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March 17, 2008

Top 25 Temporary and Disposable Email Services

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 10:12 am

Here is a list of what we
’ve found to be the best temporary/disposable email services. They all provide you give you a temporary email inbox which is totally spam free and most require no registration or sign-up:

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March 10, 2008

33 Awesome Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 9:49 am

Human body retouching - a collection of the 33 best Photoshop tutorials.

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February 22, 2008

Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 8:56 am

Wouldn’t it be great if you could run those great Linux apps side-by-side with your Windows apps
—like Linux users can do with WINE or OS X can do with Parallels or VMWare? You can, and today I’ll show you how to seamlessly run your favorite Linux applications directly in Windows with a free software called andLinux

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February 15, 2008

Incredible Robot Sings, Dances and Writes the Entire Bible

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 10:42 am

A bizarre wonder of German engineering, this incredible industrial robot has been trained to dance, paint portraits and (yes) write the complete Martin Luther bible in beautiful calligraphy.

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February 8, 2008

Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 4:15 pm

Virtualization is the technique of running a “guest” operating system inside an already-running OS; for example, Windows inside Linux, or visa-versa. This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels.

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February 1, 2008

Write an Online Bulk Image Downloader Using BASH

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 12:25 pm

So my girlfriend tells me that I need to download several large image files from a photographer
’s website. I manage her online portfolio/website so I’m used to these types of requests… but this time I was going to find a better way to “leech them all.” So anyway, she IM’s me the URL for her most recent shoot…

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January 29, 2008

Gentoo Linux - Your Video Card When You’re Not Playing Games

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 12:24 pm

Great video of Gentoo Linux in action. Try to keep up.

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January 26, 2008

Wine 0.9.54 Released

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 8:19 am

Wine 0.9.54 was released today, with the following main changes:

* Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work, please help us testing it.
* A number of RPC fixes.
* Various improvements to the debugger support.
* Lots of bug fixes.
* Apparently you can even get Office 2007 working with some effort


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January 25, 2008

Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required!

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 9:00 am

Two months ago I walked through how to build a Hackintosh Mac on the cheap using PC parts. Since that post, the OSx86 scene has changed rapidly, and now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac—no command line hacking required.

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January 18, 2008

Electronic contact lenses offer superhuman eyesight

Filed under: Random — Ryan @ 11:16 am

Engineers have managed to combine a flexible contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. The new contact lens could superimpose computer displays onto a person’s eyesight.

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