Basically, zoom into your area and start recording. Double-click points along your workout path and GMaps Pedometer will highlight your path and keep a running total of distance travelled as well as the distance between legs (points) on your path.

Be prepared with lots of RAM, a fair amount of processor speed, and a good video card.

You’ll notice that rogue scientists, weather control, spy satellites, and Internet 3 are all part of “the plan.”

The FAQ gives a list of supported phones.

It includes the basic rundown of podcasting as well as notes on helpful podcasting sites and tools like iPodder.NET and Propaganda.

In a special collection of articles published beginning 1 July 2005, Science Magazine and its online companion sites celebrate the journal’s 125th anniversary with a look forward — at the most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today.

The collection includes, among others, staff essays on 25 big questions facing science in the next 25 years.

The simulation is based on mathematics — the lattice Boltzmann equation to be exact. The researchers believe the work could be used practically in the next one or two years.

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BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on LG VX4400/VX6000 and many Sanyo Sprint cell phones. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones.

If you’re like me, you have every intention of keeping a backup of your phonebook, but the reality is that it doesn’t happen. Now I just need to get myself a USB to Serial cable so I can start using it (and make that backup, of course).

Cake is a lightweight framework for rapid development and easy maintanance of PHP web applications of any kind and level of complexity.

Anyone know of new apps developed using this framework?

• SwapThing.com – Swap things, just like the name says
• Kayak.com – Search 100s of travel sites for the lowest prices, all through one interface.
• WireFly – Compare cell plans

Of course, there’s nothing earth-shattering on the list, and I believe it would be better targeted toward a non-Internet addict audience.

After setting it up on your browser, you simply type “gim porsche 911″ to do a Google Image Search for pictures of Porsche 911 sports cars. Type “random 49″ to return random numbers between 1 and 49, courtesy of random.org.

Of course, YubNub is extensible as you can create your own commands. It is also somewhat a small part of a bigger idea.

…[O]n a bigger scale, YubNub is the realization of a very big idea: the URL command line of the web OS.

2. Always, always be moving. This is most true in multiplayer. Don’t hang around waiting, because even though you have the sniper rifle, they might have the shotgun. You’re just asking to be sneaked up on. This is a great technique to apply to the office. Walking around, everyone sees that you are there, but you always look busy, on your way to doing something else. They can’t pin you down to ask you to do stuff.

The articles also kindly includes images demonstrating important lessons.

The grammar-conscious part of my brain is crying, but another part is laughing.

The whole Jedi ‘thing’ just wasn’t compatible with my lifestyle…

The tool is the product of its author’s free time over a couple months. Not bad, I say.

It should be noted that this is not live data, but that gathered from SEC filings and other documents and is only updated yearly at this point.

245,000,000 years ago, thanks to a gamma ray burst originating in our galaxy’s core, the Permian mass extinction takes place, wiping out something like 96% of all life on the planet. This happens every 100,000,000 or so for a while. Don’t ask why. Within a few dozen million years, the reptiles and dinosaurs are back, and they’re really pissed off.

I would be remiss not to warn you of the 1995 page design you’re about to be greeted with. Consider yourself warned.

If you’re more ambitious than I (and less skeptical), you might want to check out Steve Pavlina’s article on how to become an early riser. It’s an interesting read if nothing else.

I don’t know what else to say about this, so just go look at the pretty pictures.

Women have long been under-represented in the IT industry, especially in senior roles. Is it time to accept that females lack interest in the field, or is lack of support and enduring stereotypes keeping women away? We look at the current state of play in Australia, and find out what the future may hold.

The ideas proposed for why there are fewer women than men in IT are wide and varied from dot-com damage to the geek stereotype. I have to admit that the article annoyed me more than I thought it shed any light on the subject.

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