Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware – with a camera phone that is also a bar-code scanner, you can go into a store like Barnes & Noble, take a photo of the ISBN number on a book and instantly receive a coupon offering the book for 30 percent less at Amazon.com,” said Attia. [ “(extlink)Wired News”:http://www.wired.com ...
Maxis has posted a version of Simcity online to play for free: Classic Live – SimCity.com. p(update). Unfortunately, the site says that you must be running MSIE or Netscape on Windows. Spoofing the user agent with Safari just resulted in a blank page. Does anyone know a support number/email we can use to complain? I ...
Simpsons scoop script nominations – The Simpsons, now in its 15th series, was nominated for three prestigious Writers Guild of America awards – more than any other comedy show.
Bomb ‘joke’ student jailed – According to the arrest report, Ms Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration screener: “Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here” – before allegedly repeating the joke twice more when confronted by officials. [ “(extlink)BBC”:http://www.bbc.com ] It’s hard to ...
Fontifier – Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a computer font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica [ “(extlink)Fontifier.com”:http://www.fontifier.com ] The best part of this ...
Cameraphone Barcode Scanners!
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