[Dan Ros] sent in his hack of a twitter talking Big Mouth Billy Bass. Originally he simply had an mbed micrcontroller and an SD card with some wav files allowing Billy to say classic quotes. Wanting to go further however, they used the mbed’s HTTPClient library to grab Twitter updates, and then have Billy say them out loud! Check out some other cool projects the mbed team has in the cookbook.
But wait, whats an mbed? We didn’t have a clue either!
Some researched reveals it is a powerful new microcontroller and prototyping board. With some features such as…

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UltraISO is an ISO CD DVD image file creating editing converting tool and a bootable CD DVD maker it can directly edit the CD DVD image file and extract files and folders from it as well as directly make ISO files from your CD DVD ROM or hard disk At the same time you can maintain the ISO bootable information thus creating your own bootable CD DVDs You now have the power to make and edit your own ISO files and then burn them to CD DVD for your own needs UltraISO is in sole possession of the intellectualized ISO…

Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface It is based on the Internet Explorer engine which means that what works in IE works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like Tabbed Browsing Interface Mouse Gestures Super Drag amp Drop Privacy Protection AD Hunter Google Bar Support External Utility Bar and Skinning Extremely Customizable Improved Ad Hunter Built in Online Favorites Service Improved Feed Reader Magic Form Filler Smart Acceleration Splendid Skins Improved History Super Proxy Seperated User Account File Sniffer and more

IE7Pro is a must have add on for Internet Explorer which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier more useful secure and customizable With IE7pro you may switch proxy set agent identification block ads and flash apply super drag drop refresh tab automatically recover session crash manage tab history view page information save image files quickly and more IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management Spell Check Inline Search Super Drag Drop Crash Recovery Proxy Switcher Mouse Gesture Tab History Browser Web Accelerator User Agent Switcher Webpage Capturer AD Blocker Flash Block Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform…

Google Wave brings together instant messaging, e-mail, forums and wikis into one large messaging platform. The inception of the concept was born out of the question: “What would e-mail be like if it were invented today”. And Google Wave was the answer.
A ‘Wave’ is equal parts documentation and conversation. People can communicate and work together using richly formatted text, images and photos, maps, video and much more. However this programme isn’t actually going to be released until later this year, still to be confirmed.

This is what happens with Google Wave. You create a wave and invite whoever…

Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface It is based on the Internet Explorer engine which means that what works in IE works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like Tabbed Browsing Interface Mouse Gestures Super Drag amp Drop Privacy Protection AD Hunter Google Bar Support External Utility Bar and Skinning nbsp Changes in Maxthon 2 5 2 6608 Beta 4 2009 6 01 Core Fixed some IME input problems and IME window position problems Fixed a flash full screen display problem Fixed a webpage layout problem under IE8 when script plugin…

FlashFXP is a powerful and popular FTP amp FXP Client loaded with features for the power user FlashFXP has an intuitive and full featured user interface allowing you to do all the common tasks with just a few clicks It also support full drag amp drop so you can transfer files synchronize folders find files and schedule tasks with just one click Using the FTP protocol you can transfer files from remote servers to your computer or even to another remote server It makes it easy to update your Web site download files from the company server or even download…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A key gauge of future economic activity fell for the third month in a row in March, showing the recession may persist through the summer, a nonprofit research group said on Monday. Reuters – A man stops as he looks for a job during a job fair at the Miami Dade College … The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index declined 0.3 percent last month, steeper than the 0.2 percent analysts polled by Reuters were expecting. It also fell 0.2 percent in February, which was originally reported as a 0.4 percent drop.”The recession may continue through the…

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