We received quite a bit of tips, after posting about the 150$ high altitude balloon project, from communities and teams who had done similar tasks. There is more to these projects than simply filling a balloon and attaching a camera, so in order to allow everyone their 7 seconds of well deserved fame, we’ve compiled a quick list of similar high altitude balloons. Catch it after the break.

Do note, these are in no order or rank.
RPI Electronics club, sent in their Imaging Balloon of Science. Supposedly built in under 30 hours and runs Linux.
Bang Goes the…

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This is Day 4 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
Most people just quickly upload their photo to their Facebook page and never think about it again. This is probably one of the worst mistakes you can make. Facebook doesn’t provide many customization options for the main public profile page meaning that your photo is what sets your public profile apart from others. Back in February, Rob Banagale wrote a guest post on our blog about various ways of customizing your Facebook profile photo. Since then, thousands of people have…

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HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the past five years since this article was first written. They’re still a useful way to get a web page delivered to interested readers to encourage them to visit your website or have your readers perform an action. The email marketing process also has become routine.
This article brings you up to date on how best to code HTML email so that it will display well in most email software. It provides an exhaustive overview of how to code html email newsletters (even in Outlook) with links to free html email…

Sometimes, you’re faced with the problem to cramp as many smaller textures as possible onto a larger texture. Typical cases are lightmaps, which are very small textures with dimensions that usually are not powers of two, or bitmap fonts where you want to try and fit the entire ascii character set onto a texture without wasting much space.
What you need then, is a rectangle packer, an algorithm that arranges as many smaller rectangles on a larger rectangle as can possibly fit.

The Nuclex.Support assembly contains several rectangle packing algorithms in the Nuclex.Support.Packing namespace offering various levels of compromises between…

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Remeber CNN’s live stream of the inauguration? How about the TNT’s live stream of the NBA All Star game? All services implemented the Facebook Connect-enabled live stream widget and now all websited and developers can have a version of their own. Later today Facebook will announce details about this new feature which will make it easy for instant conversations to take place across the web.

Ultimately the Live Stream Box is not just for live streaming events but that’s what it’s intended for. Facebook has released instructions about how to embed the service into your site or application. What’s most…

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If you wish to be successful with Internet Marketing then you need to start with the end in mind. Far too often would-be marketers have a ‘build it and they will come’ mentality. Sadly, many times ‘they’ don’t come and those ‘would be’s’ end up being ’wannabe’s’ forever Let’s not make the same mistake.
That’s the reason whyany Internet Marketing campaign should begin with proper market research. The good news is,as top seo services and internet marketing experts say is that there are plenty of tools available..
I would recommend, aside from getting a professional website design when purchasing…

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