Year: 2007
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24 ways – Performance On A Shoe String
Drew McLellan has posted a very good run down of how to improve blog (and general website) performance. It covers caching, outsourcing of feeds, and using something like Amazon’s S3 to host large files, just as an example.
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GIMP Plugins
TechZilo has a post with links to more than 40 very useful GIMP plugins.
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Lifehacker: Update Windows, Linux Style
Appupdater is a executable that lets you run command line updates for a wide range of applications, going as far back as Windows 98. If you have used the apt or yum package management available in many Linux distros, it works in much the same way. Looks like it could be a real help to…
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Nanosolar 'Prints' First Flexible Solar Panels
It really seems like these guys are the real deal, and not one of the many ‘look at this cool tech!’ companies who gather interest (and investors) and disappear to the vaporware wastes with Duke Nukem 4ever and flying cars.
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Wave Power
Pacific Gas & Electric with Finavera Renewables for 2 megawatts of power, provided by wave-powered turbines. Here’s a snippet on how the tech works: Finavera makes a device called the Aquabuoy, a buoy connected to a long underwater piston. As the buoy bobs up and down on the waves, it pushes the piston, which pressurizes…
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Lifehacker's Guide To Free Software And Webapps
Lifehacker has a roundup for 2007 Free Software and Webapps they have featured (and like). Where applicable, they have linked to many of the guides and screenshot tours of the various apps. As usual, anything missed is pointed out in the comments. Some very useful stuff I need to check out.
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The Mitchell Report
Just thought I’d share this. We will need the levity before the bomb drops this afternoon.
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Child's Play Update
The boys are nearing their goal, having crossed the $600,000 threshold!. Here’s the previous post if you are not sure what’s going on.
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Free MS Software…Cost: Your Soul
It all stems from Microsoft’s Windows Feedback Program. To be honest, I am in for this as I wanted a legal copy of Vista. All MS will find out from the PC they track is that my wife loves Diablo II.
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Final Fantasy Turns 20
One of my favorite game series, Final Fantasy, just turned 20. 1up has several features on it this week, but I’m pressed for time so hit up this /. article for all the links.
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Sprint Steps Up (after a bit of coercion)
Today, the payment is not only returned to us, but sent straight back into the bank account! Which the phone monkeys had claimed was not possible for them to do. GG Sprint for taking your medicine and keeping a customer, I didn’t want to have to cancel with them as their service in this area…
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Lifehacker: Open Clamshell Packaging With Your Can Opener
It’s that time of year again, the one where you will be screaming in frustration and pain as you struggle to get into that new mp3 player or flash memory for your camera, thanks to those horrible plastic clamshell packages. A Lifehacker reader decided to try out his manual can opener on it, and claims…