Absence

How to Turn Your PSP into a Wireless Digital Photo Frame — This is Firebucket’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit - your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my own: If you have an old PSP lying around, don’t know what to do with it and you have an absence of photo frames, this might just be able to solve your problem. If you have a Flickr account and a few pictures (or even... [Tags: absence, copy and paste, digital photo frame, fi, firmware]

HCN: Is That Supposed To Be Finnished? — Ooh bad PhotoshopThat plodding fat hand revealsAn absence of thoughtThanks to Joonas! Original is here!... [Tags: absence, finnished, ooh]

T-mobile gets in on cyber-monday fun! — For those of you who are still as of yet unaware that today is cyber-monday, T-mobile is not going to let you forget. Today marks the day the internet does battle with black friday for sales, clearance, deals and your money. T-mobile is offering front and center on their home page the Sony Ericsson TM506 3G phone for freeeeeee. This little goody, previewed before is SE’s return to the T-mobile lineup after a long  absence. With 3G, a 2.0 megapixel camera and telenav navigation, SE has certainly brought some teeth back to the T-mobile lineup. We expect much more... [Tags: absence, black friday, cold weather, cyber monday, free companion]

Where Have All the Acorns Go? — First it was the bees. Then, something strange is happening to acorns: this year, there are no acorns in "I’m used to seeing so many acorns around and out in the field, it’s something I just didn’t believe," he said. "But this is not just not a good year for oaks. It’s a zero year. There’s zero production. I’ve never seen anything like this before." The absence of acorns could have something to do with the weather, Simmons thought. But he hoped it wasn’t a climatic event. "Let’s hope it’s not something ghastly going on with the natural world." To... [Tags: absence, acorn, acorns, arlington national cemetery, audubon nature]

Explanation For 'Face Blindness' Offered — For the first time, scientists have been able to map the disruption in neural circuitry of people suffering from congenital prosopagnosia, sometimes known as face blindness, and have been able to offer a biological explanation for this intriguing disorder. Currently thought to affect roughly two percent of the population, congenital prosopagnosia manifests as the lifelong failure to recognize faces in the absence of obvious neurological damage, and in individuals with intact vision and intelligence.... [Tags: absence, biological explanation, disruption, face blindness, faces]

tail -F — I've been a fan of Unix since I was a little kid with no access to Unix. I'd read books about Unix, borrowed from the "big city" library I'd sometimes get to visit as a treat.I've used many Unixes since, mainly Linux these days, but I'm old enough to have grown up on commercial Unixes and Plan 9. And although for years now I've found it unbearably frustrating to be stuck on a system that uses some non-GNU variants of commands (Mac OS, mainly, but I sometimes run into undead Solaris zombies), I'll be honest: this GNU stuff is still... [Tags: absence, bell labs, buffer overflows, buffers, city library]

Prosper.com Shutdown by SEC — Image from Netbanker You might have heard of prosper.com, a site where borrowers and lenders can get together in the absence of a legitimate bank and do business. It's an intriguing idea; lend your money directly to your planetary neighbor without some middleman taking a cut, who indubitably must fund their indoor Hamptonian pool on your dollar. As the lender, you take all the risk and get the all the interest; as the borrower, you get access to cash that a regular bank might not let you borrow, maybe because your credit rating is bad or you have no... [Tags: absence, credit rating, intriguing idea, legitimate bank, lenders]

Russell Bishop: Transformation Keys: Universal Supply And The Economic Meltdown — Welcome to the second in a series on Transformation Keys, a weekly series on thoughts you can use to transform the quality and experience of life for yourself, your friends and family, and possibly even the larger community. Last week, we focused on the power of Gratitude. Gratitude opens us up to receive even more while the absence of gratitude seems to close off our ability to create or receive. This may seem strange, and yet those who have practiced the art of being grateful will attest to the power that lies within an attitude of gratitude. In light of... [Tags: absence, atomic number 14, attitude of gratitude, chemical element, computer screen]

Drug Tests — Alexander Gelfand looks at the future of medicine:...the potential usefulness of pharmocogenetics extends beyond safety. Most drugs on the market are, by some accounts, only effective for 50 percent of those who take them. Researchers envision a time when you’ll be able to walk into your doctor’s office and have him or her conduct a simple test to determine whether this or that drug will work best for you, given the presence (or absence) of specific genetic variations — the age of designer drugs. Combine that with genetic testing that reveals predispositions toward particular diseases, and you have a future... [Tags: absence, alexander, designer drugs, diseases, drug tests]

I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new product, I’ve been stubbornly asking them about exactly how they were planning to make money. The reason for focusing on the financial side of things is quite obvious for me as the world financial crisis is making all of us switch focus from things like... [Tags: absence, creativity and innovation, excessive parties, existence, facebook]

Huge sea eagles are on the way back, but 'they wouldn't hurt a lamb' — Conservationists embarked yesterday on a campaign to get landowners to support the reintroduction of sea eagles to England after an absence of almost two centuries.... [Tags: absence, centuries, conservationists, england, lamb]

iPhone Cut-and-Paste Apparently Withheld Out of Spite — Apple (AAPL) rolled out iPhone 2.2 early this morning, as expected. And, as expected, it boasts enhancements to the device’s Maps application, improvements to its telephone functionality, better security and support for over-the-air podcast updates, as well as a few other interesting additions. Among them, an app-scoring feature that allows users to rate applications purchased from the the App Store before deleting them, slide shows of App Store application screenshots, “return to home screen” functionality, and an off-switch for auto-correction. Notably absent from this latest firmware update, landscape SMS, MMS support and, of course, cut-and-paste–whose continued absence Apple apparently views... [Tags: aapl, absence, additions, apple, better security]

Where’s Her Belly Button? — When Victoria’s Secret model Karolina Kurkova walked down the catwalk, people started wondering: where is her bellybutton? The newspapers call it the "riddle of the £2.5m beauty". The beauty in question is Czech supermodel Karolina Kurkova. The riddle is her non-existent belly button. Its absence was noticed this week when the 24-year-old graced a US catwalk for lingerie giant Victoria Secret. While most of us have an "outie" or an "innie", Ms Kurkova has a smooth indentation (although sometimes a tummy button is airbrushed onto her photos in post-production). Otherwise known as a navel, the belly button is the rounded,... [Tags: 5m, abdomen, absence, belly button, cosmetic surgery]

BlackBerry Storm Lacks Punch — RIMs BlackBerry Storm smartphone offers all the enterprise features businesses have come to know and love and that Apples iPhone lacks. However, the Blackberry Storm is slow, and its keyboard is clunky, particularly compared with the iPhone. - The BlackBerry Storm 9530 is Research in Motion's first smartphone to dispense with a physical keyboard in favor of touch-sensitive display. As with other keyboard-less devices, such as Apple's popular iPhone 3G, the absence of a physical keyboard in the Storm means more in the way of display space,...... [Tags: absence, apple, apples, blackberry, enterprise features]

Pioneer beavers swap Norway for Scotland — Four families of beavers arrived from Norway yesterday for eventual release, in a programme to reintroduce the species after a 400-year absence.... [Tags: absence, beavers, eventual release, norway, pioneer]

Toward the end of the “social” bubble — In VRM is Personal, I say this… “Social” is a bubble. Trust me on this. I urge all consultants on “social ______” (fill in the blank) to make hay while the sun shines. Even as the current depression deepens, lots of companies are starting to realize that this “social” thing is hot stuff and they need to get hip to Twitter and the rest of it. (Just ask the Motrin folks.) And it is hot. But much of that heat is relative to its absence in other areas. “Social” has sucked a lot of oxygen out of the online conversational... [Tags: absence, depression, hot stuff, motrin, oxygen]

App turns iPhone into ad-hoc MacBook num pad — Numberkey is a nifty iPhone app that extends your MacBook or MacBook Pro keyboard with an ad-hoc numeric keypad, which communicates with your laptop via WiFi. It comes with many different skins, from the modern chiclets to italicized numerals of the old Apple Extended. Most of my spreadsheet days are behind me, but this strikes me as the sort of detail the iPhone or iPod Touch should do by default. The absence of the number pad is an understandable but regrettable omission from most laptops, and using the JKL keys with the number lock on has never felt right.... [Tags: absence, apple, chiclets, connect software, firmware]

Nigeria: Failure's pain, brutality's audacity — Those who championed Nigeria’s return to civil rule in 1999 as well as the founding fathers of democratic administration must be thoroughly ashamed of the pains and despair that have pervaded the land to this day. It is not because of the absence of ideas that Nigerians are eating from the dustbin. No. It cannot as well be said that the people are not aware of what quality life should be. In honesty, Nigeria parades some of the best brains in the globe and would have by now taken the centre stage in virtually all spheres of human endeavours if... [Tags: absence, audacity, brains, brutality, centre stage]