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Daniel Hillis and Sheryl Handler establish Thinking Machines in May 1983. Two years later, Thinking Machines sells its first computer, the $5 million CM-1, designed with the concept of massive parallelism. By 1990, Thinking Machines is a market leader and has the attention of Wall Street. Just four years later, after a series of questionable decisions and a shift in government scientific spending, Thinking Machines files for Chapter 11.
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Great new "Tech News" show WebbAlert hosted by Morgan Webb. A 5 minute, daily M-TH, vidcast about tech related information. You may know Morgan Web from X-Play of G4 TV.
This is WebbAlerts 1st Episode and let's hope for more!
Side bar widgets are finnaly here! Well, at least in beta mode anyway. We can now add widgets, but you can only add one at the moment. It's still a work in progress folks, give the poor folks at Vox a break. At least we have the power. (I feel like He-Dork) Think of all the creative widgets that you can place here. How about your favorite music, or recipes, news, or weather. Maybe your favorite Moo card of the day, or even your Food-Ku of the day or week. Be imaginative folks. Here is a good place to start in making your own widgets. http://www.widgetbox.com/
The only downside that I saw is that I don't have the power to place the widget where I want. If I choose to display my posted videos, photos, latest comments, etc etc, then my widget is left to the very bottom of the screen. Well by george, I'm a picky little nerd and I want mine at the top. (ummmm..hellooooo Vox) It would be nice if we could control the order in which our Side Bar apps were displayed. Perhaps somewhere in the Customize Your Side Bar application allow us to put them in the order that we wish. I had to turn all of my side bar apps off just so that my widget was on top. Not that anyone wants to listen to my geeky music. But you get the idea of personal widgets in your sidebars. What do you guys think? Below is the set of instructions on how to get personal widgets in your sidebars. The instructions come directly from team.vox posting. Of course if you need help, your vox team and your favorite neighborhood geek is always willing to help.
Widgets, We've Got Widgets
As we promised a few weeks ago, everyone can now put widgets in posts! To add a widget to a post, from the Compose page just click on the Embed button and paste your code in the box that pops up. This button has been in beta for a while now, but now it will appear for everyone to use.
We know you want a widget to your sidebar too, so you can now do that in beta. To add it, be sure you're opted in as a beta tester and head to the Design tab and click on "Customize your sidebars". Check the box next to "Embed" and click on the configure link to add the code and optional title for your widget. For now you can only embed one widget in your sidebar and if it's wider than 160 pixels, it might look all wonky or just not display at all.
I believe most of us know what www.digg.com is, right? Do most people feel that it's designed just for men? I'm not sure about that but what I do know is that some women do feel so. So they got together and created Sk*rt. http://www.sk-rt.com. It's the power of Digg but for women. Their title states "For Women. And for the men who want to get into their heads."
I'm going to let you ladies decide how well the site works. Give it a test run and see if you like the subject titles. Post something here in the comments to share with others. Is it really the Digg for women? Here are some titles from the main page. Men, just remember, once you get inside, there's no turning back. Good luck!
Mylo, short for "My Life Online". It's wireless communications in your hands. The catch. You must have a wireless connection(802.11G) available in the area. No wireless, no communication. You can still however play your music and browse photo's on its 1Gig of storage. When you do have a connection, you can browse the internet, (umm post to VOX), Instant Message with Google, Yahoo, and Skype with the QWERTY keyboard or included microphone. You can also send email as well. I think the age group they were looking for were the 17 to 24 year olds who are just hooked on texting or sending text messages. It's not a cellphone, and it doesn't take pictures. It does however have a built in MPEG4 video player and MP3 player. Hmmm, Zune and Ipod killer? The Mylo certainly does more than they do, doesnt it? The Mylo also has no monthly service fee's. It's been around since Sept of 2006 and I have yet to see any major price drops. If you hunt hard enough, you may be able to pick one up in the range of $200-$275. Really not a bad price to pay if you have a constant wireless connection around. I want one because, well, I'm a geek.
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