TechnoMagicians Blog

I have to agree with Dave here. Although Wikipedia is a great resource I think we all have to take it with a grain of salt. Anyone can add anything to this thing which is the beauty of it but also the beast. Little known I'm guessing among non-geeks is that everything edited in Wikipedia […]

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I'd have to agree with this and it shows I might just have been right here. You have to wonder how eBay can innovate or even exist for much longer making decisions like this and totally throwing unbelievable amounts of dough down the drain. From Techdirt: Back when eBay bought Skype for $2.6 (potentially $4.1 […]

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I like the idea of presenting bookmarked (tagged) search results higher up above the normal search results. I'm not entirely interested in entering a bunch of metadata in Wink but rather like the approach Jookster is taking with its degree of separation concept. See comparing Jookster to Wink here. I wonder how long it will be […]

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I don't even know what this colour is but it certainly isn't “manly”. Who wants to be in public reading a very “manly” book that looks like a romance novel? For other Andy McNab books click here.

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Feedlounge makes a case for switching to PostgreSQL to MySQL. Read the reasons over there.

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Nothing exciting whatsoever at Microsoft Live I'm glad I only wasted 20 seconds scanning my news feeds for what they announced today rather than spending the hours that a lot of really smart people did sitting listening to all the marketing hype and this dead demo.

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Perhaps I'm just not clued in but what is all the chatter about gada.be??? Hasn't this been done like a million times over already??? Is there something new I'm missing??? Keep in mind that I only took a 30 second look at it but that is all it took for me to close the browser […]

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Open source software to host torrent files on your website. Looks pretty decent.

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As I suspected Cyan has resurfaced. Hopefully uncuppled from Ubisoft to do something amazing: The Mercury News is reporting that Cyan Worlds (the company that developed Myst and its subsequent sequels) may not be a corporate casualty after all. In an email to The Mercury News, Rand Miller writes: “We’ve had a reprieve. Managed to […]

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Where can I get one of these Hydrogen Generating Modules: “It” is his Hydrogen Generating Module, or H2N-Gen for short. Smaller than a DVD player – small enough to sit comfortably under the hood of any truck or car – it could be big enough to solve the world's greenhouse gas emission problems, at least […]

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