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Submission + - Tasmanian paper made from 'roo poo

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msmiffy
msmiffy writes: "BBC News reports that a Tasmanian paper company is offering tourists — and others — paper made from kangaroo and wallaby dung. It is nice to see companies "going through the motions" to produce a green and sustainable product.

This may be old news for some, as the article reports that it is already being done in Africa using the end-product of elephants and in Scandinavia with post-elk fibres."
Google

Submission + - Google Hides Katrina Images, Senate Asks Why

Submitted by
Schue
Schue writes: "A Congressional subcommittee is calling upon Google Inc. to explain why it was "airbrushing history" by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal. Swapping the post-Katrina images, which showed the damage that remains more than a year after the storm, for others showing an idyllic city has fueled suspicions among many locals. Citing an Associated Press report on Thursday, the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight asked Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt to elucidate why his company is using the outdated imagery. Official request here: http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/File/Admi nLetters/miller_google_katrina_maps07mar30.pdf"
Music

Submission + - Apple adds "Complete My Album" feature to

Submitted by web_wizard_888
web_wizard_888 writes: "Apple's new service, Complete My Album, gives the customer credit of 99 cents towards an album for every previous single they have downloaded from it. The credit awarded towards the album is valid for 180 days after buying the single. For the first 90 days after launching this service Apple will make the deal retroactive to customers who bought music from iTunes since its inception four years ago." The president of Sony BMG Music, Thomas Hesse, commented that the new service is "revolutionary". You can read the full story here.
NASA

Submission + - Cassini Spacecraft Images Seas on Titan

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. One such feature is larger than any of the Great Lakes of North America and is about the same size as several seas on Earth.
The Internet

Submission + - Out-of-the-Box Solutions for the Web-Smart Friend

Submitted by
markmcb
markmcb writes: "I have a problem that I'm sure you share: I know how the Internet works, my friends don't. I love helping my friends, but all too often I simply don't have the time to help them all. I recently wrote an article for a non-techy friend who wanted to serve a site from OS X and it really highlighted the out-of-the-box (OOTB) functionality of the OS X-Apache combination. I'm curious what other OOTB solutions you have found to be good answers for your non-web-savvy friends' problems that have also allowed you to save your free time."
Communications

Submission + - Videoconferencing tool for computer illiterates?

Submitted by
Corson
Corson writes: "There are many videoconferencing tools out there, some available free of charge, others for a price. But here is the problem: most of them require some computer or otherwise high technical proficiency. And here is the challenge: imagine you are somewhere in North America and your grandma is half a world away; she has access to the Internet and cable TV but has never used (and never will use) a computer the way you and I do. The videophone is still a science-fiction gadget. Can you think of a videoconferencing tool that comes close to what we see on the Space Channel and is available for a reasonable price? You know, the one where you just press the ON button to connect to the other party, so you can see and hear them and they can see and hear you, and when you are done you just press the OFF button to disconnect and turn the machine off? Or is this still science-fiction, like the HAL computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey'?"
Education

Submission + - What's your experience with online degrees in IT?

Submitted by
annapanna19
annapanna19 writes: "Hi, I am a Chemist working in IT since four years. During this time I have been mostly writing SQL, reports and doing business analysis. I know I want to stay in IT and in the future I'd like to take up more challenging roles, but I feel I don't have the technical skills for this...so I am thinking of going for an online degree in IT, possibly a MSc. in IT. Has anybody had any experience with it? Are these comparable to the on-campus degrees? One of the ones I am considering is with the University of Liverpool

Thanks."
Handhelds

Submission + - Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone and SDK Review

Submitted by
Jon
Jon writes: "LinuxLookup.com has posted a review of the Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone Linux-based smartphone. Trolltech's device is aimed at the developer, with a free "Community" SDK that can be downloaded from their site. The Greenphone was hyped as an "open" platform to boost the Qtopia mobile Linux OS, but how open is "open"?"
Graphics

Submission + - A 50-terabyte database of brain maps

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "If you want to compare images from human brains with the ones of monkeys, dogs, cats, mice or birds, you should visit the BrainMaps.org website at UC Davis. It contains over 50 terabytes of brain image data directly available online. The researchers have found a way to transform sections of brain mounted on microscope slides into brain maps with a resolution of half a micrometer per pixel, or 55,000 dots per inch. With such a resolution, all the images are fully zoomable. You start with a single section of a brain and you explore it like if you had a virtual microscope. And the site also provides free downloadable tools to see the images in 3-D. Be warned: you might spend lots of time exploring this site. Here are more details about this project and pictures showing how the brain navigating process works and what a barn owl's brain looks like."
Software

Submission + - Timesheet management software.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I currently work as a help desk supervisor for the IT department of a top 30 american university. We have around 40 graduate and undergraduate students manning our support areas at different times of the day and night, and a recent augmentation of our budget has us in the position to hire more. We still do our master schedule with a moderately complex Excel file, our timesheets are submitted online using a webpage, and our workers' clock in and out with a seperate webpage which gives us reports in CSVs that we import into yet another spreadsheet. Needless to say, our current, time-consuming method is rather clunky and has us looking at alternatives.

What existing systems are out there that might fill our needs? What systems should we avoid?

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