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GUIOlympics GUIOlympics: The International XP Visual Styles skinning competition! If you like skins for your OS or applications, jump back jack! There is an awesome competition to find out who the best skinners are. Check out the GUI Olymics website and take a peak at some of the stunning XP Visual Styles that have been developed in this competition. Who will take home the medals? Posted by WEBnME @ 3/31/2004 08:23:00 PM 
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The Truth Behind Bad Websites Custom Web Design - Top Six Reasons Why Websites End Up Unusable Ever wonder why websites end up being useless and dead weights? The above article lays out six reasons why websites end up being wonderful for their designers and useless to visitors. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/31/2004 04:13:00 PM
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Have A Nice Day http://www.riversongs.com/Flas/lovely.html Need a second to relax and chill a bit? Check out the URL above for an entertaining and relaxing flash presentation. The flash presentation is exceptional. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/30/2004 12:24:00 PM
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Get Lit - Light Up Your Computer Environment Looking for some ways to add some lighting effects to your computing environment? Start with the Keyboard - Take a look at the AURAVISION EluminX Illuminated Keyboard. This keyboard is lighted making it great for LAN parties or use in low light environments. Light Up Your Mouse - If your computer didn't come with one, grab a wireless optical mouse. Try out the Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer for a nice fit to your hand and ease of use. But if you want the red glow, try out the Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. Light Up the Power - If you are a gamer or running a lot of devices, you know you need some extra juice. Grab the Antec TrueBlue 480 Watt PSU and in addition to the high wattage, you'll have an internally blue illuminated power supply. Light Your Case - If you have a case with window and are looking to add some extra lighting inside, try the ANTEC LED INT UV MINI LIGHT-STICK 4PIN CONNECTOR 6IN ( IL INT UV ) which also is sound reactive. Inside the Box - Think about UV Reactive wiring with nifty round cables instead of strip cables. StarTech.com 24IN MUTANT MODS UV REACTIVE ( IDERND24UV ) Posted by WEBnME @ 3/30/2004 01:49:00 AM
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The Taxman Cometh - Free Online Filing http://www.irs.gov/ The IRS in partnership with private sector firms offers a free online tax filing services. Depending on your situation you may be able to file taxes faster online and get a refund faster. If you received a check in the mail last summer for the Advance Child Tax Credit, you'll want to look at the IRS's Advance Child Tax Credit reminder page for help on what to report. If you are of a curious nature, you may want to visit The Newsroom to see what the IRS calls the "Dirty Dozen" tax scams. Even innocent participation in these scams can result in "a staggering amount of back interest and penalties." Posted by WEBnME @ 3/29/2004 03:52:00 AM
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Eat Boogers For Better Health? http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_903083.html?menu=" That's right! An Austrian doctor recommends picking your nose and eating it for better health. Apparently doing so helps the body's immune system. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/27/2004 06:31:00 AM
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Laws That Make You Wonder http://www.dumblaws.com/states/index.html Archaic and sometimes pretty dumb laws are cataloged at the above site. You'll find that it is illegal to wash a mule on certain city streets or to flip for coffee at a restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. Some laws do leave you wondering what brought them on. In Whitehall, Montana it is illegal to drive a vehicle with ice picks attached to the wheels. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/26/2004 08:27:00 PM
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Do the Internet By Voice http://www.internetspeech.com/products_consumer.htm With any phone and netEcho you can access the web and any online information you desire. You can even do e-mail or buy from a website. For the visually impaired, this could be a good alternative to traditional screen reader programs. For users with mobility impairments making it difficult to use a keyboard or a mouse, this might be worth a look. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/25/2004 11:26:00 AM
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Free Downloads for Microsoft Office 2003 Microsoft Office Downloads: Downloads for Office 2003 If you've just gotten a copy of Office 2003 and have been wondering whether there are any free "add-in" programs, you'll want to visit the link above. For example, with Outlook 2003 there is a nifty video-cam add-in that will allow you to send a video e-mail. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/24/2004 10:08:00 PM
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Outlook 2003 Productivity Plug-Ins http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/default.asp Pep up Outlook with some plug-ins to make it even more powerful! You can do that with tools from Sperry Software's collection of over a dozen power tools for Outlook. Want to add a date time stamp to the body of your e-mail to establish when you really sent it? Want follow up reminders? Need to watch certain folders? Want random quotes? Need somebody to always be a blind copy to addressee? This is the place for you. They have some great enhancements. Worth a visit. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/23/2004 10:18:00 PM
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Is There A Sex Offender In Your Neighborhood? http://www.criminalcheck.com/sxowebsite/CriminalCheck.jsp PublicData.com as a public service has provided a search engine (at the above URL) where you can search by zip code to obtain a listing of people who have been convicted of sex offenses such as child molestation. Zip code search is not available for Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/23/2004 10:13:00 PM
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Yeti and the Penguin - Flash Creativity http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf Creativity knows no bounds. Here's an example of a flash game that will keep you amused for at least a short time. Take on the roll of a Yeti taking batting practice on a Penguin. Click to start and click to swing. Batter-up. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/22/2004 08:00:00 PM
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DVD Burners War Heats Up - Sony Announces Double Layer DVD http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/4532 If you thought you had the latest in technology with your DVD Burner freshly installed, its time to get ready for an upgrade again. Sony has announced it will be releasing burners that can record up to 8.5 GB of data using two layers to record as opposed to the current one layer burners available today. Phillips Electronics has also announced a competing product line. Verbatim already advertises DVD-R disks with 9.4 GB capacity. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/22/2004 05:00:00 PM
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Step into the Land of Photoshop Creativity http://www.worth1000.com/galleries.asp Creativity with Photoshop is captured in thousands of images at worth1000.com's gallery. The mix of images goes from subtle changes to the surreal to the outlandish. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/21/2004 09:22:00 PM
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The Big Lie and Other Tricks - Spam Promises WEBnME Editorial on UCE (spam) -- Everyone reading this probably is getting an increasing number of spam e-mails every day and many of these messages are full of tricks, lies, and sometimes malicious content. Spam depends on you to work. If you can be fooled into buying something, clicking something, or giving your information; the spammer wins and is encouraged to do more. Its that simple. So what are the tricks, the dangers, and the things to look out for in your e-mail? Here are a few:
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Flashlights from History - A Web Museum http://www.geocities.com/~stuarts1031/flashlight.html If as a younger person you ever had to have that shiny flashlight and then somehow ended up five, ten or more about your house; well then this is the website for you. This website features pictures of some vintage and unusual flashlights dating back more than a century. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/19/2004 05:59:00 PM
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Swat them Skeeters http://www.shockhaber.com/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.htm Bored senseless? Here's just thing for a boring day. Pretend you are down in Mississippi or Louisianna out on the porch in your favorite rocker armed only with a fly swatter. Here they come - skeeters. Swat 'em. You can just swat and swat. Hint - take a break from all that swatting work and just wait a bit to see what happens. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/18/2004 10:05:00 PM
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Dazzling Snow Sculpture and Intriguing Ice Buildings http://www.rtoddking.com/chinawin2003_hb_if.htm Brilliantly lighted ice constructions and artistic snow sculptures are brought to life in a series of delightful photos on R Todd King's website photolog of a visit to Harbin, China's ice festival in 2003. These photos are amazing. Well worth a gander. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/17/2004 09:45:00 PM
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Robotic Legs for $8000 Japan ready to market "robot suit" Back in August, a consortium of Japanese firms announced they were ready to market a robotic powered suit to help older people with walking. At the time little else was released. Now you can see the suit and its components at http://sanlab.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/HAL/indexE.html. On a humorous note we'll have to hope these "robot pants" are nothing like The Wrong Pants of Wallace and Gromit fame. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/17/2004 01:04:00 PM
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World's Smallest Hard Drive - Postage Stamp Sized CNN.com - Guinness record for world's smallest disk drive - Mar 16, 2004 CNN has a great photo of Toshiba's new .85 inch hard drive that is just slightly larger than a quarter. The actual disk platter is smaller than a quarter and will hold 4 GB of data. It will be interesting to see what this does to sales of flash memory thumb drives. Imagine a small drive like this interwoven into your belt with a small processor and close proximity transmitter sharing data between your cell phone, your desktop, and perhaps your toaster. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/17/2004 02:36:00 AM
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Flash Fun - Right/Left Brain Struggle http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf Go ahead - take the color test at this site and see how well you do. It isn't easy. Few people get a 100% on their first try. I'll bet you share this one with friends too. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/15/2004 10:59:00 PM
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UTPD: ATM SCAM ALERT http://www.utexas.edu/admin/utpd/atm.html The University of Texas Police Department has released photos showing how theives mount readers and cameras on standard ATM machines to skim you card number and photograph your PIN entry. Theives later use the information to withdraw thousands from many accounts in short order. Take a moment to see how this scam works. You'll find that the skimmer device is hard to detect once installed. Related Stories:
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Take A Virtual Trip to a Ghost Town http://www.weirdlinks.com/bodie/bodie.htm Once known for having the highest murder rate in the U.S., Bodie is now a ghost town from California's gold rush days. The website above provides a great travelog of a visit there providing web visitors with a look into this old ghost town. Only about 5% of the building remain, but that's enough to give you the impression that buildings then were pretty small and spartan. These rustic buildings were about one step up from a tent town.
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A Home for the Paranoid-Minded at a Mere $595,000 http://ultimatesecurehome.com/secure_home.htm Tucked into man-made rock formations and covered with a carpet of grass this below-ground house looks something like what you would expect in a movie set for a Sci-Fi thriller movie, but the owners are deadly serious about having a secure home. Judge for yourself what to think about this one. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/14/2004 11:17:00 AM
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The Art of Model Building http://hem.bredband.net/thomaskolb/art/models/introduction_e.htm Web tutorials can be very helpful and this site is that. If you have ever thought about building a model of your favorite car, train, aircraft or ship, but were a little worried about getting started, you may want to have a look at this site. It has some great advice on painting, weathering effects, handling decals, and more. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/13/2004 10:32:00 PM
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WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind http://www.webaim.org/ Webmasters - Is your website accessible to those with disabilities? WebAIM has some great tools and lots of information that can help you answer the question yes. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/12/2004 08:43:00 AM
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Malware Mapped - See Threats Worldwide Trend Micro - Virus Map Trend Micro has a nifty clickable map that will allow visitors to see what its online scanners are registering in malware threats around the world. Its data is limited to information from its own online scanner and may not be an accurate assessment of actual conditions. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/11/2004 12:48:00 PM
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Robots in Our Near Future UC Berkeley Human Engineering Laboratory Carrying heavy loads long distances is rough stuff for most people, but the Berkeley Robotics Laboratory has an answer - the BLEEX Project. The Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton allows the wearer to traverse great distances packing a lot of weight without much effort. The prototype is incredible. Can't wait to see the refined finished product! Posted by WEBnME @ 3/11/2004 12:43:00 PM
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Gems from Spam Technology Review http://csrc.nist.gov/spam/ Presentations from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Spam Technology Workshop on February 17, 2004 are now available for public browsing at the above address. You can find a great presentation on "Why Am I Getting All This Spam?" along with discussions of technologies that can be used against spam. Find out what the experts have to say and what is being looked at by the government. While you are at this web page, click on "NIST Computer Security Publications" and you'll find a listing of projects and publications in the area of computer security. Great stuff. The 800 Series of "Special Publications" at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/index.html includes guides on dozens of security topics. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/11/2004 03:08:00 AM
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If I Only Had A Brain http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ugatest1.html The scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz wished for a brain and eventually got a diploma. Apparently the scarecrow should have gone down to the University of Georgia - it would have been a lot less trouble. The examination given to basketball players for a course called "Coaching Principles and Strategies in Basketball" is now online at thesmokinggun.com. It looks like you can have a head full of straw and still pass a college credit examination. The scarecrow would fit right in, but then again nobody would notice because apparently the professor wasn't a stickler for even showing up for the only test in the course. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/10/2004 05:20:00 PM
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Waste Time Grinning Humpday Humor Need a break and a bit of humor in the middle of a tough week? You can kill some time reading the over one hundred humorous stories and jokes at this website. And you may find a few that you just have to share with friends. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/10/2004 12:04:00 AM
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Outstanding Web Interactive Tutorial Test Your Chess: Play Free Chess Games, Tutorials and Checkmate Puzzles. Testyourchess.com is a great example of how the web can be used as a teaching medium. On arrival at the site you can start with a test to determine your skill level at chess or move on to hard chess puzzles right away. As you try each game or puzzle, you'll be prompted with information on what moves are good and which ones are less productive. If you have ever played chess and would like to play better, this site is one that should be in your bookmarks. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/08/2004 11:19:00 AM
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Amuse Yourself with Odd and Quirky Stories from Around the Globe Scotsman.com News - Weird, odd and quirky stories - Ants driven to road rage Tired of the normal, sad fare of local news. Perk it up a bit with news of the odd, weird, or simply quirky stuff that goes on around the globe. One such article reports that ants behave in ways similar to drivers in congested traffic, exhibiting a bit of road rage. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/06/2004 11:26:00 PM
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Be Afraid - Shiver In Your Boots With A Cyber-Thriller Written by a computer engineer working on AMD's leading-edge processors, Cyberterror is a frightening fictional thriller that takes you into the world of terrorism via computer systems. Starting with a terror attack on computers to cause increased pressure in gas lines resulting in houses and building blowing up, the pace is fast with a lot of action set in a realistic backdrop. The author, R. J. Pineiro, sets the scene for an all out cyber-war with the survival of the nation at stake. This is a book that will definitely get you to thinking about things!
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Jump Point for SciFi Readers http://www.sfsite.com/contents.htm If you delight in escaping to other worlds through Science Fiction, you'll want to stop by SFsite.com where you'll find book reviews, opinion pieces, author interviews, and a collection of links to SF conventions, TV, movies, and much more. This site has been around since 1997 and has built up an impressive amount of content. While you are there poke through the "Geeks with Books" column where'll you will find some great commentary on the book business by a bookseller. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/04/2004 10:53:00 PM
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Your Old AOL Disk Could Be Worth Bucks http://www.aolcdroms.com/ The Internet is a splendid playground dotted with some of the most unusual museums to be found. One such is a virtual museum with over 450 different issues of the AOL install CD exhibited, most with an estimated value displayed. One of the more rare hologram disks is worth $65. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/04/2004 04:05:00 PM
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Iraqi Sculpts Statute of U.S. Soldier - True or False? http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/kalat.asp The story has been circulating via e-mail as do many stories. So is it true or false? True! Visit snopes for a great photo of the sculpture depicting a U.S. Soldier grieving for a fallen comrade being comforted by a little Iraqi girl. The sculptor, Kalat, who had been forced to create statues of Saddam Hussein melted down the heads from these old statues to create this memorial statue. It will eventually be on display at Fort Hood. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/04/2004 02:03:00 AM
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Help A Child Grow - Reading Helps Share a book with your child. Those moments of snuggled up reading help your child develop vocabulary and concepts. They help with imagination and they help a child learn to use books to grow for life. Give your child every chance to learn to read and explorer the world. Maybe you have trouble reading or sometimes its hard to always be in the right mood to conjure up all the voices of the characters. If that's the case you may want to think about books that are on tape, CD, or even MP3 that you can listen too with a child or take with you on to relieve the tedium of a long trip. If you are interested in getting some books to listen too (even for yourself on your daily commute), you may want to have a look at the offerings at these sites: Audible.com gets my five headphone rating for having a website that is very easy to use and for giving customers the choice of many download options. At Audible you can pick a selection, download it, and burn it to a CD that you can listen to at home or in the car. They also offer a bonus MP3 player in one of their package deals so you can listen to stories in MP3 format. If you have broadband and want to start listening to a book right away, this is the site for you. Booksontape.com and Recordedbooks.com have been around for a long time providing books on tape directly and through libraries. They offer a variety of formats and a huge selection. If you want a pre-recorded media set and don't want to fuss with downloads, these sites are for you. Definitely worth a four headphone rating. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/02/2004 03:12:00 PM
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There Are So Many Wonders http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm In a wonderful integration of technology and imagery, news.com.au has created a breathtaking and awe inspiring flash presentation cataloging the discoveries made with the Hubble Telescope. Take a moment to turn away from your daily grind to look beyond to the stars. Posted by WEBnME @ 3/01/2004 12:31:00 PM
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