December 31, 2005

Apple "Leave Your Mark" Ad (used to teach about minimalism in ads)

This is one of the Apple ads back in the early 80's that was used in classes teaching Graphic Design/Marketing/Advertising, to illustrate how simplicity and minimalism is a lot more effective than your average ad...

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Apple "Leave Your Mark" Ad (used to teach about minimalism in ads)

This is one of the Apple ads back in the early 80's that was used in classes teaching Graphic Design/Marketing/Advertising, to illustrate how simplicity and minimalism is a lot more effective than your average ad...

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December 30, 2005

FBI looking to hire IT workers

Annual pay for the positions ranges from $35,452 to $135,136

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Free Online Courses at The HP Learning Center

Free online courses on Microsoft Word, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, wireless security, etc.

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Free Stock Photos Resources

An extensive list of over 50 free stock photos resources.

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100 things we didn't know this time last year

You can learn alot of stuff in 365 days. Thankfully, the BBC has compiled a list of 100 new things that have been learnt over the past year.

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Preview of the upcoming Firefox 2 browser

Here's a preview of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 2 browser including the new features/components and the release roadmap. 2006/06/27 is the release date for Firefox 2

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Anatomy Of A Hack - Step-By-Step Pen Test of a Windows Network

In this article Windows security gurus, Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley, examine in rather excruciating detail how a network may get hacked. A smaller and less detailed version was originally published in TechNet Magazine to rave reviews. Now a full chapter for their new book, it is yours for FREE. Enjoy and learn.

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Find new music to listen to

Enter the name of a band you like, and this website will graphically represent other bands that you may dig(g). The closer the bands hover to your selection, the more probability you'll like them.

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Where are we pointing our expensive security cameras?

Using the Google query "inurl:"viewerframe?mode=refresh"" -- you are provided with nearly 2,000 worldwide security cameras, most of which allow you to control the actual cameras(!). Pan, tilt, and zoom your way through computer labs in Russia and parking facilities in Japan. Cams aren't hosted on regular web servers--be patient.

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Serenity is BBC Film 2005's viewers film of the year

The browncoats have struck. Serenity has been voted BBC Film 2005 Viewers Film of the Year. Film 2005, presented by Jonathan Ross is the UK's Top Movie show!!!

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December 29, 2005

XPY - Disable Windows "calling home"

Small tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation. Besides disabling Windows and some of its components to communicate with Microsoft servers, xpy improves privacy settings and your system's security.

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Complete introduction to CSS

This article will take you through the beginning stages of picking up CSS. Covering; where to put your style sheet, creating a class, common CSS attributes, applying CSS to a HTML attribute, redefining a tag, shorthand CSS, pseudo elements and media-dependent style sheets.

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December 28, 2005

DVDFab Decrypter 2.9.6.6

"DVDFab Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Express. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, Macrovision, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying." --- Fight the Power! It's your damn movie, after all...

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Windows Genuine Advantage Updated; New Workaround Script

In addition to adding Mozilla plugin support, it seems Microsoft removed the chunk of code that accepted a cookie value that bypassed Windows Genuine Advantage requirements, breaking my Trixie/Greasemonkey scripts.

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Become an Independent Programmer in 1068 Days

Gus Mueller's 7.5 tips for making it as an independent developer, in 1068 Days.

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Beyond Porno: Free IPod Content

Wired News has your back with a roundup of some of the best free iPod content on the net.

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Bender Prototype ships in Tokyo?

This home robot can do all sorts of tasks, but owners say he is sometimes irritating. He interrupts conversations and ignores demands to be quiet. One day I found him watching TV, which we never anticipated. Then sometimes he would start dancing...

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Create dynamic images using PHP

This tutorial shows you how to create a little man holding a sign that displays various messages. (You know, like those you see on a lot of forum signatures.)

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Two CBS Sitcoms Can Now Be Viewed Online

the CBS comedies "Two and a Half Men" and "How I Met Your Mother" are being offered for free video streaming this week from the Yahoo! Web site .Available through next Monday,It is the first time that Yahoo! is streaming episodes of a CBS television series in their entirety.

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µTorrent 1.3.1 Beta has RSS Feeds

What you've all been waiting for to switch from Azureus, µTorrent now supports RSS Feed reading.

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Team PI - Burn ISO on DVD-R and Run on Xbox 360

As a precurser to a possible hack to on the "unhackable" xbox 360, it is possible to download and burn the Kiosk demo ISO that is UNSIGNED...allowing for its contents to possibly be changed to homebrew code... Unhackable...my a$$

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Top 50 Inventions - Scientific & Technological

In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time.

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How to rip a DVD: A Tutorial

All of us have a cool movie we download from torrents, and we try to rip that DVD into our CDS. This small tutorial shows you just how to do this without messing up.

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25 most interesting webcams

as selected by EarthCam.com

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HandBreak Lite: DVD to iPod in 2 clicks...

The title says it all, kids...(mac only btw)...

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The Top 10 Podcast Episodes of 2005 - Diggnation Clip Show is #2!

A great round-up of the year's best podcast shows. Diggnation and TWIT made the list as did IT Conversations. Some other really good ones as well like the physics of superheroes!

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The Net is a boon for indie labels

"Even as the recording industry staggers through another year of declining sales over all, there are new signs that a democratization of music made possible by the Internet is shifting the industry's balance of power."

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Scientistists Discover a Gene That Regulates Lifespan

Genes that control the timing of organ formation during development also control timing of aging and death, and provide evidence of a biological timing mechanism for aging, Yale researchers report in the journal Science.

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K2 For Wordpress 2.0 Coming Tomorrow

K2, the next dominating wordpress theme, is going to be released for Wordpress 2.0.

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Microsoft TV!

Microsoft TV IPTV Edition developed specifically to deliver broadcast-quality video and new, integrated TV services over broadband networks.

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Intel unveils first 65nm processor Pentium D 955

"Today, Intel announced the flagship of the upcoming second-generation Pentium D 900, code-named Presler: The Pentium D 955 rings in the transition from a 90 to a 65 nm production process and the final stage of the aging "NetBurst" architecture."

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Intel's 4-core Extreme Edition gets reviewed

Intel's new 'Presler' chip is touted as the Pentium Extreme Edition 955. It has two cores and two HyperThreaded 'virtual' cores for the ultimate multi-tasking performance. All the pics and the benchmarks in here!

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Apple Chooses Manufacturers for New Intel Based Laptops

Apple has apparently chosen Quanta and Asustek as original design manufacturers (ODMs) for its new line of Intel-based notebook computers. Quanta is expected to manufacture Apple's high-end PowerBook line, while Asustek will produce Apple's entry-level iBooks.

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What googlers do for fun.

What do you do when you work for google and you get bored? Order silly putty of course!

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Next Grand Theft Auto will be in 1997 London

According Joystiq, there is an unconfirmed rumour that the city of London will be the next GTA setting. Due to anti gun laws in Britain the game will likely feature brass knuckles and billie clubs instead of the usual sub machine guns. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to extract revenge on Posh Spice for breaking up my favourite band.

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Amazon's Price Drop Policy

"Did you know that if the price on something you buy drops, within 30 days of your purchase date, Amazon.com will credit you the difference if you ask for it? It's a not-advertised price drop policy that most people don't know about and it's saved me tons of money over the last few years." Hope many of you find this awesome.

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New MPEG-4 Standard Established: ALS (Audio Lossless Coding)

"Yesterday, according to the final national body ballot disclosed by ISO/IEC, the specification for this technology was officially approved as the MPEG*1 standard (MPEG-a ALS)."

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Comic books on Itunes

12-Gauge Comics has started putting issues of it's series Body Bags up as a free download on Itunes as a "comicast" with voice actors.

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Windows XP Hidden application Enabler

Enable the hidden applications and utilities inside Windows XP and make them available on the Start menu for easy accessiblity. 43 utilities have been unlocked in this new version of this simple utility.

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Best Open Source Encoder (Xvid, Divx, H264, MPEG-2) - StaxRip

With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format. As a open source application StaxRip is completely free.

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26,084 FREE Legal Public Domain Movies!

This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.

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Illustrator Tutorials

Free Illustrator tutorials with original source .ai file.

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Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google

Use the Google Book Search to read the O'Reilly's Hacks Series of books (or for a lot of other books, like travel guides) for free.

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December 26, 2005

Getting to know Wordpress

Wordpress is surely becoming a popular software but there are still a number of things which you might not be aware of but need to know if you intend to use the software soon.

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Digging into the Digg System

Alex Bosworth has a great post investigating the dynamics of the digg.com system. He discovered that the system is "very simple" and made up of five groups of people:

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Programmers' Tools

This site provides a listing of compilers, IDEs, editors, decompilers, debugging tools, books & tutorials for popular programming languages (C, C++, JAVA, Pascal, Basic, ...). Also contains information for Setup tools, EXE compressors anti-cracking protectors and other interesting stuff. A huge site, and seems to be updated quite often.

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Pando - Email Any Size File or Folder For Free

Pando is a tiny app that lets you email any size file or folder to anyone, free.

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Invisible Objects (Photoshop Contest)

Damn, these guys and girls are good!

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"AFTERGLOW" Is this how we will interact with a Future OS?

(Click on the Movie Link) You've got to see this to believe it! A Japanese guy uses a Laser Pointer to interact with the GUI to manipulate elements, bring up the tool bars, draws directly on the screen. Initially a Presentation Application, which may evolve into something more...

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Windows Genuine Advantage Updated; New Workaround Script

In addition to adding Mozilla plugin support, it seems Microsoft removed the chunk of code that accepted a cookie value that bypassed Windows Genuine Advantage requirements, breaking my Trixie/Greasemonkey scripts.

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