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Tablet PC Guide: Agilix GoBinder is designed to leverage all of the technological advances found on a Tablet PC. GoBinder provides a free guide to help students compare...

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Jam with your musician friends around the world

Jam with your musician friends around the world: "

Filed under: Audio, Fun, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Web services, Commercial

The Home Recording and Instruments blog has news of a cool new software download for Mac and Windows that allows you to conduct musical jam sessions with your buddies on the Internet--in real time! This piece of software lets you use MIDI instruments--guitars, keyboards, and woodwinds--to collaborate on musical compositions from miles

Nightraker ADDS: The keyboard is the most musical instrument I play, but this sounds really cool!

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SWATting in Fairfax

SWATting in Fairfax: "

Tomato 7 has more on the death squad that deployed because a doctor was allegedly involved in sports gambling.

Any bets the executioner is never punished? I'll lay 10-to-1 odds it never happens.

Oops. I didn't just solicit illegal gambling, did I?

Hold on--I think there's somebody at the do...

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Zaadzster Shows How to Have a 36 Hour Day

How to Have a 36 Hour Day
How many times do you hear someone say “I wish there were more hours in the day” or something along those lines? The fact is that all of us are only given 24 hours. Having said that, how we spend those 24 hours varies radically from person to person. It's become a bit of a cliche by now but the 24 hours we have is the same 24 hours that Thomas Edison and Mother Theresa had and that Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates currently have. As the old song goes “It's in the way that you use it.”

But what if we had more than 24 hours in a day?

Government Statistics Lie

Government Statistics Lie: "

8% INFLATION, 12% UNEMPLOYMENT. 800,000 JOBS LOST IN 2005, BUDGET DEFICIT OF $3.5 TRILLION, with a T. I saw "V for Vendetta" last night, but I'm not talking about an alternate future. These numbers are the conclusions of a private economist who has been tracking government statistics for 20 years. More importantly, he has been reading the fine print in government reports. There is a reason your personal experience of the economy doesn't quite match all the good news in The War Street Journal. Most people would rather be told a comforting lie than confront ugly reality. Politicians figured that out a long time ago. Walter J. Williams has been keeping track of how the books are cooked. He figures that social security checks would be 70% higher if honest CPI figures were used. Nixon imposed price controls when inflation was less than 5%; today we live with nearly twice that figure. Only the lies are different. Those who suffer are the same: the retired, the disabled, the helpless, the savers, anyone on fixed income. If you are not first in line to get that fabled "money from thin air" created in such massive quantities today, you are falling behind every single day. His site, Shadow Government Statistics is worth a look for those

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One Ring to Bring Them All and in the Darkness Bind Them

One Ring to Bring Them All and in the Darkness Bind Them: "

The NYPD is installing 505 surveillance cameras around the city - and pushing to safeguard lower Manhattan with a "ring of steel" that could track hundreds of thousands of people and cars a day, authorities revealed yesterday.

Turning America into a prison: one cellblock at a time...

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SWATting in Fairfax

SWATting in Fairfax: "

Tomato 7 has more on the death squad that deployed because a doctor was allegedly involved in sports gambling.

Any bets the executioner is never punished? I'll lay 10-to-1 odds it never happens.

Oops. I didn't just solicit illegal gambling, did I?

Hold on--I think there's somebody at the do...

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Randex Online Database on Rand and Objectivism

Randex Online Database on Rand and Objectivism: "

Launched in February 2005, Randex is an online database of media references to Rand and Objectivism. The entire database of articles may be searched by text, date, and amount of relevant content. The purpose of Randex is:

To provide an indication of the impact of Ayn Rand’s ideas in today’s culture. This impact can be measured by the frequency with which the ideas are discussed or mentioned, the level of understanding shown, and also by the attitude taken by writers to Rand’s ideas—be it positive, negative, or neutral. As the database of references grows, it becomes a source for analyzing longer-term trends in these areas.

To be listed on Randex an item must appear online as a dated article at a news, information, or opinion website. Interestingly, the three new items listed today are repsectively negative, positive and neutral.

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Subway Navigator global tube maps

Subway Navigator global tube maps: "

The Subway Navigator is a handy tool for figuring out subways routes in cities across the globe.

Browse the entire map of a system or search by entering a departure and arrival station. From Chicago to Budapest, from Tokyo to Sao Paulo enter

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Watson

Watson
Watson by Intellext - an intelligent search tool that understands the context of what you are working on and automatically finds relevant results - from anywhere - web search engines, desktop search applications, news and shopping sites, blogs, subscription services, even enterprise information systems. Results are proactively delivered to your desktop in Watson's flexible sidebar interface.
Download Now!

Microsoft swallows Onfolio

Microsoft swallows Onfolio: "

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Web services, Microsoft

Continuing on a quest to buy everything that Google or Yahoo haven't bought already, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Onfolio today. Onfolio, for the uninitiated, is one of the most powerful web bookmark, page capture, research assistant tools available for Windows. The big M will be adding Onfolio onto its Windows Live Toolbar as a free offering. I'm sure that won't go well with those who ponied up $99 for their copies of Onfolio, but hey, now the rest of the world can share the wealth of your 'seed funding'. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft does with the Firefox

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Free icons

Free icons: "

Maxpower has a nice listng of truly free icons.

The list below represents some amazing work by various artists who have made their work available to the general public. Each artist has a link to their homepage, the license of the released work, and an attached sample of what you can download by following the named link. Note that what you view doesn’t represent the entire work, only a small portion of it to give you an idea of the icon style.

Surprisingly there is some great stuff in there. Icons can be a bit tricky and stock isn't always a good fit, but these are worth a look.

Free! Icons for your website or application [Maxpower]

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Microsoft takes on Craigslist with Expo

Microsoft takes on Craigslist with Expo: "

Windows Live Expo is a craiglist-style social listing service from Microsoft.

Expo is a dynamic social listing service that allows members to find and sell items, discover information, and meet other parties in their area – all for free! With Expo, you can browse and post listings to those you trust, like your buddies, co-workers, and fellow students, or, to all Expo visitors. In addition, you can map listings easily using MSN Virtual Earth, post a free listing in less than a minute with our easy-to-follow steps, and use instant messages to communicate quickly with other members.

The mapping feature in particular seems handy and the interface, while a bit slow, is fairly clean and easy to read. More on this in coming weeks.

Windows Live Expo

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The Great Space Elevator

There are startups and then there are startups. Web 2.0 is all fine and dandy and I love AJAX as much as the next person but let's face it, as amazing as Flickr, del.icio.us and MeasureMap are, they and the rest of the new web apps combined and taken to the tenth power aren't even half as sexy as the Space Elevator. The what? Business 2.0's Georgia Flight explains:
Earth is constantly spinning. So if you attach a counterweight to it with a cable, and put it far enough away--62,000 miles--the cable will be held taut by the force of the planet's rotation, just as if you spun around while holding a ball on a string. And if you've got a taut cable, you've got the makings of an elevator.
As strange as that sounds--push the "Up" button, climb in, and soar off into weightless bliss--don't be surprised if it happens. The space elevator is where the PC was in the 1960s: The theory is solid, the materials exist, and people in garages are starting to tinker with the next step. Two Seattle startups are competing to build the elevator. Both believe they can do it within 15 years at a cost of $10 billion. NASA and China's space agency are eager to help make it happen.
And no wonder: A working elevator would reduce the cost of launching anything into space by roughly 98 percent.
98 percent! Biggest discount EVER? So of course the US wants it, China wants it and so does Japan. If and when it does become reality, the country that gets a Space Elevator first will likely have a stranglehold on space commerce for a long time.

Tom Paine Maru

Tom Paine Maru by L. Neil Smith Cover by Scott Bieser First uncensored edition. Originally published by Del Rey Books, 1984. Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 1,845,243-bytes, 283 pages. Download for $5.00, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, eCheck, or PayPal
http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=137991

HOW MUCH FUN CAN $5 BUY????

Freedomain Radio

Freedomain Radio: "

In just a few weeks, Stefan Molyneux has profoundly changed the way I view the world. Though I already shared much of his philosophy, his erudite yet easy strolls through...

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Free State Project — Liberty in Our Lifetime

Free State Project — Liberty in Our Lifetime: "

Are you frustrated at the loss of freedom and responsibility in America, while the growth of government and taxes continues unabated? Do you want to live in strong...

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America needs gun control -- for bureaucrats

America needs gun control -- for bureaucrats: "

"Alan Korwin, author of Gun Laws of America, noted on his website last June that '22% of federal gun laws now authorize arming staff.' Scroll down the screen a bit and he further observes, 'Some of the more unusual federal 'police' forces are the egg inspector police, the print shop police, the EPA police, and one of the newest, the Federal Reserve Board police.' All of these absolutely beneficent bureaucracies have been endowed with 'broad powers to keep and bear arms in cases where the public is banned from keeping arms.' (Incidentally, it's US Code Title 21 Section 1041 that makes it illegal to forcibly interfere with a federal egg inspector, and extending the death penalty to anyone murdering such a valuable government asset apparently became the law way back in 1991.)" (03/03/06)

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Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It

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Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It

Very Interesting -

Somalia is in the news again. Rival gangs are shooting each other, and why? The reason is always the same: the prospect that the weak-to-invisible transitional government...

Very Interesting Wednesday, March 01, 2006

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Possum Fur Nipple Warmers

 

 

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Possum Fur Nipple Warmers

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Sometimes, you blog things just because you can. In honor of Earth Day, I present to you eco-friendly possum-fur nipple warmers and g-strings from New Zealand. PETA may...

Very Interesting Saturday, March 04, 2006

 

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Quote of the Day

 

 

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Quote of the Day

Nightraker's Software Sites -

You can put any of our FIVE great quote of the day javascript feeds on your site. To use the quote feeds, just copy this one line of code and insert it any where on your...

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SH/SC Wiki : UsefulWindowsSoftware

SH/SC Wiki : UsefulWindowsSoftware: "

Note that the previous thread was for all operating systems, and this one was specifically Windows software. As such, please keep this article to Windows software only....

" A very nice list of free stuff for Windows users

On Squeet, RSS and Cool Stuff

On Squeet, RSS and Cool Stuff: "

This is the official blog of the creators of Squeet.com. We discuss Squeet, RSS and other cool stuff.

" Get RSS in InBox

Help

Help: "

Type in the address of any website: your site, a friend's site, a famous site, any site you know. Choose a site that you'd like to punish, or whose destruction would...

"Grafitti for Websites...All in Good Fun

Outlook - Users

Outlook - Users: "

This service pack includes previously released service packs and fixes several undocumented bugs, including one affecting users with multiple SMTP accounts. SP2 adds...

"TIPs for the world of OUTLOOK

The Grand Unified Theory of Everything: Search vs. Filing vs. Tagging

The Grand Unified Theory of Everything: Search vs. Filing vs. Tagging: "

The following joke is as politically incorrect as they come, but I need to quote it in order demonstrate my point (I apologize in advance):

Five Jews changed the way we look at things:

Moses: The Law is everything
Jesus: Love is everything
Marx: Money is everything
Freud: Sex is everything
Then came Einstein: Everything is relative

That’s as far as the old joke goes. But, when it comes to the Filing vs. Searching debate, Google would add:

Google: Search is everything

According to Google’s view of our desktops, there’s no reason to file anything; just use Google Desktop or Gmail’s search feature. Gmail does not allow emails to be filed in folders, and the whole service shouts the statement: “Google is so powerful, there’s no need to file anything any more.”

What is wrong with

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How Many Inboxes Do You Have?

 

 

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How Many Inboxes Do You Have?

Email Overloaded -

The feeling of information overload is proportional to the amount of unprocessed information we have. I have a name for places where this unprocessed stuff piles up: “inboxes”. The email inbox is the obvious one, but there are others too.

Here are my inboxes:

• Email inbox
• Voicemail
• Freehand notes taken via my Palm
• In-tray on desk
• Notebook (old fashioned pen and paper)
• RSS and newsgroup reader

All of these have a plentiful supply of information to assimilate and decide how to handle. I resist anything that threatens to increase the number of inboxes I have. For example, I tried out OneNote and EverNote. These are cool products, but not having a tablet computer, the most useful feature to me was the ability to capture snippets from web pages for later reference. After using these tools for a while, and accumulating loads of snippets, I realized that I had unconsciously added yet another inbox. This was one too many, as I had to make a conscious effort to remember it when cranking through my other more visible inboxes. So how did I replace it?

OneNote Replacement
I’ve found a way that works better for me: when I want to capture text or a URL I copy it to the clipboard, switch to Outlook and create an Outlook Post item (Ctrl+Shift+S) into which I paste the information. When I click the Post button, my snippet is put into my regular email inbox, so it will get handled during my next triage session. It’s a few more clicks, but one less inbox.

Keep RSS Temptation at Bay
Although this would allow me to reduce my inbox count by one, I am resisting the temptation of getting an RSS Reader that integrates into Outlook. I don’t want my feeds to be just a click away, as it will be too tempting to check them all day long. I prefer to keep them on the side in a standalone RSS reader that I fire up once a day, as I’m winding the day down.

Post-it Notes are a No-No
Another item I’ve eliminated altogether is post-it notes. These break all the rules of my system and compete for my attention when they are least relevant. If I have something I have to do today, it will be on the relevant list which I scan frequently. If it’s not so urgent, I can write it down in my notebook or create an item that appears in my email inbox.

I’m haven’t managed to find a tool that will clip web content to my Outlook inbox via a keyboard shortcut. If you’ve heard of one, let me know. Otherwise I’ll just have to write one…

Email Overloaded Friday, February 24, 2006

 

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Geek to Live: Top Windows tweaks

Geek to Live: Top Windows tweaks: "

by Gina Trapani

After I wiped my hard drive clean and reinstalled Windows XP last week, I booted up into an pristine, default operating system - that felt a lot like a hotel room just before I rolled my luggage in, tossed my jacket on the couch, unmade the bed and set my toothbrush next to the sink. I had no idea how many changes I'd made to Windows to fit my preferences over the years until they were all undone.

Today I've got a list of the most important Windows customizations that make my PC feel like a place I can get work done in more smoothly and easily. Hop in for a quick ride around Windows dialogs, tabs, menus and toolbars to get your XP fitting like a glove.

Re-locate the the taskbar

I've got a wide screen and I like to see as much information vertically as possible, so I drag and drop the Windows taskbar to the left hand

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Seiko CPC TR-006 Bluetooth watch puts your phone on your wrist

Seiko CPC TR-006 Bluetooth watch puts your phone on your wrist: "

Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Wearables, Wireless

Forget those fossilized SPOT watches. If you want to go all Dick Tracy, check out Seiko's CPC TR-006, a Bluetooth watch that communicates with your cellphone. Currently just a prototype, the watch can receive text messages from your phone, capture Caller ID data so you know who's calling, and adjust ringtones. Pair it with a Bluetooth headset, stick your phone in your bag, and you've got a complete hands-free interface that

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Turn your blog into a book

 

 

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Turn your blog into a book

Lifehacker -

The New York Times reports previously-mentioned blog publishing software BookSmart, which will download and reformat your blog into book form, print and help you sell copies to your fawning blog readers and internet admirers.

Pricing for printed versions of your book from Blurb starts at $30 for an 8-by-10-inch full-color hardcover volume with dust jacket and up to 40 pages. A book of up to 80 pages is $3 more. (Blurb plans to eventually offer paperback editions selling for about 30 percent less than hardcover.) Authors will also be able to set up online bookstores through Blurb's Web site.

BookSmart's not yet available to the public, but it's uptake will be interesting to see. While the thought of a million muffled hyperlinks subjected to the non-clickable imprisonment of actual paper makes me sad, self-publishing blogs jives with the whole scrapbooking/DIY media phenomenon. Would you ever bookify your weblog? Or is it a terrible idea all around? Let us know what you think in the comments or at tips at lifehacker.com.

From Blogger to Published Author, for $30 and Up [NYT]

 
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MacGyver Tip: Quick paper ruler

MacGyver Tip: Quick paper ruler: "

The dollar bill isn't the only quick ruler on the block. The Transuranic blog shows us how you can use a standard piece of letter paper (8.5" x 11") to make a quick and accurate foot-rule.

Take the first page, and fold from either top corner down to the side, lining up the side carefully, making a right triangle.

Remember how you thought you'd never use trig? Well you were right, because I just used it for you. One ABC and three squares later, the hypotenuse of the right triangle you've created is 12.02 inches - very close to being exactly one foot.

Quick and easy, and a .02" margin of error is good enough for me. Give it two more folds and you've got markers for 3", 6", and 9" as well.

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