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February 28, 2005
The Dubai Waterfront
Dubai is one of the fastest growing cities worldwide. Recently, I had an entry about The World, a set of man-made islands in the formation of the world. This video is a tour of the Dubai Waterfront, another city that is being developed in Dubai.
Introducing Dubai Waterfront, the result of two years of work sessions and feasibility studies by world-renowned architects, planners, engineers and consultants, all led by Nakheel, Dubai’s premier development company. An unprecedented offering at an unimaginable scale, Dubai Waterfront is bigger than Manhattan and Beirut, and offers investors over 250 master-planned communities.The vision behind Dubai Waterfront is to create a world-class destination for residents, visitors and businesses in the world’s fastest growing city. This ambitious development is organised around key components of the master plan, encompassing a new downtown, Madinat Al Arab, which is anchored by Al Burj – one of the world’s tallest buildings.
Surrounding the harbour is a series of zones with mixed use, commercial, residential, resort and amenity areas. Together they form the symbol of Dubai’s meteoric rise, and the grand intent of this truly unprecedented master plan.
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Power supply calculator
If you're building a PC and want to know what kind of power supply to get, this is a great tool for calculating the overall power usage of your computer.
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101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.
These 101 things are enough alone to make someone convert from IE to Firefox.
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February 27, 2005
MetaVNC
MetaVNC is an open source, window-aware VNC program. One of the coolest features is that it allows you to have a "transparent" background on the server, so that on your client machine you only see the windows, but not the background. This makes a great effect if you mix a Linux server with a Windows client (as shown in the screenshot).
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February 26, 2005
10 steps for boosting creativity
Some helpful steps to become more creative
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February 25, 2005
PeerGuardian 2.0 is out
MethLabs' project to protect you from the RIAA, MPAA, and various other agencies has just stepped up to version 2.0. Version 1.0 was slow and took up way too many process threads. The new version runs at the kernel level and has a much lower CPU usage. It's open source, and has a blocklist manager and can block connections on all protocols. Great to have if you use P2P networks.
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Top 100 gadgets of all time
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Google Calendar
The newest Google rumor is that it will be releasing a web based calendar sometime soon. This would make the people developing on Sunbird have to really work harder, since we all know that Google has some of the best programmers.
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gDrive 0.6
This is like the tool that was released when Gmail started. It turns a Gmail account into a drive on your computer. The difference from this one to the others is that now with gDrive you can put files of any size, while before there was a 10mb max.
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In 2006 PSP might have 50gb hard drive
A 50gb hard drive in a portable gaming device would be an amazing accomplishment. If a portable gaming device had a large hard drive like that, the possibilities are endless. Game designers could start creating larger game, and better games.
One speaker (Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities) at the Positioning for Profitability in the Video Game Economy conference we attended yesterday let on that he had heard that Sony is working on a flavor of the PSP that includes an internal, 50-gigabyte hard drive.
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People attack eachother with tasers
Watch these people shock each other with a taser
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New Ergonomic Pen
This pen looks really uncomfortable, but they say it is the most comfortable pen.
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February 23, 2005
All about Ajax
Ajax is a new development tool for web applications. The best use of Ajax I've seen so far is Google Maps, although much more can be done with it.
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Tennis for Acrophiliacs
This tennis court has been constructed on top of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai. Tiger Woods once played golf here, and it offers a great view for any major event.
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Thinkgeek: LoungeLight LED Candles
Fire, the most basic light source and LED, the most geek-friendly light source, are both combined together in these attractive LoungeLight LED Candles. Add some warmth, color and ambiance to your office surroundings or set a relaxed mood in your kitchen or dining room at home. The LED light can be switched to either slowly cycle through its entire color range or it can be paused on a specific color. The candles can be used with or without flame and have a burn time of about 14 hours (short candle) and 24 hours (tall candle).
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Next service from Google: Google Movies
Now, you can use the "movie:" operator in a Google query to receive a review of the movie in a Google News type style. Some pages aggregate movie reviews from hundreds of sites, bringing them all together at Google's page.
Just in time for the Oscars, we've created a new "movie:" operator that enables you to find movie-related information faster and more easily, whether you're looking for titles or actors, director or genre, famous lines or obscure plot details. Can't remember the name of that film where Tom Hanks made friends with a volleyball? Search for [movie: Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball] and Google will tell you: it was Cast Away. Want rental recommendations? Try searching for [movie: awesome car chase] or [movie: good chick flick].Looking for a multiplex near you? Use "movie:" followed by a U.S. zip code or city/state to find theaters and showtimes in your area (a search for [movie: Mountain View, CA], for example, will show you what's playing near the Googleplex). You can also just search on "movies," "showtimes" or the title of a current film, and your top result will be movie-related info for your area (if you haven't already saved your location using Google Local, just fill in your U.S. zip code or city/state and click the "Get Showtimes" button). And for those on the go, movie showtimes are also available on Google SMS (send a text message to 46645 -- aka. GOOGL on most phones -- to look up showtimes for nearby theaters).
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Why you should read EULAs
Although they're long and boring, PC Pitstop recently proved that there can be a benefit to reading EULAs. In one of their programs, they left a message in the EULA to email them to receive financial compensation. 3,000 people didn't notice, but finally when one guy actually did read the End User License Agreement, he received $1,000 upon emailing the company.
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CSS Labyrinth
This maze was made completely out of CSS. Kinda boring, but the overall concept is amazing.
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Copernic desktop search
The brand new Copernic Desktop Search version 1.5 can now search through Thunderbird and Eudora emails, and sort music files by artist or song title. Here's a list of stuf it can index:
* Files: Office documents (Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel worksheets), WordPerfect documents, Adobe Acrobat documents, HTML pages, Text/RTF documents, and more * Emails: Outlook/Outlook Express emails and attachments * Music: MP3, WMA, WAV, etc. * Pictures: JPEG, GIF, etc. * Videos: MPEG, QuickTime, Windows Media, etc. * Favorites/Bookmarks: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape 6x/7.x favorites * History: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape 6x/7.x history * Contacts: Outlook Express/Outlook, Windows Address Book
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Having fun with Google Maps
Some bored Perl programmers have been hard at work, dissecting Google Maps. One of them has created a Perl script that grabs the line that is overlaid on certain maps. Another person has made a script to grab screen tiles from the service.
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How did Paris get hacked?
Apparently, it wasn't a massive brute force attack on T-Mobile's servers... Just a simple password reset question for "What is your favorite pet's name?" This was easy to guess after Paris has been seen all over holding that little chihuahua, and offered a $5,000 reward a few months ago for the lost dog.
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Fortune.com's top 10 tech companies to work for
Which companies have the best employee benefits? Which pay the best, and have the best perks? Fortune magazine has reviewed the top 10...
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John C. Dvorak: How to kill Linux
John Dvorak has written an article about MS-Linux -- A distro that will run as a task in Windows. Although the fact that you'd have to run Linux under Windows kinda defeats the whole point, he does bring up one interesting point: If you have any devices that need Linux drivers, you'll already be in Windows so you won't have to worry about those drivers. Its an interesting article, and has some insight on the possible future of Linux.
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Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 beta now available
Apparently it's much faster than 1.0... Other than that, I'm not sure about the newest features...
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February 22, 2005
Paris Hilton's voicemail hacked too
Along with her entire address book being stolen, a hacker was able to access her voicemail and recorded all the messages for people to listen to. The article also gives details on how you can do this hack on almost any other voicemail system...
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Paris made me change my number
Don't you hate it when you give your phone number to someone at a club, and then some time later her hardware gets hacked and your number gets broadcast all over the world for anyone at all to see? And then you start getting crank calls from these morons who don't even know you, and your only option is to change your number so they quit calling you?We hate that too.
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ExplorerXP
This is a fast free file manager for Windows. It has some advanced features, such as showing the size of each folder and also a tabbed interface.
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February 21, 2005
The World
The World is a system of 300 man-made islands. Each one provides a unique view and unique scenery. The entire community offers private houses, estate homes, dream resorts, and much more.
The World will consist of between 250 to 300 smaller private artifical islands divided into four categories - private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands. Each island will range from 250,000 to 900,000 square feet in size, with 50 to 100 metres of water between each island. The development is to cover an area of 9 kilometers in length and 6 kilometers in width, surrounded by an oval shaped breakwater. The only means of transportation between the islands will be by marine transport.Construction has begun on the $US 1.8 billion project which is set to be completed by the end of 2005. It will be located 4 kilometers off the shore of Jumeirah, close to the The Palm Jumeirah, between Burj Al Arab and Port Rashid of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Each island will be sold to selected private developers and are expected to have pricing beginning at Dhs. 25 million (US$ 6.85 million).
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3M security glass
Here's a great ad from 3M... The money is real
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Netflix IMDB lookup bookmarklet
If you've ever wanted to query IMDB for a movie you see on Netflix, this bookmarklet allows you to do just that. Just add it to your bookmarks, and when you're at the movie selection page in Netflix, you can click it and it will lead you straight to that title in IMDB.
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Send text messages through regular email
Most people don't know that SMS messages don't require the sender to be using the Simple Message Service. All carriers have services to convert emails into SMS messages. To send someone a message, usually you only have to enter "phonenumber@somedomain.com"... This page lists the format for sending those messages
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Paris Hilton's sidekick has been hacked
Has contacts such as Eminem, Lindsey Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Ashlee Simpson, Victoria Gotti, Vin Diesel, Anna Kournikova, Seth Green, Nicky Hilton, Avril Lavigne, and Ashley Olsen...
(Photo courtesy of i-hacked.com)
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February 19, 2005
How to overclock your calculator
TI gives instructions on their website of how to overclock all their calculators... You can overclock them all to around 3-4 times their original speed
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Domain masking explained
Domain forwarding simply redirects you to a site you define i.e. if you have a previously hosted site, it redirects users who typed your domain name (www.yourname.com) to your hosted site (lets say www.geocities.com/yourname). So you just pay for the domain. But it shows clearly that the url redirected from www.yourname.com to www.geocities.com/yourname.Here comes in domain masking. Once you are redirected to your already hosted site, the domain name still keeps on showing www.yourname.com in the url bar inspite of whichever url you are on. So you can show your professional looking domain name while free web hosting elswhere. So domain masking is really useful. So look for a registrar who provides free domain masking along with your domain name.
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Rockbox firmware for Archos MP3 players
Rockbox is a firmware replacement for your Archos Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2, Ondio, and even some iRivers. It allows you to play games such as tetris, or solitaire. It also can announce menus in a robotic voice. You can even convert videos to a special format to play on the LCD screen.
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StuckDomains.com
If you're having troubles thinking of a domain name, this is the perfect site for you. Type in a keyword, and make a few other choices such as .com, .org, or .net, and whether or not it will have hyphens or numbers, and it gives you a list of all the available domains with that keyword that have recently expired or been dropped.
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February 18, 2005
LightScribe: Create sikscreen-quality labels for all your CD's and DVD's right from your computer
With a LightScribe enabled drive and their software, you never have to use a sharpie to label your CDs again. Once you burn your disc, you simply take it out, flip it over, then burn the label onto it with the LightScribe technology.
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Get unlimited anytime minutes for free
Here's how it works: Most companys provide unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes... You get a second mobile line for $9.99 a month. Get some more hardware to receive any calls to your second line and process them, and using VOIP, make the calls to any other phone, anytime.
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Free and original photoshop brushes
Hundreds of brushes to add to your photoshop presets..
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mSpace
The mSpace software framework lets you wrap iTunes-like browsers around any kind of information domain and associate any kind of media with that information and explore it just about any way you'd like.
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February 16, 2005
Cool mind trick
This teaches you how to trick your mind into thinking you're touching your nose.... from three feet away... Your finger knows its touching a nose (not yours) and your nose feels someone else touching it... Your brain puts it all together and makes you think your nose is three feet in front of you
You'll need two helpers (...call them Julie and Mina). Sit in a chair, blindfolded, and ask Julie to sit on another chair in front of you, facing the same direction as you are. Have Mina stand on your right side and give her the following instructions: "Take my right hand and guide my index finger to Julia's nose. Move my hand in a rhythmic manner so that my index finger repeatedly strokes and taps her nose in a random sequence like a Morse code. At the same time, use your left hand to stroke my nose with the same rhythm and timing. The stroking and tapping of my nose and Julia's nose should be in perfect synchrony."After thirty or forty seconds, if you're lucky, you will develop the uncanny illusion that you are touching your nose out there or that your nose has been dislocated and stretched out about three feet in front of your face.
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February 15, 2005
Browster - The latest and greatest in search engine technology
Browster just showed off their product today at DEMO. Browster gives you an instant preview of any website that you have searched for through many different search engines, such as Google, eBay, or Craig's List. All you have to do is place your cursor over a link to see the preview and move it off the link to make it disappear. The previews are pre-loaded into your system memory, so there's no delay in their display. It works on any link, but is optimized for sites such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL search. Right now its only available for IE, but they're hoping to make a Firefox extension soon...
Browster is the quickest way to browse through search results and other lists of links. It is a free browser plugin that automatically prefetches links and provides a fast preview window to view a page quickly before committing to go there. Browster’s preloading and previewing capability can cut the time required to go through search results and other links by as much as 50%. This helps internet users achieve more effective searches in less time. Browster is available today for Internet Explorer™ and soon for Firefox™.
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TUX Magazine
TUX is a brand new magazine for Linux beginners. It has tons of great articles, and I highly recommend checking it out...
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February 14, 2005
RainbowCrack
RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a password cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called "rainbow table". It does take a long time to precompute the tables. But once the one time precomputation is finished, a time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a brute force cracker, with the help of precomputed tables.Link
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Imeem: Blogging, IM, File Sharing, and Search Combined
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A Palo Alto, Calif., startup called Imeem unveiled yesterday a service that combines instant messaging, blogging, photo sharing, file sharing and desktop search.The software's instant messaging feature enables one-on-one chat or secure group chat. Imeem's photo sharing feature loads pictures stored on your desktop. You can also create Yahoo-style groups for people who share specific interests.
That's the good news. The bad news is that the service is currently by invitation only. The company plans to select specific groups, such as fans of a specific sports team, and invite them to use the service. (Groups interested may contact info@imeem.com to request an invitation).
"Imeem assembles many of the ways we communicate today -- through instant messaging, blogs, files, photos and chats -- in one secure place," said Jan Jannink, Co-Founder and President of Imeem, which introduced its software Sunday at the DEMO Conference.
Imeem was founded by veterans from VA Linux, IBM, Napster, TiVo, Silicon Graphics and Electronic Arts.
Link [via personaltechpipeline]
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February 13, 2005
U.S. Probes Iran with some new tech.
As everyone knows, tensions have been growing between the U.S. and Iran. Finally the U.S. has used their new drones to determine the amount of nuclear weapons Iran has.
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Computer in a PSU
This guy managed to make a computer inside a PSU casing, using one of the new Mini-ITX motherboards...
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Share your Adblock list
Here, you can upload your Adblock filters, and download a huge list of everyone's Adblock filters. You end up with an almost ad-free surfing session...
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A better wireless future?
Well tech geeks have been predicting it for years:Wireless is the way to go. This article talks about all of the interesting thngs a person can do with wireless.
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K-OTik
Get realtime security/vulnerability information 24x7 via email or RSS.
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How To Start Your Very Own Blog In Fifty-One Easy Steps!
51 steps to starting your own blog.
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Firefox SEO extension
Cool firefox extension for Search Engine Optimization...
Features:
# Yahoo Backlinks
# Google Backlinks
# Google Cache
# Link Analyzer
# Keyword Density
# Page Size Checker
# HTML Validator
# HTTP Header Viewer
# PageRank Check
Link
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Default Router Usernames and Passwords
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Why you shouldn't be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks...
Great article on why you should completely change your network security policy...
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The Solar System... Scaled Down
Every pixel on this site is equivalent to about 1000 kilometers... See a comparison of the size of each planet in our solar system
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What browser is the fastest?
Even if Firefox is not the fastest browser, it is still the best, and with people being able to speed it up makes firefox even faster.
There is a speed war on the web. Browsers compete on many fronts; security, standards support, features and speed. Most people are aware of which major browser fails on three of these, but one of them is still open for grabs. Speed.Many organisations and users try to claim that their browser is the fastest. The Opera site claims that Opera is The Fastest Browser on Earth!. The Mozilla site claims that Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster (faster than what?). Mozilla itself is quoted as being an alternative to Microsoft IE and it's faster to boot. Apple's Safari pages claim that Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac web browser (although they failed to show any results for Opera, and their charts fail to show results for pages that contain images). Internet Explorer users often claim that they use it because of its speed, as the alternatives take longer to start and load pages.
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A box that sees the future
The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by sceptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy.
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Hacking Google Maps
For some information on hacking Google maps visit http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/googlemaps.html
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Meta-Net
A new IP network, aimed at achieving complete anonymity. To try it you have to pass the "aptitude test" (basically it tells you very simple instructions on getting everything set up, and if you can figure it out, you get to try Meta-Net.)
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February 12, 2005
The ice wall adventure
This is what happens when you combine sprinklers with really cold weather...
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FutureMail: Cool new reminder concept
Once you sign up for this service, it gives you an email address and an RSS feed. Send emails to the address, and they'll appear in the RSS feed once they expire. Great tool for reminders, notes, and other tasks.
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Poseidon Undersea Resorts
Currently in the final design stages, Poseidon will be the world's first sea floor resort complex. The resort will be a unique, intimate and exclusive, five-star destination providing the highest possible levels of luxury and service. Poseidon's guests will experience a marvelous ambiance of comfort and camaraderie that will not soon be forgotten. For those who have dreamt of visiting their imagination's wildest destinations; traveling to the moon, reaching the summit of Everest or exploring the mysteries of the ocean depths, Poseidon will be a reality you will truly appreciate.
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How to take notes
All kinds of notetaking systems. There are many different kinds, suitable for different tasks. PDFs show diagrams of the various techniques and explain how to take notes for better study guides...
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The Document Which Used To Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide
This is a former MIT student's guide to picking locks. It describes everything about locks and how they work, and on into picking them if you get locked out of something.
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February 11, 2005
Get RealTime GPS positions through OnStar's core
The OnStar System is becoming more and more common as GM installs it by default in many of their vehicles. At the heart of this system is a GPS receiver, manufactured by Motorola, called the Oncore. Once you make a serial connection to this Oncore GPS, you can recieve real-time positioning information on your Laptop or PDA - In either Motorola's proprietary (but well documented) format, or in standard NMEA format.
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February 10, 2005
NTFS Performance Hacks
Speed up your filesystem with these handy tricks LinkPosted by Ryan at 04:05 PM | Comments (0)
February 09, 2005
Give your scratched iPod a brushed steel look
If your iPod has gotten scratched over time, try this trick to give it a unique, and cleaned up look...
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How to make money with AdSense
Right now, lawyers are paying between $15 - $100 for clickthroughs to asbestos related sites. This guy created a program that aggregates asbestos-related news from Google News and then puts it onto a blog with some Adsense code. His experiment is to see how much money he can generate with this blog since Asbestos ads are paying so much...
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February 08, 2005
Clean up your code!
Copy and paste any PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, or CSS code into the form, and select all the ways you want it to "beautify" your code, and it outputs your new, cleaned up source code.
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More about Google Maps
Here are some neat tricks from lifehacker...
Use arrow keys to move around a map and plus and minus signs to zoom in and out Type “JFK to 102 Franklin, New York, NY” to get directions from place to place Click on the number on the left of each step in directions results to see a magnified bubble of that leg of the trip on the map Search by latitude and longitude coordinates [via MetaFilter] Find "bloggers near Seattle" or "Flickr mentions near San Francisco" [via Anil and Stewart]
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PS3 processor looks more like a dime?
Early this week Sony released the new PS3 processor to the public. The chip has been a joint effort of Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. The processor will run at a mind blowing 4.0 GHZ and the chip can process almost 260 calculations a second. The chip also might even support Windows.
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Tivo statistics of the Superbowl
Tivo has compiled a chart of when users were watching the Superbowl in realtime. You can see when people rewound to watch commercials again, and the site also lists the top ten commercials...
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Google Maps
Google has now released a beta version of yet another highly capable tool. This time it's a mapping service. It seems to be working great, but like any other beta product...there are still some bugs that need to be fixed. Google Maps
Google is taking on mapping services now with the beta launch of its new Google Maps site. The site offers some features not previously seen on other map sites, including the ability to click and drag the maps dynamically instead of having to click and reload. Address searches turn up results in a three-dimensional pop-up bubble with links for driving directions, although Caesar tells me the driving times given for suburban Boston are a tad on the optimistic side. Currently, Google only has the US and parts of Puerto Rico and Canada mapped.
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February 07, 2005
Doppler 2.0
This is one of the better windows poddcasting programs. It is a great, free, small package that allows you to download your favorite podcasts. For information on podcasting visit Podcast Alley: What is a podcast?
Since Podcasting hit last October, various "podcatching" applications or software that pulls podcasts feeds have hit the market. iPodder tends to be the mainstay for Mac users, but since I'm currently a Windows user, I opted to search for a different application and found Doppler. Doppler has quickly added tons of great features over the past several months and has remained freeware.
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Microsoft to release more source code?
In a blog posting last week, Shawn Burke, a development manager at Microsoft's Windows Forms team, floated the idea of releasing the source code to Windows Forms to its developer customers. Windows Forms is a programming model used with Microsoft's Visual Studio tools to build the user interface portion of Windows desktop applications.Burke made clear that open sourcing Windows Forms is under consideration, but that no decisions have been made.
He said that the idea faces hurdles, including legal issues, security and cost, and that the move is not universally supported within Microsoft. But at the same time, Burke noted that other teams within the developer division are working on projects to make code available as well.
Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft’s Shared Source program, said there are many products being evaluated on a case-by-case basis for inclusion in the program.
Before releasing source code, Microsoft weighs many considerations, including backward compatibility, interoperability and the need to balance open source code releases with Microsoft's proprietary "closed source" products. "We have to look at who the users are and what problem they are trying to solve," Matusow said.
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Now the RIAA is suing dead people...
In the RIAA's latest attempt to make themselves look stupid, they have filed a lawsuit against an 83-year old woman for transferring over 700 songs via peer-to-peer. We all know that the RIAA has done this before, when they filed a lawsuit against a 66-year old woman for transferring gansta rap music. This case is different -- the defendant isn't living anymore. He died in December, 2004.
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February 06, 2005
2005's SuperBowl commercials
ifilm.com has all the commercials from this year's SuperBowl...
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February 04, 2005
How to make a good password
This website offers a few suggestions on how to make a secure password and the comments suggest some more great tips...
A good idea is to create a pattern on the keyboard, like a big E. It’s a very simple pattern and easy to remember, but the result is 3edc456rtyvbn, which would be hard to crack. Think of all the combinations. You could make any letter, a spiral, a star, an arrow, anything really.
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Run Firefox in the background for faster startup times
This is an extension that allows you to keep Firefox running in your system tray so that you'll always have fast load times...
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Image puzzle
This puzzle has a reference to a certain html document hidden in each image... starts out easy, and gets harder and harder... no riddles, just lots of looking... after 15 levels, the text becomes encrypted...
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Superbowl Ad Spoilers
AdLand has a list of all the commercials that will be played during the superbowl, and also commercials that were rejected. They give a short plot for most of them...
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February 03, 2005
CovertCall - Spoof any CallerID
CovertCall is a service that allows you to call anyone and put whatever you want on their caller ID. Costs 5 cents a minute, but the first 5 calls are free...
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Electric Sheep
Forget Seti@home.. Try this screensaver. When your computer goes idle, the screensaver is activated and an animated "sheep" appears. Your cmoputer contacts a server and a whole bunch of computers work together to computer new "sheep". The images end up looking like extremely elaborate fractal designs...
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The history of computer languages
Here's a graphical representation of all the computer languages ever to exist. It shows which languages are based on other languages and in chronological order
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Biggest web design mistakes of 2004
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February 02, 2005
Xbox 2 coming in May?
Details of the next generation of Microsoft's Xbox games console - codenamed Xenon - will most likely be unveiled in May, according to reports.It was widely expected that gamers would get a sneak preview of Xbox's successor at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in March.
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February 01, 2005
Flickr "Ballistics" photoset
Ballistics images on various inanimate objects with a .22 calibre rifle. Shot on 400 speed film and a delay timer. Infrared laser trigger used to start the exposure. Shutter was left wide open in a dark room for these images. The hand model is rubber. Don't try this at home kids.
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DHTML animations
It's amazing what these animators can do with only DHTML. Unfortunately it's only for IE, but if you don't mind using IE, its definitely worth checking out...
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Teleflip - Send an email to any cellphone
There are lots of different ways to contact people if you don't feel like typing an SMS message on your phone. Depending on the carrier, you can usually type the phone number @ a certain domain name. (For example, Cingular is mobile.mycingular.com) and it will send an SMS. This service allows you to put any phone number in front of @teleflip.com and it automatically discovers the network and sends an SMS to that number.
Posted by Ryan at 06:03 PM | Comments (0)
All about Firefox 2.0
Ben Goodger, a Firefox lead engineer has discussed some of the goals for Firefox 2.0. Firefox 1.1 is set to come out around June now, but this site tells what the team's next major steps will be...
Firefox will be one of the most critical delivery vehicles for Gecko and XULRunner technology in 2005. Our goal is to continue to build a "best of breed" browser product for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. We have ambitious goals for the workload between now and our next major release set. This document is a description of our current thinking on how we intend to get to Firefox 2.0. At this stage it is brief, but over time it will grow much as the 1.0 roadmap did.
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How to install OSX on a PC
Step by step instructions on installing PearPC and then OSX.
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99 tips to speed up Windows XP
All kinds of info on speeding up your PC, including faster boot times, BIOS tweaks, and other advanced techniques to make a really noticeable difference in your computer.
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The Mac Mini beater -- Hundred dollar PC
The founder of MIT Media Labs wants to make a PC that will come equipped with a 14-inch color screen, AMD chip, nad Linux. This would have a pretty severe impact on the new Mac Minis.
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