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By - Darren Straight

Pedal-Powered Boat for Trans-Atlantic Voyage Comes to Life with Autodesk Software

A team of British engineers relied on software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) to design an innovative pedal-powered boat for a 3,000-mile trans-Atlantic race to raise money for charity. The Project Torpedalo team used Autodesk Digital Prototyping software, including Autodesk Alias Design, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Showcase, to design, visualize and simulate the carbon fibre boat that will

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Baby Bethany is the Queen of Flickrs Peoples Royal Wedding Album, while Pippa Middleton is the Princess of Search

“Bethany was very excited to watch the Royal Wedding”, a photo taken by Flickr user Louisa Who?, has been chosen as the winner of Flickr’s ‘People’s Royal Wedding Album’ (http://www.flickr.com/groups/peoplesroyalwedding) by Yahoo! Royal Wedding Ambassador and former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond. At the same time, the undoubted star of the Royal Wedding was Pippa Middleton, according to Yahoo! Search.

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Minecraft Bans on the up for May 2011

Wow what a crazy day on my Minecraft Server (Yet Another Minecraft Server). I have had to ban a total of 12 people so far today! That has to be a record, but it’s not a record I am proud to say we have achieved on the server but unfortunately some people just don’t follow the rules. I will not tolerate

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Channel 4 Seeks New Presenter For Future Family Series In Partnership With E.ON

Channel 4 is looking for someone with a passion for technology and gadgets to join the presenting team for Future Family, a major new documentary series in partnership with E.ON. The new five-part TV and web-based series will follow an average family as their lives are transformed using futuristic technology and gadgets. Featuring the latest environmental and energy-saving technology, Future

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Meet ‘Doodle’ – the worlds first fully personalised speaker

‘Doodle’ is the first of a kind, a speaker that you can design! In just a few simple steps you can have your very own custom Doodle speaker printed and delivered to your door! ‘Doodle’ is a music speaker that can have any picture printed on it. Just take an image, photograph, logo or some custom artwork and then upload

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for April 2011

4138 different keyphrases were used to find my site in April 2011, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 4138 different keyphrases Search Percent desperate dan 302 3.7 % there was an error opening this document. access denied 137 1.6 % harry s speech 109 1.3 % excel 2010 easter egg

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Prince Harrys Leaked Best Mans Speech

As Britain and the rest of the world are gripped by Royal Wedding fever, the pressure will be on Prince Harry when he presents his best man speech to a room packed full of the world’s elite. Last week a campaign launched by Article10 presentations imagined what the young Prince might say in his address to the 1,900 wedding guests,

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Sand by The Carpels (One Beat Records)

I was contacted about a new band the other week, called The Carpels who have real ambition to be at the forefront of modern cutting edge pop music with songs that have indie, punk, dub step & electronic music running through them – Picking up an inspired lead on pop from Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Late of the Pier and The Fall amongst others. In

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Download the Minecraft PC Gamer Demo

Just noticed there’s now a demo of Minecraft, PCGamer Branded! Might help some of you get your freinds to see what they are missing, then buy the full version, and even maybe even join my Yet Another Minecraft Server (YAMS). Minecraft now has a demo. Procrastinating excavators: you no longer have an excuse for skipping our favorite open-world game. Better yet,

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Like A Fire Without Sound by Should

Well today as you should know from my last post, I’ve been listening to music! In fact I’ve been scouring the Internet looking for new music to listen to, and I came across “Like A Fire Without Sound by Should” and I must say I quite enjoy from what I can hear of their music. Seems the album is due to be released

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