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Monday, February 28, 2005 

Saturn's Radiation Belts

Using an innovative camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have captured images of a radiation belt inside the rings of Saturn and have the clearest picture yet of the planet's giant magnetosphere, according to a mid-year report of the spacecraft published today in the journal Science.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16242


Sunday, February 27, 2005 

Gmail Tips: The Complete Collection

Some of these Gmail Tips may be outdated, but they represent the entire collection.

http://g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html


Saturday, February 26, 2005 

"Penagain" The Future of Pens?

A new design of Pen which features comfortable "No Grip" design that reduces stress on the hands and fingers.Pretty Cool!

http://www.penagain.com/howitworks.shtml


 

Filename Extensions List

So you see a file somewhere on the 'net with a name like "greatfile.xyz" and you would like to download it and use it on your computer.

http://www.saugus.net/Computer/Extensions/


 

Laser Pointer to Burn Holes on Some Objects

A Laser Pointer that can burn holes on a Plastic Cup.

http://24.44.194.220:8009/


Friday, February 25, 2005 

The CSS Playground

Another great CSS reference/example site. Has examples of CSS menus, layouts and more.

http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/


 

Ransom Note Generator

Warning: this is for entertainment purposes only. Do not use it for any illegal activities. The Generator Blog will cooperate with all valid law enforcement requests. Enter your ransom note text in the box. When done, click 'Generate Ransom Note' and a printable ransom note will be created for you.

http://contactsheet.org/junk/ransom.html


 

Free MMORPG

Free game in 2d and Good Graphics

http://www.maplestory.com/intro.aspx


 

Free Email Retrieval and Notification Program

ePrompter automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your email messages from up to sixteen password protected email accounts AND lets you read, delete and respond to any of your messages with a simple click on the account of your choice - without ever having to launch your email program or go to your webmail's site.


http://www.eprompter.com/


 

Astronomers find star-less galaxy

Astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/4288633.stm


 

Google Movie Search

Google has added yet another offering to its long list of custom Web searches: movie reviews. By including the "movie:" operator within a search query, Google brings up organized reviews of a flick from across the Web. The new service even calculates a movie's combined rating out of five stars.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Goes_to_the_Movies/1109210481


 

Google Help : Cheat Sheet

Google's own cheat sheet on how to better use the search engine.

http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html


 

Free High Quality Fonts

Want a good place to find high-quality free fonts? Font Leech's blog format keeps the high quality freebies coming!

http://fontleech.com/


Wednesday, February 23, 2005 

Nuclear Power

This is a very impressive yet disturbing video showing various nuclear weapon tests over the last 50 years. (WARNING: LARGE DOWNLOAD 8.0MB)

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/nuclearpower.html


 

3D Chalk Drawings on Flat Pavement

Anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint. The Portable Computer and the General Election drawings were commissioned by companies as part of a promotion and an event.

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm


Tuesday, February 22, 2005 

Online Font Editor/Maker

Create your own Fonts and save it as a .ttf file.

http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html


 

Gmail Notifier for Firefox

Allows checking for new Gmail messages directly from the browser's UI.

http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions/


 

Stupid Computer Tricks!

Stupid Computer Tricks Revealed.

http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/stupid_users/index.html


 

Fanimatrix - Run Program Movie

"The Fanimatrix" is a fan-made, zero-budget short film set within the Matrix universe, specifically shortly before the discovery of "The One" (i.e. the first "Matrix" feature film). It tells the story of two rebels - Dante and Medusa - and of their fateful mission onto the virtual reality prison world that is The Matrix.

http://fanimatrix.net/download.html


 

HD vs DVD

Difference between HD & DVD.

http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/


 

Master Lock Combination

How to crack a Master Lock Combination.

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hillson/master_lock.html


 

Netop Firewall Video

All system administrators' dream would probably be a network that automatically defends itself against users with malicious programs and behavior.

http://film.netop.com/


Sunday, February 20, 2005 

Lockpicking 101

Lockpicking, Locksmithing, Locks and Picks

http://www.lockpicking101.com/


 

Overclockers CPU Reference Guide

The following chart lists a large number of processors, and gives you just about all the pertinent details of each one.

http://www.techreport.com/cpu/


 

Free Full Computer Games

Here is a HUGE list of free games for the PC with desciptions of them!!! Just click the name of the game and it will take you to the website where you can download it.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?


 

End of the World

Flash animation of the predicted end of the world. Pretty funny.

http://users.telenet.be/dragon.com/endofworld.swf


 

Boneless Breakdancing Teenager

David Elsewhere proves again at Kollaboration 4 that he seems to have no bones.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/13782/


Saturday, February 19, 2005 

Ultimate Boot CD


UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. UBCD4Win uses Bart's PE© which is how the CD boots into a Windows® environment. With network support, the ability to modify NTFS volumes, scan a hard drive for viruses, recover deleted files, etc.

link: http://www.ubcd4win.com/


Friday, February 18, 2005 

Free Posters from NASA

Each poster is 24 inches in width by 36 inches in height with information on the front in color and information on the back in black and white.
Note: They deliver Worldwide!!!

link: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/for_educators/eos_posters/


 

Windows XP Home and Professional Service Pack 2 Service Configurations

Includes explanations of each service and advice on which services you can safely disable.

link: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm


 

Computer Stupidities

The following is a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users.

link: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/


 

How to Fry an Egg in a Computer

A creative way of frying an Egg. What a crazy Idea!!!

link: http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html


 

Evidence of Present Life on Mars

WASHINGTON -- A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.


link: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html


 

Free Pixel Fonts

This site is cool. You can try out the free pixel fonts before you download them.

link: http://www.orgdot.com/aliasfonts/


 

2.5 Gigapixel Photo

TNO, an organization dedicated to technology research, has a posting of 2.5 Gigapixel image. Whoa man, you can zoom in forever.

link: http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite966.html


 

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

There are a lot of great freeware programs out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives.

link: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm


 

1001 Free Fonts

Free Windows and Mac Fonts. A lot of Fonts to choose from.

link: http://www.1001freefonts.com/


 

Nuke Test Video

This is video of an underground nuclear bomb test. Stuff like this has got to be pissing Mother Nature off.

link: http://www.compfused.com/directlink/628/


 

Image - ASCII Converter

Here you can easily generate cool text-images from almost any picture you have on your computer.

link: http://www.text-image.com/


Thursday, February 17, 2005 

Hubble Wallpapers

Hubble Telescope Images up to 1280x1024 Resolution

link: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/


 

How the world is changing

While the effect of human activity on the global climate is hotly debated, physical signs of environmental change are all around us.

Some scientists say an increase in the rate of melting of the world's glaciers is evidence of global warming.

link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/


Wednesday, February 16, 2005 

SwitchProxy for Firefox

SwitchProxy is a FireFox extension that allows you to ‘switch’ between anonymous ‘proxy’ servers at a chosen interval. Anonymous proxy servers allow you to mask your true IP address giving you an added layer on anonymity.

Downloads & Links:
FireFox
SwitchProxy
Anonymous Proxy List
IPLocator


 

Rock Fonts

Check out your favorite Rock Band Fonts

http://www.rockrage.com/media/fonts/musicfonts.html


Monday, February 14, 2005 

Michelin Invents Airless Tires

The Tweel hub and flexible spoke design replaces the need for air pressure and even allows some devices the ability to climb stairs and navigate uneven terrain. In the same news, Segway researched a prototype that applies self-balancing technology to a four-wheel device.

link: http://www.michelinman.com


 

Another Future Mail Server

FutureMail lets you send messages to yourself and have them delivered on any date you choose.

Use FutureMail to send yourself reminders, notes, or any information you want to have in the future. You can even share your future items in a public RSS feed or your own FutureMail Blog.

Registration is for Free!!!

link: www.futuremail.bensinclair.com


Sunday, February 13, 2005 

Lowe Tech Paperplanes

How to make Paperplanes

link: http://www.lowe-tech.com/portfolio/paperplanes.html


 

Thinking Machine 4

Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.

link: http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/index.html


 

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

link: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/


 

Music Search with Graphics

"Music plasma helps you identify all the artists fitting your music tastes" It's really good!

link www.musicplasma.com


 

The "PSU PC"

A whole computer in a PSU. Using one of the new Mini-ITX Mobo.

link: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/psu-pc/default.asp?page=3


 

Strange creature found in New Mexico

A gargoyle like creature found in the desert. Watch the video in the link to get a full view of what it looks like.

link: http://www.kob.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=17037&cat=HOME


Friday, February 11, 2005 

True Color of Saturn

The first true color image of Saturn reveals that the ringed planet is not the silver orb visible from Earth but a deep shade of blue.

link: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/


 

Popup Blocker Test

PopupTest.com provides a simple and independent source for popup window testing. Whether you are developing a popup killer software or you are thinking about purchasing one, you can use our sample popups to test the effectiveness of the application.

link: http://www.popuptest.com/


 

Night Vision Images Now Clear and Colorful

Dutch military develops night-vision video images that look as clear and colourful as those shot in broad daylight.

link: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18524865.900


 

KDE getting ready to go native on Windows

A native Windows port for KDE's graphical framework is under development and could help the Linux desktop environment attract Microsoft users, but some fear the move will harm Linux.

link: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39187111,00.htm


 

Free Mail Without Login

Dodgeit is a free e-mail server that doesn't require Passwords.
Note: You can only read e-mails. This can be used either by receiving non-replyable e-mails or just for fun.

link: www.dodgeit.com


 

Bypass Compulsory Web Registration

BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).

link: www.bugmenot.com


 

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips. The Archive contains over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present.

link: http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html


 

Photoshop, Cinema 4d, Paint Shop Pro, etc

This site contains tutorials for graphic design, html, javascript, css, etc. Check it out!
link: http://www.pixel2life.com/


 

Church Sign Generator

Make your very own church sign,
link: http://churchsigngenerator.com/index_1.php


 

Nature Pics

A very wonderful and huge collection of Nature Pics
link: http://balta.ikk.sztaki.hu/webshots/


 

CSS Complete Properties List

All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically
link: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/propindex/all.htm


 

Gmail Invite Queue

This site is has thousands of gmail invites. Just add your e-mail address to the Queue list and wait few moment to recieve your gmail invite. Thats it! create your acount by following the link you recieved.

link: http://www.highwayman.org/gmail.php


 

I'm Bored

Don't know where to surf? Here's one of the coolest site on the web
link: www.i-am-bored.com


 

Mail to the Future

Wanna send mail to the future? Its free!
link: http://www.futureme.org/


 

Dragon Illusion

Watch this dragon made of paper. You can do it yourself. Try it!
page link: http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm


 

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