10 reasons to invest in Apple

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Everyone is talking about stock, housing and credit markets, the next bubble/depression, you name it. With people asking, I have decided to compile the 10 reasons why I invested in Apple stock, and sincerely, why I don't give a damn about all the bad news. So, here are the 10 good reasons to invest in Apple stock:

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CineSpin

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CineSpin is maybe the best tool I ever seen to know more about movies, actors and directors. It uses the freebase api and presents the data in a very elegant and shiny interface, built with flash:

The new zunePhone

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An exclusive sneak peek at the soon-to-be released zunePhone from Microsoft! Steve Ballmer isn't sleeping on the job.

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Content-aware image sizing

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The following video demonstrates a software application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently. The basic idea is that if you want to stretch out an image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. The same goes for shrinking an image - it will eliminate the less important features of an image and leave the main subject areas intact and in the same relative location as they previously appeared in the image.

This is the work of Dr. Ariel Shamir from Efi Arazi School of Computer Science.

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Via Fábio Pedrosa.

Subliminal messages

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A great video, showing what subliminal messages can do. Personally, I never thought this would work a this level, it's pretty scary, if you ask me. Watch the video till the end, or you'll lose the best part:

Via Sérgio Rebelo.