http://www.mywebcache.com Another day in the thoughts of Christopher Nofal Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:56:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon advertises Kindle’s ability to playback audio files while reading e-books. However, consumers are unable to read e-books purchased from Amazon's Kindle Store while listening to audiobooks purchased from Amazon's Audible Store. The Kindle 2 was my first e-book reader. Excited to test its much hyped features, I purchased ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2009/03/02/a-most-embarrassing-kindle-2-flaw/ I recently addressed this question in a presentation to prospective Computer Engineers at the University of Florida. http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/10/07/what-is-web-20/ Have you ever wanted to add a specialty Google search box for your website that only found mp3, xls, doc, or other files of specific extensions? Well using a little JavaScript and tweaking Google's code, it's very simple to add a specialty Google search box to your website. Here's an example ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/08/12/how-to-add-an-mp3-google-search-box-to-your-website/ Flixya is a start-up video sharing service, much like YouTube and Google Video. Unlike its competitors, Flixya provides user incentives to share and upload videos. Flixya's Revenue Sharing program offers a 50/50 split of all revenue earned from Adsense, Google's Pay-Per-Click advertising program. The more video links you ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/08/11/is-flixya-violating-googles-adsense-tos/ This past weekend saw the 9th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego. Twenty-one collegiate teams pitted against each other to complete three tasks: finding a docking station, inspecting a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone. The University of Florida's SubjuGator Team retained the top title for the ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/08/07/subjugator-holds-onto-top-honors-in-9th-annual-auv-competition/ Hawking and Hertog call their theory 'top-down' cosmology, because instead of looking for some fundamental set of initial physical laws under which our Universe unfolded, it starts 'at the top', with what we see today, and works backwards to see what the initial set of possibilities might have been. In ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/07/14/hawking-rewrites-history-backwards/ TheLinuxStore.ca has started a new project. A project that will give away free Linux disks of your favorite distribution (SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, Debian, Knoppix). Have a look, give feedback, donate to the cause, and request a disk. http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/07/13/free-linux-disks-not-ubuntu/ According to a recent article from auctionBytes, eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay. From eBay's standpoint, eBay is ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/07/06/ebay-bans-sellers-from-using-google-checkout/