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11 Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons That Can Replace Standalone Applications

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:05:43 -0700

11 Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons That Can Replace Standalone Applications

IV: This is what happens when you wind up in a shit hospital...

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:00:08 -0700

IV: This is what happens when you wind up in a shit hospital that takes 8 tries to get an IV in.

Cooperation: How a Free Market Benefits Everyone

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:31:37 -0700

Cooperation: How a Free Market Benefits Everyone: The following attempts to explain the most important idea in the history of social analysis. The notion (a description of reality that is all around us but rarely noticed) has been around for…

Aristotle on Mixed Economies

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:31:37 -0700

Aristotle on Mixed Economies: Moderation is only good if it is moderating between two bad extremes and to a good mean, and not if it is moderating between a good and a bad. Advocating a “mixed economy” or a middle ground between…

On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:31:37 -0700

On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution: At the outset of the American “experiment,” the tax burden was light. Money was gold and silver. The definition of private property was clear and seemingly immutable, and the right to self-defense…

Get 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes [Image Editing]

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:24:37 -0700

Get 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes [Image Editing]:
Photoshop enthusiast and frantic video editor Deke McClelland fits 101 tips for Adobe’s premiere product into five minutes of video, and the results are surprisingly watchable. Granted, a…

Address Book - Google syncing without iPod touch or iPhone

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:17:04 -0700

Address Book - Google syncing without iPod touch or iPhone:

Filed under: iPod Family, OS, iPhone

Did last night’s news of 10.5.3 boasting Google contact syncing with iPhone and iPod touch owners get you down? Well, LifeHacker hopes to lift…

iPhone Tip: Put Club Cards On Your Phone As Pictures [IPhone Tip]

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:42:00 -0700

iPhone Tip: Put Club Cards On Your Phone As Pictures [IPhone Tip]: While this might not work for cards you have to slide through a magnetic reader, the idea is definitely sound. Just take pictures of your club cards (Costco, Safeway, Blockbuster), import…

Easily Geotag Your Digital Photos [Geotags]

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:42:00 -0700

Easily Geotag Your Digital Photos [Geotags]: If Google Maps’ integration of geotagged photos piqued your interest, Wired blogger Charlie Sorrel focuses his lens on geotagging photos, the practice of adding location to a photo’s…

MCE intros 1TB hard drive kit for 17-inch MacBook Pros

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:25:52 -0700

MCE intros 1TB hard drive kit for 17-inch MacBook Pros:

Filed under: Laptops, Storage

No stranger to taking Macs beyond their standard issue capabilities, MCE has now pulled yet another entirely unofficial trick out of its hat, with…

The Most Horrifying Playstation 3 Ad Ever Makes Me Loyal to the Xbox 360 for Life [Nsfw]

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:09:10 -0700

The Most Horrifying Playstation 3 Ad Ever Makes Me Loyal to the Xbox 360 for Life [Nsfw]:

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hilarious but NSFW

This is the most horrifying ad ever. It’s for the Playstation 3. You don’t want to see it, trust me. Look, I won’t even tease it, I’ll tell you what…

XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center [XBMC For Mac]

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:09:00 -0700

XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center [XBMC For Mac]:

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cough mac mini cough

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…

Tiny Surgical Instruments Suck Appendix Out of Your Stomach and Into Your Mouth [Surgery]

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:09:00 -0700

Tiny Surgical Instruments Suck Appendix Out of Your Stomach and Into Your Mouth [Surgery]:

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creepy as hell

The vanity-saturated life of a Gizmodo writer means no scars, visible or otherwise, so this breakthrough procedure for appendicitis is a godsend for…

Choose storage destination for iTunes' Convert feature

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:09:00 -0700

Choose storage destination for iTunes' Convert feature:

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This is an extremely useful tippy!

You may have known that holding the Option key down before activating the Advanced menu in iTunes yields the ‘Convert to [format]…’ (where…

Mac shopping advice

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:10:56 -0700

Mac shopping advice: Once you’ve picked which Mac you want to buy, there are still some important decisions left. Namely, where to purchase it, and what else you need to consider adding beyond what comes standard in the…

Copy paths from Finder selections

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:10:56 -0700

Copy paths from Finder selections: There are a number of ways to see and/or copy the path to a given selection in the Finder. Rob Griffiths explores your options.

Parallels update adds Vista SP1, XP SP3 support

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:07:38 -0700

Parallels update adds Vista SP1, XP SP3 support: Parallels added support for the most recent versions of Vista and XP, in addition to fixing other bugs.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta shrugs off X11

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:07:38 -0700

OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta shrugs off X11: OpenOffice.org 3.0, the free Office suite alternative, has gone beta, and no longer requires X11 to run on Mac OS X.

MacBook Pros display vertical stripes on screen

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:07:38 -0700

MacBook Pros display vertical stripes on screen: Generally occurs on wake-from-sleep or cold boot.

Work in some windows while Dashboard is active

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:07:38 -0700

Work in some windows while Dashboard is active: I use a small utility called Witch to switch between open windows in applications via Option-Tab, instead of using the built-in Command-Tab, which just switches between applications. I recently…