Thunderbird 2.0 which is the latest version of my favorite email client has been released and is available for download. Key new features/improvements include message tagging, message history, an ability to search the content within messages, easy customization and numerous other enhancements. If you haven’t used Thunderbird before I highly recommend giving it a try, […]
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Here is a handy gadget from Sanyo, a USB battery charger. Stick this in your laptop bag and never run out of charge again.
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Sticking with the Star Wars theme atm, here is an awesome hot air balloon in the shape of Darth Vader’s helmet.
The balloon measures 26 meters (86 feet) high with the basket included, 21 meters (69 feet) wide and with a depth of 24 meters (78 feet). The estimated hot air volume 3.000 m³ (106,000 […]
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Liquid Generation have an online Star Wars personality test in which you answer a series of questions and find out which Star Wars character best fits you. I got Luke Skywalker, I’m just glad I wasn’t Jar Jar Binks.
Take the test here.
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The iPhone is still several months away from release, however the Chinese aren’t waiting and are already producing accessories with some iPhone cases on display at the HK Electronics & Computer Fair this week. Get one for your cardboard cutout iPhone now ;)
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Now this is pretty embarrassing for YouTube. A 15 year old kid pretended to be a representative from an Australian television network and persuaded YouTube to remove hundreds of clips that users had uploaded. ROFL!
The lad wrote a letter to Google’s amateur video tentacle saying he represented ABC and would it mind removing clips of […]
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Here is a clip of contractors in Iraq destroying 100 tons of explosives. Impressive blast and shockwave.
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The maddest most extreme skydiving I have seen. Ever.
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Here is a pretty clever light bulb that will definitely make people look twice.
US$28 from Charles & Marie
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Every company has some internet down time, some even have a sense of humour about it. Here is a collection of “Server Down” pages from some well known sites.
reddit: something is broken
Technorati: It’s the monsters fault
Google Calendar: Cross your fingers
Windows Live: We messed up
Digg: Back shortly
MySpace: Pacman!
Flickr: Damn these hiccups
Flickr again: Relaxing with a […]
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Has someone wronged you? Forget all that forgiveness crap and extract your revenge by damning their soul to hell for all eternity at youaredamned. Your victim will receive an email notifying them that their soul is destined to burn for all time and the reason why. I love it!
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There was some bad news for Mac users this week. Apple announced that it won’t be releasing Leopard, the next generation of its OS until October and not June as previously promised. The reason is that they have had to pull developers and resources off the OS team to get the iPhone finished on time.
“We […]
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