From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Make a Quick and Dirty Sun Visor Tripod

June 11, 2009

We’ve shown you how to mount a camera on your bike and construct a DIY camera mount for your car, but Flickr’s Heather Champ details her own dead-simple-but-effective method for mounting a camera in her car. Her trick couldn’t be easier to pull off (or less expensive): Just flip down your sun visor, grab a [...]

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Looking Forward To Streaming Live Video From Your iPhone 3G S? Not So Fast.

June 10, 2009

There’s a poorly kept secret in Silicon Valley: A lot of people are using their iPhones to stream live video over the web. The reason this is kept secret is because technically, no one is supposed to have such an app on their iPhone. You see, Apple has not allowed any of these live-streaming apps [...]

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WordPress 2.8 Now Available for Download

June 10, 2009

WordPress has just released the newest version of their installable blog software: WordPress 2.8 – Baker. The most notable addition would seem to be the ability to browse themes from within the WordPress Dashboard. With the Theme Browser, you can specify the color you want, how many columns there should be, and fixed or flexible [...]

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Tutorial:Convert iTunes videos

June 10, 2009

Contents 1 Introduction 2 What you’ll need 3 Steps 4 Alternate methods if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = “show”; var tocHideText = “hide”; showTocToggle(); } Introduction Many people ask me the same question: “I purchased videos on iTunes, but I can’t play them on my video player, because they are in some ‘protected’ M4V format [...]

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North Korea Finds Two US Journalists Guilty of Unspecified “Grave Crime,” Sentence: 12 Years Hard Labor

June 7, 2009

Horrible news for the families of Current TV correspondents Euna Lee and Laura Ling: North Korea’s highest court has ruled that the two journalists are ‘guilty of illegal entry,’ and will be sentenced to 12 years hard labor. The women were arrested in March while working on a story near the border between North Korea [...]

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SimilarSites Helps You Find Related Sites

June 5, 2009

Take the work out of finding sites related to the one you’re browsing. SimilarSites is a user-ranked search engine designed to return a list of the most similar web sites. Plug in a web site at SimilarSites or by using their Firefox extension SimilarWeb and you’re presented with a list of related web sites. For [...]

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Microsoft Bing: 7 Quick ‘n’ Dirty Tricks

June 4, 2009

Oh, Bing. You’ve got a silly name, bad breeding, and scattershot marketing. It’s a damn good thing, then, that you’ve got some legitimately cool tricks up your sleeve. (Via Gizmodo.) Enjoyed this article?WebsiteWordPress themes!

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Enjoy Your Free Hulu While You Still Can

June 4, 2009

Why does everything good have to come to an end? Sigh. According to Jeff Bercovici of Daily Finance, Hulu is poised to start charging people subscription fees to watch video on the site. Reports Bercovici: Speaking last night at an Internet Week event sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Miller, News Corp.’s newly-installed chief digital [...]

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