13 Things You Can Make Out of Old Blue Jeans

Simply Thrifty has assembled a list of online projects to recycle your old jeans.

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Don't be a poser, if you like gadgets, you'll love the N95

Let's face it people, what is the experience of apple "making" and selling phones? You got it right: ZERO.

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Don't be a poser, if you like gadgets, you'll love the N95

Let's face it people, what is the experience of apple "making" and selling phones? You got it right: ZERO.

As the iPod, the Iphone is for those with low self esteem and want to be part of the group.

Get your money worth, get a better carrier, stop the telecommunication monopoly from being even bigger.

Want more arguments about the N95? read here.

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Mozilla Sunbird v0.5: Now With Two-Way Sync For Google Calendar, W00t!!!

Yesterday Mozilla released an update to its standalone calendar application, Sunbird. The new version, .5 is still a beta and not without its quirks, but the update adds some much desired features like Google Calendar support and auto-importers for a number of other calendar applications.

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Website chief threatens to sue Google for libel

A British businessman is threatening a landmark legal action against Google, the world's leading internet search engine, after claims that it has defamed him.

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Oops, Apple did it again: good artists copy great artists steal

Good luck parsing the English translation, but the head of LG's phone lab3643_prada_1 seems to have accused Apple of swiping the design for the iPhone from LG's remarkably similar touchscreen Prada phone.

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Early iPhone buyers strain to resell them online

Auction Web site eBay (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) had more than 400 listings for iPhones just two hours after the combination mobile phone, Web browser and music and video player went on sale on the U.S. East Coast.

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Must-have movies: Double Indemnity

Never have actuarial tables seemed more thrilling than in Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder's corrosive tale of murder perfumed with honeysuckle. Based on the novel by James M Cain, it casts the genial Fred MacMurray brilliantly against type as a cocksure California life insurance salesman besotted by Barbara Stanwyck's brassy blonde.

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Would you buy an Apple iPhone if it looks like this?

Would you buy a phone with a touch pad instead of the regular keypad? Now, that would set us all back to 25 characters per minute from 120 characters per minute typing speed.

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Vodafone tipped for exclusive iPhone agreement with Apple

Vodafone is the front-runner to win the European rights for Apple’s iPhone after one of the most fiercely contested battles with rivals since the £22.5 billion auction of 3G rights.

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Custom Futurama Pinball Machine

A unique piece of old fashion pinball madness.

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The Making of the MONOPOLY Pinball Game

The following is an unabridged version of a short presentation that Pat Lawlor Design did at Pinball Expo 2001, showing the history of the MONOPOLY Pinball project from start to end.

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Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system.

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Should you buy an iPhone?

The most eagerly awaited cell phone ever is upon us Friday. Should you resist the iPhone's breathless hype, or take the plunge? Unless you're already standing in line outside an Apple or AT&T store, or are prepared to mug one of the first customers to come out after the 6 p.m. launch, the answer, at least for now, will have to be "let me think abou

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Protect Your Privacy: Stop Cache Tracking In Firefox

Browsers hemorrhage information. Cookies, auto-fill information, search history and more can be accessed by websites, and while sometimes this information is gather for benign reasons, sometimes it’s not.

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Wii and PS3 software drought

Both machines had successful launches and a couple of must-have games, but there has been precious little software released for Wii and PS3 since then to justify the investment.

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Ramble around the UNIX file system

Discover where UNIX stores important files

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Nike+ iPod Nano Shoe Mod - No Nike+ shoes requiered

There are many options out there that will help get around buying Nike's special shoes, but for those of us who run outdoors, and run long distances, we just don't feel safe mounting it above the shoe (at least I don't). So why not just model my current running shoes after Nike's special shoes?

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NINTENDO WINS!!!

Nintendo Co. zipped past Sony in market value on Monday and became one of Japan's top 10 issues for the first time, as it elbows the PlayStation maker out of its decade-long dominance of the game industry.



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Gd / FreeType text label generator

This is an example of using Gd / FreeType to generate image text labels with TTF font. Provided script could be used as "text rasterization service" to generate arbitrarily text-images for a web site. MD5-based authorization is used to avoid image generation by unauthorized users.



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Digg.com users launch new revolt over comments system

Digg.com Thursday found itself facing the wrath of its notoriously vocal users once again as complaints poured in about a new system for posting comments.



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15 Best Free Services and Software for Business

These services and applications can do a lot of the work for you and they won't cost you a dime.



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And The World's Ugliest Dog Is ...

not Dvorak, Elwood, a 2-year-old Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix, was crowned the world's ugliest dog, a distinction that delighted the mutt's owners.



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And The World's Ugliest Dog Is ...

not Dvorak, Elwood, a 2-year-old Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix, was crowned the world's ugliest dog, a distinction that delighted the mutt's owners.



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Meet your next US vice-president: Barack Obama

Democrat Barack Obama exploded into the 2008 White House race on a crusade to cleanse politics: nearly five months of campaign trail rough-and-tumble later, he is still in Hillary Clinton's shadow.



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Innovations in Energy

Take a peek on what is been done to tackle the energy crisis in the US.



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BIG Tesla Coil How-To Web Page

Throw way that lava lamp, is Tesla Coil Era.



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Fishermen Interrupt Internet Service in Five Latin American Countries

An undersea fiber-optics cable that was damaged by accident left millions of people without Internet service in five Latin American countries, The Associated Press reports.



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"Jesus Phone" (iPhone) Makes a New Mobile AJAX Platform

iPhone is one of the most hyped products ever and occasionally called the 'Jesus phone' like it was the Second Coming



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Does the average digger suffer of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome?

The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge. "incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others".



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Home Made CNC Machine

In this article I'll document the all-the-way homebuilt CNC milling project that two of my good friends and I have undertaken. (visit their site at www.ackw.dk) The CNC mill has been built from scratch. We've even made our own controller board to drive the stepper motors that power the axis of the CNC mill.



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Army Veteran Kills Bobcat With His Bare Hands

A 62-year-old US Vietnam veteran says he was acting on instinct when he strangled a rabid bobcat that attacked him on the back porch of his Florida home.



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What's ahead for Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon

A planned feature list has been revealed for Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", along with the scheduled release date of October 18.



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How to make a Green Lantern ring- including a glowing version

Here's how to make your own resin cast Green Lantern ring.This a complete overhaul of my original instructable on how to make a Green Lantern ring, which previously only showed how a cast sterling silver ring is created.



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Digg Responds to Social Networking Challengers

I’ve always warned that starting a new search engine, no matter how unique the offering, is a risky proposition. Even if you do create something different, what’s to stop Google from rolling out the same functionality? If I can get it at Google, why go else where?



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Crooks going green: Salad Stolen From Fridge

Police in Somerset County are trying to solve the case of the stolen salad. If it was a 3 beans salad, just follow the odor.



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Rain Falls Indoors at Hack Day London

Only in London does a programming conference get interrupted by a downpour of rain -- indoors.



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how to try and get free components

sometimes you don't have money, but you want to build something nifty. here is a guide to help you



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How to edit digital images in order to impress a girl

Here's a quick instructable on how to impress a girl, with a simple digital camera hack (if you can call it that)...



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Get Money from Jammed Vending Machines, Pay Phones, etc.

I lost a coin in a jammed pay phone: I got my money back, plus over $5 more. I routinely get my money back, and other coins as well. You might be able to do the same thing. (Note: I used to fix this stuff for a living, so I learned how they work.)



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How to: Han Solo in carbonite chocolate bar...

This is an instructable on how to make your own Han Solo in carbonite chocolate bar! But using these basic instructions you can make ANY kind of chocolate bar or mold!



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OCZ creates water-resistant USB stick

IN A WORLD of premium removable memory, endurance is a must. After Corsair's legendary Flash Voyager series, OCZ is coming with a waterproof USB stick.



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Quickstart Guide to Adobe Premier Pro

Adobe Premiere has been the cream of the semi professional non-linear video editing application for some time. Although the defacto standard application, Premiere 6.5 was starting show its age and the launch of Premiere 7 (effectionately termed Premiere Pro) sees a complete overhaul of the user interface and engine. Indeed, anyone upgrading from Pr



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Web server on a stick, an USB stick :)

Server2Go is a Webserver that runs out of box without any installation. That means it is a webserver that can run directly from cdrom, usb stick or from any folder on harddisk.



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What is that package you got down there?

Police may frisk any pedestrian they have reason to believe is carrying an illegal gun due to reasons such as the way the person walks and the volume of crime in the area.



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Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3

An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.



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Introduction To PHP Security Vulnerabilities

PHP has allowed people with all sorts of backgrounds to put their ideas on the web. With several hundred million webpages programmed in PHP, security plays a big deal for us webprogrammers. In this introduction I will outline the most common security vulnerabilities in PHP scripts. Tutorials on how one can prevent them will be dealt with in article



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Pete H's Homemade Air Conditioner

Fear this electricity bill.



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Nintendo Wiimote Playing Star Trek Theme

Is there no end to the cool projects that can be done with the Wiimote? I wonder how many people are buying a Wiimote without the console to play around with and make cool hacks like this one? “Nice experiment using my Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for the OSC frequency of my Moog Little



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Novell's Open Workgroup Exposes Open Source to Microsoft

Yesterday Novell announced the upcoming availability of Open Workgroup, the first workgroup suite for small businesses that provides flexy solutions based on “proven” open source-based software.



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For Aspiring Young Writers: A Linux Book on a Best Sellers List

I remember wondering how an operating system with 3% of the PC Desktop market could sell enough books to rank #1.



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Extend OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org supports extensions-small installable packages that provide added functionality. You easily can turn your templates, autotext entries, gallery art and macros into extensions that can be installed with a couple of clicks.



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Building Panoramic Images in The GIMP

Build big scenic images from your small snapshots using this easy plugin for The GIMP.



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Stitching images with adobe photoshop

This tutorial will illustrate a flexible method with which to stitch together overlapping photos into a seamless panorama.



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'Crush on Obama' is YouTube hit

oung people can make a difference in politics, Sen. Barack Obama says in a new campaign video, by speaking up about "the things that are making you passionate."



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Deputy's Dog Dies After Eating Car Seat

The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office is mourning over the death of their 2-year-old patrol dog named Koda, who apparently ate car seats and choked himself to death.



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Java Not Worth Building In

Java does have its place still in the enterprise market, but they have lost the desktop battle. The only other "desktop-ish" battle they had a chance to win was the browser battle, but on that battle field, Flash is the master, hands down. Adobe made a brilliant move in acquiring Macromedia.



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FREE Perl book

Picking Up Perl is a freely redistributable tutorial book on Perl.



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Robot plays Air Hockey

IBM’s Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov at chess. How long before we see a robot air hockey champion? Not long, if the Air Hockey Project in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign continues to progress.



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Fedora 7 tips its cap to the community

Fedora 7 was released last week with the ability for users to create custom-built Linux distributions based on the open source version of Red Hat's commercial Linux operating system.



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Getting started with GRUB

When you power on your computer, the first software that runs is a bootloader that invokes the computer's operating system. GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, is an integral part of many Linux systems. It starts the Linux kernel. Here's some background on GRUB, and some tips on installing and configuring the software.



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Belgium's Canine Bigot: Nigerian Job Seeker Spurned Due to 'Racist Dog'

A Belgian businessman rejected a Nigerian job applicant because of the color of his skin. But he insisted he wasn't racist -- it was his dog that was the bigot, he said. The labor office in Belgium was not convinced.



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Learn Adobe Fireworks In Pictures

This tutorial helps beginners learn the basics of creating Web graphics with Adobe Fireworks 8.



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30 years old bomb found in high school

The quarter-pound of picric acid -- estimated to be 20 to 30 years old -- was removed from the empty building by the Bergen County Police Department Bomb Squad and detonated behind the school.



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Creating an Unkillable Process

Annoying as unkillable processes can be, there are some circumstances where you might legitimately want to create one.



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Digg for the iPhone

What are iPhone applications going to look and feel like? We saw yesterday a simple shopping list application, and here's another one bound to be a big hit: Digg for the iPhone.



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Teen defends PS3 with samurai sword

A teenager in Miami attacked a burglar trying to nab his beloved console from his house by swinging a samurai sword at the terrified robber



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Get a Free Wii Keychain

Nintendo wants to get to know our fans better through a special Big Brain Academy survey program. All you need to do is register your copy of Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, and fill out a quick survey to get a free Wii Remote keychain.



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VoIP delivers for Pizza Shacks

Using VoIP (voice over IP) not only makes overall management of his call centres a lot easier, it also delivers savings — to the tune of $100,000 — over traditional telephone systems.



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Internet users in Canada about to get PWNED

Consumers (in Canada) could start paying for the exact amount and kinds of content they use on the Internet, a big shift away from the traditional, all-you-can-eat plans.



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Was Jurassic Park right?

China has uncovered the skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly bird-like dinosaur, which has been classed as a new species.



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FBI plans huge anti-terror data-mining

he FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.



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Dynamically Creating Compressed Zip Archives With PHP

PHP 5.2.0 includes a re-engineered version of the ext/zip extension, one based on the zlib library. Bored and not a little intrigued, I decided to try it out. And over the next few pages, I'm going to tell you what I found.



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Transformers Movie Burger King Toys Images

Thanks to Protoman for bringing us a look at the Transformers Movie Burger King toys. While not the highest resolution it's easy to make out what they look like.



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How a Slug made friends with a GNU and a Penguin

One of the things that caught my eye at SCaLE5x was the booth of the "Sluggers". One consequence of this is that I am typing this article while listening to music emerging from a slug that is also acting as my file backup service... but I'm getting ahead of the story. So, let me start in a more practical way - at the beginning.



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