April 14, 2006

Meet The New Marine One - A $6.1-billion New Presidential Ride

The aging Marine One helicopter fleet is finally due to retire. Meet its successor. After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, starting this summer.

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AnyDVD removes Macrovision's CDS-300 copy protection

SlySoft announced yesterday that the latest version of their mega-popular DVD ripper, AnyDVD, now also removes Macrovision's CDS-300 copy protection mechanism.

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Force windows to load the kernel in memory(Windows XP tweak)

This is a very small tutorial, that will help you make your windows XP much faster, by loading the windows kernel in memory. This is a very effective tweak for windows XP.

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Screen shots of the new Family Guy game.

From these shots, it looks like you can play as Stewie, Brian, Quagmire and even Death. A lot of the quirky adult humor also remains intact.

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COMPLETE Tutorial on CSS & HTML - Beginning up to Expert

An Excellent Tutorial - you can refer to again and again and again!

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Improve your iPod with Rockbox

Tim Lord has written up his experiences installing and using the hottest MP3 jukebox player software package on the planet -- RockBox -- on his iPod. He loves it and explains why.

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CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character.

"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person." A good article on top CEOs can see a person's character on how they treat people on the lower end of the ladder.

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Play DivX on Your Xbox 360

Microsoft's Windows Media Center restricts you to using WMV and ASF formats when playing videos on your Xbox 360. The Xbox Media Center people have released a free download that lets you play DivX and Xvid on your Xbox 360.

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Scientifically Chic

"Assemble a kitchen chemistry set and toast to covalent bonding.. No longer restricted to high-school science classes and elitist research centers, industrial design marvels like beakers and flasks are an economical and durable alternative to the Martha Stewart effect."

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Real time population counter

Crazy to watch. View any countries birth and death rate rise and fall in real time. The deaths come with a brief description like "Adult, 30 - 49 years old (Male)" and it tells you if the birth was a boy or girl. Watch China or India to see the most active. Even Iraq's birth/death rate may surprise you. Cool to watch and/or use for research.

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April 13, 2006

Google Calendar Is Launching Tonight

It looks like Google Calender could be launching tonight! The official Google Calendar logo was found on Google's servers and calendar.google.com redirects to the actual CL2 login screen now.

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What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content

If (should I say "when") you experience having your website content or designs "ripped off" by some thief the tips listed here will be very handy in how to handle the situation.

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Inside the PS3

This article talks about how the embedded OS works in the XBOX360 and PS3. In a nutshell, the PS3 uses over 25% of its hardware resources to run the OS versus the XBOX360's 4%. The PS3's OS is a basic 360 copy and the XBOX360 is more efficient with the system than the PS3.

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Yahoo! Widget Engine v3.1 Released! (April 12, 2006)

Yahoo has just released v3.1 on 04/12/06. It is a MAJOR update and it includes: new widget formats, security enhancements, startup prefs, API, myYahoo RSS widget, and more. (See Comments 4 FULL ChangeLog)

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A look at NASA's computer setup!

Here's a video from NASA's press event for the 25th anniversary of its first shuttle launch: A look at 'Discovery,' a supercomputer that turns out any kind of space-related data at an incredibly quick rate. NASA's Rupak Biswas gives the tour.

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New Cola with real "Coca", bottled by a Colombian tribe

Indians in this remote mountain village in southern Colombia are marketing a particularly refreshing soft drink that harks back to Coca-Cola's original formula, when "coca" was in the name for a reason.

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How YouTube Became Hot Property In Online Video

YouTube.com seems like a startup straight out of Silicon Valley central casting. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the web.

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Yahoo! Releases 1-meter/pixel Resolution for Continental US

Last night Yahoo! released the first publicly available consistent collection of satellite photos for the entire US at 1-meter resolution. Some comments on how it compares to other mapping data and Google Earth. Here's your new chance to see your house.

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Search Engine Crawler Simulator

The Crawler Simulator checks if your site can be spiderable by the Search Engines. It helps you view your website with the eyes of a Search Engine.

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Local Coupons via RSS

Advertiser can try Zixxo's service for free for the rest of 2006. Direct link: http://www.zixxo.com/

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April 12, 2006

How To Make a Guitar/Bass Pickup

In this guide we will show you how to make a guitar pickup using neodymium magnets, a couple Popsicle sticks, and some wire. Total cost for this project will probably be less then $5 (depending on the materials you have available).

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Professional Website: $10,000 Per Page and the Reasons Why

Great read on the reasons for charging a true cost when developing a website for client, where that money goes, and the importance of having a solid business site. Good to bookmark if you've ever struggled to explain to the client why they're paying for your web work.

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Catch 'Lost' 'Alias' Online a Day Later - With Unskippable Ads

Yesterday, Disney announced details of the plan. Beginning in May, the company will begin a two-month trial that will make four popular shows from its ABC network � "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "Commander in Chief" and "Alias" � available for free viewing online the day after they are broadcast.

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Automated Freebie Finder

Automated freebie finder discovers new freebie offers while filtering out pyramid schemes. Uses a special algorithm to scrape actual freebies while ignoring free iPod scams, etc. Check it out and see if you think the algorithm works well.

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Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow

Xena, officially called 2003 UB313, was first announced in July 2005 and lies about three times as far from the Sun as Pluto. Its brightness indicated it was larger than Pluto, but it was not clear by how much because astronomers did not know how much sunlight its surface reflected.

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Huge List Of Great Flickr Tools!

Here is a comprehensive list of Flickr tools, and for those of you new to Flickr they have beginners information as well! The end all, be all resource for anything and everything Flickr!

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Yahoo maps to finally offer satellite images

Yahoo's been in the mapping business longer than a lot of companies. But the Sunnyvale company has let its competitors leapfrog it in one key area - satellite imagery. That's finally changed. Yahoo's Jeremy Kreitler is announcing at SDForum tonight that Yahoo has finally adding that capability to the Yahoo Maps beta, which we last wrote about here.

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Genuine random numbers, generated by radioactive decay

Given knowledge of the algorithm used to create the numbers and its internal state, you can predict all the numbers returned by subsequent calls to the algorithm, whereas with genuinely random numbers, knowledge of one number or an arbitrarily long sequence of numbers is of no use whatsoever in predicting the next number to be generated.

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Quarter of Species Gone by 2050

Using several models that project habitat changes, migration capabilities of various species, and related extinctions in 25 "hotspots," scientists predict that a quarter of the world's plant and vertebrate animal species would face extinction by 2050.

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Attack at the Speed of Light

After decades of expensive, well-publicized failures, laser weapons may finally be on the horizon. Can scientists end the era of bombs and bullets?

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Network Monitoring With Zabbix

Zabbix has the capability to monitor just about any event on your network from network traffic tothe number of papers left in a printer. Zabbi produces superior graphic reports even your boss with like. ZABBIX is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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April 11, 2006

Music fingerprinting system is fastest yet

It can identify songs from a database of 17 million songs in under 1 second, say its creators � but music fans may want more than speed

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The nonsense about AdSense

Benjamin Cohen, the former teenaged dot.com millionaire, has run into a problem as he tries to make his next million: Google won't pay him for ads run on his website.

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Large Chunk of Ice Smashes into Oakland

A chunk of ice dropped out of the sky and left a huge hole in the ground this weekend at Oakland's Bushrod Park in California, and not even astronomy experts know where it came from.

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Tom's Hardware Interactive Graphics Card Showdown

Tom's Hardware has released their benchmark results that separate the men from the boys. The page allows you to choose two graphics cards, a game, and a resolution setting, and displays the results for that benchmark.

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David Copperfield's "Flying" and other tricks revealed

This is the Google cache of a Russian site revealing the details of David Copperfield's "Flying" trick. The original site is currently inactive. Click the cached pages to search for other revealed tricks at: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.copperfield.ru You can watch Copperfield flying at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DzqjWDOOTeg.

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Install a Wireless Card Into Your XBOX

DIY: Install a wireless game adapter into your XBOX internally so that you can have a wireless connection, where available, without the extra hardware.

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Need a new Identiy? Download one today!

The Social Security numbers, driver's license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents in Florida's Broward County are available to anyone on the Internet because sensitive information has not been redacted from public records being posted on the county�s Web site.

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Build your own DVR : Lifehacker guide

If you want to step into the DVR market, but don't want to be a slave to TiVo, then you can build your own. Lifehacker has a pretty good guide how to setup your PC as a DVR. The guide is nicely laid out, and contains screenshots.

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Design for Web 2.0

An article describing in detail the do's and dont's of a web 2.0 design taking other famous 2.0 sites as example.

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Hubble finds 10th planet slightly larger than Pluto

Official NASA release confirming the tenth planet 'Xena' and finds it is only slightly larger than Pluto.

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Coming soon: Google Voice Search!

Google's latest patent issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office covers a "Voice interface for a search engine."

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Tool Shows the Google Page Rank of all Links

This interesting tool shows the Google Page Rank of all outbound links from any webpage. It's obviously still in beta, but it's an interesting tool. Try using it on a google search.

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CSS Remix: Showcase of great-looking CSS-based websites

CSS Remix celebrates the dynamic innovation and creativity of designers who are on the forefront of css-based design. It honors those designers who aren�t afraid to think outside the box and who are reinventing our ideas of what great web design can be.

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MIT Chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines

MIT scientists have just learned another lesson from nature. After years of wondering how organisms managed to create self-medications, such as anti-fungal agents, chemists have discovered the simple secret.

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April 10, 2006

Massive List Of Photoshop Plugins, Filters, Brushes, Actions & Gradients

Here's the most extensive list of Plugins, Filters, Brushes, Actions & Gradients for Photoshop 7+ that I have ever seen.

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AdSense revenue went from $10 to $1,700 (per day)

The official Google AdSense blog interviews an optimizer who dramatically increased the daily ad revenue of a site by playing around with ad colors/ positioning...

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Digital Camera HOWTO: Taking More Effective Images

"To become a more effective photographer, shoot a lot more pictures. Here are a few key tips: Free yourself from the viewfinder..Shoot more images in one setting..Shoot now, edit later..Plan for post."

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10 Great Photoshop Tips You Might Not Know

Handy compilation of 10 Photoshop techniques that will be new to a number of Adobe Photoshop users, beginning or advanced.

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The Pentagon's Futuristic Exotic Weapons

The attack would come quickly, and it would be awful. Cruising far offshore, the U.S. Navy's DD(X) destroyer launches 20 artillery shells in less than a minute. And when the attack is over, the ship simply vanishes.

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AJAX resources for beginners

Title says it all... Additional useful resources in the comments to the article.

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Most Lucrative College Degrees in 2006

Engineers are still tops in this 2006 CNN Money survey. Liberal arts majors are still starving...

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Report: Disney to Offer Shows Free Online

"Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" would be available on a revamped Web site the morning after they air. The report says shows would be archived so viewers can eventually watch an entire season of shows from outlets including ABC and Disney Channel.

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Weak brain links 'explain autism'

The difficulties people with autism have in relating to others could be due to poor communication between brain areas, scientists suggest.

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