[Totoro] sent in this cool little email notification device he made. Using a paper model of Wall-E, he added some servos and connected it to his computer using a PIC. Mail-E has independent arm rotation and head rotation. He admits that the PIC processor is major overkill and plans some upgrades such as making it wireless and using a little better suited chip to control it. Not bad for a proof of concept.

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When owning a domain name the owner is required to submitcertain data about himself to complete the registration. Nameand address information as well as a phone number and an emailaddress are required to be on file. If these pieces ofinformation are not provided the registration can either not becompleted or is not valid and the domain name could be takenaway.Often people forget to keep this information updated. This isnot a dramatic issue until the domain name expires and needs tobe renewed. If the owner keeps track of the names it is noproblem, but too often people tend to forget. Email…

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[Joshua] has put together a list of BASH prompt customizations. The command prompt is used in a command-line interface to show that the system is ready for the next command. Often times this is nothing more than a user name, host name, and working directory:
mike@krusty:~$
[Joshua's] customization examples can be used to color code the information in your prompt, change what information is displayed, and make the prompt respond differently when an invalid command is typed. A BASH prompt reference is helpful in deciphering what each of these commands do. The easiest simplification is to understand that non-printing…

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With Adstar Magnet you can : – Drag thousands of potential customers (hits) on your website in 10 minutesImprove your domain exposure (.com) on the web and your ranking on the search engines.Get the possibility to expose your banner.Be seen on hundreds of forums and websites.Increase your website’s popularity fast and easy.AdStarMagnet didn’t create the web traffic system, but improved it. Owned by Novaclix Inc., a North America based company, AdStarMagnet offers a simple manual traffic exchange system that will drag thousands of viewers (and unique IPs) to your website.There are three types of memberships:PlanetMember GalaxyMember UniverseMemberReferring Others Referring members…

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This afternoon Facebook is announcing an extended set of features for developers including a new Inbox API and Notification API. The first announcement is a big one: “The Inbox API allows you to access your users’ messages, once they grant your application the new read_mailbox extended permission.” That means we could soon see a ton of new applications built around managing users’ Facebook inboxes. The one downside of this new feature is that applications cannot currently send messages.

What’s Being Added?
As part of the new inbox, attachments can be created using the same model used for developing publisher attachments…

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An unpatched memory corruption flaw in the latest version of Firefox creates a means for hackers to drop malware onto vulnerable systems.
Security notification firm Secunia reports that the security bug (which it describes as extremely critical) stems from errors in handling JavaScript code. The flaw has been confirmed in the latest 3.5 version of Firefox, released in late June.
Older versions of the popular alternative browser might also be affected, Secunia warns.
Exploit code has been uploaded onto recently revived security exploit website milw0rm, a factor that could hasten the development of more attack code.
Secunia advises Firefox…

Don’t expect to see any misleading or deceptive ads on Cubics anymore with their new anti-deceptive ad standards. Over the past few weeks I’ve been covering the “race to the bottom” among Facebook ad networks and developers which has quickly evolved. Just last week Facebook shut down both Social Hour and Social Reach for running ads that were violating Facebook’s terms of service. Little has been mentioned since then but Cubics is trying to lead a new movement: the public denouncement of misleading advertisements.

The company has now implemented a new set of rules for all advertisements run through the…

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How does it work? It works just like a regular toplist, we send traffic to each other. The more traffic you send to our site, the higher your site(banner) will appear on the list. It’s as simple as that.(2 way traffic system)Do you require a backlink? No, but remember that we run a toplist site with a limit of 500 visible spots and when other websites keep sending us traffic and you´re not, your website won´t be up on our list and then we cant send you any traffic back. So thats not a very good idea!Do you require a…

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