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links for 2008-09-22

  • After very successful post of “Best of FREE Web Template”, Here posting another great collection of Free CSS Templates, Most of them are Web 2.0 Styled, XHTML Validated Templates with source file.
  • Our Hive Five feature series answers the most frequently asked question we hear at Lifehacker: "What's the best tool for the job?" In the past six months, we've covered the five best tools in a number of categories, from best instant messengers and DVD-ripping tools to anti-virus applications and BitTorrent clients. Each week, we ask our savvy readers to vote for the one tool they like best out of the top five; the winner represents the best of the best. Keep reading for a look back at the winners from each Hive Five. We've tackled a whopping 26 Hive Five categories since the series' inception, and I'm just going to tackle them all from oldest to newest. Without further ado, here they are.
  • Last August we featured a post with more than 230 online apps for running your business. Since there are hundreds of new apps coming on the market every year, we figured it was time for an update. This year we came up with more than 270 additional apps. Some are completely new since last year, others might have been overlooked, and still others made significant improvements that gained them a spot on the list.
  • A number of readers chimed in on the Best Buy-branded wishlist browser add-on post with the alternatives they prefer instead. They were: 1) Amazon's Universal Wishlist, 2) Del.icio.us, 3) Wishlist.com, 4) Wishlistr.com. Got any others? As far as what most Consumerist's thought of the Best Buy add-on, commenter dragonfire81 probably captured it best…
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    links for 2008-09-20

  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars Watch online videos and play a free game from the Clone Wars TV show. Anakin, Ahsoka and the Jedi Knights lead the Clone army of the Republic against General Grievous and the evil forces of the Separatists. The Star Wars saga continues with the new animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network. Get More STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS at StarWars.com PRIVACY POLICY | Trademark Information | Terms Of Use | Parent Guide | TV Parental Controls | Contact Us | Advertise With Us | International Sites Use of this site signifies your agreement to the Terms of Use. TM & © 2008 Cartoon Network. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. CartoonNetwork.com is a part of the Turner Entertainment New Media Network.
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    links for 2008-09-19

  • We all know that quote – Forrest Gump, right? Wrong! Forrest never actually said that. He got close, and his mom got close, but that exact quote was never said. There are so many famous misquotations, I’m making this a two-parter: misquotations from fictional characters and misquotations from real-life events. Today will be the fictional version, because I can’t imagine you guys would be too happy with me if I told you that Forrest Gump quote was wrong and then didn’t bother to tell you what it really is until tomorrow.
  • World Famous Guitarist Reveals How To Play Songs on the Guitar Better Than Hendrix, Van Halen, Slash and Santana Without Spending Gruelling Hours on the Axe… Completely FREE!
  • MenuMatic is a MooTools 1.2 class that takes a sematic ordered or unordered list of links and turns it into a dynamic drop down menu system. For users without javascript, it falls back on a CSS menu system based on Matthew Carroll's keyboard accessible flavor of Suckerfish Dropdowns by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb.
  • A collection of jokes, quotes, puns, anecdotes, and anything silly inspired by the lexicon of typography.
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  • Kids grow up quickly; so I’m always looking for new ways to celebrate these fleeting days while my little ones are still small. Recently, I came up with a fun project that captures a moment in a child’s life, and creates a unique fashion statement. Here’s how to make a customized silhouette T-shirt that features your precious tots.
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    links for 2008-09-18

  • According to Wired, hacking VP-hopeful Sarah Palin's email account was easy: all the hacker needed was Palin's birthdate, ZIP code, and the name of her high school—all of which are no more than a Google search away. In fact, password security questions may have always been the weakest link in email security, since anyone with an acquaintance's knowledge or access to the internet can divine answers to most of your security questions within minutes. So how can you make sure your email account is secure? Obscure the Answers to Your Security Questions Password retrieval tools are there for a good reason, and most of them aren't going anywhere. You can do your best to choose the most obscure questions when you're signing up for a new account, but you still can't guarantee that that information is outside of the reach of anyone.
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  • The Giftag browser plugin lets you clip things and save them to lists from almost anywhere on the web.
  • The number of internet marketing tools launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. SEO, which was once considered a bit of a seedy niche, has grown with search to become a mainstream marketing practice, with… 1. Google providing Webmaster Central, a blog for webmasters, & many of the best free SEO tools 2. Yahoo! offering a paid inclusion service & a webmaster focused tool by the name of Site Explorer 3. Microsoft offering SEO services This article aims to highlight the best search engine marketing tools.
  • Digital art is becoming hyper realistic, not just in duplicating real scenes life but also in painting vivid pictures of what fantasy worlds would look like. Feature films and the exploding world of video games are beginning to show what talent, creativity and hard work can produce with CG… Expect even more mind blowing creations to be reaching you on the big screen and in your consoles soon. I love showcasing the work of creative people and the work below caught my eye as I was browsing the community over at CG Hub. As a COLOURlover, I especially appreciate how the use of color can dramatically affect the mood or energy of art…
  • After years of searching, astronomers may finally have recorded the first image of a planet orbiting a sunlike star beyond the solar system. The body, about eight times Jupiter’s mass, lies exceptionally far from its presumed parent star — roughly 11 times Neptune’s average distance from the sun. “If this object is a planet at such a wide separation it would challenge our conceptions of planet and companion formation,” says theorist Adam Burrows of Princeton University.
  • Most of us probably got our Internet connection somewhere 10 years back. It was also around that time we seen the sudden boom on Internet, thanks to Marc Andreessen and Netscape Communicator. Now that we are almost at the end of 2008, we thought it’s pretty interesting to look back at how some of the trend setters and the most trafficked websites were like 10 years back. Here are some of the top-tier brands of the tech industries and their websites have stayed on the Internet for more than a decade. Let’s take a look at how these websites look like 10 years ago, comparing with that it is now. Full list after jump.
  • Back in 1996 the Web was starting to gain some serious momentum, but it was still just a few years old. Now in 2008, looking 12 years back into the past of the Web can be a both nostalgic and entertaining experience. To give you some perspective, in 1996…
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    links for 2008-09-16

  • EWAN MCGREGOR was left utterly dumbfounded when he turned up at the world's leading STAR WARS destination in a T-shirt bearing his name – and no one bothered him. The Scottish actor, who played Obi Wan-Kenobi in the three Star Wars prequels, feared he'd be mobbed when he visited a tourist attraction in Tunisia, where George Lucas filmed a pivotal scene in the first Star Wars movie, during his 2007 Long Way Down motorbike trek. But, even though he was wearing a T-shirt with his name on the back, sci-fi devotees refused to believe McGregor would just show up on a bike – and left him alone. He tells Best Life magazine, "We went to the location used in the original Star Wars, where we meet Luke Skywalker and he buys R2-D2 and C-3PO and does them up in the oil bath. It has been preserved as a tourist attraction. "Now, who goes to an out-of-the-way place like that but a hardcore Star Wars fan? Anyway, we (MCGregor and fellow Long Way Down adventurer Charley Boorman)
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    links for 2008-09-15

  • After a quote from Pixelux Entertainment (developer of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed) COO Vik Sohal that seemed to indicate that a PC version of Force Unleashed was on the way, Lucas Arts quickly tightened up the communication ranks and denied the rumor unequivocably. Unleashed 360/PS3 Producer, Cameron Suey, explained the decision saying, "someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn't be the same game".
  • Exploring the dark side of the Force in the highly anticipated action game
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    links for 2008-09-14

  • In this post I want to illustrate some tips which can help you to improve your Blogger template to design a professional layout for your blog.
  • Speed.io is a modern DSL speedtest to analyze your broadband internet access. You find that your internet connection is too slow or you are just curious how fast you are – speed.io is a perfect tool for a fast speed check – worldwide. speed.io measures your current internet speed to the nearest server (we have almost 50.000 server worldwide). We test your download (speed with which you receive data from internet), upload (speed with which you send data to the internet), connection test (maximal number of connections per minute) as well as ping (response time between your computer and the internet). All test are performed within your browser over HTTP (TCP) and requires no further software than a newer browser with activated Flash.
  • With each new release of Windows Internet Explorer, support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard has steadily improved. Internet Explorer 6 was the first fully CSS Level 1-compliant version of Internet Explorer. Windows Internet Explorer 8 is planned to be a fully CSS Level 2.1-compliant browser, and will support some features of CSS 3. If your Web site targets browsers that include earlier versions of Internet Explorer, you want to know the level of CSS compliance for those versions. This article provides an at-a-glance look at CSS compliance across recent versions of Internet Explorer, including support in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 and planned support in the final version of Internet Explorer 8. This article's organization is loosely based on that of the CSS reference documentation on MSDN. It contains the following sections:
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    links for 2008-09-12

  • Select from the E-Mail Client Application videos below for a demonstration on how to use different E-Mail Clients to send and receive your e-mail. All materials, including audio and video, are provided for informational purposes only. The information may contain items that are not accurate, updated or applicable to the reader and may in some instances contain inaccuracies or omissions of information. Please contact Network Solutions with any questions regarding the material. Some information may be provided by third parties, that are not under the control of Network Solutions. Network Solutions is not liable for any information provided or any actions taken in regards to the information. All trademarks, service marks and logos used in the instructional videos are registered and unregistered trademarks of Network Solutions LLC or their respective owners.
  • Free blogger templates for your blogspot blog…
  • Star Wars layouts for your Blogger profile!
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    links for 2008-09-11

  • The folks at CERN have successfully tested the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). They are now ready to move forward on the tests for which the LHC was built. The LHC has had a great deal of press of late – some positive, some negative. We’ve posted about it several times here on Neatorama.com. The YouTube video above, apparently created by CERN employee Chris Mann, does a great job explaining what the LHC is all about. It followed hydrogen gas from a tank that is released into the system all the way to a collision between super-high-energy protons colliding at near light speed. If you’re remotely interested in the LHC, consider this a “must-see” video.
  • ChristianWebsite.com was founded in 1995 by Jeff White. Originally, the site was called Best of the Christian Web and was simply a list of the best Christian websites. At that time there were less than 200,000 websites in existence. Today there are well over 100,000,000 websites! As the site increased in popularity more features were added and the small listing of sites evolved into one of the largest Christian directories with over 80,000 websites.
  • There are currently two webcams online * Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side. * Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room.
  • Here are some things I’ve discovered while creating website mockups in Photoshop. They’re not gospel, just things that you may find helpful:
  • Take a look at this short compilation which includes a Facebook-style lightbox; a nice interface library to develope advanced interfaces for web applications, web sites and widgets; a gallery/slideshow system which simulate Flash animation; an image slider to create Flickr-like slideshow; an advanced image gallery to design Apple-like images galleries; an ajax based slider and a ligtbox.
  • Network Solutions started out in 1979 as a technology consulting company with a focus on applications development.
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  • Shaving is a low-tech form of card theft where thieves sort through sets of 16-digit numbers to find one that matches an existing card, and then verifying that number either by trying to make a purchase online or by phone. The scammers can also buy a list of valid credit card numbers from black market sites online. Once they have their hands on a valid account number, they then create a new card with those numbers by shaving the numbers off of gift cards or expired credit cards and gluing them onto a defunct or stolen card. The magnetic strip is gouged with a knife or pen so that a store clerk has to manually enter the account number on a keypad, and the charge goes through. If they're successful, months can pass before a cardholder discovers the fraud. After all, if your wallet hasn't been stolen and you haven't misplaced a card, you may be puzzled to discover that your card has been compromised even though it's safely tucked away the entire time.
  • For testosterone-driven sci-fi devotees in their 30s and early 40s, the universe changed about 15 minutes into 1983's Return of the Jedi. Until then, the Star Wars galaxy and, in most cases, our own lives, were blissful, asexual realms of brave adventures and weapon-wielding heroes threatened only by their assigned villains and (if we weren't careful) "cooties"/"girl germs." Sure, Han Solo smooched Princess Leia a little inside that giant slug, but that's what heroes are supposed to do when there are no Sith Lords handy to battle. Captain Kirk did the same thing with alien chicks to fight boredom when there were no Klingons to phaser. But it was nothing we wanted to do. Then, there was Jedi. Tattooine. Jabba the Hutt and his dark, foreboding palace. Lando in hiding. Chewbacca brought in as a prisoner by Princess Leia in disguise. She managed to free Han from the carbonite, but (of course) she was captured.
  • There are thousands of Photoshop tutorials out there, but few that are top-notch in terms of instructions, presentation – and of course – outcome. In this post, you’ll find 30 beautiful, high-quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials from top tutorial sites and designers like PSDTUTS, PSHERO, and Abduzeedo.
  • Is it a good idea to cancel a credit card you are paying off instead of waiting until you pay it off entirely?
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    links for 2008-09-09

  • Cheat sheets (also known as reference cards, reference sheets, etc.) not only helps you remember things quickly, but can also serve as wall decoration for your workspace. In this post, you’ll find 28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet. If you’re looking for front-end web developer cheat sheets (more CSS, HTML, and JavaScript) check out Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers.
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