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ThoughtFarmer provides awesome Intranet platform!

Posted on April 30, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbchjzAC0OE

I ran into this nice gentleman, Chris, a co-founder of ThoughtFarmer.com. They provide IntraNet solutions to your company using easy to use web interfaces where your employees and employers can interact within the company w/o using traditional methods of communication such as e-mail and documents.

It’s sorta like a those Enterprise Wikis but the first thing I noticed about their Intranet platform is the quality graphics and simple design as shown here:

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DIY HACK – How to make your own Sawed-Off USB Cable!

Posted on April 29, 2008 by max

Yey, here’s a fun little DIY for those of you who want to mask your secret USB drives as a “Sawed-Off USB Cable“.

This might prove to be the best security protection you ever had for your USB device. (Why didn’t I think of this before???)

Holy crap– somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!

No– wait– sorry. That’s just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind.

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DIY HACK – How to Build a Prepaid Cellphone GPS tracker!

Posted on April 28, 2008 by max

Well, here’s a cool little hack for anyone who’s interested in building a GPS tracker for fun. Although I’d rather stick to my GoogleMaps on my Blackberry, this is good info for anyone who wants to build a custom app.

The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tracker responds to text message commands, detects motion, and sends you its exact position, ready for Google Maps or your mapping software. The Tracker firmware is open source and user-customizable.

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Web2.0 Expo 2008 – How to build a Web 2.0 Interactive Resume using VisualCV!

Posted on April 27, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3FYCLTyRY

Well, I ran into this nice lady who explained how VisualCV works at the Web 2.0 Expo.

I think it’s a really good idea that they’ve actually made resume into a Web2.0ish interactive media.

It’s basically a free service that let’s you build resumes for yourself or even companies.

Instead of sending attachments, now you can simply point to your online resume as mine here:

http://w

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DIY – How to build your own G-Force Meter!

Posted on April 27, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Al-pWAw3g

Remember I did a G-Force Meter couple years ago? Here’s another cool DIY G-Force meter. The only difference it that it uses 7-segment display and a PIC18F series microcontroller.

After seeing so many applications using acceleromters making a simple project of my own with this cool sensor just seemed natural. The main application of the accelerometer is either for sensing tilt or sensing acceleration. For this application A G-Force met

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Web 2.0 Expo 2008 – Jeffrey Walker on Enterprise Wikis!

Posted on April 26, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8s53XaJn6s

Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian.com, explains the benefits and some bullet-points about running Enterprise Wikis over at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Atlassian, is btw, a company that specializes in Enterprise Wikis built for organizing large companies.

What is interesting to me is that these “wikis” have been replacing e-mails, documents, and all sorts of other technology of large comp

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WordPress HACK – How to widgetize your theme!

Posted on April 26, 2008 by max

Well, I had to widgetize my old theme today but it was pretty simple:

Make a file called functions.php in your theme directory. (if you don’t have one yet)

Add the following code and save the file: if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) register_sidebar(array( ‘before_widget’ => ”, ‘after_widget’ => ”, ‘before_title’ => ‘

‘, ‘after_title’ => ‘

‘, )); ?>

Then add the following anywhere you want to add dynamic widgets:

<?php if ( !funct

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Recap of Web 2.0 Expo – What is Web 3.0 and Semantic Web?

Posted on April 25, 2008 by max

Here’s a recap of great stuff I learned through attending the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco this week.

All these companies are building new mass collaboration “online” web apps that are basically easy to use and built on wiki platforms.

Semantic Web is an idea that’s often talked by Web 2.0 junkies.  It’s basically the idea of mass collabo

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Web2.0 Expo – Stewart Mader from Wikipatterns Interviewed!

Posted on April 24, 2008 by max

If you don’t know wikis, it might be a good time for you to get familiar as wikis have not been fully utilized as blogs have been. (Before you know it, the world will become a “wiki wiki” world…)

As a wiki fanatic myself as I have built the world’s first-ever MediaWiki based social networking site, I am a collector of any new books related with wikis in general.

One of the books that I haven’t gotten a hold of was,

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Web2.0 Expo 2008 – SpringNote – Wiki-based Online Notes

Posted on April 24, 2008 by max

HeeKyong Yoon from SpringNote.com, was nice enough to chat with me on their cool “wiki” product, SpringNote:

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VAq7Q_LeBI

FYI, SpringNote.com is a subsidiary of NcSoft.com, the creators of legendary online game, Lineage.

Well, I tried out SpringNote, here’s a screenshot:

It’s very simpl

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