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January 12, 2006

10 websites you should know about

10 websites you should defiantly know about.

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Listen to almost any song for FREE

I built a little application that searches through thousands of directories full of music that people have uploaded for use on their blogs... Basically this lets you listen to pretty much any song you can think of. (courtesy of radio.blog users) For the source code, email me at thedtenaciously@gmail.com

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January 11, 2006

VIDEO: TiVo Series 3 First Look

We got some quality hands-on time with the TiVo Series 3, TiVoâ��s HD-capable DVR. The Series 3 unit has some cool new features, including a single-color, two-line OLED LCD display on the front of the unit that shows you whatâ��s being recorded. We interviewed Bob Poni of TiVo about what we can expect in the Series 3.

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NIKON to discontinue all ANALOG Cameras !!!

I just can't believe it.... Nikon will discontinue all the analog camera line... can this be true ?? The PR comes from Nikon in the UK, but I just can't believe it...

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100 Awesome Findings on Google Maps

A big array of links that show different locations around the US, including government buildings, differnet locations, transportation, bridges and waterways. Very cool!

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Update the look and feel of Windows XP

XPize is a GUI enhancer for Windows XP and above. It replaces most of the non-XP icons, avis and bmps that Microsoft has always overlooked. The installer simply automates the process of replacing resources in critical system files, making your XP's look better.

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WoW Event Crashed 27 Servers

Blizzard shoves more skeletons in the closet. 27 World of Warcraft servers crash, leaving thousands of gamers stuck in their own realms.

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LifeHacker explains multiple subdomains

"Subdomains are a great way to split up different kinds of content - like your default homepage, your blog, and your music collection. To set it up, you have to edit httpd.conf (the Apache configuration file.)"

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January 10, 2006

Unbelievable CGI woman

Modeling in 3dsmax, Low and high-poly sculpting in zbrush, textures in Photoshop and rendered in mentalray. http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=308052

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How to Improve Your Logo

"Logo "touch-up" is one of our most frequent requests. Our final work must be more effective, more visually appealing, and most importantly, recognizable as a revision of the old logo. How do we go about this? I wrote this guide both to offer potential business clients insight into our graphic design process and to help aspiring graphic designers." quote take from the site, i didnt write this :)

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ItsAStart.com - Your Entry Point to the Internet

This site is great as a homepage. You can add all your RSS feeds, local weather, email, stocks, google searches, sticky notes etc. The neat thing about this site is the RSS you and everyone else add are then searchable. You can then add the results of the search as it's own RSS feed.

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50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing

*Constantly* updated list of most powerful extensions for Firefox. All of them grouped into categories: Firefox Tabs, Website Links, File Downloads, Web-page Behavior & Navigation, Privacy / Security, Web Searches, Your Music / Video, Your Email, Your Bookmarks, Other Popular Services.

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Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident

"...This secrecy was threatened in early 1974 when the astronauts on Skylab pointed their camera out the window and took pictures of a facility that did not officially exist. They returned to Earth and their photographs quickly became a headache for NASA, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. That story has never been told before."

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Father of LSD nears the century mark!

Do you think Google will google will do a special graphic for him?

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