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Showing newest 51 of 71 posts from 03/2007 - 04/2007. Show older posts
Showing newest 51 of 71 posts from 03/2007 - 04/2007. Show older posts
Let's take a look at the plan first..
Then.. rate the percentage of similarity please
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Too sayang your mobile phone? why not make the final last call in style. Yes, that is a coffin!
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A man was charged with theft and burglary after police said they found 93 pounds of women's panties, brassieres and other underwear at his home.
Investigators believe Garth M. Flaherty, 24, took as many as 1,500 undergarments from apartment complex laundry rooms before he was caught, police Cmdr. Chris Tennant said.
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Aha!! This job suits me as I'm currently jobless. One more thing, does loser have a resume? =P
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This JavaScript snippet (written by zichun) will help in predicting a word or phrase that the user wants to type in without the user actually typing it in completely.
Step-by-step on how to implement it into your own textbox was described in here.
Of course this is for novice coder, for those experienced programmers, you may want to check out this AJAX auto-completion demo.
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As you tab through each input field, some helper text appears in box out to the right. See Demo.
Source code is available for download (a zip of the html, css, js, and images used).
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A Columbian woman who fed and nursed an abused lion back to health appears to have formed a special bond with the animal.
The African lion Jupiter shows his affection for his caretaker with hugs and kisses.
Ana Julia Torres rescued Jupiter six years ago from a traveling circus.
Aww! So lovely..
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Funny copier repair Ads. And yes, I know she's not your type, once again, the hottest copier girl ever.
Want to know how many people are on your website in real time?
Just visit http://whos.amung.us/ then copy and paste the code generated for you to bring up this nice little widget. No registration is required!
Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours.
The 56-foot-long whale had been on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.
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popuri.us is a tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!
Not your ordinary coffee maker, these guys are using a Two-killowatt laser to heat up their instant coffee and tea.
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Brought to you by the Smartest biker in the world
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Google is improving its green credentials by offering all of its employees a free bike to ride to work.
The bikes, manufactured by Raleigh Europe, will be offered to around 2,000 permanent employees of the search engine giant in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All of the bikes - plus free helmets - will be branded with the Google name.
Holger Meyer, Germany's first Google employee, came up with the idea and staff will be able to choose from a range of models including a "cool cruiser" - a folding bike for those that only make part of their trip to work under pedal power - and men's and women's hybrids.
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Is this the only way to 'greet' Windows? :P
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Anti-rape device created by South-African inventor Sonnet Ehlers is about to hit the market after a long time of waiting for patent verification.
The female condom-like device called Rapex has fish-like teeth that attach to the penis.
This invention stirred a great deal of controversy all over the world. The main concern is whether the Rapex was a medieval device built on a hate of men or it can be considered an easy-to use devise that could help South African women protect themselves against rape.
According to Sonnet Ehlers the process of cheking is going to be up on April 10.
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One of the features of Google Maps is that it pulls in images from websites. Take a look at the Logo for Microsoft.
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Hmm.. What's gonna happen if I press all the controls? It's so simple, yet so cool. This Nintendo Messenger Bag was made by frogz, you can see this thread in which he presents the bag and provides more details.
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Now you know why you don't get that job :P
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Video tutorial provided by luv2help.com showing us how to change the hair color and then add highlights in just a few simple steps, using Photoshop.
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Blogsticker allows you to display social stickers on your blog. There are about 170 stickers for selection. They will be adding more blogstickers of course.
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There's still no "official" GMail keyboard shortcut for deleting messages or moving them to trash. Read GMail Help
But do you know the # (Press Shift + 3) button in your keyboard can be used as a shorcut to delete your GMail messages? *Works in IE, Firefox and Opera*
I really wonder why Google engineers did not reveal this useful tip to us?
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Malaysian movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two sniffer dogs who busted a fake DVD ring with a seizure of discs worth RM10 million, media and officials said on Thursday.
Lucky and Flo, two female black Labradors deployed by Malaysian authorities in their crackdown on pirated movie DVDs and music CDs, carried out their first major successful operation in Johor state on Tuesday.
The New Straits Times said syndicate bosses had offered an unspecified reward for the killing of the two dogs.
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A Chinese company is marketing a working GSM phone that actually holds a half-pack of real cigarettes in a case on the back of the handset. The phone itself has a camera, color display and MP3 compatibility.
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Imagine the future of Russia. LoL!
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At CeBIT 2007, Chinese electronics maker, HTW, introduced a cell phone that can be charged by the sun. It gets 25 minutes of talk time from just 40 minutes of charging in sunlight, it can be charged with indoor light when no direct sunshine is available and even candlelight.
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This is the problem with Bluetooth headsets: to others, it’s almost as if you’re crazy and talking to yourself.. What's your story?
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Google has just introduced 6 different themes for your personalized Google Homepage. Themes include classic, beach, bus stop, city scape, sweet dreams, tea house and seasonal scape.
To add any of the themes, just click the Select Theme link in the right side of your Google homepage.
Google says that the "theme will dynamically change to match your time of day, including local sunrise and sunset times", so you have to enter your location.
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Microsoft Windows Vista has got some really nice and lovely in-built screensavers like Aurora, Bubbles, Mystify and Ribbons.
Aurora
Bubbles (I like this one)
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Download: Vista Screensaver Build 5308 Ported to XP
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One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will pop up on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly wrong. Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seen during a system boot.
Bluescreen cycles between different Blue Screens and simulated boots every 15 seconds or so. Virtually all the information shown on Bluescreen's BSOD and system start screen is obtained from your system configuration - its accuracy will fool even advanced NT developers. For example, the NT build number, processor revision, loaded drivers and addresses, disk drive characteristics, and memory size are all taken from the system Bluescreen is running on.
Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies!
Bluescreen runs on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 9x (it requires DirectX).
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This wonderful mobile transparent billboard for The Red Cross, is currently gracing the streets of San Francisco, using the power of optical illusion to shock viewers in its earthquake-awareness campaign.
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Kick it right when its near the bottom or right at the peak. Interesting!
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The Chinese manufacturer, named Zhejiang Young Man Vehicle Group, introduced the 25-meter-long "Superliner" at Shanghai's Busworld Asia 2007 convention. The bus has five doors, carries up to 300 passengers. It takes about 35 steps to walk from the front to the back and its top speed is around 80 kilometers per hour.
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I've always wanted to help in saving the world but do not have enough resources especially cash. I think most of you will feel the same. Now being poor isn't an excuse anymore to run away from saving the world. You don't even need to move your lazy butt. It will just take a minute to save the world using these sites.
1. World Community Grid: When you're not using it, your computer can fight AIDS, muscular dystrophy, and cancer. After you download and install this program, the World Community Grid uses your computer's idle time to process data for any of several world-changing medical projects. WCG treats every computer as part of a giant processor: your computer downloads data, crunches it, and sends the info back to the Grid. If a crucial part of a medical cure is found using your computer, WCG will let you share the glory.
2. The Hunger Site: The Hunger Site and its siblings (the Breast Cancer, Child Health, Literacy, Rainforest, and Animal Rescue Sites) are simple to use: Click the button, and it donates the value of 1.1 cups of staple food (or saving 11.4 square feet of rainforest, or other granular donations). The sites are legit, and they raise their funds by hosting ads (many of which advertise other world-saving causes). You can click each site's button once per day.
3. Distributed Proofreading: Project Gutenberg puts public-domain books online for free. But between scanning the books and offering the text files, someone needs to proofread. That's what the volunteers at Distributed Proofreading do. All you need to do is offer a human eye to a scanned page and its computer-made text version. No grammar or spelling skills required; just make the new text match the original. Give the world something good to read.
4. Via MSN Messenger. Read more..
5. Via your blog: Write an entry about the sites above and encourage others to take action.
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LoL.. Students these days~
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Which of these would you choose? Difficult for me to make the decision lah.. I need some advice from you guys!!
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Ambuj Varshney tells you what to do after installing ubuntu in his blog.
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For those who don't know what the heck is RIAA?
RIAA stands for Recording Industry Association of America. :)
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Exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss, U.S. researchers reported Monday.
Tests on mice showed they grew new brain cells in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, a part of the hippocampus that is known to be affected in the age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most humans.
The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging scans to help document the process in mice -- and then used MRIs to look at the brains of people before and after exercise.
They found the same patterns, which suggests that people also grow new brain cells when they exercise.
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Funny ad campaign for a Brazilian coffee, Suplicy, ‘Awaken the post-lunch PhD that lives inside you‘.
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