Sunday we saw robots playing pool and an augmented reality pool game. Today we’ll complete the pool trifecta: virtual pool using a real cue stick and ball in another vintage video from Hack a Day’s secret underground vault. The video is noteworthy for a couple of reasons:
First is the year it was made: 1990. There’s been much buzz lately over real-world gaming interfaces like the Nintendo Wii motion controller or Microsoft’s Project Natal. Here we’re seeing a much simpler but very effective physical interface nearly twenty years prior.
Second: the middle section of the video reveals the trick behind it all, and it turns out…

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YoVille, one of the largest virtual worlds on Facebook, recently experienced a relatively large protest against a major change yesterday which modified the way users can earn virtual currency. Previously, users entered a widget factory from where they could earn coins. While users can still earn coins there is a new process in which users must spend money to make money (as is typical in the real world). A number of users are furious and in the past few hours I’ve received numerous users frustrated with the change.

The position of the users was that less money was being generated…

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How can you access blocked sites and cross web filters? Many people deal with controlled access to specific websites. This happens especially in some countries where Internet censorship is applied and people’s access to specific websites is restricted. Also, these days more and more institutions, schools and companies are implementing this type of software on their computers. But Internet filtering is not a problem because there are many tools and methods that enable you to bypass filters and to unblock websites.Anonymous Web ProxyOne of the most popular methods is using a web proxy. An anonymous proxy server is an…

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Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD DVD drive however it exists only virtually Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD DVD drive Probably the best virtual drive software Virtual CloneDrive allows you to enjoy the freedom of a virtual drive and is completely free

Zynga announced today the acquisition of MyMiniLife, a virtual world which enables users to create their own spaces and homes “through stylized economic activity involving the building of properties and neighborhoods, uploading and selling of useful and fun items, and the buying of objects using MyMiniLife money”. Users start off with a set amount of virtual currency and then can purchase more to add items.

According to Compete.com, the site currently attracts only around 30,000 users per month. Despite the small amount of traffic, the team has built a robust platform. In search of top talent, the company found a…

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There are always a few questions regarding the differences between dedicated hosting and virtual private servers.  Here is a summary of the two types of hosting options and the pros and cons associated with each.
Dedicated Servers
A dedicated server means having your own physical server run in a server park somewhere.  Many of these servers sit in large server farms or data centers.  But this is a real server that the owner controls.
Pros:

Ability to chose operating system (Linux, Windows, etc)
Ability to chose software to install  (Apache, Mysql, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Sql Server, etc)
Remote login to…

The Google Android operating system may be built for mobile phones, but you can to try Google Android on your PC. LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. LiveAndroid is a LiveCD (and LiveUSB) for Google Android OS running on x86 platforms. LiveAndroid make you taste Google phone on your computer.
How to Install Google Android on your PC. Here is a guide to Install Google Android on your PC

Download a LiveCD disc image here
Burn Image to a disc
Stick it in a CD-ROM drive
Boot your PC from that CD.…

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Monday
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
BRKCRT-2201
Moscone W2011 CCVP Prep: Cisco IP Telephony Essentials
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
BRKCRT-1963
Moscone W2008 CCVP:Mobility Features in Cisco Unified Communications Manager version 6 and 7
Tuesday
7:30 AM-9:30 AM
BRKCRT-1280
Moscone W2002 CCSP: Securing Networks with ASA Advanced (SNAA) Technical Introduction
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
(Conference Event) GENKEY-5501
Hall D Opening Keynote and Welcome Address with John Chambers
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
BRKRST-3035
Moscone W3001 Advanced Enterprise Campus Design: Virtual Switching System (VSS)
[ Related Technology Demo: Catalyst Switching Management ]
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
BRKRST-3468
Moscone W2011 Cisco Catalyst Virtual Switching System (VSS)
[ Related Technology Demo:…

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