Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software (15)
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It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC's everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it's molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or "Your trial period has expired!" nagware, it's time to replace stinky Windows software with its superior (but lesser-known) alternative. Last week we asked what software you should never install on your PC, and over 200 comments later, ...
Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job (1)
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An anonymous reader writes "It has been a number of years since the fantasy that hackers will be offered a job by those who they hacked was even a potential reality, but this might still be the case in New Zealand. An 18-year-old hacker responsible for writing a number of applications used by an online group called 'the A-Team' that allowed the creation of a million-plus machine botnet and a range of credit card fraud ...
iPhone 3G vs. BlackBerry Bold: First Head to Head [IPhone 3G] (1)
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There are basically two camps on the year's most anticipated phone: iPhone 3G or BlackBerry Bold. They are different phones with different core audiences, which largely comes down to keyboard preferences. But Boy Genius gives us a lot to chew on anyway in the first live head-to-head (and not just the photos). The shockers are that the newly plastic iPhone 3G has a better build quality and the Bold's screen is better, thanks to a ...
Are You Living Beyond Your Means? [Reader Poll] (2)
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Claiming personal savings rates are the lowest they've been since the Great Depression, Yahoo Finance sets out to identify five signs that you're living beyond your means. For example: More Than 28% of Income Goes To Your House: Calculate what percentage of your monthly income goes toward your mortgage, property taxes and insurance. If it's more than 28% of your gross income, then you are likely in over your head. Photo by AMagill. Why is ...
Question of the Day: Do You Trust Your IT Department? [Question Of The Day] (1)
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A recent UK survey revealed that nearly half of IT workers have admitted to exploiting their position to snoop in confidential files at work. Put that in the global perspective, and IT departments collectively know more about the state of our affairs than any industry analyst or investment firm. But still, such is a major breech of conduct. So today's question of the day is simple and to the point: Gawker Media polls require Javascript; ...
US climate change bill is blocked (1)
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Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX (1)
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sasserstyl writes "eWeek reports that Microsoft's Silverlight platform will support Ruby client-side scripting, enabling ARAX — or Asynchronous Ruby and XML. Would be cool to have the option to script client-side in something other than Javascript. 'In essence, using ARAX, Ruby developers would not have to go through the machinations of using something like the RJS (Ruby JavaScript) utility, where they write Ruby code and RJS generates JavaScript code to run on the client, Lam ...
Behind China's Great Firewall (1)
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DigitalDame2 writes "In light of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, more scrutiny is being placed on China's Web-filtering practices. In May, China's technology minister, Wan Gang, told Reuters China he would 'guarantee as much [access] as possible,' defending Web limitations as necessary to protect the country's citizens. Truly understanding this cat-and-mouse game means taking a close look at what exactly the government filters out, how the Great Firewall works, and how others have found ...
Vertical-axis wind turbine spins into business (1)
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Mariah Power's Windspire looks to make wind power more accessible with a $5,000 turbine that can work in suburbs, cities, and the country.
Email This! Sends Selected Text via Right-Click [Featured Firefox Extension] (1)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): If you find yourself regularly selecting, copying, and then pasting text from your browser into emails, Email This! is a definite time saver. A right-click (or toolbar) menu lets you directly compose a new Gmail, Yahoo, or Google Apps web mail message with the selected text, or pass it into a mail client like Thunderbird or Outlook. Those options can be added to or whittled down, and helpful shortcuts (Alt+G for Gmail) makes ...
Blogger Incites Outcry Over Twitter Harassment (1)
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CNet is reporting that one blogger has started an outcry about harassment as it applies to Twitter. While their written stance appears to support the safeguarding of abuse, Twitter appears to be waffling on the issue when it comes to the hard line of enforcement. "The final response to Waldman's complaint from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone asserted that "Twitter is a communication utility, not a mediator of content," and that "Twitter recognizes that it is ...
China earthquake toll tops 40,000 (1)
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Now at Napster: 6 million DRM-free MP3s (1)
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All four major labels and thousands of indies are represented in the store, but there's no trade program for customers who have a library of DRM-protected WMA files.
Google Inline MP3 Player User Script Streams Linked MP3s [Exclusive Lifehacker Download] (4)
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Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Google Inline MP3 Player Greasemonkey script inserts Google Reader's MP3 Flash player next to any linked MP3 file you stumble onto while browsing. Simply click the [Play] link the script inserts next to the linked MP3 to toggle the player and start streaming the file. For example, once you install the script and reload this page, the Google Inline MP3 Player script should automatically insert a toggle link behind this link. ...
Defining cloud computing (1)
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Rob Boothby of Joyent interviewed more than a dozen technology wonks at the Web 2.0 Expo to find out how they define cloud computing.
Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera [Camera Hacks] (25)
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If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your your point-and-shoot into a super camera just by adding a little special sauce to ...
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james said:
Wow! Now that's impressive. Need to get my hands on a Canon and play
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Brad said:
This looks awesome... Going to have to try it.
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Danny Novo said:
The first paragraph notes that this is non-destructive, which is all I need to hear. I will try this.
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Damir said:
hey john this is test
Simple Manifesto: Break Free from the Tyranny of the Clock (3)
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“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” - Benjamin Disraeli For tens of thousands of years, human beings didn’t have clocks. They lived, amazingly, by the sun and the moon and seasons and the needs and rhythms of their bodies. The clock is a very very recent invention, and even more recent is our modern society’s slavish adherence to the dictatorship of the clock. Only ...
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