Thursday, August 30, 2007

Black Mac Minitosh - Not another Mini in a Macintosh Chassis

This is the true Mac Mini "case mod". DVD goes in through the former floppy slot, and 99% authentic from the outside, and BLACK, no butchering here, only respect.This is not the Japanese mod, I did this myself, and documented it for you.33.3% nostalgia 33.3% hack 33.3% pointless; still 100% Macintosh.

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popuri.us: check your site popularity

A quick, simple yet effective AJAX based tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc)...

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Federer breaks Connors’ record : ranked No. 1 for 161st consecutive week

Roger Federer set a new record for men’s tennis dominance on Monday, when he celebrated his 161st consecutive week as world number one.The Swiss eclipsed Jimmy Connors’s 30-year-old milestone after extending a streak that began on February 2, 2004.

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Screencast: How to use OpenID

Video showing how to create a new OpenID and use it to log in to different sites without needing to create a new username and password for each one.

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NMAP 4.0 Released

Nmap has undergone many substantial changes since the last major release (3.50 in February 2004) and they recommend that all current users upgrade.

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GoDaddy makes security site disappear after MySpace complains

A host of mailing list archives disappears after thousands of MySpace usernames and passwords are archived on the site.

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Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience

Interesting article how a Celeron 466 handled a slashdot with little sweat. He did make some config changes for this to work though, but there is some good tips.

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Pictures from Old Books | Reference Material

1200+ public domain images scanned from old books. Great window into times gone by!

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100% CSS Rounded Corners WITH anti-aliasing. No images. No JavaScript.

Spiffy Corners is a simple way to generate the CSS and HTML you need to create anti-aliased corners without using images or javascript.

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Freakin Awsome : Your Desktop on Steroids.

You have to see this....

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New 3D Way to Desktop

This video shows you a new way to display and organize your desktop. It's 3D, physics-ruled environment looks more like your actual desktop, which may force users to clean and organize it more often.

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Gallery 2.2 released!

The Gallery team has put out version 2.2 of their awesome photo management application. Among the cool new features, it's got a tightly integrated web based plugin install system so it's easier than ever to download and install new features on the fly. Check it out!

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Redoable 1.0 Theme for Wordpess

This new theme for Wordpress is based upon the great K2 theme it supports sidebar widgets, has built in support for more than a dozen popular plugins. It comes with an easy to use admin interface to help configure it suit your needs, and to help setup some of the plugins. Also available are two plugins, Ultimate Category Cloud and Rechuked Buttons.

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Gallery 2 Theme Contest Commences

The Gallery Project is pleased to announce the Gallery 2 Theme Contest! Gallery is looking for new, inspiring, feature complete, and original themes to be created by our amazing users! In appreciation for these themes, we will award you with fame and prize money ($3,141.59 USD). The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2007 ... [more]

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Joe Clark's looking for some micropatronage love

Toronto accessibility guy and my 'esteemed colleague' launches a micropatronage drive. Use his hilarious banner ads, chip in a little something via paypal or just send good thoughts to help him out while he fundraises for an accessibility research project.

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Gmail: Behind the Scenes (Final Cut)

"A compilation of clips submitted by Gmail fans as part of our collaborative video project. Selected from over 1,100 clips from fans in more than 65 countries. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/mvideo"

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HP's Hot New Desktop, Virtus, Revealed (Pics)

Per Engadget: We don't yet know a lot about this happening new HP desktop, except that it's been dubbed the Virtus and it's got some fairly slick design. We'll hit you up with more as we get it -- for now, bask in our gallery of leaked shots.

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Last.fm does Audio Fingerprinting

Today last.fm released a tool that will allow users to audio fingerprint their music and then give that data to last.fm to use for standardization of track names. In a sense each individual user is contributing to the data mining process by letting this tool scan their mp3 collection.

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Finally men's underwear advertised right [NSFW PICS]

It always pisses me off to see men's underwear advertised with studs featuring tanned skin, perfectly shaped six packs and that nasty "I'm so damn hot" look on their face. Finally a French(?) company got the right idea.

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To Catch a Predator: BioShock Edition [PIC]

Hi, My name is Chris Hansen with Dateline...now what exactly were you planning on doing tonight??? We have a chat log of you saying things like "I want to pull out your slug and harvest your genetic material."

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Rowan Atkinson - Invisible Drum Kit

Rowan Atkinson comes across an invisible drum kit while sweeping.

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Three More Years of Lewd Humor for South Park Lovers and Haters

$75 million for three more years of cartoons! Do people really like Kenny, Cartman, and Stan that much?

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Graphic: The World Without Us

Alan Weisman theorizes what would happen to the planet if humans suddenly disappeared. Roll over each block to see more details.

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