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Challenge of Challenges 2009: Challenges: Digital Photography Review
by ghis
Welcome to the 2009 'Challenge of Challenges.' This challenge has been compiled from all the year's challenge-winning entries to help select the dpreview.com Picture of the Year. If you've been as impressed as we have by the quality of submissions and the imagination of the challenge hosts, make sure you show it by voting and helping to choose 2009's best challenge-winning image.
December 2009
*NEW!* Network Marketing Survival 2 - PRIVATE LABEL RIGHTS | The Sequel to the Best Selling Network Marketing Survival Guide! - Download Business
by how2brich
Network Marketing Survival 2 The Sequel to the Best Selling Network Marketing Survival Guide! Choose The Right DOWNLOAD
*NEW!* How to Choose the BEST MP3 Player for YOU eBook - Download Audio Books / Teaching
by how2brich
Choose your NEXT MP3 Player How to Choose your MP3 player Dont buy an MP3 player till you DOWNLOAD
*NEW!*The Power of Creative Selling - Secrets For Who Choose Salesmanship As Career And Livelihood - Download Business
by how2brich
This book is for every person who has chosen salesmanship as career and livelihood. It DOWNLOAD
Top Freeware Downloads - The Best Freeware
by ericpaul
(via)
Welcome to Top Freeware Downloads
A collection of the best freeware downloads for you to enjoy, choose from one of the four main categories to the left hand side of the page., No shareware, no spyware only 100% freeware!
Air Traffic Game
by flashgames
Air Traffic Game - A cool airport sim with four unique airports to choose from!
Google URL Shortener
by oqdbpo
& 2 others
Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are:
* Stability – ensuring that the service has very good uptime
* Security – protecting users from malware and phishing pages
* Speed – fast resolution of short URLs
Google URL Shortener is currently available for Google products and not for broader consumer use.
The Google privacy policy applies to the Google URL Shortener. Please note that Google may choose to publicly display aggregate and non-personally identifiable statistics about particular shortened links, such as the number of end user clicks.
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November 2009
cyoa : Choose Your own Adventure
by sbrothier
& 2 others
(via)
As a child of the 80s, the Choose Your Own Adventure books were a fixture of my rainy afternoons. My elementary school library kept a low, fairly unmaintained-looking shelf of them hidden in one of its back corners. Whether this non-marquee placement was an attempt by the librarians to deemphasize the books in favor of ‘serious’ (children’s) literature or was simply my good luck I still haven’t worked out. But it meant there was a place that I could retreat to and dive into unfamiliar worlds without distraction.
Script Converter
by ycc2106
Script Converter is a Google Labs product that allows the user to read a web page in a script of their choice. For example if the user can understand spoken Tamil but cannot read the script, they will be able to view Tamil web pages in English (Roman) script. We do not translate any content - we transform the words on the page to its phonetic equivalent in the desired script. We also support the conversion from non-Unicode encodings to Unicode, so that users can view pages without installing the custom font otherwise needed. Users will still need Unicode fonts. To start browsing a website, type the url in the text area, choose your preferred script and press convert.\n Currently we support the following scripts.\n\n * Bengali\n * English\n * Gujarati\n * Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)\n * Kannada\n * Malayalam\n * Tamil\n * Telugu
rules for living well
by blackgoldfish
Choose quality over quantity with everything - shoes, friends, food - everything.
Look into alternative forms of medicine.
Take the time to figure out who you really are, what you like and dislike, what you need and don't.
Live within your means and respect every dollar you make.
Cultivate a passion.
Eat Real Food! Stay away from processed and buy local whenever you can.
Refuse to give in to texting.
As hard as it is, acknowledge and work on whatever keeps you from living the life of your dreams.
Refuse to play small or dim your light in order to make others comfortable.
Listen to your body.
Spend part of every day in silence, even if it's ten minutes.
Create a living space that reflects who you are.
Make visual beauty a priority.
Tell people you love them often.
Be true to yourself at all costs.
Best RPG Games for the Wii
by cryogenius
(via)
The Wii does not have a huge selection of titles to choose from, but the few it does have are among the best. Here are the top RPG Wii games available to buy now, with reviews and ratings.
Haystack Tutorial — Haystack v1.0.0-beta documentation
by karlcow
Before starting with Haystack, you will want to choose a search backend to get started. There is a quick-start guide to Installing Search Engines, though you may want to defer to each engine’s official instructions.
Password Assistant | codepoetry
by rmaltete
(via)
Password Assistant simply calls the Mac OS X Password Assistant dialog on demand. If you close the window, just choose File → New Window (CMD-N) to get it back (or reopen the program).
Seb's Open Research: How to Deal With Your Weirdness
by karlcow
When we move into any social space we have to choose which of our faces to show. At any given moment, a few of them are visible. The others are hidden, often because we think they are somehow "weird".
Open IT Online | View your documents online
by cascamorto
& 3 others
(via)
Open IT Online is an extension for Firefox, Flock and Internet Explorer that allows to open and edit your documents from everywhere!
Thanks to this extension, you will be able to open several types of documents directly in Firefox and Internet Explorer without needing any software to be installed.
Get Open IT Online for FirefoxGet Open IT Online for Internet Explorer
Open IT Online handles the following type of files:
* Documents (*.doc, *.docx, *.rtf, *.odt, *.sxw)
* Spreadsheets (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.csv, *.ods, *.sxc)
* Presentations (*.ppt, *.pptx, *.pps, *.odp, *.sxi)
* Images (*.jpg, *.gif,*.png)
Thanks to Open IT Online users can choose to use different online services to open their documents and images: the most popular are Google Docs, Zoho, View Docs Online and Vuzit for documents; Pixlr, Picnik and Snipshot for the images.
No need to install Microsoft Office, Star Office, Open Office, Photoshop or any other application: you just need Open IT Online.
October 2009
Best Writing Formats for Web Content Strategy
by jeanruaud
No matter what format you choose to write with, you must be patient and let your voice develop over time.
urlShort - Open Source URL Shortener
by ycc2106
* All URL data contained in a MySQL database, making it easy to back up and manage.\n * Automatic installation and easy customization.\n * Simple and clean interface for both user and administration functions.\n * Full API to allow other services and websites to interact with your short URL service.\n * URL preview functionality keeps your users safe, and lets them know where they're going.\n * Inline media embeds provide quick access to MP3, FLV, or image files.\n * Ability to choose custom short names/aliases for personalized and identifiable short URLs.\n * Cross-platform and cross-browser appearance.\n * 100% free and open source - Do whatever you want with it, no catches.
Branded URL Shortener | Ez.com
by ycc2106
lets you choose your own custom domain name, invite others to use the service, and provides real-time statistics on every click! Our Two-Minute Tour below will show you how quickly you can be online and tracking links on your own domain.
The IBuySpy Portal architecture (PDF)
by ms_michel
In this book, we'll be using the freely available IBuySpy Portal as a starting point for our intranet development. We'll look at both why we are modifying an existing intranet application rather than creating our own, and why we choose the IBuySpy Portal in particular. Once we have covered the basics, we'll take a tour of its features, looking at the files and types it consists of, how they function and fit together, and general principles behind the site. Finally, we'll take a brief look at how security is handled.
H&FJ News | Hoefler & Frere-Jones
by sbrothier
Most graphic designers choose the fonts that best fit their projects. Brian Hennings does the opposite: he chooses the projects that best fit the fonts. A resident designer at H&FJ, Brian shares with me the responsibility of creating all of the sample art you’ll find on this site. His is a strange universe of the fictitious: signage programs for mythical cities, book jackets for unwritten novels, product literature for items you cannot buy, broadcast graphics for live sporting events that you can’t quite identify.
September 2009
Dell PowerEdge T710 Tower Server Overview
by danijelzi
(via)
The Dell PowerEdge T710 is the company’s new dual-socket tower server.
The virtualization oriented T710 is based on the Intel 5520 chipset and supports up to two quad-core or dual-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. It has 18 DIMM slots for up to 144GB of ECC DDR3 memory and supports 16 2.5-inch or 8 3.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, depending on customer’s choice. The 5U chassis, mountable in 19″ racks, also includes two media bays for optical drives or tape backup units, and two power supplies with optional redundancy.
Integrated storage controller choices include SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i SAS RAID, but there’s also a variety of additional HDD controllers. Customers can also choose between various host bus controller, management card, and network adapter options.
Dell’s T710 has 6 PCI Express 2.0 slots and the integrated Matrox G200 video chip, and offers an interactive LCD on the front of the server for system health monitoring, alerts and control of basic management configuration.
Regarding software, the PowerEdge T710 ships without OS or with one of Windows Sever, SUSE Linux, or Red Hat Linux editions, with VMware or Citrix virtualization software, and with various optional management and backup applications.
The Dell PowerEdge T710 currently starts at $1,199 at the official Dell Small Business website.
