Amazon’s new “Mechanical Turk” service will pay you for completing small tasks for them or third parties. Tasks include picking the best picture of a building, or refining a product description.
A Canadian google-developer writes on the google blog: “today we expanded the personalized homepage to 16 new regions: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and ahem, Canada.”
Stumbled across this project today… Basically this program creates ‘error correction codes’ of your uncorrupted originals, and then later if the dvd/cd gets horribly scratched it can use those codes to rebuild the gaps from any unreadable sections of the disc. More space-friendly than trying to backup full images of all your movies/games/etc.
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