Payday Loans

Payday loans from Payday Loan Quotes are offered as a fast and easy way to bridge cash needs between pay days without a credit check. Confidential and secure, it serves customers from all credit levels.

Payday Loan Quotes offers free quotes and a promise of no strings attached service. Applicants can easily access loans sans the paperwork (at most instances) as applications can be easily submitted online.

Payday loans are available on a short-term basis with offered funds ranging from $100 up to $1,500. Typically, loan applications are approved within minutes. Payday Loan Quotes does not conduct credit checks and does not require any collateral.

Loans are electronically deposited into an applicant's checking account the next business day (after application approval). Applicants can check with the ACH Department of their banks to verify the deposit to their accounts. The choice of payment is in the applicant's prerogative though all payments should be made by electronic transfer from a checking account.

Loan applications are processed anytime and the Payday Loan Quotes website also features a loan calculator to easily determine total payment and finance charge information. Please see the Payday Loan Quotes website for further details on who can qualify and other application particulars.

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Online 2D-3D conversion service

Make a three-dimensional "fly around" model out of a plain 2D image with Make3D, a Stanford University service based on an algorithm created by Stanford students Andrew Ng, Ashutosh Saxena and Min Sun.

Make3D produces a 3D model gives viewers access to a picture's depth and range of points of view. Photos can be uploaded from users' hard disks or pulled into the site from Flickr.

Sign up for the service here or read a more detailed article on Make3D here.

Excerpts:

"The algorithm uses a variety of visual cues that humans use for estimating the 3-D aspects of a scene," said Ashutosh Saxena, a doctoral student in computer science who developed the Make3d website with Andrew Ng, an assistant professor of computer science. "If we look at a grass field, we can see that the texture changes in a particular way as it becomes more distant."

...On the Make3d website, the algorithm puts images uploaded by users into a processing queue and will send an e-mail when the model has been rendered. Users can then vote on whether the model looks good, and can see an alternative rendering and even tinker with the model to fix what might not have been rendered right the first time...

Samples of resulting 3D models (vids):

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Microsoft introduces 2 new full-size wireless mice

Microsoft Hardware offers a full-size wireless mouse with a portable snap-in transceiver. It's big enough for a desktop computer but portable and flexible enough for an on-the-go setup with a laptop. Another new model, the Wireless Laser Mouse 7000, comes with a recharging station and a blinking green light that signals when charging is complete. Both models are designed with fast-working laser technology, a one-touch magnifier, and a tilt wheel.

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Microsoft's new full-size wireless mouse, called the Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000, features a portable snap-in transceiver that's big enough for a desktop computer but flexible enough for an on-the-go setup with a laptop. Its transceiver has a 1 GB Flash Memory that enables it to free up USB ports for the quick backing up and transfer of files. It is designed to work on the 2.4-gigahertz frequency and costs $50.




















The Wireless Laser Mouse 7000, on the other hand, is an advanced ergonomic 2.4 GHz Wireless mouse designed to provide a more comfortable and responsive computing experience. It's portable and it comes with a recharging station and a blinking green light that lets you know when the charge is complete. It costs $70.

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Multifunction digital picture frame

The Impecca line of multitasking digital picture frame models can display pictures, movies, music, weather reports and news retrieved online.

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Impecca USA introduces enhanced technology to one favorite gift item -- the digital picture frame. Designed to multi-task, Impecca's picture frames display pictures, movies, music, weather reports, news and other information gathered online. These LCD picture frames work well with popular search engines such as Yahoo and Google given its Wi-Fi feature that accesses a wireless broadband connection or connects to the Internet through a computer's USB port. Impecca's picture frames feature 32 megabytes to 1 gigabyte of memory, slots for popular memory cards, AC power adapter, and 26-key remote control. They are capable of displaying images at 640x480 to 800x600 px resolutions. 12" to 15" frame sizes soon to be available.

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Instant stain removal with Tide to Go

Tide to Go is Procter & Gamble's instant stain remover designed to help eliminate fresh food and drink stains on the spot. Small and portable, you can keep a Tide to Go in your briefcase, car, purse, or in the kitchen to be ready to face stain challenges virtually everywhere.

Tide to Go works well on fresh food and drink stains, including sauces, syrups, wines, teas, and juices. (It does not work well on greasy stains though.) Using it is as simple as pressing Tide to Go right on the stain and waiting for the formula to take effect. View the animation below for a demo on using Tide to Go.

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Leaping ahead: 2 billion-transistor computer chip from Intel

Indeed, Intel knows what it means to leap ahead. Surpassing the previous highest number of transistors packed into a computer (at 1.7 billion), Intel is set to deliver the first computer chip with two billion transistors.

The company announced on Monday that it has created a two-billion-transistor computer chip expected to offer supercomputers "a leap in performance and capabilities."

It is a new Itanium brand chip, codenamed "Tukwila," designed for supercomputers. Tukwila increases the power of computers more than twofold and will be available near the end of the year. Intel says this "quad core" chip is built with four processors that share computing workloads.

"The quad-core chip is coupled with higher bandwidths and large caches to enable a doubling in performance of Tukwila over the current Intel Itanium 9100 series processor," the Santa Clara, California, company said in a release.

Intel is the world's largest maker of microprocessors.

Miniature and Efficient Technology

The new Intel chip furthers the trend seen in many modern processors of consuming lower power.

Here are excerpts of BBC's interview with Intel officers.

"That's very much a reflection of the market place demands," said Justin Ratner, chief technology officer of the firm.

He said that firms that used the chips demanded more performance and were willing to trade power to get it.

"These chips go into a quite a unique market place," he said.

The firm will also show off a chip designed for ultra-mobile devices, known as Silverthorne.

The processor is based on the firms latest transistor technology which contains features just 45 nanometres (billionth of a metre) wide.

Tukwila is based on 65 nanometre technology.

"[Using 65nm technology] reflects the design time involved in that processor," Mr Ratner told BBC News.

Both chips will be shown off at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco.

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Introducing...Vitamin Beer

A Filipino concocts a Vitamin B enriched beer that took center stage during the gathering of members of the International Federation of Inventors Association in Bangkok, Thailand.

Filipino inventor, Billy Malang, created a healthy beer that was sure to draw a crowd. A previous study has found health benefits in beer and this new development serves "another reason to drink."

Malang says: "All clear beers have no vitamins. It (sic) just contains alcohol, which is converted to sugar which gives you a big tummy, called the beer belly. So I brought back the Vitamin B to make beer a healthier habit."

Malang was one of the inventors from 27 countries who featured more than new 150 inventions in the Bangkok gathering. Other inventions featured include chopsticks that double as a toothbrush and a hi-tech sandwich filling machine.

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