What if the iPhone looked like this?

I'd spend thousands on one of these.

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How to Fake Fingerprints

Simple instructions on how copy and fake fingerprints.

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How to recharge regular alkaline batteries

"Afroman's guide", he recharged a normal 9 volt battery with a few tricks.

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Beautiful Windows Vista Wallpaper - a photoset on Flickr

Vista enthusiast (and Digg user) Brajeshwar Oinam has put together some beautiful, high-resolution Vista-themed wallpapers for us all. Technically, these would work well for pretty much any screen, Vista or otherwise; and I have to say that the details on some of these are truly stunning.

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Wii Browser "Hack" with Perl nph-proxy. See what Digg is like on the Wii.

The other methods have used php proxy; this is my hacked version of Nph-proxy(perl). nph-proxy has javascript dropping features that keep the browser from following absolute paths and error-ing out like the php proxy. This is not the first video of this but its the first one using perl.

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PSP Firmware 3.00 - 3.01 New Features (Video)

This video shows off all of the bells and whistles included in PSP Firmware update 3.00 - 3.01. This includes a music visualizer, UMD Auto Start option, functionality for the PSP Camera, a PS3 remote communicator, and more.

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Truly amazing video of PS3's features

Apple is no longer the slickest computer in town. We have become accustomed to Apple leading the beauty contest, but that is about to end with the PS3, IMHO. Check out this video to see what the PS3 can do as a general computer. And you can install Yellow Dog Linux on it, and maybe even Windows for all I know.

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Fujitsu’s 4-way Slider Phone

T3 gives us a first look at Fujitsu
’s 4-way slider phone concept, which features “a virtual keypad allowing it to display a pad appropriate to whichever way the keypad slides out: left, right, up or down.”

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Zune Hacked - Share songs without DRM

Title says it all.

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HOW TO - Copy data off a Microsoft Zune (use as a hard drive) & Zune Hacks!

If you have a Zune, or know someone who does, you're likely disappointed that it's pretty much the only music player that doesn't let you access the hard drive on it, all 30 GB are hidden because it's "confusing" and we're all "pirates" - but Dan seems to have figured out a way around, here's how -- along with using with Vista and other Zune hacks.

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How To Login From an Internet Cafe Without Worrying About Keyloggers

"We tested five shareware or commercial keylogging programs: HomeKeylogger 1.70, GhostKeylogger, KG-BKeylogger, Spytector 1.2.8 and ProBot. None of them captured passwords entered using the trick we describe."

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Video: Folding Laptop

Taking the Origami principle to heart, Fujitsu reckon they
’ve got the ultimate UMPC licked, with this swish design for a laptop which literally folds in half to fit your pocket. Here's what it looks like in action!

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Invisible Refrigerator = ZOMG!

Need I say more...

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MIT's smart flying drones

MIT researchers have developed a multiple-UAV test platform which can be operated by anyone with a high-speed Internet connection. And these small and inexpensive helicopters could soon stay in the air for a week, automatically coming back to their base and landing to recharge their batteries.

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Zune Hack: add 40/60/80GB HDD

iPodmods shows you how to crack open Microsoft's new Zune and add a 40/60/80 GB drive (it ships with a 30gb drive) - only the 40gb one fits back in the case... [via] - Link.

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Why RAR archives do not belong in torrents

This essay aims to explain why it is a good idea to extract your RAR archives before creating a torrent.

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Cool Free CSS Tab Designer

A software that generates cool looking Cross Browser CSS Tabs

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5 Reasons To Take Naps

Thomas Edison, Napoleon Bonaparte, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, and Presidents Kennedy and Reagan had something in common? In fact, each of them enjoyed a regular nap.

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Real time graphic equaliser made from FIRE!

This is insane, this guy has created a device that shows a visualisation of music via fire. Looks pretty easy to make too. Be sure to watch it until the end - he plays music through the thing.

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Pirated Vista May be Useless

Microsoft says supposedly pirated copies of its new Vista computer operating system "will be of limited value" to those who use them.

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The unofficial eight-core Apple Mac Pro

"CNET Labs might be ahead of Apple's product release cycle, and we likely violated our Mac Pro's warranty, but we just had to see what the Apple Mac Pro could do when populated with a pair of Intel's brand-new, quad-core Xeon 5355 processors."

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The MAKE Open Source MP3 Player

MAKE is contributing a few posts to the Holiday Gadget Guide for FM, we thought we'd be different and show kits and things you can build yourself... The first, is our MP3 player - Wouldn't it be great to actually own your music player? Like really own it? Building it from the ground up and being able to always improve it?

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Completely mod Ubuntu to look like OS X

An excellent guide on modding Ubuntu to completely look like Mac OS X. Dock, icons, fonts and all! By the designer of the Orange Look theme.

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Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta Announced!

Players from around the world will be able to take part in an open beta of the game's multiplayer mode, helping to iron out any bugs in the network code, while at the same time getting a glorious taste of what's sure to be 2007's hottest multiplayer action. In addition, Xbox 360 owners will be able to download exclusive content for Halo 2, the game

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OBEY UBUNTU! Posters, print your own!

In a similar spirit of the Andre The Giant OBEY! posters, the first Ubuntu OBEY! Poster! :P Free to download, share with others, print, etc.!

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HOW TO - Make a DVD burner into a High-Powered laser

Stephanie has an *awesome* laser project, turn a DVD burner into a high powered laser - "The laser pictured above has a peak output measured at 225 mW (average output 200 mW). It's a visible red at about 650nm. It can light matches, pop balloons, cut electrical tape, and so forth.

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The Pirate Bay has added a TV section.

The Pirate Bay has added a TV section where it lists TV shows.

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CSS-Based Forms, Modern Solutions

Good examples of beautiful functional Web 2.0 forms. I know I'll be including some variation of these in my next website.

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Homemade Laptop Wi-Fi Amplifier

I have always been frustrated with the performance of my laptop Wi-Fi. I tried many solutions to improve the signal from far away routers, but few of these worked. I'll cover a solution that I came up with that finally did yield some results for me.

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Speed up torrents

Comprehensive guide to speed up your bittorents

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PS3 Disassembly Video

The console has just launched in Japan and its already been disassembled. Some people so eager to void their warranty...

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How to: Create an Optical Illusion with any Picture

If you're a fan of optical illusions, you'll love this simple how-to tutorial from the maker of the infamous Spanish castle illusion, John Sadowski. It's amazing that it's so simple to make a really good illusion; all you need is a good photo editor and an interesting picture

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Comparison of different Vista versions.

Microsoft has put together a more compact feature comparison guide that looks at Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate editions. It doesn
’t dive into a deep comparison but it offers a quick overview of the differences.

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Want to see what’s inside of the ps3?

Some one got their hand
’s on the ps3, and the first thing they did was to see what’s inside

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First Impressions of the XBox 360 HD-DVD

If you own an Xbox 360 and are looking for a less expensive way to get an HD-DVD player I'd say definetly pick this up. The inconvenience of having two devices instead of one and the increased noise is far, far outweighed by the low price for what is another wise fine player. Check out the attached video.

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uTorrent add-on for Firefox

Ah, the marriage of two of my favorite programs, uTorrent and Firefox. Over at TorrentFreak they've got an add-on for Firefox that integrates the two, putting uTorrent's WebUI (which you must download separately) in Firefox's sidebar and reporting you download and upload speeds in the status bar.

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...because I got tired of emailing files to myself.

A friend and I created a little Ruby on Rails app called DropBoks. It's free online file storage that's extremely simple to use, straight forward, and not bloated w/ features. Oh, and it's entirely ad free (imagine that). Let me know what you guys think.

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Best Buy High Resolution Black Friday Ads

The old ads were hard to read! This site has high resolution ones!

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Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive

"Believe it or not, it is actually possible to install a bootable copy of Windows XP onto a flash drive and then boot a PC off of the flash drive."

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World's Smallest Satellite Phone

Satellite phones have traditionally been big, bulky monsters that look more like bricks than actual phones. But just like their cellular phone cousins, satellite phones are also getting smaller.

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Every Vista PC to get a domain name?

Microsoft has built a Dynamic DNS type system into Vista, making it easy to connect to your PC from anywhere in the world without having to know its IP address!!

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The LSI Guide To Lockpicking

"Locksport International is proud to provide a simple, visual guide to lock picking. It is our hope that beginners will find this useful in learning the basic skills of picking pin tumbler locks."

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Monitor your web addiction in Firefox

PageAddict is a Firefox extension that gives you a summary of how much time you've spent visiting different sites.

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Awesome new Samsung laptop redefines portable computer

Think your cute little MacBook is a small computer? Please. That thing is a regular behemoth compared to Samsung's new SPH-P9000,

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Tutorial: All You Ever Wanted to Know About PW Cracking and Rainbow Tables

Security mentor, Chris Gates, completely rewrote his popular article on cracking Windows PWs. Starting with the basics and continuing all the way through the process of exactly how to do it, this impressive article has to be one of the definitive works on password cracking. Very well done.

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A glimpse at next-gen cooling...

"IBM's Zurich Research Lab has announced a technology that it says imitates nature and increases the cooling properties of otherwise regular heatsinks by an impressive twofold..."

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BestBuy Black Friday Ad Posted

The BestBuy Black Friday ad just leaked out! Some of the bigger deals are a HP Core Solo 15.4" Notebook for $379.99 and a Westinghouse 32" LCD HDTV for $479.99.

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Video: Make Your Own Ethernet Cable

Quick video tutorial on how to create your own ethernet cable. Beats paying 10x as much for prefab ones.

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Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2006

Time Magazine has released a list of what it considers to be the best inventions of 2006. YouTube is the number one invention, but they also list many winners in other categories, like cars, food, and health. For all the geeks out here, there's a Tech Toys category. (The talking head has to be my favorite.)

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8 killer Windows Media Center plug-ins

Just as extensions make Firefox better, so do plug-ins add extra goodness to Windows Media Center Edition (MCE). With these eight plugs-ins, most of which are free, you can trick out your MCE PC like never before.

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Don't Want to Get Sued by the RIAA? Just Disable Wi-Fi Security!

Tammie Marson of Palm Desert, California responded to a lawsuit from the RIAA by stating that her wireless router was not secure, and that therefore the file sharing seen on her network could have been from any passerby. The defense worked, and the RIAA dropped the case.

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Every Digg Tool Known To Man. A Bit Overboard, Even!

There are literally dozens of tools to customize digg on here. Almost to the point of insanity.

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Top 5 must-have php tools

has a list of top 5 tools and and updated list of some other good tools. A good read!

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ULTIMATE Online File Converter- 200 File Types- 100MB- FREE

Every major file format: Document formats, Image formats, Music formats, Video formats,
Fast and High Quality - Stored for 24 Hours

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How to Fix a Dead Pixel on an LCD Monitor

If your LCD screen has a stuck or dead pixel , it's usually malfunctioning because the liquid in the liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) has not covered the whole screen. This can often be fixed.

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ULTIMATE Online File Converter- 200 File Types- 100MB- FREE

Every major file format: Document formats, Image formats, Music formats, Video formats,
Fast and High Quality - Stored for 24 Hours

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10 Coolest Lego Creations

From a LEGO vending machine to a LEGO USB drive

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Microsoft Zune player and software hands-on gallery (w/ pics) - Engadget

The player was responsive and fast; all functions worked flawlessly and without delay. The software and storefront has a lot of new, unique features that make browsing and finding music a more engrossing, enjoyable experience.

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How to: Make a Ringtone From any MP3

Google up "ringtones" and you'll get tons of sites that will charge you a few bucks per tone. Pshaw! With some free software and a few minutes, you can make as many custom ringtones as your heart desires out of any MP3 in your music collection without paying a dime. Here's how.

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Available for Preorder

"The 360 HD DVD player may not be available just yet, but you can get some breathing room on everyone else this Xmas by pre-ordering yours today." Nice looking drive.

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Zune.net is UP

Microsoft's official Zune site is finally up.

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Project: Mac mini Cube

"There are mods, and then there are really nice mods. I think Anthony's Mac mini Cube might just be the best Mac mini-based mod you will ever see."

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Installing Windows on a Mac is now Easier than Installing Windows on a PC!

"As of today, its now easier to install Windows on a Mac than it is to install Windows on a PC! That's due to the inclusion of our new Installation Assistant into today's build of Parallels Desktop for Mac."

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Mac Mini Portable with Touch Screen

This thing is smaller than a MacBook or anything else made by Apple! It's got a 3 hour battery life and has it's own stand. Oh, and it has a touch-screen. Made by Peter Green (http://www.petergreen.org)

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Napster launches 'free download of the day'

Online music service Napster is giving away MP3s again--sort of. Starting yesterday, music fans can download a free (and legal) MP3 every day.

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InstallPad: Automatically download and install your favorite software

So many software downloads, so little time. Who likes to download, launch and click through that installation wizard application after application? No one, that's who - especially when you've got a computer to get set up and running quick.

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Motorola Prepping Linux-based RAZR Smartphone

MobileCrunch has posted some presentation photos of what appears to be Motorola
’s new RAZR PDA. We know that Moto has a Linux-based ROKR ready to go, so it’s likely that the RAZR in this shot will sport some Linuxy goodness.

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How the MPAA knows where movies are pirated

The MPAA seem to know where a camcorder movie was pirated. That's how they came up with the New York city stats. But how do they do it?

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