Friday, February 29, 2008
Guitar tablature and more with TuxGuitar
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via Free Download A Day by Chippy on 2/29/08
Tired of Guitar Hero? Beat all the songs and looking for something more? How about playing a real guitar? TuxGuitar is a multitrack tablature editor and player. You can write, edit, and play tracks and songs. With its graphical interface, it's easy to add notes, rearrange them, lengthen or shorten, and so [...]Things you can do from here:
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Turn PDFs into Printable Booklets with BookletCreator [PDFs]
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via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 2/28/08
Want to read a printed copy of a PDF that's portable and staple-free? BookletCreator is a free PDF conversion webapp that creates documents that can be printed and folded into an easy-to-read...Things you can do from here:
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Tip of the Day: Photoshop Plug-ins
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Blogger David Ziser has located the holy grail of Photoshop plug-ins. He uncovered the list of over 100 plug-ins at All Graphic Design News. The list includes a brief description of the plug-in and a link to the main site where you can download it for free. There is bound to be something for everyone on this list.
—Melissa Macatee
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Locked Out Of Your Mac ?
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via Murphy Mac by Murphy on 2/24/08
Murphy found himself locked out of his Mac for the first time ever the other day. The Genius Bar had replaced his Macbook Pro with a new machine. They used Target Disk Mode to transfer Murphy’s data from the old machine - but when he got home his password wasn’t accepted.
Murphy called the Apple store thinking maybe they’d changed his password to some Genius Bar standard password. While he was on hold, he Googled the procedure for resetting a forgotten password. Before getting through to the Genius Bar the problem was solved. Here are the steps:
- Boot with your install disk, holding C as the machine starts up.
- Select your language
- The menu bar will appear where it usually does, though you might not notice it! Select the Utilities menu and click Reset Password.
That’s all there is to it. Now your account is accessible and you can get back to work. Apple has a support document on the topic or you can search the Help system for Reset Password.
Hopefully this post shows you how important physical security is when it comes to protecting your data. See the previous post for more information on securing sensitive files.
Here’s a link to a guide you should print out. Have it somewhere handy for that day your Mac won’t boot.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
A screencast that's worth a thousand words
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via Free Download A Day by Chippy on 2/20/08
Sometimes it's just easier to show somebody how to something. Trying to describe in simple terms some complicated procedure on your computer may leave your audience more confused after the explanation than they were before. That's no way to pass information along. But show them what you did? Now they can [...]Things you can do from here:
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Clone your Windows partition easily with Winclone
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via Free Download A Day by Chippy on 2/19/08
Do you like to cover your bets? Play both sides of the street? Use Boot Camp to run Windows on your Mac? Here's a tool that you can use to clone that Windows partition. Setting up a new machine, it's easy to copy your XP or Vista partition and install it on that [...]Things you can do from here:
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
John Cleese's Letter to America
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via Digg on 2/16/08
So, the independence of America is being revoked, eh? Funniest thing I've read in weeks!Things you can do from here:
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Wubi may be the world's least painful Linux installer
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via Free Download A Day by Chippy on 2/16/08
Okay, so you've been reading all about Linux, and you've decided maybe you'd like to try it on for size. You've got a huge investment—money, sweat, and tears—in your Windows system and don't want to kill it just to try Linux, but you don't have a spare box lying around to load it on [...]Things you can do from here:
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Top 10 iTunes Smart Playlists [Lifehacker Top 10]
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via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on 2/13/08
One of iTunes' most powerful and useful features is Smart Playlists: dynamic, search-based lists of songs that save you the work of grouping tunes by hand. But with almost 40 fields to search...Things you can do from here:
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The Twenty Worst Foods in America
shudder at the thought
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We spent months analyzing menus, nutrition labels, and ingredient lists to identify the food industry's worst offenders. Our primary criterion? Sheer caloric impact. After all, it's the top cause of weight gain and the health problems that accompany it. The result is our first annual list of the worst foods in America.Things you can do from here:
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Use Yahoo Mail as Document Storage [How To]
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via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on 2/11/08
Two features Yahoo Mail has that Gmail does not (officially, anyway)—unlimited storage and "AddressGuard" disposable addresses—make it the ideal solution for keeping an online repository...Things you can do from here:
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Never Forget an Item at the Supermarket [Grocery List]
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via Lifehacker by Tamar Weinberg on 2/10/08
Never forget to buy anything the next time you stop at the supermarket with the "Ultimatest Grocery list." This PDF file can be reprinted (or laminated and reused) and brought on every shopping trip...Things you can do from here:
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Friday, February 08, 2008
Color tile optical illusion
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via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on 2/8/08
You might have seen this shaded gray squares illusion before. Squares A and B are the same shade of gray.
Here's a similar illusion with colored squares. The "blue" tiles on the top face of the left cube are the same color as the "yellow" tiles in the top of the right cube.
Don't take my word for it. Use an image editing program with a eyedropper to see for yourself. I used Photoshop's eyedropper tool to take 5x5 samples and found that both the "yellow" and the "blue" tiles are C:50 M:40 Y:40 K:5.
Take a look at the brown tile in the center of the top face and the yellow tile in the center of the side facing slightly to the left. They're the same color. Link
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50 Proprietary Programs We All Hate--and the OS Alternatives
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It's not the price of the software that makes the real difference (although it's a reason to migrate from one software to another for many people); it's the idea that proprietary software comes with boundaries that keep the user experience confined to... well, being the user. Here are 50 commonly used programs that have open source alternatives.Things you can do from here:
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Find the Perfect Meet-Up Point with Mezzoman [Google Maps]
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via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on 2/5/08
Google Maps mashup Mezzoman finds the perfect meet-up point for two addresses by establishing the midpoint and suggesting restaurants by cuisine nearby. Finding a good meet-up spot can be a bit...Things you can do from here:
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
Journler's licensing shift means next version is paid-only
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via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Michael Rose on 2/2/08
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When Phillip Dow first introduced Journler, the accessible yet remarkably feature-deep journaling and personal information repository app, he made a distinction between commercial licensing and personal use. Journler users who wanted to make money or do business with the program would pay, and anyone using it for its core functionality (personal journals) could donate what they saw fit for the program. Unfortunately, as is often the case with things that can be had for free, Phil didn't see the revenue from commercial licensing + personal donations that he needed to support the program. To allow him to continue developing Journler, with the forthcoming 2.6 release, the app is moving to a paid-only license: a single use license will be $34.95, with no more free rides (but a generous 60-day evaluation period). Yesterday the educational & family pack pricing for the new license was announced: $19.95 for students, including K-12, undergrad and graduate use; $99.95 for a 5-license family pack. Both special purchase options are a 40% savings over the standard license.
I've come to appreciate Journler as I've used it over the past few weeks, and I think this is the right call for this capable tool. We'll be looking at Journler in more detail soon, along with some of its competitors, but you should check it out now.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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