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  • From Mashable.com

    CAREER TOOLBOX: 100+ Places to Find Jobs

    Despite the current recession, there are plenty of companies in a variety of fields looking for qualified employees. Here are over 100 sites for job listings, resume reviews, networking and more.

    Whether you’re in the tech world, a teacher, translator; in the United States or abroad, these sites will help you launch a modern day job hunt.

    I have pulled out a few of my favorites, read the full article for all sorts of tools and more sites.

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  • MBA programs don’t have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA features the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research. So skip b-school and the $100,000 loan: you can get a world-class business education simply by reading these books.

    http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/

    Remember as you will see such items as the “4 hour work week” that these books may not be accurate, nor representative of reality, still, they will be familiar to those who actually exist in the business world.

  • Inside the cupcakeOne thing at MakerFaire I had always wanted to see was the inside of one of the cupcakes which you can see here.  Pretty simply apparatus and I wonder if I could build a Gold Cone out of it?

  • For the full article see http://hackaday.com/2009/06/16/ekahau-heatmapper-maps-out-wifi-signals/

    The term ‘warwalking’ isn’t used very often, but the Ekahau HeatMapper adds a new tool to the pod bound hacker’s arsenal. The tool maps out wireless access points as well as their signal strength within a facility. A test of the HeatMapper on a map made with AutoDesk Dragonfly accurately determined the location of a router within 3 feet and helped tune the angle it needed to be at for maximum range. Ekahau made a fantastically cheesy promotional video for their product, which is viewable after the jump. The program is free of charge, but unfortunately only runs on windows, so mac and *nix users are out of luck, though it might run under wine.

    [via Download Squad]

  • An amazing list of project at Maker Faire where I went to volunteer last weekend.  I had a great time and worked hard.  I have a number of stories to tell from the faire and pix to upload and they will all come in a rush over the next week.  I would have been sooner, but it is the last week of the school year and I have projects to grade.

    I did get an iPhone immediately before traveling down to Maker Faire and the Apps were a huge hit with my engineering partner and myself.  We used Yelp, Google Maps, Facebook, Mail, Twitterrific, Pandora and more in the small and the big towns.

    I installed a Case-Mate Screen Protector on my iPhone.  Good thing too, I left the phone on the roof of the car on the trip and when the phone landed it landed face down on the road.  Look at the Screen ProtectorDamaged Screen Protector.

    But NO damage to the iPhone face at ALL!  These guys got the protection right.  I am sold.

    I will post more on Maker Faire in a day or two.  Peter is home, so off to play in the shop.

  • I was reading an article from FreelanceFolder.com that started me thinking about which Plugins I used to support any of the standard WordPress blogs I either write or maintain.

    I use the following list and want to acknowledge FreelanceFolder for nudging me into using two new ones as well. These are my bare minimum “can’t live without” list of plugins that I install with most of my new WordPress installations.

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  • Reprinted from Engadget.com

    by Tim Stevens, posted May 8th 2009 at 7:29AM

    In these difficult times people are looking to buy what’s cheap, a state of mind that Vizio’s iSuppli’s latest press release isn’t ashamed to apply, lauding the company’s status as the current most popular brand of LCD television in these United States. It owned a 21.6 percent chunk of the US LCD TV market in the first quarter, up from 13.8 in the quarter before and beat out Samsung to be king of the liquid crystal hill — largely thanks to prices that were, on average, between $150 and $400 lower than the competition. Kudos to the brand and we hope that it enjoys this moment, because with imports of new sets banned out on bond it must be tough paying an extra $2.50 on each one coming through Customs. Full press release after the break.

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