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Former used car salesman Alan Slone grows a conscience and reveals one of the major strategies dealership use to screw you when buying a new car. At the heart of it all is the "4-square." This is supposed to help you and the dealership come to an agreement, but as you'll see, it's really more akin to three-card monte dealer's deck of cards.
posted by JC @ 12:25 PM
Want to make your PC more productive, secure, informative, and entertaining? These downloads and services will do the trick--and they don't cost a dime.
posted by JC @ 11:46 AM
WiPeer sets up wireless peer-to-peer networks between PCs, no router, access point or internet required.
posted by JC @ 11:34 AM
After over 20 hours of fast and furious action, the AppleTV has yielded to the ninja's weapons. A great writeup by a dedicated d00d puts together
posted by JC @ 1:25 PM
"[They] have uploaded the first of [their] many new tutorials. [They] thought [they would] start off with the most talked about one - the Hitachi 078fk firmware update.
posted by JC @ 4:17 PM
It matches colors that fit well together. This is really helpful when designing anything. You can pick a color that you want to use, then it will give you colors that go good with it.
posted by JC @ 3:49 PM
Quicksilver is bar-none the best productivity application on the market today. Whether we're talking Mac, Windows, or Linux, freeware or shareware, this Mac-only, freeware application launcher-and-then-some is the best productivity booster I have on my computer. Today I'm going to introduce you to the basics of Quicksilver
posted by JC @ 3:29 PM
This site contains PDF documents that can be printed and cut out to make lens hoods for a variety of 35mm and digital SLR camera lenses. Lens hoods give better quality photographs by reducing flare caused by nonimageforming light.
posted by JC @ 10:38 PM
Seriously, 40 GB is smaller than our iPod and we don't like to have to pick and choose what to sync. While there is little doubt that this will void our warranty, it is worth it isn't it? We decided to double the size of the HDD from 40 GB to 80 GB. Step by step guide and pics inside.
posted by JC @ 4:16 PM
For those of you who have always wanted to play import, unlicensed or homebrew games on your classic NES, this is the tutorial for you.
posted by JC @ 11:56 AM
DVD::Rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools. Could you call this the real "Gordian Knot" for linux?
posted by JC @ 11:53 AM
This time everything was done in photoshop and it's easier than you can imagine.......
posted by JC @ 3:52 PM
First of all, we're going to need somewhere to keep our data. For the tools we'll be using, we'll need a server that we can access via secure shell (ssh) from anywhere on the net. If you only want to backup your stuff at home, that's fine.
posted by JC @ 3:40 PM
Secretive inventor with more patents that Edison. Spent 13 years developing the technology. Today released videos that have stunned the printer industry. Analysts have confirmed prototypes are real. Ultra-high speed $150 photo printer technology available 2007. Also promises color printers built into mobile phones, digicams, and handheld games...
posted by JC @ 1:24 AM
Amazing tool for drawing great arabesque art simply and intuitively. Just give it a try!
posted by JC @ 1:23 AM
Maybe this is old news to some, but I just saw it for the first time. Apple.com gives a tutorial on using your ipod as a hard disk in order to move your music files from one computer to another. No extra software needed.
posted by JC @ 7:13 PM
An almost sure-fire way to get over a sore throat. Seems to actually work and lots of people have great things to say about it. This site is just one recent example and includes a recipe, but the site it links to has many more positive reviews.
posted by JC @ 3:33 PM
One of the drawbacks of switching from Windows to Mac is the smaller selection of free software available for OS X. Sure there's tons of fantastic Mac software out there, but most of it isn't free -unless you know where to look, that is. This week's Top 10 highlights our favorite free Mac software, available right now for your installation pleasure
posted by JC @ 1:58 PM
If the thought of spinning hard drive platters in your notebooks makes you queasy, SanDisk is offering a 2.5-inch flash hard drive drop-in replacement.
posted by JC @ 1:51 AM
Lowendmac list a few applications and gives advice on how to keeping your mac running super fast.
posted by JC @ 12:30 AM
Finally, a crack that activates Vista! There's been many cracks for Vista which were in the form of TimeStoppers. But this one does the trick. Activates vista without any hassle. Credit to Paradox and CLONY!
posted by JC @ 12:23 AM
It’s not easy to escape a two-year cellphone contract. But it can be done by turning to the innovators on the Internet.
posted by JC @ 12:43 AM
This is a handy little site that helps you find cable or over-the-air channel information.
posted by JC @ 12:55 PM
Calling all Peeping Toms and pedophiles: you can sometimes browse into very close detail on Google Maps--read on...
posted by JC @ 11:53 PM
