Get a portrait of your chromosomes

Cell Portraits™ produces an image of your chromosomes at 1000X magnification from a small sample of your blood. After digital color enhancement, your Chromosome Portrait™ is printed onto high-quality canvas or paper.

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DIY The "O Rly" Scarf

Scarf Rly, an "O Rly" Owl scarf pattern. Created by Rebecca Stern, original idea by Justin Gutterman. One end says "O Rly?" and other other, "Ya Rly."

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Wife to husband: Go get a lap dance, it’s sexy

Dr. Gail Saltz reassures a woman about her erotic fantasies

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WTF Is This? Nobody Knows

A mysterious unidentified object has washed up on a beach in the Western Isles, and no one knows what it is.

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Alibaba to Help Chinese Consumers Buy from US Retailers

Philliou Selwanes Partners (PSP) announced it has entered into an agreement with Chinese firm Alibaba to promote its online-payment service Alipay in North America.

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Top 10 Food and Drink Hacks

we've compiled the top 10 most clever, interesting, fun, and useful food hacks of them all, with video clips. Come on in to check 'em out.

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Sony Encourages PS3 Owners To Upgrade Hard Drives

Sony is apparently encouraging owners of the PS3 console to upgrade the hard drives within the console on their own.

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Stupid Redneck gets owned by Yuppie

Gun beats baseball bat any day of the week,

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10 Things That Won't Happen in 2008. Best Predictions So Far

Pundits are eager to provide their predictions for the new year. Here's something a little different

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‘Disney Channel Hits’ CD Found To Have Explicit Rap

The Disney Channel Hits CDs have been pulled from the shelves of a Daytona Beach, Florida, Toys ‘R’ Us after one of the CDs actually containing music with explicit rap lyrics.

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Sabotage Apple!!!

Check out this story about an Apple store in Maryland where people have been buying iPods only to find angry Unabomber style notes inside them telling them they should free their minds and read a book.

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Still Looking For a Wii? Costco's Got a Stash.

The only catch is that Costco are selling them as a bundle. At a price tag of $344.99 you get the basic Wii, extra nunchuck, extra wiimote, and a copy of Big Brain Academy.

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2007 in video games: Wii is the champion

Looks like the Nintendo Wii wasn't just a fad, after all.

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A Tampon Chandelier //PIC

A massive Chandelier made out of tampons.

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The Ultimate Guide To Not Choking Under Pressure

When you are faced with pressure, an obstacle in your life, how do you handle it? Do you crumble under the pressure and the feeling being down for the count? Or do you get back up and win the fight. This article is all about teaching you to excel under pressure, and not succumb to stress!

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E.T. infiltration of human society through militarism

The glyphs suggest that Extraterrestrials have shown an interest and have demonstrated the capability to rule over humanity. The glyphs also suggest that similar technologies today, that apparently existed thousands of years ago, may have originated from a similar source.

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Graph Algorithms in Java

Stephen Morris shows how graphs can be applied to solve a number of programming problems.

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Web Page Layouts Shouldn't Use Tables

There are still many reasons to learn how to write CSS layouts.

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How Not to Plagiarize, here is how

You may still be wondering how you're supposed to give proper references to all the reading you've done and all the ideas you've encountered.

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Sega Confirms House of the Dead Wii Collection

The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return for the Wii is no longer a rumour, as Sega has officially announced the collection for a Spring 2008 release. The Zapper-ready arcade port promises to offer "the full arcade experience of battling hordes of rabid zombies in the comfort of their homes."

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Keep the TV, throw the PS3 out of the window

Sony Australia would dish out a free Playstation 3 with the purchase of any Bravia 1080p LCD TV. It appears that Sony has now expanded the program to include the U.S.—albeit with a few "minor" changes. Unfortunately if you want to score this deal in the States you have to apply for a Sony Card in addition to purchasing a select Sony HDTV.

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Online dating brings hope and frustration

Online Dating doesn't perform miracles: "(Women) still wanted the man to make the first move and expected him pick up the tab."

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When Cell Phone Ads Attack

As Ads Arrive on Cell Phones, Some Companies See Targeting Opportunities, Raising Privacy Concerns

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Pay attention to this travelling geeks

To help reduce the risk of fires, air travelers will no longer be able to pack loose lithium batteries in checked luggage beginning Jan. 1, the Transportation Department said Friday.

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Boy Says TV Helped Him Survive Avalanche

An 11-year-old boy said a TV show about surviving an avalanche helped him when he was buried by one at a ski resort.

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Child's MP3 Player Came With Porn

Now Daryl Hill wants to know why an MP3 video player he bought at a Wal-Mart in Sparta was preloaded with pornography and explicit songs.

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Everex gPC: Stinko!!!

"It's marketed to the Web-savvy under-30 set, but unless you give it to someone who has a lot of time to learn the basic nuances of Linux (or at least how to install plug-ins on Firefox), I see the gPC as one of those PCs you buy as a gift for the holidays and return to the store in January."

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The Apple II from Commodore? It almost happened

Back in the dawn of the PC era, Commodore International rejected a proposal from legendary Apple Inc. founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs to resell the Apple II computer. Luckily for Apple, as it turned out, Commodore instead decided to depend on its own systems, eventually including the revolutionary Commodore 64.

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Dogs enlisted to go to Iraq

The black Labrador retrievers are officially enlisted in the Army as the first therapy dogs for soldiers in combat. Stationed with the combat-stress units in Mosul and Tikrit, the animals are helping soldiers handle the stress of overseas fighting.

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I want a Firefox Extension to ...

200+ extremely useful firefox extensions that save time and effort.

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Oh, No! Google Has a Goatee!

Remember the bad Spock from the parallel universe? The Vulcan who wore a menacing goatee? Well, it seems that Google has its own bearded evil twin, and he's ready to make another cameo.

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First Release of Perl in Five Years Arrives

Just in time for Christmas, there's a new version of perl, the first in over five years. The first update since 2002 to the "practical extraction and report language," perl 5.10 adds both new language features and an improved perl interpreter, according to community site Perl Buzz.

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Who Needs HD-DVD and Blu-ray? Not me!

I can't stand either HD-DVD or Blu-ray. I sort of want both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats to fail commercially and for DVD to continue market place dominance for at least a decade. They both remind me of all the bad things about old expensive, giant Laserdisc movies.

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Engineering Guide To Blender 3-D

This tutorial was created to assist Engineers in learning the basics of 'Blender' and using it to create accurate engineering designs. To begin with, it ignores the myriad of animation, texturing and photo-realistic rendering tools and concentrates solely on getting started and producing accurate models for engineering purposes.

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PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting

PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support.

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Spring MVC step-by-step

This is a step-by-step account of how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework.

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Digg This: Deal or No Deal?

CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008

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'The $100 laptop' now a $600 eBay item

why did people pay as much as $600 for them on eBay, when that kind of money is enough to buy a much more powerful machine?

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California Teen Opens PS3 Box, Finds Phone Book

When 13-year-old Brandon Burns opened his heavy gift Christmas morning, he found not the PS3 console that was supposed to be inside, but a Thousand Oaks phone book.

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Dumping your Xmas tree in a lake is GOOD

The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish & Parks has found a use for Christmas trees besides celebrating holidays providing spawning habitat for fish.

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Make your Roomba a musical instrument!

RoombaMidi2 is a small Mac OS X program that makes your Roomba appear as a MIDI interface to MIDI sequencer programs like Ableton Live, Apple Logic, and so on. RoombaMidi2 is an update of the original Java-based RoombaMidi.

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Are the Obese the Answer to Our Energy Crisis?

Right now, the fastest eco-boat on the planet, called Earthrace, will attempt to break the "round the world" speed record using fuel made from human fat.

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Don’t take your iPhone to a hot yoga class?

How many iPhone and MacBook users are aware that high temperatures, such as those found in a hot yoga class or in a car on a spring day, could kill their lithium-ion battery? The technology is somewhat temperamental, according to Apple and battery experts.

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Hack your Sprint Motorola Q9c to improve GPS performance

Wouldn’t it be great if we could add aGPS location information to the Moto Q9c’s open GPS receiver? Of course it would. GPS and aGPS could work together to return a faster position-lock in most situations.

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Don't Let Social Security Disable Your Future

Most investors today are taking steps to provide for their own retirement income, since they understand that relying solely upon Social Security retirement benefits is a prescription for poverty.

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Wii title Super Mario Galaxy price cut to $37

Amazon.com on Tues. began offering the game title Super Mario Galaxy for Nintendo Co.'s Wii to $37.00 in the latest wave of video game software discounts.

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Why Screaming Doesn't Make You Deaf

As you scream for your favorite sports team, special brain cells kick in to protect your auditory system from the sound of your own voice, a new study suggests.

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Freezing Assets: Human Corpsicles Could Wake Up Rich

Dynasty trusts, also called personal revival trusts, are a hot topic among the cold dead. More than 20 states allow trusts that pay out funds indefinitely to future generations.

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GPS to save baby Jesus statue

The statue, part of a nativity scene, will be equipped with the device after the previous statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down.

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Use Apt-mirror to Create Your Own Ubuntu Mirror

Setting up your own Ubuntu mirror is quite easy thanks to a nifty little tool called apt-mirror. And it’s very rewarding too… super fast installations and the convenience of not needing an internet connection when you want to install most applications.

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Becoming PHP 6 Compatible

If you want to make use of PHP 6 when it comes, you're going to have to write your new scripts so they are compatible, and possibly change some of your existing scripts. To start making your scripts PHP 6 compatible, I've compiled a list of tips to follow when scripting

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How to create an administrator panel in CakePHP

My new programmer wanted to know how to create administrator panel using CakePHP, so I thought to share my written tutorial with the community. Here it goes

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Top 10 Javascripts for Image Manipulation

More pizazz for your site with few lines of code.

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Scripting Language Use on the Rise

A survey finds that more than half of developers use scripting language, and that the use will grow next year.

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eBay User Selling Nintendo Wii For $1,983,298

The retarded Nintendo Wii eBay auctions continue. This time, an eBay seller in the U.K. is selling a Wii for US$1,983,298. Fortunately, if you purchase the item for this price, the shipping is tossed in for no extra charge.

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Themrock's Mario & Luigi

Themrock has one of the more unique art styles I have seen when it comes to video game fan art. He takes traditional game characters and makes them into more of a cartoon-like style of art.

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Write REST services

Create REST services with Java technology and the Atom Publishing Protocol

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How To Masquerade On Linux (Internet Connection Sharing)

It's very simple to masquerade (internet connection sharing in Windows language ) on Linux with a few lines of iptables and ip_forward commands. First of all you have to flush and delete existing firewall rules.

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DIY wireless camera remote

So i decided to build one on my own, and that's not that difficult. Plus, it brings a new function to my camera : a A mode.

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virtual RAID5 over Internet

There should be a VMWare machine with FreeNAS and in there are 3 HDD's for the RAID. These HDDs are coming from Free FTP-Sites on the Internet and there will be connected via NetDrive (from Novell, free download).

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How to add touch panel to Asus Eee Pc

An easy to perform hack that adds a lot to this little PC.

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Build a DIY Digg Clone with Drupal

Drupal developer Tony Mobily has built a new module for Drupal which enables anyone to start up their own Digg clone. You can grab the code and contribute to the project at drigg-code.org, or you can see it in action at drigg.org.

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Build a DIY Digg Clone with Drupal

Drupal developer Tony Mobily has built a new module for Drupal which enables anyone to start up their own Digg clone. You can grab the code and contribute to the project at drigg-code.org, or you can see it in action at drigg.org.

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Three Nerds Turn a Nativity Scene Into a LARP Battle

“IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR” is hilarious animated short about three nerds who turn a nativity scene into a LARP battle.

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Amazing Coincidences in Linguistics

Coincidences in the most antagonistic languages.

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The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds

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At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace.

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Beware of Sony, Else You'll be Damned

So after years of being a dedicated Sony consumer, I will never buy Sony again as I have learned that Sony Sucks.

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Hydrogen: An intuitive drum machine for Linux

For new users, learning to use music composition software can be a daunting task. As programs become more powerful and feature rich, it gets more difficult to find applications that one can immediately pick up and play with.

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So When Does the Final Version of Firefox 3 Arrive?

Hopefully, you've downloaded the latest beta of Firefox 3 and you're putting it through its paces. And while Beta 2 is a big improvement over previous milestone releases and the current version of the browser (read Scott's review on Compiler), we're definitely hot with anticipation for the final product.

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Design Patterns in Java: The Observer

Stephen Morris details the observer patter for implementing a publish-and-subscribe mechanism.

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How to Present Security Data to Get Your Point Across

Learn how to present security data in a style that truly gets your point across.

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Phone line controller

The task was to build a device that connects to the phone line and has a relay as an output switch. It should also sense if the connected «consumer» is turned-on or off and report to the administrator at the other end of the phone line.

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The truth on how Futurama's Zoidberg got his name

Names are bestowed on people in many ways. Sometimes a name of a favorite relative or famous ancestor is given. Other times the provided name comes from a Hollywood star that you may adore.

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Zack and Wiki: A must have game for the Wii Fanbase

Every once in a while, a video game developer does everything right. That's the case with "Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure" from Capcom, this year's sleeper hit for the Nintendo Wii.

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Atari Controller Candle Stick.

Candles are very seasonal right now - although this Atari 2600 controller candle holder is unlikely to appear on your mum's mantelpiece.

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Push RSS to new limits

Use RSS to construct an associative database

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Why Linux Didn't Win in 2007 and Why It Won't in 2008 Either

"2007 was touted as 'the year for Linux' and indeed the first quarter looked promising but things never really took off. Why is that?

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Using camcorder tapes to back up files

Using DV tapes for data storage has its advantages. A 60-minute tape, in Short Play mode, can realistically store about 10GB of information at a speed transfer of around 3MB/second, while in Long Play mode it should be able to store about 15GB.

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DIY: 3-D Star Ornaments

I first made these dimensional stars in December of 1979 when viewer Jessie Rodestock sent one to me. I said it then . . . and I say it now . . . I love 'em. They look very involved but they are truly easy. Just be sure that you are accurate in measuring and cutting, and you will have perfect stars every time.

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Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone

As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.

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How to network online

Until now, the main networking avenues have been social gatherings, business events and professional associations, but in the digital age, net-based social networking has taken off.

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Circle Phone, Going Back To Simplicity

The upswing in high-tech technology integrated into every facet of our lives will soon (say 5+ years from now) experience a backlash started by none other than us; designers. The Circle Phone is an example of such a backlash.

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Create dynamic applications with javax.tools

This article provides an overview of the major classes in the package, demonstrates how to use them to create a façade for compiling Java source from Java Strings instead of files, and then uses this façade to build an interactive plotting application.

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Getting started with JavaServer Faces 1.2

This tutorial series covers how to get started with JSF 1.2. It's heavy on examples and light on theory — just what you need to get started quickly

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Nintendo Wii winning the console war

New research indicates that shoppers favour consoles ranging from $100 to $300, and that game selection is the most important attribute when choosing a system.

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Creating Split Screen Effects in Adobe Premiere

after playing around and it proved to be one of the simplest effects to achieve. You can also use a similar technique to achieve the funky editing seen in another US drama series, "24".

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Selective Colorization using The GIMP

In this tutorial I will explain how to convert a color photograph to a B&W one with color restored to selective areas. With the right subject this can give really striking results, as you can see for yourself. This technique is elsewhere referred to sometimes as "hand coloring" :-)

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OpenOffice Online Now Available For Beta Testing

In the latest challenge to Microsoft's dominance of the productivity software market, a group of Linux developers has begun testing an online version of a free office applications suite.

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Intercept Network Packets With Python

Pcapy is a Python extension module that interfaces with the libpcap packet capture library. Pcapy enables python scripts to capture packets on the network.

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Wii, The best hackable console: A Guitar Hero Hack

I hacked my Wii Guitar Hero Guitar so it can actually be played like an instrument, with up to 45 different pitches at my disposal.

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Tips for those on the hunt for the elusive, desirable Wii

The Japanese gamemaker has had the hottest toy gift two holiday seasons in a row, a title that brings bragging rights, but also stokes criticism and frustration from those unable to find the console.

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Ext2 IFS For Windows: Reading Linux partitions like a breeze

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

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Ext2 IFS For Windows: Reading Linux partitions like a breeze

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

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Programming Best Practices: Profiling

Without profiling you could easily spend several hours optimizing a loop that executes in negligible time and ignore the three lines that copy huge chunks of memory for No Apparent Reason. Get it working, and then use your profiler to get it working fast.

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Application development for the OLPC laptop

. The XO also includes an application environment written in Python with a human interface called Sugar, accessible to everyone (including kids). Explore the Sugar APIs and learn how to develop and debug a graphical activity in Sugar using Python.

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Four Ways to Keep LAMP Secure

The Apache HTTP server has a great security record, at least when it runs on Linux or any proper Unix-type operating system. But plain old static read-only Web sites are an endangered species; now we have all this LAMP guff

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Wii shortages hurt Nintendo's planning

Nintendo Co Ltd is having trouble planning for the coming months because of shortages of its Wii video game console, and the company is also seeing signs of higher-than-expected demand for its DS handheld device, a top U.S. executive said on Monday.

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Strange New Products: Subtle Butt - Fart Pads

A company called The Pond Inc. is now selling a product called "Subtle Butt", billed as a fart neutralizer, to eliminate smelly flatulence.

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Great Wallpapers from National Geographic

Featuring Wallpapers by National Geographic.

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Hillary: No intention of running for president

This is a blast from the past: Former first lady Hillary Clinton says she has no plans to launch a bid to become the country's first woman president in the next two elections.

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Hillary: No intention of running for president

This is a blast from the past: Former first lady Hillary Clinton says she has no plans to launch a bid to become the country's first woman president in the next two elections.

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Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster and Better

Here are 77 tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. A few are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions; the rest for self-starters, or those learning on their own. Happy learning.

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Cavegirls were first blondes to have fun

According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age to make them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males.

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Redheads 'have more sex than blondes or brunettes'

Blondes may have more fun but redheads have more sex, according to new research in Germany.

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Impressive Libraries Around the World

See amazing places people don't care about anymore.

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Mobile phone use increases risk of mouth cancer

Five years of frequent mobile use increased the chances of developing a tumour by about 50 per cent compared with people who had never used one.

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Top 10 Geek Watches

While much of the tech that Bond has had access to was fictional in scope, there is a variety of watches available now that carry on the tradition of tech incorporated into effortless cool. In honor of Bond, we’ve compiled a list of our current nerd-style wristwatch favorites, which we hope will help you channel your inner geek-gent.

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Blackmail by Bluetooth

The incident that sparked the Qatif Girl rape trial began when an 18-year-old girl reportedly met an ex-boyfriend in front of a mall in 2006 to retrieve a photograph of herself.

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Sega developing mind-controlled robots

Sega is a company with its eye on the horizon - constantly scanning the skyline for the next big thing, whether that be memory cards with games built into them or fast-footed blue hedgehogs with a hatred of ginger scientists. Apparently though, the next item on the agenda for the company is robots - which you control with your mind!

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Top 10 Apple products which flopped

Apart from phenomenal products like the iPod, iMac and Macbooks, Apple in its 30 year old history has churned out super flop products too. Here is a list of 10 products in reversing order from Apple which fizzled in the market.

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10 Great USB Gifts for Geeks

We've got gift ideas to serve all types of geeks, including chess masters, gaming gods, and aspiring artists.

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Creating a Flash Lite Game

Making rich media for mobile consumption has never been easier since the release of the Flash Lite player for mobile devices. You can make a vector graphics game that could be played on any device regardless of its operating system or screen resolution easily as long as that device is equipped with the Flash Lite player

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Pylons Python Web Framework

Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It's also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard,

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Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters

Amazon continues to amaze us with its Amazon Web Services series of offerings. The latest is SimpleDB, which will be available in limited beta in a few weeks. And it is bound to have a major impact on web infrastructure. As Amazon says in its email to existing developers

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Easy Graphs with django-graphs

Data presentation is hard enough without graphs looking like they somehow traveled forward through time from 1987 to the present. Django-graphs aims to create a beautiful, extensible, and fast graph rendering library for standalone or conjunctive usage with Django.

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Hacker turns iPhone into camcorder

An iPhone owner who uses the alias "drunknbass" has hacked Apple Inc.'s iconic smart phone and managed to turn it into a video camcorder.

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Developing Python LDAP Applications

This article mini-series by Matt Butcher will look at the Python application programmers interface (API) for the LDAP libraries, and using this API, we will connect to our OpenLDAP server and manipulate the directory information tree. More specifically, we will cover the following in this article series:

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Help me to put this one on digg's frontpage: Easy Tips for Stop Motion Animation

Last week, we interviewed DIY Stop Motion Animator, Javan Ivey, and he showed us his home built studio. Now he's showing us how to utilize this workspace with some great software and helpful hints for doing Stop Motion Animation.Indy Mogul is a great resource to improve your video shooting skills and maybe develop a career in the movie or tv industry.

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EeeXubuntu its Xubuntu for your Eee PC

Well, if you were lucky enough to snag an Eee, or if you suspect you are getting one as some physical representation of another’s love for you, and you aren’t too happy with the Xandros Linux distro that comes with it, there is a solution.

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The day it snowed in San Diego

December 13, 1967, is a day you can't forget – unless you weren't here. Then, it's a day you can't quite accept.

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PSP Firmware 3.80 in the Works, Adds Streaming Radio

The latest PSP firmware update (this one being 3.80) is set to release on the 18th, and we've got full details on what's inside.

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PSP outranks Wii at Amazon...... Japan

Sales for Sony Corp.'s PSP handheld outranked sales for Nintendo Co.'s Wii in the latest sales information from Amazon Japan.

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The DIY Fisheye Lens

So we have odd ambitions. At least with the DIY Fisheye Lens, we’re (kinda) there. With it, we can give our photos that wonderfully distorted “fisheye” perspective – the one we’d like to think fish see everything from.

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Five Ways to Cut Your Utility Bill

Besides the obvious acts of shutting things down when you're not using them, there are other things you can do to cut down on your Con Ed (or whatever utility company owns you—I mean, supplies your home) bills.

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Sun to Discontinue Developer Tools

Sun Microsystems plans to discontinue its Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools and encourage users to move to the NetBeans IDE, the company said Tuesday.

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Super Mario power up! energy drink: just add vodka

Why not give yourself a kick in the pants, Mario style, with this Super Mario Power Up! Energy Drink.

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How to Build a Web Design Business

With all of the free HTML editors available, building a Web site is a snap. For those less savvy (and with a bit of money) there's Website in a Box, Website Wizard and Mr. Site Takeaway. Just think, with a little money and time, you too can build Web sites for profit. Are you ready to start a small business? No!

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New `Jackass' movie to hit Internet

The next batch of painful "Jackass" stunts is coming to a computer screen near you.

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Some HP laptops exposed to criminal hacking

On Tuesday, a security researcher disclosed to Bugtraq, a public newsgroup, details of remote execution attacks on some models of Hewlett-Packard laptops.

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A Business Card That Dials You Up By Itself

I bet nobody has given you a business card before that actually dials you up by itself! Read on to find out how I did it ....

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SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: Thinking in Sets

This sample chapter discusses the concept of a set along with each of the other major set operations in SQL.

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300,000 Drivers License Suspensions Loom in Virginia

Virginia DUI defense attorney Bob Battle has an excellent post today regarding the "unintended consequences of Virginia harsh "bad driver fees" put into law by our General Assembly earlier this year.

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Linux/Unix hacks: How to get copy, conversion power with DD

System administrators often have to copy data around. Copying and converting ordinary data is easily accomplished with the Linux command called cp. However, if the data is not ordinary, cp is not powerful enough. The needed power can be found in the dd command, and here are some ways to put that power to good use.

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Mars Spirit Rover Low on Power

Scientists Concerned About Power Supply on Mars Rover Spirit After Dust Storm Drained Energy

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Watching Linux grow in the islands of Andaman and Nicobar

In the last eight months, the islands of Andaman and Nicobar have witnessed tremendous development in the IT sector, especially in the case of open source and Linux®. Those I call the “IT people of Andaman” have been reluctant to implement and explore the benefits of open source software in the past. Some still are.

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Tip: Make the best use of asynchronous callbacks

Coordination of data sources in JavaScript applications

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Ajax -- A guide for the perplexed

Take a hands-on tour of Ajax development, the Dojo framework, and blogging

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Perl – An Awesome Programming Language

I have just finished learning the programming language Perl, and let me tell you, this is one amazing language. It can do almost anything! It's very easy to learn if you have a knowledge of C or C++. If you don't, I suggest learning Python first. I learned that very quickly, in a day or two.

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Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet

Keep it handy.

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Microsoft's Office Live Workspace nets mixed reviews

Marketed towards home, small business and educational users, Office Live Workspaces more or less endows Microsoft's cash cow Office suite with a free hosted service for sharing and collaborating on Office documents.

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5 useful PHP functions for MySQL data fetching

In this article we present 5 useful functions which greatly simplify majority of real-life MySQL operations.

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First Preview Of ‘The Dark Knight’

A small crowd in New York were lucky enough to preview the first six minutes of the new Batman film The Dark Knight on Monday, and it seems it left everyone wanting more.

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Open Source Group Sues Verizon

A group of lawyers focused on protecting open-source and free software has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon Communications, alleging that routers the company uses with its Fios broadband service violate the GNU GPL (General Public License).

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New Apple store highlights "geniuses," services

New store in Manhattan, the smiling "geniuses" and "concierges" standing at attention are as important as the iPods and Mac computers on display.

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Essential Bluetooth hacking tools

If you are planning to gain a deeper understanding of Bluetooth security, you will need a good set of tools with which to work. By familiarizing yourself with the following tools, you will not only gain a knowledge of the vulnerabilities inherent in Bluetooth-enabled devices

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Olympics,iPhone and ‘vishing’ to spur web attacks

It says threats associated with the Chinese Olympics, online advertisements, the iPhone and Web 2.0 apps are among the top areas that hackers will be focusing on, as well as the new concept of "vishing".

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Selection Criteria for Javascript Frameworks

With the continuous growth of AJAX technologies adoption, many developers and architects are still trying and sometimes struggling to determine what are the best ways to evaluate Java Script frameworks/libraries. Brian Raindel offered some advice on the various aspects one should consider during the selection process,

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Chinese Suspected in U.S. Cyberattack

Investigators Believe Chinese Hackers Carried Out 'Sophisticated' Hit

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Mozilla, Opera Want to Make Video on the Web Easier

New features in the Firefox and Opera browsers could make it less complex and cheaper for people to incorporate video into their Web sites.

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Microsoft Releases HD Photo Plug-In For Photoshop

The software is intended for use with Photoshop CS2 or CS3 running on Windows XP or Windows Vista.

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Ubuntu as a media centre PC

A little over two weeks ago I ordered a new computer. What I was after was a linux-based box that could run MythTV reliably but quietly (since it will be in the living room).

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Is Perl 6 Lost in the Jungle?

It's that time of year, Larry Wall has put up his annual thoughts on the state of Perl. This time Wall takes a quite interesting, humorous and thoroughly biased tour through the history of scripting languages.

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Don't Get Lost Shopping for GPS

Navigation gadgets are now so widely available no one needs to worry about getting lost anymore — except when they're trying to choose the right device.

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Ajax and XML: Ajax for chat

Use Ajax and PHP to build a chat application

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Universities bring video games into classrooms

Many parents wish their kids would spend less time at the computer playing games and messaging, and concentrate more on homework, sports or family activities.

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Expand your text entry options with keystroke dynamics

Learn how to apply the open source tools xev and Perl in keystroke dynamics to measure the more-subtle characteristics of human-computer interaction.

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Dethroning Ubuntu -- What Would It Take?

Many people are looking to Ubuntu to be something that it is not: A mass market ready operating system designed to work with the same level of compatibility as Microsoft Windows.

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Posterized illustration effects in Photoshop

Photoshop’s Posterized tool is shamefully underused. Here, artist Baz Pringle shows you how to rediscover its potential…

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[Unix/Linux] Linux Shell One-Liners

A short introduction to getting a little more from your shell with piping & redirection

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Micro-Apache for Windows, a webserver for your USB stick

This is a microscopic, cut-down version of the latest standard GPL Apache 2.0.61 server developed to meet the FloppyWeb Challenge.

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Joining .WAVs with PHP

There is no need for complicated speech synthesis because you only need recordings of the 26 possible letters. But you need a way of joining those recordings on the fly…

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Are you smarter than an IT manager?

The enterprise could be facing a growing number of self-professed “tech-savvy” users, according to an Intel Canada-sponsored survey released recently by research firm Harris/Decima.

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Quick and easy backup with lftp

lftp takes the task of managing files and directories using the FTP protocol to a new level. To see what I mean, let's use lftp to write a script that creates a local backup copy of a Web site.

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Systems Administration Toolkit: Network scanning

Discover how to scan your network for services and how to regularly monitor your services to keep uptimes to a maximum.

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Robots, mazes, and subsumption architecture

Find out how to create light-seeking and maze-navigating virtual robots in the Java language using Simbad — an open source robot simulator based on Java 3D technology — to realize the robotics-design concept of subsumption architecture.

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Build a Pownce like app with Ajax and PHP

Learn to build a chat system into your Web application with Asynchronous JavaScript™ + XML (Ajax) and PHP. Your customers can talk to you and to each other about the content of the site without having to download or install any special instant-messaging software.

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Tomcat used by 64% of Java Developers

Apache Tomcat is the most used application server by the Java community, according to a recent study conducted by BZ Research. The study found that Tomcat is used by 64 percent of corporate Java developers.

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Make a remote controlled camera from a cellphone!

Want to know what your cat is doing while at work? Send a text message to your newly made surveillance-cellphone and receive pictures and videos seconds later. Sounds like a dream? Not any more!

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Facebook gets $60M from Asia billionaire

Facebook Inc. has raised $60 million from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, adding to the list of financial heavyweights backing the online hangout's rapid growth.

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The Fallacy of Software Design Documentation

Recently at work, there has been a push to not only standardize on a software diagramming tool, but to enforce its use for all projects. I’m naturally opposed to this “one size fits all” approach, but it also made me think about the ways teams use software documentation.

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Netbeans 6 is out!!!

NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.0! Download now.

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XML.com: Introducing E4X

I suspect partially because of a general ambivalence that the JavaScript community has towards working with XML, but more so because there is comparatively little out there describing how best to take advantage of the features that E4X offers.

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Show Google Calendar events on your PHP Web site with XPath

often copy event calendar information from online calendaring applications onto their Web sites, reducing the effectiveness of centrally managing events online. Find out how to use XPath to extract and display Google Calendar data on your PHP Web site.

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Text Processing in Python: Tips for Beginners

Python shares a strength in text processing with several popular scripting languages. Python excels as a tool for searching, modifying, and otherwise manipulating textual data. This article reviews for a programmer fist learning Python the various text processing facilities built into Python. Some general concepts of regular expressions are explain

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Installing nvidia and ATI drivers in Linux is a pain no more

Simplifying what till now has been a command-line driven process is what lies behind Envy, a series of Python scripts specifically designed to automate graphics driver installations for Ubuntu and Debian users. Its simple GUI says it all...

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Ultumix Linux OS 2008 v0.0.1.0 Pre Release is ready for download

The Linux OS for Windows users by previous Windows Users.

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Key logging wireless keyboards

Being comfortable pays a great price: your security.

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Steve Jobs favorite word: Boom!

Steve likes to say boom to insist on how fast his software can react or crash...

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Voice over IP hacking is easy

UK-based VoIP expert, Peter Cox has released proof-of-concept software that can eavesdrop on the VoIP-based phone calls.

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Tesla X-Mas Tree

Merry Christmas! This is a single photo from a Nikon D70s digital camera and is a 91 second exposure of a real functioning Tesla coil and is the result of perhaps 50 hours of preparation.

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Awesome Composite Photo How-To

Hit the jump to see a video of how it was done (shooting and post work) and a link to one of the coolest photographer website designs I have seen in a while.

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Wii ‘as rare as hens’ teeth’ this Christmas

IT IS a cyber version of the Soviet bread queues as anxious consumers scour the internet for this year's elusive Christmas must-have: the Wii games console.

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DIY The Coolest Free White Background Ever

Need a super-quick white-ish background to photograph that little thingamajig you are selling on eBay?

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Guard your digital camera/camcorder from the elements

You've got a snazzy digital camera, but you want to take it into a wet, dusty environment. Protect it with a simple zip-lock bag and a filter.

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Cheap DIY (Homemade) Muslin Photography Background

This backdrop is similar to those sold online for a couple hundred dollars! But guess what? for around 20 bucks and about an hours time I've made a studio backdrop myself, and now I'll show YOU how you can make a backdrop yourself!

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