Sony unveils world's thinnest LCD HDTV - 9.9mm (10)
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Filed under: Displays, HDTV Sony's taken the crown in the race for thinnest LCD HDTV. At just 9.9mm thick the KDL-40ZX1 nearly halves the depth of Hitachi's former champ (likely throwing up in the bathroom right now) and comes within a whisper of Pioneer's ultra thin concept. Featuring a LED backlighting, a 3,000:1 contrast ratio, 120Hz MotionFlow tech, x.v.Color and BRAVIA Engine 2 image processing this is about as close to a 40-inch window on ...
iPhone 3G vs. Sony's 40-inch ZX1 LCD television... Fight! (6)
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Filed under: Displays We knew Sony's new 40-inch Bravia Edge LED ZX1 was thin, 9.9-mm thin in fact (at least at the top section). But man, we didn't expect it to make the iPhone 3G slipping around the insides of our pockets look like such a chubster. Plenty more to see in the gallery below.Gallery: iPhone 3G vs. Sony's 40-inch XZ1 LCD television... Fight!Permalink | Email this | Comments
What NOT to do when the RIAA Comes to your Door (2)
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Let’s just pretend for a minute that the RIAA has come knocking on your door accusing you of using a P2P service to illegally share music, and violating copyrights. Your first instinct is what? If you’re Jeffrey Howell, you: Uninstall KaZaa Delete EVERYTHING in the shared folder Reformat the hard drive Download and use a file-wiping program to eliminate all KaZaa logs If you are the judge in this case, you automatically find Howell guilty ...
I Always Wanted Me a Porsche [Porsche] (21)
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Porsche is now offering online tools to photoshop your favorite model in front of your home. Just hit the link and click on "picture it." As you can see, a $100,000 sports car really classes up the joint. [Porsche via AB]
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David said:
"Priceless"
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Matt said:
ha now if I could just photoshop away my debt I'd be set
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jon|k said:
*snicker*
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Ralf Mueller said:
Great online campaign ...
Two-inch-square Space Cube computer gets shown off (21)
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Filed under: Desktops The two-inch-square Space Cube computer has apparently been making the rounds in Japan for some time now, but PC Pro has finally managed to sneak one into the UK and, thankfully for us, they've decided to share. This one packs a 300MHz NEC VR5701 processor, 64MB of RAM, a 1GB CompactFlash card, and a special version of Red Hat Linux, along with a single USB port, VGA out, built-in Ethernet and, most ...
Refresh Your Grammar (4)
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As a blogger you probably know how important it is to write clearly and correctly right? Well, understanding the basic grammar rules is in turn essential for that purpose. Now if you don’t remember what are conjunctions, prepositions, verb moods and the like, don’t worry! Over at Daily Writing Tips we compiled a nice summary titled English Grammar 101: All You Need to Know. Here is a list of what you will find over there: ...
Website Traffic Series Part 12: Email Bloggers to Showcase Your Best Content (2)
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Content is surely king, but if no one gets to see your content, it will just get lost on the immense sea of bits and bytes that we call the World Wide Web, right? Email is the most popular method for online communications, and it can contribute immensely to your promotional efforts. The image above only serves as illustration. Email someone with such a large and spammy font and he will trash it immediately… The ...
12 Examples of Abandoned Space Technology [Space Junk] (16)
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Looking for a space shuttle to convert into a funky dwelling? Believe it or not, there are quite a few pieces of once cutting edge space technology that have been left to rot. For example: there is a Russian Buran space shuttle lying abandoned in the Arabian desert, a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab sitting in a dusty lot, and the infamous launch pad 34 where the three astronauts aboard Apollo 1 died in a fire ...
10 Costly Assumptions on Web Development (11)
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I came across this article a while ago and thought that it was worth sharing with you guys. It basically covers 10 assumptions in web development that might be costing you money. The article was written with business and ecommerce websites in mind, but most points can be applied to blogs as well. The 10 assumptions are: People will know how to find your website People know what you sell Everything will go as planned ...
Is the Earth Quarantined??? [Conspiracy Theory] (48)
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Why haven't we met aliens yet? And why aren't we sending rockets all over the solar system? There is only one plausible explanation. Earth is being quarantined! A combination of higher alien civilizations and our own Earth-based military forces are working together to keep the Earth contained and neutralized. The reasons why they would do this are obvious, but where is the evidence? Below, we've got enough true facts to get your conspiracy engines revved ...
The Manga guide to statistics (9)
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Ok, this looks cool... Think you can't have fun learning statistics? Think again. The Manga Guide to Statistics will teach you everything you need to know about this essential discipline, while entertaining you at the same time. With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics called manga and serious educational content, the EduManga format is already a hit in Japan. In The Manga Guide to Statistics, our heroine Rui is determined to learn about statistics to ...
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Jeffrey said:
THIS IS 110% WIN!
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Sermed said:
For Adam
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marcell said:
"The Manga Guide to Statistics will teach you everything you need to know about this essential discipline, while entertaining you at the same time. With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics called manga and serious educational content, the EduManga format is already a hit in Japan.In The Manga Guide to Statistics, our heroine Rui is determined to learn about statistics to impress the dreamy Mr. Igarashi and begs her father for a tutor. Soon she's spending her Saturdays with geeky, bespectacled Mr. Yamamoto, who patiently teaches her all about the fundamentals of statistics: topics like data categorization, averages, graphing, and standard deviation."
The Most Inventive Ways to Void Your Gadget Warranties [Photo Contest] (12)
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For this week's contest, we took a little break from the Photoshopping. Instead, I asked you to submit photos of gadgets being used in ways other than originally intended. Below the jump, you'll find a bunch of photos of people getting pretty creative with their toys (and breaking some warranties along the way). Hit the jump for the top three winners and then check out the best of the rest in our Gallery of Champions. ...
Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed, Defies Belief [Burj Dubai] (84)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. To celebrate it, David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air which give an exact impression of the breathtaking, massive scale of this building. Inside, it looks like a set from Blade Runner or the interior of the Death Star. Corrected and updated: ...
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Stewtopia said:
Despite sharing this via Reader, you really need to go to the Gizmodo page for this one.I've always admired the Burj al Arab architecturally, but this building gave me goosebumps.... Incredible.
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Tambu said:
FIGATA!
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
awesome, in the truest meaning of the word.
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beggs said:
"No, the sultan is NOT compensating."
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Matt said:
This thing just blows my mind -- absolutely amazing.
27 Definitions for “Blog” (12)
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Last week I asked: what is a blog? Apart from laying down my own definition on that post, I also invited readers to elaborate and share theirs. Blogging is a social and recent phenomenon after all, meaning that my definition for it might be different from yours, and both of them be right. Twenty seven readers decided to took the challenge (if I missed anyone please let me know) and to define what a blog ...
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Christos said:
ΙΔΕΑ: Μήπως πρέπει να αναρωτηθούμε και μείς? Και να κάνουμε ένα αντίστοιχο ελληνικό blog με όλες τις απαντήσεις?
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tjp said:
webszakertoknek vacsorara
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matthew hunt said:
Great!
Vampire Energy! (4)
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The Perils of FUI: Fake User Interface (58)
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As a software developer, tell me if you've ever done this: Taken a screenshot of something on the desktop Opened it in a graphics program Gone off to work on something else Upon returning to your computer, attempted to click on the screenshot as if it was an actual program. And let's not forget the common goating technique where you take a screenshot of someone's desktop, make it the desktop background, then proceed to hide ...
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andrin said:
Things like this will probably become everyday news in the future. Most website owners and even many developers are clueless to this phenomena.
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jmvidal said:
Clever, and scary.
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fmavituna said:
http://ferruh.mavituna.com/firefox-master-password-dialog-weakness-oku/
LEGO pin plotter (6)
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Check out this nifty LEGO NXT printer, a "needle plotter" with a ...er... prickable area of 90 x 70mm at 33 pricks per inch. NXT pin-plotter III [via Hack-a-Day] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!
Our wars will be waged with rocket troops and hovercars (1)
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This excerpt from the 1979 Usborne Book of the Future certainly causes a few nostalgic, retro-futuristic pangs. According to this book, by the year 2000, squadrons of rocket troops will board NASA-like space shuttles and propelled into orbit, where it will shoot to the other side of the planet at over 16,000 km per hour. Once they've landed in some picturesque Arabian oasis, it's time to swarm over the indigenous natives with armed, floating hover ...
On Human Manure (3)
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The above graphic is from a book that does not stink: The Humanure Handbook. Here's a pdf version of this potential soution to water overuse. As author Joseph Jenkins notes, "a single person using a Clivus (pronounced Clee-vus) Multrum [specific type of composting toilet] will produce 40 kg (88 lbs) of compost per year while refraining from polluting 25,000 liters (6,604 gallons) of water annually." Make compost + save water = what's not to like, ...
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M@ said:
This would be very green of me to do.
