October 2007
Geek To Live: Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate...
Tags: gmail imap thunderbird Posted by: sameera (via Sameera’s Favorite Links from Diigo)
Google Begins 'Gmail 2.0' Rollout -- Gmail --... →
Google on Tuesday confirmed it is giving Gmail a new look. Two prominent blogs that cover Google — Google Blogscoped and Google Operating System — have posted screenshots of a new Gmail interface that has been made available to a limited number of users.
Hackers turbocharge password cracks with nVidia... →
NVidia’s GeForce 8800 graphics card could be utilised to “dramatically” reduce the time needed by hackers to perform brute-force password cracks, security experts have warned. Moscow-based IT security software vendor Elcomsoft claimed that the GeForce 8000 could be used to increase the speed of password cracking by a factor of 25. This means that Windows Vista’s password...
Online Image Editor - The Code Project - ASP.NET
Tags: asp.net graphics Posted by: sameera (via Sameera’s Favorite Links from Diigo)
polishlinux.org » GIMP tricks: Liquid rescaling... →
Have you ever taken a picture which would be just great only if you could remove that strange unwanted object that showed up in the middle of nowhere and now kills the whole effect? Or perhaps you just want to get rid of your ex-girlfriend and keep the photo with a fantastic landscape alone? Whatever your secret plans are, GIMP Liquid rescale plugin is there for you. Just use it!
On Deck with the C-130 Hercules →
In November 1963 the C-130 Hercules made history by setting a record for the largest and heaviest airplane landing on a Navy aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier was the USS Forrestal, a US Navy supercarrier named after former Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. The Forrestal was launched on December 11th, 1954, and was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers.
Microsoft to push functional programming into the... →
Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on the .NET platform and could potentially help legitimize functional programming in enterprise environments. Microsoft’s promotion of F# to a fully-supported language in Visual Studio is also...
PSDTuts - Just Great Photoshop Tutorials »...
Tags: effects graphic-design photoshop Posted by: sameera Comments: One of my favourite ‘looks’ is the sort of old-collage feel of old photos and old paper. It’s a favourite because it lets you work images and text together really easily. In this tutorial we’ll put together a poster where there is a main photograph and a lot of text using the old-collage feel. posted by...
Awesome Lego creations - srsly cool →
75 years ago Lego was created. Since then it’s entertained generations of children and adults and inspired creativity in millions all over the world. Check out these awesome creations fans, artists and engineers have made!
TG Daily - Scientists create most powerful... →
Raleigh (NC) - Scientists recently announced they have fired the most powerful antimatter beam ever created. Comprised of positrons (antimatter electrons) emitted from a large plate and focused into a beam, the emission strength exceeds the previous record held by a laboratory in Munich, Germany.
Design Watercolor Effect Menu
Tags: effects photoshop web-design Posted by: sameera (via Sameera’s Favorite Links from Diigo)
Createlf - Is Integrated Platform Web 3.0? →
People have been talking about as semantic web being the next big thing and as “Web 3.0”. We also mentioned about it at a previous post. However, there are some people that have been talking in a different direction stressing that generic platforms with applications based on pulling of data and which can be run anywhere are in for future. Here, I will attempt to explain what is the...
Rare colour photos from World War 1 - srsly cool →
Little is known about each individual photo, they are believed to be digitally coloured. During WW1 colour photography was in it’s infancy, pioneered by photographer Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud using Autochrome plates invented by the Lumiere brothers. These photos are either digitally remastered or
Camouflage →
During WWII the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
Top Ten (10) Military Bombers Of All Time | Guns... →
In modern air forces, the distinction between bombers, fighter-bombers, and attack aircraft has become blurred. Many attack aircraft, even ones that look like fighters, are optimized to drop bombs, with very little ability to engage in aerial combat. Following are the top ten military bombers of all time.
Flash-Based Galleries For Your Images | Graphics →
In many situations web designers should avoid Flash and prefer usual text-based presentation. For instance, in most tasks related to pure text presentation Flash is neither necessary nor user-friendly, and it also has some serious accessibility problems: in fact, “pure” text is easier to maintain and easier to copy and paste. However, if you’d like to present some multimedia-content, particularly...