Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Here is some Photoshop'd images; I found online to inspire you all!!

Xalimopatra, nothing wrong with picking a name for it a lot of my colleagues use it but they been having problems with it and so many others so watch out!!

what a nutcase he cries cause he wrote about smoking joe? come on now this guy seems to be just itching to cry like my little 6 years old niece who arguably one of the best kids to have Tears-On-Demand syndrome. There is a big difference between a senstive man and a queer, you don' have to shed a tear when watching a movie to be senstive plus if men were intended to be senstive and cry in ever occasion, what would women do ?!

if its the browser (internet) then try this key combination (CTRL) and ( - ) sign or just point to (VIEW) in you browser toolbar then (TEXT SIZE) umh thats for firefox I don't remember how it was for IE but yo should be using firefox anyway

I saw this is @ some blog and though it might be useful for some student nomads ---------------------- Best Web Browser: ---------------------- Firefox is a favourite browser, being safer than IE and highly customizable. Automatic updates, faster browsing, better pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, an integrated search bar, and live bookmarks are just some features of this browser and countless add-ons you can install. Another popular browser is Opera which includes many of the same features as Firefox. FireFox http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Opera http://www.opera.com/ ---------------------- Best Torrent Client: ---------------------- Azureus is a java bittorrent client offering multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use. uTorrent is a lightweight (Very) and efficient BitTorrent client that includes bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT. Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ µTorrent http://www.utorrent.com/ -------------------------------------------- Best Multi Platform File Transfer Utility: -------------------------------------------- Shareaza is a great program that connect to 4 P2P networks, EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Gnutella2 (G2). Shareaza http://www.shareaza.com/ ----------------------------- Best IP Blacklist/Blocker: ----------------------------- A must for anyone using P2P. PeerGaurdian integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4, TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc, making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P. Lite version is made to consume as little CPU and RAM as possible. It has no UI or options and consists of a single tray icon. PeerGaurdian http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ PeerGuardian Lite http://phoenixlabs.org/pglite/ ------------------ Best FTP Client: ------------------ Two amazing FTP clients that each include a great deal of features are FileZilla and SmartFTP. FileZilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ SmartFTP http://www.smartftp.com/ ----------------------- Best Chat Program: ----------------------- Two that stand out are Gaim/Pidgin and Trillian, both are multi-platform. Gaim is compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. While Trillain is a skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. Trillain also includes many features not included in those chat programs. Gaim/Pidgin http://pidgin.im/pidgin/home/ Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ ----------------------------- Best AIM Virus Remover: ----------------------------- AIM Fix was created to remove all known AIM viruses in one consolidated removal tool. AIM Fix http://www.jayloden.com/software.htm -------------------------------- Best Phone Voice Software: -------------------------------- These programs allow you to call people for free and talk with them, all you need are headphones and a microphone. Skype adds encryption and has excellent sound quality. An alternative to Skype is the Gizmo Project. Skype http://www.skype.com/ Gizmo Project http://www.sipphone.com/ ---------------------------- Best Download Manager: ---------------------------- The ones that work great are FlashGet, GetRight, and Free Download Manager. All split up files and increase the download by 100-600%, they can also resume broken downloads. FlashGet http://www.flashget.com/index_en.htm GetRight http://www.getright.com/ Free Download Manager http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ ---------------------------- Best Gmail File transfer: ---------------------------- There is a good program that allows you to use your Gmail space to upload your files and make backups of them. Gmail Drive http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm -------------------- Best Email Client: -------------------- Another from Mozilla, Thunderbird, is a full-featured email client, that includes a spam filter, anti-phishing protection, enchanced security, and auto updates and tons of add-ons you can download to further enhance it. Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ ------------------------ Best Blogging Poster: ------------------------ w.bloggar is a great blogging tool that includes a template and post editor that works with many blogging sites, including Blogger. Unlike other blogging tools, it doesn't require you to have your blog on an ftp site, but can log in and post. w.bloggar http://wbloggar.com/ ------------------ Best IRC Client: ------------------ Other than the popular mIRC some outstanding IRC clients are IceChat and HydraIRC. HydraIRC http://www.hydrairc.com/ IceChat http://www.hydrairc.com/ -------------------- Best IRC Add-on: -------------------- NoNameScript is an amazing addon that's definitely worth installing over normal mIRC. NoNameScript http://www.nnscript.de/index.php?section=download ---------------------- Best Anti-Spyware: ---------------------- Some of the best are Spybot, Ad-Aware, Windows Defender, and Spyware Blaster. The first three are scanners each with their own special tools including realtime scanning, encrypted file deletion, and history eraser. Spyware Guard is more of a realtime scanner (Like Anti-Virus) of spyware while you're downloading. Spyware Blaster is not a scanner, but prevents spyware from installing on your computer, (Spybot includes a robust version of this). All four programs are recommended since each is not 100% efficient solution. Spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/ Ad-Aware SE Personal http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ Windows Defender http://tinyurl.com/dyvaw SpywareGuard http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html ------------------ Best Anti-Virus: ------------------ A favourite is AVG from Grisoft, which includes updates, real time scanner, and an email scanner. Another good one is AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic which includes many of the same features. Do keep in mind that free anti virus clients are not up to par with paid ones according to testings. ClamWin is also one of the best, it's a port of the great Open Source ClamAV. AVG http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic http://www.free-av.com/ ClamWin http://www.clamwin.com/ --------------- Best Firewall: --------------- The best is ZoneAlarm which is simple for begginers and provides lots of features for more advanced users. ZoneAlarm Free http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp -------------------- Best Anti-Rootkit: -------------------- AVG Anti-Rootkit really helps stop find and remove those evil root kits from your system. AVG Ant-Rootkit http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 ------------------------ Best Diagnostic Tool: ------------------------ Ultimate Boot CD is an amazing bootable CD to restore a crashed computer and can fix it. I've used it on many different PC's and Laptops! Ultimate Boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ ---------------------- Best Disk Cleaner: ---------------------- CCleaner, removed about 1.5 Gigs in unused application data and internet cache (which I thought was removed by the disk cleaner). This utility cleans out your PC's hard drive safely and even scans and removes obselete registry data, speeding up your system. You might want to turn off cookie deletion if you save your passwords for sites. CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ -------------------- Best File Deleter: -------------------- Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ ---------------------- Best File Encrypter: ---------------------- Three stand out, GNU Privacy Gaurd, TrueCrypt, and Blowfish Advanced CS. GNU is a full replacement of PGP that is command line based, and not for beginnners. However, Blowfish Advanced CS offers multiple algorithms, efficient data compression, and safe key handling for content protection. TrueCrypt can create virtual encrypted disks, can encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive, and provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password. Blowfish Advanced CS http://www.hotpixel.net/software.html TrueCrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ GNU Privacy Gaurd http://www.gnupg.org/ Guide to GNU Privacy Gaurd http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto.html -------------------------------------------- Best Md5 Checksum Creator/Checker: -------------------------------------------- This open source utility is used to calculate the MD5 checksum of a file using L. Peter Deutsch's MD5 code. One of the most common uses is to make sure that a file that you have downloaded is not corrupt. Some websites post the MD5 checksum of a file on their download page. Once you have downloaded the file, use winMd5Sum to get the MD5 checksum of the file on your computer. Then make sure that the MD5 checksum from the web site is the same. If they are the same, then your file is exactly the same as the file on the website. winMD5Sum http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/winmd5sum --------------------- Best File Unlocker: --------------------- Unlocker is an Windows Explorer extension allowing you with a simple right-click on a file or folder to get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it's being used by another person or program. Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ --------------------- Best Image Editor: --------------------- The GIMP and Paint.NET are the best. GIMP is more like Photoshop and there is a seperate version that make the GIMP interface appear more like Photoshop (to make it easier to use). Piant.NET replaces the simple MS Paint program and adds tons of features and includes some of the things Photoshop has. The GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP Shop http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294 Paint.NET http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html ------------------------------ Best Vector Image Editor: ------------------------------ Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. INKSCAPE http://www.inkscape.org/ ------------------------------ Best Image Viewer/Editor: ------------------------------ IrfanView supports many formats of images and includes some plugins that allow it to view many other formats such as videos, flash, and some audio formats. Picasa, on the other hand, differs in being able to edit photos and searches your computer for photos. Another good one is FastStone Image Viewer which is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/ IrfanView Plugin/Addons http://www.tucows.com/preview/415586 Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ FastStone Image Viewer http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm -------------------------------- Best Digital Album Creator: -------------------------------- InAlbum Lite is an easy you can use program to turn your digital photos into a great photo album slideshow. InAlbum Lite helps you turn your digital photos into stunning photo albums. InAlbum Lite http://www.softpedia.com/get/Authoring-tools/Digital-Album/InAlbum-Lite.shtml ----------------------------------------------- Best 3-D Modelling/Animation/Rendering: ----------------------------------------------- Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Blender http://www.blender.org/ ------------------------ Best Color Capturer: ------------------------ Color Schemer ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats. You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way. Also, it doesn't require installation and is a tiny program. Color Schemer ColorPix http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php --------------------- Best Virtual Drive: --------------------- If you ever wanted to run that .iso or any other CD image without having the CD or DVD in the drive just use DAEMON Tools. Do not install the adware toolbar! DAEMON Tools http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php --------------------------- Best DVD Descrambler: --------------------------- Well the name says it all, DVD Decrypter allows you to copy DVDs to your hard drive and re-encode them to MPEG1 (VCD) or DivX. DVD Decrypter can also write most types of CD / DVD images via its 'ISO Write' mode. Also there's DVDFab HD Decrypter which copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. It also comes with full HD-DVD and Blu-Ray support (Removes AACS). DVD Decryptor http://www.filehippo.com/download_dvd_decrypter/ DVDFab HD Decrypter http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm --------------------------- Best DVD Compressor: --------------------------- ratDVD takes a full featured DVD-9 movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file of about 1.x GB in size - while preserving all the features of the original DVD. ratDVD http://ratdvd.ca/ ------------------------- Best CD/DVD Burner: ------------------------- CDBurnerXP Pro is a fully featured DVD/CD burner and can create .iso's from them. It is very fast and meet all your needs. CDBurnerXP Pro http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ For you Ubuntu and Linux fans, without a doubt... K3b! (http://k3b.plainblack.com/) ---------------------------------- Best MPEG to DVD Converter: ---------------------------------- Got those mpegs from your digital video camera, off the web, etc. but always wanted to convert them into DVD's? Well DVDBuilder does exactly that, efficiently and painlessly for free. DVDBuilder http://www.keronsoft.com/dvdbuilder.html ----------------------------------- Best Video Player/Codec Pack: ----------------------------------- The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack will play every video file on this planet. Also GSpot is a video codec identification utility - identifies which video codec and audio compression method is used on .avi files, whether the matching codec is installed, so you can direct download only the ones you need. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack http://www.codecguide.com/about_mega.htm K-Lite Codec Pack Full (Less features) http://codecguide.com/features_full.htm#full GSpot http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm ------------------------------------------ Best Video Player/Streaming Server: ------------------------------------------ VLC is a portable cross-platform, multimedia player that also streams audio/video across your network. MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc. And DVDs, VCDs. It can stream unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ --------------------- Best Audio Player: --------------------- Winamp and foobar2000 comes out on top as the best audio players. ml_ipod is a plugin that uses Winamp to support your iPod. Winamp DSP Enhancer increases the quality and depth of your bass and treble, but not just making them louder but by filtering out any distortions and other bad stuff. foobar 2000 s an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Not to mention it's tiny size. Winamp http://www.winamp.com/ ml_ipod (Version 5.2 of Winamp alreday has had iPod support built in.) http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/ DSP Enchancer http://download.nullsoft.com/customize/component/2001/10/8/P/Enhancer.exe foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ For you Ubuntu/Linux fans my all time favourite is Amarok! (http://amarok.kde.org/) Audacity is a free and gull featured audio editor and recorder. As for grabbing audio from CDs , Exact Audio Copy is the solution, although it's not for beginners. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Exact Audio Copy http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ ------------------------- Best Audio Converter: ------------------------- Often called the Swiss army knife of audio, dBpowerAMP is able to convert between audio formats whilst preserving ID Tags. dBpowerAMP Music Converter http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm ------------------------------- Best XviD/DivX Converter: ------------------------------- AutoGK is an amazing program that converts Xvid and DivX formats of video to many others, at the same time compressing them and it includes many other features. AutoGK http://www.autogk.me.uk/ -------------------------------- Best Movie Cover Searcher: -------------------------------- Have those "back up" DVDs but no covers? Well, no fear, iCover searches its 6 databases and the internet for over 13,000 movie covers that you can download for free. iCover http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/i-Covers.shtml iCover Site (French) http://www.i-covers.net/ (Google translate: http://www.google.com/translate_t) ------------------ Best iPod Utility: ------------------ Forget iTunes, YamiPod gives you full control of your iPod and offers many other features to you. YamiPod http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ ------------------------------ Best Hard Drive Analyser: ------------------------------ JDiskReport is an amazing program that provides many different graphs and information on what's stored on your computer. JDiskReport http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html ----------------------------- Best Software Collection: ----------------------------- TheOpenCD includes many freeware programs and open source programs that are essential to anyone. TheOpenCD http://theopencd.org/ -------------------- Best HTML Editor: -------------------- NVU, is a great HTML editor similar to Dreamweaver and Frontpage. Also, BlueFish editer is a very stable robust solution that focuses on editing dynamic and interactive web sites. NVU http://www.nvu.com/ BlueFish http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ ----------------------------- Best CSS Menu Designer: ----------------------------- CSS Menu Designer is a good tool to automatically create beautiful CSS menus that you can customize to your needs. Best CSS Menu Designer http://www.highdots.com/css-tab-designer/ --------------------- Compression Tool: --------------------- Although there's many, a few stand out, mainly 7-Zip and IZArc. 7-Zip supports: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. IZArc supports many files including: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. Both also include many other features. 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ IZArc http://www.izarc.org/ ----------------------------- Best Benchmarking Tool: ----------------------------- EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users. It offers the world's most accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information. Sadly, this free version has been discontinued, since they want to make some money on their corporate version (Which is understandable). EVEREST Home Edition http://www.filehippo.com/download_everest_home/ -------------------- Best Office Suite: -------------------- The best by far is OpenOffice.org. It includes many of the same features as MS Office and then some! OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ -------------------------- Best Multi-Coding Tool: -------------------------- For those computer programmers, PHP Designer 2005 and Notepad++ are great programs that include syntax highlighting and syntax folding. PHP Designer supports: PHP, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Perl, JavaScript, VB, C#, Java & SQL. Notepad++ supports C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file (extension .nfo), doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, TCL, Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, Properties, Diff, Smalltalk, Postscript and VHDL. And that's the tip of the iceberg for both programs, they contain tons of features. Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm PHP Designer 2005 http://www.download.com/PHP-Designer-2005/3000-7957-10353130.html PSPad http://www.pspad.com/en/ --------------------- Best AutoIt Editor: --------------------- This custom made version of SciTE has syntax highlighting and syntax folding, autocompleting, and intellisense. SciTE http://www.autoitscript.com/ -------------------- Best PDF Reader: -------------------- Foxit Reader is small (1.5MB), so it downloads quickly. It doesn't need any installation, so you can start to run it as soon as you've downloaded it. Foxit Reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php ------------- Best Linux: ------------- Ubuntu and Kubuntu are two of best and most well known linux distros out there and include a barrage of programs. Another good one is Damn Small Linux, which is 50mb and can run off your USB flash drive. Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ Kubuntu http://www.kubuntu.org/ Damn Small Linux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ----------------------------------------- Best Tutorial/Presentation Creation: ----------------------------------------- Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, mouse movements, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Wink http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ ------------------------------- Best Windows CD Creator: ------------------------------- AutoStreamer works as a totally automated slipstreamer. Basically, all it really needs is a source that being an original Windows CD or a local share and a Service Pack file. Using this you can create another Windows CD that includes the newest service pack and all the hotfixes. AutoPatcher http://mhtools.knoware.nl/raptor/autopatcher.html AutoStreamer http://mhtools.knoware.nl/raptor/autostreamer/AutoStreamer.exe

I wish I could post video's directly, anyhow this is a hilarious spoof! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4vDClhnJjs

Hey Ms Dhuc , this guys are quite good Web Mania, but how to design couple of pages is not as simple as just designing couple of pages lot of things are involved i.e. basic design, font , colours , html , css. So depending on how important this site is for you and on your level of expertise you'd better of get a designer to hook you up or just get a template of some sort and customize it... hope that was helpful!

The following are humorous (and sometimes serious too) quotes gathered from the Web, Usenet's personal .sig and other sources. Since it's all a big rip-off, I am assuming no copyright whatsoever. I don't even guarantee that they are accurate. Now that you've been warned, enjoy. C & Unix "It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is ?" C /n./: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't. — Ray Simard. "If it wasn't for C, we'd be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, and OBOL." "I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife." "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." — Blair P. Houghton. "Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code." — J.P. Candusso. "Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one." — Kernighan & Plauger, The Buy at Amazon.comElements of Programming Style. "#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb))" — Shakespeare "C is not a high-level language." — Kernighan. "I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C." — John (Jack) Beidler. Perl, PHP, Regexp... "If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise." "Perl 1.0: All the power of QBasic, the readability of assembly, and the flexibility of DOS batch scripting..." "If I've got a simple task to do (eg the text-file-of-URLS example) then I knock it up in shell script. By the time that simple task has feature-creeped up to more than 20 lines I start to wish I'd written it in Perl. So I rewrite. By the time that Perl script has crept up to more than 200 lines I start to wish it was written in Python. So I rewrite. By the time that Python script has crept up to 2000 lines I start to wish I'd farmed the job out to a team of programmers, and I give up caring what language its written in and make them do it as a web service. Then I write a small shell script to call their web service. When that shell script has feature-creeped up to more than 20 lines..." — Bazman. "Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly..." — Larry Wall (of Buy at Amazon.comPerl fame). "Larry Wall invented Perl. If that doesn't show the mind-twisting effect that religion can have on some people, I don't know what does." — UserGogol upon learning that Buy at Amazon.comLarry Wall is Christian. "After Perl everything else is just assembly language." "I would rather use Java than Perl. And I'd rather be eaten by a crocodile than use Java." — Trouser. "Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSs is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders." — Alanna. "I won't program in java anymore. I'm not Marxist and don't believe in classes." — phluid. "Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like." — pixadel. "While the PHP libraries may be a touch on the fragile and 'arbitrary' side, compared to the libraries in Java, for example, the language itself is like Miss America to Perl's Roseanne Barr." — Fnkmaster. "Perl is like my ex-girlfriend... I used to be all over her^H^H^Hit but am now fawning over the knockout redhead Ruby. Unfortunately, I had several children with my ex that still need to be cared for — feature improvements, bugfixes, restarts. Hopefully one day they'll grow up and leave the house so Ruby can have me all to herself." — tedhiltonhead. "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions'. Now they have two problems." — Jamie Zawinski. "Q: When do I need xml ? A: When I need a new buzz word for my resume." — From the W3 XML page.

Lost your mbile phone, no problem! use Spimes. Lost your Car keys, no problem! use Spimes. Can’t find your teenage kid, no problem! use Spimes. What is Spimes? well according to World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling: “SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and ’searchabiliity’ to even the most mundane of physical products.” Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth. This same paradigm will find you “wrangling” with product-lifecycle- management systems that do for physical objects what the iPod has done for music. These and other radical ideas are delivered in Sterling’s latest book`Shaping Things’. This concise book was written to inspire designers to visualize radical scenarios connecting information technology and sustainability in a new ecology of artifacts. Sterling suggests new connections between the virtual world and the physical world that will have you rethinking many of your assumptions about how we relate to products. He will be joined by Scott Klinker, 3-D Designer-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI who leads a graduate design program known for giving form to experimental cultural ideas. Klinker’s own design work focuses on digital customization as industry shifts from mass production toward niche production in a networked society. The presentation will include an invitation for Sterlling and Klinker/ Cranbrook to team-up with Google to create a short documentary film that would portray a speculative future of life with SPIMES. Distributed online, this short film would convey the look and feel of SPIME scenarios as a provocation for widespread industry discussion about the new potentials of ubiquitous, ambient, searchable, geolocative products. That was part of Google Tech Talks april 30, 2007

is it confirmed? I heard the rumor on some blogs but none is confirmed and Suse is the Lexus the daddy of all opensource distro's

Digital I was wondering how long would i take you to see this post since you are after all a debian supporter.. Debian's lil baby "ubuntu" is gaining alot of foothold now even Michael Dell (owner of THE dell) runs ubuntu in his laptop!! but still opensuse forever

nice list thanks mate

DRM (Digital Restriction Management), They only abolishing it because it doesn't work, 80% of you guys using hacked software never bought a Microsoft genuine software unless it came pre-installed in machine, and for jobbs his itunes store was the biggest failure people love limewire for mp3's and forum board and Sony had that scandle couple of yrs ago . Although next time you download mp3 from limewire you could be in for good surprise these days linux gaining more and more popularity and becoming more user friendly recognizing hardware comes with thousands of softwares to manage everything from your bluetooth to your wireless Phew! anyhow it would b interesting to know what you guys think of Creative Commons and GNU

I posted The full documentary "Pirates of Silicon Valley" that might give you a deeper insight

lol well thanks to global warming we been enjoying quite a good weather lately, all Londoners are urged not to recycle or offset or whatever else they do these days so we could carry on having this nice weather ps; can't go down there i am hiding from an arranged marriage waiting for me there!!!

whats up North bro ? you getting bit lonely up there? need some Nomads?

About this Talk Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: "If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now." Watch it Here

Watch and then decide.. This is video from Google Video originally was on BBC you could watch it here or HERE

yeah there are LOADS of free fonts websites but so far I've been using this site http://www.dafont.com/ for general fonts but try these links straight from my never ending bookmarks I posted a great read about fonts just yesterday maybe you find it interesting at my blog ..and I am glad you liked the tutorials if you guys have any specific package you interested in just drop me a line and I'll try to hook you up

OKai guys here it goes , although I haven't tried all these but it should be fun and good excuse to open up your photoshop and play !!! 1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette. 2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge. 3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it. 4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser. 5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box. 6. In Photoshop, all “Cancel” buttons in a window can be changed to a “Reset” button by holding Alt. 7. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy. 8. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area. 9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click. 10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl. Can't post the rest in one topic so just follow the link for the complete Tutorial

Woohoo at last they released the 4.0 I always though Debian is an excellent server but weak workstation hope this one going to be cool... I will try to check it out this week and report back!! although I don't think it will be as good as my pretty powerful Suse .. ----------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released April 8th, 2007 The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB. Using a now fully integrated installation process, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 comes with out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions. This release introduces a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system supporting scripts using composed characters and complex languages; the installation system for Debian GNU/Linux has now been translated to 58 languages. Also beginning with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, the package management system has been improved regarding security and efficiency. Secure APT allows the verification of the integrity of packages downloaded from a mirror. Updated package indices won't be downloaded in their entirety, but instead patched with smaller files containing only differences from earlier versions. Debian GNU/Linux runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of eleven architectures are supported including: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386) and IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm), IBM S/390 (s390) and – newly introduced with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 – AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64). Debian GNU/Linux can be installed from various installation media such as DVDs, CDs, USB sticks and floppies, or from the network. GNOME is the default desktop environment and is contained on the first CD. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) and the Xfce desktop can be installed through two new alternative CD images. Also newly available with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 are multi-arch CDs and DVDs supporting installation of multiple architectures from a single disc. Debian GNU/Linux can be downloaded right now via bittorrent (the recommended way), jigdo or HTTP; see Debian GNU/Linux on CDs for further information. It will soon be available on DVD and CD-ROM from numerous vendors, too. This release includes a number of updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.5a (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.14, the Xfce 4.4 desktop environment, the GNUstep desktop 5.2, X.Org 7.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a, GIMP 2.2.13, Iceweasel (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3), Icedove (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5), Iceape (an unbranded version of Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.8), PostgreSQL 8.1.8, MySQL 5.0.32, GNU Compiler Collection 4.1.1, Linux kernel version 2.6.18, Apache 2.2.3, Samba 3.0.24, Python 2.4.4 and 2.5, Perl 5.8.8, PHP 4.4.4 and 5.2.0, Asterisk 1.2.13, and more than 18,000 other ready to use software packages. Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 from the previous release, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 codenamed sarge, are automatically handled by the aptitude package management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree also by the apt-get package management tool. As always, Debian GNU/Linux systems can be upgraded quite painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the release notes for possible issues. For detailed instructions about installing and upgrading Debian GNU/Linux, please see the release notes. Please note that the release notes will be further improved and translated to additional languages in the coming weeks. About Debian Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, developed by more than a thousand volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. Debian's dedication to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development model make it unique among GNU/Linux distributions. The Debian project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract, and its commitment to provide the best operating system possible. Debian 4.0 is another important step in that direction. Source

Can't wait for Human 1.5 Science should go far and evolve because humanbeings are evolving too...

Linux Air Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is "You had to do what with the seat?" UNIX Airways Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building. Air DOS Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again. They the push again, jump on again, and so on... Mac Airlines All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to know, so just shut up. Windows Air The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever. Windows NT Air Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.

It is a movie! a fiction might based the overall story on spartans but the rest is fiction so chillout take your girl/boy to the movies get some pop corn and enjoy the show ..!!!

Chinese speak couple of languages in their country but in India every town have different language and they don't even understand each other the Hindi language is common all over the country though