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Archive for January 2nd, 2008

U.R.Celeb: Appear on the Cover of Magazines

January 2nd, 2008
2 Comments Written by Ashley

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This is another one of those "just for fun" kinds of things: U.R. Celeb is a program that you can download to create your own covers for magazines like People, Rollingstone, Sports Illustrated, and more. That means even you too can appear on the cover of your favorite magazine, or be the topic of the latest breaking news on CNN. There are templates for the following different magazines:

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Custom iGoogle Skins

January 2nd, 2008
9 Comments Written by Ryan

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One thing that I really love about my personalized iGoogle homepage are the skins that Google has available. Google periodically adds new themes to their selection, but there's only about ten of them that you can use right now.

That's where the Custom Skins gadget comes into play. Users are able to create their own skins and submit them to a user-powered directory. To get the

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Helpful Tip: Wikipedia RSS Feeds

January 2nd, 2008
2 Comments Written by Ryan

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I'm sure many of you use Wikipedia on a regular basis for information, but did you know that Wikipedia also has RSS feeds available for keeping up with changes to your favorite articles? To get an RSS feed for a particular article just go to the Wikipedia page for it, and click on the History tab located along the top.

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I've seen several sites writing about this Greasemonkey script which can be used to reveal the destination address of TinyURL's. That's cool and all, but I don't want another script that has to scan every site that I visit when I only come across a few TinyURL's each week. Not only that, but the script only works in Firefox.

What I've been using is a

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Talk More Like a 12 Year-Old…

January 2nd, 2008
7 Comments Written by Ashley

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File this under "just for fun": A conversation between two teenagers who are instant messaging or texting can be impossible to follow if you're not familiar with their "Lingo." Some of you probably even use this Lingo which seems to have come about when instant messengers like AOL's launched. The children and teenagers of the current generation have grown up with it

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IE7Pro 2 Lets You Pause and Resume Downloads

January 2nd, 2008
20 Comments Written by Ryan

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IE7Pro just released version 2.0 to the public, and it has a few notable new features. For starters it has been modularized which will help increase its stability, and there is also a 64-bit version available on the download page. The biggest news, however, can be summed up by looking at the screenshot above. Yep, that's a built-in download manager! It automatically integrates into

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Topping Amazon.com’s "Best of 2007" Lists…

January 2nd, 2008
7 Comments Written by Ashley

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Amazon.com has just released their "Best of 2007" lists which include products in different categories that were bestselling, reviewed most positively, products that appeared most often on Wish Lists of Amazon customers, and most popular gift products. While they cover many, many different topics, we'll just take a look at the technology related "Best of" items for 2007.

Bestselling

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