Crossover BETA for Mac released

Crossover has released its beta for the Mac at last, you can download it from their site.

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Colbert Green Screen Challenge: iPod Ad (YMNTD)

A great use of the green screen footage.

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Calculate how many Miles Per Dollar your car gets.

Stop thinking about how many MPG your car gets and start thinking about how many MP$ it gets.

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Generate your own energy for almost nothing

The Chispito Wind Generator was designed to be simple and efficient with fast and easy construction. There are no limits to what you can do with wind power. There is nothing more rewarding and empowering than making a wind powered generator from scrap materials. Most of the tools and materials in this manual can be found in your local hardware shop

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Ten things colleges should start teaching you

Guy Kawasaki feels that college does not prepare you for the working world, so he made a list of 10 things that colleges should teach you and why. Some of the things are: how to talk to your boss, how to survive a meeting that's poorly run, how to figure out anything on your own, and how to explain something in thirty seconds.

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5 free apps for any Mac user

A list of 5 free applications any level Mac user can, and should, use and why.

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djay! the new groundbreaking audio application for OS X

djay is not your run-of-the-mill freeware. It's addictive features and flawless iTunes integration make live remixing and recording on the Mac a blast. You need not invest hundreds of dollars into proprietary DJ software - djay gives everyone a chance to make their very own panic! at the disco.

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Math genius living in poverty

Grigory "Grisha" Perelman, the genius who won fame last week spurning a million-dollar prize after revealing his solution for Poincare's Conjecture. Is living with his mother in a humble flat in St Petersburg, co-existing on her $74-a-month pension.

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A super easy way to backup your protected DVDs!

"With the help of RipIt4Me, ripping DVDs will be a very easy task"

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Tired of prying eyes at work?

My boss recently decided that we'd be more productive if we adopted an open floor plan, which includes having all monitors facing outwards so he can keep a constant eye on what we're working on. In order to continue reading digg in peace, I whipped up a little proxy app which I thought some of you might find useful.

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awesome accoustic cover of outkast's "hey ya"

What do you get when you mix a hippie with Andre 3000 in the desert? A great cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya."

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Scientists make 'amazing' fuel cell breakthrough

A team of Korean scientists has developed a new method of storing hydrogen as a solid, easing potential complications associated with the commercialisation of fuel cell technology. Researchers from Seoul University have pioneered a technique that binds hydrogen using titanium into a stable solid.

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Silent Microwave Drill Bores Concrete, Glass

A new microwave drilling technology let's you drill up to centimeter-wide holes by heating materials to over 2,000 degrees celsius. The process is silent and dust-free. You can drill through glass without breaking it. It is also cheaper than conventional drills.

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List of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and chart-flows

"Developing web-sites over the last few years, I
've been stumbling over the same problem over and over again: how can I visualize my ideas easily and quickly? I've spent hours googling for useful tools and tutorials which would help me to create diagrams, charts, flow-charts to visualize my personal ideas to my clients. Here are the results."

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DIY: Make an alarm system in 3 minutes!

Nice and easy to make project with lots of potential.

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Awesome Site: Create Your Own Font!

This website allows you to create your own font. Once you finish it you can upload it to the gallery so you can download it, as well as hundreds of others that other people have made.

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Speedy silicon sets world record: New device clocked @ speed of 110 GHz.

A simple tweak to the way common silicon transistors are made could allow faster, cheaper mobile phones and digital cameras, say UK researchers..

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50 Common Interview Questions

Collections of Questions.

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FOX News Producer Resigns. Says Due to Middle East Coverage

"We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that." They went on to write "Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism."

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Eat These Specific Foods To Raise Your Metabolism and Help Burn Body Fat

Good list of Thermogenic Foods.

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Unbelievably cool electric commuter bike

Check out the Yamaha Divide, an electric commuter bike that folds up at the touch of a button to become more sculpture than scooter, more modern art than motorbike. Powered by a compact "smart power" electric motor, the Divide (still at concept stage - Yamaha hopes to put into production next year) uses no petrol or oil. Cool design. Cool photos.

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NASA Discovers Dark Matter!

It looks like NASA has found a way to separate dark and normal matter in a high energy collision. They are planning a teleconference to announce the discovery on August 21st.

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Robin Williams plays John Stewart

Williams plays a fake news anchor that runs for president of the United States. Very Funny.

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PC on a Mac: Parallels' team says they have sold nearly 100,000 copies

"At $80 a pop, the sales are strong enough to keep this tiny company going for a while. They are now selling in Apple stores, which can be a blessing for a small company."

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Thailand Plans to Give 1 Free Laptop Per Child

"Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand's millions of elementary school students will begin in October."

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Hi-Res Color Pictures from the 1930s and 40s

In the spirit of a previous digg'd post of London in 1949, here are some pics from the Library of Congress of America in the 30s and 40s. Gives you nostalgia about a period way before most (dare I say, ALL?) of us were born...

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Great drawing resource and Drawing Lessons - beginner to advanced

Drawspace offers diverse downloadable and printable drawing lessons featuring Brenda Hoddinott's unique and highly acclaimed style of teaching. Drawing lessions from beginners to advanced. Create an account and display on-line

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HOW TO Create Excellent Vector Art

Step by step tutorial to create groovy vector art. I thought I'd share this crash course in creating amazingly hot vector artwork.

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Student releases "iProcrastinate" homework organization app... For free!

The beta (but not that beta) release of iProcrastinate, a free download to college and high school students. Helps lazy students keep track of their homework, big projects, etc. Just in time for the coming school year, and nothing beats free! Give it a try, and see how you like it.

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Two Border Patrol agents face 20-year prison sentences

According to the U.S. attorney who successfully prosecuted the agents, the man they were chasing didn't actually have a gun, shooting him in the back violated his civil rights, the agents didn't know for a fact that he was a drug smuggler, and they broke Border Patrol rules about discharging their weapons and preserving a crime scene.

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The $3200 Workstation System Shoot-Out!

The New Apple Mac Pro vs. the Dell Precision 690! Let's get readyy to rumble....!!!!

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Insane New Version Of PONG

When I started playing level 1 I thought it was another crap flash game copying another game, but after level 1 it gets crazy adding new aspects to gameplay like gravity orbs, a pacman trying to eat the ball, and more. Its a great game try it out.

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Girl takes pic of herself every day for three years

Cool bit of experimental film as she stitches them all together for a cool time-lapse morphing effect. Nice soundtrack, too.

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Apple reduces Cinema Display prices by up to 1/3

30" now $1,999 /// 23" now $999 /// 20" now $699 nuff said...

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New for Leopard: Time Machine

With Mac OS X Leopard and Time Machine, not only can you back up and preserve everything on your Mac - including priceless digital photos, music, movies, and documents - without lifting a finger, you can go back in time to recover anything you've ever backed up.

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The BEST Car Commercial in exsitance!!!

This retro 80's car commercial for the isuzu Gemini is insane, these small asian cars preform crazy stunts.

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New Mac Pro a bargain?

The folks over at dealnews/dealmac configured a Dell Precision Workstation 690 to similar specs of the new Mac Pro. The results are surprising.

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Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la Vista, Vista

More photos of banners posted at WWDC have been circulating. Apple appears to be taking on Microsoft's upcoming Vista operating system directly with banners that state: "Mac OS X Leopard, Introducing Vista 2.0" and "Mac OS X Leopard, Hasta la Vista, Vista"

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Unbelievable card trick (video)

Genuine video clip of an awesome card trick.

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Sporty New 157 MPG Car- Looks Great at only $13,000

"This German creation claims a fuel economy of 157 mpg with no fancy hybrid drive train, fuel cells, or plug in paraphernalia. Weighing less than a thousand pounds, the sporty rear-wheel drive 4-seater is designed to be maximally aerodynamic." The Loremo AG can handle 0-60 in less than 10 seconds, but with a top speed of 100 MPH.

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The 10 STRANGEST statues you will ever see.

Make sure to look at #8. "Nude man attacked by babies."

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John Deere prototype walking tractor (video)

Could this be the future of agricultural farm implementations? I'm not sure, but I know this is one of the coolest machines I've ever seen.

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Asta la Vista, Vista!

Mac OS X Leopard - Introducing Vista 2.0

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Awesome Photo-deblurring

Got a blurred picture?, this new algorithm sure will take care of it.

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Personal Wiki Application As Easy As Notepad -It is FREE

Zulupad is a personal wiki application for both windows and osx. The great thing about ZuluPad is that it combines the best parts of a notepad with the best parts of a wiki,

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