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Living Room / Used Computer, $116,000 or Best Offer

« on: May 24, 2013, 02:57 PM »

Anyone here know anyone who had an Apple 1? Only 175 to 200 were produced in the Jobs family garage. Wikipedia says that 40,000 (original)Apple IIs were made, so they're not rare.



Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions - NYTimes.com

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Living Room / Did you know DonationCoder has a Wikipedia article?

« on: May 19, 2013, 08:16 PM »

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Living Room / Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:25 PM »

Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired

Is this a bunch of bull or not?

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Living Room / 7 Online Multi-Engine Antivirus Scanners to Scan Suspicious Files

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:21 PM »

7 Online Multi-Engine Antivirus Scanners to Scan Suspicious Files

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Is there a utility that will tell you the level of a QR code?

« on: April 21, 2013, 07:27 PM »

Hopefully, free. Or is this something I should request here? I am curious at how good my QR decoder program is at reading printed codes. Level seems to matter with this.

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Living Room / Reddit outages today caused by a ‘malicious DDoS attack,’ not Boston manhunt

« on: April 20, 2013, 03:11 PM »

Is Reddit up again?

Reddit outages today caused by a ‘malicious DDoS attack,’ not Boston manhunt traffic

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Living Room / How to open a can with a spoon

« on: April 18, 2013, 07:57 PM »

This doesn't see silly enough to go in Silly Humor.



How to open a can with a spoon

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General Software Discussion / What was your first smartphone?

« on: April 16, 2013, 08:37 PM »

Did you ever have a Simon or Nokia 9000 phone?

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Living Room / Malwarebytes Secure Backup Beta launches

« on: April 16, 2013, 01:15 PM »

Malwarebytes Secure Backup Beta launches

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Living Room / Some Ars Technica articles

« on: April 15, 2013, 01:12 PM »

Challenge accepted Dwarf Fortress pros show Ars up with insane 10-hour forts  Ars Technica
I know we have some Dwarf Fortress people here.

Possible security disasters loom with rollout of new top-level domains  Ars Technica

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Living Room / Bing delivers five times more malicious sites than Google, says report

« on: April 13, 2013, 04:34 PM »

Another salvo in the Bing vs. Google war. And it that a male Google assaulting a female Bing?

Bing delivers five times more malicious sites than Google, says report  VentureBeat

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Living Room / Want conversion of animated GIF for use in pdf

« on: April 06, 2013, 07:36 PM »

I've spent a lot of time searching for a way to convert an animated GIF into something that can be used in a Libre Office Writer pdf on the 'net. The .pdf file I have doesn't animate the gif as a picture and Writer doesn't have an option to use it as a "movie". I don't want to buy a program to convert just one gif and the one trial program I tested only converted half the gif. Is there someone here who has a program or can get the GIF converted so the pdf will have an animated illustration. Writer says it can't create the .odt document as a .htm hypertext. I don't want to include all the web page stuff in the document(as a mht file). The .pdf version, the original GIF and a link to the original web page are included here.

Curiosity's Parachute Flaps in the Martian Wind  Discovery News

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Living Room / Zuckerberg's first website contained an early Facebook prototype - TechSpot

« on: April 05, 2013, 02:54 AM »

Did you use it (or even see it)?



Zuckerberg's first website contained an early Facebook prototype - TechSpot

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Living Room / New glasses-free 3-D is like a hologram in your pocket - FutureTech

« on: March 21, 2013, 02:33 PM »

Even if you're not interested in the 3D article, there are others on that page.



New glasses-free 3-D is like a hologram in your pocket - FutureTech

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Living Room / Wrigley Making Caffeinated Gum - New Alert Energy Caffeine Gum

« on: March 18, 2013, 03:11 PM »

How many people here need this kind of thing?



Wrigley Making Caffeinated Gum - New Alert Energy Caffeine Gum

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Living Room / Google Keep note-taking app spotted

« on: March 18, 2013, 03:06 PM »

The article had no graphics worth including here.

Google Keep note-taking app spotted  Internet & Media - CNET News

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Living Room / Reach Into Transparent Computer, Grab Content

« on: March 12, 2013, 09:52 AM »

But can you reach into the screen during a video chat and grab the other person?



Reach Into Transparent Computer, Grab Content

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Living Room / How safe is your PIN?

« on: March 05, 2013, 08:14 PM »

How safe is your PIN?

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Living Room / 25 ways technology has changed our lives

« on: March 05, 2013, 08:02 PM »

I'm wondering how much comment this article will get?



25 ways technology has changed our lives

Spoiler

Who has spotted the typo above?

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Living Room / Raspberry Pi makers unveil camera, issue challenge to photographers Ars Technica

« on: March 05, 2013, 07:57 PM »

Anyone here interested in this contest?



Raspberry Pi makers unveil camera, issue challenge to photographers  Ars Technica

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Living Room / Internet Explorer 10 arrives on Windows 7

« on: March 01, 2013, 10:42 AM »

I installed and tried IE 10 last night and thought it was much quicker than IE 9 on this Win 7 machine. Anyone else going to try it(Win 7 only, of course). I downloaded it straight from MS, not from the article's link.



Internet Explorer 10 arrives on Windows 7 - CNET Reviews

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Living Room / WebKit rules!

« on: February 27, 2013, 06:41 PM »

First look Opera shows its relevance in a WebKit world  - Ars Technica

I couldn't find any good pictures in these links.

Opera embraces WebKit in browser brain transplant

The Pros And Cons Of A WebKit Monoculture  - TechCrunch

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Living Room / Bizarre old-school spyware attacks governments, sports Mark of the Beast

« on: February 27, 2013, 04:25 PM »

I think viruses are a popular topic here.

Bizarre old-school spyware attacks governments, sports Mark of the Beast  Ars Technica

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Living Room / Keep a roll of toilet paper in your car's trunk

« on: February 26, 2013, 01:02 PM »

Some interesting posts in this thread. Reddit, so NSFW.

Keep a roll of toilet paper in your car's trunk

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Living Room / Engineering light

« on: February 20, 2013, 11:34 AM »

Choreographing light

This one requires a New Scientist subscription.
Engineering light - Pull an image from nowhere