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Sponsor: Igloo Software⇢

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Thanks to Igloo Software for once again sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed!

Igloo Software is giving away a Das Keyboard to readers this month.

You want your business to be run by superstars. It’s easy to identify them when you’re small; when you grow, knowing who’s contributing to your business’ success relies on the honesty of managers.

Igloo’s social analytics give you a wealth of insight about the people, content and conversations in your community. Powered by MicroStrategy’s world-class business intelligence platform, you can analyze everything from who’s contributing content to who’s influencing process.

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200 Mhz⇢

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Leslie Horn at Gizmodo:

Last night NASA landed on Mars. An amazing feat! But guess what? The Curiosity rover’s on-board computer is a pretty low-power system. In fact, the iPhone 4S is four times more powerful. Check out the specs below.

Specs aren’t everything, it seems.

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It Really is Crazy⇢

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Kenneth Chang for The New York Times:

In a flawless, triumphant technological tour de force, a plutonium-powered rover the size of a small car was lowered at the end of 25-foot-long cables from a hovering rocket stage onto Mars early on Monday morning.

We live in the future.

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Behind the Scenes

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I’ve spent my evenings and weekends over the last three weeks working with a friend who is an IT manager at a local charter school preparing over 900 MacBooks for the school year. We’ve repaired, imaged, tagged, re-arranged and inventoried more laptops than most people will see their entire lives.

Work like this is back-breaking. Cables are run, carts are moved, laptops are stacked and passwords have to be entered hundreds and hundreds of times. No matter how good imaging tools like DeployStudio or Casper get, there’s still a lot of things that still require a manual touch.

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