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2007-06-02

Taiwan's miCard chosen as global memory card standard

The initial cards will store 8GB of data, but they'll eventually store 2,048GB

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9022598&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top

20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-ways-to-use-gmail-filters.html

Screencast-O-Matic

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

The food timeline

"Welcome to the Food Timeline! Food history presents a complicated buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some people will tell you it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods and recipes are not invented; they evolve."

http://www.foodtimeline.org/

Litesum - Instant Wikipedia Summaries

Type a topic and wait for results

http://litesum.com/

Official Seal Generator

"Welcome to the Official Seal Generator. Enter some text, choose a border and an emblem, pick your colors, and click the 'Go' button. An Official Seal will be generated for you."

http://www.says-it.com/seal/circle.php

Panoramio - Photos of the World

Photos of the World

http://www.panoramio.com/

Misery: the secret to happiness

"The authors recommend using mindfulness, a Buddhist meditation technique, to help cope with family suffering. The technique requires individuals to focus on their present thoughts and actions, and is already used by some psychiatrists in the UK."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6711071.stm

The Unofficial Web Applications List

http://www.webapplist.com/

Hirst unveils £50m diamond skull

Hirst said his piece, called For the Love of God, is "uplifting, takes your breath away".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6712015.stm

Wizpy

"The TurboLinux Wizpy, a multimedia media player that contains a PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system, will go on sale worldwide in June."

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The Wizpy allows users to carry a complete Linux desktop in their pocket. When plugged into a PC's USB port the user is given the opportunity to boot-up the Linux system that resides in the Wizpy's memory. User settings, passwords and bookmarks can be stored inside the Wizpy, with the desktop set up to the user's preference so that no matter what PC is used to host the Wizpy, the user gets their familiar desktop."

http://open.itworld.com/4906/070531wizpy/page_1.html

http://www.turbolinux.com/products/wizpy/