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RSS Digest #103

RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 8th, 2009: Michael Jackson’s Brain is Missing A nano that can hold 47 trillion songs LSD Creator Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs: “How Was LSD Useful to You?” [Drugs] Can a Windows Vista PC Run Windows XP Instead? Is Cisco Finally Serious About the Consumer? Why Chrome OS? Google says, why not? Action Movie Scene Challenge Winners Just [...] Related posts:

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Video Editing Marathon…. Bully: Scholarship Edition

Over time it seems that I was kinda a bit trigger happy with fraps recordings from the game Bully: Scholarship Edition… I had over 70gb of raw unedited files that needed sorted and edited. I have been editing the said videos for the last 3 days or so… here are the results of that editing.  These [...] Related posts:

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News from the world of Google

This is the semi-return of my mini digest form of post… I couldn’t let this news from Google go without post on it. 1. Google Chrome OS Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome [...] Related posts:

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RSS Digest #102

A long weekend where celebrating the US’s independence went a bit longer then expected however I am back… Now here is… The RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 7th, 2009: RIAA Fears Thomas Keeps On File Sharing, Despite $2 Million Verdict Sony unveils two new 1080p Handycams Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 review De-clutter your digital life with Microsoft and organizing [...] Related posts:

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Clean Cables

Over all it is recommended to have tidy cables on computer setups but most people don’t have the time nor the capability to do it. For the fun of it for a challenge I tidied up my messing around machines. Specs Beige Machine: 1.66ghz Atom Dual core, 1gb ram, 160gb hd, realtek based wifi card Black Machine: 2.4 [...] Related posts:

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How to show Computer, Network, Trash, Home on your Ubuntu desktop

In a IM (Instant Message) chat the other day I was asked how i got he extra desktop icons to show on my Ubuntu machine. Here’s how: Press “Alt” + “F2″ Enter “gconf-editor” in the “Run Application” box and click “Run” Expand the left tree accordingly “Apps” > “Nautilus” then select “Desktop” Remove the ticky box from “volumes_visible” Add ticky box [...] Related posts:

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RSS Digest #101

RSS Digest for Thursday, July 2nd, 2009: Latest dev diary for Batman: Arkham Asylum Phone ringtones a “public performance”? EFF, AT&T say no MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time Google App Engine misfires Waffle House waiter sues over Taser incident Huge 2K Games sale on Steam, plus 50% off Fallout 3 What [...] Related posts:

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Installing Mozilla Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04

Since Mozilla just released Firefox 3.5 it may be a few days before Ubuntu officially has its branded version of it. Here is how to install the downloaded version from the Mozilla site. Download “firefox-3.5.tar.bz3″ from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and open it Press “alt” + “f2″ and enter “gksu nautilus” and navigate to “/opt” Extract the “firefox” folder contained within the [...] Related posts:

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RSS Digest #99 and the big #100 – Last Combo till September, I hope!

RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 1st, 2009: NASA patches Endeavour’s leaky plumbing Child porn found on an iPhone application Yahtzee woolgathers on and around The Sims 3 The One Day Particle Editor Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available Scientists find a black hole that’s “just right” As Mozilla ‘upgrades the Web,’ Microsoft must upgrade its pace Toshiba launching the TG01 next week [...] No related posts.

iPod, Candy, and Clone

I got this idea when doing some desk tidying… iPod Touch 2nd  gen, a bunch mints, and a iPod Shuffle clone. Related posts:Hands On: Sylvania iPod Shuffle CloneiPod Knockoff AgainiPod Radio Remote on iPod Touch Related posts:

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