SED Next-Generation Flat-Screen Display

For simpletons, this explanation will do, but for those who are brave, read on for more details on what will undoubtedly revolutionize display viewing.

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Wetherill Park

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Originally uploaded by Peter Konnecke.

This is my first post using a standard set of geotags and using a protocol I developed for integrating picture content into personal mapping, blogging and image collections.

Google Opens ORKUT To the public

Orkut is google social networking site. Till now people could join only if they were invited by a friend. Google has now opened to the public anyone can join up.

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Disney hunts mucky Minnie

Disney hunts mucky Minnie - Unusual Tales - Specials - smh.com.au

The Walt Disney Company has lodged a furious complaint over a saucy joke video doing the rounds on the internet, shot by staff at Disneyland Paris in the guise of well-known cartoon characters.

In the film Mickey Mouse's trusty companion, Pluto, is shown spanking the chipmunks Chip and Dale, before joining Minnie Mouse and the Snowman for a cheeky, simulated "menage-a-trois".

Calling the naughty flick "unacceptable" and "unforgivable", Eurodisney's management has promised to find and punish those responsible for the film, shot illicitly on the grounds of the giant theme park outside the French capital.

A union official said the pledge to crack down on the filmmakers - two of whom appear bare-faced in the video - was sparked by an angry protest from the US parent company, which owns 40 per cent of Eurodisney.

Released online, the video was made available on Dailymotion and in the adult section of the Youtube video exchange.

Document your life with a Timeline - via Lifehacker

There are tons of ways to create a timeline - from a text file to an Excel spreadsheet to a weblog to a hosted webapp. While Timeline is more difficult to use than those other options, it is highly customizable, super good looking and keeps data and presentation separate.

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Tags: timelines, history, lifehacks, peter konnecke

Gartner to Apple: Stop selling computers

Two days before Apple's stellar 4Q results, a report from Gartner suggested that they should get out of the computer hardware market altogether.

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The Kings of MySpace

The Kings of Myspace

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Map masher to sort out snarls

Australian IT - Map masher to sort out snarls (Andrew Colley, OCTOBER 17, 2006): "DELOITTE'S Australian web development arm Eclipse Group is close to revealing a web service to help drivers avoid traffic jams around Sydney.

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Downhill battle: Sydney drivers are to be offered an online way to find out about traffic snarls
Eclipse Group chief executive Peter Williams said the company was working with toll road operators to develop a service that will give drivers a quick overview of traffic congestion on Sydney's main roads.

The service was also expected to include a toll calculator and live video feeds from traffic cameras located around Sydney that were available on the web, Mr Williams said."

Redhead Ablaze

This video is from the Redhead NSW fire on 24th September 2006. Amazingly this is only springtime and the fires have started.

Cromer Bushfire

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Originally uploaded by Peter Konnecke.

This is a long distance shot of the Cromer bushfire. The fire is being contained by several backburning operations around the perimeter which will thankfully clear the ground fuel away from a major part of the Cromer Valley and areas to the north Beacon Hill. This picture was taken from French's Forest.

Tags: bushfire, cromer bushfire, cromer, australia, nsw, new south wales, fire, konnecke

Fire closes Wakehurst Parkway

Fire closes Wakehurst Parkway

The Wakehurst Parkway is closed to peak-hour traffic as firefighters work to contain a fire burning on Sydney's northern beaches, the NSW Rural Fire Service says.

The busy road will remain closed in both directions until 10am, the Roads and Traffic Authority announced this morning.

Hidden rooms on the rise

ON a recent Saturday morning Cami Beghou, 13, pushed the right side of the tall, white bookcase that is built into one of the powder-pink walls in her bedroom. The bookcase, holding rows of books, a stuffed dachshund and a volleyball, silently swung outward, revealing a tiny, well-lighted room. Containing a desk, a chair and a laptop computer

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Exploring Pay Per Digg

As Digg grows and becomes more influential, it will attract more and more people who will try to profit off it. There are Digg clubs, Digg trading and now Pay Per Digg, where users are pay to digg a story.

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Tags: digg, pay per click, ppc

TOP 10 tips for maximum CTR in AdSense

CTR is a key parameter for AdSense blogs/sites, so let's learn how to optimize it. I haven't yet put these in place but I can see how they work.

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'74 Oakland A's

This makes me laugh.

Google Puts Lid on New Products

In another sign of Google's growth from start-up to corporate behemoth, the company's top executives said Thursday that they had begun telling engineers to stop launching so many new services and instead focus on making existing ones work together better. Co-founder Sergey Brin is leading a companywide initiative called "Features, not products."

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Tags: google, search engines, web 2.0, web 2.0 products, sergey brin, new products

SearchMash.com - Google's Search Mashup

After all the recent speculation about Google purchasing "mashup" related domain, they've put their new test site live! "SearchMash lets you search the internet in new ways. It is constantly evolving as we come up with ideas and figure out what works and what doesn't."

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YouTube's future (or lack thereof)

In not much over a year, YouTube has become one of the biggest sites on the Internet. Ars takes a quick look at YouTube's business model, legal threats, and long-term prospects for survival.

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Building eBay 2.0

Clobbered by Wall Street. Fierce competition from Google. Meg Whitman's had a rough couple years. Fortune's Adam Lashinsky finds out how she's trying to turn eBay from ultra-hot to built-to-last.

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The new Google Groups experience

Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version, available to anyone at groups-beta.google.com. It may have been awhile since you thought of Groups as cool or sexy if you ever did but I couldn't have been more excited to work on the team responsible for making the current Google Groups better.

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del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Network

del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter revealed to Read/WriteWeb that del.icio.us aims to add features that "help people connect with others within the system, either to people they already know or discovering new people and communities based on interest."

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Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube

SlideShare is a new service launching this morning that lets users upload PowerPoint or Open Office presentationi files and share them online through a You Tube-like interface.

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Google launches literacy project to link resources

Google Inc. unveiled on Wednesday a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.

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