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  • Magic Snow Flakes On Your Desktop

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    Suitable for Microsoft Windows : Servers 2000/2003/2005 Win XP/Vista and Windows-7 x64/x86 To add a little winter magic feeling on your Desktop DesktopSnowOK could be the right program. “DesktopSnowOK” is a lightweight portable Windows program for 5 or more snow flakes on your windows desktop. :::: Features ::::: # Very Small # Low CPU usage…

  • Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees

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    From the NYTimes this morning: Daily Report: Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees | One of the most talked-about articles Tuesday is the revelation that there are not six degrees degrees of separation between any two people, but 4.74 degrees. John Markoff and Somini Sengupta, reporters for The New York Times, write that the original “six degrees” finding, published…

  • Picture Your World from a Post

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    Forrest Mims, one of the 50 best brains in science, according to Discover magazine, writes in his article Record Your World From a Picture Post in this Month’s Make Magazine how to use the details of PicturePost: http://picturepost.unh.edu/ to build a post and take consecutive pictures to record changes every day at the same location,…

  • How to Create a QR Code in 3 Easy Steps

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    From the Daring Librarian comes this tip.  NOTE:  We use goo.gl in class instead of bit.ly for the same tracking capability.

  • Are you Addicted to Angry Birds?

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     The Widespread Popularity of Angry Birds Angry Birds debuted in 2009 and has been downloaded over 300 million times. It’s on track to reach 1 billion downloads in the not too distant future. And here’s where it gets shocking ̶̶ people play Angry Birds 200 million minutes per day! That’s equal to 16 years of…