Thursday, August 24, 2006

Learn Languages For FREE (Cantonese, Chinese, French, German... etc)

Learn languages for free. This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. It is an independent effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. Text & audio materials used by the government to teach Cantonese, Chinese (Standard), French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, & Tur

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Ancient whale broke all the rules

A bizarre whale fossil found on a beach in southern Australia suggests that baleen whales, the filter-feeding gentle giants of the sea, were not always gentle, or giants, a researcher says.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

40 Percent of Players Are Addicted to World of Warcraft

An expert in computer, Internet and video game addiction believes that 40 percent of the more than 6 million subscribers suffer from a clinical addiction to the game and wants warning labels on the game boxes similar to the Surgeon General's warnings on cigarettes. TwitchGuru has the interview.

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Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites

Time Magazine has put together a list of 50 coolest websites from six different categories. Many of them are Web 2.0 sites, others aren't. There's no surprise Digg is one of the websites, but many lesser-known sites made the list too.

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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Top 10 Websites for Students

"You've checked the course schedules, bought your sheets and towels, shopped for a laptop, gotten in touch with your new roommate--you're all ready for college, right? Wrong. Your campus orientation isn't complete until you get a little Internet orientation, too."

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Linux Command Line Cheatsheet

A list of linux commands for common operations including: file searching, networking, directory navagation, etc.

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Amazing Retro 1950's Ads (Really Cool)

The Ad*Access project consists of hundreds of retro ads from the 1950's. They are grouped into five categories: Beauty & Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation & World War II. These subjects were chosen for their broad popular appeal and proven interest to students, faculty and researchers.

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Canadian Nat'l Film Board Puts 50 Classic Animation Shorts Online

The National Film Board of Canada has put 50 of their brilliant animated short films on line for free viewing. Many Canadians will recall such classics as "The Sweater".

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Friday, July 14, 2006

Top 10 most expensive cars in the world

Check out the list of 10 most expensive cars in the world. At the top of the list is the legendary Bugatti Veyron, most expensive, most powerful, and fastest car in the world.


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Full-length streaming video: 'Super Size Me'

If you haven't seen this great documentary, go see it now. You can watch the full-length, 100-minute award-winning film for free online.

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Saturday, July 08, 2006

MIT scientists create visionary optic fibers

In a radical departure from conventional lens-based optics, MIT scientists have developed a sophisticated optical system made of mesh-like webs of light-detecting fibers.

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Friday, July 07, 2006

Scan Your Fingerprint for Data Access Jump Drive


From GIZMODO: Finger-scanning USB drive! A jump drive that locks/unlocks to your fingerprint ONLY. I luv it :))

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/index.php



Google Video Secret Categories

Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

Pictures of the first Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF in official paint job

flightglobal.com has obtained exclusive photographs of Lockheed Martin's first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as it emerged from the paint shop at Fort Worth, Texas ready for its formal roll-out and naming on 7 July.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Getting Rid of Stubborn Old 4.7 Messenger

Computer woes continue. Horrid, old win 4.7 Mess (comes with xp pro) back to haunt me again. You can't just simply remove it from add/remove programs, windows components. Oh no! not that easy. However...these instructions are very easy to follow and actually do work. YAY. Thanks to an unnamed member of neowin....

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=249546

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Is Vista Microsoft's last OS?

(Here again, Microslush is playing the catch up game--trying to catch up with Goggy and the Amazon tribe.)

Bill Gates discusses Microsoft's new plan... and it isn't operating systems as we know them...

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The Net's New Age

Interesting story on some of the differences and similarities to Web 1.0 and Web2.0 era's. " Technology that aims to revolutionize how surfers use the Web is fueling a new wave of Internet investment and challenging established media"

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Photoshop Tutorial - Text Photo Montage

I've seen this effect before, one of my teachers has Einstein made up of just letters. This tutorial shows you how you can easily do it using photoshop. Pretty cool I think.

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Sunday, January 01, 2006

Free online file storage and sending

This is an extensive list of online file storage services and/or large file size email sending services. All are free.

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Send a Robotic voice call to anyone through this website

Just type in the phone number including area code and then a message. In the license key field put a zero "0" and hit enter. The robot voice will say your message to the call recipient.

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Blog Software Comparison Chart

This chart compares the most popular blog software. It is helpful when you can't decide which blog service you want to use. All the information is in a simple chart. Everyone should check it out before registering for a blog.

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