Archive for March, 2007
Local Tips For Parents
Parents who are looking for family-friendly hotels, restaurants and other attractions for their next family vacation may want to point their browsers to Parentography—a new online community that invites ‘Parentographers’ who have been there and done that to weigh in on what spots were most accommodating to their brood.
“Parents can share stories, photos, excursion ideas, [...]
Upgrade Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Ubuntu 7.04 is the current development version of the Ubuntu operating system. It is to be released in April 19th 2007.The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Feisty Fawn”.
Read more after the jump, for instrcution and details.
+ Upgrade Ubuntu 6.10 [via onlyubuntu]
20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Lab Accidents
LSD, gunpowder, Viagra, and the Incredible Hulk all have something in common.
1 There went our best chance: In the ninth century, a team of Chinese alchemists trying to synthesize an “elixir of immortality” from saltpeter, sulfur, realgar, and dried honey instead invented gunpowder.
2 German scientist Hennig Brand stored 50 buckets of urine in his cellar [...]
How Police Interrogation Works
For all you “wannabe criminal teenagers” out there, and those of you at Guantánamo Bay, who have internet access!!!
There are “Law & Order” addicts everywhere who think they could get a perp to confess. A little glaring, some getting in the guy’s face, a revelation that his fingerprints are all over the murder [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Early Adopter Download of the Day: Nostalgia (Windows)
Windows only: Access your Flickr account from your desktop with Nostalgia, a gorgeous new photo-management app.
Nostalgia allows you to search Flickr remotely and create local sets from the photos you discover. It also supports local photo management and synchronizes to your Flickr account, allowing you to update your online photos as well.
And it’s a looker. [...]
GotVoice
When I first reviewed GotVoice in June 2005, I thought it was an awesome, if rough-around-the-edges, application. Gotvoice’s goal is to bring sanity to your voicemail inbox, and it does that well. Tonight they are relaunching with a much cooler interface and a whole bunch of new functionality.
Previously GotVoice was a simple service that used [...]
Firefox Tip: Clear your file download history
Weblog Of Zen and Computing reports that you may be able to speed up Firefox by clearing out its Download history.
By default, the ‘fox keeps a record of every single file you’ve downloaded – whether it’s still on your hard drive or not – in its Downloads dialog, unless you clear it. To do so, [...]
How to be a gentleman
AskMen has a very good article on the art of being a gentleman.
I think we all could agree – both the guys and the girls – that we could use a little bit more thoughtfulness in our daily interaction with one another. This article pretty much echoes that premise, with some straight to the point [...]
Download of the Day: TypeFaster (Windows)
Windows only: Free, open source application TypeFaster teaches you how to touch-type and improve your typing speed.
TypeFaster’s on-screen display lets you keep your eyes on the monitor and off your keyboard as you work your way through the lessons. Granted, most of us know how to touch-type by now, but I’ve been considering making the [...]
Learn UNIX in 10 minutes..
Learning unix is not so simple. but this can be done in 10 minutes.This is something a professor had given out to students (CAD user training) in years past.
The purpose was to have on one page the basics commands for getting started using the UNIX shell (so that they didn’t call me asking what to [...]
The Future Of Work – “You Snooze, You Lose”
Want to keep pace with the competition? Forget coffee—a new class of FDA-approved stimulants will keep you working harder, better, faster and stronger.
As a species, we’ve hit the bedtime barrier. You can eat at your desk, socialize in the break room, and answer text messages on a date, but sooner or later, you’re going [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Amazing Skydiver Jumps Out Of Plane And Into Another
Watch as this skydiver jumps out of a plane and then catches up to another falling plane and gets in…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to read your Hotmail from Gmail
If you’ve got a Hotmail account laying around but you’ve made the switch to Gmail, blogger Javed Mandary has instructions on how to get your Hotmail in Gmail.
Hotmail doesn’t offer POP access but Javed uses IzyMail to enable Hotmail POP and then get the messages using the Gmail Fetcher. Great for anyone still hanging [...]
Allied footage of concentration camps 1/7
**NOT FOR THE FEINT HEARTED**EXTREMELY GROSS AND DISTURBING**
A film (split into 7 parts) created by the allied forces investigating newly discovered concentration camps
I made it to 3/7 before crying, then puking.
Supercharge your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll
When it comes to heavy duty download jobs, Firefox’s default Downloads manager just doesn’t cut the mustard. If you often need closer control of multiple, large downloads, you need the DownThemAll! Firefox add-on. This extra-strength download manager can speed up, queue for later, and batch download sets of files from the web based on patterns [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to clean your house like a maid (for the missis’ benefit!)
DIY site Curbly offers advice on efficient housecleaning from someone who used to clean houses.
The mantra of the company I worked for was top to bottom, left to right. This way you could easily walk into any room and know exactly where to get started. The work was divided into “wet rooms” (bathrooms and kitchens) [...]
Why you should keep cash “under your mattress”
The Simple Dollar weblog emphasizes the importance of keeping an emergency stash of cash “under your mattress,” metaphorically speaking.
I keep a small pile of twenties in my home as my ultimate emergency fund. I keep this money on hand for the sole purpose of being available if I have no access to funds in any [...]
Adobe Photoshop: Online Edition
One of the risks of trying to find a niche to build a startup is that the big guys can land on your face at any time. That’s why all of these startups are going to be in serious trouble when Adobe releases a free, ad supported online version of Photoshop in six months.This announcement [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Download of the Day: Linkification (Firefox)
Windows/Mac/Unix (Firefox): The Linkification Firefox extension converts text URLs into clickable links.
When we posted about opening unlinked text URLs via drag-and-drop, a couple of readers suggested Linkification, and they were certainly right to do so. The Linkification extension turns any unlinked text URLs into clickable links so you don’t even have to know there [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Every Nerd’s Dream Desk Setup
Just when we were patting ourselves on the ass for having three monitors and a laptop on our desk, Stefan Didak has to show us up with his power-sucking home office. His setup consists of 7 screens, all of which are LCDs, all coming from one desktop. If you add in his two laptops, that [...]
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