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An es­tate sales ex­pert needs your help iden­ti­fy­ing the­se false teeth, and is will­ing to pay for it: Do you know who owned the­se Antique False Teeth? If you do, and can cred­i­bly prove it, we will re­ward the first per­son to do so with $500.00 Why is Fine Estate Sales and Estate Liquidation of­fer­ing this $500.00 Reward - It's sim­ple, it's be­cause we don't know who on­ce wore them, and if we did, why, well, er...we could sell them for a lot of money, and buy a whole lot of den­tal floss... (...)

Gustavo Arellano of the OC Weekly has been stay­ing on top of the sto­ry about the Dervaeses of Pasadena, California, a fam­i­ly of ur­ban farm­ers who have trade­marked the term "Urban Homestead." (See pre­vi­ous post). A week ago, the Dervaes Institute sent out a num­ber of DCMA take­down no­tices to Google, Facebook, and other sites no­ti­fy­ing them of "Allegedly Infringing Material" -- that is, web pages that use "ur­ban home­stead" with­out indi­cat­ing it is a li­censed trade­mark of the Dervaes (...)

What if you could run Android apps on other plat­forms? That's ex­act­ly the ques­tion Benoit Shillings and his team at Myriad asked them­selves be­fore set­ting out to cre­ate Alien Dalvik. The re­sult­ing soft­ware pro­vides a host en­vi­ron­ment for the (most­ly Java-based) Android apps to run pret­ty much any­where. Alien Dalvik be­haves a lot like Wine on Linux, which al­lows Windows pro­grams to run in­side Linux with­out in­stalling Windows or us­ing a vir­tu­al ma­chine. We stopped by the Myriad booth at MWC (...)

We've al­ready seen Sony, TiVo and others come out in sup­port of the FCC's pro­posed CableCard re­place­ment, known as AllVid, but it looks like they're now step­ping up their game con­sid­er­ably. In a let­ter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the group -- which al­so in­cludes Google, Best Buy, Mitsubishi and others -- has an­nounced that they've formed the "AllVid Tech Company Alliance" in a con­cert­ed ef­fort to de­fend the pro­posed AllVid stan­dard, and coun­ter ar­gu­ments from those op­posed to it -- (...)

It'd be no ex­ag­ger­a­tion to say that Google's Android booth here at MWC 2011 has been the most pop­u­lar of them all. The Mountain View se­cret to this pre­em­i­nence has been some com­bi­na­tion of putting cutesy cos­tumes on its now icon­ic robot lo­go, in­stalling a slide for weary geeks to re­con­nect to their child­hood with, and op­er­at­ing a ful­ly fledged smooth­ie bar that of­fered up free Honeycomb elixirs. In short, Ye Olde Google has aimed to be fun first and fore­most and the crowds have re­spond­ed by (...)

We've still got a hand­ful of posts in the pipeline, but with the gates closed and ev­ery­one in the air head­ing back to their re­spec­tive homes, our ad­ven­tures at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona have come to a close. The good news is we can re­turn to our reg­u­lar four of hours of sleep each night (a fig­ure that was cut in half this week). The bad news is the heartache of leav­ing be­hind gor­geous scenery and de­li­cious pael­la. Take a look at some of our high­lights be­low! Microsoft Microsoft (...)

Dear Lifehacker, I dig Chrome for its speed and its many small but handy fea­tures. But I'm al­so won­der­ing how much pri­va­cy I'm trad­ing for the con­ve­nience and quick­ness. What, ex­act­ly, does Chrome know about me, and what does it share with its cor­po­rate cre­ator? More »

Growth. You don't have to be Gordon Gekko to rec­og­nize that ex­po­nen­tial growth in rev­enues is the mark of both a buoy­ant in­dus­try and, on an in­di­vid­u­al level, a healthy par­tic­i­pant with­in it. Kudos must, there­fore, be hand­ed out to all the top four app stores glob­al­ly, as each one ex­pend­ed its to­tal rev­enues by over 130 per­cent be­tween 2009 and 2010. Interestingly, Apple's growth looks to be slow­ing down as the App Store be­gins to reach a sat­u­ra­tion point on smart­phones, while Nokia's Ovi (...)

Google Bookmarks can im­port your Delicious items, use Sndchck to look up mu­sic you hear while out, and Bing Bar up­dates with so­cial net­work­ing no­ti­fi­ca­tions. More »

‘Less is More’, an apho­rism coined by the German – American ar­chi­tect for Coining suits the term ‘Minimalism’ in an apt way. In to­day’s world where ev­ery­thing is grow­ing in a fast paced man­ner, we have to com­pro­mise some­where to catch up with the speed, like a skyscrap­er can­not be con­struct­ed with all the ar­chi­tec­ture and the fine de­tails as in case of a palace, but a skyscrap­er does jus­tice to its part and ev­ery­body ac­cepts this. In the world of dark­ness, a sim­ple can­dle can light the whole (...)

In this ar­ti­cle you will learn how to con­vert a 3D Portfolio Dark Layout from PSD to HTML in a de­tailed step by step tu­to­ri­al. You will learn how to cre­ate this lay­out by us­ing a CSS frame­work, some CSS styles and Javascript in­to a valid HTML/CSS, cross browser com­pat­i­ble and dy­nam­ic lay­out. I hope that you can go through this tu­to­ri­al and learn a few tech­niques that will help you in fu­ture pro­jects. Now, let’s get start­ed with this tu­to­ri­al. Links you will need to com­plete this (...)

The Week in Type Two thou­sand and ten has been some­thing of a blur, but it’s been a good year. It’s been an­oth­er good year for type de­sign and ty­pog­ra­phy, with some great new work, and some won­der­ful new type de­signs. So, to ease you in­to 2011, and the won­ders that await, I pre­sent to you the week in type. New Type Ardoise from Jean François Porchez. Wonderful: A com­pan­ion to Jos Buivenga’s pop­u­lar Calluna has just been re­leased. Calluna Sans is avail­able from MyFonts. The reg­u­lar weight (...)

ActionScript is a very pow­er­ful pro­gram­ming lan­guage used in nu­mer­ous Adobe Flash and Flex ap­pli­ca­tions. It pro­vides an ob­ject-ori­ent­ed class level en­vi­ron­ment with many ad­van­tages to the av­er­age de­vel­op­er. In this ex­am­ple we’ll be con­struct­ing a video wall pulling the top videos from YouTube’s Tech feed. We will most­ly be cov­er­ing ba­sic ActionScript tech­niques, thus it is not re­quired to be an ex­cep­tion­al whiz at pro­gram­ming. For this tu­to­ri­al I’ll be us­ing Adobe Flash CS3 with ActionScript (...)

I’m sure all blog­gers won­der, “How did others make it to the top? If on­ly some­one would share the se­crets of be­com­ing a pop­u­lar blog­ger.” Summing up and cat­e­go­riz­ing the good and bad habits of high­ly ef­fec­tive blog­gers could be frus­trat­ing; you might be­gin to see that some suc­cess­ful blog­gers have cer­tain be­hav­iors in com­mon, while others ab­so­lute­ly don’t. What does it take, then, to be­come a pop­u­lar blog­ger, to be ac­cept­ed, trust­ed and fol­lowed by many? I’ve dis­cov­ered some in­ter­est­ing (...)

Technology in smart phones the­se days are amaz­ing. It has helped us with a bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion by us­ing the 3G tech­nol­o­gy and stay up con­nect­ed through wire­less in­ter­net us­ing the data plan. What's even bet­ter is that if you hap­pen to have iPhone. As the Apple trade­mark slo­gan of iPhone says, "There's an app for that!" made it easier for any­one to find any ap­pli­ca­tion on the App Store. Most of de­sign­ers prefers to use Mac for their tools in trade, and are most like­ly pair it with an (...)

Years ago, be­fore Facebook, be­fore the term so­cial me­dia….if you were on­line, you were prob­a­bly us­ing AOL’s Instant Messenger ser­vice, AIM. AIM was the start­ing point for chat for many peo­ple, and we have seen in­stant mes­sag­ing grow in re­cent years to in­clude so­cial IMs on Facebook, Gtalk in Google’s Gmail, video chat on Skype, even to sites like Chat Roulette. In ad­di­tion to our so­cial me­dia ac­counts, many peo­ple have mul­ti­ple in­stant mes­sag­ing ac­counts as well. The three big web­mail (...)

With so many new de­tails sur­round­ing the CSS3 re­lease it can be dif­fi­cult for de­vel­op­ers to ful­ly grasp all of the changes. With the evolv­ing na­ture of the web we’re al­so see­ing great ad­vances in web­site struc­tures, file for­mats, units, and even in­te­gra­tion with HTML5 at­tributes. These trends will grow in­to the great­est it­er­a­tion of the World Wide Web we’ve ev­er seen! Although there is too much ma­te­ri­al to cov­er all topics we will be dis­cussing some of the ma­jor im­prove­ments to CSS3. Many new (...)

Web ac­cess is im­por­tant the­se days, no mat­ter where you are. Your cus­tomers’ abil­i­ty to ac­cess your web­site at their con­ve­nience is vi­tal. Making your web­site user-friend­ly on a com­put­er is one thing; mak­ing it avail­able on a mo­bile plat­form is an­oth­er. The mo­bile Internet is the next bat­tle­ground for de­vel­op­ers and de­sign­ers and should be se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­ered by ad­ver­tis­ers. Your reg­u­lar web­site won’t cut it on mo­bile phones. Making your web­site ac­ces­si­ble on a mo­bile net­work does re­quire a (...)

Bill Gurley’s ex­cel­lent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety in­spired me to take a com­pan­ion look at the East Coast, par­tic­u­lar­ly Massachusetts and New York, and eval­u­ate the health of the lo­cal IPO econ­o­my and prospec­tive pipeline.  To­day, I'll cov­er Massachusetts; to­mor­row, New York. I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street an­a­lyst and cov­ered my com­pa­ny Open Market (IPO 1996).  I al­ways ad­mired his per­spi­cac­i­ty, even if he didn’t like our stock all the time!  For pur­pos­es of this (...)

The Android Market client will be get­ting a very much-need­ed up­date over the next cou­ple of weeks, as it rolls out to all Android de­vices run­ning any ver­sion of the OS from 1.6 to cur­rent. The up­date will im­me­di­ate­ly add two new cat­e­gories for wid­gets and live wall­pa­pers, which will help al­le­vi­ate some of the clog­ging that's been go­ing on in other cat­e­gories (due to the ex­ces­sive amounts of both). The Android team has al­so promised to add more cat­e­gories "in the weeks ahead" to fur­ther (...)