Comment by LNAngel published on 8/4/2008.
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Radiologists in Shanghai are reportedley using iTunes to organize medical papers published as PDFs. It’s not as crazy as it sounds—we ran down how to organize your PDF library with iTunes over a year ago. [via]
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died. One of the giants of human history. In the autumn of 1961, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a 43-year-old high school teacher of physics and astronomy in Ryazan, a city some 70 miles south of Moscow. …
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If your Vista PC isn’t as speedy as you’d like, straight from the horse’s mouth comes a 14-page PDF document on Vista Performance and Tuning. Microsoft’s suggestions include customizing Vista’s power plan, sleeping the machine instead of shutting down, turning off search indexing in folders you don’t need it, disabling visual effects, using ReadyBoost …
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Tech site CatsWhoCode.com offer 10 good-looking icon sets to customize your GNU/Linux desktop. No Linux? Check out our top …
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Reader Strabes took our DIY nightstand charging station and “landing strip” tips to heart and created his own version. He drilled a hole in the thin back …
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You can get a free credit report once a year, but not at FreeCreditReport.com. Despite its catchy jingles, the site will sign you up for a not-free monthly credit monitoring service, the New York Times reports. AnnualCreditReport.com is the site you want for your actually-free report.
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Adam and Kevin are taking a much-deserved vacation this week—Adam till Wednesday, Kevin through Friday—so expect an uptick in guest posts, some feature story musical chairs, and a downtick in pre-dawn posts. (I need my beauty sleep.) Onward!
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The screen’s broken down into 4 main sections; To-Do/Command (task), Tag, Projects and To-Do list. The first thing I did was to delete the sample project that comes pre-added (simple right click/delete) and then added a new project. …
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Author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and other geeky tomes Neal Stephenson described how he wrote his first book at a 2003 USENIX keynote speech. After an editor accepted his book proposal, Stephenson had to complete the manuscript quickly:
With all his vacation time and the 4th of July holiday there were 10 days, in which to […]