September 5, 2006

Digg.com CEO Jay Adelson blog

It is still a bit empty, but looks promising (though no AJAX yet), and I am looking forward to see what Jay, Digg's CEO, has to blog about in the near future.. more digg.com news perhaps?

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How much less are you making?

"here's a handy map showing how far median incomes have dropped over the past six years. And it's good news for most of you: Compared to Michigan and North Carolina you're not doing so badly after all."

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The computer spy that steals your passwords and credit details

ABOUT three weeks ago, Cheryl Lambert bought a £179 surfboard on eBay for her daughter. Soon after, she noticed her computer started to behave erratically and within a few days it had ground to a halt. A few days after her desktop machine was unplugged from the internet, Lambert�s personal details appeared on a Russian website.

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PornoTube Breaks into Alexa Top 300 within 2 Months

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And The Best Antivirus Is�

Virus.gr tested quite a few different software companies to see how they would stack up against each other. How did the 147,000+ virus test pan out? Here are the results

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GMail Hacks/Tips

"I �ve been using GMail since 2004 and have always thought it was the best email service. With the large amount of space it offers, and the amazing features the possibilities are endless. Here are some nifty hacks/tips that allow you to get the most out of your GMail account."

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Attention, Shoplifters

With $30 billion in theft, there's a revolution in surveillance systems.

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List of free celebrity stock images

Just a simple site that holds thousands of free cutout stock images in psd format, categoriezed into athletes, actors and musicians amongst some.

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September 4, 2006

How Geniuses Work

According to conventional wisdom, geniuses are different from everyone else. They can think faster and better than other people. In addition, many people think that all that extra brainpower leads to eccentric or quirky behavior. And although geniuses are fairly easy to spot, defining exactly what makes one person a genius is a little trickier.

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Obsessive-Genius Disorder

It is a curious thing that the two greatest logical geniuses of the last century both killed themselves. Turing died after taking a bite of an apple that was laced with cyanide. Goedel died of a paradox: he thought people were poisoning his food, so he refused to eat and starved to death. Did these two men self-destruct because of their genius?

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Your Brain On Music: Survival of the Harmonious

Mounting evidence suggests that human beings are hard-wired to appreciate music. What researchers want to know now is why our distant ancestors evolved music in the first place. As evidence mounts that we're somehow hard-wired to be musical, some thinkers are turning their attention to the next logical question: How did that come to be?

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Macbook Random Shutdown Problem Solved At Last!

Apple's forums are full of people searching for a solution, now it appears that an IT Engineer from Munich, Germany has found the source of the issue.

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Gmail as an MP3 jukebox

"I tend to email myself a lot of MP3s. Today, I did it for the first time using my Gmail account, and was pleasantly surprised to find an embedded play button directly in the mail item. Clicking on it brings up a Google Video style player that streams your MP3 from Gmail�s server."

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How to Destroy a City with Photoshop

Creativity can create, and in this case, DESTROY. A great tutorial showing the power of Photoshop when it comes to image manipulation.

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How To: 53 Professional Photography Techniques

In the spirit of the Internet, I want to share my experience as a photographer so every month I post a collection of my most interesting images shot in the previous 28 days as well as a detailed description of how some of the images were shot. Some great photography tips and techniques here, apparently from portrait photographer Neil Turner.

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