The alarm clock dials a random number in your mobile contact list for every three minutes that you address the obnoxiously loud ringing. Brilliant. Pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance.
Duh people like to sleep, that's why I'm saying they could get more of it by going to bed at a decent hour. Teachers & Professors give students plenty of time to work on projects, homework, etc., but the students choose not to do them…
Pencil is a great Firefox 3 addon that promotes the use of W3C SVG to do sketching and GUI prototyping. The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and open-source tool that replaces Visio.
Top features: Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping Multi-page document with background page On-screen text editing with rich-text supports PNG rasterizing Undo/redo supports Installing user-defined stencils Standard…
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Illustrator tutorial on how to create art deco geometric design
Duplicate the geometric lines layer and use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select an overlapping area, remember that Shift key to get that exact 45 degree angle. Inverse the selection and paint in a shadow with a large soft black brush.
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Tony Markel drives a plug-in hybrid that runs 50 miles per charge, goes 100 miles per gallon and gets power from the sun. If he has his way, you'll drive one too before long.
Fleet vehicles by their very nature are used in a limited geographic area. Think local utilities, taxi cab companies, fire and police departments, UPS or FedEx or even the US Post Office and many others. I saw on the PBS show Scientific American…
Digg competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as Ning for social media?.Users can now set up Mixx community sites on their own subdomains.Administrators have the power to brand them visually, post editorial content, and even make some revenue off advertisements.
I think this is a great new feature and will help go along way to providing new features in this space. I have seen the work that Kerry Parkins, VP of Products did when I was at AOL, and she has a great reputation of listening to the customer. The…
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Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin.
The world's first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says. The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin…
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Italian architect David Fisher is building his first skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu. Every floor of the 80-story self-powered building rotates according to voice command, and nearly the entire construction of the $700 million structure is pre-made.
@mumin: Look at the picture of the wind turbines. It shows a 5-bladed turbine between each floor, looking to be about 6 feet high. The stress on each scoop would be huge, so it's made of carbon fibre. The close-up shows a big gap…
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It’s uncomfortable when this should be the main priority!
Time is round. Space is curved. Why should your mouse be linear? Plenty of applications require you to do more than scroll up and down. Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to…
Who didnt love Legos when they were a kid?
? With LEGO Creator, including a lot of new bricks from some of the best creator boxes, supported by starter Models, so that you can get you own models made and uploaded to the creator gallery.
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A list of free fonts every designer should have!
Nice collection of fonts, but it would really save the reader some time to compile a .zip that we can download at the bottom of the page. Unless of course you legally can’t do that or something…
Collection of angry, awkward and funny Twitter messages. Unfollow Me: Leo Laporte called for a boycott of Kevin Rose but later regretted it, as he was “drunk and out of control.”
It's hard to say who these tweets embarrass more — the people who wrote them or the people being impersonated.
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Watch that movie and look at the pictures on the homepage, You can online make cartoons and cartoon videos from your photos and videos automatically.
Put yourself in the director’s chair and turn your home movie into an animated feature film. More…
Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of Flickr, has tendered his resignation to Yahoo, and it is a great read…
Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a…
The history of computing spans thousands of years - from the primitive notched bones found in Africa, to the invention of abacus in 2400 BC, to Charles Babbages Difference Engine in 1883, to the rise of the popularity of Personal Computers (PCs) in the 1970s.
In their history of the ENIAC computer, Alice R. Burks and Arthur W. Burks summarize the Atanasoff achievement as follows: “He invented a new type of a serial storage module, applicable to digital electronic computing. He formulated,…
