virtualPhotographer
"One of the best Photoshop plug-ins around..."
- PHOTOSHOP CREATIVE magazine...Here
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Fine Art of Trashing (Dumpster Diving)
Trashing is the practice of cruising around either on foot or in a car to look for things people have thrown out that you want or need.
I’ve found a lot of things that I use to this day while trashing and if nothing else, trashing lends itself to good stories....Here
NY Times: City That Loves Mass Transit Looks to the Sky for More
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28 — The view from the new silver
spheres strung across the sky here will not always be as
stunning as it was on this sunbeam weekend...Here
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Hack Attack: Burn almost any Video file to a Playable DVD
Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos
you've downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on
your TV can be a daunting task.....Here
Vista Fxxk's U at the register,Then Fxxck's U out of your XP
If you choose to purchase an upgrade version of Windows
Vista to upgrade XP, you will no longer be able to use that
version of XP...Here
7yr Old ordered to take 3 Buses to get to School!
A 7-year-old Bronx boy
became one of the victims
of the city's bizarre school
bus reorganization yesterday
when he was told to catch
THREE different city buses
on his own....Here
10 Shopping Tricks that Stores Hate
Stores are always trying to
get you to do what they want.
But what if you refuse?
What if you do what benefits
you and not the store? Aside from
outright fraud, what are the things that
you can do to come out ahead...Here
Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth
The hospital's lawyers wrote back, "Ms. Mejia's request may require legal resolution." In other words, according to their interpretation of the law, Mejia has to sue them to get information about herself.
FBI turns to broad new wiretap method
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed...Here
"V" makes his mark in Washington D.C. !
On November 6, 2006, a lone man in a “V” mask and clothing visited security checkpoints at the White House, the main Treasury Building, the Department of Justice and the Capitol, to deliver a letter and the Petitions for Redress...Here
Monday, January 29, 2007
Hubble's main camera badly crippled
The Hubble Space Telescope’s primary camera
is offline, with some science capabilities likely
lost for good, NASA officials said Monday.....Here
Retiree, 77, from Sarasota fights $31,000 cell phone bill
More than $21,420 in roaming charges appeared on Oliver DeSofi's Cingular Wireless bill in November for more than 4,000 calls from Nicaragua.
Here
Researchers build tiny batteries with viruses
MIT scientists have harnessed the construction talents of tiny viruses to build ultra-small "nanowire" structures for use in very thin lithium-ion batteries.....Here
$300 Underwater ROV submarine camera version 2
This web page will detail the build process, and parts, I used to build an Underwater ROV with video camera.
Here
Scams, Fraud, Hoaxes Pyramids, Chain Letters: On the net A-Z
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Pro Guide to Google searches Part - 1
We all use Google every day,
quite a few times a day even
and most of us are very pleased
with it. But are the results to your
searches always that relevant!?
... Read Here
Ubuntu Linux Resources
It's a collection of tutorials
and random other pages
that will help
Ubuntu users....Here
How can I write ISO files to CD?
ISO files are actually images of complete
CDs compiles as one whole image, just like
Ghost does for hard disks and partitions.
ISO images can be loaded into several
different CD recording software packages
to create CDs.....Here
Woman gives birth to 'giant baby'
A woman in Brazil
has given birth to
a "giant baby" weighing
17lb (8kg) twice the size
of an average newborn.
...Here
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Paint.NET 3.0 is now Out!
Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools....Here
Hobbit cave digs set to restart
Archaeologists who found the remains of human "Hobbits" have gained permission to restart excavations at the cave where the specimens were found....Here
Friday, January 26, 2007
Oldest Living Thing?
It seems there are a number of different organisms that hold the record for the "longest lived" and their exact ages are still under investigation.... Here
Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made
an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an
entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image
down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact....Here
New Casino says $102-thousand Payout was a Mistake
The casino blames an internal communication
system error and in a written statement added,
"The error caused an incorrect message to be sent
to the promotional screen....Here
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Linux Audio Players, Tested and Graded
To find out, I put the following integrated music apps through their paces on a machine running Ubuntu 6.10: Rhythmbox, Banshee, Listen, Amarok, and Exaile. (I started with Rhythmbox because it's Gnome's official music player, and then I worked my way through the rest, saving Amarok and Exaile for the end since the latter is a clone of the former.)..... Here
Watch TV Online
Watch hundreds of live worldwide tv channels on your pc 100% free. Enjoy your favorite Music, news,educational, sports & shopping channels . Here
Just say no to mind controlling parasites
Take mind controlling parasites, for example. These are viruses and simple organisms that have evolved such that they can alter the behavior of their hosts. ... Here
Southwest Nearly Let's Liver Transplant Passenger Die!
Richard Brown nearly died on Sunday, January 21st, thanks to reckless indifference by a Southwest Airlines ticket agent.
Here
wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook and it's free
wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your
thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything
else you can think of to write down.
Get it Here
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Running Windows as a VM on Linux with VMware Server
Many network and security administrators want to use Linux as their operating system of choice due to the abundance of open source security tools available for Linux. But they still may need to run some Windows-only applications. So, their choices are to run a separate physical system or run Windows XP as a VM on VMware Virtual Server for Linux. More Here
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