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Have you ever had the need to line up data or images and needed some sort of ruler or line alignment tool? This CrossHair application displays two full-screen lines intersecting your mouse cursor when you press a hot key. As you move the mouse cursor, the lines follow over any program or window. The program is tiny, and runs completely transparently until you call up the crosshairs. It's useful for eyeballing any kind of chart or tabular data on screen, and for aligning objects in graphics or design applications. For example, mouse over these screenshots:

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Were you affected by the Google Penguin update?  Many legit and established websites were, including Galido.net, once #1 on Google for "Information Technology Blog" out of almost one BILLION results - now however, dropped from the face of Google, a change that basically happened overnight. 



Seems that our site was dropped due to this message from Google:

We were given a one day warning, on May 11, 2012, and basically the next day our website vanished from Google.

If this happened to you, our only advice is to go with the flow and follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines.  Resubmit your site, and hope for the best!

Will keep you all posted on the results of our corrections.

At least Bing and Yahoo, continue to keep us on their top results.  Time to move?  We're hoping not!  Common Google, your search results used to be awesome, and now, it's a matter of which results to trust!

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Nothing will pop out, just try it!!!

Pictus is a fast, free image viewer. It is designed to be small, fast and just totally sweet. If you are content with your current photo viewer software you can still install Pictus and just let it help Windows Explorer show thumbnails for even more images. Development of Pictus is unfortunately halted until further notice, but it’s still worth taking out for a spin.

Supported file formats

Pictus supports a whole slew of different image formats. It only supports loading images as the emphasis has been on the image viewer part.

BMP: Windows bitmap.
GIF:Graphics Interchange Format, static and animated
JPG, JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
PCX: PC Paintbrush Personal Computer eXchange
PNG: Portable Network Graphics
PSD: AdobePhotoshop native format
PSP, PSPImage: Corel Paint Shop Pro native format
TGA: Truevision Graphics Adapter, TARGA
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format
WBMP: Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap
XYZ: RPG Maker image

Get Pictus Here

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Computerized turret can track target by color fires away!

Death to pink shirts:

Real life Transformer!

The secrets of one of the most remarkable technological finds from Ancient Greece have been probed for the first time using powerful X-ray imaging equipment, specially shipped to Athens.

 The Antikythera Mechanism as it is known, is regarded as the world's oldest "computer" and is thought to have been used to predict solar and lunar eclipses and record dates of the ancient Olympiad. Its remains were recovered from a Roman shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece in 1901. The Antikythera mechanism, is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 190001 from the Antikythera wreck, but its complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. It is now thought to have been built about 150100 BC. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks appeared in Europe.




Source: Probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism

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Mavenlink is an awesome all in one project management solution, making it easy to complete projects online with your clients, colleagues, and partners. Centralize your information and communications in a secure, shared workspace. Invite your team to a shared project workspace and efficiently manage roles, permissions, schedules, and responsibilities.

Has integration with Google apps, email, and has it's own sharepoint-like repository.

Learn more at http://www.mavenlink.com/

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MIT and Harvard announce edX
Joint venture builds on MITx and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond


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Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

edX is an organization established by MIT and Harvard that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. EdX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning on campus through tools that enrich classroom and laboratory experiences. At the same time, edX also will reach learners around the world through online course materials. The edX website will begin by hosting MITx and Harvardx content, with the goal of adding content from other universities interested in joining the platform. edX will also support the Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning.

EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learners and to improve education for everyone.

EdX is a priority for the leadership of both Harvard and MIT, and it will be governed by a board made up of key leaders from both institutions, appointed by each university’s president. MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Anant Agarwal will be the initial President of edX and will report to the board.

Learn More at http://www.edxonline.org/

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