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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.

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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


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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


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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!

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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.

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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.

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Best Hacking Tools and Tutorials (Updated)

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


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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

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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.

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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.

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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"

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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."

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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?

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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...

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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..

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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.

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Dreamlines



Really fascinating experiment with Java.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Couch made entirely of mouse pads



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

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


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Google Analytics is live now


Google is offering Urchin website analysis tool for free now.

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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

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"Industorious Clock"


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

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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