Archive for August, 2007
Brits: We’ll lock up Wi-Fi freeloaders
If you’re a Wi-Fi user in the U.K., beware: The police are cracking down on freeloaders who use other people’s Wi-Fi networks. In the latest case, a man was arrested because he used a laptop to browse the Internet via an unsecured home network in London.
Reuters reports that a 39-year-old man was spotted by [...]
Enable Hidden Settings in OS X with Deeper
Mac OS X only: Freeware utility Deeper unlocks additional settings for portions of the Mac desktop. Deeper has a ton of great customization options like creating animated backgrounds, changing the save location of screenshots, showing hidden files and much more. In all, your dock, Finder, Dashboard, Exposé and the login screen can all be modified [...]
The Virtual Machine Roundup
Safely install software in a virtual layer‘With Altiris SVS, you can install any program to a transparent layer that snags all attempts that the program makes to write to your system, instead saving them inside of the layer.’
Download of the Day: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (Windows)‘Want your XP inside Vista or vice-versa? Virtual PC 2007 [...]
ForkLift 1.1 - Powerful file manager. (Shareware)
ForkLift is designed to be the fastest, most powerful file manager for the Mac. Connect to FTP or SFTP servers, manage your Amazon S3 account or your mobile devices over Bluetooth. All these features are beautifully integrated into a sophisticated, yet easy to use Cocoa based interface. Dual-pane view will dramatically increase your productivity along [...]
Desk made with 434 discarded Itanium CPUs
Matt’s chip desk! - Link.
(Via MAKE Magazine.)
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Smooth Mac-like Backgrounds in Photoshop
This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc).
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iPod Nano Spy Shots Confirmed as Real by Apple Legal
Apple Legal has asked Giz to take down the iPhone nano spy shots from earlier today, and out of respect for The Steve, we’ve complied
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Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop
A tutorial on using the Extract filter for quick and dirty background removal.
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