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The aim of the challenge is to give designers, illustrators and photographers the chance to show the world their abilities by the creation of a stunning tribute to the iconic HUGO Man bottle ... and win $500 See the full story...
April 27th is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - Kids ca n celebrate by taking photos with a camera they've created from common household materials this will be great fun!
REMINDER: These great deals from vendor supporters will expire during April and May 2008 See the full story...
Over 800 spams in a single day -- I discover that nearly 200 of them advertise the SAME product, yet send the unweary victim to a different domain. One spammer has thousands of domains... but wait -- they change about every five days! Organized crime on the web is getting a free ride from ICANN by "Domain Tasting" ... here's how it works
Here's a new full screen vector drawing application for kids that will knock you out! Doozla features simple free-hand drawing and color tools, webcam & tablet support, entertaining color-in templates and inspiring background images. Doozla Drawing for Kids!
The financial news of the past few weeks has left many a business owner panicked -- but David Giannett says you can actually use the economic downturn to create a better organization. (Read More)
The folks over at lifehacker.com have put together a list of "free" applications as an alternative to the MacHeist $49 bundle. (Which of course is already a good deal.) See the full story...
Many of us were sad to see Mac|Life quit being MacAddict and dropping the monthly CD of software. For some time, they have had a library on line for all its readers. (Read More)
I have listed several sites with free and open source software. About.Share4VN.com has one of the best. It also has a number of applications that I did not know. See the full story...
As a Mac user, I have long been familiar with disk images. I really didn't know that the Windows world had them. Although I really don't think they work completely the same as they do on the Mac. (Read More)
Probably the least used menu in Mac OS X is the Services menu. (Found under the application menu item.) But there are a lot of features in that menu, some of those may not be useful to you. See the full story...
Smile data visualization software, plotting interface makes easier to plot data by importing files, specifying intermediate computations and access display settings, all in the same interface -- for most people who need to visualize data, particularly engineers and students (Free Student License!) (Read More)
While we are completely satisfied with Snapz Pro, ScreenRecord 2 offers a lot of benefit as an easy-to-use screen capturing tool that records actions on the screen as a Quicktime movie. (Read More)
Once, there was a table-soccer, now we have Master Kick! MUG Members get 20% off ... INDUSTRY ENTERTAINMENT has announced the release of new game MASTER KICK for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. (Read More)
After receiving a set of strange blueprints in the mail, you build an extraordinary food-making contraption and open a restaurant. It's a cool game requiring some pretty demainding thought ... but it also has lots of laughs!
Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.
--Nathan Myhrvold (in "The Microsoft Provocateur" by Auletta New Yorker)
The more urgent the need for a decision, the less apparent becomes the identity of the decision-maker.
--Murphy's Eighteenth Law
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
--Theodore Roosevelt
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