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Switching to Ubuntu from Windows

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:11:36 GMT

clipped by: ahoehler
clipper's remarks: Nice and rather true list of the advantages and problems of switching to Ubuntu from Windows.

Clip Source: www.arsgeek.com

What you should know about switching to Ubuntu from Windows

You will miss some aspects of Windows.

Sometimes, you’ll really miss using Windows.

You’ll find yourself spending a lot less money.

When you don’t have to buy the software, the temptation to pirate software is removed.

You’re not going to have to worry much about viruses, worms, trojans and spyware.

You are going to be more vulnerable to hackers.

There are times you’ll be sorely tempted to just go back to Windows.

You’ll need to learn at least a little about the command line.

Surfing the web, checking email and instant messanging stay pretty much the same.

Playing DVDs, Music and Movies on your Ubuntu box takes two extra steps.

If you have a family member or friend who acts as your tech support and they know Linux, they will thank you profusely.

You’ll find that you don’t have to reboot. Really!

You’ll find that lots of people are willing to help you, simply because you’re using Ubuntu.

Tags: linux, ubuntu, windows, switch, howto

Photos taken at precise moments and angles...yield striking results.

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:26:48 GMT

clipped by: bigshoulders
clipper's remarks: the first image is quite striking... that figure skater is ALL kinds of flexible.

Clip Source: forum.cybernetnews.com

Tags: photography, photos, odd

How to improve your memory - Techniques

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:48:31 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.mindtools.com

Memory Improvement Tools

Introduction to Memory Techniques

Remembering a Simple List - The Link Method and Story Method

Remembering Ordered Lists - The Number/Rhyme Mnemonic

Remembering Ordered Lists - The Number/Shape Mnemonic

Remembering Middle Length Lists - The Alphabet Technique

Remembering Long Lists - The Journey System

Remembering Grouped Information - The Roman Room System

Remembering Very Long Numbers - The Major System

Using Concept Maps to Remember Structured Information

Memory Games - Have fun while you improve your memory

How to... Learn a Foreign Language

How to... Remember Information for Exams

How to... Remember People's Names

How to... Remember Lists and Long Numbers

Other Memory Tools - Reviewed... - Our reviews of other important memory resources

Download this section of Mind Tools in PDF format to read and print at your leisure

Tags: memory, brain, science, health, people, life

Top 20 Lesser Known BitTorrent Sites

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:47:54 GMT

clipped by: leksi
clipper's remarks: Awesome list. :]

Clip Source: torrentfreak.com

Top 20 Less Known BitTorrent Sites

So what is “Less Known”? Well, we used the Alexa ranking as our criteria, all the sites in this list are not in the top 5000 (5000 most visited sites on the Internet). The order of the sites is random, and the list includes some meta search engines as well.

Do you know a relatively unknown public BitTorrent site that should be in this list? Put it in the comments.

01. torrentvalley.com

02. yotoshi.com

03. extratorrent.com

04. bitenova.nl

05. torrentscan.com

06. fenopy.com

07. smaragdtorrent.org

08. torrentat.org

09. fulldls.com

10. worldnova.org

11. spynova.org

12. nova9.org

13. 2torrents.com

14. scrapetorrent.com

15. litebay.org

16. monova.org

17. torrents.to

18. torrentradar.org

19. bitdig.com

20. bittorrentshare.com

We all know about mininova, The Pirate Bay and Torrentz, but what few know is that there are a host of less known torrent sites that also have some great, and sometimes rare, content. Here are 20 of these less known torrent sites.

Tags: torrents, bittorrent, downloads, torrent

Best Flash Animation 2006

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:22:10 GMT

clipped by: Cielerella
clipper's remarks: Very well done.

Clip Source: video.stumbleupon.com

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Tags: flash, animation, funny, humor

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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:29:36 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.clip-art.com

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Tags: free, cliparts, clips, software, computers, gif, jpg, animations

77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:53:31 GMT

clipped by: karokan

Clip Source: oedb.org

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven't gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society's progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others' quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today. Your quest for knowledge doesn't have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein's, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge's sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal.

Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. In fact, it's been said that the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain. Imagine what we may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Here are 77 tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. A few are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions; the rest for self-starters, or those learning on their own. Happy learning.

Tags: learning, knowledge

Firefox Tweak Guide

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:30:48 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.techspot.com

Firefox 2 Tweaking, Profiles
Toolbar Setup
Main Settings Tab
Tabs Settings
Content Settings Tab
Feeds & Privacy Settings Tab
Security Settings Tab
Advanced Settings Tab
Add-ons & recommendations
Advanced about:config and user.js
Advanced: Auto-Updates, Bookmarks
Advanced: Caching
Advanced: Connection
Advanced: Plug-ins
Advanced: Rendering
Advanced: Scripting
Advanced: Tabs
Advanced: Miscellaneous
Advanced: userChrome.css

Tags: firefox, browsers, internet, computers, software

Brain Fitness Program: Enhancing Mental Abilities

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:34:57 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com

Older Brains Act Younger - Scientific Breakthrough Enhances Mental Abilities

People 60 years or older can improve their memory by 10 years or more. That's the findings of a new study published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The randomized, controlled study looked at the effects of the Brain Fitness Program, a computer-based set of exercises. It was developed by Posit Science Corporation, a San Francisco company that promotes brain health. Researchers tested 182 people aged 60 to 87. They gave each participant a standardized, clinical cognitive assessment before and after the study. The experimental group worked on the brain exercises in their homes for about 8 weeks. One control group was given no special instruction while another control group watched educational DVD's.

Study results show that 93% of the participants working on the brain exercises had an increase in the rate of processing information, meaning they would likely think and act faster. The average participant was 71, but after the training was able to process information reliably at the speed of someone in their twenties.

"Even more important," according to study co-author Dr. Henry Mahncke, "These improvements generalized to standardized measures of memory that are related to real life functions. It's noteworthy when gains at specific tasks generalize to things that matter in daily living. The average change on these measures showed a clinically and statistically significant improvement in memory, and many participants showed gains equal to the amount of decline that usually happens over 10 years of aging."

Follow up tests indicated that the improvements last beyond the training.

The Brain Fitness Program is based on brain plasticity, the brain's ability to change throughout life if provided with the right kind of exercises. This means mental functions such as memory can be improved at any age.

Tags: people, science, mind, brain, fitness

ZEN - Visually rich, funny, intuitive, basic introduction

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:29 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.do-not-zzz.com

Tags: religion, spirituality, people, science, zen, buddhism, japan

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:24:46 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2007 January 28

Explanation: What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? Nobody knows. To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon in late 2005 and took an image of unprecedented detail. That image, shown above in false color, shows a remarkable world strewn with strange craters and a generally odd surface. The slight differences in color likely show differences in surface composition. At the bottom of most craters lies some type of unknown dark material. Inspection of the image shows bright features indicating that the dark material might be only tens of meters thick in some places. Hyperion is about 250 kilometers across, rotates chaotically, and has a density so low that it might house a vast system of caverns inside.

Tags: astronomy, science, pictures, technology, nasa, space

The Top 101 Classic Web Sites of 2006

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:45:10 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu
clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

The Internet is as cyclical as it is expansive. Boom, burst, bust, repeat. And yet some Web sites seem to operate outside the fray, delivering a consistent user experience and gradually evolving instead of flaring up or flaming out. Here at PC Magazine, we call these Web sites the classics both because they tend to be established destinations and because they set the standards for the rest of the Web.

Here is our canon of the top 101 classics for 2006, humbly submitted for you perusal. You've probably heard of many or even most of them, but it's our hope that all of our readers will find something new or rediscover a forgotten favorite on the list.

• Apps - PC & Mobile
• Business & Finance
• Careers
• Computing
• Consumer Electronics & Photography
• Health
• Information, Search & Reference
• Lifestyle, Entertainment & Fun
• News
• Oddities & Gaming
• Shopping
• Travel

Tags: computer, software, technology, browser, news

Reduce Firefox Memory Usage

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:27:03 GMT

clipped by: abbysname

Clip Source: www.helpero.com

How to lower the amount of memory that Firefox uses?

Fist of all you should see this: How to Reduce Firefox Memory Usage

But if you are in a hurry...

1. In your Firefox address bar, enter the following text: about:config

2. Scroll down to the entry titled browser.cache.memory.enable and make sure the Value is set to true. If it’s not, double-click anywhere in the browser.cache.memory.enable line and the status will change to true

3. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu

4. Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value pop-up box

5. You’ll need to enter a number in the Enter integer value, but that number depends on how much memory you have (specifically, how much you want to 'give' Firefox). If you have 256MB or less RAM, enter 4096 as the value. If you have 512MB of RAM, enter 6144 or 8192. If you have 128MB or less RAM, you may want to consider upgrading - memory is getting very inexpensive.

6. Confirm that the new entry has been created and the integer value is correct

7. If for any reason you wish to restore the default settings, change the browser.cache.memory.capacity integer value to -1 (that’s minus one).

Source: simplehelp.net

Tags: firefox, computer, memory, practical

Massive Resource List for All Self-Learners

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:47:45 GMT

clipped by: cay002

Clip Source: www.eliteskills.com

Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts

Tags: resources, websites, free, education, learning

How to access blocked websites - Top 10

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:48:42 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion
clipper's remarks: see site for the rest

Clip Source: www.webstuffscan.com

1. Use IP address - This is the simplest way to bypass domain name based access restrictions. Instead of the domain name such as www.webstuffscan.com use the direct IP address. To find the IP address use one of the free host to IP online conversion tools such as this.

2. Use Google cache - If you are not bothered whether the content is latest on a site, Google cache is best. Do a Google search for the site and then click on the cached link below the search results.

3. Use an Anonymizer - In this method you access a third party site which in turn routes your request to the required server. Some services provide URL encryption also. The problem is that most of these servers are no longer free. Do a google search for the latest list as this is a very dynamic area Following are some services which still works(free!),

Proxify - Hides original URL and provides an array of access of options. The is one of the best free servers.
Block Stop - New guy in the town!
Anonymouse - This works, but URL is visible and hence may be blocked by the filtering software.

4. Use Online Translation Tools - In this method, we can use the translation service as a web proxy. Following are the best links I know of. Again Google is your best friend for more resources.

Altavista Babel fish - In the above replace www.webstuffscan.com with the site you want. You can also visit Babel fish site.
Google Translate - Similar to Babel fish.

5. Use Google Mobile search - Google mobile search works, but output may not be optimal. This is very similar to using a Web proxy.

6. Use a public Proxy server - There are many free proxy servers out in the Web. Note that in order to use these you have to change internet connection settings in Internet Explorer or whatever browser you use. This is one such list.

7. Get web pages via email - This is useful if you need a single Web page. Obviously accessing large files is not possible. Given below are some examples.

Tags: web, internet, bloked, websites, technology, tips