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Techcrunch covered [White House announces the kids and projects of its 2016 Science Fair].

(Video of the 2012 science fair)

[Star Trek Continues] is a fan-based Indie Go Go campaign to complete season 5 of the original Star Trek. Their site hosts the first 5 episodes for free.

Every few months there is a news story about a meteor flash. Here’s a link to see the recorded [world timeline of impact craters].

David and Ryan created an inexpensive way to produce [cloud lighting] synchronized over bluetooth.

Kickstarter commissioned Mark Harris from Seattle to investigate the [Failure of Zano], a successfully funded and backed Kickstarter project for hand-sized drone. The KS campaign raised $2M out of an initial goal of $190k. Unfortunately, Zano lacked the technical competency to deliver their backer rewards.

[Jonathan Blow], creator of the game “Braid”, shares his thoughts on indie game development on Engadget.

[Codepad] is a place for developers to share & save code snippets.

[Fixed] pitched an service on [Shark Tank] that fights parking tickets and moving violations. Hoorah!!!

[Mic] is a new media news outlet. Best yet, it appears to be ad free.

I first heard about Mic on the [Recode/Decode] podcast that interviewed the CEO, Chris Altchek.

[Handbrake] is an open source tool that’s FREE and converts between all the popular video formats.

[Unreal 4.10] released. Time to get cracking on UnrealEngine for [Cortex] and [Document].

[CryEngine], the game engine behind the game [Crysis] is available as a $9.90 subscription.

[StudioStyles] holds Visual Studio color schemes which are good for 2008 and 2010.

Mac has a subversion client [SCPlugin] with finder integration after all.

[VirtualBox 4.0.4] adds some GUI enhancements to the virtualization software. Be sure to also install the “VirtualBox 4.0.4 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack” to support USB 2.0.

I had some initial issues running a guest of Windows XP on Windows-7. The same guest worked on Linux and MacOS. It turned out to be necessary to disable the 3d acceleration in the VM settings to avoid a crash during start-up.

To install 3d-acceleration on a Windows-XP guest, you have to boot into safe-mode.

Rooting your Droid-X is as easy as clicking a button. Follow the steps from [Corradokid05]. And then download the [Wifi tethering] app.

[NTFS-3G] is a driver for Mac that lets you read and write to Windows NTFS partitions.

Get $30 off the price of [VMWare Fusion] if you order by March 15th, 2011.

1. Eclipse makes developing apps for Android super easy with the [ADT] add-on. Download [Eclipse]. You need the [Android SDK] to develop and install your Android app over USB.
2. After you launch Eclipse, install the [ADT] add-on and restart Eclipse.
3. Setup the path to the Android SDK in the Eclipse preferences
4. Download and setup the [AVD] Android SDK platforms to sync with a device or virtual device. Window->Android SDK and AVD Manager
5. Now you can create an Android project. File->New->Other-> expand Android and select Android Project.
6. [GrepCode] is a useful Eclipse plugin.

So I learned a little thing about Macs. When you get a back, order the least amount of memory possible from the Apple store because they overcharge by a lot. So I overpaid, and then got a good price to max out at new egg.

When I installed the hardware, I dropped a couple of the laptop screws, which I spent 10 minutes looking for. These screws are literally the size of a spec of dirt.

After the RAM is installed, I booted from a Ununtu CD and ran the memory test.

The more RAM, the better everything works. TADA

It turns out even with family settings on, purchases can still be made without a password prompt. I need to root the XBOX 360 or something so points can’t be spent and purchases can’t be made without entering a password. [post]

Apparently Firebug causes the browser to lock up when viewing gmail. [Here] is a solution.