Colorize B&W Images in Photoshop

“Shoks” shows us how to colorize black and white images in Photoshop.

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Microsoft’s First Windows XP Commercial

Back in 2001, Microsoft released the first commercial for Windows XP. This commercial featured Madonna's song "Ray Of Light".

Snakes can predict earthquakes

Chinese experts believe snakes could sense earthquakes from 120 km, or 70 miles, three to five days before it occurs.

According to the China Daily Newspaper, the earthquake bureau in Nanning, Guangxi’s capital, developed a system combining natural instinct and modern technology. Bureau experts run a 24-hour video feed to monitor snakes at snakes farms in their localities.

Jiang Weisong, bureau director said snakes are the most sensitive animals on earth when it comes to earthquakes.

When quakes are about to happen, snakes will come out of their nests even during winter. If it is a big one, they will bang walls in order to go escape, he said.

China is often struck by earthquakes. After what happened to Taiwan on Tuesday, Chinese experts believe that with the help of snakes, they will be able to prevent any untoward mishaps brought about by quakes.

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Taiwan telecom won't build additional backup

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's largest telecom company said Friday it will not invest more in backup lines to protect against disasters like the recent earthquake that snarled telephone and Internet service across Asia, affecting service as far away as the United States.

The quake, which damaged undersea cables off Taiwan on Tuesday, was so rare that there is no need to spend money on extra lines, said Wu Chih-ming, a senior official at Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest telecommunications company.

Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau measured the quake at magnitude 6.7 while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.1.

"We won't consider laying more backup cables for now because such an incident might not happen in another 100 years," Wu said.

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DivShare - free file hosting service

DivShare is a free file hosting service for everyone. No registration required!

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Girl gets RM9.8 mil award

PAHANG, Malaysia - A Kuantan Sessions Court awarded RM9.8mil to a 10-year-old Sophia Isabel paralysed from the waist down because of a road accident. She was only two years and three months old when the car she was in, which was driven by her mother, was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry at the 67th kilometre of Kuantan-Maran road on Jan 3, 1999.

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Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) - A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

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Cheat sheet for typing odd characters

Alt Key + Calculator Number = Symbol

Hold the ALT key & type the number next to the symbol you want on the CALCULATOR part of the keyboard, then release Alt Key. Symbol will appear.

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Please Stop Giving Me Tickets

"Will you have a little mercy on me, Sir?"

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Help!!! I'm an Idiot

Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop".

Customer: "OK" .

Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No" .

Tech Support: "OK. Right-Click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No" .

Tech Support: "OK. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"

Customer: "Sure. You told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'".

Tech Support: "OK. In the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you see the 'OK' button displayed?"

Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"

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Anonymous donated $286,800 to Wikipedia

One contribution was by An anonymous friend on 2006-12-27 at 22:17:00 for the amount of $286,800. Wow!!!

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Taiwan Quakes Disrupt My Internet

Two quakes measuring 6.7 and 7.1 on the Richter scale on Tuesday that struck off the coast of Taiwan damaged undersea cables carrying Internet traffic, causing slowdowns in Internet access throughout the Asian continent and wreaking havoc on the financial markets. Damage was bringing down data transfer by as much as half in some cases, and it could take weeks before service is fully restored.

Undersea cables that carry both voice and data run throughout the Pacific, many of which are routed through Taiwan. As of early morning Wednesday, only about 10 percent of international calls were completed. The worst of the disruptions seemed to be in Taiwan itself, where only half of the normal telecommunications capacity was available after two out of the four lines were cut.

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Using "No to all" while replacing files in Windows

This dialogue box is displayed each time a file with a similar name already exists in the destination directory.

Noticed there is a 'Yes to All' button but it doesn't have the 'No to All' button?
But do you know you can still use 'No to All' function from here?

Just Press and Hold the Shift key while you click the No button.

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Flash-based Photoshop-like image editor

Anyone familiar with Photoshop should find Fauxto's very similar Layers tool easily accessible. Pretty impressive stuff for a web-based app.

fauxto.com

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You park like an asshole

Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall parked diagonally? Now you can do something about it. Simply download a notice and place it on the car's windshield. The owner of the vehicle will be informed of their asshole staus as well as the proper tips to improve their poor parking techniques. It's time to put an end to asshole parking, or at least to make fun of it.

Download Notice 1 | Notice 2

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Get Firefox Ad

Using IE is like having sex without a condom? LOL

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The penguin who goes shopping

Japanese penguin who likes to carry his Penguin Backpack to the fish market. The cutest part is when the old lady at the fish store says: "See you again tomorrow, Lala-chan!" and the penguin nods furiously.

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Lamest 11:00 News Hook Ever

A Sacramento News Channel Broadcasts a Cat stuck in a tree as a hook to watch the 11:00 News. Huh, Media these days..

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New logo for Firefox

Luckiest Cat Ever!

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Mountain Bike Trickster

Crazy bike trials skills.. a must watch!!

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Awesome addicting balancing game

Keep the weight from falling over on your fingertip.

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A Gamer's Wedding Cake

That's an Xbox 360, an Xbox, a PS2 and a GameCube on Top. Crazy Awesome.

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Greatest Video Game Collection Ever

Now that’s what I call a video game collection. This person probably owns every game, console, and accessory in existence.

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Strange “Humping Dog” USB Drive

This year's Christmas present? :P

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Why most Watch Ads show the time as 10:08?

10:08, 8 minutes past 10, is roughly the time analog watches are set to in most advertisements, though actual times shown vary between about 10:08 and 10:10. There are several reasons offered by watch companies, many of them psychological, and none of them verifiable as the actual origin of the practice:

• The form of the hands has a positive effect on the viewer: the short hand pointing at 10 o'clock and the long hand pointing at 8 minutes is reminiscent of a check mark, which commonly means "ok" or "fine." Some observers further identify this appearance with a smiling face.


• The position of the hands does not obscure the date on watches with a date-function at 3 o'clock or any other functions at 9 or 3 o'clock.


• The position of the hands does not obscure the company logo, which is often printed under 12 o'clock.


• The hands are nearly symmetrically balanced on the face of the dial at 10:08. The minute hand is 48° right of vertical, while the hour hand is 56° left of vertical. Exact symmetry would be achieved at 120/13 minutes past 10:00, approximately 10:09:13.8. Other symmetrical times would not meet the needs above.


• At 10 o'clock in the morning, the day is young. There is still time to accomplish many things.


• 10 o'clock is the time at which people typically wake up if they are able to sleep in. 10:08 is thus associated with weekend, leisure and relaxation.

Oddly enough, 10:08 is also the time at which a 12-hour digital display will have the maximum number of digit "segments" turned on. However, digital watches in commercials are more often set to 10:58.

Not all watch companies use this type of setting in their ads, though the majority do.

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Lock Any Folder in Windows XP

“Honekai” shows us how to lock any folder in Windows XP to prevent unauthorized access.

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Never run out of toilet paper again

Have a big wall next to your toilet and don't like running out of toilet paper? Mounting more toilet paper holders on the wall is a simple way to keep it from happening.

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I Look Like My Dog

Winners of the "I Look Like My Dog" Contest

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A Sandwich Scam

Grr.. give me back my $$$

ASIMO needs help

This is what companies like Honda don’t want this to happen during a product demonstration.

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Who is copycat?

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"jzawodn" stated that this wasn't a template that Microsoft gave to all partners. So what's the story behind?

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Virtual vs Reality: Bowling 7-10 Split Conversion

Mark Roth 7-10 Split Conversion



Wii Sports Bowling 7-10 Split Conversion



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Clean Glass Prank

Be careful.. R U OK?

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Amazing Minesweeper Trick

“Jondmml” shows us an “amazing” Minesweeper trick you could use to impress friends and family when playing the game.

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The best way to get it on

New condom on market called pronto. As the name implies it's a speedy and easy way to put on a condom without ruining the mood.

Drilling through a laptop display

See the effect of drilling a small hole on a Laptop LCD display.

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Voice mail Ad

This Ad has been around for some time, have you watched it?

Children See, Children Do

Teach your children well...

The Correct Way to Eat Sushi

Learn how to eat this popular Japanese food in this easy-to-follow video tutorial

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Hot-Air Balloon from a teabag

Excellent physics demonstration of the principles of hot-air balloons (with explanation), by a junior scientist.

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Clear Win XP’s Memory with Just One Click

“Swhb” shows us how to clear the idle processes in Win XP’s memory with just one click.

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

World’s Longest Alphabetical Email Address

Signup for an email account that ends with @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com

Reasons WHY you should get one according to the website.

It is so long that…

• Some web forms are unable to read your email address


• Some email software cannot be configured


• People have a hard time typing in your email


• Companies think that your email address is fake


• The Longest Alphabetical Email Address on Earth!


• It's FREE

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Baby’s First Language

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Windows 3D Pinball Tricks

“Kipkay” shows us a few tricks you can try out in “3D Pinball”. MUST watch!!

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The last thing you want to see on a ATM

Photoshopped? Pretty scary if you ask me.

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Funeral service ad

Photoshopped? This is pretty sick anyway

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Mario Medley

A video game symphony performed by PLAY!

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Firefox Ad

Yet another nice Ad!

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World's first free and targeted ad network

The idea is simple:
1) Register and submit your website into their network for FREE
2) Embed the 'Ad Code' they provided to display targeted Ads on your site
3) Your Ad Appears on other sites!

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Titanic meets Instant Messaging

Hillarious spoof on Robot Chicken depicting what the titanic conversation would look like if done with Instant Messages.

Dice wars

Dice Wars is a unique new turn-based strategy game from Taro Ito of GameDesign in Japan. Using nothing but dice and a randomly generated territory map made of hexagons, the game is similar in gameplay to that of the board game, Risk, though much simpler and quicker to play. The objective is to conquer all territories and eliminate all your opponents by attacking them with dice.

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