Unclutter Google Reader by Analyzing Your Trends [Google Reader] (8)
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Weblog My Mind Leaks posts a detailed guide to uncluttering your Google Reader feeds by using Google Reader Trends to prune items you don't need or read. The author walks through his own feeds, analyzing which feeds he reads, which he doesn't, and which deliver too much content for him to keep up with. We actually suggested that Google Reader Trends could be a great way to prune your RSS feeds when the feature first ...
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Garrett said:
My god, I get so much good content from this site. When I started someone up on Reader recently the first feed I suggested was Lifehacker.
Dealzmodo: Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 For Students Only $60 [Deals] (4)
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Student editions of Microsoft Office have always been cheap—price it too high and all but the most Boy Scoutish of college kids will pirate it—but now their $60 Ultimate version has PowerPoint and Access tacked on. The pack comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Groove and InfoPath, but most college students we know only really use Word, Excel and PowerPoint with a little Outlook thrown in if they haven't discovered any other ...
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Garrett said:
Sweet deal for your home machine.
The Trouble with Entertainment Weekly's List of "Best SF Since 1983" [Top Sf Of The Last 25 Years] (2)
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How much truly great science fiction has been created in the last 25 years? Entertainment Weekly think that they know, and have compiled a list of "The Genre's Best Since 1983" to prove it, ranking the top 25 SF movies and TV shows (because, really: books, comics or games? Not entertaining enough, apparently) and proving that, just because you work for an internationally-distributed pop-culture magazine doesn't mean that you can count. Call me pedantic, but ...
Apple's next-gen iPods just around the corner, full of rainbows? (2)
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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Sure, you could dismiss this round of iPod rumors -- so carefully culled by the fine folks at 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider -- as baseless speculation, but we'll have none of your dowdy skepticism. We're talking about rainbows here, people. AppleInsider claims that retailers are seeing current iPod models being switched to "discontinued" in inventory systems, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says to expect iPod refreshes across ...
Red Alert 3 cast not likely to be taken seriously (3)
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Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Strategy The thing about camp, i.e. the utter failure of seriousness, is that it's often difficult to judge whether it's intentional or not. The live-action cutscenes populating EA's (and Westwood's before that) Command & Conquer games have always had an aura of sincere goofiness about them, the source of which can be traced to somewhat respected actors playing all-too-silly roles all too seriously. But is this done on purpose, ...
Galactica's Final Season Won't All Be On TV [Battlestar Galactica] (10)
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When Battlestar Galactica makes its long-awaited comeback next year, it won't just be our television screens that it's returning to. In a recent interview, executive producer David Eick revealed that fans can expect more The Resistance-style minisodes, as well. Talking to Newsarama, Eick admitted that webisodes are definitely part of the plan for Battlestar's final season: Yes, we are doing webisodes but when they are premiering I am not positive. Like the webisodes we have ...
Real Sim City Comes to Life in the Desert [Architecture] (5)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Yesterday's images of the almost-finished Burj Dubai blew our minds with its scale and grandiosity. Today, reader David Hobcote zooms out his Canon 1Ds Mark III on board a Bell heli to show us the current state of some of Dubai's new landmarks, including the stunning New Atlantis Hotel and the first house constructed on one of The World's artificial islands. Yes, it looks ...
Muwi Concept Lawnmower Turns Waste Grass into Playthings [Mower] (11)
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The electric-sheep lawnmower may have tickled your fancy, but this Muwi concept mower from designer Yuli Sung will have you scratching your head. The concept's roughly the same as the sheep: It automatically assesses the grassy areas, and then cuts the lawn without supervision required. Cunningly, it grabs the grass cuttings inside where they won't lie around setting off people's hay-fever. But then it does something strange... it compacts the cuttings into toys. Scratching yet? ...
Cases: Speck SeeThru iPhone 3G Hard Case is its Own Movie-Viewing Stand (3)
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Speck's See Thru Hard Shell case for the iPhone 3G is one of the few cases I've seen that makes me go "Oh, interesting" instead of "bah, nonsense." Firstly because it's simple, just snapping in two polycarbonate parts around the sides and rear of the phone, with rubberized grips so it doesn't slip out of your mitts. Secondly, when you've snapped it in two, one half remains snugly on the phone while the other half ...
If it takes 1000 Microsoft engineers to code Windows 7, how many are required to change a lightbulb? (9)
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˙pɹɐpuɐʇs ʎɹʇsnpuı uɐ sɐ ssǝuʞɹɐp ǝuıɟǝp ʇsnɾ ʎǝɥʇ ˙ǝuou All smartass-ery aside, we're pleased to see Microsoft's attempt to more fully engage the development community as it marches towards a 2010 release of Windows 7. The 1,000-strong engineering team is comprised of 25 different feature teams each made up of about 40 persons on average. The whole dry but peculiarly intriguing setup is fully detailed on Microsoft's new E7, corporate transparency blog sitting just beyond ...
iPhone Copy and Paste Between Applications Is Here, But Not from Apple [Apple] (17)
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At last, iPhone copy and paste between applications. However, it doesn't come from Apple is here, but from MagicPad developer Zac White. Cali Lewis, the ever-smiling presenter at GeekBrief, got the scoop on his new OpenClip open-source framework, which will enable any developer to implement copy and paste between applications without violating Apple's developer agreement. OpenClip, which is non-profit and fully open source, doesn't use any background processing. Applications that use the framework will be ...
Firefly Series Comes to Blu-ray November 11 [Blu-Ray] (13)
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Firefly might have been the best thing Joss Whedon has ever done in our opinion, but it's also one of the shortest things he's ever done. In just 14 episodes, the space western was able to surpass both Buffy and Angel (and all of his smaller creations) in our minds as his work, which is why we cannot wait to get this thing on Blu-ray. If you're rating this box set on an purely dollar-to-hour ...
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grend said:
Holy Book, that's expensive. Looks like I'll wait... and wait... and wait...
