Tag Archive for 'Software'

Managing your online business with Google

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Ok it’s been a long time since I last posted something here so this time I’ll be talking about something that if done right can save you a lot of time and hopefully improve your online business by 200%.

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If anything can go wrong, it will…

Well you may already know the Murphy Law “If anything can go wrong, it will”, well believe me: it’s true.

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ZoneAlarm Firewall Sucks

With my 12Mbps Internet connection I was only being able to download with speeds of 550 - 600 KBps (that’s about 4.8Mpbs), I called my ISP and they said that everything was fine and that my signal was about 12.6Mbps, they also said that the low download speed should be caused by some spyware or malware I had on my computer…

Read on to find the solution (if this also works for you please go on and comment).

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Cyc - Who killed JFK?

Watch this Google Tech Talk named “Computers versus Common Sense” for some insight about Cyc and “universal common knowledge computers”.

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.

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Two very useful programs…

I was searching for software that could display a visual representation of database relationships and I came across these two gems on Open Source Windows.

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Testing Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions are considered by many one of most complex programming subjects. Well…

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Solitaire Players of the World Unite!

Dr. Luis van Ahn presented in his fantastic Google Tech Talk Video called Human Computation (he speaks very fast sometimes in this video).

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Microsoft Research

Microsoft Vision seems really promising, check it out.


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I-Doser - Virtual Drug Doses

I was looking up at the ceiling eyes wide open, seeing greens and purples, swirling and condensing to black. - Elissa

I’m at this moment trying I-Doser with the LSD dose, this is amazing: at 78% I hear cruise ships playing their horns or a cat crying out loud, I can’t really figure it out.

Electroencephalography

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Mersenne Primes - Discovering Mammoth Primes

Prime numbers have always been a central point of mathematical studies as they yield (at least for now) lots of stuff that we don’t understand (like factoring and it’s distribution among natural numbers - read the Wikipedia link bellow if you want to find out more). Prime numbers also play a big role paper in our world, as strange as it seems, our unability to fully understand primes is the basis of our digital security as we know it today. Finding new prime numbers nowadays is a task that no longer can be done by humans (as far as I’m aware of) and a computer takes at least a couple of days to find a new one.

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