Al-Faw Palace (1)
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Al-Faw Palace is where I worked for the first six months of my time here; it's a pretty impressive building, so here are some more pictures of it. Here it is from a distance, and at night:This is what you see on the walking towards: Here is the enormous front door: This is the rotunda you enter when you walk inside, with a huge chandelier hanging above:This is what it looks like set up for ...
Chrome - Google’s new web browser (1)
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I read earlier today in Webmonkey that Google were working on their own web browser, and that it would be up for testing today. First I was sceptical, I mean, when do they stop? I figured there would be no way they could be Firefox. Good old Firefox, I will never betray you. Mostly I was concerned over another browser that had their “vision” of the W3C standard and that I had to change everything ...
Scrambled Letters Photoshop Brushes (1)
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Pretty self-explanatory set this week! This Photoshop brush set is made up of varoius letters, symbols, runes, etc (including some in other languages) scattered randomly about. Kind of like taking all the tiles in Scrabble and just tossing them. (Ooh… interesting idea! But that’s a set for another day!) Go Now to the Downloads Page! Random Photoshop Tip: Did you know that you can change the way that you view your brushes in the brush ...
Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle (41)
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen ...
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Eric Atkins said:
Yes! Forget about heavy text books. Give me digital paper.
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
The opportunity to buy digital copies of my textbooks would be fantastic. I wouldn't have to lug around those tomes from class to class anymore. Man, would that be nice.
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fesja said:
a ver si pruebo un kindle, que tengo curiosidad por ver cómo funciona
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Vicky said:
Great move by Amazon. I hope this will bring down the price of textbooks considerably.
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen ...
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
The opportunity to buy digital copies of my textbooks would be fantastic. I wouldn't have to lug around those tomes from class to class anymore. Man, would that be nice.
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Vicky said:
Great move by Amazon. I hope this will bring down the price of textbooks considerably.
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Eric Atkins said:
Yes! Forget about heavy text books. Give me digital paper.
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fesja said:
a ver si pruebo un kindle, que tengo curiosidad por ver cómo funciona
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Forrest said:
SO COOL - this should be a great catalyst for amazon, and plays to a bunch of themes that are popular across the political divide. Good on Amazon for bringing this solution to market.
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Sean Blakey said:
Consistently handling PDFs of lecture slides and papers would be a big improvement.
Lightning II Photoshop Brushes (1)
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This set is made up of various lightning bolts. It includes single bolts, so that you could combine them together to make your own bolts if you wished (or leave them on their lonesome, of course!). Also includes various groupings of lightning bolts already together. These are all original - designed from scratch by moi, using a few photos of lightning bolts that I’ve taken as reference. They are also extremely high resolution, with the ...
How I Stole Someone's Identity (14)
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As a professor, a software developer and an author I've spent a career in software security. I decided to conduct an experiment to see how vulnerable people's accounts are to mining the Web for information. I asked some of my acquaintances, people I know only casually, if with their permission and under their supervision I could break into their online banking accounts. After a few uncomfortable pauses, some agreed. The goal was simple: get into ...
How I Stole Someone's Identity (1)
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As a professor, a software developer and an author I've spent a career in software security. I decided to conduct an experiment to see how vulnerable people's accounts are to mining the Web for information. I asked some of my acquaintances, people I know only casually, if with their permission and under their supervision I could break into their online banking accounts. After a few uncomfortable pauses, some agreed. The goal was simple: get into ...
RIP Permanently Removes Elements from a Web Site [Featured Firefox Extension] (33)
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Remove It Permanently (RIP) selectively removes any element from a web site. If you've ever looked at a site and wished you could get rid of some unsightly image or an element that throws off the flow of a site, just right-click it with RIP and remove it permanently. You can select to remove it from that page only, all similar pages, from the web site, or from the entire ...
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Rishi Talreja said:
A must to avoid seeing something annoying or also good for people with slow connections...
Stars Photoshop Brushes (1)
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This set is made up of ALL kinds of stars. Firstly, some celestial stars… from star patterns that can be overlapped to create beautiful starfields to larger versions to use in starscapes, etc. - even a few individual smaller versions to accent the star fields. Next, there’s a few chinese throwing stars, or shuriken.?? A few different shapes of these, all as vectors. And lastly, but not least… TONS of different star shapes.?? Beveled, lots ...
Three New AIR Apps To Bring Facebook To Your Desktop - ReadWriteWeb (24)
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If you love both Facebook and Adobe AIR, then you're going to love these three new AIR apps for your desktop: Facedesk, Zebr, and Flair. Facedesk is a standalone application that lets you use Facebook without having a browser window open. Both Zebr and Flair are notification programs for receiving alerts about Facebook status updates, wall posts, messages, and more. The last two are a bit more useful, but true Facebook addicts might want to ...
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Steve M. said:
this may make facebook slightly cooler than it is now. maybe, but probably not really.
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Cathy Lamberth said:
I continue to be amazed by AIR apps. Here are some neat Facebook tools.
MiniLyrics Automatically Fetches and Displays Lyrics for Your Media Player [Featured Windows Download] (25)
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Windows only: The MiniLyrics plug-in automatically downloads and displays lyrics for the currently playing song for a handful of the most popular media players. With support for everything from iTunes and Windows Media Player to Winamp and MediaMonkey, MiniLyrics fetches lyrics and—when possible—plays them back karaoke-style. The interface is completely skinnable, and you're likely to find a skin matching your preferred media player. You can also view floating lyrics in big red text for large, ...
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Jeff said:
To all music lovers, this might be a great little add-on.
The Five Best To-Do List Managers (63)
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If all the methodology of the best GTD applications loses you in the productivity shuffle, there's nothing like a classic, simple to-do list to keep you on track. You've never had more options—both simple and robust—for managing your to-do list as you do today. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite to-do list managers, and today we're back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a glimpse at the five best ...
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beth said:
get me off paper please
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Brian Junyor said:
Agreed. That's why I still use Outlook + PocketPC + Pen & Paper.
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Lindsay said:
I use Remember the Milk integrated with my Gmail - easily the best and most useful place to keep it, and makes sure I check it every single day.
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Laura said:
Pen and Paper FTW!
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moonboy said:
Currently I'm using the good old Plain Text todo.txt... but when I have time I'll have to optimize my TiddlyWiki...
Stash Sandals Store Your Money and ID [Stuff We Like] (25)
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Finding a place to keep your cash, ID, and house key at the beach or carnival can be a pain when your outfit has no pockets—which is why you want to stow them in the sole of your sandal. The Reef Stash sandal has a pull-out storage area in each sole big enough for some bills, a credit card, and even a key. We'd love to see someone mod a non-Reef pair of sandals to ...
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nlnnet said:
Is it not however true that the more press this gets the less it works?
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Marcus said:
File this one under "cool stuff", though I wonder if more sandals will get stolen because of it :)
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Trey said:
Cirque de so lame.
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Dorn said:
Looking good!
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Stephanie said:
maybe not the best shoes to wear through airport security...
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Sara said:
Umm... so how do you discreetly pay for things?
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