Thursday, February 10, 2011

FW: Phantom of the Floppera (video)

 

 

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Feed: Engadget
Posted on: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:50 AM
Author: Thomas Ricker
Subject: Phantom of the Floppera (video)

 

This is what happens when you connect a few floppy drives to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller operated by a MIDI-wielding madman. Be sure to watch until at least the 2 minute 30 second mark for a 5 1/4 inch surprise. Look closely, and you might just notice that Box 5 was left empty.

[Thanks, Jussi J.]

Phantom of the Floppera (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Friday, February 04, 2011

FW: Win an iPad! Send Us Your Employee Referrals!

 

The following news will come as no surprise to you, but ikaSystems is growing very quickly, and we’re on the hunt for talented, qualified candidates to join our team. We already know that ikaSystems employees are some of the brightest minds and hardest workers in Massachusetts. So what better way to expand our company than to call on your networks of friends and colleagues to find candidates for employment?

 

On February 18, ikaSystems will be holding its first ever job fair at the Westborough Doubletree Hotel, where hiring managers will meet with prospective candidates. To spread the word, we’re asking for your help. Below is a quick blurb that you can add to your emails as well as your Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Feel free to personalize the message if you’d like.

 

·         ikaSystems is looking for qualified candidates to join our growing team. If you or someone you know is looking for an opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment where you can make a difference, come to the ikaSystems job fair on Friday, February 18, 2 to 7 p.m. at the Westborough Doubletree Hotel. Please make sure to list my name as a referral on the Employment Application. Hope to see you there!

Effective February 1, 2011, we have changed the company’s employee referral program. If we hire a candidate you refer to us, you will receive $4,000 after the new employee has completed six months at the company! As an added incentive, we are launching an Employee Referral Contest, where each referral who is hired will earn you a chance in a quarterly drawing for a new iPad! At the end of the year, we’ll hold another drawing for a GRAND PRIZE. Because each of your referrals ikaSystems hires gives you one chance in the drawing, multiple referrals give you a better chance to win.

 

Please take a minute to review our current openings. Be sure to check back regularly because we’re adding new positions every week. As you know, we work with the best of the best here at ikaSystems, so please be sure that you are referring only qualified candidates. If you have anyone in mind for the positions listed, please submit the candidate’s resume directly to Human Resources at employeereferral@ikasystems.com. Please note that you must make reference to the specific position for which you are referring the candidate, and we ask that you provide a brief summary of each candidate’s qualifications in your email to Human Resources. To review the eligibility requirements for referrals, please click here.

 

As always, we are extremely grateful for the dedication of our employees. If we could clone each of you, we would! But since that technology is not available, the next best thing is for us to get to know people like you — and we need your help for that! Please send any qualified candidates our way so that we can continue to build the best team in the industry.

 

Thank you for your help!

 

Human Resources Team

 



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FW: Metro UI theme on iPhone

 

Feed: WPCentral.com
Posted on: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:24 AM
Author: WPCentral.com
Subject: Metro UI theme on iPhone

 

Posted on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:24:00 EST by Richard Edmonds

Are you someone who loves Apple products but has envy for Windows Phone 7 owners for the interface they have the privilege in staring at for hours of each day? Or do you already own a WP7 device and wish to expand the deployment?

This has now become reality from just a possibility thanks to wyndwarrior, a theme designer at modmyi.com. Titled OS7, this theme for the iOS platform will transform your grid style Apple interface into a live tile enabled, aesthetically pleasing design that is found on WP7.

Before you begin to wander about the quality of the theme, or if functionality such as pinning (and unpinning) tiles to the main screen is missing, then fear not. Basic functions look and work very well, but the best feature? Live tiles are supported with more support on the way such as Facebook pulling live data etc. Although the theme requires you to mess with your device, which some people don't feel comfortable doing, it really is simple to install and get cracking...



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FW: Google's paying $20,000 to hack Chrome -- any takers?

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Posted on: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:33 PM
Author: Michael Gorman
Subject: Google's paying $20,000 to hack Chrome -- any takers?

 

So far, Chrome is the only browser of the big four -- Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer being the other three -- to escape the Pwn2Own hacking competition unscathed the past two years. (Sorry Opera aficionados, looks like there's not enough of you to merit a place in the contest... yet.) Evidently, its past success has Google confident enough to pony up a cool $20,000 and a CR-48 laptop to anyone able to find a bug in its code and execute a clean sandbox escape on day one of Pwn2Own 2011. Should that prove too daunting a task, contest organizer TippingPoint will match El Goog's $10,000 prize (still $20,000 total) for anyone who can exploit Chrome and exit the sandbox through non-Google code on days two and three of the event. For those interested in competing, Pwn2Own takes place March 9th through 11th in Vancouver at the CanSecWest conference. The gauntlet has been thrown -- your move, hackers.

Google's paying $20,000 to hack Chrome -- any takers? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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