Archive for September, 2007
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Singaporean Yong Jieyu’s ceramic paper speakers (actually, they’re less speaker than amplifier) are made from clay &mdash one of the best materials for sound amplification thanks to its low sound absorbent coefficiency &mdash and recycled music scores. Place your an earphone inside each “speaker” and voila! your tunes can be heard by all and sundry. […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Not that this is some kind of genius design or anything, but wouldn’t it be nice to walk up to a horrific crime scene in see this “everything is ok” barricade tape strung all over the place? Wouldn’t it make you feel much better about all the blood, guts and mayhem you just directly witnessed? […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
We’re not sure what this art project from 1999 is designed to say, but it’s a kissing mask that locks two girls into kissing mode when worn. During the exhibition, there was a microphone sewn into the connecting tube that recorded the “conversation, breathing and kissing that occurs inside,” which was then burned onto CD […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Apple Inc. is applying some last minute tweaks to a version of the Safari web browser expected to ship next month as part of the company’s final maintenance and security update to the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system. Two new builds of the imp…
Link to Safari a focus of Apple’s latest Mac OS […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Apple Inc. on Wednesday afternoon posted to its website software updates for nearly all of its iLife ‘08 applications, the most significant of which adds a handful of more powerful editing features to much criticized iMovie overhaul.
Link to Apple updates iLife ‘08 apps, iMovie gains new features
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Version 2 of my blog post that contains a list of little known linux apps that you might not know about with screenshots.
Link to Awesome Ubuntu/Linux Apps you might not know about V2
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Restore the trusty Run command to your Windows Vista Start menu with the simple step-by-step instructions at weblog IntelliAdmin. Just right-click your Start menu and click Properties. Then go to the…
Link to Windows Tip: Restore the Run Command to the Vista Start Menu
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Gmail Drive is a third party software extension originally thought up by Richard Jones that allows you to use your Gmail account as though it is a drive attached to your local machine. You have the ability to drag and drop files into that drive and retrieve the files from another machine if necessary. Let’s […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Geeks everywhere have embraced the lightweight and free Foxit PDF reader instead of using Adobe reader, but did you realize that you can index PDF files without Adobe installed on your computer?
You might be thinking… isn’t it working already? What you don’t realize is that Adobe Reader also installs an IFilter that helps Windows index […]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
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