Archive for October, 2006
Happy Halloween: Top 10 Scariest Urban Legends Ever Told
It’s the witching hour on a moonless night in the deep, dark woods far from town. You huddle with friends around a crackling campfire, telling tales. Someone has just finished sharing a particularly eery ghost story, insisting it was true. For awhile everyone sits in perfect silence, staring self-consciously into the flames, reluctant to let [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Top Bit Torrent Sites of 2006
As of October 30, 2006, the most popular Bit Torrent search engine sites are listed below. This list is selected from hundreds of reader email suggestions, and is updated weekly.
This list is in random order. Special thanks to tech consultant, Joanna Gurnitsky, for her input on keeping this list current.
Warning for new users: while P2P [...]
Greatest car stunt ever attempted
I guess this was back in the day when people thought they were immortal. A rocket powered Lincoln with wings trying to jump across a river.
Driver was to experience 30 Gs of pressure. Before attempting this stunt he had already broken his back 6 times.
Search across Firefox tabs with the Showcase extension
Firefox extension Showcase displays thumbnails of open Firefox tabs and switches between them easily (ala IE 7 Quick Tabs and foXpose and a few others), but it also lets you search text across several web pages at once.
With Showcase installed, hit the thumbnail keyboard shortcut (F12 by default) to see all your open tabs as [...]
Download of the Day: MediaMonkey (Windows)
Windows only: MediaMonkey manages your music collection like no other program. It helps you organize your audio files, edit tags, and easily retrieve missing album art. It can rip CDs to any number of formats (including cult faves like FLAC and OGG), convert existing audio files to any number of formats, normalize volume levels across [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Firefox 2.0
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.
The latest version delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox [...]
Bypass IE7 Windows validation
Internet Explorer user Ferdous Mahmud Shaon posts instructions on how to bypass IE 7’s Windows Genuine Advantage during installation.
Windows Genuine Advantage “validates” your copy of Windows to make sure it’s not pirated or stolen (and generally draws out IE 7’s already-long installation process.) To bypass it, you have to replace a few .dll’s and swap [...]
When Lions Attack.. (This is Gross! You Have Been Warned!)
Stupid, or what?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Download of the Day: AOL OpenRide (Windows)
Windows only: This may come as a shock, but AOL OpenRide is really, really cool. It combines a tabbed Web browser, an AOL/POP e-mail client, an AIM chat applet, and a video/music/photo/file player/viewer. In other words, it’s kind of like the AOL of old–but with a much smaller footprint. And as with everything AOL these [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Early(ish) Adopter Download of the Day: Firefox 2.0 RC 3 (All platforms)
Another short week after releasing RC2 (which was released a week and a half after RC1), Firefox is pushing out the 3rd release candidate of Firefox 2.0.
To be honest, I can’t see a ton of changes between RC3 and RC2 after installing and playing around with it for a little bit, but you can assume [...]
Hide files in JPEG images
he Tech Tray weblog has posted a tutorial for hiding secret files inside JPEG images using the popular Windows archiver, WinRAR, and a little command line magic.Basically, you create a .rar archive of your to-be-hidden file, then run a copy command from the Windows command line (with the /b binary switch) to embed your secret [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Exclusive footage of Chinese soldiers shooting at Tibetan pilgrims
Pro Tv cameraman Sergiu Matei returned to Romania after climbing Himalaya and brought home with him a shocking story.
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Firefox 2 Tip: Instant calculator
Reader Jerry points out that Firefox 2’s suggest-as-you type Google search box is an instant calculator.
Simply type your mathematical formula into the search box (Alt-K Cntrl-K to get there quick) and you’ll get your answer even before you hit the equals sign. Awesome.
+ Early Adopter Download of the Day: Firefox 2.0 RC 2 (All platforms)
Create your own search engine with Windows Live Search macros
Windows Live Search has made it extremely easy for you to roll your very own search engine.
All you need to do is go through the interactive Search Macro Wizard; enter in a few sites, customize the look of your page, and ka pow! You’ve got your own search engine. You can also search other people’s [...]
Turn Google into your own personal (free) Napster
Google is good for so many things, among which is searching for all sorts of files, including MP3’s. Here’s a quick primer:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Nirvana”
Just substitute the term “Nirvana” for any band or singer you might be looking for, and your search will lead you to open indexes [...]
Create multiple social bookmark links
If you’ve got online content you’d like others to bookmark at sites such as Digg, Furl, del.icio.us, etc., then iFeedReaders’ easy multiple link creator is just for you.
Just pick the bookmarking services you’d like to target, fill in a few tidbits of information, and the HTML code is generated for you. Couldn’t be simpler.
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How to change a tire
Changing a tire is something everyone will probably have to do at some point in their lifetime, and Dr. Bruce Magee of Louisiana Tech gives us a great step by step in a practical printable.
Sure, you can always just call AAA, but what if you’re out in the boonies without a signal? Personally, I printed [...]
Remove any ink stain
Pop quiz, hotshot: your favorite shirt has got a ginormous Sharpie stain on the collar. What do you do? Why, you check out housekeeping guru Sarah Aguirre’s guide to ink stain removal, that’s what.
irst, you’ll need to determine what kind of ink stain you’re dealing with: water-based, permanent, ballpoint pen, etc. After that, you’ve got [...]
Schedule your next sick call
Web site Call-in-Sick is a free service that let’s you record and schedule a message to be delivered to your boss’s voicemail, letting him/her know that you just won’t be able to make it in to work today.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Call-in-Sick can be used for the forces of good [...]
10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
The Chief Happiness Officer weblog takes a look at 10 “seeeeeriously” innovative and creative office workspaces at companies like Pixar, Google and Red Bull.
“Many companies have buildings that are sleek, modern, architectural glass-steel-and-cement sculptures on the outside – and cubicle wastelands on the inside. These companies need to remember that most employees tend to work [...]
Early Adopter Download: Windows Vista RC2
Microsoft’s made the Vista Release Candidate 2 available as a free download for testers. Looks like RC2 will only be available for a limited time and there’s an odd caveat with this one. MS says:
“Please note: This build may not have the same level of support or servicing via Windows Update as RC1, and you [...]
Weekend Project: Learn Linux
The Linux Online web site presents a detailed, online tutorial for folks looking to switch from a commercial OS to the open source Linux.
“We have developed this course for one basic reason: To bring the newcomer to Linux to the point where you can, using Linux, do everything that you do with MS Windows and [...]
Play your favorite NES games online
Web site vNES lets you play any of over 200 NES games online, in your browser.
While not the life hackiest of web sites, you could tell yourself that if you can get a quick Paperboy fix in your browser when you need it (only me?), you won’t have to waste your time digging through your [...]
