Web hosting companies are constantly on the lookout to find newways to attract visitors to their websites. One avenue that manyweb hosts miss is targeting visitors who are searching for webhosting by city, such as New York Web Hosting, by state, such asCalifornia Web Hosting, or by country, such as Canada WebHosting. These pages show examples of pages that review andprovide information on web hosting companies in those cities.These searchers are looking for a hosting company in aparticular city, state, or country, but given the proper messagethey can often be convinced to try your hosting company.Afterall, given the nature of…

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This past weekend, Berlin played host to Music Hack Day – an event where attendants built and tested hacks, contraptions, and software all dealing with sound, music, or the distribution thereof. Some of the hacks are simply mind blowing to see built in only a day or two. Like the location based CitySounds.fm or Tracks on a Map – mapping out where your music is from. Or the music based games and composition tools, iLoveAcid squencer and MaschineFighter – adding some crazy fun to MIDI.
Oh, we almost forgot, we can’t go an entire post without mentioning something Arduino;…

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Internet is one of the major needs of this contemporary world. Almost every work can be done on the web and people love doing things on the web because it is time and cost efficient. It is just one of the greatest blessings of technology.
However, there are lots of web sites, which are not safe because your personal info can be hijacked through them. Therefore, in order to save your personal information you should use a proxy. But do you have the right knowledge of how to use a proxy?
Using a proxy server to surf online safely is…

If you have put a lot of effort into your business, the last thing that you want is to see your hard earned assets stolen by a criminal. Business owners tend to choose surveillance systems to help them.
If you are thinking about installing surveillance cameras, the law generally dictates that you have to inform people that they are being watched in this way and therefore cannot have the element of surprise by hiding cameras from the view of criminals. However, to make sure that they cannot damage them easily and disarm them, armored cameras are now becoming very useful.…

The system is aimed at people who cannot make normal voice calls to the 999 service due to disability. The service sends the text to a voice relay assistant who then speaks the text message to the emergency service and then texts back their reply. If successful, the government initiative, which is backed by Ofcom, would become permanent in early 2010. The scheme is a joint venture between various UK telecom firms. The live trial involves people sending text messages in a real emergency. Administrators are looking for several thousand volunteers, with a preference for disabled users. In an emergency,…

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Ever wanted to be able to launch a balloon into space, track its location via GPS, take some photographs of the curvature of the earth, and recover the balloon, all for the low low cost of $150? [Oliver Yeh] sent in his teams project, Icarus, which does just that. The group of MIT students found that they could use a weather balloon filled with helium to reach heights of around 20 miles above the earth;  their particular balloon achieved 93,000 feet (17.5 miles). Then, utilizing only off the shelf components with no soldering, conjured up a GPS tracker using…

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We were seriously frustrated when Facebook removed the ability to find your friends based on their location. There are numerous examples of why you would want to filter by city and not having this feature was nothing short of annoying. Thankfully, Facebook has added the feature back according to an updated posted to the Facebook Page just an hour ago. The feature was first noticed by Eric Eldon.

We were actually in the process of posting an article about 10 reasons why they should add this feature back but within a matter of days, filtering by city is now available…

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Last year I noted that Facebook’s advanced search functionality had become de-emphasized and was difficult to access, unless you knew the actual URL. As of this weekend, Facebook has killed advanced profile search all together. That means if you want to browse through users based on their location or profile information, you are going to be forced to use other applications that provide such functionality.

While Facebook still enables some basic search functionality, browsing through local Facebook users is no longer a possibility without including some form of keyword search. Facebook has slowly been phasing out various user search features,…

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