The Secret Language of Babies – Amazing Medical Breakthroughs

Amazing Medical Breakthroughs: The Secret Language of Babies Video
After testing her baby language theory on more than 1,000 infants around the world, Priscilla says there are five words that all babies 0–3 months old say—regardless of race and culture:

Neh=”Im hungry”
Owh=”Im sleepy”
Heh=”Im experiencing discomfort”
Eair=”I have lower gas”
Eh=”I need to burp”

Those “words” are actually sound reflexes, Priscilla says. “Babies all around the world have the same reflexes, and they therefore make the same sounds,” she says. If parents dont respond to those reflexes, Priscilla says the baby will eventually stop using them.

Priscilla recommends that parents listen for those words in a babys pre-cry before they start crying hysterically. She says there is no one sound thats harder to hear than others because it varies by individual. She also says some babies use some words more than others.

JBoss 4.2.0.GA clustering on Ubuntu Fiesty 7.04

Quick and easy tutorial on how to cluster a JBoss application server on Ubuntu Fiesty 7.04.

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How to backup MySQL, web server files to a FTP server automatically

This is a simple backup solution for people who run their own web server and MySQL server on a dedicated box or VPS. Most dedicated hosting provider provides the backup service using NAS or FTP servers. These service providers will hook you to their redundant centralized storage array over private VLAN.

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iPhone guided tour from Apple

Watch a 20 min video guided tour of the iPhone from Apple

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10 Linux Shell Tricks You Don’t Already Know. Really, we swear.

Here’s a bunch of damn useful commands you haven’t heard before.
1. A Simple way to Send Output and Errors
2. Parallelize Your Loops
3. Catch Memory Leaks By Using Top via Cron
4. Standard in directly from the command line
5. Set a Random Initial Password, That Must be Changed
6. Add Your Public Key to Remote Machines the Easy Way
7. Extract an RPM without any additional software
8. See How a File Has Changed from Factory Defaults
9. Undo Your Network Screwups After You’ve Lost the Connection
10. Check a Port is Open

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Rolling Your Own Online Office

I’ve done a lot of telecommuting in my life. My first real writing gig came when I was 16 as a freelancer for a computer magazine whose offices were 3,000 miles from my house, and since then I’ve worked for a number of blogs, web startups, and computer game companies in an online, virtual office environment. During that time I’ve found that the key to a successful distributed team is communication. The difference between the ventures that failed and those that succeeded was how well set up the communication structure was for the team.

We all love Basecamp, which I think is an invaluable app for distributed teams (we use it here at Read/WriteWeb). It’s a superb way to communicate and keep track of every facet of your project. But back when I started telecommuting, there was no Basecamp, so we had to cobble together our own solution, mostly from opensource software. These days, there are is even more great software available to teams who want to assemble their own virtual office. Below are some of the tools every team needs to create their own Fakecamp.

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15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever – lifehack.org

15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever – lifehack.org
Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks.

1) More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.

2) Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.

3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):

* Spacebar (page down)
* Shift-Spacebar (page up)
* Ctrl F (find)
* Alt-N (find next)
* Ctrl D (bookmark page)
* Ctrl T (new tab)
* Ctrl K (go to search box)
* Ctrl L (go to address bar)
* Ctrl = (increase text size)
* Ctrl – (decrease text size)
* Ctrl-W (close tab)
* F5 (reload)
* Alt-Home (go to home page)

4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in…. Read More

How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

This blog covers one of the more exotic solutions – backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

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Macworld: First Look: First Look: ModBook

Macworld: First Look: First Look: ModBook
Third-party modifications turn MacBook into a tablet computer – By Jonathan Seff

Ever since the Newton came—and went—in the 1990s, a small but vocal group of Mac users have clamored for a tablet Mac. At least to this point, Apple has shown no interest in getting into the tablet business. So it’s up to third parties to come up with a product that may finally determine the level of demand for a Mac tablet computer.

Carry a PC Repair System on a USB Drive

The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that’ll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities (via Lifehacker)

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