spana href="http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=2782" target="_blank"The Empty Promise of Meditation/a/spanbr / Al Mohler discusses the increasing interest in Eastern-style meditation among Christians. hr / spana href="http://karisblog.org/?p=602" target="_blank"Karis Theology Weekend/a/spanbr / Bruce Ware spoke recently at the Theology Weekend for Karis Community Church. The audio has been posted and looks like it would be well worth the listen. hr / spana href="http://john1139.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/wretched-radio/" target="_blank"Wretched Radio/a/spanbr / This blogger shares an email blast from Ray Comfort about Wretched Radio and the future of Way of the Master Radio. hr / spana href="http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14702" target="_blank"Passion Meets Opportunity/a/spanbr / This is an interesting article from WORLD. "Because we believe that objective truth is discoverable, we are passionate about the power of good journalism to shape worldview. Here is where passion meets opportunity: While large corporate publishers close news bureaus, I see opportunity for independent, nonprofit publishers such as WORLD to build them." hr / spana href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5186703.ece" target="_blank"Kill a Christian, Earn a Reward/a/spanbr / "Extremist Hindu groups offered money, food and alcohol to mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes, according to Christian aid workers in the eastern state of Orissa. " hr / spana href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life" target="_blank"Google Hosts LIFE Archive/a/spanbr / Google is now hosting the photo archive from LIFE magazine. "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google." hr / spana href="http://store.nicenecouncil.com/index.php?main_page=product_infoproducts_id=479" target="_blank"Deal of the Day - Amazing Grace/a/spanbr / Nicene Council is selling the Amazing Grace DVD at a volume discount. "Get 10 of the best selling (over 32,000 sold) of Amazing Grace: The History Theology of Calvinism to hand out to friends and family." You'll get all 10 (one-stop Christmas shopping!) for $99.95. hr /a href="http://www.amazon.com/?tag=dietofbookwor-20"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/amazon-christmas.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=ZXUVN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=ZXUVN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=BxNjn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=BxNjn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=WqiRn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=WqiRn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/460754729" height="1" width="1"/

To most of you this is no longer news. The DOD issued orders that USB drives and other removable dev ...(more)...

a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2008/11/17/segments/115738"The White album/a a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/65094-the-beatles-white-album-40th-anniversary/"turns 40/a. br /

On a normal weekend, there are usually eight or nine new independent films opening in limited release, compared to three four wide releases. But for Thanksgiving, those numbers switch sides -- the multiplexes will be crowded with Twilights and Bolts and Transporters and Christmases and so forth, while the art houses have only a few new titles arriving.

In other words, there's not much to say in this week's Indie Spotlight, and there won't be any need for a Spotlight next week at all. So enjoy these few limited-release films opening today and next Wednesday: The Betrayal, I Can't Think Straight, Lake City, and Special.

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
What it is: A documentary about a family that emigrated to the U.S. after the bombings in their native Laos that occurred during the Vietnam War.
What they're saying: Wow -- all 12 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes are positive. "Lyrical, expansive, unbearably beautiful," etc.
Where it's playing: New York City (IFC Center).
More info: The official website has a list of release dates, most of which are several weeks hence.

Lake City
What it is: A drama starring Troy Garity as a man who returns to his Southern home and his mom (Sissy Spacek) after a tragedy separated them for many years.
What they're saying: Lake City is a lovely title, but the critics are saying it's all wet, or some other water-related metaphor. With 11 notices at Rotten Tomatoes, only one is positive, the rest indicating that despite Sissy Spacek's good performance, the movie is too serious, contrived, and banal.
Where it's playing: New York City (Quad Cinema).
More info: I can't find an official site anywhere.

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Is there an app to backup all jailbroken Apps and sync them to your computer/Mac?
I don't want to have to write down every app I've DL through Cydia


Had anyone backup up their jailbroken apps successfully?

Usually when we're talking about Nokia and patents, a mention of Qualcomm can't be far behind. This time however, we're looking at something entirely less boring, fascinating even: ultra-sound sensors that detect hand gestures in the air in front of the device. Now the stretch. Nokia's chief designer, Alastair Curtis, was asked at a recent cocktail party why Nokia's N-series of multimedia devices have yet to see a multi-touch interface, Curtis replied, "We've not launched what we think is right for N-series in a touch product. You'll see in the coming months, years... what we feel is right." Curtis then elaborated, "Much as I'm talking to you now with gestures." Hmm. Ok Alastair, if such devices are in the chute, as long as they don't resemble the Palm V-series... we're cool.

[Thanks, Pdexter]

Read -- Patent application
Read -- Curtis quotes

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erm... i am currently using a 1.1.5 ipod touch.. should i upgrade it to version 2.x? and is version 2.x jailbreakable? If it is not, is appstore better or installer? Thank you.

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I've been using a bookmarklet to add my own custom icons to sites when creating webclips for my home screens. However, with the release of 2.2, those custom icons are now being replaced on the home screen by the websites default webclip icon. Is anyone else running into this problem?

The bookmarklet I've been using with any problems until today came from this website - http://www.pixelbox.net/2008/01/17/c...one-web-clips/

I have a Motorola Q which syns flawlessly with with my work email/contacts/calendar using VZ wireless sync software on my work PC. I have a new Ipod touch now which can get email from my personal Yahoo mail account but I can't seem to figure out how to sync my work outlook data. I've tried Mobile me briefly but that was confusing and I gave up. Any advice would be appreciated as I am thinking of getting an Iphone soon so I want to make sure its pretty painless to get all my mail/contacts/calendars on the phone. Thanks.

Some of these ways seem very doable and surprisingly easy to adapt our lifestyle to:
http://digg.com/environment/How_do_w...r_with_climate

has anyone changed their ways to help reduce our impact on earth?

The AP reports on itself: the Associated Press will cut its workforce by 10 per cent over the next year, the chief executive has said. The decision is in light of a 'declining economy' and cut in fees paid by member newspapers, AP reports.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/26a41b3/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=AP: Associated Press to shrink staff by 10 per cent in next yearlink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/21/ap-associated-press-to-shrink-staff-by-10-per-cent-in-next-year/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=AP: Associated Press to shrink staff by 10 per cent in next yearlink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/21/ap-associated-press-to-shrink-staff-by-10-per-cent-in-next-year/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192758151/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40518067/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192758151/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40518067/a2.img" border="0"//a

div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/f2/cd/0009cdf2.jpeg" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/f2/cd/0009cdf2_medium.jpeg" id="external_img_642546"//a/divbr/ div class="center"bFacing The Giants (2006)/bbr/ English DVDRip | Subtitle: Romanian (not built in) | 1:41:00 | 624 x 336 | XVID 188kbps | Audio: MP3 - 128kbps | 2CDs (699 MB + 701 MB)br/ iGenre: Sport | Drama/i/divbr/ div class="center"...With God, all things are possible.../div

CIO: "The success of open-source software has been remarkable, forcing even the largest commercial software vendors such as IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Oracle and Microsoft to acknowledge its influence and, in some cases, adopt its methods. It seems likely that most companies with information technology departments of any size are familiar with - if not actively using - open-source products on a daily basis."

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Fringe Friday: Did you know that a a href="http://www.apfn.org/APFN/flag.htm"fringe around the flag/a indicates a href="http://www.apfn.org/apfn/shadow.htm"martial law/a? Any a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Citizen_Movement"sovereign/a citizen a href="http://www.constitution.org/piml/96052402.txt"knows better/a than to a href="http://www.adl.org/mwd/suss4.asp#peace"accept the jurisdiction/a of the a href="http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/previous/archive/07219901.ewn.html#Footnote"American War Flag/a! Or wait--is it really a href="http://www.barefootsworld.net/uscivilflag.html"Old Glory/a that bows to a href="http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/whchflag.shtml"martial law/a? Fly your a href="http://www.uscivilflags.org/"Civil Flag/a with pride! br /

h4Small form-factor, hefty price tag/h4 pstrongReview/strong Sony has been pitching small, slim laptops at executives for years now, packing in as much functionality into as compact a chassis as it can and charging a premium for it. Why mess with a successful formula? So the new Vaio TT doesn't..../p

a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niklasjakobsen/3046996357/"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/11/streetviewiphone.jpg" alt="" //aiPhone and iPod Touch users can a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/"upgrade their software to version 2.2 today/a. The update, which weighs in at around 250 megs, adds some highly-anticipated features. The two biggest for me are Street View in the Maps app and the ability to download podcasts from the iTunes Store. There are some smaller tweaks that you might appreciate, as well: that bug that sometimes kept messages from downloading in Mail is fixed, and you can click the home button when you're on any page of the home screen to go back to the first page.br /br /Street View on the iPhone is every bit as cool as it sounds. It looks good in landscape and is really smooth to control. I suspect it won't be long before we start seeing photos of people holding up iPhone street view pictures of the place they're standing. Less flashy, but just as useful, walking and transit directions are available in maps now, as well. If you're an iPod Touch user, you're unfortunately out of luck on Street View for now, so far it's iPhone only.br /br /Downloading podcasts was at the top of my wishlist for the iPhone (although I know a lot of you have a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/06/please-fix-the-iphone/"lists of your own/a). It's always frustrating to finish an episode of a good podcast while you're out walking or on a train, and then wait until you get home to hear the next one. Not a problem anymore, thanks to the latest iPhone update. All in all, 2.2 offers some excellent new features. The only thing I have to complain about is the new Safari layout, which feels cramped with the address bar and the search bar smooshed in next to one another.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/21/iphone-2-2-firmware-is-out-with-street-view-and-podcasts/"iPhone 2.2 firmware is out, with Street View and podcasts/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:01:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/21/iphone-2-2-firmware-is-out-with-street-view-and-podcasts/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1379035/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/21/iphone-2-2-firmware-is-out-with-street-view-and-podcasts/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/67XaRcQe1JZ30ZQGIAwFZZGmqDQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/67XaRcQe1JZ30ZQGIAwFZZGmqDQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=fFFhlxKx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=fFFhlxKx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=XPz8hJf6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=XPz8hJf6" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/XxDXHg0W-Bs" height="1" width="1"/

h4The season's hottest handset could be yours/h4 pstrongCompetition/strong Samsung Omina? 'Orrible! Apple iPhone? I don't think so! No, Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm is the touchscreen mobile to go for this season, says Vodafone, and it's putting its money where its mouth is to give three lucky emRegister Hardware/em readers one of the in-demand handsets..../p

Ipod Touch 16GB

3 year warranty which includes damage due to external factors (ie. not only manufacturer fault but you could slam the iPod down and they have to fix it for you) from Courts

Very New : bought on 21st November 2008. However, I've decided to get a contract with Singtel and get an iPhone instead so I've to sell it

The Touch plays games, music, videos, and has internet WiFi access. Its sleek and the imagery is crystal-clear. No damage whatsoever, and the touch screen is really cool

Take a look:
http://store.apple.com/sg/browse/hom...-AA50000080759

It cost me $577, but I would deliver the whole package to your doorstep for $500. You save $77 and you don't have to even get out of the house. Receipt and warranty proof included ------------------double post merged------------------SMS me at 97355927 if interested

I am so desperate to get on with my phone that i will drive to your house and give it to you

This is no scam. I m giving you 77 bucks free, and this does not include my car petrol ;)

Two years ago we covered JotForm, a Ajax-based web form builder. The folks behind it have been busy in the intervening time and have now released a more general tool: Memberkit.

Three years in development, Memberkit lets you

use the drag and drop tools to create listing pages, display pages or search forms. You can create multiple forms and create relationships between them… without writing any code.

While at present Memberkit targets a particular niche, it has ambitious plans.

We have released this first version specifically for membership and
social sites. Our plan is to first make it perfect for these specific
taks before turning it into a complete web framework.

The interface seems quite polished and responsive, and I like the narrow focus. You can check out a demo of the framework, view a screenshot tour, or watch a video.

What do you think? Do these VB-for-the-Web frameworks have a shot at any mainstream success?

Here's a really impressive PC mod in the shape of the Millenium Falcon from the Star Wars films. Check out the step-by-step build pictures at the link below.

Star Wars Case Mod

a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/pc_blasts_off_into_outer.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/pc_blasts_off_into_outer.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" / Permalink/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/pc_blasts_off_into_outer.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890#comments" /Comments/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/computers/?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more articles in Computers/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F11%2Fpc_blasts_off_into_outer.htmltitle=PC%20blasts%20off%20into%20outer%20spacebodytext=%20%EF%BF%BCHere%26apos%3Bs%20a%20really%20impressive%20PC%20mod%20in%20the%20shape%20of%20the%20Millenium%20Falcon%20from%20the%20Star%20Wars%20films.%20Check%20out%20the%20step-by-step%20build%20pictures%20at%20the%20link%20below.%20Star%20Wars%20Case%20Mod...topic=tech_news" /Digg this!/a