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Boing Boing:
As part of our serialization of JC Hutchins' thriller 7th Son Descent, we're delighted to bring you this ten-chapter special-edition PDF!7th Son Descent Special Edition PDFPreviously:JC Hutchins's sf novel 7TH SON serialized (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Google Docs has officially thrown open their data doors, allowing users to back up all their documents to whatever formats they choose and compressed into a ZIP file. It's serious peace of mind for those concerned about the c (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Design and food weblog Hello Kitchen's kitchen-decluttering checklist provides a quick, easy guide to tackling the large chore of cleaning and decluttering your kitchen—helping you purge what you don't need and keep around y (Read More)
Boing Boing:
(Download MP4 video or Watch on YouTube, or view with subtitles on Dotsub). Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and und (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Here's the second serialized installment of J.C. Hutchins' SFthriller novel 7th Son: Descent.To celebrate the Oct. 27 release of the book, J.C. is releasing Descentin several free serialized formats: PDF, blog text, and audio (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Meeting scheduling service When is Good looked at 100,000 responses to 34,000 events logged to their service over 2 years and found that 3pm—specifically Tuesday at 3pm—seems to be the most agreeable time for a meeting. When (Read More)
Boing Boing:
David Weinberger sez, "The Berkman Center, under the guidance of Yochai Benkler, has produced for the FCC a 200-page report on broadband around the world. The report is now open for public comment.In an interview on the Berkm (Read More)
Oct 18, 2009
Lifehacker:
Most web browsers: Google's Doc Viewer allows you to view any PDF, PPT, and TIFF directly in your browser without downloading the file and launching another heavy desktop application, and this user script streamlines that pro (Read More)
Lifehacker:
A page of printed notes from an instructor, an old proposal you want to edit, a letter your boss wants turned into a template, OnlineOCR can help take an image of text and turn it into an editable copy. OnlineOCR is a complet (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Instructables user DHagen was sick of feeding coins into a public copy machine, wanted quality copies, but didn't want to spend much cash to get his own photocopier or scanner, so he did what any... (Read More)
Lifehacker:
We've known for some time that setting a timer and working in dashes can get help procrastinators jump past those imposing first steps. The Pomodoro Technique takes that further, offering a cyclical system aimed to beat deadl (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Yesterday we shared a handy, link-converting bookmarklet that pulls up any PDF in Google's lightweight, web-based viewer. Now Google is inserting a "Quick View" link next to any PDF file in search results, offering the same q (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss patent claims against Skype and its parent company (for now) eBay relating to uniform network technology. The federal (Read More)
Oct 08, 2009
Lifehacker:
Readers show us their best tips for hosting files in Gmail, using contacts as a to-do list, and clearing all traces of your DNS cache. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips B (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Clicking a PDF and waiting, waiting, waiting for it to load, or possibly crash your browser, is an inescapable web annoyance of bad-stand-up-comedy proportions. Unless you convert all of a page's PDF links to open with Google (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Google’s new logo is a barcode which, as far as we can tell, says “Google.” Today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows only: Free application STDU Viewer is an all-in-one tabbed reader for electronic documents, supporting everything from your standard PDF to the less common comic book archive (CBZ/CBR). It's free, fairly lightweight, (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Over at Autoblog Green, Sebastian Blanco has an extensive review/test-drive writeup about the Wheego Whip. Snip:For your $19k - minus a potential $7,500 from the federal government - you get a compact two-seater that "when it (Read More)
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Boing Boing:
The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) is a directed energy weapon (aka ray gun) developed by Boeing under a US military contract. According to an overview document (PDF) about Boeing's Directed Energy Systems program, "In August (Read More)
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