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X-Moto: Open Source Motocross Platform Action
X-Moto is a game I found, while searching around for something to waste my time with. It supports Mac, Windows, and Linux. The Mac version seems to always be a bit behind the other two, but I was playing with the new version 0.2.7, and I am quite impressed.
It is definitely on its way to becoming a great game and there was a huge tech leap between the last version and this one. New textures,...
Trampoline: Think Application Launching, not...
There are many options available for launching applications on Macs. You could get another application suited for the job such as Overflow or LaunchBar, or go the manual route of opening up your applications folder, and searching for it. I’ve tried several of these types of applications before, but the one I found the most Mac-like was Trampoline.
Trampoline is a bit of an unusual app. It puts a...
Introducing the Daily Saint
I’d like to introduce you to another new blog, focusing on productivity through GTD, and a good life through balance. The Daily Saint is an extremely well-written blog, with posts that are interesting, informative, and just the right length. So far, Mike St. Pierre, has covered some of my favourite topics: The evils of multitasking in Get Behind Me Multitasker. The pitfalls of...
Casual Friday Video: Two Otters Holding Hands
This will add like 2 years on your life.
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WordPress Users: Stop Bandwidth Leachers and...
Running a semi popular blog we are faced with a laundry list of problems, the top three being bandwidth leachers, content scrapers, and spam blogs. Fighting back against these threats is near impossible, until now. AntiLeech is a SIMPLE WordPress plugin that works CLOSELY with Akismet (Included in all modern WP installs) to prevent the splogger bots that create SPAM blogs from accessing your...
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Borderless iChat interface
iChat users may enjoy this little resource hack which removes the side borders from the application making it resemble the interface found in iTunes. Check the screenshot above for a preview of what the resource hack will result in. Make sure to backup your copy of iChat before changing the resource files. You can download the changes directly here. The changes are made available with a single...
Adobe Creative Suite is shipping, clean-up your...
If you’re expecting to take delivery of Adobe’s latest Creative Suite offering, you’ll probably want to get rid of the beta installation bits before continuing with a clean installation. Fortunately, Mac users can check out this Adobe blog page for a beta clean-up script which will complete the tedious task of collecting and trashing all the little beta related pieces on your hardrive. No word on...
Callwave: Visual Voice Mail Widget
We have learned by now that Apple iPhone will sport a new unique feature called Visual Voice mail when it ships, hopefully in June 2007. But why wait until then, when we can enjoy it now on our desktop? Callwave Free Visual Voice Mail Widget is a dashboard application that allows you to see and hear your mobile phone mail messages, not in the order they were traditionally received, but in the...
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Casual Friday Video: Beatboxing Flute and Cello
In case you missed the last beatboxing video…
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35 designers, 5 questions, a long list of answers
Smashing Magazine recently polled 35 different individuals whose livelihood deals in some shape or form with web design. If you’re not already a subscriber, I highly recommend their feed which regularly publishes some of the most detailed and exhaustive resource lists on the net. Their latest “list” showcases the responses to 5 distinct questions answered by 35 different designers....
Pachelbel’s Canon in D
I’m a music geek, so that fact may be one prevalent reason I find this video hilarious:
I don’t know which is sadder: the fact that all those songs are so alike, or the fact that he took the time out of his life to string them all together that way. But it’s true. Terribly, terribly true: there is nothing new under the sun, and if there is nobody really seems to care to try hard enough...
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Student, sympathetic with VT shooter, gets...
A Colorado college student sympathetic of the actions of the VT shooter found himself in the hot seat pleading not guilty for comments made during a class room discussion. Read more about the incident on ABC News.
A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at...
Dinner At Susur - Fine Dining At Its Best
Susur Lee and John Chow
Susur Lee is only the second Canadian chef to ever go up against an Iron Chef. In his battle with Bobby Flay, Susur Lee showed that Canadian chefs are among the best in the world. When the final verdict was given, the judges couldn’t decide which chef was better and declared the contest a tie. A win like what Rob Feenie pulled off would have been nice but a tie means no...
Automated AppleTV Hack Install
Everybody’s favorite ultra affordable web server AppleTV continues to be a hacker haven for all kinds of goodness. Even though everyone swears by the XBox media extender, I would love to see the XBox pull off this trick.
There is a ‘meta plug-in’ that you can install on a hacked up AppleTV that scours a specific website for little third party add ins to install. Although it is not publicly...
5 Ways To Eliminate the Unnecessary and Focus On...
This guest post is by Leo from Zen Habits. If you like this post, I recommend you check out his site or subscribe to his feed.
It’s commonly known that the one commodity you cannot have more of is time — once it’s gone, you ain’t getting any more of it. But that’s only partly true — you can find a lot of extra time if you look in the right places. Want more time to spend with your family, to...
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Ferrari Factory Tour And The Birth Of The 599
I came across this cool video from Motor Authority. At 611HP, the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano is the most powerful production car Ferrari has ever made (Ferrari has made a more powerful limited production car, the Enzo). This comprehensive documentary reveals the behind the scenes action at Ferrari’s factory in Maranello and gives you a look at how the new 599 is brought to life. As much as I like the...
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Google Reader receives a much welcomed face-lift
Although this may not be an official Google Reader face-lift by Google, the stylesheet is a much welcomed addition to anyone who relies on the free web based reader for their RSS needs. Check it out for yourself. Apply a unique stylesheet and make Google Reader look oh so much more prettier. Take note that there are two versions in the download - one for Mozilla based browser, the other for...
Gmail users on Apple? Mailplane is integrates...
Are you an existing Gmail user who also happens to be looking for better integration with your Apple computing experience? Check out Mailplane, it does what Apple Mail can do without the need to configure a POP3 / IMAP account. Mailplane makes your Gmail account your default email address and client allowing you to use all of those handy email this page, or email this photo functions that...
Mailplane, Gmail will replace your desktop email...
One year ago, I experimented with Google Hosted - 5ThirtyOne - Google Hosted Email - and soon moved and began managing all of my email accounts using Google’s services. Why? Because it was convenient, accessible, simple, quick, and everything email should be. Because Gmail provides the option to “Send mail as:” or download mail from other accounts via POP3, there really is no...
World’s Largest Toilet
In recognition of the ever widening American posterior, Florida officials are planning for the inevitable future by building the world’s largest toilet:
I interviewed the manager of the Goldan Corral buffet across the street, who could barely subdue his excitement: “From adding tableside troughs to widening our toilet stalls every two years, the Golden Corral does everything possible to serve...
Thoughts on Netflix “Watch Now”
Late last night I got rather bored and decided to investigate Netflix and their “Watch Now” feature that was announced in January. Netflix says they are slowly rolling this service out until June 2007 when every account should have it. I had a Netflix account back in 2005 but I reinstated my membership on the lowest plan ($4.99, 1 DVD at-a-time, 2 DVDs per month) to test out Watch Now.
As I had...
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Famous Mac User Setup: Scott Bourne
“Famous Mac User Setup” is a new weekly feature I plan to run. Each week one famous Mac user in their respective right will be featured in a direct 4 question interview about their Mac setup.
Scott Bourne is widely recognized as a pioneer in the digital audio field. He is known for his work on Netradio, the world’s first internet radio network - O’Reilly Media, writing for their blog Inside...
Sitting On Top Of The World
Have you ever wonder what it’s like to sit on a glass floor, 1100 feet above the ground? Well, wonder no more because that is exactly what Sally and I are doing in the above picture.
The CN Tower in Toronto has a floor section made of glass. I’m sure the glass is every bit as strong as the concert floor but it’s still scary to step on it for the first time. Once you start walking on the glass...
Nigeria: One Laptop Per Child begins
If these aren’t some of the more heart warming geek related pictures on the net, I don’t know what is. View the rest of the photographs on CNET [via]. For more information on the One Laptop Per Child project, check out OLPC Project.
The primary mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that every school-aged child in the lesser-developed parts of the world owns their own...
The Top 50 Productivity Blogs
Leo from Zen Habits has just posted the 50 top productivity blogs. It’s a great list for finding some different kinds of blogs that can help improve your life. I found quite a few blogs to add to the ‘ol RSS reader.
Oh, and I couldn’t help but notice that LifeDev is on the list
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Exercising our infrastructure
Hi everyone. Unfortunately, yesterday evening the server responsible for our User database suffered a hard drive failure. Database fail-safes kicked in and kept all accounts online and accessible. However, custom themes which are stored as separate meta data needed to be restored and imported separately, making themes appear reset until the data was restored this morning.
While we were...
Google Double Clicks
Google is now $3.1 billion lighter thanks to its cash purchase of the controversial ad service - DoubleClick. This will esentally gives Google a virtual LOCK on the online advertising world.
The acquisition, which is expected to close sometime later this year, also will give media agencies and advertisers the ability to manage integrated search and display ad campaigns through one centralized...
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Ah Ha! Geeks with Video Cameras Strapped to Their...
Justin Kan of Justin.tv has proven that geeks with video camera’s strapped to their head do, in fact, get lucky. At 11 p.m. PST Tuesday night 3,000 people were watching (or more appropriately listening) to Justin getting his groove on.
It’s funny how a stupid IPTV drama free “Real World” clone has jumped the shark into softcore sounds of mating that geeks can get off to.
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Joe Francis tries his hand at bribery
Joe Francis is having a really bad week. First he was arrested on Tuesday for criminal contempt, then on Wednesday he was indicted for tax evasion, and now he’s being charged with bribing a jail guard and possessing prescription medications in his cell.
According to court records in Florida, Francis offered the guard $100 for a bottle of water on Wednesday evening. When guard turned him...
Feiyue Plimsolls
Chucks are beyond ubiquitous aren’t they? In London, even the anti-Converse, non-branded, army surplus training shoe is everywhere these days, so what’s next? Chinese brand
Feiyue looks the most likely over the summer. They’ve been made in Shanghai since 1920 and have been worn by everyone from politicians to Shaolin masters. Apt, as the brand-name means “flying...