Archive for February 1st, 2007
Great Looking Website For A Disturbing Cause
Take a look at this amazingly well designed web site and bear in mind the message that it’s portraying.
The site is focusing on ‘Opening your eyes to the secret suffering of children in The Netherlands’, however this story would be very similar, if not worse, for any other country in the World.
This is well worth [...]
Luxe London Loos
A world away from the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street is WC1, the ultimate ladies’ convenience.
A glamorous urban sanctuary, WC1 is the world’s first LADIES’ LUXURY TOILET and POWDER ROOM. It has been designed with impeccable hygiene and the pursuit of beauty in mind.
+ WC1 [from SpringWise]
Beginners guide to running Linux in a virtual machine
Details on how to run Linux as a virtual machine on your Windows desktop for the absolute beginner. We recently covered how to run Windows apps on your Linux desktop, so this piece serves as a nice counterpoint. If you just want to try out a Linux distribution to get a taste of what [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Borat – Hunting The Jew (disturbingly offensive, but funny!)
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Download of the Day: ImgBurn (Windows)
Windows only: Free utility ImgBurn writes any disk image to a CD or DVD quickly and easily.
I’d previously recommended ISO Recorder for this task, but ISO Recorder only supports DVDs on Vista and it only burns .iso images. Aside from DVD support across the board, ImgBurn can handle other disk images types, and it’s the [...]
How to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack Live CD
Extremely impressed at the ease and speed with which the Ophcrack Live CD cracked my Windows admin password when I tested it out last a few weeks ago, I thought it might be useful to throw together a quick guide detailing how to use this powerful little utility.
Whether you need to recover the lost password [...]
Give your photos that ‘A Scanner Darkly’ look
Design ‘zine Adobe Illustrator Techniques shows you how to give your photos that cool graphic-novel look seen in the film A Scanner Darkly.
The technique combines heavy black lines with solid-color shapes, resulting in a kind of photo-realistic comic book effect. Needless to say, the process involves Illustrator, though I suspect you could use any drawing [...]
Download of the Day: Microsoft Time Zone (Windows XP)
Windows only: The free Microsoft Time Zone app displays the current time from multiple locations in the XP taskbar.
If you haven’t yet upgraded to Vista but you would like its multiple clocks feature, the not-as-pretty, but just-as-functional Time Zone’s for you. Microsoft Time Zone is a free download, and requires .NET 1.1 to run. [...]
Download of the Day: FoxyTunes (Firefox/Internet Explorer)
Firefox and Internet Explorer only: Access and play your music library from within your browser with FoxyTunes, a free plug-in. The latest version adds support for Last.fm (though currently only in the Firefox version).
The new addition definitely merits a look. In case you’re not familiar with it, the plug-in adds a full complement of music-player [...]
Transformers Movie Trailer – looks superb!”
+ official site
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Want Ghostbusters Car? Who You Gonna Call?
That’s right, the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 car is up for sale, priced at a whopping $149,998. Product page. More pictures after the jump.
Or would you have preferred KITT from Knight Industries 2000?
The LINUX Phone
Is LINUX really going to be able to step away from the ‘geek me’ OS?
No matter how legit a device might look to begin with, it’s always encouraging to see a few pics of it in the real world, just to ease our anxious souls. Well, it looks like TurboLinux’s Wizpy can official join the [...]
