Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Apple Files Patent for New Digital Camera

Apple patent references a digital camera. Will Apple surprise us at Macworld?

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Defrag and optimize your brain...

Here and I was trying to cram as much in there as I could...

Who would have thought that the idea of reading too much could actually hinder your thought processes. Hopefully, I have been ignoring the correct data all along.

Enjoy.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Maze Algorithms

A cool page that shows all the theory and concept behind how various algorithms both create and solve mazes, with picture examples of everything. A fun read.

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Using a Robot to Win Online Poker

I've made a new friend to help me with my online poker, and he's making me decent money - at five tables simultaneously. So far we're averaging £20 profit an hour - and my friend doesn't take breaks.

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Our body's alarm clock

Ever wake up five minutes before your alarm rings? This mysterious phenomenon isn't just bizarre coincidence.

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Reactive cubes

"The Reactive Cube is an acrylic cube filled with water and light. It was designed to transform digital images into apparently physical objects. A 2D image is projected through a mass of water mixed with a specially formulated emulsion of oil."

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Aerogel: Remarkable Solid Compound

Once considered a novelty, now sought as the greatest thing since H20.

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Monday, November 28, 2005

Mac OS X Services (the menu you never go to)

There's a whole hidden side of text modification that is stashed away, yet right at your fingertips.

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Collection of cool Google Maps you would have never thought of

This blog is dedicated to interesting and cool google maps/mashups!

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How to Detect Lies: Eye Direction and Lying

Talks about how "Visual Accessing Cues" can help in detecting a lie by looking at the person's eyes and which direction they move, depending if they are right or left handed, among other things...you decide if it works or not.

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Apple release the Broadband Tuner - Speed up your broadband!

The Broadband Tuner allows you to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or greater). The installer tweaks some system parameters.

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Hacking 101

Becoming Productive Quickly in the UNIX World

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How To Force an Elevator to Go Straight to Your Floor Without Picking Anyo

In 5 simple steps =)

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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Picasso Van Gogh and Beyond

Some of the more interesting bits of Art History, a short piece.

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Hundreds of Free Textbooks on one website

This is a collection of free textbooks from around the web. The site is non-commercial, easy to browse or search, and has links to hundreds of free books and educational sites in a variety of subjects. Users can leave reviews of the books in the registration-free comment fields.

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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Great Blender 3D wikibook / tutorial.

Blender 3D: Noob to Pro .. all you need to get started using opensource Blender!

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5 Image masking techniques

5 different ways you can mask the background out of an image. Page uses Photoshop, but applicable to any decent image proggy. Possibly as exciting as sharing dinner with Superman's pony.

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kick ass coffee table

Coffee table with integrated bookshelves like hanging files.

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Go To Harvard With Your iPod

Did you ever want to take a course at Harvard? Now you can, via your iPod. You don't have to be a registered student to download free podcasts of Harvard University.

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Physics, Math and Engineering concepts using Java Applets.

These are some cool java applets that demonstrate: Oscillations and Waves, Acoustics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics and much more. LOTS of fun to play around with!

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Friday, November 25, 2005

TUAW reader video of Simpsons playing on an iPod nano via iPod linux

One of our readers, flowolf, sent in this cool video of an AVI of the Simpsons playing on his iPod nano rocking iPod Linux.

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Thursday, November 24, 2005

Paper CD Case

These days when you buy CDs or DVDs, you'll usually get them in a spindle. These disks come with no covers. Enter the Origami CD Case.

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Dreamlines

Really fascinating experiment with Java.

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Physics for Next-Next Generation Consoles

I really don't see this kind of physics detail turning up on 360 or PS3, but will certainly be real-time on PCs in 5 or 6 years (with a dedicated physics board).

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1980 Games Online...

Games From the 80s and early 90s. Lots of ninentdo and arcade games run right on the site... Enjoy

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Surreal Photos of Hong Kong's Urban Architecture

'Architecture of Density', an exhibition of large scare color photographs by Michael Wolf, reveals the sheer density of living in Hong Kong.

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Keep Track of TV Torrents with TVTAD

"TVTAD is an RSS feed reader with support for unlimited feeds. It will automatically download newly released TV episodes that have been added to your favorites." It's free and It works with any BitTorrent client (like uTorrent).

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Possible Google-Killer?

Seek search engine could have some possible advantages over Google. Some features include a sidebar of sorts that further refines a search, say, if you were searching for "Gears of War" the sidebar would display "Previews" or "Movies" for that game. Also, each site comes with a thumbnail and the option to preview the website in a new frame.

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Monday, November 21, 2005

Free earbuds from Apple

Apple will give you free earbuds, here is how to get them.

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TiVo adds Apple iPod support to TiVoToGo

TiVo Inc. is expanding its video recording service so users will be able to transfer recorded TV shows onto Apple Computer's iPods, according to an Associated Press report. By adding support for the MPEG-4 video format, TiVo hopes to capitalize on the immense popularity of Apple iPods.

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Friday, November 18, 2005

Draw in 3D and Spin the Project (FLASH)

Too hard to describe how cool this looks....

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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Google map of Sex Offenders Near you!

This is very scary but very useful. It is a very accurate listing of all sex offenders on a google map. It shows the address along with a picture. There is one literally a block from where I live. Very useful.

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Saturday, November 12, 2005

How To: Safe Sleep (Hibernate) Your Mac

Awesome hack that enable "Safe Sleep" as found on new PowerBooks, which allows Macs to save the current session and hibernate without a power source.

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spinning LED

Here is a description of how to make a Spinning Marquee with a row of LEDs. It gives some details, and has more to come later.

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Yahoo! Pirate Map using Flash

cool example of customizing Yahoo maps with Flash

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Friday, November 11, 2005

Gallery Of Computation....

This website cannot be described. It must be experienced. He writes computer programs to create graphic images. Fascinating work...

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BitTorrent, TV, RSS and Web 2.0 marry!

A great new service is about to launch which allows you to subscribe to everything, shows what shows are coming up and generally solves a lot of problems when it comes to BitTorrenting TV. Screenshots included.

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Phases of drawing a human

Flash recording of an artist drawing a fully clothed person, starting with the skeleton.

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Amazing FREE streaming music service reads your mind!

Enter your favorite artist and Pandora creates a playlist of music that is eerily and accurately similar. Sound quality is great and it runs inside your browser...what more can you ask for? Been dug before, but it used to cost $$$. Now it's free!

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Sunday, November 06, 2005

Apple Prepping WYSIWYG Widget-Maker

Apple expected to release new product "Dashcode" for making widgets, unknown when. Has javascript debugging (breakpoints), WYSIWYG editor, plus a heck of a lot more!

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Wednesday, November 02, 2005