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Open-source ActionScript 2.0 3D library allows for interactive 3D environments in Flash… nice!
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“With the new MacBook Pro’s including built-in iSight cameras, I thought it would be useful to take an iSight snapshot of anyone trying to break into my laptop. This is done by tailing /var/log/asl.log for invalid login attempts.”
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There’s a huge, gaping hole in Apple’s lineup between the iMac/Mac mini and the Mac Pro. Most of the market, both home and work, buy something in between, but Apple still doesn’t offer it. They missed their chance, again, yesterday. We don’t want to buy Dells - bring back the Mac!
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Unlike classic or vintage electronics that operate on electronic charges, spin-based electronics focuses on the spin of electrons to carry and store information. Researchers predict spintronics will revolutionize the electronics industry by making devices faster, improving storage capacity and reducing the amount of power needed to run them.
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“A fresh app on Google Code claims to allow hacked iPhone users to play classic NES games. Based on the open-source portable NES emulator InfoNES, the emulator still has its training wheels on.”
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Two sparsely-buttoned large, touchscreen phones: the Apple iPhone, and the LG KE850 (which already won the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007). Separated at birth, or possible lawsuit number two for Apple? You decide.
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This guy put a high-res display in his 15″ PowerBook with the help of a MacBook Pro Display case, and has the equivalent of a 23″ studio display in his laptop! Click to the second page to see some juicy pics. With Leopard’s screen resolution Independence, I’m thinking about doing this to my MacBook.
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…Hopefully they’re working on a Mac port.
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Site shows how to make a ring out of a dime!
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For days, U.S. players have been asked about a potential matchup with one of those two international powerhouses in the final game of the world championships. Meanwhile, the other unbeaten team, which just happens to be the reigning European champion, has remained largely anonymous.
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On December 3, 2005, developers of the Django and Ruby on Rails Web frameworks (for Python and Ruby, respectively) met in Chicago for a friendly discussion of rapid Web-application development. Now video and audio is available.
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On Friday, Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a combative appearance on the Situation Room.
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Pictures of what happens when women drive.
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“I
ve selected the best 50 life hacks of the year, based on their popularity and contents in different categories. Invest your time - read them. Bookmark this page and mark reading them as one of your new year resolutions.”
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Video from 5th gear of the futuristic high-tech Honda Civic hatchback that the U.S.A can’t buy.
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Apparently the Wii will support flash games. You will need to purchase the Opera browser using Wii points, but hey, that’s a TON of games to play and a HUGE space for game development!
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FirePHP allows you to take a deeper look at all the work your PHP code does to generate that page you are currently looking at in your Firefox browser. Just install the FirePHP Firefox extension, PHP PEAR package and add a few lines of code to your PHP application to get started. You will see […]

It’s was live just right now. The midi was fun to hear.
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A well designed logo gallery that is described as “A Place To Fish For Ideas”.
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White House Press Secretary Tony Snow repeatedly fought with reporters today over Iran intelligence claims. Good video.
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See for yourself. I would love to be able to figure this out.
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What does Ubuntu father Mark Shuttleworth really feel about variants of his offspring being branded Christian or Satanic? He has an interesting — and philosophical — attitude about it.
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After suggesting that people should change the entries on Elephants in Wikipedia, the site went down, apparently from too many people trying to access it at once!
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Drupal has a fantastic feature, the hook_auth to allow any third party to interact in the authentication process. This is used to authenticate against other Drupal sites over XMLRPC, it is used in the experimental openID integration, to allow authentication against any database, and so on. And off course to authenticate against an LDAP directory, […]

Codecs.com caught Techspot ripping a website themselves.
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Seriously, I would use this. What a crazy crapper.
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With ATA hard drives now being cheaper than tape, this simple new storage technology enables you to build storage arrays for archives, backup or live use.
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Not only do they rip off the Digg interface for Yahoo Autos! The proudly proclaim it on their official blog and even put a screenshot on it! The even mention Digg by name. You need to have a look at this to believe it.
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Virgin America is trying to become the nation’s newest low cost air carrier (complete with touch screen displays, vod, satellite tv, broadband Internet and then some), but has been denied by the Department of Transportation. Virgin makes their case in the video seen in this story and asks for the publics help in lobbying […]

This is nifty has hell. Turn any image–whether on your hard drive or at a url–into a little comic. Just upload an image or supply a url, and you’re ready: create and drag-n-drop speech bubbles to your heart’s content. When you’re done, you can download your masterpiece or push it out to Image Shack for […]

If you run Ubuntu be very weary in applying the latest xserver-xorg-core update. It can bring your machine to an abrupt halt. There is a fix suggested in the forums.
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Yahoo’s COO is leaving in March while the company reorganizes into three groups targeting audience, advertisers/publishers and technology.
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100 microamperes for 3 minutes will substantially debilitate the HIV virus. They are not designed to face this current, but your body can withstand it. You are an electromagnetic device, viruses and small life forms are overwhelmed by it. Examine lab reports, not bottom lines. You can make your own antibiotic with silver wire water […]

W…T…F… Microsoft has been sending out free top-of-the-line laptops pre-loaded with Vista to bloggers. “No strings attached”. This is of course right before the launch of Vista to consumers. Make no mistake — these weren’t loans, they were ‘gifts’.
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MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors. These careers ranked highest.
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It was on the front page of the Boston Globe newspaper today, and the lead article on their web site–an investigation that normally would be buried in the City & Region section of the paper. So you can’t miss it: IT manager Peter Quinn of the Massachusetts state government is criticized for not fully r
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Chris Pirillo disses Vista- saying it’s too little, too late, and costs too much to compete with Mac OS X
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The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.
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Fall is approaching and it’s getting darker earlier and earlier. Build this high power halogen bike light from components found at Home Depot. The twenty watt low beam lights the road ahead almost as well as a car headlight and flashing the 50 watt high beam will always get oncoming traffic to dim […]

Tired of blogs chewing over the same old fat? Four elite park rangers in eastern Congo are now armed with cameras and blogs as well as rifles and know-how, as they work to protect the few remaining mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park from rebels, poachers and land invasions.
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The new product: a box to connect to your TV to play all these iTunes Movies and iTunes TV shows on it. This box supports wireless
no stringing cablesand is the missing piece. iTV looks like a small Mac Mini. It’s just an internal codename, and will be renamed later.
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In a patent filing Google, has revealed that it is looking into entering the physical advertising industry. The patent filing itself alludes to placing adverts on billboards, with the primary innovation being that they’re interactive and connected to the internet.
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OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License.
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KDE Project ships fourth translation and service release for leading Free Software desktop. KDE 3.5.4 features translations in 65 languages, enhanced removable device support and improvements in the HTML rendering engine (KHTML). There are also speed optimisations in Konsole and Kate.
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Just before Christmas, Mozilla designer Alex Faaborg published some introductory posts on his blog about where Mozilla is headed with microformats. Quick background: Mozilla is of course the developer of the popular open source browser Firefox; and microformats are (in Alex’s words) “adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable
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Sometimes it
s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talanted web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in look-and-feel-style. Let’s take a look at their masterpieces.
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Digg in 3D, use the scroll to zoom.
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Hey all, this had been around for some time … but in time for the Vista by M$, here is a look on a “REAL” 3D desktop that is practical !!
I installed something similar to this (without the transparency) on an “old” AMD pc (athlon 2200+ ,512MB , 128MB 5200) … it’s amazing, and it’s […]

An animation of how not to treat a professional web designer.
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This amateur scientist has devised a way to singlehandely reduce traffic jams during your commute. It is golden advice for dealing with holiday traffic.
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Hoping to make Live Clipboard more ubiquitous, here are a set of standardized icons to use for Live Clipboard links. Designed to complement the RSS icons.
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Here is a pic of the iPhone from today’s keynote. Runs OSX.
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All you have to do is follow these 4 steps (basically go to a site and enter in a piece of java script code). the page reloads and the website graphics go NUTS - all the jpegs fall off their placeholders and fly around in a huge tornado. works on any site - which is […]

A guy decided to play two Nickelback songs side by side in each speaker. Even though the songs were made 2 years apart, the similarities are apparent. Is there such a thing as copyright infringement on yourself?
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Extremely clever way of seeing where the web surfer has been using Javascript.
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In some parts of the world, the Seattle Seahawks are the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Buffalo Bills are the last great football dynasty and Tom Brady is some frustrated quarterback from New England who can never win it all.
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Ever wish you could set your mac up to unlock when you came into the room with your bluetooth cell phone? Maybe you’d like to autosync your phone with your mac when you get home? Here is the consummate guide to setting up bluetooth proximity detection.
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You’re very lucky if you’ve heard this already: a super-secret song hidden deep in Nintendo games including Mario Land 2, Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and Pikmin 2. It’s so well hidden that a new in-game instance was uncovered this month in a game that’s been out for years.
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Elephants Dream is the world
s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
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Jenna Fischer, or Pam Beesly, from The Office, bares all on the April cover of Wired.
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