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Memorize This: 12 Essential Photographic Rules


Posted in Gadgets, Howto by Dan L | Comments Off

With all the high technology present in even today's consumer cameras, its not uncommon to hear complaints from stodgy old photographers that all the skill once required to take quality ...

Run Ubuntu Without The Messy Partitioning


Posted in Geeky, Howto by Evan | 4 Comments

I'll be honest with you, Ubuntu has saved my life. The live CD has come in extra handy in a time when I was most in need and since then ...

Fix a Cracked iPhone Screen Yourself!


Posted in Apple, Geeky, Howto, Mobile, Tech by Dan L | 1 Comment

As a sympathetic soul, its hard for me to think about the kind of pain and anguish that must come with the realization that you just cracked the beautiful glass ...

145 Operating Systems on a single HDD


Posted in Cool, Geeky, Howto, Tech by Dan L | 2 Comments

"Why Dan," you ask, "would anyone need anything near that many OS's?", and you'd be right to ask. The obvious answer is, no-one. That, of course, didn't stop JustLinux user ...

5 Ways to Speed up Vista


Posted in Geeky, Howto, Tech by Jon | 3 Comments

From Fun Tech Talk; going through 5 simple things that can be modified in Vista to speed up performance significantly. These include: 1. Turning off Remote Differential Compression 2. Turning off ...

Play Call Of Duty 4 Without An Invite


Posted in Cool, Geeky, Howto by Evan | 3 Comments

Yeah, there has been quite a murmur around the internets concerning the Call of Duty 4 invitations that were given out recently. People ganged up on the site as soon ...

More Black Market Uranium Woes


Posted in Digest, Howto, Random, Stupid by Jon | 2 Comments

It seems that we have, yet again, more stories of uranium being stolen and people attempting to buy it on the black market for for undermined uses. In January, ...

Hacking JiWire for Fun and Free WiFi


Posted in Geeky, Howto, Mobile by Dan L | 1 Comment

Few things are worse than being stuck alone in an airport for hours on end because the airline can't keep their shit together and your flight got delayed. Worse is ...

Hacking CoinStar: Kill the Transaction Fee


Posted in Geeky, Howto, Tech by Dan L | 8 Comments

My brother recently started putting all his spare change in a jar on his desk. The other day, he complained that he didn't have any change for a soda, and ...

How To Act In Movie Theatres


Posted in Cool, Howto by Evan | 5 Comments

You have no idea how much I hate going to the movies. The experience is really dead for me because of idiotic people that just won't.shut.up. I was, however, very ...

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