August 2008
88 posts
Linux login with a Windows box and XDMCP →
Copy a Single File to Avoid Re-Activating Windows... →
The Online Tech Tips site offers up a great tip for anyone reinstalling XP off something other than their original CD—such as a slipstreamed and automated installation—or lacking a net…
Seth on cartooning →
One of my favorite comix artists, Seth, wrote an essay for The Walrus about “the quiet art of cartooning.” It’s a lovely piece and gives some nice insight the artist’s mind at work. Seth’s article…
ProCon.org →
Top 10 Calendar Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10] →
Software and webapps rock at being calendars: You can update them from any computer or your phone, they don’t have to triple-check when Columbus Day is, and they never get coffee stains on…
SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention... →
Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust…
Xming - PC X Server →
Bug Labs →
How to create a super shiny pencil icon in... →
Eren Göksel wrote a tutorial that anyone can follow to create a drawing of a pencil in Photoshop.
The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this…
David Seah - The Printable CEO™ Series →
SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention... →
Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust…
Top 10 Calendar Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10] →
Software and webapps rock at being calendars: You can update them from any computer or your phone, they don’t have to triple-check when Columbus Day is, and they never get coffee stains on…
How to Cook and Use Every Part of a Whole Chicken... →
Personal finance weblog The Simple Dollar explains how to cook a whole chicken and use every last bit of it for a frugal alternative to buying more expensive chicken breasts.
From [$11.50],…
Host Your Own Music Playlist with Opentape [Step... →
Beloved music playlist hosting service Muxtape’s gone offline to “sort out a problem with the RIAA,” but if you’ve got some web server space, you can host, stream, and share your own…
Remember the Milk Provider :: Thunderbird Add-ons →
http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/05/remember-milk-provider-extension-for.html
Host Your Own Music Playlist with Opentape [Step... →
Beloved music playlist hosting service Muxtape’s gone offline to “sort out a problem with the RIAA,” but if you’ve got some web server space, you can host, stream, and share your own…
Of gyroscopes and gaming: the tech behind the Wii... →
How to Cook and Use Every Part of a Whole Chicken... →
Personal finance weblog The Simple Dollar explains how to cook a whole chicken and use every last bit of it for a frugal alternative to buying more expensive chicken breasts.
From [$11.50],…
Using Google Calendar, Thunderbird and Lighting to... →
484 of Toronto's 2865 stolen bicycles returned so... →
Igor Kenk, used-bike store owner, was arrested in July and police found 2865 stolen bicycles. Bike thefts have gone down 20% since then in the downtown core. Police have been trying to reconnect…
The Pan-American Highway - Americas, Travel - The... →
30 Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow... →
Colour spectrum in technical, are visible colours from red to violet that made up the white light. They are also the reason why rainbows are so interestingly beautiful. MSNBC’s latest web header is a…
Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance... →
Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by…
The WELL - Online community is not an oxymoron... →
Set Up IMAP on Your Mail Server - Webmonkey →
Microsoft Office Ultimate 91% Off to "Students"... →
Microsoft yesterday re-introduced its “Ultimate Steal” program, offering students (but, in reality, anyone with a .edu address) its Office Ultimate 2007 package for $59.95, which goes for…
Photos of disassembled household appliances →
Flickr user Brittnybadger has a drop-dead gorgeous set of disassembled household appliances, saying, “this was my senior thesis project at the hartford art school this past year…i took apart…
Underwater photos of sailfish attacking a school... →
Marilyn sez, “Pual Nicklen’s amazing underwater photos of sailfish are a stunning series of seriously bizarre-looking sailfish attacking a school of sardines as big as an elephant.” In the…
Photos of disassembled household appliances →
Flickr user Brittnybadger has a drop-dead gorgeous set of disassembled household appliances, saying, “this was my senior thesis project at the hartford art school this past year…i took apart…
Data-centers built out of sealed shipping... →
Microsoft’s new data-centres are comprised of entire sealed shipping containers that are slotted into racks and left to run until a critical mass of their processor units have failed, then are…
Ice cream is an igneous rock →
Geologist Maria Brumm makes a compelling case for considering ice-cream to be a sort of igneous rock:
Ice cream is an igneous rock. You begin with a liquid slurry containing a hodgepodge of…
Amazon Boosts Storage Features In EC2 →
Amazon today launched a new web service - EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances,…
Snarl :: Homepage →
Underwater photos of sailfish attacking a school... →
Marilyn sez, “Pual Nicklen’s amazing underwater photos of sailfish are a stunning series of seriously bizarre-looking sailfish attacking a school of sardines as big as an elephant.” In the…
Data-centers built out of sealed shipping... →
Microsoft’s new data-centres are comprised of entire sealed shipping containers that are slotted into racks and left to run until a critical mass of their processor units have failed, then are…
Ice cream is an igneous rock →
Geologist Maria Brumm makes a compelling case for considering ice-cream to be a sort of igneous rock:
Ice cream is an igneous rock. You begin with a liquid slurry containing a hodgepodge of…
Personal Identity Portal Secures One-Click... →
Web security firm VeriSign has re-launched its Personal Identity Portal, an OpenID-backed portal that provides one-click sign-ins for many popular webapps and e-commerce sites. The biggest…
Feature: Use Your Wii as a Media Center →
Manage Tasks and Calendars from Gmail [Gmail] →
Earlier this week, we highlighted a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that puts Google Calendar into a right-hand sidebar in Gmail. That in itself makes Gmail a pretty good organizer, but…
Explorer++ Improves On Windows Explorer [Featured... →
Windows only: Alpha file manager Explorer++ is a promising free alternative to Windows Explorer that offers features it sorely lacks, like tabbed browsing, secure file deletion, file…
Hack Your Wii for Homebrew Apps and DVD Playback... →
Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken reason, the Nintendo Wii doesn’t support DVD playback—until last week, that is, when a homebrew hacker released a…
Seen On The Streets Of Berlin →
Artist: JAYBO
Executor Is Impressive, Full-Featured App Launcher... →
Windows only: Free application Executor is an application launcher very similar in look and feel to Lifehacker reader’s favorite application launcher, Launchy. In fact, after a bit of…
Edison PC Power Management Software | Edison →
Hive Five Winner for Best Desktop Search App:... →
Last week’s Hive Five Best Desktop Search Applications was a real barn burner, with Windows Search 4 (Windows) squeaking by with the victory just two votes ahead of Spotlight (Mac OS…
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day...”
– Margaret Thatcher
Stock Photography | PhotoShelter →
GmailAgenda Puts GCal in Your Gmail [Featured... →
Firefox with Greasemonkey: The GmailAgenda user script puts your Google Calendar’s upcoming events on the right hand side of your inbox. This script is pretty straightforward: Once you…
Pandora On the Verge of Closing Shop →
Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. Pandora on the iPhone is one of the best applications for streaming…
10 Best Science Fiction Planets →
Most planets featured in science fiction tend to be rather generic. These planets are usually convenient celestial bodies upon which to pitch a narrative tent for a few scenes before the plot moves…