Current Trends In Web Design

The article explains current web design trends, shows distinctive elements with examples.

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Ubuntu Vs. Microsoft!!

Shuttleworth's 'Ubuntu' family of software programs is based on the Linux open source operating system, which works on the principle that software is free and can be modified at no cost by anyone to suit local and specific needs -- unlike rival Microsoft's proprietary software.

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FOX Buys YouTube!

Rumors have been confirmed from an inside source (to remain safely anonymous)!!

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DIY LED Mood Lamp

I wanted the new mood lamp to be more powerful, so it could also be used in daylight conditions. I did this by using a z-power 3 watt RGB power led. This one led is far more powerful than the 12 ones combined i used before. The colors also mix better because of the wider opening angle and because the rgb chips lay very close together.

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Beast: An open source Rails forum in under 500 lines of code

Rick Olson and Josh Goebel have teamed up to produce Beast, a lightweight but well styled forum. Rails has sorely been lacking a good, well styled, open source forum, but Beast is great.

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Grow a beard in 15 min!(Painting ultra-realistic hair & fur with Photoshop)

Here's a great tutorial on using Photoshop's built-in advanced brush functions to paint dynamic, realistic-looking hair or fur onto any image.

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Ubuntu System Panel (USP)

After the release of the SLED menu and seeing that it was so popular with Ubuntu users, I took it upon myself to do something of our own. So for the past few weeks I have been studying mockups for GNOME and trying to bring it alive and today, I offer it to you...

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Music Industry Now Targets Tablature Sites

First it was services that provided music, then it was sites that offered lyrics. Now the music industry has trained its legal guns upon guitar tablature, and several of them have already been shuttered.

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New Hampshire Secession

There's a New Hampshire secession movement. This Platform for NH Independence is one that speaks to both conservatives and liberals. Most of the principles are benefits that other states, if they seceded, could have too. No More UN. No More IRS. And Free Trade! How could a society free from massive the central planning of DC not be prosperous?

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78 Year Old videoblogger makes an impression on You Tube

This 78 year old man has created his own video blog through trial and error, chronicling memorable moments from his life. He's become a very popular fellow. What's more impressive is is the #1 - Most Subscribed Channel (This Week), #6 - Most Subscribed Channel (This Month) and the #31 - Most Subscribed Channel (All Time).

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Meez : Create your 3D I-D on the Internet

Meez is all about fun. Just enter the site, choose your gender and start creating your unique character. You'll see that you have so much cool stuff to choose from, for creating a your digital self.

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How to add a Google Map to any web page or blog in 30 seconds.

Adding map to your page is so simple now: few clicks, copy and paste.


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bootable copy of windows on a USB flash drive

ever have a problem with the windows registry, or a pesky virus? have no fear, fix it with a bootable copy of windows no further away than your pocket or key chain

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LAMP on Ubuntu 6.06 for Noobs

"I am writing this as a partial documentation of my trials and tribulations with hopes of aiding all Linux noobs on the steps necessary to create a basic Linux, Apache2, MySQl5 and PhP5 system with FTP. Again, this document is tailored to complete Linux beginners and is in no way a complete guide to attacking such a setup"

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4 Blade Micro Helicopter

"The Proxflyer Mosquito Twin-tail has 4 ch. control and is operated just as a normal helicopter, yaw, pitch and roll and it can fly sideways due to the two tail propellers. It is still absolutely stable and easy to fly."

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Interview with David Greschler co-founder of Softricity

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Linux Pre-installed on a AMD 64-bit Based System for $300

Technalign has said that they have partnered with Britt Systems in Florida to provide a 64-bit AMD 2800+ computer for under $300.00.

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Josh Logan Rocks!

If you haven't watched the new reality show on ABC called Rockstar Supernova, shame on you! A local musician by the name of Josh Logan is competing in the show and has a good chance of making it. I have seen Josh grow up into the scene (literally) from the age of 15 when he first started coming to "jam nights" and rapping freestyle lyrics over some jazz/soul. He was always a pleasure to watch and play with. I hope he becomes a great success.

For a taste of his music go to: www.joshlogan.com also listen to his album at www.cdbaby.com/cd/jlnb

New Web Based Operating System Built as a Science Experiment

Experimental "Web operating system" that a small team at MIT created. YouOS is an online platform with a window-based, graphical user interface.

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The game is Great!

Try out this flash based game called "Mr. Fancy Pants"... the game is pretty cool.

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Learn the Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting

You have Linux installed and running. The GUI is working fine, but you are getting tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, we'll show you what to do.

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The Next Gen Of Cars

This is a video about a new car developed by GM called the Hy-Wire...the cool part starts at 1:15 in the video

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UDATE: I also found this interesting article that goes in-depth into the inner workings of the Hy-Wire.

Gliffy, the Online Visio Killer

Two guys with some time on their hands have created a tool that might just become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser. Like other online apps, it has inherent advantages over traditional software. Collaboration is easier,and so is publishing diagrams you create to the web.

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Knit Theory

Hyperbolic space is an unimaginable concept, unless you're a Latvian mathematician who's handy with needle and yarn. "People walked by, and they asked me, 'What are you doing?' And I answered, 'Oh, I'm crocheting the hyperbolic plane.' "

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iBox - Flexible Overlays (Images, Divs, AJAX)

iBox is a compact and easy to use overlay script. Smaller than other scripts, it supports images, inner divs, and even external pages.

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New Real world 3D Desktop

This video shows you a new way to display and organize your desktop. It's 3D, physics-ruled environment looks more like your actual desktop, which may force users to clean and organize it more often.

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50 ways to become a better designer

How to become a better designer? Here's a list of 50 good tips to make your design work better, while making your life easier. Nothing earth-shattering, just good old advice.

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best guide to make Ubuntu look like Mac OS X

"This guide tries to be as spesific as possible, so that even newbies can follow it easily!"

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Amazing photoshop work - all done with a mouse - plus tutorial

This guy is amazing... he has created a photorealistic image using just Photoshop 6.0 and a mouse... no graphics tablets here. Pure talent. He has also created a nice step-by-step tutorial on how it was created. Final image: http://www.wade.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/FinalPic.png

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How To Get Full Multimedia Support in Ubuntu

This gives Ubuntu desktop users the guidance to enable full multimedia support and playback of popular media codecs and technologies in just 3 steps. Covered: DVD (CSS) movie playback support, OGG / THEORA / AAC / MP3 / WMA / WMV/ DIVX / XVID / MPEG-1/2/4 / QuickTime support, Skype, Flash, RealPlayer, JAVA, and more.

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Animator vs Animation

It's a struggle between a stick figure and his creator, using items on the Flash toolbar!

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Amazing Photoshop Replacement - It's not Gimp!

For the past nine years Pavel Kanzelsberger of Slovakia has been quietly working on a graphics application that may shake the very foundations that Photoshop have been built on. The application called 'Pixel' nears its 1.0 release and can still be purchased for a mere $32. It runs on about any OS one can imagine!

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Ubuntu Dapper Review

"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu�s Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellant apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."

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Atlantik. The online Monopoly-like game for Linux

Last night while playing around with the new Dapper Drake version of Ubuntu, I found this piece of software created by Robert John Kaper. It is designed for KDE but seems to work just fine on GNOME. I had hours of fun playing last night. The cool thing is that you can create your own monopoly-like board games using this engine... one that I tried was a Lord of the Rings Monopoly game. Check it out.

Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS Released

My favorite release of linux has just released the official Dapper Drake version 6.06)

Frogger in Flash

Paul Neave has been working on a Flash version of Frogger for some months now. It has been up for some time, but is now finished, and now (like most of his games) has a worldwide high-score list.

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Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands

Article describing how to repair Windows XP when your PC is inaccessible from the standard boot procedures, and you have to use the recovery console as your last resort!

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How to pour iced tea while doing a barrel roll

O.K. This is too good not to share with everyone. This guy does stuff with a commercial airplane that is just insane. You have to see the video.

Touchscreen Computer Display Floats in Mid-Air

IO2 Technology has the coolest sounding display I have ever seen called the M2i. The device projects a 30" diagonal 4:3 aspect ratio display into the air. That's right, into the air like a hologram. The entire projection unit is designed to be hidden out of site so that only the display image shows.


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San Andreas Multiplayer (SA:MP) Released

San Andreas Multiplayer is a mod for GTA:SA that turns it into.. multiplayer. It supports 100 players, and custom gamemodes through built-in scripting support. You can do virtually anything that is possible in single player (you're not limited to just vehicles).

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The Six Minute Project

The six minute project is an interactive multimedia experiment, in which people take a picture of whatever they are doing, wherever they are, every six minutes for 24 waking hours. The result of each contributing gallery is 240 connecting snapshots that tell one story.

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$24,000 VooDoo PC!

Everything you could imagine, and then some!, just too bad not many people can afford it.

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From XHTML/CSS to WordPress

The ultimate guide to WordPress theming. As an addition to two previously posted articles about webdesign workflows, this shows the whole process of how to turn a (x)HTML site into a WordPress theme.

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Gun Engine Explodes Fuel Efficiency

Bon Kulman interviews Kazimierz Holubowicz, inventor of the gun engine, which was designed with the objective of increasing engine efficiency from 20% to 92%.

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Wooden Computing (Awesome Pictures)

A bunch of wooden desktop computing setups. Monitors, keyboards, mice, and some Amazing Wooden Case Mods. Made of everything from bamboo to mahogany.

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Ultimate Web Designers Resource

Has XHTML, PHP, FLASH, AJAX and many more resources. Definitely worth a look at this site.

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ABC Launches Free Online Episode Streaming

Starting today, you can stream episodes of ABC's LOST, Desperate Housewives, Commander in Chief, and Alias for free at ABC.com. The ad-supported episodes will be available for at least a two-month trial period.

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Convert any file to DVD with Linux and Open Source tools.

You've just downloaded the new episode of your favorite video podcast, and you'd like to watch it on your big-screen TV. Unfortunately, the video is encoded in XviD or QuickTime format, which your DVD player doesn't support. Don't worry -- here's how you can convert any video file to DVD using dvdauthor and MPlayer.

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Live re-enactment of Super Mario Bros.!!

These guys at Gordon College really put some time into making a real life version of everyone's favorite video game. You have to just see this one.

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StarCraft being ported to Linux (Early version available)

This guy wants to play StarCraft on his Linux box without wine so he's doing a port using the Mono platform

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ThickBox - One box to rule them all.

If you're a fan of LightBox, the javascript solution for displaying pics, then you're going to like how one developer has expanded on it to allow for showing html as well as images.

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New German Car gets 157mpg - Loremo LS

Loremo LS is powered by a 20hp turbo diesel engine that will reach a speed of 100 mph and the GT model will reach up to 135 mph with a 0 to 60 mph acceleration of 9 seconds. www.loremo.de


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the Mysteriously Illustratrated 600 yr-old Cryptic Voynich Manuscript

The 600 year old, one-of-a-kind book is known as the Voynich Manuscript. The textual content of this mysterious illustrated book is unknown because it is written in an unknown alphabet and unintelligible language, and despite the efforts of expert cryptographers over many decades, not a single word has been deciphered

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Web 2.0 Sudoku

This site randomly generates a new sudoku challenge every day. The community rates the difficulty level and can also comment on the challenge once they have finished. Only 2 days old, but very fun!

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Digg Creates Boom for Documentary Film!

"Digg.com drove significant traffic from animators who were amazed by Ankilewitz's ability to create 3D animation with the use of only one finger. Wow this guy weighs 39 pounds and he's overcome all odds, a doctor gave him until the age of 6 to live and now he's on a journey to speak with that doctor, commented one Digg blogger." http://www.39poundsoflove.com

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Dragon's Lair

Remember this game? I could never figure out how the hell the game worked, but it was always fun to watch and was good at taking my quarters. Below is the entire game start to finish. Enjoy. UPDATE 4/24/06: The video has been removed. :(

Google - Da Vinci Code Website Now Active

The Da Vinci Code involves a thrilling murder investigation that unearths a secret that could change the course of history. The film opens May 19th worldwide The quest, which began April 17th requires skill, intellect, and perseverance. Over a span of 24 days ending May 11th, you will encounter unique challenges.

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World's first Drug to reverse Gray Hair (Incredible)

Researchers at the French company Loreal have made a breakthrough discovery that has lead to a new Drug that can turn Gray Hair back to its natural color. (Works in 2 to 4 Months)

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XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command

Have you ever run into a "Missing HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," or "Windows could not start..." message? That was when I learned about XP's built-in "Rebuild" command. It often can easily fix "missing HAL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," "Windows could not start..." and similar problems in just a minute or two.

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Lots of old Sierra and Lucasart games online FREE

Games include Leisure Suit Larry, Kings Quest, Full Throttle, Sam & Max and more! My friend "Overmann" will love this one for sure.

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One Red Paper Clip guy now has a year in Phoenix

Remember the guy who started out with a paper clip and has been trading his way up to a house? He is now one step closer to his goal.

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Larger Than Life Sculptures - Two-stories High and Hyper-Realistic

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor who creates gargantuan-sized sculptures that capture details of the human body so well that they're hard to believe. Mueck is a master at capturing human expression and recreating the detail of muscles, skin, fat and bones that we are all made of. *Warning contains nudity*. Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck

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Gravity-Powered Aircraft

A concept which could minimize the need to burn fossil fuels for air travel.

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The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 3.0.1 on a Debian Sarge system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems, so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Milk Ring

An old friend of mine wrote a humorous post the other day that I thought was hilarious. I'll never look at milk rings the same way again. Now if I can just get him to show up for poker night....

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Google releases new Page Creator

"Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes." Looks good to me! Check my page out at http://bducharme.googlepages.com.

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Open Source Web Design Templates

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!

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Web Sudoku

Sudoku is the number placing game taking the world by storm. The rules of Sudoku are simple. Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each of the nine digits. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square.

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Man in Vietnam hasn't slept in 33 years

64-year old Thai Ngoc had a fever in 1973, and after that he never went to sleep again, not even for a quick nap. He even had a medical examination, but doctors gave him a clean bill of health.

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10 Guides for a New Ubuntu User

Links to 10 Guides that are very useful to a new Ubuntu user.

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Wolfenstein Radio PC

At first glance, we thought this was a prop from an upcoming Wolfenstein movie, but in reality it's just a masterfully modded PC.

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Damn Small Linux 2.2 has been released.

Damn Small Linux 2.2 has been released. Many new features and bug fixes.

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Gooogle Video Hosting Superbowl XL Commercials

Looks like google has decided to set a page for just the superbowl commercials...

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Paper-like display in two years

Philips Polymer Vision has announced foldable, rollable, ultra-thin displays in two years' time. These displays don't use alot of energy so they are perfect for large laptops and cellphones.

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Wine 0.9.7 Released

This is release 0.9.7 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

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Flash Earth: Google Earth In Your Browser

Flash Earth is a Flash version of Google Map's satellite pictures. Unlike Google Maps, Flash Earth allows you to zoom and move your view smoothly and responsively. It also has support for MSN Virtual Earth (but I'm sure you all prefer Google).

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