January 2009Monthly Archives

Doctor Who's most faithful traveling companion is still out there in space, fighting monsters and stuff. K9, the robot dog and the BBC's answer to R2D2, is starring in a spin-off series, already filming.

The method is just as popular today as it was back in 2007 when we ran our GTD Ninja post featuring more than 50 apps to help you be more productive and organized. But there are a host of new applications out there to help you be even more productive this year. Below are more than 100 of them.

In more than 50 years as an actor John Scott Martin’s most enduring role was one in which he was never seen, as the chief Dalek in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.

Q:Did Barack Obama's inauguration really cost 4 times as much as George Bush's 2005 inauguration?
There seems to be a lot of sloppy reporting about the total cost of the Obama inauguration vs. the Bush inauguration that is being used for partisan attacks. I've heard $160 million for Obama vs. 40 million + for Bush. I've also heard Bush's 2005 inauguration was really $157 million. What are the facts?
A:Claims of a huge disparity are untrue. Actually, an apples-to-apples comparison shows that the two inaugurations likely cost about the same.

Enhancing any piece of software always requires a balancing act: what if the improvements also result in new problems for existing users? Over at APC, I've reported on what father-of-Linux Linus Torvalds had to say on the issue during a session at Linux.conf.au in Hobart. Linux is firmly built on the principle of not incorporating a fix, even for a well-recognised bug, if that fix in turn breaks something else:

All the recipes here are both vegan and vegetarian unless stated otherwise. You even can add your favourite recipe to the list if you want.

You can make it in an ice cream maker as well if you have one.

This recipe is ideal for diabetic people, as it contains no sugar, and it yieds only 3 grams of fat and only 60 kilocalories (250 kilo joules).

Got you curious, didn't I?
Rasamalai, ice cream and that too low-fat, sounds too good to be true, right?
Yes, I am putting all those three magic words in one sentence.

We’ve gathered up 20 great free WordPress 2.7 compatible themes that are ready for you to download. These themes cover a wide variety of needs, layouts and customization, so this small sampling could provide you with hours of fun!

Learn these 10 tricks and you'll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe…well, maybe not the universe, but you will need these tips to play in the big leagues. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems.

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It is Martin Luther King Jr. Day across America. We took this opportunity to post his most famous speech I Have A Dream, which he delivered after a march on Washington D.C. – August 28, 1963.

The crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial was organized to support proposed civil rights legislation and end segregation.

This year’s commemoration seems extremely fitting in that it takes place one day before Barack Obama takes the oath of office to become the 44th President of the United States.

useful for us who take out iphone to 3!

very cool gallery!my next tattoos: a tux, a tardis, and a special symbol created for me:)

A number of users have reported a sudden inability to send SMS text messages on the iPhone 3G, receiving the message "error sending" upon attempting to send. Among the user reports: MEEEEEEEEEEEE:(

Whether you got a shiny new flash drive over the holidays or your old thumb drive is looking for a new lease on life, pack it full of goodness with these five killer portable applications.

Windows only: Concerned you're wasting disk space with duplicate photos but too cautious to go about wantonly deleting pics? Fire up VisiPics and find those dupes. VisiPics is an extremely thorough program. Many duplicate checkers are limited to comparing the file name, size, and date of creation to compare files and flag them as duplicates. VisiPics uses an algorithm to examine each picture and compare it to the rest, seeking out similarities based on the actual image not just the parameters of the file.

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From Countdown. Keith Olbermann (yay) sums up the last eight years of what the Bush administration has brought us.

When “Quantum of Solace” director Marc Forster was chosen to helm the adaptation of Max Brooks’ “World War Z” zombie-stravaganza, we noted that it was a surprising pairing — but with noted television, movie and comics author J. Michael Straczynski already penning the screenplay and Brad Pitt’s Plan B producing, the project was certainly developing some heat. Now, with “Solace” in its fifth impressive week at the box office, MTV News spoke to Straczynski about the addition of Forster to the already buzzworthy project and how he plans to adapt Brooks’ novel.

Do you want to get a sneak peek at the monsters of Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are? The skateboard company that Jonze co-founded, Girl Skateboards Company, will be releasing a limited series of skateboards featuring the monsters from the film adaptation. Check out more images after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Adam Pope for the tip.