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Live On Campus Empowering Students Around The World

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Most people choose one college but are always curious about life at others. Live On Campus allows a person to indulge their curiosity and live vicariously through the content from other campuses. Live On Campus hopes to bring the world a little closer in helping everyone appreciate the diversity of campuses around the world.

Recently, Live on Campus released The Wire (iTunes Link), which allows a person to see a stream of content from any campus in the world almost instantly. Each stream includes videos, images, tweets, Face Book updates and other interesting content related to a university. Students can create their own streams and compare them with their friends. All of this information can easily be filtered so users only see content of interest as well as a history of everything viewed.

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New Net Neutrality Laws set to take effect Nov 20 are Under Fire

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In a very uncharacteristically American move the United States has decided to impose new government-meddling regulations on the Internet. These new Net Neutrality regulations or “open Internet rules” from the FCC will go into effect on November 20, 2011 — so long as it isn’t derailed by the lawsuits in place from Verizon and MetroPCS.

Verizon and MetroPCS are both suing the government over the new Net Neutrality laws and feel that the government is over-stepping their bounds, especially for a government that built its reputation on a free-market economy.

The new open Internet rules being put in place, according to the FCC, are made to define and refine three main categories of the Internet: transparency, blockage, and discrimination.

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Ecobold – Buy and sell natural, organic and green products

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Ecobold

Ecobold, a fresh Startup, is an online marketplace that makes it as easy as possible to buy and sell natural, organic and non-toxic products. Ecobold hand selects products that keep you, your family, and the earth healthy. In addition, Ecobold makes it easier to sell such products by offering merchants the best terms of any similar marketplace.

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Twusic – Tweet your Music

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Twusic is Twitter meet Music.

After spending some time on Twitter as a user, you might notice that a lot of people share their music taste. But all this content only appears as text. For music lovers it’s great to share with others what they’re listening to but is it really relevant for their followers?

Actually, there are many tweets containing the #nowplaying hashtag, thanks to all the music services that allow users to automatically push their music onto their Twitter account.

Late 2010, Twitter started to include Apple Ping music information for those sharing their music via iTunes but, again, without the possibility to listen to that music, unless you already have it on your computer.

That was some sort of solution, but not good enough.

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WatchMe 911 – your personal protection system

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WatchMe 911 (iTunes Link) is a personal protection system, with four customizable alert modes, seven alarm sounds, a flashlight and GPS tracking available. With two taps, it can connect you to the people you trust when you need it most. The app was designed primarily for women, but some of the alert modes are valuable for hikers, runners, and cyclists, whether male or female. Currently, the app is limited to the United States.

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The Babbage Computer Gets Its Marching Orders

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Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage
The Analytical Engine, an important step in the history of computers, is a design for a mechanical general-purpose computer first described by English mathematician Charles Babbage in 1837. (source : Wikipedia)

Charles Babbage is the man generally acknowledged to be the inventor the first computer. Now the Science Museum in London has agreed to help a project to build Babbage’s Analytical Machine under the aegis of John Graham-Cumming, a programmer and computer historian.

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Google Wallet ensures no pick-pocketting for you

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The way we pay has changed three times in the past few thousand years. From coins to paper notes to plastic cards. Now, a mobile application developed by Google only for Sprint Nexus S 4G allows the user can make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on a pay-pass enabled terminal checkout. Google plans to develop this application for more mobile phones. Google Wallet, allows the user to use the mobile phones and enhance in-store shopping experience and thus helping bridge the gap between online and in-store customer interactions.

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SkyNET Robot Hacker – DIY Mobile Hacking for under $600

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It was only a matter of time before bored DIY geeks began combining fun toys with dangerous snooping technology; which is exactly what someone did when they combined a DIY remote-control toy helicopter with wireless-network-hacking computer. The end result is the ominous sounding SkyNET bot, a menacing hacker drone with an even more dubious-sounding name.

The Terminator-inspired name SkyNET may be just the ticket to purveying exactly how ominous a fly-in-the-air wireless hacking machine can be. This cheap and easy to build machine can be built for less than $600 ($300 for the helicopter alone) by anyone with a curious mind and even the slightest technical know-how. Building the machine requires only a remote-control helicopter (SkyNET uses a Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter) modded with a lightweight computer (SkyNET uses Linux), a 3G connection, a GPS receiver, and 2 Wifi cards (one for the remote control and one for attacking the wireless networks).

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3D, enhanced 2D and gaming takes center-stage in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3

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Adobe announces the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3. This release pushes the boundaries of what’s possible on the web, and helps customers deliver innovative games, data-driven and rich media apps consistently across multiple devices and platforms including Android, iOS, BlackBerry Tablet, Smart TVs, Internet-connected Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes, Windows, Mac and Linux.

As the game console for the web, Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 allow game publishers to instantly deliver console-quality, immersive games; with new 3D and enhanced 2D support, game publishers and developers can more easily monetize their content by delivering engaging 3D games to desktops and TVs, as well as greatly improving 2D game performance. Dozens of new features in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 allow developers to deliver a new class of gaming and rich media application experiences, as well as sophisticated, data-driven content with back-end systems integration across devices, including the iPhone and iPad via AIR. Media companies can take advantage of new features to seamlessly deliver protected feature-length, cinema-quality HD video through the web, in apps, and complete with surround sound for connected TVs.

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Evernote – Remember Everything

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I use Evernote religiously but never needed the Pro version. The free version of Evernote is more than sufficient and enough for me. However, I’ve subscribed to the Pro version for quite sometime.

I subscribe to the Pro version because I love this software. It is “love” just as Phil Libin have emphasized many a times.

Get Evernote, it works everywhere – Desktop, Mobile, Web. Most of you will never need the Pro version, it is perfectly OK to stay with the free version and use it to its full.