Scratch offers Numark-controlled Guitar Hero for hip-hop heads - Engadget (4)
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Filed under: Gaming Are the blatant rockist tendencies of Guitar Hero and Rock Band ruining your enjoyment of those otherwise brilliant titles? Of course they are -- we noted your b-boy flava from two blocks away. But don't sweat it because Genius Products, 7 Studios and Quincy Jones III have your niche in their sights and will happily sell you Scratch: The Ultimate DJ when it hits the stores sometime in Spring 2009. With a ...
T-Mobile G1 gets early user review (2)
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Filed under: Cellphones Oh sure, you've already read over our (and Ryan Block's) brief one-day impressions of T-Mobile's G1, but one lucky (lucky!) user over at AndroidCommunity has been able to handle one for more than just a few hours. As a precious gift to the world, he's penned a nice list of pros and cons along with a Q&A, and it seems that the "review" is actually growing with time. Right from the top, ...
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Gmail Labs Adds Advanced IMAP Controls [Gmail] (28)
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Google adds another opt-in feature to its roster of Gmail Labs experiments: Advanced IMAP Controls, a way to selectively decided which of your Gmail labels are available to your IMAP client plus other tweaks. With the new feature enabled, go to the Labels tab under your Gmail account's Settings area to select and de-select "Show in IMAP" on a per-label basis. Google describes a few other "obscure" IMAP features you can configure, as well. The ...
Experimental Extensions We'd Like to Go Mainstream [Experimental Firefox Extensions] (39)
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Finding new and useful Firefox extensions is a passion of ours, but sometimes we run across extensions adorning the daunting "Experimental" moniker at the Firefox Add-ons web site. We try to avoid these extensions as much as possible because they haven't been vetted by the folks at Mozilla, but even more importantly, we hate requiring our readers to register and sign into a web site just to download an extension. Most of the extensions that ...
M.I.A. - Boys (rmx’s) f. Wale (1)
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And so it begins… Wale jumps on M.I.A.’s Boys as well. But atleast we have a backstory courtesy of elitaste: So back in June of 2007 Wale met with Jay while he was still at Def Jam. On the way out of the meeting, MIA’s “Boyz” video came on TV and Jay jokingly said to Wale, “Man I should test you with that beat” as they were walking onto the elevator. Wale had been touring ...
Startup Delayer Beats Boot Time Frustration (6)
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As far back as 10 years ago, I can remember technology industry pundits talking about Instant-On features in computers and operating systems. These have started to appear on a few systems, but for many users, waiting for the long time it takes a computer to boot is a miserable experience that we just accept. That’s especially true for Windows users, because of Windows’ “dependably undependable” tendency to litter files around a system with reckless abandon. ...
The Budget Calculator Breaks Down How Much You Can Spend [Economy] (14)
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CNBC's On the Money weblog has put together a simple budget breakdown calculator to help you rein in your spending in the face of the financial crisis. The flash-based calculator uses CNBC's personal finance expert Carmen Wong Ulrich's budgeting advice to build a nicely illustrative pie chart calculator that helps you visualize a set of reasonable budget goals. Just enter your take-home pay and hit calculate. The percentages listed are estimates, naturally, but it's a ...
Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results (Matt McGee/Search Engine Land) (3)
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results — Google has confirmed for Search Engine Land that they'll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.
No More Squinting: Google Maps' First High-Res Satellite Images (30)
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Using services like Google Maps and Google Earth has changed the way people interact with geography, compare notes with neighbors, and find their way from here to there. Still, for all the beauty of Google's directions, "street view," and "search nearby," the top-down views of our world have always been a bit fuzzy and squint-inducing. Until now. Thanks to Google hitching a ride on GeoEye-1, that's all about to change. And today, we saw the ...
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billrod said:
I use this a lot.. Very nice upgrade..
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krynsky said:
This is great. Nice comparison shot too. I can't wait to wave out my window when the satellite passes over my house.
Auburn, 104th in offense, fires coordinator Franklin (1)
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Video: What Lara Croft can do in TR Underworld (1)
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Filed under: News, Tomb Raider: UnderworldHonestly, when the developers at Crystal Dynamics talk about what Lara Croft can do in Tomb Raider: Underworld, they speak so passionately that one gets the impression they've spent one too many late nights staring at Lara's well proportioned figure on a computer screen. And that's exactly the right attitude. The video above notes that Cyrstal Dynamics began development of Lara's abilities by asking what she -- a highly trained ...
Nerd library to end all nerd libraries (24)
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Stephen Levy toured the personal library of Priceline founder Jay Walker and discovered nerdvana: a wunderkammer piled to the rafters with the most pricelessly awesome nerd artifacts of all time -- an original Sputnik, the Thing hand from the Addams Family, a globe of the moon signed by every astronaut who's walked on it, an original of Robert Hooke's Micrographia, an Enigma machine, etc. You know, I've often turned my nose up at the absurd ...
Always Show the Subject Line When Composing a Gmail Reply (6)
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Firefox with Greasemonkey only: Unlike most other email clients, when you reply to a message in Gmail, the subject line doesn't automatically become editable—you have to click the "Edit Subject" link in order to change it. If you edit your email subject in reply to messages frequently, but hate to have to reach for the mouse to start in Gmail, there's now a Greasemonkey user script for you. Download the Show Editable Subject user script ...
The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need (20)
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I’ve written about motivation a bunch of times before here on Zen Habits, but the more I learn about it, the more I realize that motivation isn’t that complicated. Sure, there are numerous tips that can help, numerous tactics and strategies I’ve used with success. But it really all boils down to two things. And those two things are so deceptively simple that you might decide to stop reading after I name them: 1) make ...
Block Ads on Your Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch [Step By Step] (7)
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Whether you're on Wi-Fi or an EDGE/3G cellular connection, many web pages would load up a heck of a lot faster on the iPhone's Mobile Safari browser if you weren't stuck waiting for "LOWER YOUR...
Turn an Old Cell Phone and Headset into a "SkypeCell" [DIY] (8)
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Instructables author JFDuval had an old cell phone and a cheap headset laying around, so he decided to fuse them together to make better-quality calls on free VOIP service Skype. As you might imagine, you don't get wireless calling, and this method requires a small bit of soldering and case-opening, but the author says the call quality—and, in the case of a really cheap headset, the comfort on his ears—improved noticeably. It was also a ...
Is effort a myth? (80)
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People really want to believe effort is a myth, at least if we consider what we consume in the media: politicians and beauty queens who get by on a smile and a wink lottery winners who turn a lifetime of lousy jobs into one big payday sports stars who are born with skills we could never hope to acquire hollywood celebrities with the talent of being in the right place at the right time failed ...
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Ed Dale said:
He is right
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
this has a good ending...
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Devlin D said:
Very interesting take. For the most part I have to think that even the people that we consider "lucky" still had to expend effort in some way to get there. You don't get to be a CEO, even a failed one, without putting in work. Same with a beauty queen, actor, or athlete. Lottery winners are really the exception IMO.
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tumbleweed said:
Good advice. I worry that I do too many of those bulleted items :-)
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Structure unstructured time to invest in yourself and others...
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