Ken Block has only been driving rally cars for a short amount of time, but his list of accomplishments read like that of a seasoned pro. In 2005, Block’s first year of rallying, he was aptly named Rally America’s Rookie of the Year. As his career continued, Block’s speed and skill behind the wheel became apparent and he was signed by Subaru Rally Team USA in 2006. From there he went on to take Bronze at X Games 12 in Los Angeles, and 2nd overall in the 2006 Rally America National Championship. In 2007 he had another strong year, winning the Silver Medal at the X Games 13 Rally and finishing 3rd Overall in the Rally America National Championship. In just over three years Block has amassed 19 podiums and 8 overall victories.

More videos of Ken Block is here.
Enjoy them.

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Web of Things (WOT) in a nutshell:

Creating a Web of Things by:

• Connecting embedded devices to the Internet (IP).
• Having them embedding a Web- Server.
• Modelling their services in a Resource Oriented manner (RESTful API) so
  that they become first- class citizens of the World Wide Web!

As a result:

• Embedded devices are easier to build upon.
• We get the goodies of the web almost for free:
  – bookmarking, caching, linking, searching, securing etc.
• And enable physical mashups, i.e. small, ad- hoc composite applications
  involving real- world embedded devices.

Download the full presentation “Towards a Web of Things” presented at Jazoon 2009 conference.

For more Info: http://www.webofthings.com/

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1. Cut, Copy and Paste
   Quickly and easily cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.
   Double-tap over text, you will get a "Cut, Copy, and Paste" bubble dialog. Use blue markers to select desired text or hold a word until the magnifying glass appears, “Select” and “Select All” options are shown. Again use small, nice blue markers. Liked it.

   

2. Spotlight Search
   Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one place. Spotlight searches all of your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.
   Click “Home” button to start searching. It can be configured from Settings>General>Home for switching double-clicking mode with other options such as “Phone Favorites”, “iPod” etc. 

   

3. MMS
   Send MMS messages and include photos, audio, and contact info. Even tap to snap a picture right inside Messages.
   Use little camera icon in the left side of the message box to attach photos to your SMS.

   

4. SMS Forwarding
   Manually select individual messages from a text message conversation, and forward them directly to another person via text message.
   Tap “Edit” in your message details, and check your desired messages to forward and click “Forward”.

   

5. Internet Tethering
   Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB.
   Enable it from General>Network>Internet Tethering. 

   

There are many many great features coming with iPhone OS 3.0. Check out following links for more information:

• iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update
• iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know
• Live Update: iPhone Software 3.0
• 16 Tips to Become an INSTANT iPhone 3.0 Power-User
• How to use The Best 40 Features of iPhone 3.0

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Recently, I take the error “The folder path ‘C:’ contains invalid character” when I try to install iTunes 8.1 to my Vista box.

I get rid of this error by following the steps below. It worked for me. Hopefully, it works for you.

1. Open the registry editor by using the command “regedit” from the “Run” window.
2. Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE–>SOFTWARE”
3. Delete “Apple Computer, Inc.” and “Apple Inc.” items
4. Try to reinstall iTunes.

And, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, The iTunesssss (It’ll be nice to give an explosion sound effect in the background. :D)

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Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.
Martin Fowler

At a high level, the value of CI is to:

• Reduce risks
  By integrating many times a day, you can reduce risks on your project. Doing so facilitates the detection of defects, the measurement of software health, and a reduction of assumptions.
• Reduce repetitive manual processes
  Reducing repetitive processes saves time, costs, and effort.
  • The process runs the same way every time.
  • An ordered process is followed. For example, you may run inspections (static analysis) before you run tests—in your build scripts.
  • The processes will run every time a commit occurs in the version
    control repository.
• Generate deployable software at any time and at any place
  CI can enable you to release deployable software at any point in time. From an outside perspective, this is the most obvious benefit of CI. With CI, you make small changes to the source code and integrate these changes with the rest of the code base on a regular basis. If there are any problems, the project members are informed and the fixes are applied to the software immediately.

• Enable better project visibility
  CI has the following positive effects.
  • Effective decisions: A CI system can provide just-in-time information on the recent build status and quality metrics.
  • Noticing trends: Since integrations occur frequently with a CI system, the ability to notice trends in build success or failure, overall quality, and other pertinent project information becomes possible.
• Establish greater confidence in the software product from the
  development team
  Overall, effective application of CI practices can provide greater confidence in producing a software product. With every build, your team
  knows that tests are run against the software to verify behaviour, that
  project coding and design standards are met, and that the result is a
  functionally testable product.

References:
[1] Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler
[2] Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas and Andrew Glover

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Great work again from Onion.

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Now, to capture your iPhone screen, hold down the Home button, and while it’s down, press the Sleep/Wake switch at the top of the phone. That’s all there is to it. The screen flashes white. Now, if you go to the Photos->Camera Roll, you’ll see an image of whatever was on the screen.

And this is my shiny charging battery. Great.

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