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wikiHow

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

“digg / Tech Industry News” writes:
“wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 14,962 articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers”
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Origin of the Apple Macintosh’s Menu Command ‘Apple or Clover Symbol’ Key

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

“digg / Apple” writes:
Steve Jobs: “There are too many Apples on the screen! It’s ridiculous! We’re taking the Apple logo in vain! We’ve got to stop doing that!” Our bitmap artist Susan Kare came across a floral symbol used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground. Even in OS X, […]

Mac OS X: More Fun with the “Shift” Key for Unproductive but Amusing Time

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

“digg / Apple” writes:
You may know about holding down the shift key when minimizing/maximizing a Finder or Application’s window to see the scaling/genie effect in slow motion. (If you haven’t, well, there you go). But something I never realized is this slow motion goodness can be applied elsewhere in the OS as well, for an […]

How To Browse Digg At Work And Not Get Caught

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

“digg / Tech Industry News” writes:
Here is a two step approach to bypassing your company’s network and reading digg while on the job, while disguising digg so that nosey employees won’t be able to tell what you are doing.
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Turn Off Unnecessary Windows XP Services

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

“digg / Software” writes:
Turning off unnecessary services in Windows XP can greatly reduce your exploit risk, while improving system performance. It’s a good time to inject that often there are all sorts of “download optimizers” and other cute programs that vendors like to push on users. The first rule is “If you don’t know you […]

Extreme (Photoshop) Makeover - Before/After Retouch Of Model

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

“digg / Software” writes:
Watch it for the technical aspect, or the message. This ad from Dove and their Campaign for Real Beauty does a great job of revealing how photos of models and celebrities are unrealistically modified.
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How old can you go? Oldversion.com “because newer isn’t always better!”

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

“digg / Software” writes:
A great site that archives older version of software. Maybe you’re looking for a pre-bloatware favorite application, or maybe you having been able to get AIM to work right on granny’s Pentium II. This is the place for you.
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Portable iChat, Safari, Mail, iCal, and Address Book

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

“digg / Apple” writes:
Try doing THIS with Internet Explorer or Outlook! Link includes MANY other Portable apps like Firefox and Adium.
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Ask X - New UI for Ask.com Secretly Launched

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

“digg / Tech Industry News” writes:
Tonight I stumbled upon what appears to be a brand new User Interface for Ask.com. I was doing some searches on Ask.com when I noticed a link in the top right asking me to try out something called Ask X. When I clicked on the link, it regenerated my original […]

CyberNotes: CyberNet’s Updated Guide On Firefox 2 Tweaks

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

“Technorati Discover: software” writes:
Web Browser Wednesday Firefox 2 has received millions and millions of downloads in the first week which is absolutely amazing. Even though the browser…
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