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Friday, May 26, 2006 

HDR Tutorial Using Photomatix

A great step by step tutorial on how to make those HDR (high dynamic range) images in just a few simple steps. Create your own fantastic HDR images and see the difference between your traditional digital images and high dynamic range images. No need to buy a Photoshop CS2 on this one.

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Sunday, May 14, 2006 

Machines That Fly Like a Bird!

It's amazing, but it's true! An ornithopter is a machine that flies by flapping its wings - just like a real bird! Lots of stuff inside like video clips, articles, free plans, etc...

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Thursday, May 11, 2006 

Drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons!

Free program that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to re-order them! No extra hotkey or lame extra steps, just drag 'n drop... sooo useful.

Links:
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Sunday, February 12, 2006 

True 3D Display Technology Demonstrated in Japan

"By creating plasma in open air with lasers, Japanese scientists are working on a true 3D display.

The Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced an exciting breakthrough in optoelectronics -- a working three dimensional display. The display does not rely on any sort of optical illusion or disorientation. Instead, infrared lasers are aligned to converge and create small amounts of plasma. The plasma acts as a floating "dot" on top of the laser grid. "

Link:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=683


Sunday, December 25, 2005 

Wizards of Winter - The true Christmas Spirit


Video link: right click & save (via Engadget)

Crazy 3 minute video of a home that features a dazzling Christmas light show with spectacular grand finale.

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Monday, November 28, 2005 

4GB DVD to 700mb AVI File Tutorial


Contains all necessary applications, directions, and steps. Step by step process. Even has a tutorial for adding subtitles. Very useful tutorial that really works.

Things you will need:

DVD Decrypter
Dr. DivX 1.0.6 (there is a good free alternative to Dr. DivX called AutoGK)
and
SubRip 1.17.17 and DirectVobSub 2.23

Links:
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Another alternative way on converting DVD to DivX:
Use Fairuse


Sunday, November 27, 2005 

NASA Gallery: Thousands of Images, Videos, Audio from Every Mission


A searchable archive of thousands of images, video, and audio from the Apollo misson to the moon (and earlier), to the newer space shuttle missions and the space station. Includes pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight footage. Fascinating, and in High-Res!

Links:
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Linux Open Source Sequencer and Music Production Studio


LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more...

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Americas Most Unusual Inventions and Patents


A HUGE list of weird inventions and patents from the states. Check these out, they're hilarious.

Links:
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Emergency Boot CD

EBCD is a bootable CD, intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults. It is able to create backup copies of normally working system and restore system to saved state. It contains the best system software ever created. Change password of any user, including NT/2000/XP. You do not need to know the old password.

Links:
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Best Hacking Tools and Tutorials (Updated)

Link:
http://kryptonian-x.blogspot.com/2005/04/best-hacking-tools-and-tutorials.html


Saturday, November 26, 2005 

Take a pic and make it say what you want...really nice


Just upload a picture , do some tweaking , and type want you want it to say, and send it to your friends. Impressive....have fun

Links:
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Found! Turtle from dinosaur age


The first prehistoric creature that resembles a modern day turtle has been discovered, by UK researchers in a stone quarry to the south of Nova Olinda in northeastern Brazil. The specimen may be one of the earliest that swam.

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500+ Colours

This page lists over 500 colours by colour name, Hex value, RGB value and Microsoft Access code number. Best webdesign tool ever. For me at least. I use this page the most.

Links:
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Grid Game - Great Time Waster

The objective of the game is to get a chain reaction of tiles as long as possible. Tiles will start each other if their lines are connected.

Links:
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3D Web Browser based on SphereXP


Just released and ready for trying out. From the makers of sphere xp comes a 3D browser called SphereXplorer.

Links:
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Ultimate Paper Plane Guide

This is a direct link to the tutorial/directions to constructing the "ultimate paper plane"

Links:
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Thursday, November 24, 2005 

How to Count up to 1,023 on Your Ten Fingers?

Learn how to count on your fingers beyond 10, 100, or even 1,000. The secret is to use different numerical bases other than ten. (comes with a demo applet) This is a pretty handy trick!

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PC Interfaces 101



"You, of course, have a flawless understanding of SATA, AGP, IDE and PCI-E or any other PC interface. But for those of you who are afraid to admit even minor lapses in your standards knowledge base, THG details which connectors go where and what they do."

Links:
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Who Needs A Lockpick?


How difficult is it to shoot off a lock? This guy fires various rounds to find out. Leave it to the good ol' trusty shotgun.

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Blue Ball Machine (the return)

An amazing gif of a blue ball machine. Lots of things added since the release of it. Can you follow a ball throughout the machine?

Links:
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 

Seeing is Believing?


Various illusions and paradoxes.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 

10 Things You Should Know About Every Linux Installation..


" Linux is not Windows, and although there are some similarities, you must realise that there may be a few "new ways of doing things" to learn before you can be comfortable in Linux." I've been looking for an article like this for awhile...

Links:
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The Number Spiral


By starting at the center and writing numbers sequentially in a spiral, some strange yet interesting patterns occur..

Links:
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AJAX + Wikipedia = More Powerful Wiki Searches

Save lots of time searching Wikipedia!

As you type the query, the suggested results will dynamicaly display via AJAX so you can instantly zoom down on the topic you REALLY want to see... something like a "Google Suggest" for Wikipedia.

Links:
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Dreamlines



Really fascinating experiment with Java.

Links:
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i-hacked: How to protect your iPod Nano screen


There has been A LOT of talk about the Ipod Nano screens lately. Several people are complaining that their Nano is getting scratched badly just by having it in their pocket. Here's a way on how to protect it.

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Monday, November 21, 2005 

Running V8-Engine Paper Model


This V8-Engine has semi-realistic exterior and interior detail. It is made entirely from paper (except a motor, a battery holder, a few plastic tubes and electrical wires). No paint applied. It looks pure and elegant.

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Amstrad iPod Shuffle tape drive

This model has a tape deck instead of a floppy drive. sbeam had no way of transferring software on his computer to the Amstrad. He looked around and found the PlayTZX tool w/c reads a .tzx tape backup and generates a WAV file and dumped these conversions onto his iPod Shuffle and used a car cassette adapter to play them.

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Morphing "rocket fins" Anomaly (with video)


This is really weird. The fins of a rocket flutters as it enter the speed of sound captured with an onboard video camera. Check out the video!

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 

David Blaine's magic tricks revealed! (PDF)


Everything you ever wanted to know about David Blaine's tricks.

Links:
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 

Unix Terminal made with JavaScript


JS/UIX is an UNIX-like OS for standard web-browsers, written
entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a virtual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management,
and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.

The keyboard accepts the US-ASCII character set.
As key-mapping depends from your browser, you may have to use
the cursor and backspace buttons at the lower right of the
terminal.

Links:
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Official 'Superman Returns' Teaser Trailer online


Check it out. Pretty cool, arrived on time too.

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Friday, November 18, 2005 

150 different logos used by Google over the years.


All the different Google logos that have been used since the sites existance.

Links:
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Draw in 3D and Spin the Project (FLASH)

Too hard to describe how cool this looks....

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Thursday, November 17, 2005 

Papercraft sculptures from single sheets of A4


Peter Callesen is a sculptor who makes amazing papercraft fantasies out of single sheets of A4-sized paper.

Links:
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Video Archive of Old Tech TV Shows



Some nice fellow uploaded a lot of old Tech TV shows on YouTube.com. However, these aren't video clips, but the whole show.

Links:
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Some useless facts you didn't need to know.

Just some random useless facts. Did you know...

Some examples:
1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
2. An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.
3. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
4. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
5. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
6. 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
7. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
8. Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.

Links:
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 

The Conspiracy behind The Aurora Project




Does the United States Air Force or one of America's intelligence agencies have a secret hypersonic aircraft capable of a Mach 6 performance? Evidence suggests yes.

Links:
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Open Source Mac - Free Open-Source software for OS X

Open Source Mac is a simple list of the best free and open source software for Mac OS X. We aren't trying to be a comprehensive listing of every open-source mac app, instead we want to showcase the best, most important, and easiest to use.

Links:
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Couch made entirely of mouse pads



Couple of pictures of a couch that is made entirely out of mouse pads.

Links:
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 

Aurora Photography



Impressive pics of the Aurora phenomenon. All shot with a canon digital rebel with 17-40L lens.

Links:
read more | digg story

Other links:
http://www.royhooper.ca/gallery/AuroraBorealis?page=1
http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-11-8.htm
http://www.noriomatsumoto.com/


 

Google Analytics is live now


Google is offering Urchin website analysis tool for free now.

Links:
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Buttons, Bows and Badges for Your Blog

There are a variety of online icon, buttons, bows, and badges you can get for your own blog. Making your own with any graphics program is not as easy as it seems, but online programs make the job simple, fast, and easy, and there are a lot of. Here are some resources

Links:
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"Industorious Clock"


Cool website, displaying the time as if someone is actually hand writing it.

Links:
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Awesome Homemade Atari 800 laptop


A homemade laptop filled with Atari 2600 guts. This throwback to the early days of video games sports an 8-inch TFT screen, dual speakers, full QWERTY keyboard, 2-player controls, cursor control knob, CompactFlash “disk drive,” and two joystick ports.

Links:
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Monday, November 14, 2005 

The Mac Vision MC3007


Mac Vision’s new portable video player with a 7-inch LCD screen, a 40GB hard drive, an SD memory card slot, support for playback of WMA and MP3 audio files and AVI, WMV, and MPEG4 video files, and “supper powerful sound effect.”

Links:
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Sunday, November 13, 2005 

The Best Paper Airplanes!



51,000 votes don't lie. Like everyone else, I also happen to like the dragon plane. I watched this 'bird' soar off the rooftop of my 15-story apartment building for about a half-mile before it died on me.

Links:
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internet explorer tab within firefox


This is a new firefox extension.

To use it, just right click a link and choose "open this link in ie tab" you've now opened internet explorer in a tab of firefox!

This is great for the occasional times when a page doesn't work correctly in firefox, downloading windows updates, or designing a web page- since you can easily see how your webpage displays in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

Links:
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The Eye Of God



The "Eye Of God" phenomenon in the amazing image is real. The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula about 650 light-years from Earth. It's a popular target for astronomers because, due to its relative proximity, it's easily viewed through binoculars or telescope.

Links:
Different screen resolutions
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Saturday, November 12, 2005 

500KB Hard disk circa 1975


Picture of a massive 500KB hard disk being wheeled round that also took many days to format.

Links:
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Gallery Of Computation....

This website cannot be described. It must be experienced. He writes computer programs to create graphic images. Fascinating work...

Links:
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Custom Google Map for NYC Subway



The net's pretty overloaded with Google maps right now, but this one is worth a look. Not only is the technology behind it impressive - a custom map replacing Google's own for the NYC area, it also fills a previously vacant nice for New York's commuters - plotting the nearest subways to any address.

Links:
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Friday, November 11, 2005 

Cool Banner Maker



A nifty little image generator that creates some pretty cool looking banners. No software needed.
Lots of banners to choose from.

Links:
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Amazing FREE streaming music service reads your mind!

Enter your favorite artist and Pandora creates a playlist of music that is eerily and accurately similar. Sound quality is great and it runs inside your browser...what more can you ask for? Been dug before, but it used to cost $$$. Now it's free!

Links:
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The Best Mods in the World



7 pages of awesomeness. An archive of all the modding stuff from Bit-tech. Lots of good stuff in there. Check it out!

Links:
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 

Yahoo! Pirate Map using Flash



Cool example of customizing Yahoo maps with Flash

Links:
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 

Color-morphing LED Clock for Geeks

An acryllic semi-transparent pyramid with integrated circuits and color-morphing LEDs built into it's base. When the unique touch sensors are activated, DreamTime will chime you the time. When idle, will gently morph through a myriad of colors with the built-in LEDs and integrated circuitboard like an Alien artifact.

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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 

Bad CDs

Worried about your computer being corrupted by a rootkit or other malware on an audio CD? Here are a couple lists of corrupt discs that have been infected with music-industry malware. Don't buy these discs if you value your PC.

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Google Video Downloader - Final version

Google Video Downloader - Final version. Get the download link from Google Video (http://video.google.com)

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Monday, November 07, 2005 

A Compilation of Inspirational and Cool Flash Sites

An amazing collection of flashified Websites that are cool, and well-designed.

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AJAX + Flash = AFLAX

A method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developers using this library have access to the full range of Flash features, but without ever touching the Flash IDE.

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Saturday, November 05, 2005 

Teamaking machines, 1891-2004



This gallery of tea-making machines from 1891 to 2004 is a fantastic tour through tea-obsessive tinkering past and present.

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 

Illustration of New York - What's Underground

A well mapped out illustration showing exactly what is beneath you and how far down it is in the city of New York (including the subway).

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Saturday, October 29, 2005 

Win32 Cheat Sheet

"This sheet summarises all the things I do to make my Win2k machine more useful to me. I've summarised it here partly for my own benefit (I have to repeat the process on each new machine) and partly in the hope that it may be be of use to others."

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Lego DeLorean !!


A very detailed model built out of Lego. There is a also a magazine cover mock-up featuring the time machine vs. Kitt.
Sweet! 1.21 milliwatts of power to the flux transistor is all you would need.

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Windows-Tools on CD-ROM (or USB stick)

Dirk Loss has a list of more than 600 free utilities that can be burned to a pocket CD-R or a usb stick. He has compiled a small list of instructions on how to create a bootable CD image to create a rescue disk complete with all these utils!

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Beyond the Petabyte

Cool site detailing all the byte sizes from one bit through the yottabyte.

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High Res IMG of the Earth's atmosphere bending moonlight

Check it out. It's a rare image of Earth's atmosphere bending the light from a full Moon thereby compressing it.

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Google Earth (cloned)

This guy named Paul is an action script genious. He has made Google Earth on his site. But created his own version! As well as some other awesome stuff made in Flash!

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MI5 Spy Academy (Requires Flash)

In this game, you use a pretty little OS called GridOS (which has also a screensaver) You play a role of a spy with different training emulators, and of course assignments like defuse a bomb, snipe, etc. How far can you go? BTW, you can play as a Guest just cancel the login popup. (Register if you like) Pretty cool!

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HOWTO make a secret bookshelf door


Simon Shea built a large bookcase that hides secret doors. The best part is the mechanism for opening the door. Just reach for the old Sherlock Holmes volume.

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Genetically Modified Plant Detects Landmines By Turning Red


ARESA. have invented a way to detect land mines via - genetically modifying plants - so that they turn red - when they sense TNT. (click on 'The Technology', check comments for video)

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THE most unique homepage website design on the Internet


http://www.vrmag.org/ then click "interactive fullscreen navigation" for a fab and unique panoramic photo with 360-degree menus hanging around.

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CSS Opacity in Mozilla and IE

An extensive how-to guide on achieving opacity through CSS3.

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UFO sightings using Google Maps

UFO Maps overlays Google maps of the US with sightings data from the National UFO Reporting Center.

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Write a message on the Berlin wall


This cool site allows you to write your own personal message on the Berlin wall, in the sand, on a motorway sign, on a cinema showing board and many others.

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Flash video tutorials

Free video tutorials! Good stuff.

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Color Blender

Blend Colors.

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Complete guide to concept cars A-Z


For all the car enthusiasts.

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Rubrik's Cube Guide

Recently I have been challenged to complete a rubix cube in under 30 seconds for extra credit from one of my professors. This site shows how you can complete a rubix cube in under 30 seconds, if I can do it, why can't you? How long does it take you to complete the cube?

Links:
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Java OS Video

There are some really cool things going on in this Java based OS. Makes you think about the whole google-sun alliance....

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Life Inside A Water Bottle

How would the world look like if you were inside a 2 litre water bottle. German photographer Thomas Mottl shows you with a panoramic picture.

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Photoshop in real life

This new paintbrush does in real life what a photoshop paint brush can do on the computer! I want one of these.

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Awesome New Computer Interface!

Video of TactaPad computer interface. Find more at http://tactiva.com/demo.html

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Weather Icons

A collection of weather icons from various press websites. The HTML points to the icons' original homes

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Free HTML/CSS Templates


Yet another link to more free HTML/CSS templates. Enjoy.

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New Google Maps photo explorer


Panoramio brings a great new photo explorer to Google Maps. This new interactive photo atlas makes it easy for you to browse the world and contribute your own photos to specific geographic regions.

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Minimi fonts package


Minimi fonts are vector-based pixel font emulations, specifically designed to remain aliased in Macromedia Flash. Purchase any of the Minimi fonts packages of your choice; it will be delivered through e-mail within 24 hours.

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live del.icio.us bookmarks

LiveMarks is a project to show del.icio.us bookmarks live.

On the left of LiveMarks you can see most recently popular bookmarks. On the right, del.icio.us bookmarks scroll by as people bookmark links on del.icio.us.


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JPG Images of Einstein's Handwritten Manuscripts


"Digitized images of Einstein's manuscripts have been grouped here according to content into three sections: Scientific Writings, Non-Scientific Writings and Travel Diaries..." Look up your fav. theory and see it in his own handwriting.

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Solar System Simulator

This cool solar system simulator by NASA lets you view the solar system or specific planets from a number of different planets and spacecraft at different times, dates, and fields of view... Check it out!

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eyeOS: Web Based Operating System


EyeOS is a free, cross-platform Personal Content Manager System based upon the style of a Desktop Operating System. The base package includes the whole Operating System structure and ten apps, as a Calendar, a File Manager, a Text Editor, an Internal Messenger, a Browser and a Calculator.

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Creating a Fake Software Box in Photoshop


If you are a programmer or someone who is distributing or selling a product that comes on CD/DVD, then nothing helps solidify your image than a software box. It gives off the impression that you are an established business and is an asthetically pleasing way of presenting your software or application.

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Huge collection of Online Photoshop Tutorials

Found this site with a ton of tutorials.
PHP and Photoshop

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Search Google and Yahoo simultaneously - GahooYoogle

When one isn't enough why not search both at the same time. Splits your screen to allow viewing of both pages of results on one screen.

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Pixen: Playing with Pixels


Pixen is like Photoshop for pixel artists. It is clearly designed by people who know the needs of those working with sprites, icons and such. The tiny format of graphics demands a certain precision, and Pixen delivers that precision on tiny-format artwork.

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The Default Password List

The Default Password List is a collection of accounts and passwords that are, by default, the initial passwords for specific accounts on a given computer system.

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How fast can you type?

Take the test to see how fast you can type. Just click on "Begin Typing Test" and choose what story you want to type. You get better results if you take the test for 3 minuets.

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Scenic Wallpapers

This website has loads of really good scenic wallpapers.

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Huge List of Smallware

A nice collection of small, useful, and free programs that are under a megabyte and require no install.

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Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes

Highly informative and useful information on a whole range of Math/Computer/Networking/IT related topics...

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Do you have what it takes to be a Jedi?

Heres a fun little lightsaber game. Rotate your lightsaber to deflect the lasers back at the droids and, oh yeah, reach out with the force and stuff.

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Google Search Techniques


Learn to use Google's advanced query syntax to get results quickly

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Monday, October 24, 2005 

The most awesome cooler case ever invented!!!

This cooler case is almost near completion and has taken countless months to produce. It comes with 2 seperate hydraulic pumps for cooling the case. The case is lit up in a beautiful blue and green combo that flows through the tubing with a fantastic luminosity.

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Thursday, October 20, 2005 

Flock, The Web 2.0 Browser

Flock is a new browser, built on top of firefox. It is a functional browser with excellent features (including firefox features like tabbed browsing, etc.). What really makes is stand out are two additional features they’ve added to build social networking directly into the browsing experience: social bookmarking and a wysiwyg blog writing tool. They have windows, mac and linux versions for Download.

Visit the Flock Website