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Featured Mac Download: Control Multiple Macs with One Keyboard and Mouse with Teleport

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Mac only: Control multiple Macs with one keyboard and mouse with freeware app Teleport. You’ve long had this functionality with previously mentioned Synergy, however, Teleport aims to be more…
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Friday, August 31st, 2007

Set SMS, email or Twitter reminders from your iGoogle homepage with the iRemind iGoogle gadget. Setup is extremely easy (it can all be done from your iGoogle page), which means you’ll be ready to…
Link to Igoogle: Set Reminders on Your Startpage with iReminder

Featured Windows Download: Automatically Copy Selected Text to the Clipboard with DragKing

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Windows only: Donationware application DragKing automatically copies selected text in any application to your clipboard. Like previously mentioned AutoCopy Firefox extension but without the…
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Friday, August 31st, 2007

Send self-destructing email messages “Send an email that automatically expires or disappears after it’s viewed with ten self-destructing email services.”Ask the Readers: Sorting vacation email…
Link to It All Comes Together: The Email Roundup

Top 10 Windows Vista Speed Tweaks

Friday, August 31st, 2007

10 Speed Tweaks that can make a huge difference in Vista performance.
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ZFS vs XFS vs Ext4

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Battle of the *nix file systems. OpenSolaris’s ZFS is compared against the current favorite XFS and the new Ext4 in a series of intensive benchmarks on a combination software (using Linux MD vs OpenSolaris’s ZFS support) RAID 10 and hardware RAID 10 arrays. Who will come out on top? Check it out and see.
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Suits: Spiderman Suit To Allow Future Humans To Scale Walls, Wear Silly Suit

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Other than firemen, the military and masked vigilantes, there probably isn’t a huge market for a suit that allows you to scale up walls. However, Italian scientists have calculated how much stickiness a suit needs to mimic the ability of insects and spiders to climb up a wall without peeing their pants in fear of […]

Microsoft: Vista SP1 beta in September, due in Q108

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Looks like Microsoft is finally ready to tell people what the hell is going on with the first Vista service pack: chock full o’ bug fixes, performance optimizations, and improved reliability, Microsoft is shooting the beta to between 10,000 - 15,000 people in September (which means it’ll be about 10 minutes after […]

How to build a CRT-powered electrified pet prison

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets

They say that sometimes the only way to get through to those you hold dear is with some tough love, so if you’re just about at the end of your rope with a naughty, incorrigible pet gerbil, hamster, cat or guinea pig, it may be time to consider confining little Nibbles […]

Funny Vehicles

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Bizzare, Funny Vehicles, humour

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