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Carnival of Emerging Technologies #6July 23 2007

Greetings! Welcome to the 6th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have selected 8 posts for this edition. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Nitesh123 presents apple iphone posted at anything. In a blaze of publicity which characterises everything Apple does, its first real foray into the mobile market is now a reality - at least in America. The iPhone is certainly eye-catching, but can it live up to the hype?

Techsack presents 4G Wireless broadband network  posted at TechSack.com. The 4G wireless wide area network or WWAN works over the same networks that power our mobile phones and PDAs. The thing that’s so exciting about this new 4G network is that it is said to be able to reach speeds that are faster than our current wired broadband connections.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Working Memory Training from a pediatrician perspective, focused on attention deficits posted at Brain Training Blog. An interview with one of the pioneers of working memory training through videogames.

Karen

Carnival of Emerging Technologies #5July 6 2007

Greetings! Welcome to the 5th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have received 12 posts for this edition. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Jimson Lee presents 10 Reasons Why I Love Google posted at Speedendurance.com.  A great read for any start-up, club, group, or organization to collaborate and be more productive with your time, especially when on the road traveling and not spend a fortune!

Chris presents Wushu and the Second Cultural Revolution posted at Martial Development. Web 2.0 looks an awful lot like Maoist collectivism. Will it prove to be a similarly destructive force for modern culture?

FitBuff presents How a Digital Scale Analyzes and Calculates Your Body Fat Percentage posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. Holy Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis, Batman! Body fat scales, though not perfect, are a great way to track your general body composition progress, and greatly outweigh (pun intended) the benefits of a boring, traditional scale.

Matt Hodkinso

Carnival of Emerging Technologies #4June 21 2007

Welcome to the 4th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have received 10 good posts for this edition. I hope our readers will enjoy these. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Beno Varghese presents Google Sucks (Maps) posted at Beno Varghese dot-com. Beno says, “Every time I get directions to a destination using Google Maps, the drive time and miles that it displays is longer than what it actually is.”

Phil B. presents The Price of Progress posted at Phil for Humanity. What do you think would happen to the prices of large flat televisions if even larger TVs were not going to be made and the economies of scale of all manufacturers continued to increase?

Kevin Kozlen presents Pen Mightier than Keyboard posted at Marketing & AdBits Blog. A new pen and paper technology that may change the way we fill out forms or the way students take notes.

Paulo Tioseco presents The Next Generation of Internet Applications posted at Paulo Tioseco. The main reason for the succes

How To: Distribute VoIP Throughout Your HomeJune 15 2007

That obnoxious Vonage song finally got to you and you’ve decided to make the switch from traditional phone service to VoIP. You’ve got the VoIP adapter, you’ve got the phones, you’ve got the service provider and you’ve cancelled your phone service. Now what? Before you plug in your VoIP adapter and start making phone calls you’re going to have to do a little rewiring of the telephone circuits in your home. Don’t worry, it’s nothing too complicated, but there are a few simple adjustments that will need to be made in order to prevent damaging your equipment.

Of course, you could just hire a professional to come out and make the necessary adjustments but, if you are strapped for cash, don’t want to wait or just want to learn something new, here is what you will need to do.

Learn The Basics

The biggest obstacle that you will face when switching from traditional phones to VoIP is changing the telephone wiring inside your home. It may sound daunting but it is actually a pretty easy process made easier if your home was built in the last half-century and easier still if it was built in the last decade or so.

Before you start tearing out your phone jacks, cutting random phone wires and connecting them to other wires it’s important to know what you are doing. You probably don’t know anything about wiring a telephone system but don’t worry, because you don’t by any means need to be an electrician or an expert to figure out how to

Carnival of Emerging Technologies #3June 6 2007

Greetings! Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have received 10 posts for this edition. I hope our readers will enjoy the posts. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Moses E. Miles III presents The Unseen Dangers of Wireless Networks posted at Three Sticks. Learn about the challenges and dangers facing wireless users both at home and in public and how to overcome those challenges.

Anique Akhtar presents Try Out a Registry Cleaner-Speed Up Your System posted at Computer and Softwares. The system’s registry keeps on growing automatically as programs are added and deleted. As the registry keeps growing it gets loaded with unnecessary information and data. This gradually clutters and fragments the registry over time.

Anna Farmery presents Podcast Freq: A-Z Of Podcasting - Part 12 posted at Podcast Freq. When you start podcasting you start with a goal. It is important that you set yourself yardsticks to measure your progress.

Steve Hansford presents