Transforming pictures into fantastic HTML (With Source)

This is real eyecandy. And best of all it is free. With source. Look at the stunning results.

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How to Prolong your iPods Battery Life

Good power saving tips to keep that iPod running as long as you need it to.

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Amazing hi-res image of the Sun (2100 x 2034 pixels - 3143k)

Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence taken on Sept. 14,1999. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures.

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Video of an iPod Vending Machine!

In a hallway at the Hilton in Las Vegas there is an iPod vending machine. It sells all iPod models and accessories. Here is a video of it. I boght a charger for my iPod. Very cool! Here is a video.

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Massive List Of 5000 Programming / Computer / Internet Books - For Free!

Who needs to pirate books / steal from the library with a list of free resources like these?

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NYC Homicides since 2003 on Google Maps -- Where not to live!

Very morbid use of Google Maps. Definitely pinpoints where you don't want to be living.

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The Counterattack On Google

"How Yahoo and MSN are scrambling to slow its search-ad juggernaut"

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Amazing New X-Men 3 Clip Gives Glimpse at Sentinel!

A clip aired on Jay Leno gives us our first look at the Sentinels in X-Men 3.

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Hammerhead, the LEGO CD thrower

Sounds like fun to me =) "CAUTION: Hammerhead is DANGEROUS! The disk is ejected at a high speed and can harm things or people around."

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NASA Says Comet Will Not Hit Earth (Photo)!

The now broken comet that was rumored to be on a collision course with Earth on May 25th will miss. NASA says it will be a close encounter, but will miss Earth by about 20 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The comet should pass us within view of telescopes between May 12 - 28!

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Test Internet Explorer 7 Without Installing It

You can test how web pages look in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 without upgrading Internet Explorer 6.

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Hubble captures the shattering of a comet

images from the Hubble Space Telescope showing the dramatic breakup

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Top 5 Creative Uses for Your iPod

Did you know you can play Doom on your iPod? You can also load it with unusual stuff like Wikipedia and subway maps -- even dating videos! Here's a good rundown of some unconventional ways to use your iPod that go way beyond just listening to music.

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When MySpace Members Die

Awesome NY Times article about MySpace accounts serving as online memorials for people who've died. Also mentions MyDeathSpace.com, a site that tallies people with MySpace accounts that have died.

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Handy freeware programs to put on a USB stick

A list of free programs that do not require an installation and can be used directly from your USB stick or any other removable drive

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Color Wheel - ver 2.0.1

Online color wheel. Great for picking color palettes.

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Firefox is the first third party product to be featured on Google homepage

If you live in the U.S. and visit Google with Internet Explorer you will find the first third party advertisement on the Google home page. The ad highlights using Firefox along with the Google Toolbar. Looks like Google is stepping up its support for the alternative browser.

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Fascinating High Res Galactic Imagery

Stunning pictures of galaxies and nebulae. Many of the photographs are large enough to use as backgrounds for all but the largest monitors.

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How To Get Yahoo Mail Beta

Simple trick to try the new Yahoo Mail Beta before it's released to public.

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Make Photos look like Miniture Model Sets

Cool and convincing sample photos taken with a special Tilt-Shift camera lens, plus a step by step guide for the same effect in Photoshop.

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Google Maps Gets Huge Satellite Data Update from Google Earth

Last Friday Google synchronized the Google Maps data with satellite and aerial photos from the Google Earth database. Now all the recent changes in Google Earth are available to Maps users. Here is the most comprehensive list of the changes.

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What Is Good PowerPoint Design (w/pics)

A great explanation of how to design better PowerPoint presentations that get the point across.

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iPod shuffle vs. iPod shuffle clone

This german site hast pictures of a chinese iPod shuffle clone. Even complete packaging and the cd imprint is copied. The player cheap manufactured and is not supported in iTunes. It plays wma-files, but doesn't do aac or Audible-files.

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Gamers more interested in Nintendo than Sony at E3

A reader's poll at Joystiq shows that readers are more excited over Nintendo's possible offerings at E3 than Microsoft or Sony's, even with the prospect of PlayStation 3 demos.

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Woman Has Rare Case of the "Black Death"

A woman is in stable condition with bubonic plague, the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County since 1984, health officials said Tuesday.Bubonic plague is believed to have been the "Black Death" that killed 25 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1351.

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MySpace foils school shooting

Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested Thursday after details of the alleged scheme appeared on the Web site MySpace.com

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gTranslate - Translate any text in Firefox

"With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text."

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Turn your Camera Phone into a Scanner

A new free service that allows you to take a camera phone picture (or any digital picture) and turn it into a searchable PDF file. If you have a camera phone with at least one megapixel of resolution, ScanR is great for turning things like whiteboard images and paper drawings into something more usable.

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Black holes collide in the best simulation yet - with video

The ripples in space-time created by the cataclysmic merger are captured with unprecedented accuracy – helping researchers seek the real thing.

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Beautiful Tutorial MPEG-4 Compression

Very solid information that is most likely valuble to any proffesional video creator or if you just want to make a good quality, small file sized video of your DVD on you computer.

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Apple reports 8,526,000 iPods sold in one quarter!

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 second quarter ending April 1, 2006. International sales accounted for 43% of the quarter's revenue. Apple shipped 1,112,000 Macintosh computers and 8,526,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 4% growth in Macs and 61% growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

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F-Shaped Pattern

People read in F Shaped patterns when browsing the web. Important information for all web developers.

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Comparing the Mapping Services

Since it seems that every search engine has their own mapping service, TechCrunch has done an excellent roundup of the ones out there right now and declares a winner.

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Convert any Photo into 1,024 Stadium Flipcards held by a Pixel Army

The Japanese site was translated by Google so the english may appear strange. They use the Linux Mascot "Tux" as the illustrated example...

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10 Best Designed Blogs

The particular platform (WP, Moveable Type, Typepad, Handcoded) doesn't matter. It's what you do with it that counts. This isn't about prettiest blog, or the best written blog. This is a list of the most groundbreaking, cutting edge blogs out there. You see these blogs and cry, because they're creatures of fierce untameable beauty.

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FULL List of Google Resources with Descriptions

Ever wanted to use Google to the max? This Wikipedia article lists all of the services, tools, downloads, features, programs, and even hardware offered by Google. There are many little known services and tools of great value that I'd never even heard of before.

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Gigapxl: San Francisco/Bay Bridge at Night

Double exposing in this fashion allows one to preserve a host of architectural detail which otherwise would be lost in the shadows. Below are a closer city view and detail within the city, as well as a zoom of the bridge with a close up of the far right tower.

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Screenshots of Teacher's MySpace page that might put her back in jail.

Pamela Rogers, the hot 28-year-old teacher that had sex with a 13-year-old student multiple times, might be going back to jail for sending him not-so-secret MySpace messages. Check out the right side of the article for the actual screenshots.

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Nintendo DS Lite Scores an 8.0/10 on CNET

"With a slick new design, brighter screens, and a growing library of fun and innovative games, the Nintendo DS Lite is an impressive improvement over the original DS--but it's still not a multimedia and graphical powerhouse like the Sony PSP."

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Mozilla 'Fixes' 24 Bugs. Firefox is NOT Vulnerable

This is in response to the false digg that Firefox is vulnerable: Secunia tagged the overall updates -- to Firefox 1.5.0.2 and 1.08, and Sea Monkey 1.0.1 -- as "Highly critical," its second-from-the-top ranking. Mozilla Corp. updated its Firefox browser to patch a mega-batch of 24 vulnerabilities, the bulk of them tagged "critical."

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New! Google Video Top 100

http://video.google.com/videoranking

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How YouTube Became Hot Property In Online Video

YouTube.com seems like a startup straight out of Silicon Valley central casting. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the web.

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Firefox 1.5.0.2 released

Firefox 1.5.0.2 provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors, and stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

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60% of IM users prefer MSN Messenger

What client do you use for instant messaging? According to a recent study by comScore Networks, there's a decent chance that it's MSN Messenger, which lassoed in 61 percent of worldwide instant messaging (IM) market share.

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Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow

Xena, officially called 2003 UB313, was first announced in July 2005 and lies about three times as far from the Sun as Pluto. Its brightness indicated it was larger than Pluto, but it was not clear by how much because astronomers did not know how much sunlight its surface reflected.

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Catch 'Lost' 'Alias' Online a Day Later - With Unskippable Ads

Yesterday, Disney announced details of the plan. Beginning in May, the company will begin a two-month trial that will make four popular shows from its ABC network — "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "Commander in Chief" and "Alias" — available for free viewing online the day after they are broadcast.

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Google make 12 cents for every search you perform!

...and that's a lot of cash considering;

"Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches via Google in January 2006"

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The Most Controversial Game Ads EVER

Well, I'm sure they left out a few, but these sure are controversial.

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RIAA and MPAA merge to form MAFIAA

Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) chairman Dan Glickman and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) president Cary Sherman today announced the historic merger of the two organizations. The newly-created entity is being called the Music And Film Industry Association of America, Inc.

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Nintendo DS download station finder!

Punch in your zip code, and find the nearest DS Download station, take your DS and enjoy the free demo downloads! Demo stations are currently featuring "Brain Age", "True Swing Golf" and a few others.

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Coinstar turns loose change into iTunes songs

Now in addition to Amazon gift certificates, your loose change can be used for iTunes Music Store songs.

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Get Angry, Scan Entire IP Subnet < 5 Seconds

It's Free, and Open Source.

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Hubble finds 10th planet slightly larger than Pluto

Official NASA release confirming the tenth planet 'Xena' and finds it is only slightly larger than Pluto.

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Rube Goldberg Ramen

And you thought it only took 2 minutes to make Ramen.

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TDK mass producing Blu-ray Disc media

"Japan-based TDK has begun shipping 25GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc media nationwide. According to the Blu-ray Disc Association, TDK is the first to market with bare Blu-ray Disc media."

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15,000 layer Photoshop file.

Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster.

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270 Free Mini Pixel Icons

"These mini icons are designed at 14x14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical)."

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Digg Tools

Large list of various digg tools/links collected from around the web. Good website to check out.

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HD DVD and Blu-ray drives cost over $400 to build

A research firm looks at the bill of materials for "blue laser players" and came up with a round figure of about US$400. This includes not only the hardware, but royalty licenses for the various codecs included in the players.

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How the DHARMA Initiative Works

For such a secretive organization, the DHARMA Initiative has left lots of evidence of its activities. Not only has it populated an island with territorial polar bears and sharks, it has defended its territory with a menacing monster that looks deceptively like black smoke.

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Study finds two supermassive black holes spiraling toward collision

"A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiraling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory."

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How dead stars make planets

Rings of debris formed in the aftermath of stellar explosions could fuel the birth of new, rocky planets around dead stars. They could also provide an alternative way to make black holes, scientists said Wednesday.

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NEW Internet Explorer Exploit

This one is VERY VERY Bad Phiser's are using it already! Digg This so Others can do the Test, Click on the Link and go to the "Start Test" link on the page

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Phoenix Mars Lander: Getting Down and Dirty On the Red Planet

The next Mars lander is undergoing assembly and testing, being readied for departure next year to explore the martian arctic. This probe is equipped to dig deep, quite literally, into an ongoing mystery—the history of water on Mars and the planet's potential as an extraterrestrial address for life.

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Digg listed as 18th most referenced site according to new study

This site is doing a study on RSS feeds and how people are referencing sites, digg.com is listed as 18th out of 1.2k million. Lots of big names in the top 20, glad to see digg is up there!

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The Simpsons Movie Crew Discovered

Though Matt Groening is a given, the article looks at who will direct, write and star in the upcoming animated film.

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Final Goodbye to Microsoft's "Clippy" the Most Hated Paper Clip Ever

Clippy, the annoying Microsoft paper clip that had nothing but good intentions, will be taken out of Office 2007 completely, with "no option to turn it back on."

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Michael Moore Talks About Filesharing

The guy some people love to hate tells it like it is.

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Map from door in LOST TV show, does it hold the key?

This is the Map from the door in lost, has lots of very interesting stuff on it. Is a must see!!!

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How I Work: Bill Gates

Quote - "I get about 100 e-mails a day. We apply filtering to keep it to that level—e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP etc. And I always see a write-up from my assistant of any other e-mail, from companies that aren't on my permission list or individuals I don't know."

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The Official Podcast Logo?

The German website, http://Podcastlogo.com, held a contest to see who could come up with the best logo, and the winner, Peter Marquardt with an RSS feed icon with headphones on. Who knows if it will catch on...

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'Guilty' Plea in Largest-Ever Piracy Case

Two men involved in what U.S. authorities called the largest bust of pirated music CDs and computer software in America each pleaded guilty to five criminal counts on Monday, law enforcement officials said.

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When Google can't find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.

List of facts about Jack Bauer. Utterly hilarious! Here's another: "When Jack Bauer pisses into the wind, the wind changes direction." "Sun Tzu once wrote, "If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you're fucking dead."" Read on for more!

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Free video 'flash' tutorials- These are AWESOME

This guy rocks! What the web should be about, learning, information and knowledge - and all FREE & no adds! Awesome tutorials showing how to create flash presentations simply and easily.

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Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula - BEAUTIFUL

"More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon."

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Google Earth April Fools Joke

The folks at Google Earth have added some "visitors" as an April Fools Joke. Check it out before they decide to leave...

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Simpsons' movie revealed in trailer...2007 release date!!

I just returned from the theatre where I saw a "trailer" for the Simpson's Movie. Here is the first info I have been able to find on it...enjoy kidies.

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Cell phone users 240 % more promne to brain tumors

A new Swedish study has found that heavy users of cell phones had a 240 percent increase in brain tumors on the side of their head that the phone was used on.

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OPINON: MySpace Mass-deletion is Little More than a PR Move

This is about all those ratings-grabbing, hysteria-inducing, local news stories that have saturated the airwaves in the last month. It's a very smart public relations move by MySpace, designed to appease advertisers and parents, and stall the inevitable election-year congressional investigation.

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