Friday, March 31, 2006

ThinkGeek Does April Fools a Day Early

ThinkGeek.com continues the tradition of coming up with some great fake gear for the tech crowd. I especially liked the iZilla digital media monster and the wireless extension cords (WEC).

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

First version of the Diva Video Editor has been released

Diva is a project to build an easy to use, scalable, open-source video editing software for the Gnome desktop. Our goal is to provide users with a complete and tightly integrated set of tools that can be used to import, edit, enhance and export digital video material.

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Retouching photos to the max!

Greg Apodaca's web portfolio showcases some of the most EXTREME retouched photos that I have ever seen done. This is worth checking out to see who the real models are behind the magazine covers our society idolizes. His site shows the original scans followed by his retouching of each image. Check this out!

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Fun with Photoshop

Got bored last night and was surfing "Hot or Not". Found this horrible picture and decided to see whether I could photoshop it or not. Turned out decent. Did a little roll over, and also a video clip of the pictures transitioning. Enjoy! (And remember, people in magazines don't actually look like their pictures!!)

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Lightbox JS 2.0 Released

Lokesh from HuddleTogether.com has finally released Lightbox JS 2.0!!! Check out the site for more information! I have upgraded and am currently using it on this site.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

First Retail holographic Storage!

That long wait for holographic 3-D storage is finally over. A company called in-phase is selling a 515Mbit per square inch drive.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

100 Year Exposure Photo

Artist Jonathon Keats is taking one long photo. His project, a pinhole camera that is taking one continuous picture of a room in the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco, is a mixture of uber-low-tech and ultra-high concept geekiness.

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Monday, March 20, 2006

Top 10 PHP Frameworks

In this article we will look at ten popular frameworks, and compare them to each other. First I will give you a general chart which gives you a quick overview of all the frameworks, and after that we'll go through each framework and discuss it in short.

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Friday, March 17, 2006

Automatix kicks Ubuntu into gear

Automatix installs a laundry list of applications, plugins, and utilities that are supposed to turn a barebones Ubuntu install into desktop perfection. You can pick and choose what you want. Need codecs of various kinds? This is so not legal in some countries.

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Smart Cars: Coming to the U.S.

The fuel-efficient Smart Car is (finally) on its way to U.S. shores. The Smart Car gets 60 mpg and can reach speeds of 85 miles per hour, and will range in price from $15,000 to $25,000 fully loaded.

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Scientists Finally uncover what causes Asthma

Medical experts have been baffled by what causes asthma. Most of them favor the idea that it stems from "helper" cells that have gone awry. But researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have come up with convincing evidence that the answer lies in a special type of natural "killer" cell.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Star Wars, the TV series, is GO!

The new Star Wars TV Series will have more than 100 episodes, and is expected to debut sometime in 2008.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Google aquires @Last Software

Google aquires @Last Software, the makers of SketchUp. SketchUp is a 3D modeling application which is incredible. It seems that during thier time developing a plugin for Google Earth, Google decided to buy them. I just hope this doesn't kill Sketchup.

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PriceRitePhoto, They're Back

Well that didn't take long. After becoming the most dugg story of all time and being delisted from all the major price comparison search engines, PriceRitePhoto is now back in business at both PriceGrabber and Yahoo! Shopping -- even after Yahoo! admitted in Forbes that the retailer had hacked their feedback system.

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DIY-Make Your Own Greenscreen for $16

This is a great tutorial for any independent photographers. This greenscreen uses pvc piping that will only cost you $16. I found this tutorial earlier and today my friend and I built one. It worked great!

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iWood for the iPod

From the makers of iWoodNano, the iWood for the 5G iPod is now available for customizing. It starts at 85 euros, and is really amazing. Everybody needs to check this one out.

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Cable Companies: We'll Kill VoIP

Cable companies in the U.S. and Canada may be moving to squash one of the biggest threats to their future expansion --- VoIP. A Canadian cable company is already charging customers a premium for using competing VoIP products, and users are complaining that Comcast is purposely degrading the quality of Vonage connections.

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Effective Style with CSS and em

Revisiting the em unit of font-size and examining the benefits. A good read for those who want to make their site more accessible and usable.

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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Linux Terminal Server for Home Media PCs

Guide to setup a Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) on Ubuntu Dapper (optionally within VMWare) to remotely boot a diskless Linux Media PCs running Freevo. Useful for people who plan to manage 2 or more Media PCs in the house. Also works as a regular terminal server with sound and local media (such as USBs & CD/DVD-ROMs)

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Ubuntu voted 'Linux distribution of the year'

This is the latest in a long line of awards that Ubuntu has racked up over the last six months, an impressive achievement considering that the distribution is less than two years old.

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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Amazing 750 Square Meter Videoprojection (video)

Four projectors covering the whole 750 square meter front of a townhall building at night. The amazing images/animations being projected make use of the shape of the building. Really nice!

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Open Office 2.02 Released

Although not updated on the official website yet, Filehippo reports that Open Office 2.02 is released and their download link works.

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Monday, March 06, 2006

New AJAX-powered blogging system.

AJAXPress is an AJAX based blogging system. It is a standalone application written in PHP with a MySQL backend, and allows users to create their own AJAX-powered blogs. It comes complete with an AJAX powered admin interface.

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Friday, March 03, 2006

55 TO STAY ALIVE

College students knew they were risking their lives when they drove 4 abreast on I-285 at 55 mph. But the film they made on the adventure is receiving national attention. Check out the video.

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