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Since a was a kid i used to like having a calendar on my desk or on a wall in my room back home. I kept this habit over the time, but this year i realised i don't have one. So i accidentally searched the Web for a calendar and i found this: a PDF art calendar.How's that you might wonder. Well, it's pretty simple. You just have the pages of the calendar in a format PDF document, usually at 300 DPI, so that all you have to do is print them a...

That's the question Steve Bryant from Google watch posed himself and made up with a design for Google's homepage if it should follow Yahoo's present design. The result it's pretty cluttered for my taste, but it's not bad at all.What do you think, was Google wrong for all this time?Google Homepage in Steve's Bryant vision Source: Google Watch...

If you're not sure that Vista is worth buying you can now get a clearer picture of how the new OS looks like by accessing a demo version in Microsoft's Vista Business Test Drive program. All you have to do is provide a valid email address, and browse with Internet Explorer 6 or higher. Firefox fans are like always excluded from this pleasure.Once you get there you shouldn't hold your breath, the website it just a PR action. You only have acce...

If you have enough memory sticks you know how annoying it is to carry them all around, to remember which one is free, which one has higher capacity and so on. Of course you might say: sell those old pieces of junk and buy only one of 8 or 16 GB. Yeah, I'll do that first time I'll win the lottery.Letting jokes aside, someone had a very nice idea, to connect in chains multiple USB drives, in order to increase storage capacity.If you don't ...

If you like style but you don't like Apple then you have only one alternative and that's called Sony. From beginnings the Japanese manufacturer has emerged as a style creator not follower. It's new creation, VAIO TP1 Living Room PC, distinguish itself by round shapes and white milky coating, iPod like you might say.What else does it do besides looking gorgeous? If you get past the looks, VAIO TP1 is a regular PC with a mainstream configurat...

Every once in a while someone gets bored with his life and because it's not man enough he blames everyone else for his misery (women seem unafected by this egocentric feeling). Well, today it's time for some "fucking pirate" (I assume that's his nickname) to blame SEO Gurus and implicitly their websites for his problems and decided to attack a number of well known SEO blogs from the blogosphere, a word that he hates so much.Wordpress, the blo...

With Vista nearing it's launch day for end-users, everybody is trying to get new products on shelves, to welcome rich ignorant customers who don't know anything about the power requirements of the next generation Microsoft OS. I don't want to sound anti-Bill Gates but I've tried Vista Premium on a dual-core CPU with 1 GB of RAM and I can say that I've never heard the hard-drive screaming so much since I've owned a 486 PC with 8 MB of RAM running ...

How small do you think any PC accessory can get? Le't take for example a Bluetooth adapter. Certainly it can't be smaller than it's USB connector, but it is an achievement to get the adapter circuit smaller than the USB part.Mogo, an unknown peripheral producer, till today, introduced at CES 2007 the world's smallest Bluetooth adapter, called Mogo Dapter. We won't bother you with the specs (you can view them in this PDF file) but from what ca...

Guns are bad. Guns kill people. Don't buy guns, buy flowers instead. All these are slogans heard all over the world. Amazingly, a couple of Brits, who are regularly known for their conservatorism, combined the ideas of guns and flowers in a bizarre concept: the gun vase.Yes, that's right. You have a gun shaped vase, white coloured and made of porcelain. Instead of bullets, you fill them with water. Then you stick a flower down their barrel...

If you have a blog it's likely that you use Wordpress as your blogging platform in it's free hosted form or on your own server. What makes Wordpress so good: I think is it's simplicity and flexibility. If you just want a simple blog you can have one in a matter of minutes and if you want to go pro you can extend it with thousands of plug-ins and make it look like a more complex website that actually acts like one.Now that everything is sette...