Sunday, July 31, 2005

Have you seen this INSANE flying machine??

This thing is soooo frickin' COOL! This is a newly submitted video of this flying UFO toy. It's a gyro-stabilized, 4-motor flying machine. I GOTTA get one of these.

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Friday, July 29, 2005

Dell 20.1" Widescreen LCD only $359 shipped

Title says it all...

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What's that called?

A site that lets you find the names of songs you hear during adverts. Great for when you hear a song you like, but are never shown the name.

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How To Build A Popular and Profitable Forum Community

Having a web community is a great way to increase sales, customer loyalty and word of mouth. In fact a web community itself, if large enough and targeting an affluent demographic, has the potential to bring in revenue. However building a popular forum is no easy task and requires patience and dedication.

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The Self-Chilling Beer Can

The world's first self-chilling can is finally here. It works. It's safe. The advanced design utilizes the latest breakthroughs in thermal, insulating and vacuum heat pump technology.

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The Definitive Guide to Speeding Tickets

When I got a ticket last april, this helped me out quite a bit. This site goes over how to avoid getting caught in the first place, and also gives a good overview of some defenses that may apply to you, should you want to take it to court. Fun Read.

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Amazing CG Images!

These images are breathtakingly realistic. The Persistence Of Vision Raytracer ('POV-Ray') is a freely downloadable cross-platform application that implements the raytracing algorithm, which is a technique for simulating the physical behavior of light utilizing software-based mathematical models.

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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Gmail Drive 1.0.6 released

The latest version of Gmail drive is out, which allows you to access files on a Gmail account through explorer. The latest patch remedies recent login problems.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Online Guitar Lessons

Guitar Tricks is a community of guitar players who are building a library of guitar knowledge that is accessable to anyone in the world. Anyone is welcome to participate in our community. We are not proponents of any one style of music or method of instruction. We welcome all styles and actively promote the addition of new styles into our library.

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Google domain names?

Google, Inc. just recently became an ICANN-accredited domain name registarar for .com, .net, and .org TLDs, among others. Could this mean Google has plans to begin selling domains soon?

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tigerdirect.com rebate program a scam?

for those of you who have had a problem with them before, i am now letting people know (digg my story people)

makes for a good read especially if you are thinking of buying anything from tigerdirect.com involving rebates

take my advice and go www.newegg.com for stuff involving rebates. it's much easier

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Architecting CSS

How to organize your style sheets, selectors, properties, and more.

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CSS Image Transparency for IE, Mozilla and Safari

There is no single way to create a cross browser image transparency. This tutorial tells you how to make it work in 3 of the most popular browsers.

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Implementing a selection box for Google Maps

I really like Google Maps but one thing that has been bothering me for a while was the inability to select an area on the map to zoom into.

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Monday, July 25, 2005

More surfers choose 1024 x 768

More internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 which is the most popular screen resolution for exploring the internet. The resolution 1024 x 768 has reached an all time high and has risen from 54.02 percent in June 2004 to 57.38 percent. Users with monitors set to 800 x 600 have an approximate 18.23 percent global usage share.

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Yahoo!'s Konfabulator site up with download!

Found this while guessing URL's on yahoo's site. They have a full site already up for Konfabulator which was turned over to Yahoo!, they also have downloads up for both Windows and Mac.

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Friday, July 22, 2005

Tivo's Hidden Web Server

Who needs a Slingbox, get a Tivo Series 2!

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10 Steps To Higher Search Engine Positioning

While there are many methods out there for building a profitable website, from banner ads to email campaigns, by far the most cost effective over time has proven repeatedly to be search engine positioning

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Monday, July 18, 2005

How the Universe Will End!

Scientists think they know how the universe began, but what happens at the other end of the space & time continuum was a deep, dark mystery... until now. Interesting read if you are into that sort of stuff.

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King of all Boot CD's

This is always my first step when I cant tell wich piece of hardware is screwing me over. It has just about every tool you need to get back up and running on one bootable CD. A must have for any computer user.

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Great Free Blogger Templates / Hacks

Blogger-Templates provides numerous free templates, hacks, and graphics. All templates are provided with accompaning files and code for easy implementation.

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Futurama: The Movie (Greenlit!). Return To TV?

In the first of IGN's exclusive Video Blogs direct from San Diego's Comic-Con International, voice actor Billy West (Fry, Zoidberg, the Professor, and many more voices for many more shows) revealed to us that a brand-new direct-to-video Futurama movie has been greenlit.

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More info on the optimums keyboard

I cant wait for this keyboard to come out. I WANT IT!

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Web Design Tips & Demos

CSS, Browser, HTML, Photoshop and PHP tips and demos.

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A Gentle Introduction to SQL

Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer SQL, PostgreSQL and Access.

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

OpenLaszlo: Create web apps with a desktop UI look/feel

The OpenLaszlo platform allows developers to create applications with the rich user interface capabilities of desktop client software and the instantaneous no-download Web deployment of HTML.

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Check out the color changing background algorithm

I have implemented a color-changing background algorithm for my photography website that is pretty cool. It's an interesting use of PHP to calculate the average color of a given photo and use that as the background color. You can see it by viewing any of the photos on the site.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Significant Performance Boost For XP

Do you have obscene amounts of RAM? Do you want to make the very best use of it all? There are tens of thousands of websites offering performance tweaks for XP and you could spend the next week or more researching the ones you might like to perform, or you can save yourself a lot of bother and read this article..

you can also try this:
http://digg.com/software/Optimize_XP_-_A_Windows_XP_Optimization_Guide

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A Few Good G-Men

The famous scene from the movie, A Few Good Men, acted out in Half-Life 2.

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Sliding CSS Photo Gallery

This gallery is my simplest yet. It is just an unordered list of images that are normally compressed vertically (reduction 8:1). When you hover over one of these compressed images it expands to full size.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Web Style Guide

At its inception, the Web was all about information. Visual design was accidental at best. The guidance we offer in Web Style Guide has always been grounded on the functional aspects of design.

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Monday, July 11, 2005

Web Page Analyzer

This is extremely useful for webmasters who want to make sure that their site is running well for everyone. New version 0.95 updated the script to be compatible with PHP 5.x.

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Online Status Indicator

Online Status Indicator is a service that lets you put a small image on a web page to show if you are online on AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger. Use the default icons or create your own status icons. This service is completely free. It's perfect for blogs.

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Thursday, July 07, 2005

Patent reveals universal Apple wireless touch-screen remote

Apple Computer recently researched and developed a wireless touch-screen remote control concept that would automatically discover and communicate with existing and future consumer electronics appliances as well as the personal computer, a filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office has revealed. The...

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A quick guide to .htaccess

If you use an Apache web server, learning how to use the .htaccess file is very powerful tool. If you don't know how to use, and want to learn more check out the article.

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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

The Complete List of things you can do with RSS

Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly.

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Friday, July 01, 2005

Keyword Analysis Tool

Keyword density analyzer, and keyword placement & prominence analysis: This is an awfully well-done keyword analysis tool.

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