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Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 21, 2008
There's no doubt that Linux—particularly Ubuntu—is a killer operating system full of excellent apps, but for about a million reasons, you're stuck running Windows as your main operating system. We understand, these things happen. But what about all those killer Linux apps you've left behind when you decided to live the Windows life? Sure you could dual-boot or run Linux in the...
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I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
Paul Buchheit on listening to users:I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email instead of mine. That was version two. After I released that...
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Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera [Camera Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 06, 2008
If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your...
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Pixels Go Mad - The Celebration Of Pixel Art
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 05, 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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Use Your Wii as a Media Center [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 19, 2008
These days, every gaming system in your living room better be able to do more than just play video games if it's going to earn its place next to your TV. The Xbox 360 makes for an excellent Media Center extender, and the original Xbox is the king of homebrew video-game-cum-media-boxes, but when it comes to expanding your home theater beyond gaming, the Wii has always been a bit light on...
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YouTube finds its way into Spore
via Official Google Blog by Karen on March 12, 2008
Posted by Eric Mauskopf, Sales Engineer, YouTube PartnershipsIt's no secret that YouTube has embraced user generated video since its inception. Armed with a video camera and an Internet connection, anyone is able to contribute. We're seeing more and more videogames starting to incorporate user generated content into the gaming experience -- so we often ask ourselves, why not similarly...
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XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center [XBMC For Mac]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
You don't have to mod your classic Xbox to run the best free media center application around anymore: Dedicated developers have ported the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software to the Mac, and its killer features will convince you to abandon Front Row forever. The latest XBMC on OS X beta dropped last week, and it's as stable and useful as ever. Dubbed the "throw out your Xbox" release, XBMC...
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Travel Without the Laptop, Carry Your Computer on a USB Drive
via RB | Upcoming | min 3 by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
Amit via Digital Inspiration Technology Blog shared by 4 people Laptop computers are shedding weight but they still weigh a few pounds and carrying them around on the shoulders is often very inconvenient. Do you really need that notebook wherever you go? Not always. For instance, you are traveling for a business conference or an Internet café or a friend’s place that will definitely have...
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Extend Firefox Award Winners Announced
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 12, 2008
Three Firefox extensions were named winners of the Extend Firefox 2 awards this morning after being selected from a list of more than 100 submissions by a panel of tech celebrity judges . The Minimap Sidebar Extension (fast mapping), SamePlace (multiclient browser IM) and Shareaholic (multi tool bookmark submitter) were the award winners and 12 runners up were named as well.Though basing a...
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