There are so many biped bots circulating the web that we tend to overlook them. This one caught our eye this morning due to its interesting ability to change its layout. Named OmniZero.9, this biped can drive on 4 wheels like a car, walk like a biped, and even carry a person. While it certainly doesn’t look like the most comfortable mode of transportation, it looks less awkward than some of the latest “innovations” coming from big names.
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Thanks to the technology available nowadays, you can instantly discover the full name, address and even background information about anyone by having only their phone number. This is done by using a “reverse cell phone search” – let’s take a closer look at how this is done.
As you might imagine, this type of service will usually cost a few bucks, but there is a way to get the same information for free.
With the phone number you want to get details about, go to Google and type in the number. Use the following format: “555-555-5555″ (make sure to include…

Last week we wrote about Facebook’s new tagging functionality but as of this afternoon the feature finally went live. While the functionality is no different than initially described, many users are finding that this transforms the overall user experience. There are also many objects on Facebook which still can’t be tagged with applications and pages such as photos. You also can’t include tags within Facebook messages but I’d expect more robust tagging functionality to be added over the coming weeks and months.

So does this new functionality eliminate the need for Twitter? No, but it most definitely helps users to…

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QuickTime 7 is Apple 39 s cutting edge digital media software for both Mac and Windows based computers delivers unparalleled quality for creating playing and streaming audio and video content over the Internet Besides playing MPEG 4 and MP3 content it supports timecode tracks as well as MIDI standards such as the Roland Sound Canvas and GS format extensions It also supports key standards for web streaming including HTTP RTP and RTSP Plus it supports every major file format for images including JPEG BMP PICT PNG and GIF QuickTime 7 features an ultra efficient new H 264 video codec delivering…

If you want books, but don’t want to pay for them, there is a better way than walking into your local book store and pocketing them. Try grabbing them online, from Google!
Everyone must be aware of the Google Books Library project by now. If you’re not, it’s basically a way for Google to ensure all of the world’s book content is accessible and searchable. Through the Book Project, Google works with libraries to scan and archive their older and out of print materials. Up until recently, viewers of books in the Google Library Project web space were limited…

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Why settle for the standard home icon on your browser? If your home button brings you to hackaday.com, why not make the icon reflect that destination? This hack is quick and simple. We’ll take you through it using Firefox 3 and the default theme with standard sized icons.
We start by using our favorite graphics program to make an icon that is 24×24 pixels, and then saved is as a PNG file without compression.
To use the new image as a home icon, we edited a Cascading Style Sheet which is stored in the file classic.jar. On Ubuntu 9.04,…

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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…

Today Facebook will be hosting the fbFund REV demo day to showcase the 25 companies that participated in the first incubator program run in partnership with Facebook and Founder’s Fund. Dave McClure was the primary organizer of this year’s program but Facebook is clearly pumped up about this year’s companies and the new format. Last week I had a chance to speak with Cat Lee of the Platform Product Marketing team to discuss what will be taking place later today.

All of the developers that were part of this year’s program will be showing off their evolved products tomorrow and…

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