Friday, April 27, 2007

Firefox Extension: Smart Digg Button Courtesy Digg API

The Smart Digg Button uses the newly released Digg API to determine if the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg. If it has, it displays the number of Diggs the page has. If not, you can submit the story by pressing the button.



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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Apple to build new features into iPhone, Apple TV free of charge

Apple said Wednesday it will leverage its proven capability in the area of software development to gradually add new software features and applications to its iPhone and Apple TV products free of charge.



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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

6 Degrees of Computer Science

Pretty graph of differences between Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and other thesaurus terms that confuse University bound students.



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Monday, April 23, 2007

A set of REALLY spectacular desktop wallpapers

If you're a lover of beautiful desktops, check out this site... they've been gathering since 1994 and there are still only 96 wallpapers that have made the grade... so they're REALLY good.



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Thursday, April 19, 2007

CRAZY GOOGLE [42 PICTURES]

Nice collection of google cartoons :-)



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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

How to Have a Business Conversation: Ten Conversation Tips

In the course of climbing the corporate ladder, or of just managing the little corner of the world you occupy, you have to communicate with people. It's not always easy, but you have to do it.Some of this communication amounts to simple conversation, and it's been dawning on me for a long time now that a great many young people don't know how to have one. In fact, a great many older people don't know how to have a conversation, either.



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First Impressions of Final Cut Studio 2

If you're interested in high-end video production, you'll want to take a look at Apple's Final Cut Studio 2. It's chock full o' apps, included a smooth new update to Final Cut Pro, now in version 6, It's main coolness is its ability to crunch HDTV video down to manageable sizes, made possible by ProRes 422, a codec for compressing video...



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Monday, April 16, 2007

Geek Culture [PICS]

These are the greatest monitor setups I have ever seen.



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PICTURES: The Most Beautiful Bridges In The World

This is a collection of the most beautiful bridges in the World. 37 photos.



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Sunday, April 15, 2007

What happens when you click on "Send Error Report" ?

Ever wondered what happens when you click on "Send Error Report" whenever a software crashes on your computer? Here is an insight into what people at Microsoft do when someone submits one such report.



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21 guidelines that will help you write better HTML

Markup is the technical foundation of front-end code. In one way or another, it influences or is influenced by design, content, accessibility, CSS, DOM scripting, and more. The quality of your markup will affect the quality of related code, and even the cost of implementing or maintaining that code. Your markup might be good now, but following...



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Friday, April 13, 2007

25 Code Snippets For Web Designers

"Part 3 of our code snippets series takes a look at more handy pieces of html, ajax and css that you can incorporate into your web designs."



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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Why there aren't viruses for Macs — it's not because of low market share.

Apple haters love to claim that there are no viruses for Macs because there are so few compared to Windows machines. Virus creators are in the business because of ego. And what would be a bigger ego boost than being the first to create a widespread OS X virus?



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Google corners nearly two-thirds of US search market - Fortune

The latest search market share numbers are in from Hitwise: in the four weeks ended March 31st, Google (GOOG) racked up fully 64.13% of all US searches. That’s up more than 10% since March 2006, and, if trends hold, Google’s share will pass the two thirds mark by August.



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Stanford Report: What Do Users Do On The Internet?

We asked each of our 4000 respondents to select among a list of 17 common internet activities and tell us which they did or did not do. This is what we found.



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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Pi Is Wrong

"The proper value, which does deserve all the reverence and adulation bestowed upon the current impostor, is the number now unfortunately known as 2pi"



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Monday, April 9, 2007

Speedup Windows XP in Minutes!

A useful guide to speedup Windows XP without upgrading your hardware.Most of the tips were obvious to most of us. Few points are helpful..esp. the controversial page file bullet.Comments on this point are pretty informative.



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Friday, April 6, 2007

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers

Humorous Top-10 lists aside, geeks really do make the best lovers, for reasons that have nothing to do with adolescent ostracism or puppy-like devotion.It's all about sex-tech.



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Top 10 Computer Books for the Complete Nerd

Are we computer guys nerds or geeks? In the olden days nerds were the smart ones and geeks were more like dweebs. Now it seems the terms have changed. What do you think?



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Apple's Mac OS X may gain multi-sized icon interface

Apple Inc. has developed an enhancement to its Mac OS X Finder user interface that will allow for different-sized icons within the same window as a means of representing their importance, a recent patent application has revealed. The filing states that, "When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizing scheme...



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µTorrent 1.7 beta 1065 is out!

A huge changelog is coming your way, and now full Vista support. Definitely worth the long wait.



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Ten Ways Being a Geek Makes You More Attractive

Everyone is familiar with the stereotype of thick glasses, an intense obsession with star trek, and social skills akin to a sack of potatoes. It's 2007 and things are different: geeks now possess a number of qualities that can make them very attractive.



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How did David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear?

Thanks to the magic of the Internet, you can watch the trick again. More than 20 years later, it's still pretty amazing.



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