click on the wallpaper
Dual Monitor Desktop Wallpapers from Princeton
Plasma Design Dual Monitor Desktop Wallpaper Collection
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I wanted to use dual-monitor desktop wallpapers on my dual-monitors, but couldn’t find any reasonably priced (OK, I really mean free) software. Then, I came across DisplayFusion from Binary Fortress Software! (for Windows 2000, XP and Vista) I’m using it on my Vista machine and luvin it, get yours now – it’s free:
They explain it even better than i can, but i will say that this is great software, and the pro version is on $15.00!
DisplayFusion
Free Multi-Monitor Desktop Wallpaper Software
DisplayFusion will make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) experience smooth and painless. Advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr integration for image searching and fully customizable window management hotkeys are just a sample of the many things DisplayFusion can do.
- Use a different desktop wallpaper image on each monitor
- Use a desktop wallpaper image that spans all monitors
- Randomly change your desktop wallpaper using local images or images from Flickr
- Drag maximized windows to other screens
- Auto-snap windows to the edge of your monitor
- Integrated Flickr image search & download
- Manage application windows with fully customizable hotkeys:
- Move windows to the next monitor
- Move windows to the next monitor and maximize them
- Move windows to the centre, top, bottom, left or right side of the monitor
- Size windows to a configured size or percent of the work area
- Maximize windows so that they span all monitors
- Customize your own hotkeys to do anything you can imagine
- Built-in support for different languages:
English
Deutsch
Español
- More languages available here
Latest version: v2.2.1 (446 KB)
Download without Installer (195 KB)Unlock all the features of DisplayFusion Pro for only $15. Pro features include timed wallpaper changes, fully customizable hotkeys and more! Find out more about the Pro version.
Video - How to Set Up Multiple Monitors
Adding a second monitor can seriously boost your productivity, especially if you work with large images or spreadsheets. It’s also extremely simple. We’ll show you how to do it in this step-by-step guide.
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Tags: Binary Fortress Software, DisplayFusion, Dual Monitors, Multi-Monitor Desktop
What’s your Twitter Account worth in USD?
YATT – Yet Another Twitter Tool – TweetValue – assigns value to any Twitter account in US Dollars. Find out what your Twitter account is really worth.
To find out the value, give TweetValue your Twitter ID and it calculates the value of your account. You can also view the list of top accounts, the most expensive account belongs to the great Chris Brogan and is worth $8,145.00. Chris advises biz, organizations and individuals on how to use Social Media to build relationships and Deliver VALUE. Wow, which waves are you catching? Social Media and Building Relationships are rolling!
But this is virtual value not real value, I mean, are there really any buyers for twitter accounts? Not to worry, your account is much more valuable to you if you keep and use it rather than sell it (if you could.)
Don’t have Twitter? – Sign Up Now
Got an iPhone? Try Twittelator Pro
Twittleator Pro Screen Shots
GeekMommy’s Weblife – Tweet Like a Nightingale
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Tags: Building Relationships, iPhone, Social Media, TweetValue, Twitter, Twittleator
‘When Things Start To Think’ - book by Neil Gershenfeld now online:
Neil Gershenfeld offers a readable tour of what the world will be like tomorrow as computers become invisible, such as wearable computers, nanotech implants, and interactive digital books with electronic ink.
Neil Gershenfeld
Professor Neil Gershenfeld leads the Physics and Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, and directs the Things That Think research consortium. His unique laboratory investigates the relationship between the content of information and its physical representation, from developing molecular computers (which led to the first experimental demonstration of a quantum computation), to smart furniture (seen in the Museum of Modern Art and used in automobile safety systems), to virtuosic musical instruments (including a cello for Yo-Yo Ma and a stage for the Flying Karamazov Brothers).
Author of the best-selling books "When Things Start To Think," "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling," and "The Physics of Information Technology," Dr. Gershenfeld has a BA in Physics with High Honors from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. from Cornell University, was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows, and a member of the research staff at Bell Labs.
Video – Neil Gershenfeld: Life after the digital revolution
Tags: interactive Digital Books, Nanotech Implanta, Neil Gershenfeld, Thinking Things, Wearable Computers
In the 6,527 days since the Tim Berners-Lee made the first web page we’ve gone from sharing computers to sharing links and now – sharing data with the semantic web.
Kevin Kelly from wired at the Web 2.0 Summit, Nov 5 – 7, 2008, in San Francisco, CA gives his impressionistic view of what he thinks we are all headed towards.
This video starts with a brief review, then at about the 3 minute point – the web as OS. During the next 6,000 days, we move from Web 2.0 into the Cloud. Information and data all moves into the database where it can be shared. If it can’t be shared it doesn’t count. What can we do with this new sharing world in the cloud? The extended self - where do we begin and where do we end?
What has happened during the past 6,500 days was impossible. We have to get better at believing in the impossible.
Are we on the way to a borderless world where people access, share, connect and create conversations, information, knowledge, and cultural objects and share them with the world?
Video – Kevin Kelley – Looking back 5,000 days, looking ahead 5,000 days
Postsingular – What will happen after the singularity?
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Tags: Borderless World, Kevin Kelley, Postsingular, Rudy Rucker, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Web as OS, Wired
Web 2.0 is changing how the world communicates and does business. Pick a book or two and broaden your understanding – Recommend starting with The Cluetrain Manifesto.
(click on the book covers for reviews at Amazon.com)
5 More Books After the JUMP
Tags: Web 2.0
South Korean Professor Cho Jae-Phil of Hanyang University and his team have developed lithium batteries that are 90% more efficient than current models. You will be able to do stuff 8 times longer – cell phones, notebook computers, cameras, etc. They replaced the graphite in the batteries with three-dimensional porous silicon particles. Professor Jae-Phil has hinted at merging this technology with solar panels. For More Info: Hallyutech.net
Tags: Hanyang University, Lithium Battery, Professor Cho Jae-Phil, Three Dimensional Silicon Particles
Cool Earth Solar has announced their Solar Balloon technology – an inflatable plastic thin-film balloon (solar concentrator) that focuses sunlight onto a photovoltaic cell held at it’s focal point. This design produces 400 times the electricity as would be possible without the “solar concentrator”.
Cool Earth is constructing a power plant in Livermore, CA using this new technology. This plant is modest in size, 1.4 Megawatts, but if works as expected, Cool Earth will launch a full sized power plant next summer. The plastic for this concentrator only costs $2.00.
Cool Earth Solar eyes rural power with balloons – Cnet.com
Cool Earth Solar experiment with solar balloons – Geek.com
Generating Electricity from a balloon – Green Wombat
PV Concentrator Balloons – Renewable Energy World
Tags: Cool Earth Solar, PV Concentrator Balloons, Solar Balloon Technology, Solar Concentrator
ATTENTION: All Bloggers and Podcasters!
Techcruch has announced the launch of the Blogger and Podcaster Media Network that will give small and medium-size bloggers and podcasters the opportunity to earn a nice income!
The Network is free to join and requires no long-term or exclusive commitment. The BPMN is a consortium of bloggers and related companies looking to help bloggers of all sizes effectively monetize their sites regardless of audience size. Bloggers worldwide have the same opportunity!
Register to join right now! Please enter my name – Kent Beatty - in the “Referred By” field. Then invite your friends and colleagues to register.
The Blogger and Podcaster Media Network (BPMN) is organizing thousands of small and medium-sized bloggers into a single entity with critical mass and providing a uniquely powerful promotional solution to bloggers. The BPMN will aggregate blogs and podcasts into one directory and sell space to advertisers. The BPMN projects to return 70% of net revenues to it’s members – no ads need to appear on the blogs themselves.
According to BPMN CEO Larry Genkin, “Beyond what they generate directly, members will also share in the revenue generated by bloggers and podcasters they’ve referred into the BPMN. On average, each member referred into the BPMN will yield the referring member $500 - $1,000 annually. With over 100 million bloggers worldwide and more than 170,000 being added daily, a six-figure income is truly within reach.”
The only two obligations are that each member agrees to link to The Blogger & Podcaster Guide and the the first $5 of earned commissions each month will go to The Blogger & Podcaster Network to help offset operating costs. Other than that, there are no costs to join and no exclusivity or cancellation requirements. Members may join any other network that serves their needs and may cancel membership in the BPMN at any time.
Other benefits include:
- All bloggers signing up by December 31, 2008 receive stock should the BPMN have a successful IPO or is acquired for for a large sum of money.
- Members will receive exclusive deals and promotions provided by BPMN partners. This will include $2,000.00 in services from PR Newswire, a powerful promotional service.
- Members will have access to healthcare coverage, enabling them to focus on their blogs/podcasts full-time while protecting their families.
For more information visit:
TechCrunch, October 28, 2008 - Blogger And Podcaster Media Network Looks To Turn Long Tail Blogging Into A Full-Time Job
Introducing the Blogger&Podcaster Media Network: Power (and a Six Figure Salary) to the Blogosphere’s “Little Guys”
Website: bloggerandpodcaster.net – A network of bloggers and podcasters offering health benefits and an affiliate payment system as well as other benefits.
Glenda Watson Hyatt, the left thumb blogger, blogs and publishes despite cerebral palsy.
Being labeled as functionally nonverbal and using a wheelchair for mobility hasn’t prevented Glenda from living her life to the fullest.
Glenda did this video for Lorelle VanFossen who delivered the keynote at WordCamp Portland 2008 on how WordPress is changing lives.
Check out Glenda’s “Do It Myself” Blog.
Tags: Cerebral Palsy, Do It Yourself, Glenda Watson Hyatt, Left Thumb Blogger, Lorelle VanFossen, WordCamp Portland
The best advertising is simple, effective and memorable:
Tags: Effective Advertising Video, Memorable, Poetically Beautiful, Simple
I’ve always been fascinated with the concept of slowing down or speeding up our perception of time.
This charming animated short film from the International Festival of Animated Film by Filmakademie students Csaba Letay and Verena Fels gives us a brief glimpse into a moment of awareness:
The Moment – A Short Film
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The Moment – Making-Of, Storyboard and Video by Verena Fels and Csaba Letay
Motionographer.com did a short interview with Verena and Csaba
Watch the film at Glorious 720p (it takes a moment to load)
Download the film (40.9 MB) here (Right-Click & Save As)
Tags: Animated Film, Filakademie, Moment of Awareness, The Moment
The Bionic Body Shop
Combine your bioengineering with a wearable robotic suit
to live your best life now!
HAL – Hybrid Assistive Limb
See Also:
Telekinesis – The Brain-Gate Neural Interface System (BGNIS)
Nanoglue and Carbon Nanotube Technology
Extracellular Matrix – re-generate limbs and heal wounds
How to Become a Superhero Through Science
Tags: BGNIS, Bioengineering, Brain Gate, Carbon Nanotube, Extracellular Matrix, HAL, Hybrid Assistive Limb, Nanoglue, Telekinesis, Wearable Robotic Suit
WhiteBoard PONG - 1:30
Irregular Pong played on a regular Whiteboard with regular Whiteboard markers is a demonstration of a Physics Engine responding to it’s real life surroundings, the computer sees and recognizes the black shapes on the whiteboard and the virtual ball behaves accordingly. ENESS, based in Melbourne, Australia is a multidisciplinary design team that specializes in interactive design. Their objective is, “…creating more intuitive, tangible and humane ways of interacting with technology.”
ENESS – (Steven Miescelewicz, Alan Want & Nimrod Weis) have been collaborating since grade 3. They are best known for their Interactive Digital Installations – creations with the visual aesthetic of traditional sculpture but with the added dimension of 3D computer rendering.
Tags: ENESS, Physics, Physics Based Engine, Pong, WhiteBoard Pong
Traffic Jam
Vlad Gerasimov is an an Apple MacBook Pro using designer in Irkutsk, Russia who creates a huge range of desktop wallpapers. He also has posters, E-cards, Tutorials and more. You pay for his best work but there is a huge amount of free wallpapers! I have followed this guy for about 3 years and really like his work. Click on these samples and see the full wallpaper at Vlad’s site, then download – your computer will look vladtastic!!
Snow Man Snow Child
UnderWater
Airline 2
The Two and the Light House
Tags: Christmas Wallpapers, Dual-monitor Wallpapers, E-Cards, Free Desktop Wallpapers, How-tos, Irkutsk Russia, Photoshop Tutorials, Tutorials, Vlad Gerasimov, Vlad Studio, Wallpaper Clocks
On March 19, 2008, before the candidates were nominated, Mike Elgan wrote a column entitled “Has Digg Already Picked the President?” suggesting that social networks might be the best predictor of the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. He was right:
“At the time, I conducted an analysis that varied from site to site, and included Digg, MySpace and Facebook, to see which of the candidates the social sites preferred. I also suggested that if social sites ended up accurately predicting who would win, they might be taken seriously by future pundits when guesstimating who is likely to be elected in the future. Back then, as you can read in my article, SOCIAL SITES PREDICTED A LANDSLIDE BY OBAMA.”
See Also: Social media’s first big battle
Tags: Mike Elgan, Predict Election, Social Media
Celebrating World Animal Day - October 4th
via: boston.com
For More Information:
World Animal Day – Belongs to Everyone World Animal Day Animated Screen Saver
Wildlife Conservation Society – Official Site Endangered Species – at the NY Times
The Red List – The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Tags: Bussaba Elephant, Endangered Species, Green Sea Turtle, Kingfisher, Mahout Sangworn, Mandisa Lion Cub, World Animal Day
Microsoft has today unveiled their BizSpark initiative.
Get software, support and visibility. Microsoft is hoping to seed Silicon Valley (both real and virtual) with future customers by providing a full kit of tools and software to software development startups for free (for three years.) This is a global program that provides access to full-featured development tools with no upfront costs.
The startup must be nominated by a BizSpark network Partner, privately held, in business for less than 3 years, less than USD $1 million in annual revenue, and in the business of software development. For more details download the Microsoft BizSpark Program Guide for Startups (282 K PDF.)
Already signed up are: Xobni – offering powerful organization of email in Microsoft Outlook and ZocDoc – an online medical appointment making service.
See Also:
VentureBeat.com - Microsoft’s BizSpark initiative offers free servers and software to startups
Microsoft Startup Zone – The guide to working with Microsoft for software startups and their investors.
Tags: BizSpark Initiative, Microsoft BizSpark, Microsoft Startup Zone, startup, Xobni, ZocDoc
Which of these phrases do you use?
My tally: used daily – 1; often used – 2; seldom used – 4; never used – 3
I absolutely believe that these irritating phrases are fairly unique at this moment in time. I personally submit, with all due respect, that it’s a nightmare 24/7 for those who at the end of the day shouldn’t of endured these phrases and it’s not rocket science!
The top ten most irritating phrases:
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It’s a nightmare
8 - Shouldn’t of
9 - 24/7
10 - It’s not rocket science
Tags: 24/7, Absolutely, Fairly Unique, Irritating Phrases, Oxford University
Do you lay awake at night worrying about whether you have your username registered with every site that you should? Did someone take your username before you registered it?
This is very handy, see if the new username you’ve dreamed up is available without visiting each site!
Provided by: Jon Sykes
Tags: Jon Sykes, Social Media, Username Check
EWA (Extraction of Water from Air) does just that by using a clean technology that extracts water from air, while using very little energy. The extraction occurs in three steps: first is the absorption of the air’s humidity, then the removal of the humidity from a solid dessicant (silica based gel granules, and third, condensation. According to EWA, one cubic kilometer of air contains from 10 to 40 thousand tons of water. Clean water is a luxury for most of the world. This technology may provide clean and safe water without pollution and without expensive piping and infrastructure.
EWA Goes From Solar Air Conditioning to Squeezing Water From Thin Air
HP has released their impressive new HP Mini 1000 using the Intel Atom processor for snappy performance and weighing in at just 2.25 pounds. Your choice of either an 8.9-inch or 10-inch (adds $50.00) LED backlit display. With a 60 GB HDD, Windows XP Home, SP3, built-in webcam/microphone and excellent wi-fi you can stay connected while on the go (on-board Wireless-G card, Bluetooth adds $25.00.) CNET Reviews lauded the Mini 1000 keyboard as “the best Netbook keyboard we’ve seen.”
This Video from LapTop Magazine thoroughly reviews the HP Mini 1000 but is 7.5 minutes, so just click and drag to move through as desired.
Also available in a Linux-based Mobile Internet Experience (MIE) version.
Starting from: $399.99 Customize & Buy (Free Shipping)
More Info:
Tech Bargains - New Release - HP Mini 1000 Intel Atom 1.6GHz 8.9in Miniature Laptop
Mobile Magazine - HP Mini 1000 Series Netbooks Officially Announced
Boy Genius Report – HP Announces the new Mini 1000 series of netbooks
Tags: Best Notebook Keyboard, HP, HP Mobile 1000, HP Netbook, HP Notebook, Intel Atom Processor, Mobile Internet Experience
ENESS Eyeball Installation
For one special night the Australian ski resort Mount Buller was illuminated by ENESS’ signature eyeball installation. ENESS uses their “Pixile” software to match video projections onto shapes and surfaces. As people walk by the eyes respond and look your way.
Tags: ENESS, Eyeball Installation, Mount Buller, Pixile Software, Video Projections