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For the second year in a row, the Southern Minnesota chapter of BDPA dominated in the annual HSCC computer competition and came 1st place baby! w00t! All that studying and practicing all over the town was worth something then ;)
Props to Zack and the whole team for making this a reality. You guys (and gals, […]

What to say? It’s a novel approach to an old idea: Better Search.
Viewzi is unique because it lets you first of all choose from a variety of search views. These include and mp3 Search View, Celeb Photo View, TechCrunch Search View, Web ScreenShot View, as well as many others.
It get’s better though. For example, you […]

I don’t know if anyone’s noticed this startup by the name of Project Playlist, which calls itself a Social Music Experiment. It basically follows the whole music+social interface scheme alot of the music sites have adopted like imeem or last.fm. In playlist’s story, you signup and search for music. In the search results page, you […]

There’s a new file sharing service that essentially functions something like a socially-interactive p2p program called Wuala. It’s a startup developed by Dominik Grolimund and a team of developers under the sponsorship of Caleido Inc.
It’s pretty interesting because it’s quite different from it’s competitors like Bittorent. It’s a Windows program that you can use to […]

SocialBrowse is a new Firefox extension built by Zack Garbow and Dave Fowler, 2 participants in the last spring Y Combinator session. This xpi is pretty amazing. It’s an unobtrusive, intuitive, easy to use web app that sits on your sidebar in Firefox. You can submit pages that you find interesting using a little button […]

This is one of the most ingenious ideas I’ve seen come through over improving blog technology in a while. I’m speaking of a new blogging interface where besides the normal post a blog post feature, you can also “autopost” onto other sites, limited now to certain ones like Twitter, Flickr, and blogs that support the […]

This is basically a parody of a sorts on the LifeHacker team’s post where they listed out what software and hardware they use, individually and categorized it all into the operating systems they “live” in, the hardware they rely on, the peripherals they utilize on a regular basis, and webapps they need. Then they tell […]

Wowzers. That’s what I thought when I bumped into Ubuntu Muslim Edition on Wuala; a p2p/storage program. It’s basically a distro on Ubuntu which you can install from 2 cds as a Desktop version (I haven’t seen a Server version yet) on another OS like XP, a computer that doesn’t have any OS, or you […]

This is a new project by Carsonified. It’s basically a web app built in Python using Django that helps you twitter on multiple accounts without having to sign off. It’s useful to some people who have multiple Twitter accounts; like one for work and one for home. I personally have only one, so that’s not […]

This is the StoryofStuff, an encounter with the real story of how everday things come to fall into your hands: