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Freeware library

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:52:04 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Freeware library

Looking for quality free software? Go no further! Freeware Library is the perfect place for you to download free software from. Here you can find and enjoy free programs from virtually any category. We check all software carefully for viruses, trojans, spyware etc., so you can rest assured that all programs are pure freeware and safe to download and install.

Tags: software resources

The top 100 web search engines no one ever heard of

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:29:54 GMT

clipped by: Cyber_Ryuapu

Clip Source: dondodge.typepad.com

User Interface (UI) enhancements attempt to improve the user experience and visual representation. Companies working in this area include; Snap, Live.com, and SearchMash. Another, Quintura, presents search results in a "visual cloud" that clusters results by meaning and intent. AskVox and Ms.Dewey use talking females to coach you through your search.

Technology advancements include; Hakia , Powerset , and Mindset , which search based on meaning or intent. Vivisimo and Ask.com present results in clusters that allow you to refine or expand your search. Findory, Jookster , Swicki , Collarity, and Rollyo do personalized or social search that present results based on your personal preferences or circle of friends. There are also a bunch of companies doing "tag" or "voting" based search...companies like Technorati, Digg, TailRank, and others.

Mobile search engines include; AskMobile, Boing, Google Mobile, Windows Live Mobile, Yahoo Mobile

Tags: search engines

Links to all your Free Software needs

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:43:24 GMT

clipped by: fudzzz
clipper's remarks: Great list of links. Visit the page.

Clip Source: www.smosh.com

All the programs below are 100% free. No trials or any bull shit. They are ALL FREE.

3D Graphics

Anti-spam programs

Anti-Spyware

Anti-Virus

Audio Players

Audio Tools

CD/DVD Burning

Checksum Utilities

Compression / Decompression

Defrag Software

Desktop Enhancements

Download managers

DVD Players

DVD Rippers

Encryption and data security

File Managers

Firewalls:

FTP Clients

FTP Servers

HTML Editors

Image viewers

Instant Messenger

Internet Explorer Front-Ends

IRC Clients

Mail programs

Network Tools

Office Suite

Operating Systems (Linux/Unix)

-CD Bootable OS's-

Partition Managers

PDF Utilities

Photo manipulation and image design

Programming

Pop-up Blockers

RSS Readers

System Information and monitoring

Video codecs

Video players

Video tools

Web browsers - note: some are shareware

Web servers

Webcam Software

Misc. Utilities/Applications

Tags: free, software, freeware, downloads

Improved Search Coming To Clipmarks

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:42:41 GMT

clipped by: Superboxmonkey

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Clipmarks To Enhance Site Search

Wired News has learned that social web clipping service Clipmarks will debut enhancements to its search engine next week. Clipmarks is extending the site's search capabilities to include searches of tags, text within clips, clip titles and comments left by users. The new search tool will go live on Tuesday, April 10.

The site's current search tool only finds tags. As you can imagine, that limits the search tool's usefulness considerably. Making the search more comprehensive should make it easier for Clipmarks users to find actual pieces of content they've clipped. It's also going to make life a lot easier for people who haven't quite grokked tagging.

Tags: search, clipmarks, tagging, technology, web 2.0

New You By 2018

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:53:24 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Therapeutic: Cloning for tissue replacement is already happening, as stem cells have successfully grown new heart tissues in patients. Researchers believe replacing muscle, bone, skin; even neurons, teeth, eyes, and other organs could be in beginning stages by 2018.

Augmentation: Procedures expected to be in place by as early as 2015 include improved memory recall, simultaneous language translation, long range and microscopic vision on demand, wide spectrum hearing, distinctive voice projection, and stronger muscles. And by mid-to-late-2020s, “nanobots” monitoring each of our cells could keep us ageless and forever healthy.

Designed Evolution: These could include memory, intelligence, speed, agility, and other behavioral and physical attributes. Eliminating undesired genes that might pre-dispose a child to cancer, heart disease or alcoholism could be possible by about 2015.

Clip Source: aftermathnews.wordpress.com

Clip Source: www.positivefuturist.com

In just ten short years, you may be looking into the mirror and wondering, “Who is that gorgeous creature?” Your reflection would reveal a much younger and healthier you; with natural hair color, youthful skin, perfect vision, real teeth, a spring in your step, and an incredibly sharp mind and memory.

Welcome to tomorrow’s futuristic world of biotech enhancements, which forward thinkers believe will be widely available and affordable by 2018.

The Institute for Global Future’s Dr. James Canton believes a trillion dollar health enhancement market will evolve in the next decade.

Enhancements fall into three categories: Therapeutic, Augmentation, and Designed Evolution.

Therapeutic refers to restoring normal capabilities to disabled or dysfunctional patients.

Augmentation means enhancing performance levels beyond the norm.

Designed Evolution refers to modifying our children prior to conception and after birth

thoughts of improving humans beyond what some consider “natural” will evoke controversy

Tags: futurism, augmentation, future medicine, singularity

101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:13:54 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.rewardprograms.org

101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs

How can a person limit juicy downloads to 101 freeware and shareware choices? Tough calls, but the tools below are ones that every nerd needs, or at least should ponder. Many freeware choices are open source, and the shareware all offer trial offers.

Topics Covered in this Article

Tags: software, freeware

Physiological Changes of Fatherhood

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:22:04 GMT

clipped by: wurdzgurl

Clip Source: www.slate.com

There's also preliminary but tantalizing evidence that fatherhood can change the brain. A 2006 study found enhancements in the prefrontal cortex of the father marmoset. After childbirth, the neurons in this region showed greater connectivity, suggesting that having young children could boost the part of the brain responsible for planning and memory, skills parents need when having kids gives them more to keep track of. The neurons also had more receptors for vasopressin, a hormone that has been shown to prompt animal fathers to bond with offspring.

Armed with the knowledge that their hormone levels have shifted precisely so they'll be more apt to cuddle their newborns, men may feel entitled to do more of the soothing. Which can only be good for kids—and for tired moms. This Father's Day, it's time to thank dads for all their bodies do.

Tags: fatherhood, physiology

Top Pentagon Scientists Fear Brain-Modified Foes

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:35:17 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Probably they are worried not to be the FIRST to develop such enhancements. Thanks to the God of War without whom we could not possibly fathom such inventions.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

There's concern in some corners of the U.S. military about "enemy activities in sleep research," neuro-pharmaceutical performance enhancement, and "brain-computer interfaces."

particularly concerned about (and excited by) new drugs that promote "brain plasticity"

-- rewiring the mind, essentially, by helping to "permanently establishing new neural pathways, and thus new cognitive capabilities."

The scientific group also wants the military to keep close watch on the hardware and software which connects the human brain to machines.

Northrop Grumman just won a Pentagon contract to develop binoculars that will tap the subconscious mind.

a Brain-Computer interface...

...may arise in a feedback mode, in which a the interface provides a soldier with a simple signal or a pain/pleasure pulse in response to externally provided situational information.

Tags: brain, brain enhacements

Firefox 3 has arrived

Sun, 18 May 2008 10:37:54 GMT

clipped by: Beholder
clipper's remarks: A must for heavy web users

* Note that this is a release "candidate", meaning it's not fully official yet (but haven't we waited long enough? ).

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

Go kick the tires and light the fires of Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1, which is now available for download at the Mozilla Firefox site. The update delivers a few aesthetic changes, as well as what Mozilla is calling major security enhancements. Users should also expect increased performance and stability for applications like Google Mail. There's an exhaustive list of known bugs to squash too, but that's par for the course with any software. [
Firefox 3 RC1]

Tags: web, firefox

Clipmarks: Scheduled Downtime Tonight

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:02:02 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Sorry guys, we have to make some enhancements that require the site coming offline for a bit. Should be down for around an hour, no more than three.

Clip on til midnight EST and we'll see you again in a bit

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

Hi everyone,

We’re working on making the site faster and have to do some work that requires taking the site offline for an hour or so tonight at midnight EST.

Sorry for the downtime, if it wasn’t 100% necessary we wouldn’t be doing it. We trust that the speed enhancements that follow will make it well worth it.

Tags: clipmarks

New Firefox Web browser to be released Tuesday

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:35 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: I had downloaded Firefox 3 and that's when I had problems with the Clipmarks orange box and clipping. When I went back to the older version it worked fine. Hopefully with the official release, it can be resolved. I can't wait to try it out. But like others, I have extensions that have become part of my internet life. :~)

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

New Firefox Web browser to be released Tuesday

A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design.

Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new "Places" feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged and pages they visit frequently but haven't bookmarked.

Yahoo is the only Web service initially supported. To use rivals like Google Inc.'s Gmail and Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail, developers of those services will have to enable that capability first.

Firefox 2: 2 Million Downloads in a Day

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:21:17 GMT

clipped by: mlevit

Clip Source: www.betanews.com

Mozilla said that downloads for the second version of its Firefox browser reached two million in the first 24 hours, or more than 30 downloads per second. The rate of downloads compare to one million in the first 24 hours with the first version of Firefox, and 1.5 million with Firefox 1.5. The latest version of Firefox adds enhancements such as a phishing filter, a retooled user interface, and performance improvements.

Mozilla user experience lead Mike Beltzner says Firefox's "less is more" philosophy is what makes the browser so popular. He even compared it to a Honda Civic, a car popular with auto enthusiasts due to its easily upgradable design. "By default, Firefox is a simple, sleek, efficient, reliable and effective web browser," he said. "If you're the type of person who tinkers, though ... well, the sky is the limit."

Tags: firefox, downloads, mozilla

“Metabolically Dominant Soldier.”

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:57:37 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: nextbigfuture.com

$3 billion super soldier program: 10 times muscle endurance, 7 foot vertical leap, wall crawling, personal flight and more

DARPA today has a long-term, $3 billion program to help make such a “Metabolically Dominant Soldier.” In other words, the military is studying how to use technology and biology to meld man and machine and transcend the limits of the human body. Described the project director, “My measure of success is that the International Olympic Committee bans everything we do" The $3 billion program is definitely trying to achieve transhuman performance goals.

The wearable gear would enable running at 100 meter olympic sprinter speed for hours and the 7 foot vertical leap, the wall crawling, personal flight, invisibility, greatly enhanced strength, better body armor and carrying bigger and more powerful weapons.

The drugs and genetic enhancements and some technology which gets applied would allow for regeneration, faster healing

endurance of an Alaskan sled dog

cognitive enhancement

Tags: super soldier, human body, enhancement

Homo Superior

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:08:19 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: The risks may be great, but so too are the rewards.

Clip Source: www.scienceagogo.com

Genetic engineering is getting serious. Recently researchers have shown that otherwise "hardwired" or innate responses, such as fear, can be manipulated and even reversed, that extreme muscle growth is possible, and that sexual preference can be changed. Genetic manipulations like these go well beyond the promised cosmetic enhancements – such as changing skin and eye color – and may in fact allow us to become the drivers of our species' evolution.

But are we capable of handling our newfound god status? If we could create a fearless, well-fed, disease-free world, would this lead to a golden age of peace, love, and understanding, or will it be business as usual?

add to these developments the recent experiments in what you could call "directed selection" – the ability to knockout certain genes to produce a change in behavior or physiology – and we're well on the way to becoming masters of our own destinies.

But what would a world without depression, anxiety, or fear be like?

Tags: human, v2, h+, transhumanism, genetics

More than who you are

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:18:57 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: I think that we will see more drugs that will improve the performances of us humans.

and then again, why not?

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Healthy People And Enhancement Drugs

According to a new study, people's willingness to take a pill or drug depends on whether the trait the drug promises to enhance is one they consider fundamental.

As many young people without diagnosed disorders or deficits take Ritalin or Adderall to improve concentration or anti-depressants to lift their moods, this study examines what makes healthy people willing to take pills.

"We suggest that people's willingness to take psychological enhancements will largely depend on beliefs about whether those enhancements will alter characteristics considered fundamental to self-identity," the authors write.

they found that participants responded more positively to a drug promising to help them become "more than who you are," than one that would allow them to become "who you are

The most common reason participants said they wouldn't want to take a pill was because it would "fundamentally change who I am."

Tags: drugs, enhancement