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DIY web site Instructables posts a simple laptop prop stand that dual-purposes your laptop’s power brick as the stand. All you need is some sticky velcro strips, which you affix to the bottom of your laptop and the side of the power brick. Whenever you want to prop up your laptop, just stick the velcro […]

Mac OS X only: Free-for-now boot CD CampTune resizes your Boot Camp partition when the size of the Windows installation on your dual-booting Mac bumps against its limits. Without …
Read more here: CampTune Non-Destructively Resizes Your Boot Camp Partition [Featured Mac Download]

Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 The summer symphony orchestra had their first of two performances last night at Hertz Hall, and will be closing the curtains tonight. We say this figuratively, of course, as Hertz doesn’t actually have a …
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Mac only: The iPhone 2.0 jailbreak utility for Mac, PwnageTool, has just been updated to accommodate the latest iPhone software update from Apple. Re-jailbreak your iPhone 3G, first gen iPhone, or iPod touch running the 2.0.1 …
The rest is here: Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 Jailbreaks iPhone 2.0.1 Software [Featured Mac Download]

How-to web site Instructables has a step-by-step guide detailing how to repurpose your classic (but broken) NES as a lunchbox. All you’ve got to do is gut your Nintendo’s innards and add hinges (though a handle would be nice). You’ll also need a Sasquatch action figure if the guide is to be believed, but […]

Forbes just published its list of the 15 hardest-drinking cities in America. Portland ended up #13. Looks like we’re going to have to double down on the Bar Fly tour buses. Here’s one that looks interesting. Digging a little deeper, …
Continued here: Portland has some work to do

Windows only: Lightweight application PDFMerge combines and splits PDF files. Specify page ranges from each document you’re merging and manipulate bookmarks, too. Preserve existing document bookmarks in a new bookmark tree or omit them altogether. Run PDFMerge from the command line or from the included GUI. PDFMerge is no-frills merging program so if you […]

Catharine writes:. I have a bachelor’s in psychology and am not certain what I can do with this degree. I have worked for the last five years in mental retardation, but would like to get out for a while. While I was in school I attended …
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Firefox 3 doesn’t store your bookmarks in the plain old HTML file that Firefox 2 did, so desktop launchers like Quicksilver and Launchy can’t index them properly. …
Continued here: Make Firefox 3’s Bookmarks Available to Launchy and Quicksilver [Firefox Tip]

Firefox 3 doesn’t store your bookmarks in the plain old HTML file that Firefox 2 did, so desktop launchers like Quicksilver and Launchy can’t index them properly. But the HackCollege blog has a solution: a Firefox 3 about:config tweak that makes Firefox automatically export your bookmarks to a file. Change the …
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