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Top 10 iTunes Smart Playlists [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on February 12, 2008
One of iTunes' most powerful and useful features is Smart Playlists: dynamic, search-based lists of songs that save you the work of grouping tunes by hand. But with almost 40 fields to search against—from Album and Artist to Bit Rate and Category—there are thousands of possible Smart Playlist combinations. If you listen to music while you work, but don't want to waste time manually...
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The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on May 28, 2008
Yahoo! Pipes is one of the coolest ways to mashup the RSS feeds of various sites and sources to get the data you want. Since our coverage of Yahoo! Pipes, thousands of creations are now available. However, finding the best picks can be tough. ReadWriteWeb has done the hardest part and comprised a list of some of the best Yahoo Pipes created by users. So without further ado, we give you the...
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Too Many Choices, Too Much Content
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 13, 2008
Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you're behind. Take an hour off and you just missed 300 more blog posts. In addition to the everyday struggles of information...
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Five Secret Japanese Tricks to Make Life Better [Book Excerpt]
via Lifehacker by LISA KATAYAMA on June 01, 2008
Editor: Meet io9 contributor Lisa Katayama. When she's not blogging about robots and futurism, she's spreading the word about how to GTD in the most unexpected ways. Here's a sampling of a few clever tricks you'll find in her new book, Urawaza.When it comes to life and getting things done, we like to do things a little differently in Japan. When I break a glass in the kitchen, I...
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Book Rental Fail
via FAIL Blog - Fail Pictures at Failblog.ORG by ichcadam on June 03, 2008
Thx to Rob:Click the image to see a zoomed-in version detailing all of its FAIL.book rental service?was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads once then never looks at again. is there any kind of like…video rental store but for books? would make things alot cheaper, plus once one person had read one the next...
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Library built into a staircase
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
The stairs going up to the attic room of a Victorian row house in London have been fitted with books that line each riser and wrap around the edges. As someone who lives in small places with lots of books (and no matter what I do, no matter how ruthless I am, I always seem to have lots more books that I have room for) this kind of thing is sheer aspirational porn for me. The flat occupies part of...
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Pixels Go Mad - The Celebration Of Pixel Art
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 04, 2008
Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, “pixelish” video ads and even pixelated tattoos. And there is a good reason behind it: in times when popular design solutions strive for real-life-look or perfection pixel art offers a distinctive and creative artistic approach which is extremely...
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How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on January 30, 2008
We have written a lot here about the the vision of building a structured layer ontop of the current web. Annotating billions of HTML documents in a bottom-up way or building top-down tools that can automagicallyinterpret the existing information are the two approaches that we discussed. Together these approaches would result in a globaldatabase which will make the web even more connected.The...
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Low-Hassle Ways to Secure Your Computer System [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 07, 2008
If time were no object, we'd all live a more secure computer life—we'd beef up our browsers, use complex passwords, and keep our data locked up with encryption Skynet couldn't crack. But that kind of stuff requires obscure software, tricky command line work, and most of a free weekend, right? Nope. Anybody can feel more secure about their systems with the help of some free software...
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