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• Launch Photography Is a Beautiful Collection of Shuttle Photos

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Photographer Ben Cooper has a soft spot for the Space Shuttles; check out this excellent galleries to see everything from dynamic launch photos to beautiful fish-eye photos of the cockpits. Launch Photography [via Neatorama] How To Create a Customized Windows 7 Installation Disc With Integrated Updates How to Get Pro Features in Windows…

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• The History of Digital Storage [Infographic]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  From punch cards to hard drives to cloud based storage, how we stash our data away has changed quite a bit in the last century. Courtesy of Mashable, we have an infographic detailing the evolution of storage and comparing storage size, speed, and prices over the decades. Hit up the link below for a higher resolution image. The History of…

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• InstantWild: Identify Animals From Around the World; Help Scientists

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Web-based/iPhone: InstantWild is an iOS and web application that displays research cameras from around the world; help scientists by turning your eco-voyeurism into positive identification of endangered species. It’s a neat mashup of a fun application and legitimate research. There are hundreds of remote cameras set up around the world,…

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• Understanding Photography Lighting with a Single Egg [Video]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  In this informative video, veteran photographer Joe Edelman demonstrates the basics of photography lighting with a humble egg. An egg is an excellent shape for experimenting with and studying lighting because the curved surfaces provide a nice clean gradient to study how the light wraps and falls as you move around the light source.…

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• Map of the Dead Helps You Plan For a Zombie Apocalypse

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  There’s no time like the present to start charting out your zombie apocalypse escape route. Map of the Dead highlights key locations–like gun stores, gas stations, and pharmacies–in your immediate area. The key to surviving the zombie horde is fast access to supplies. Unless you have a bunker under your house filled with goodies,…

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• Why Are Minimized Programs Often Slow to Open Again?

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  It seems particularly counterintuitive: you minimize an application because you plan on returning to it later and wish to skip shutting the application down and restarting it later, but sometimes maximizing it takes even longer than launching it fresh. What gives? Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of…

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• Did Blowing Into Nintendo Cartridges Really Help?

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Anyone old enough to remember playing cartridge-based games like those that came with the Nintendo Entertainment System or its successors certainly remembers how blowing across the cartridge opening always seemed to help a stubborn game load–but did blowing on them really help? Mental Floss shares the results of their fact…

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• Toolbar Cleaner Strips Toolbars, Add-ons, and Browser Helper Objects

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  If you’re trying to remove all the crap off a friend’s bogged down computer, Toolbar Cleaner is a handy little app that does a thorough job stripping away spammy toolbars, dubious add-ons, and browser helper objects. Toolbar Cleaner is a free application that helps remove unwanted garbage from your Internet Explorer,…

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• DIY Leak Detector Prevents Water Damage

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  There’s no need to shell out for an expensive commercial leak detector when you can cobble together a simple one from basic parts. Over at Make Magazine, Electrical Engineer Jeff Tegre shares a straight forward guide to cobbling together a simple leak detector. Armed with the leak detector you can get an early alert…

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• building a game for different resoulution phones

  - by Jason

  Hi, I am starting some tests for building a game on the android program. So far everything is working and seems nice. However I do not understand how to make sure my game looks correct on all phones as the all will have slightly different screen ratios (and even very different on some odd phones) What I am doing…

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• What is Cyber Monday? [Infographic]

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Nearly everyone is familiar with Black Friday, the massive shopping day right after Thanksgiving, but Cyber Monday is a recent invention. Check out this infographic for the low down. Cyber Monday is only a scant six years old, an invention of online retailers looking to create a shopping day to compete with the…

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• Asciifi Is a Lightening Fast Web-Based ASCII Converter

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  If you have a hankering from some old-school ASCII artwork, Asciifi is a free and lightening fast HTML5 ASCII converter. Despite the simplicity of ASCII images (pictures created not out of a grid of colored pixels like a standard digital photograph but out of a grid of text characters) many ASCII converters are…

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• LED 49-unit Quadcopter Formation Foreshadows The Robot Takeover

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Perhaps there are a few more steps between 49 semi-autonomous quadcopters doing a little aerial dancing and Skynet, but we’re awed and apprehensive at the same time. Check out the video to see them in action. The video comes to us courtesy of a German art conference, Ars Electronica, and a colloboration between…

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• Kindle Paperwhite Jailbroken; Ready for Custom Screensavers

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  If you’re already longing for some custom screensavers on your new Kindle Paperwhite, you’re in luck. The new Kindle has been jailbroken, opening it up to all sorts of custom hacks and modifications. For extra guidance on what to do once you’ve jailbroken, check out our guide to adding the screensaver hack and…

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• Angry Birds Seasons Free Until 7/12

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  iOS: Angry Birds Seasons is free until Thursday of this week–grab a copy to check out the new summer addition free of charge: Piglantis. In an ever expanding bid to add extra life to the physics-based game, the newest expansion features water-based puzzles and scenery mixed in with that bird-to-pig smashing…

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• Flutter Enabled Hand Gesture Control of Your Music and Movies

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  You’ve got a dozen windows open, your media player is buried underneath somewhere, and the phone rings. Do you reach for the speaker power button, dig through the windows, or simply wave your hand to pause the music? With Flutter, a simple gesture is all it takes. Flutter is a free application for Windows…

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• What You Said: How You Customize Your Computer

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Earlier this week we asked you to share the ways you customize your computing experience. You sounded off in the comments and we rounded up your tips and tricks to share. Read on to see how your fellow personalize their computers. It would seem the first stop on just about everyone’s customization route…

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• The Science Behind Salty Airline Food

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  In this collection, Artist Signe Emma combines a scientific overview of the role salt plays in airline food with electron microscope scans of salt crystals arranged to look like the views from an airplane–a rather clever and visually stunning way to deliver the message. Attached to the collection is…

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• Christmas Captured with LEGO Star Wars

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Combine the mini figures and modules from a LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar with some creative photography, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for this some rather fun Star Wars-themed Christmas photos. LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar Photos [Flickr via Boing Boing] Secure Yourself by Using…

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• Why Is Vertical Resolution Monitor Resolution so Often a Multiple of 360?

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Stare at a list of monitor resolutions long enough and you might notice a pattern: many of the vertical resolutions, especially those of gaming or multimedia displays, are multiples of 360 (720, 1080, 1440, etc.) But why exactly is this the case? Is it arbitrary or is there something more at…

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• Star Wars: An Infographic Flowchart

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  If you can’t get enough of Star Wars lore, this minimalist set of infographics details major characters, conflicts, and alliances in the Star Wars universe. Courtesy of designer Marc Morera, the series of Star Wars infographics give a quick summary, presents all the major players in the…

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• Hack a Nintendo Zapper into a Real Life Laser Blaster

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Why settle for zapping ducks on the screen when you could be popping balloons and lighting matches on fire? This awesome (but rather dangerous) hack turns an old Nintendo zapper into a legitimate laser gun. Courtesy of the tinkers over at North Street Labs, we’re treated to a Nintendo…

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• Do Not Track Plus Stops Web Sites from Tracking You

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Do Not Track Plus is a Firefox extension that combines the do-non’t-track header with protection lists for comprehensive tracking avoidance while surfing the web. Unlike all-or-nothing no tracking flags, the Do Not Track Plus extension for Firefox allows you to set white and black…

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• What You Said: How You Monitor Your Computer

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Earlier this week we asked you to share your computer monitoring tips and tricks, now we’re back to share the wealth. Read on to see how your fellow reader monitor their gear. One of the more popular monitoring tools, thanks in part to the amount of things beyond just hardware it…

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• From the Tips Box: Telescope Laser Sights, Drobox Desktops, and Kindle Clipping Conversions

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Once a week we round up some great reader tips and share them with everyone; this week we’re looking at telescope laser sights, syncing your desktop with Dropbox, and converting your Kindle Clippings file. How To Properly Scan a Photograph (And Get An Even Better Image) …

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