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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


Tuesday, October 18, 2005 

Your real Japanese Name Generator!

ever wonder what your japanese name should be? well wonder no more! just select whether you're male or female, enter your name and voila! I kept the name order in traditional japanese
-- family name first, given name last -- for more authenticity! ;]

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Monday, October 17, 2005 

World Sunlight Map

A world map showing current sunlight and cloud cover

http://www.die.net/earth/
http://www.die.net/earth/hemisphere.html


 

All kinds of Security Tools for Free



This website provides all kinds of tools for learning hacking for educational purpose so that you save yourself from real hackers.

http://www.elhacker.net/hacking.htm


Thursday, October 13, 2005 

Awesome Flash Site Design

Site impressively designed by 2advanced studios using Flash. Definitely one of the best site design ever. Check out the company's portfolio too! and the winamp skins, and desktop wallz on the bottom of the page!

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Update!
For a list of cool flash sites
visit the x20 dimension


Saturday, October 08, 2005 

Smart Tagging for your Site with Tagyu

He’s a clever little guy that really knows his tags. Tell him what you’re talking about and he’ll tell you what tags you might want to use.

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Monday, October 03, 2005 

Web applications list

A good compilations of applications you can run from your web browser, no more downloading, installations or crashes the web will deliver what you need to run when you want it.

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Sunday, October 02, 2005 

Typetester - Compare Screen Type


Typetester is an online application, that can be pretty useful when you need to check or choose a typeface for your (next) project. You can easily set up a typeface with the most of the options applicable for the screen type, including the colors of the text and the background.

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Saturday, October 01, 2005 

Flash Powered E-Mail

This flash web-based e-mail is impressive! They just released the calendar thing in it. It has lots of stuff in there like built-in rss reader, games, contacts manager, skins, alerts, spell checker, pop3 access, etc.

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