How to Solder for beginners (Instructables)

Although soldering can seem daunting at first, once you give it a try you will see that in most applications it's quite simple to do.

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TVTonic | Easiest way to follow videos like Diggnation - Xbox Compatible

TV Tonic lets you watch Internet TV Channels through a DVR like interface. Its like Democracy Player or Instant Media but a lot easier to use and it feels like a full TV experience. It integrates well with Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) and can be used with a remote control and even works with the Xbox 360 so no need to wait for Xbox IPTV.

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30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen

As a second (out of five) part of our 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006 collection we ’d like to present some stunning, but rather unknown dark designs, which you really should have seen if you are a web-designer. And, of course, if your aim is to develop web-sites in the modern “Look & Feel”-style.

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Fun Photoshop Tutorial: Create Your Jelly Logo

There are millions of ways to start a logo. Here's one amazing technique from a veteran designer who's about to uncover one of his greatest Photoshop tricks. A must for aspiring designers or new curious in Art.

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Geek to Live: Turn your blog into a book, part II

On Wednesday, part I of How to turn your blog into a book covered the basics for blogging your book idea, getting an agent, and drafting your book proposal. Now you've got 300 pages due in a few months. Today's installment will cover how I organized my research using an excellent Mac program called DEVONthink Pro

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10 Top Foods To Help You Fight High Cholesterol

According to the American Heart Association, "You can reduce cholesterol in your blood by eating healthful foods, losing weight if you need to and exercising." What follows is a listing of the most potent foods to add to your diet if you want to fight high cholesterol and drive your levels down using your diet as a primary tool.

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Hack PPV Television at Hotels

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The Covers Project

The Covers Project began as a simple idea to help listeners discover new music by showcasing covers of famous songs. Users can search for their favorite artists and listen to different renditions of their songs online. Artists are welcome to submit their covers.

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First Look: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Check out the first batch of publicity photos for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

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Who Is Planning the Next War?

Buchanan asks the right questions and offers some chilling answers.

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CNN says Bush is imposing a New World Order

Bush is fulfilling his fathers dream of a New World Order

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3 Largest US Newspaper Publishers to Create Their Own Online Ad Network

In an effort to take on Google and get back some of the money they have been losing to online ad spending. The network's founding members would be Gannett Co., publisher of USA Today and the largest U.S. newspaper company; Tribune Co., and McClatchy Co., but the network would be open to others as well.

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US House Passed Minimum Wage Increase: $7.25

The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, bringing America's lowest-paid workers a crucial step closer to their first raise in a decade. The vote was 315-116, with more than 80 Republicans joining Democrats to pass it.

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Science Mysteries, Explained

All of the burning science questions answered here. Can men produce breast milk?

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Map shows The Universe within 1 Billion Light Years

In the image of the finest zoom in the map, you can see the closest stars to the Solar System. Alpha Centauri seems to be following the road to the centre of the galaxy taking the first detour to the right

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Mysterious Number 6174

The number 6174 is a really mysterious number. At first glance, it might not seem so obvious. But as we are about to see, anyone who can subtract can uncover the mystery that makes 6174 so special.

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Hubble makes 3D dark matter map (Picture)

Astronomers have mapped the cosmic "scaffold" of dark matter upon which stars and galaxies are assembled.

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Andromeda Galaxy Five Time Bigger Than Thought

The discovery of several large, metal-poor stars located far from the center of the Andromeda galaxy suggests our nearest galactic neighbor might be up to five times larger than previously thought.

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A List of the Hundred Greatest Theorems of All Time

During a conference in July, 1999, Paul and Jack Abad presented their list of "The Hundred Greatest Theorems." Their ranking is based on the following criteria: "the place the theorem holds in the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the result."

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PirateBay Plans to Buy Sealand and Become Own Country

Bittorrent tracker PirateBay.org, currently based in Sweden, plans to purchase the man-made island-country, Sealand, off the coast of the UK. Sealand is its own country, and the PirateBay would not be subject to the jurisdiction of any nations if it relocated to the island. TPB is seaking donations to help go through with this plan.

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Revealing Interview with Digg's top poster Stacy Doss

Stacy talks about the culture of Digg, getting offers to promote stories for payment, the future of social bookmarking sites and more!

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So neighbors steal your wi-fi net access, kill the connection or have fun

So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or...? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)

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How To Market Your Blog in 2007

It breaks my heart to see blogs with great content languish in utter anonymity, devoid of comments, saddled with a seven-figure alexa traffic ranking, and rotting in pagerank purgatory. Well, no more, I say! Here's what to do...

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Booting Windows XP from a USB flash drive is simple.And it goes like this..

Windows XP cannot be booted from a USB fl ash drive?at least that's what Microsoft says. We at CHIP beg to differ; here we generously share a few tips and tricks to establish that it can be done. The only condition is that motherboard and BIOS must allow booting by a USB flash drive.

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iPhone: what's inside? Samsung inside.

With this information in hand, it looks like Apple is taking an iPod-like approach to the development of the hardware for the iPhone: picking and choosing very specialized and efficient parts instead of simply pulling parts off the shelf (which would have been prohibitive, if only for size reasons alone).

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COOL! Download of the Day: Tab Effect (Firefox)

If you've ever played with Virtual Desktops for the Mac or XGL/Compiz on Linux, the tab effect is similar to the cube-switching effect offered by both of these virtual desktop tools, but for Firefox.

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Phil Schiller's Close-up Demo of Apple's iPhone

Apple, Inc's Phil Schiller shows John Blackstone of CBS the many features of the iPhone.

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