Wired Magazine: Clean the Blood, Cure Bird Flu?

California researchers say a blood-cleaning machine could save lives if bird flu becomes a pandemic. Fighting viruses by cleansing the blood might sound too good to be true, and many infectious disease experts say it is.

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A radical fix for airlines: Make flying free

Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of Ireland's Ryanair (Research), Europe's most profitable airline, wants to make air travel free. Not free as in free from regulation, but free as in zero cost. By the end of the decade, he promises, "more than half of our passengers will fly free."

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New look google talk

New google talk out, with display pictures and chat 'themes' - great new version, check it out.

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The sadly neglected Google synonym operator

A quick tutorial on using the Google Synonym operator to perform better and more interesting searches.

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Study Shows People Do Not Trust Microsoft!

Out of 22 companies, Microsoft ranked 20th in brand trust showing that consumers are wary about the company. HP and Apple (of course) broke the top 5 as being trustworthy. Accordig to the study Microsoft has "negative brand potential."

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'When we turn the current on, the emptiness suddenly disappears'

'When we turn the current on, the patients report the emptiness suddenly disappears'. Sufferers from depression who do not respond to existing treatments could soon benefit from a new procedure in which electrodes are inserted into the core of the brain and used to alter the patient's mood.

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How phishing sites fool us

Solving the puzzle of why so many people fall for the email-based phishing attacks was the driving force behind a US research study which reveals that consumers may not comprehend even the most basic internet security indicators.

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75 Helpful Web Design Resources

A bunch of web design resources with descriptions.

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Chemistry: the video game - Will Critical Mass woo students to the field?

"You are deep underground in a lab that once housed some of the finest minds in chemistry. But robots directed by a crackbrained artificial intelligence have taken it over and plan to use its equipment to destroy the world!.... you reach the Haber-Bosch room. And now you must correctly synthesize ammonia or die."

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Google TV on the way?!

A rumor is out that involves the possibility of Google TV, a project that could involve the search engine company getting into television advertising, or even a full-blown Google interactive TV service!

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What Bill Gates Wants That Outlook Can't Give Him

In the midst of Microsoft's Convergence Conference, which evoked memories of Tom Cruise "painting" data on a big screen in "Minority Report," Redmond's prophet staked-out a decidely prosaic vision. Bill Gates forsees vastly more powerful Outlook rules that let you tailor your message responses to the person, place and time... Easily.

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Japan to introduce vending machines with age-check system

"...The institute announced that a total of 620,000 tobacco vending machines nationwide will be switched during 2008 to types that can read "tobacco cards" with integrated circuit chips bought by adult smokers."

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This Worm Is Nasty, Brutish, And Sneaky

New worm, The Hearse, is almost immune to detection. This was discovered over a week ago but this is the first I've read of it.

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Print from your laptop to your wall using a can of spraypaint and string

This is the coolest thing ever! Two electronics engineering students in Zurich made this simple but intriguing way of printing from their tiny laptop to a wall of just about any size using a can of spray paint, some string, and two tiny motors. It's hypnotic to watch!

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Test Microsoft's new Web Design app! (EXCLUSIVE BETA)

Microsoft is testing their new Expression Web Design tool, and it's an EXCLUSIVE BETA! Once 5000 signups are done, the beta will be closed off and no one else can participate. So far, this promises to be better than front page (think Microsoft's own version of Dreamweaver) so I think this is worth signing up for.

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Awesome: Pure CSS Image Gallery

This is a pretty cool multi-page, cross-browser image gallery made completely in css. Check it out!

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Cool Militaristic Phone

Kitted out in a militaristic 'safari green' hue, the phone has 1GB of memory, supports Sony's ATRAC 3 Plus, AAC and MP3. It has a big, 2.8in 240 x 400, 262,144-colour display and a 320,000-pixel camera. There's an FM radio on board too.

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A free weekend of Xbox Live gold starts tomorrow!

Microsoft will offer free access to its Xbox Live gold service from March 31 through April 2, the company said Thursday.

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Google Local Search Shows Image Ads On Maps

As anticipated, Google is launching a feature Thursday night for businesses that want to target customers based on geography. Marketers will be able to place photos and logos inside balloons that pop up on Google maps exactly where the merchants are located.

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AllOfMp3.com Launces allTunes Software

AllofMP3 has released a beta of its latest desktop music library and download tool allTunes. It is a windows desktop or smartphone interface to the AllOFMP3 library, allowing users to find and download high quality music easily.

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Comcast, Time Warner back Cablevision DVR plan, no more DVR boxes

The proposed new service will allow cable TV subscribers to record programs on Cablevision Systems' network servers, doing away with the need for digital video recorder boxes made by companies like TiVo and Cisco Systems' Scientific-Atlanta.

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Engineers Demonstrate Revolutionary Photonic Technology

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a way to build on the dominant infrastructure rather than replace it -- by "translating" optical signals between the current infrared standard and a wide range of other bands of light.

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Typepad is launching blog widgets!

"SixApart�s Typepad is about to announce Widgets for bloggers. And this is about to simplify the life of million of bloggers who until now had more or less to deal with placing html code in their template to customize and enrich their blogs with third party features." Can I just add... Finally!

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DesktopBSD 1.0 Screenshot Tour

DistroWatch reports - We are pleased to announce that DesktopBSD 1.0 is now available from our download mirrors and via BitTorrent. Changes include: upgrade to KDE 3.5.1; update to FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE; user-friendlier package manager; printing fixes; hardware event notifications; many smaller improvements.

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Hackers Use BBC News as IE Attack Lure

According to an alert issued by Websense Security Labs, in San Diego, excerpts from actual BBC News stories are being used to lure IE users to Web sites that launch drive-by downloads of bots, spyware, back doors and other Trojan downloaders.

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The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

"I began this list of warning signs to help federal judges detect scientific nonsense, but as I finished the list I realized that in our increasingly technological society spotting voodoo science is a skill that every citizen should develop."

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Virtual Cell Biology may help create pet dragons, gryphons, and unicorns

GeneDupe's scientists can customise the result so that it belongs to a particular species, by loading it with a virtual copy of that animal's genome. Then, if the cell is also loaded with the right virtual molecules, it will behave like a fertilised egg, and start dividing and developing�first into an embryo, and ultimately into an adult.

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The Ultimate Tabbed Menu

A synergistic synthesis of modern web technology to attempt to create the Ultimate Tabbed Menus � for users of all skill levels. The Ultimate Tabbed Menu features well styled tabs, with support for shadows, using a three piece assembly method � somewhat similar to the Sliding Doors technique.

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IBM boffins unlock secret to atom-scale magnetism

Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center in California have developed a new technique to explore and control magnetism at the atomic level. "We can now position atoms and then measure and control their magnetic interactions within precisely designed structures," said IBM researcher Andreas Heinrich.

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MySpace removes 200,000 objectionable profiles to calm teen safety fears

MySpaceMySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 �objectionable� profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users.

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Google can help you find passwords

This article explains how you can use google to find peoples passwords. Pretty crazy stuff.

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The Ultimate Tabbed Menu

A synergistic synthesis of modern web technology to attempt to create the Ultimate Tabbed Menus for users of all skill levels. The Ultimate Tabbed Menu features well styled tabs, with support for shadows, using a three piece assembly method somewhat similar to the Sliding Doors technique.

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Digg mentioned in slate.com story on Web 2.0

"Digg's imminent acquisition is a foregone conclusion among valley wags."

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HOW TO - Set Up Your Own Personal Wikipedia

Gina writes: "The software that runs Wikipedia, called MediaWiki, is freely available for anyone to install. Today we�ll set up MediaWiki on your Windows PC and get started with a video demonstration on how to add, edit and compare page revisions in your new, local personalpedia."

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Retouching photos to the max!

Greg Apodaca's web portfolio showcases some of the most EXTREME retouched photos that I have ever seen done. This is worth checking out to see who the real models are behind the magazine covers our society idolizes. His site shows the original scans followed by his retouching of each image. Check this out!

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Scans suggest IQ scores reflect brain structure

Researchers say that a remarkable data set on the developing brain adds to the idea that IQ is a meaningful concept in neuroscience.

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Free and Open Source Software at silverorange

Ever wonder what programs the designers of digg use? Steven Garrity of silverorange describes a few that they use.

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Pandora and Last.fm Together�sort of

TechCrunch says, "...Real-ity.com has created something of a mashup (you will need a last.fm account to use this) - a clone of the Pandora player running on their server, with a script to submit any track directly to your last.fm account for later tagging, etc."

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Interesting Facts About Domain Names - Analysis

Analysis of all 3.5GB of the .COM TLD zone file

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Crysis : New demo video (1280x720 High Quality)

This game looks freakin' awesome... This 93 seconds demo video is from the 2006 Game Developers Conference. Now Crytek & EA released this high quality video, sure worth a watch.. or two!

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Never wait for that green light again!

Sweet article on how to trip the traffic lights at intersections, using the only known enemy to traffic lights MAGNETS! If you set this baby up right no more waiting around on your jog for a light to change. Or for you adventurous types, might I suggest a magnet on a stick from your car? more after the jump!

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Cluster and Double Star witness a new facet of Earth's magnetic behaviour

Five spacecraft from two ESA missions unexpectedly found themselves engulfed by waves of electrical and magnetic energy as they travelled through Earth's night-time shadow on 5 August 2004.

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Adam Curry's shady Podshow contract exposed on Keith and the Girl podcast

An anonymous listener mailed the Podshow contract to Keith and the Girl's PO Box and they read it on the show. Take a listen to see how few rights you would have left if you signed. see also: www.keithandthegirl.com/forums/showthread.php?p=28947

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Radioshack game contains Commodore 64 on a single chip and is hackable

This website is devoted to the Hummer off-road racing game currently being sold by Radio Shack. Inside, it contains the Commodore 64 DTV chip, designed by Jeri Ellsworth. This chip is, in essence, and entire Commodore 64 reduced down to a single chip.

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Mind blowing Video from North Korea

Dan Rather has been one of the few journalists cleared to into North Korea, while he was there he got these incredible, yet creepy images of the North Korean 'war games'... this is a just a very quick clip from the 60 minutes segment, but a link to the full documentary is provided within

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Best looking PC FPS EVER .. The Cell Factor (VIDEO)

Be prepared to crap your pants. AGEIA(Company supporting sony for ps3's physics) have shown off THEE best physics demo anyons ever seen. Lets hope that this will some day be a real fps. This is running all in REAL TIME.

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vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet & Tutorial

A visually accessible guide to vi/vim editing, using graphical keyboard maps. It should help a lot in understanding those powerful but cryptic commands.

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Most Useful CSS Properties with Examples

The ultimate reference on CSS, simple and concise.

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Amazing Photoshop Retouch

How advertisers assemble reality, breakdown

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More accurate Revolution specs released!

IGN had a look at some more accurate revolution specs, GPU and CPU speeds and the amount of memory...some may be disappointed, while some may look at it from the cost perspective and be happy. You've gotta ask...why didn't Nintendo just release some screenshots first?

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Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps

his tutorial examines the different layout properties available in CSS: position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, and float.

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YouTube.com Downgrades Feature to Prevent Copyright Violations

They write: "We did some analysis of the videos in our system over 10 minutes in length, and we found the overwhelming majority of them were full length, copyrighted videos from tv shows and movies." So much for "15 minutes" of fame. They note that most videos are under 3 minutes. Google video still no such limits.

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Toshiba's First Gaming Laptop: The Satellite P105-S921

For $1999, the P105-S921 offers excellent performance that comes courtesy of a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo T2400 processor with 1GB of DDR memory and a 160GB hard drive. The 17-inch display with TruBrite technology is another nice feature. Availability has not yet been announced for this 7.2-pound laptop.

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Make Your Own Low-Budget Dremel Stylus

"How to improve handling and control on your Dremel Multi, in BETA version for now. This is student-budget style." I would say, if you can afford to buy a Dremel, you can buy the "actual thing". Check it out anyway, it might be a fun project to do.

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Gmail New Features.

Some Gmail New Features, including table, html, image, and smiley. And attachment???

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Why Ruby on Rails Will Ultimately Dominate Software Development

The new 1.1 version of Ruby on Rails almost seems to drive the final nail into the coffin of .NET and J2EE. Enterprises will take their time but everyone else will start turning out great software. Includes rare video interview with Rails creator and detailed overview of Rails 1.1.

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Lightbox JS 2.0 Released

Lokesh from HuddleTogether.com has finally released Lightbox JS 2.0!!! Check out the site for more information!

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Autistic Spends 16 Years Designing an Amazing World

Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. Check out the pics!

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Office 2007... Video Footage of it in Action!

Screenshots are a great way for users to get a glimpse of upcoming products. The problem is that screenshots don't really show how the product runs, just how it looks. Luckily, Microsoft has released some new Office 2007 footage so that users don't have to form opinions based on screenshots any longer.

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Your Xbox Birth Certificate

Built entirely in flash, this application gives you information about your xbox based on your serial number. Where it was made, when it was made, and most importantly for people looking for mod chips, what version your xbox is.

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Google v. Microsoft: New Search Interfaces

Google and Microsoft both have new search interfaces in beta. Here are some comparisons of the two.

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Paypal Mobile Launches - And Its Awesome (via Techcrunch)

No more stopping at ATMs for your friend to give you back that $20 he just borrowed. And no more waiting for change at a restaurant when you're paying on a credit card and your friend wants to give you cash. And ... just read and start using this.

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Riding on a Cushion of Vapor

When a tiny droplet of cold fluid mixes with a high-temperature solid particle, a vapor layer forms between them, and they never actually touch. Researchers have performed the first accurate computer simulation of this small-scale phenomenon

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200+ photos of the PS3 including pics from the GDC keynote!

Tons of PS3 photos including pictures of Lair, Rainbow Six, the PS3 online interface, music store, Ratchet and Clank, etc.

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Autistic or just a Geek? Take the Test

Apparently a much higher than average percentage of computer workers are diagnosed with a mild form of autism called "Asperger's Syndrome". This test allow you to filter yourself out as just Geeky or maybe having something to actually worry about.

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Cassini's View of Jupiter's South Pole!

Cassini took many photographs of Jupiter on the way to Saturn, including this unusual montage of its southern pole. This photograph was made up of 36 separate images, stitched together on computer.

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Google patents free Wi-Fi

The search-engine giant has developed and patented three technologies for offering wireless Internet access, and advertising, free of charge.

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Surprise! Your Favorite Application Is Now Open Source

So how often does a successful Windows program go open source? Not too often, it turns out. Xara, British developer of blazing fast vector graphics software recently released the source code for their Xara Xtreme illustration program at Libre Graphics in Lyon, France and Xara LX - a Linux version of their amazing Windows illustration program.

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List of companies and assets owned by Microsoft

A bit of Apple here, a whole lot of Rare over there, Hotmail, NTL, RadioShack, Sendit, WebTV, AT&T..... The list just seems to go on and on forever!

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Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial

Nice CSS float tutorials

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Desktop Backgrounds For Designers

These are some great designer desktop background sources. Did I mention they're free.

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Tabbed CSS Gallery combining Hoverbox, Suckerfish, and Lightbox.

Yet another Monday morning post from my new favorite obsession. An example of a tabbed CSS/JS gallery combining three popular techniques.

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Google Makes Job Hunting REALLY Interesting

Try this for Job Hunting on Google!!!

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Digg helped "Best blanket for playing video games" company take off!

"The only promotion for the Slanket had come from Graves, who posted a message about the Slanket on the website digg.com. The demand proved almost fatal to the young business. The Cleggs took the website down for almost a week as they focused on filling orders."

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Brain Cells and Silicon Combined in New 'Neuro-Chip'

The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed "neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together.

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40+ Suggestions for Better Desktop

Here is a collection of well thought out suggestions on improving the user experience. While the items are heavily focused on Gnome, many suggestions are applicable across all platforms.

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Google Maps + US Census Information = Analysis of your Area

This site combines Google Maps with information from the 2000 (not outdated, next is 2010) census information and gives you an analysis of the entered area. The average income is 75k within a 1 mile radius of my house! :(

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Last.FM your iPod.

If you don't listen to music alot on your computer but have an iPod and would like to keep track... well, here you go.

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VIDEO: Air Car. A car that runs on air

Motor Development International has developed a car that runs on air. It uses Compressed Air Technology to run the car. The tanks are made of carbon fiber. Great for city driving since it only has a range of 150km. Cold air is the only emission which can then run the A/C.

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Over 700 Web 2.0 Sites Reviewed by hand

These guys reviewed over 700 web 2.0 websites and then categorized 300 of them with rewards and so on. There are also great interviews with big names such as Craig Newmark from Craig's List.

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Apple's Mac Os X 10.5 Leopard Will Probably Run Windows!

Rumors have been brewing that Jobs and co. are taking steps toward allowing Windows apps to run on Macs. Now evidence has surfaced that Apple has begun the process toward doing just that! Is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's juggernaut 95% market share?

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30-inch Apple Cinema Display vs. Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP

CNet compares the two 30" monitors against each other. Excellent round-up.

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An Intro to RFID Technology

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are showing up a lot in the news lately, especially as sources of security risks and privacy invasion. What follows is an introduction to what RFID (or arphids as they are colloquially known) tags are, what they are used for, and what security and privacy risks they present.

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Internet Explorer CSS Zen Garden Submission?!

Well, as a web designer I never thought i'd see the day. Microsoft has created a css zen garden layout to showcase IE7.

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 due in Q2 2007

Adobe today said that users can expect the release of Adobe Creative Suite 3 -- the first Mac Intel-native version of the professional graphics suite -- in the second quarter of 2007.

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Free Orb TV allows user to stream TV from home to 36,000 ft

Given my failures with Slingbox, I'm a little skeptical, but I'd still like to take this for a test drive...especially since it's free.

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Company Develops a 1.5 Volt Paper Battery

The paper battery converts chemical energy directly into electricity. The process generates electricity without any environmentally harmful by-products and goes on at a very wide temperature and humidity with a stable power output.

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How to Have a 36 Hour Day

10 ways to get more time out of your day. Covers topics like polyphasic sleep and GTD and software applications that you can use to save time. Interesting stuff since time is the one thing we all want more of.

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Computer and programming books

High quality computer books for available for free download.

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Cold War "Time Capsule" Found in Brooklyn Bridge

In a dank and dingy vault underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, a routine structural inspection last week unearthed a veritable Cold War time capsule, city officials announced this week.

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Video: LED car rims display digital image while driving

I'm not huge into "pimping" my ride, but this is just cool. These rims can display an image on your rims while you drive. This video pretty much sums it all up. You can create custom images and change them while driving.

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hotDigg - The ultimate free Digg Screen saver

I actually wondered why nobody thought of this before? It looks pretty nice I guess and you don't need to go to digg every few minutes anymore, instead have your digg.com news delivered directly to your screen. This is -not only- a screen saver but works in a standalone mode as well. 3D version coming up soon. Screenshots available.

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Subvocal speech recognition

NASA researchers can hear what you're saying, even when you don't make a sound. This is done by recording the weak electrical currents from your brain to the speech muscles. Very interesting new technology.

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Prototype AJAX Windows

Based of Prototype 1.4, this class allows you to add skinnable windows within a page. Works on all major browsers. Uses one CSS and Javascript file and thats all.

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Crutchfield makes connecting your iPod to your car stereo easy as pie

Extremely useful application Crutchfield has created for the iPod owners out there. Tell it what kind of iPod you have and what kind of car you have and it will show you all the different ways you can connect your iPod to your car stereo.

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Study Shows most People are Unaware of Their Incompetence

The tendency of the average person to believe he or she is better-than-average is known as the "above-average effect," and it flies in the face of logic� by definition, it is impossible for a majority of people to be above average. Clearly a large number of the self-described "above average" individuals are actually below average.

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100% CSS Rounded Corners WITH anti-aliasing. No images. No JavaScript.

Spiffy Corners is a simple way to generate the CSS and HTML you need to create anti-aliased corners without using images or javascript.

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PS3 Game Photos from Sony's GDC Keynote!

Despite Sony asking attendees not to take pictures during Phil Harrison's keynote speech at GDC, a member of a Spanish forum managed to sneakily snap pictures of the games that were shown and has now posted his roll online.

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Who's Building the Next Web?

Digg is one of them!!! (according to Newsweek)

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Wanna know how China intercepts and censors the internet?

This slide show presentation on CNN.com shows you how China can monitor emails and website visitation with a click of the mouse? Thank God the U.S can't do this. Right? Right?

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AJAX Site Design using Prototype

The internet is full of tutorials explaining those little tricks about AJAX, all that low level stuff, but nobody gives you the overview on how all these things should work together. We have libraries to abstract from the Browser dependant things, and we should concentrate on higher level design for good and usefull applications.

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Life without a Mouse - Keyboard's Glory (Great Tips!)

A mouse may have become an integral part of our day-to-day life but there exists a life without a mouse that most computer users may be stunned to here about. Infact check out great tips to do everything that you can with a mouse, without it. For newbies & pros! Keyboard rocks!

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How To Program Windows Screensavers

The tutorial demonstrates jpegs, transparent sprites, playing audio, using zipped data, using zips/bitmaps/audio embedded as resources, 3d OpenGL, multi-monitor support, and integrated installation/uninstallation. It also includes project files for Visual C++6, Visual Studio.NET, and Borland C++Builder 5.

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Upload a picture and AMD/HP donates $1 to Lance Armstrong Foundation

HP and AMD have come together to create an incredible picture. For each picture uploaded to their site, $1 is donated to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

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Want free satellite TV?

Check out this list of free to air satellite TV channels. Now all you need is a satellite dish and a receiver. Check comments for some more info!

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Programmable Soda Bottle

What will they think of next?

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DeviantArt reaches 20,000,000 deviations.

DeviantArt is a webpage where you can download wallpapers, skins... It's where artists meet.

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Researchers: Supersonic Jet Test A Success

Defense researchers believe the test of a new jet engine succeeded in hitting Mach 7.6 speed as they develop technology for faster air travel. Although officials will need to analyze the data, researcher Rachel Owen said initial reviews look like the test was successful.

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Sexiest videos on YouTube

Title says it all.

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