Charity Water: Why Water?
Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. That’s one in eight of us. charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations directly fund water projects.
Hannah Free Movie Screening
Synopsis for Hannah Free: Sharon Gless (Burn Notice, Queer as Folk, Cagney & Lacey) stars in the passionate lesbian drama Hannah Free, a new film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
Take Part: The Cove
The Secret is Out. Spread the Word. The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening as the Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. The focus of the Social Action Campaign for The Cove is to create worldwide awareness of this annual practice as well as the dangers of eating seafood contaminated with mercury and to pressure those in power to put an end to the slaughter.
Solved! How to recover a lost zenoss mysql password
In trying to do some performance tuning on my zenoss server, I wanted to access the database. It had been quite some time since I initially installed zenoss and I couldn't recall the password I had assigned.
Predicting The Next Big Thing
Who wouldn't want to launch the next Twitter, Facebook or Google? Everyone in the tech business is asking the question, "What is the next big thing?" Clearly the most recent "big thing" has been the social networking boom. But what's next?
Solved Microsoft EFS recovery policy for this system contains invalid recovery certificate
I encountered a problem with a Microsoft encrypted file system and I want to explain how I solved the problem in case someone else has this same issue.
Kevin Rose Presents at the FOWA London 2009 Event - Taking Your Site from One to One Million Users
This presentation by Kevin Rose of Digg.com provides us with fantastic and timely information for how to grow a site and cultivate the community of followers you gain. I have outlined the highlights of his presentation here for easy reference. For further discussion, visit the Tech Cast Talk Discussion Forum Post for this topic.
Should Pandora use a subscription based business model?
On TWist Episode 16 Jason talked about an idea to have fans of an artist pay a subscription fee to receive news and bonus mp3s from the artist. I am a big fan of Pandora.com. Jason's idea inspired me to start thinking about the possibilities for Pandora and a subscription model. On Pandora, a user creates a custom "radio station" that the user seeds with artists and songs and then trains by giving selections a thumbs up or a thumbs down. In addition, users are offered the ability to bookmark a song or even purchase a song.
Leo Laporte Makes $1.5 Million Per Year From Podcasting
Looking at my list of the Best Tech Podcasts it is no secret that I love Leo Laporte's lineup of podcasts. Listen to this talk given by Leo Laporte at the Online News Association Conference in San Francisco on Friday.
Make Free Calls On Your iPhone with Asterisk and Fring
You enter the extension you set up earlier in the "User ID" field. You enter the password you assigned to the extension in the "Password" field. And you enter the DNS name for your Asterisk server in the "Proxy" field. Tap on "Login" and Fring will register the extension with your Asterisk server and you're ready to begin making calls and enjoying your new WiFi SIP phone.