow the instructions on the box, so she performed the allergy test. She got no adverse reaction, she tells the media, so she naturally moved on with the next step and applied the dye on her hair. The next morning after that, though, she woke up swollen in the face and in!
pain. “It was terrifying; I was so scared because it was really painful. I thought if I stayed at home it would get better on its own but it just kept getting worse. My boyfriend came back from working away and was shocked by my appearance and took me to the walk-in centre.” Vernon says. Nurses at the c...
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