Amazon Launches Payments Service to Rival PayPal
August 6, 2007
Amazon
’s Jeff Barr is announcing tonight the launch of another web service that should appeal to developers. The previously rumored Flexible Payments Service provides everything developers need to set up payments on their sites, far more so than the Paypal API
More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.
TUAW delves into the iPhone’s OS using hacker tools and produces the first iPhone text editor app!
Beautiful Color in Nature: Frogs and Toads
August 6, 2007
They probably aren
’t something you immediately think of when thinking of beautiful colors in nature… but from poison arrows to woodland dwellers, the world of frogs and toads is loaded with color. Here are 18 Colorful Frogs, Toads & Amphibian Fun Facts.
Best Facebook Apps for College
August 6, 2007
College is where facebook has its roots. Out of the thousands of facebook apps out there, here are the best for College. These applications will assist Students with organization, productivity, money, communication and social life.
Average PC is a smorgasboard for a new MP3-eating trojan
August 6, 2007
W32.Deletemusic does exactly what the name implies: it hunts down MP3 files on unsuspecting music collectors’ computers and nukes them from orbit. While you may not lose your personal data with this worm, you’ll certainly lose those long hours spent on ripping, labeling, and organizing your music collection.
Searching for ‘Racoons’ on Google is no longer SFW (pics)
August 6, 2007
Funny look at what happens when Google gets a bit too creative with their search results. Oh yeah, Microsoft does the same thing.
Automatix Is Actively Dangerous to Systems
August 6, 2007
Matthew Garret, of the Ubuntu Technical Board, says “Automatix is actively dangerous to systems – ranging from damage to small items of user configuration, through removing user-installed packages without adequate prompting or warning and up to the (small but existing) potential to leave a system in an unbootable state.”
Don’t let anyone put a microchip in you.
August 6, 2007
They call it ‘tagging humans with microchips’. CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself — until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.
350 TV like channels you can watch in your browser
August 6, 2007
Index of around 350 TV like channels you can watch in your browser. Some are really cool.
