VMware Fusion is a great piece of software from one of the world leaders in virtualisation technology, VMware. There are other alternatives for virtualisation on the Mac platform, Parallels Desktop is a very well known product and they were actually...
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Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing – Windows 7 Team Blog – The Windows Blog
Microsoft have announced the Anytime upgrade pricing for Windows 7. Essentially this allows you to upgrade your currently running copy of Windows 7 to a more capable version, just by entering a new license key. Here in Australia, you will...
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Car scheme out of cash
Who would have thought that there were that many crap cars in the USA? Car scheme out of cash. The Government program to get old clunkers off the road, by offering a trade-in of up to USD4500 for handing in...
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Impossible Pie
This dessert is so easy to make, you can throw it together in about 5 minutes and then in the oven it goes where it makes itself for you. Ingredients4 Eggs120g melted butter or margarine½ Cup plain flour½ Cup sugar1...
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Crypto Flaws
Over on Bruce Schneier's Blog, there's some interesting discussion about some attacks on AES encryption that have recently come to light. It's all highly theoretical at this stage, and the attacks require some very specific initial conditions to be set,...
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The Homewrecker
Spotted over at the Instructables site, the rather appropriately named: The Homewrecker.
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Warning Signs for Tomorrow
An old one, but a good one... Over at Andart, there are some well thought out, and quite humorous, Warning Signs for Tomorrow. They were posted some time ago, October 2006, and worth dredging up from the archives. There are...
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VLC 1.0.1
The VLC Media Player has just been updated to 1.0.1 VLC is an outstanding project, providing a free and open source media player for Mac, Windows and Linux that will handle just about every video format that you could throw...
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Kai’s Home-made Pesto Recipe
Take 1 bunch of Basil and pick off the leaves, leaving all the stems behind. Rinse the leaves well and pat dry with a tea towel. Gently roast a small handfull of pine nuts in butter or margarine over a...
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Samsung SNE-50K e-book reader announced – SlashGear
eBooks are getting closer and closer to being completely usable. No longer the size of a (rather thin) trade paperback, this one is more the size of a regular paperback. Sure, the screen isn't as big as a Kindle, but...
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