I had to set up a couple of new Sony VAIO laptops for a client recently, and I was amazed at the difference in the Out of Box Experience between a premium PC manufacturer and Apple. No, there's nothing technical...
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Using a 27-inch iMac as an external display
If you want a glorious desktop with two large monitors, it may make sense for you to use two 27" iMacs, with one configured in Target Display Mode. With Target Display mode, you can use your 27-inch iMac with Mac...
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Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers – Navy sea lions – io9
And I, for one, welcome our new aquatic mammalian overlords... Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers - Navy sea lions - io9.
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Google Wave Invites…
Email me if you want a Google Wave invite. No, I've still got no idea what on earth Wave is all about (or //ave as Google spell it) but maybe if I invite you, you can tell me...
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Dr. Grordbort’s Rayguns from Weta
Dr. Grordbort has made some beautiful rayguns in the past - hand made at Weta in Kiwiland, very desirable and quite expensive. They're now making some rayguns for the rest of us. They still have the same rad retro styling,...
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Everything You Wanted To Know About The PS3’s iView | Gizmodo Australia
Looks like the v1.0 implementation of ABC's iView for the PS3 isn't fantastic, but improvements are already in the pipeline. Everything You Wanted To Know About The PS3’s iView | Gizmodo Australia. Great. Something else for me to burn through...
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Does Snow Leopard Server have Greylisting enabled by default?
In trying to diagnose an issue with delayed receiving of emails on a fresh install of Snow Leopard Server, I noticed some error messages in the logs that looked suspiciously like greylisting. I was already familiar with greylisting having had...
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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal
This guy has an obsession with finding a 3D version of the Mandlebrot fractal. He's given himself some very strict parameters that the resultant equation must exhibit, and the results that he's worked on so far are simply stunning. Mandelbulb:...
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Rupert Murdoch vs Google.
I've been following the story that's appeared recently where Murdoch is saying that he will effectively use robots.txt to stop Google from crawling any of his paid content. Like many others, when I first read about it I thought that...
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Adobe Labs – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
I've been using Aperture for a number of years now - it was relatively easy to get into it as it's vaguely similar to iPhoto in a lot of ways. I've been hearing lots of good things about Lightroom though...
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