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via Cracked.com – A Review of the Pirated Copy of Windows 7 I Bought On eBay

Monday, October 12th, 2009

The official release of Windows 7 is only a few weeks away, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably asking yourself what effect this will have on your lives. Will the gates of Heaven open up and a consort of large breasted angels descend to guide you into computing heaven? Or will it be [...]

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Nokia N95 Light Sabre

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I’ve never really suffered from jesus phone envy, especially considering the number of features that were missing on earlier iPhones. However, there was one application that could have made me change my mind, and that was the Light Sabre application.

So when i found a Nokia Light Sabre Application, I had to have it.

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10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog

Monday, May 11th, 2009

With WordPress so popular these days, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers, so securing your blog is more and more important. The catswhocode.com provide 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog.
They have a large array of useful WordPress tips and tricks, including another recent one about 10 awesome .htaccess hacks [...]

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Looking for a Life Partner Who Looks Like Your Favorite Actor or Actress

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

In a move that could stir up some controversy, Bharat Matrimony, one of most popular matrimonial website in India, has launched a facial recognition feature to help you search for a potential life partner who looks similar to your favorite film actor or actress.
You can either limit your partner search to a selected set of [...]

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ACMA blacklist leaked online

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Too many people knew of the existence of the blacklist. Too many people had motives to see it leaked. Of course, MEGAUPLOAD text file of the ACMA blacklist.
By the way, there are serious issues at stake here.
There is a also PDF version of the ACMA blacklist at whatsup.

Update:
Update of Australian government secret ACMA internet [...]

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ConverStations: Twitter + Yahoo Pipes = Signal

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Like many others, one purpose I have for Twitter is for the resources shared, noth work and play, including blog posts, news items, and tools (and the latest icanhascheezburger).
Mike Sansone of converstations.com has written about a cool way to capture all your tweeps Twitter URLs in one place — and that solves a big problem [...]

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Check Firefox Bookmarks

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Up until recently there was not a single add-on available for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser that would check the bookmarks for invalid or duplicate entries. Several add-ons existed that were able to perform the checks in Firefox 2. The reason for this was a change in how the bookmark data was stored.
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Alan Kay Computing History Overview

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

This is a great historical overview of the computer. Quite long video, but worth watching the first hour, with Alan showing how most ‘modern’ computing ideas had been invented and tested in labs in the 60s. Via the

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Doom running in your browser

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Christmas comes, but once a year…. Kongregate have recompiled Doom 1 in Flash, from the original source code. Since it’s from the original source, it plays just like the original, right down to the old cheat codes: in case you’ve forgotten, IDDQD activates “degreelessness” and IDKFA will enable all weapons, keys, and ammo, and [...]

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Greasefire Finds Greasemonkey Scripts for the Site You’re Visiting

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

One of the problems with using the Greasemonkey extension for firefox is knowing what scripts are available for the site you are visiting. Greasefire is a companion extension designed to help you customize your web browsing by finding user scripts for any page you’re currently visiting.
Once installed, the extension automatically searches the Greasemonkey script [...]

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