Windows 7 - The old girlfriend

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1414209&cid=29835259

I get the impression that the Windows 7 launch is a lot like seeing an old girlfriend suddenly show up on your doorstep wanting to get back together. She's had some work done, apparently: stomach stapling to take off some of the weight, breast augmentation, and a radical nosejob to make her look as much like your current girlfriend as medical science will allow.

She's pretty, of course, almost too pretty. She still wears far too much makeup and carries that desperate look in her eyes. The fragrant haze around her is the perfume she overuses to mask the scent of failure.

But standing there in that low-cut top, you'd almost forget for a moment what a psycho she was- how she used to shut down in the middle of a date and forget everything you were talking about and how she was only happy when you were buying her things. You'd almost forget about carrying around her legacy baggage or those nights when, for seemingly no reason at all, she would simply stop speaking to you and when you asked what was wrong she'd just spit a string of hex code at you and expect you to figure it out.

You complained about her for years before finally deciding to get rid of her, and here she is again. Though, somehow she seems like a completely different person now.
"I'm up here," she says when she catches you staring at her chest.
Tempted though you may be, you know that over time she'll get bored and slow down on you just like she always does. And then you'll be right back where you started: trapped. She keeps you by convincing you that you don't have a choice. You're just not smart enough for one option or rich enough to afford the other.
"But I'm different now," she says, batting her eyes innocently. "I've changed."
Indeed she has. Apparently, she's really into Cabala now or something like that. It's helped her discover loads of untapped potential in herself. But it also means that you'll have to buy all new furniture to fit with her understanding of feng shui. That's not the only change she has in store for you. The minute you let her move in, she'll have a new alarm system put in that succeeds only in preventing your friends from coming over on poker night.

She doesn't love you, but she doesn't hate you, either. The truth is that she couldn't care less one way or the other. She's here because she doesn't want to be alone. Like all human beings, especially those well past their prime, she wants to feel wanted and, after a string of lost jobs and bad investments, she needs a place to stay.

But all in all, she's OK. She's a seven. She'll do, I guess.

Windows 7 pricing cut - $29.99

http://theappleblog.com/2009/09/18/windows-7-takes-pricing-cue-from-snow-leopard/

They are just biting snow leopard.
Anyways it costs only $29.99 for the upgrade to windows 7..
The price that upgrades should cost.

Updating Twitter and FB at the same time.

Probably common knowledge these days, but was annoying the crap out of me.

UPDATE

Power Naps - http://www.kukuklok.com/

http://www.kukuklok.com/

Simple HTML page that has an alarm clock on the page.
if you have a web enabled phone, this Clock just got so much better. Let me know if it works. I'm curious.

Rant: Songbird sucks for Album Art on IPOD's

I'm disappointed.
I thought that they would have implemented this feature for songbird right away.
I got a shiny new ipod and now stuck with the itune nazzzzi's.

:(

Implement it you bastards!

http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/tags/albumart

http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/ipod_album_art

iBoobs - NSFW

LOL. I don't even need to comment on this one.



From Geekologie
"
iBoobs, undeniably the best iPhone application to date, has been denied the right to be sold in the iTunes store, because Apple claims the app is pornographic. Which, I think we can all agree, is utterly ridiculous. And by "utterly ridiculous" I mean I popped like 16 boners. Youtube Thanks to Dylan, who agrees that Apple wouldn't be where they are today if it weren't for pornography. Remember your roots.
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User Uploaded Pictures - Panoramio

http://www.panoramio.com/


It's a great way to research the places that you might be going to.
All you have to do is type in the city or place that you might be visiting.
Gives you a neat perspective of what you might see.

Automatically moving files application

LIFEHACKER

Way better then having to write a batch file that ran on a schedule. That was totally lame.

MOVER - Download

Android scanner application

Nice find leifer

Google Earth for the iPWN

"
iPhone/iPod touch 2.0 only: Google has released an official iPhone client app for the iPhone and iPod touch, giving your phone a tabletop, slide-and-pinch view of the world. There are only two layers at this moment—geo-located Wikipedia articles and Panoramio photos—and, as you might imagine, the app is a bit of a data hound and best used on a Wi-Fi connection. Having said that, though, there's something irrepressibly cool about swiping your way around your neighborhood, tiling your phone to angle and scope the terrain, and using your device's current location finder to zoom down on yourself from space. Google Earth is a free download for iPhones and iPod touch models running the 2.0 software upgrade only.
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LIFEHACKER

Soulseek for the iPWN

"
Jailbroken iPhone/iPod touch 2.0 only: The previously mentioned iSlsk peer-to-peer client is now available for iPhone 2.0. Now called MewSeek, the Soulseek client lets you download music from the P2P network directly to your device. The catch? You'll need the PwnPlayer app to listen to any of your downloads. Both of these apps are in early development; we haven't tried them firsthand at Lifehacker HQ, but the ReadWriteWeb blog reports that besides some bugginess here and there, they work as advertised. Windows and users, jailbreak your device using QuickPwn; Mac users can rock the jailbreak with PwnageTool. Then, MewSeek and PwnPlayer are free apps you can get via the Cydia installer.
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LIFEHACKER

SOULSEEK

Remember, PTP downloading is illegal.

MiniTube - Plays Music vids of your tunes.

Pretty neat.. it will simultaneously play your video. Gotta love it..

LINK - LIFEHACKER

A Fast Search Tool.

All because I hate the windows search tools that comes with the OS. This search is lighnting, almost as soon as you are done typing the string it has already found what you are looking for.

This is for windows only. Found courtesy of LifeHacker.

So quick and fast.

LINK - Everything

The iNAP

"
iNap Wakes You Up When You Get There

iPhone only: iPhone application iNap uses your location-aware iPhone to set off an alarm to alert you when you're nearing your destination. Say, for example, you're riding the train to work but want to catch some shuteye on the way. Just fire up iNap, set your stop as the destination, and let iNap worry about the rest. You can tweak the alert radius to make sure you're up in plenty of time, from 0.1 to 100 miles. iNap works with any iPhone, but the results will be most accurate with an iPhone 3G. Also, you'd definitely want to make sure you've got a signal near your destination; the app obviously won't work if it can't determine where you are. iNap costs $1 from the iTunes App Store.
iNap [iTunes Store]
Read More: O-Marks Syncs Your Foxmarks Bookmarks to Your iPhone , Yahoo OneConnect Brings Free SMS to Your iPhone , Direct Line Takes You Straight to an Operator , Dual Level Turns Your iPhone into a Digital Level
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LINK

XBMC - Atlantis goes beta 1.

LINK

I love this project. It's so well maintained.
There's a couple of new improvements to the GUI and other stuff.

"After so many months after the last release finally it’s time!

XBMC Live Atlantis Beta1 has been released and is available at sourceforge.

Lots of changes since last release, the major ones:

* it’s a live CD, hoping it would be easier to try it!
* It supports NVIDIA, ATI/AMD and Intel via a boot menu
* it now contains a Live USB creator
* it automounts the local hard disk partitions, ie you can have access your media files
* it is configured automatically to get an IP address via DHCP (network card must be supported by the kernel)
* it runs sshd by default, so it supports incoming sftp/scp as well
* it is configured by default to use any connected MCEUSB2 remotes

It still has some rough edges, but with your feedback on the forum we will definitively improve and let the next release be a better one!

Cheers

Luigi
"

SCREENS

XBMC - Media Stream Skin

Here's some Screen Caps.. .







The best skin that i have seen so far.
I will try it at home tonight.

TeamRazorFish LINK

FuckFlickr - Host your own Gallery.

I love controversy and contreversial titles

FuckFlickr

"FuckFlickr is open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. We created it as an alternative to hosting your photos on a certain Yahoo-owned photo sharing site."

VLC has a new build..

And it looks awesome.. Check out this video.


VLC media player 0.9.2 - Grishenko from Antoine Cellerier on Vimeo.

LifeHacker_Link

DOWNLOAD

Nerdiest game ever.

http://mysqlgame.appspot.com/

It's a MYSQL database query game.. Use your Queries to destroy other players.

"INSERT FROM*"...

"welcome to mySQLgame (shard 1 - 8009 rows)

Are you tired of browser-based games that are thinly veiled interfaces for databases? Finally, there's a game that just is a database!

THRILL as you insert your very own row in the "rows" table!

With careful selection of SQL queries, you will soon have three or even four-digit numbers in some of the fields in your row! Other queries may allow you to use those numbers to subtract numbers from rows entered by other players -- all while pushing the numbers in your own row even higher! "

Install Linux on a USB key.

Finally the easy way!

This looks great.

USB keys are hella cheap too.

LINK

DOWNLOAD LINK