This new-to-me website — officially known as “ifttt” (how do you pronounce that?) — is brilliant. I signed up yesterday (it looks like it’s currently in public beta), and it only took about a minute to realize ifttt’s potential handiness....
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Two thumbs up. These tiny desktop speakers punch well above their weight. They are amazingly well built for the price, have a more than powerful enough stereo amp built into the left speaker and feature a kevlar coned driver and...
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I've often used telnet to connect to random ports to make sure a service is working (eg: telnet somehost.example.com smtp to see if it's accepting connections on port 25) but have been stuck with a suitable alternative to test connections...
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Quick one-liner for bash: for user in `ls /Users/`; do if [ $user == "Shared" ]; then continue; fi; echo $user; done
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    The Dark Side of the Loom | Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
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Based on a true legend of the famous unsolved code. The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters' secrets. Eight are fairly easy requiring only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods....
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Check out Chris' Greek Sky photos - including a selection of his Favorites. There's some beautiful imagery there, including a great 24-hour photo, the winter solstice and plenty of star trails.
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If all goes well, this quick post will be automatically sent through to Twitter…
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Can't find that awesome comic strip you remember from Calvin and Hobbes? It's now just a search away. Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine. It seems to index the individual comic strips pretty well, however some of the best images either...
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