Fitness Myths Busted!
Shoehorning your workout into a few days a week is challenging
enough-don't make it tougher by buying into those nagging exercise
misconceptions that may divert your attention from pursuing your better
body goals. SELF went to the pros to poke holes in these popular fitness
myths that pervade gyms, pools and exercise classes. [...]
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Your New-Age Workforce
Some of the best ideas come out of what seems like left field.
Consider the phlebotomist at Sonora Quest Laboratories LLC who came up
with an automated way to securely download patient billing information
from hundreds of physicians' offices. And if you're wearing invisible
braces, you can thank [...]
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Windows Azure Services Platform
Microsoft Corp. intends its new Windows Azure Services Platform
to be a serious cloud computing platform for a broad range of developers
and scenarios, from lone developers starting up a new Web-based company
on a shoestring to large teams of enterprise developers looking for
high-performance, highly available and scalable Web [...]
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Meeting virtualization management challenges
The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data
they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges
to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, Windows
and cloud environments. Traditional standards are being tapped in order
to bridge the platform divide, and new ones are being [...]
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Building a better spam-blocking CAPTCHA
How do you let people create user accounts or post comments on
your Web site without letting spam bots in? Simple - make your users
prove they're human. Many Web sites use CAPTCHA (Completely Automated
Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) technology to try
to tell the [...]
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A student speaks up
Zack Anderson was one of three MIT students who caused a stir
over the summer when they decided to disclose flaws they discovered in
the Massachusetts transit authority's "Charlie Card" fare system.
Anderson, Russell "RJ" Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa planned to show off
their findings (PDF) at the Defcon [...]
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Protecting the wireless wanderer
Picture this: road warriors wirelessly connecting to the
corporate network from hot spots at airports or coffee outlets. Just a
few years ago, nightmare stories were common of even casual bystanders
being able to eavesdrop on corporate communications made in such
circumstances. As a result, there's a widespread acceptance that [...]
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Three quick ways to improve laptop battery life
Like chocolate and episodes of Mad Men, there's no such thing as
too much battery life. Alas, it's the rare notebook battery that'll give
you more than a few hours - unless you know some tricks for squeezing
out extra juice. Remember these three tips the next time you travel:
Disable [...]
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6 new laptop bags for ultraportables
Even a year after the introduction of the Asus Eee PC, netbooks
are still something of a novelty. Just a couple of weeks ago, while I
was sitting one evening in a hotel lounge with a group of professionals,
mine was passed around with enthusiastic curiosity - they had heard
[...]
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