Get your Free Registration from Opera *online* in about 2 seconds.

Kudos to Hamster for posting this in the main thread.

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How to Publish a Podcast

Everything you need to know on how to start and publish your very own podcast with many links to great tutorials and helpful sites. Good luck all!

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Firefox Extensions for SEO's & Web Devs

A nice list of Firefox SEO extensions.

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Opera (Browser) 10th Birthday - Download Free Ad-Free Version Today Only

From Download.com, (and for one day only, valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT)).

Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code

Normally $39USD ??

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Welcome to the real-time HTML editor!

Type HTML in the textarea above, and it will magically appear in the frame below.

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Pirates of Silicon Valley Released on DVD!

One of my favorite movies of all time has finally come to DVD! If you haven't seen Pirates of Silicon Valley I *highly* recommend it to a technophile in any degree...

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CSS Based Design

CSS Based design always creates the unique problem of different kinds of display in different browsers and this needs to be tacked with a lot of patience and decent technical knowhow.

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Serious PHP Flaws Found

Security boffins have found a critical vulnerability in two PHP libraries that are used to provide web services and content management systems.

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Funny Google T-shirt

Tired of people hassling you for information they could find for themselves? Yes. Yes, you are.

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Ziff Davis DigitalLifeTV: Episode 2 Released

DigitalLifeTV is a new streaming IPTV'ish tech show from ZD. This episode covers: Gigahertz Is Over, Google sidebar, HotorNot + Google Maps, Blu-ray and HD-DVD, MobiBLU MP3 player, Nintendogs, Madden 2006, and Creative's X-Fi sound card. Hosted by Patrick Norton and Kevin Rose.

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The Water Display

This display uses 128 jets of water to display still images.

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Integrating Google Talk with Google Sidebar

Summary: After you install both Google Talk and Google Sidebar, you can select an option to integrate Talk into the Sidebar. (Then you can dock it to the side of your screen.)

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eBay auctions ending in an hour at .99¢ or less

You can find some great items other people may have missed.

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Complete list of google talk tweaks

A good list courtsey initialdawn

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Photoshop CS3 details emerge, two new Adobe apps set for release

Just months after the release of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Think Secret has obtained several notes regarding Photoshop CS3, as well as word that Adobe may be developing two other yet unannounced products: Adobe Acrobat 3D and Adobe Full Frame.

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Download Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1

Not sure if anyone has posted this, but, heres a link to download internet explorer 7, supposidly for developers only. But here it is and on a lot of others sites for people who want to test drive the real thing. Requirements: Windows XP and a legit copy at that (will require WGA)

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New GMail Feature - Send Mail As

Great new feature added to GMail. Allows you to send email from any other email address you own.

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build your own custom machined parts out of nearly anything!!!

Welcome to eMachineShop - where you can design, price, and order your custom parts online!

eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need - the first true online machine shop. Download our free software, draw your part, and click to order - it's easy! Your part will be machined and delivered - at low cost.

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A New Flat Screen TV Price War

Panasonic is expected to announce that it could lower prices on plasma TVs up to $500, and their announcement may start a new TV price war before the end of 2005. Link goes to my cached version of the article, so you don't have to have an account.

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3GB USB Jumpdrive for only $79.99!!!

The best part is, "NO MAIL-IN REBATE". The design is a little fugly but hey, 3 gigs for under a hundred bucks is a steal.

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Hacking a McDonalds Sign

This was too funny not to share!

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An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques

How to jump start your new CSS design.

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Good Fonts for Grapic Designers

A great resource listing 300 good fonts for graphic designers. A nice way of wading through the enormous list of fonts available on the web nicely organized.

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Really useful tool for hunting down suspicious tasks in Windows

Very comprehensive list! At the least it's great for ID'ing spyware, virii and worms on infested machines.

you can also try http://www.processlibrary.com

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advanced google cheatsheet

Not bad; better layout than googles help pages. Claims to have used their permission; which is interesting, if true.

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World's Smallest RC Plane - I want one!!

Only $239 and it comes in it's own case! Come on, who wouldn't want one of those?

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40 Things That Only Happen In Movies

A funny list - one of my favorites: All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach to armpit level on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her. etc....

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Protopage gorgeously designed Ajaxy sticky notes website

Use Protopage for quick access to web sites, and to keep sticky notes and reminders. Try it now - you're just one click away!

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How fast ARE you going on the internet...

Check your speed in just a few seconds!

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New Google Desktop 2.0 Beta release

Check out NEW Google Desktop 2.0 Beta

- Get all your personalized info in one place with Sidebar
- Launch applications and search instantly with Quick Find
- Find all your email, files, photos, web history, Gmail, and more
- Search conveniently in Outlook with the Outlook Toolbar

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Office Space Wave Files

Great list in good quality for your download pleasure.

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Gmail Preview Bubbles

Want preview bubbles for conversations in Gmail? Then install the Gmail Conversation Preview Greasemonkey script. You can then right-click on any conversation to see its recent messages in a preview bubble. Greasemonkey 0.5 is required.

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Bye-Bye 'Submit' Button!

Here's a cool use of AJAX. It's a login page (php/mysql backend) with no submit button. The author provides all of the scripts involved and lists some advantages and dis-advantages of his method.

SWEEEET!

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250 GIGS for 100 DOLLARS!!!

Maxtor - Ultra16 250GB, 7200RPM, Internal ATA/133 Hard Drive. No rebates (well, and instant one). CompUSA with the best deal I've seen in a long time!!

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20% off iPods at Office Depot

Office Depot will be cutting all iPod prices by up to 20% this next week starting Sunday the 21st. Note that these are all the discontinued Apple + HP models.

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Make A Million Saving From 16 - 21 years old.

Start early and hit it big.

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Gmail Drive 1.0.7 released

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

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Help bring FUTURAMA back to FOX!

Click the link to sign the petition to bring back the beloved show created by Matt Groening, FUTURAMA!

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Gmail for cellphones

If you�re a Gmail user with access to a PHP server, your days of not being able to check your Gmail from your cellphone are over. Gmail-mobile is a PHP application that will give you access to your account with any WAP-compatible phone (WML format), and you should be able to read your mail, compose message, reply, have access to your labels, etc.

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Essential freeware for the PC user

Just purchased a brand new Windows PC. Try out these must have free software on your machine.

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Hidden Windows Apps

Some of the apps are hidden or not, depending on whether you are using XP Pro or Home, but a lot aren't listed in the applications folder.

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SED technology explained

This little article explains the ins and outs of SED technology for televisions. Think of the brightness of a CRT display combined with less bulk like LCD and Plasma. Very cool!

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Hard drive in a freezer - funny story!

Yup, the tried and true old clicking hard drive in the freezer trick that has served me well over the years, upon hearing a coworkers problem with a hard drive I offered up the old last resort trick as advice and sometime after that weekend this was the e-mail I received. Very Funny Forum Post.

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ShieldsUp - Check the security of any computer based on listening ports

ShieldsUp is a server-side web application which probes ports on your machine to see how vulnerable it is to attacks. You can patch and anti-virus your machine all you want, but I'm willing to bet you have some compromisable ports open by default. Use a firewall! (Excuse the Google middleman link)

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Headers explained

here is an in-depth analysis of how headers work, and other design and technical nuances of headers.

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Feedster Top 500 Released

The first of Feedsters top 500 blogs is out.

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Hilarious T-Shirts!

Check out DeezTeez.com for some truly hilarious t-shirts.

AWESOME outlook plugin for searching!

I just came across a great outlook plugin which will periodicly index your emails in the background and it adds a search bar to outlook. When you use it to search, the results come up almost instantly and are very accurate. Definitely worth trying.

It is called Lookout, it's freeware and can be downloaded here.

Digital Life TV With Patrick Norton

"Digital Life TV is hosted by industry expert Patrick Norton, and offers up news of the day, new product reviews, technology help and more.

Missed our live show? Want to replay part of it? Stop back here."

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Windows Key Shortcuts

A collection of very useful key shortcuts

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Watch Star Wars Episode IV... via Telnet

The previously-dugg ASCII version of Star Wars Episode IV is now available by telnetting to towel.blinkenlights.nl - pretty cool!

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Automated Teller Machines Snatching Your Personal Info

I always thought that I couldn't be fooled by this type of scam. Seeing these images made me think otherwise.

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Marquee Selecting a layer in Photoshop CS2

I recently upgraded to Photoshop CS2 and found that you can no longer marquee select a layer by ctrl-clicking on it. But i have found the solution: Ctrl-Click on the thumbnail next to the layer name in the layers pallette. I know that sounds really dumb but it was driving me crazy ever since i upgraded so i thought i woudl share that little tidbit. Enjoy!

FREE Ajax based solutions

This guy offers an interactive Ajax driven text box, the more you help your users the better user experience.

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How an <H1> Tag Could Save Your Site

If you've ever had trouble getting Google to list your site higher in their rankings, you'll want to read this article. Apparently, through the simple use of an <H1> tag, Google will take notice of the tagged content and use it to rank your page. An interesting read with examples proving the concept.

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this is heavy... Restored DeLoreans for Sale!

When the DeLorean company went under, parts from the original warehouse in Ireland were shipped to the US. In 1997, these parts were acquired by the DeLorean company of Texas.

They now sell parts and restored cars via retail and wholesale.

The Michael J Fox within me is ecstatic...!

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CSS examples galore

If you learn by seeing others work this is the site for you, lots of web pages that apply CSS at full extent, ordered by popularity.

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Browse the web as a 3D city - it's Firefox powered.

The 3D web browser, 3B, which displays websites in a 'city' or 'village', with screenshots, in areas you walk around; uses Firefox for 'web view'.and guess what - it's Firefox powered.

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Cool tool hidden inside Microsoft Download Center

Thanks to Microsoft for unsupported but effective way to mount ISO to Virtual Drive. An ISO-file becomes a drive letter in your 'My Computer'.

It totally unsupported but works F-I-N-E.
Microsoft buried it inside on of their download vault.

greetz

Miesj - Nl

www.miesj.nl

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Tons of New O'Reilly Tech eBooks Online and Free

Love O'Reilly ebooks? This site has merged the contents of many O'Reilly PDF and CHM ebooks into their database and allow you to browse and search hundreds of their best titles. Read from full books on Java, Perl, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Linux, TCP/IP, .NET, XML ... FREE!!!

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A Gmail suggestion box...courtesy of Engadget

Some good ideas here...hopefully the good folks at Google Labs are paying attention.

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Using Google as a p2p App...Without the Hassle!

a nice way to use google to search the web for media files.

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Company Names

Explains how some of the biggest computer related companies got their names.

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Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know

Quite a few interesting facts

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TOP 25 TECH QUOTES

Need some inspiration check these out!

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Track visitors to your website using Google Maps

gvisit.com is the newest tool to make use of the Google Maps API. It allows bloggers - or anyone with a website - to track the locations of their visitors, and plot the results on a Google Map. It is free (donation driven) and you don't even need to register an email address.

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Phallic Logo Awards

The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it's a big spurting penis?

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Combining great graphics and CSS

To create mind boggling web design. Here is a well written tutorial outlining how you can combine CSS skills and Photoshop skills

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Some useful XP SP2 Firewall Command Lines

Shows examples of how to control the Windows XP firewall via command line. Useful for administrators or others who need to manipulate the firewall via command line.

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Zap of Electricity Creates Fluid Situation

...what if there were a way to turn a liquid into a tough solid at ordinary temperatures with a mere zap of electricity -- and then have that solid become liquid again, instantaneously, simply by shutting off the current?

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Google Improves It's Search Engine

There is so much text on the web that this method often works well, but to make it more effective, we've improved the way results are found in response to queries containing such blanks.

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Pirates of Silicon Valley DVD will be released on August 30th

That's right the movies based around the history of Apple and Microsoft will be coming to DVD soon. The movie is based on a novel by Paul Frieberger.

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Vista to always run as if freshly installed

Microsoft hopes to tackle an age-old problem with the next version of Windows: How to keep PCs running like new.

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John C. Dvorak says shrink-wrapped OS X coming.

"Dvorak: Steve Jobs eventually intends for Apple's Mac OS X to run on any x86 PC." He says it is all a plot to overthrow Vista.

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Microsoft Gives Up On Genuine Advantage

A Microsoft spinster told the Sydney Morning Herald this morning that they have sent the designers back to the drawing board on Windows Genuine Advantage.

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TV on the PC

Time Warner Cable has given free access to 9,000 broadband subscribers in San Diego to up to 75 cable channels on their computers.

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Studio 8 has been announced by Macromedia

If you check out the Macromedia site today you will notice all this Studio 8 stuff is posted. Updates to Flash Professional, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver are included.

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Making Vonage work with DirecTV TiVo

Not so long ago, we discussed rumors about how some people were having trouble using their Vonage voice-over-Internet lines to make nightly calls on their TiVos. Now someone has solved the problem with DirecTV TiVo's.

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Gmail Tips for all

Gmail has many hidden features which can be utilized and thanks to some illustratious people, Gmail tips can now be shared with all.

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