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FbCal Puts Facebook Birthdays in Your Calendar [Facebook]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 27, 2008
One of the best side effects of using Facebook is knowing when your contacts' birthdays are—but you only see them if you log in. The Facebook application fbCal is out to fix that. Once you install it on Facebook, fbCal creates an iCal file for your Facebook contacts' birthdays as well as Facebook events. Subscribe to the feed in your iCal-enabled calendar app of choice, like...
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Testing IE Versions Just Got a Little Easier
via Ajaxian by Rey Bango on May 28, 2008
Testing your sites on different versions of Internet Explorer has always been notoriously difficult mainly due to the fact that Microsoft prevents you from running to different versions of the browser in Windows. Sure there have been solutions to get around this limitation but in my experience, they’ve always caused unexpected results and instability for the operating system or required you to...
Shared by: TaopaiC, Alan Dean, Rumble, Galtenbergs, John, Vinny Carpenter, Mathieu, jimmysessions, Appu, Ara,
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Eat Healthy with Grocery List Templates [Cheat Sheet]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 11, 2008
Health weblog SmarterFitter knows how difficult it can be to buy healthy food once you hit the supermarket, so they've created a couple of grocery list templates designed to help you stick to the good stuff. The list breaks down items into helpful shopping categories, leaving a little room in each for your own additions. You're probably already aware of the time you can save by using a...
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Three-year-old boy has never slept, parents maintain 24-hour vigil
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2008
A St. Petersburg, FL TV station reports on a family with a 3-year-old boy so has a rare mdical condition that prevents him from sleeping. His parents must watch him around the clock, taking turns to sleep during the day. Rhett has never taken a nap or gone to sleep at night, forcing his parents to keep watch day and night."(My husband) has the day shift and I kind of have the afternoon shift,"...
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Bionic monkeys eat
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 27, 2008
For the first time, monkeys have successfully fed themselves with a robotic arm jacked directly into their brains. Neuro-control of robots isn't new, but apparently performing tasks as complicated as eating is a huge challenge. Conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, the demo was captured on video that's now on YouTube. Of course, the research itself may not sit well with people who...
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Awesome Highlighter: Highlight web text before sharing URLs
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on March 11, 2008
Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0When you send a URL to a friend, it's probably a good idea to include a note letting them know why you sent it. But if you're too lazy for that, you could always just highlight the snippet of text you really want them to read. Awesome Highlighter lets you markup any web page and then share the results.All you have to do is enter the URL of the...
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Houseplants to fight toxins
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 26, 2008
Stuff like tricloroethylene, formaldehyde, and benzene can be really toxic. Yet they're commonly found right in your house. Fortunately, adding some common houseplants to your surroundings can apparently help clean up the toxins. Our friends at GOOD Magazine posted a useful charticle showing where the compounds tend to rear their ugly heads and the common plants that can act as, er, toxic...
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Beautiful Brochures and Booklets
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on June 16, 2008
In corporate design brochures and booklets are a standard tool for promotion and advertising. They are tiny books or magazines which lay around in conference halls, offices and waiting rooms. Sometimes they contain an annual report of the company or showcase the portfolio of an artist. Brochures can also be included in CDs and DVDs; however, usually they are given away as freebies (e.g. they may...
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Paramount silencing portions of Indiana Jones in theaters?
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 27, 2008
Adrian McCarthy says: While at the cinema yesterday, I read a notice posted by the box office that Paramount has intentionally silenced bits of the soundtrack of _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ in order to deter and track piracy. The notice acknowledged that the momentary silences were annoying but that it was out of their control. Basically it said, please don't bug the...
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Skype adds Call ID for United States users
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on June 06, 2008
Filed under: Internet, VoIPVoIP provider Skype lets you make PC to PC calls or make calls from your computer to a telephone. But if you live in the US, up until now when you made a call from Skype to a telephone, ther person you were calling wouldn't see your number on the caller ID. They's see some random string of numbers like 000123456.Skype has now added a Caller ID option that will...
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