Archive for September, 2007
USB 3.0 coming, will increase transfer speeds tenfold
USB 3.0 improves upon its successors by adding fiber-optic cable inside alongside the copper wiring, greatly increasing the speeds.
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6 Volt Battery Hack! You’ll Be Amazed!
You’ve seen the other battery hacks, now get ready to save hundreds of dollars a year with this simple hack of a 6 volt battery!
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55 Reasons to Design in XHTML-CSS
In no particular order 55 reasons for me to do “tableless” websites using valid XHTML for markup, CSS for layout and Flash sparingly, only as an ingredient. By tableless I mean avoiding tables (or a tagsoup of unnecessary divs substituting table trs and tds) for layout purposes and aiming towards as semantic markup as possible…
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Creating a Stunning Old-World Look in Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to create a beautiful oldy-worldy composition featuring a compass and making use of some awesome (free) vector artwork from Arsenal. It’s a long tutorial, but well worth the effort!
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The Free Mac Classroom (Over 200 apps!)
Absolutely the biggest list of free educational applications for the Mac! Over 200 free apps listed and categorized.
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Mirror Your Mac on a Bootable External Drive
If and when that terrible day your Mac dies finally catches up to you, you can be back up and running with all your applications, settings and data in under 5 seconds with a bootable system clone. By mirroring your entire Mac’s hard drive to an external FireWire drive, you can boot from that [...]
Google Moon’s Virtual Moonwalk
Google Moon’s been re-launched with ‘Street View’ on-surface panoramic NASA photos from the astronaut’s perspective. Google’s Lat Long blog explains:
This update brings higher-resolution map imagery, text search, and photos and stories from every Apollo landing. We even included Street View-style panoramas of the moon’s surface, taken by the Apollo astronauts … something you won’t see [...]
Advanced Glow Effects in Photoshop
In this tutorial we’re going to create some really sharp looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the pen tool and colour blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you’ll pick up some tips you didn’t know before.
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