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Long-life [linving] hinges are made from polypropylene or polyethylene. If the hinge is not expected to last forever, engineering resins like nylon and acetal can be used.

via Living Hinge Design.

Software list:

• 123D Catch (Autodesk)
• PhotoScan (Agisoft)
• Photomodeller, Bundler
• Visual SFM
• Photosynth (Microsoft)
• Acutrans 3D
• Zsurf

Motorola Triumph CM9 Android 4.0 (ICS)

via [ROM][ALPHA] Triumph CM9 v0.6.13.3 Released – Android Forums.

Music Sequencer
Digital Audio Workstation
Rosegarden
LMMS
MIDI Editors and Sequencers
FL Studio
Audio Mixing Programs (Free & Open Source)

Gallery of pictures taken in the United States and Canada (most states and provinces) that should be attributed to Léandre Bouchard released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

Phrack issue #68 | Release date : 14/04/2012

PosteRazorMake your own poster!

via PosteRazor – Make your own poster!.

10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server

via 10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server | Ewan's Blog on IT and stuff like it.

Software-Defined Radio For $11.

DVB-T sticks based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as a cheap SDR.

RTL-SDR compatibility list [work in progress, please help!].

USRP Interfaces – SpenchWiki.

Windows instructions

HDSDR

Winrad

WRPLUS

Ten Simple Rules for Starting a Company

via PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Starting a Company.

Tell Everyone About Your Business Idea – Don’t Keep It A Secret

via Tell Everyone About Your Business Idea – Don't Keep It A Secret | Entrepreneurship As An Adventure Sport.

Rule based on %SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe

Under the "Programs and Services" tab, Go to the "Settings" tab, select "apply to this service", select "windows update" OK.

Only TCP remote ports 80, 443 are required.

via Allow Windows Update through windows firewall – Neowin Forums.

c:\netsh firewall set logging droppedpackets = enable

Although the log file doesn’t include the name of the program that is trying to make an outbound connection, the log file can then be found at: %systemroot%\system32\LogFiles\Firewall\pfirewall.log

via Enabling Windows firewall "dropped packets" log – Microsoft Answers.

Add these custom filters to Adblockplus:

• ||addthis.com^$third-party
• ||addtoany.com^$third-party
• ||sharethis.com^$third-party

via Adblock Plus – View topic – Share/Save pop-ups.

12 Free Or Almost Free Tools To Grow Your Business In 2012.

Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer (Kickstarter).

Portege R835-P84 Laptop Specifications (PDF)

Performance

Processor*

Intel® Core™ i5-2435M processor

Operating System*

Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), SP1

Graphics Engine*

Mobile Intel® HD Graphics

Graphics Memory*

64MB-1696MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory

Memory and Storage

Memory*

4GB DDR3 1333MHz memory

Hard Drive*

640GB HDD (5400rpm)

Optical Drive*

DVD-SuperMulti drive (+/-R double layer)

Audio and Video

Display Size

13.3″ widescreen

Display Type*

HD TruBrite® LED Backlit display with Intel® Wireless Display Technology

Display Resolution

Supports 720p content, 16:9 aspect ratio, 1366×768 (HD)

Audio

Headphone jack (stereo), Standard stereo speakers, Microphone jack (mono)

Communication

Webcam

Webcam and microphone built into LCD bezel

Wireless LAN*

Intel® Wi-Fi® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n + WiDi Capable)*

Bluetooth

No Bluetooth (No Antenna)

Modem*

No Modem port

LAN

10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN

Power

AC Adapter

65W (19V 3.42A) Auto-sensing, 100-240V / 50-60Hz input

Battery

Li-Ion (66Wh, 6-Cell)

Battery Life*

Up to 9 hours

via Toshiba Portégé® R835-P84 13.3″ widescreen Laptop (Blue) | Laptops | Computers | us.toshiba.com.

Web Search by the people, for the people

via YaCy – The Peer to Peer Search Engine: Home.

Connect your things to the Internet, without a nerd degree.

via Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter.

Download World’s ugliest song mp3.

http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html

Lately we’ve been inundated with 100k’ balloon flights and amazing video footage from space — the flights usually taking better than an hour to achieve apogee. Derek Deville took a shortcut to 121k’ using a ‘home made’ Q rocket motor and a ton of engineering genius. On September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Qu8k (pronounced ‘Quake’) launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000′ in 92 seconds before returning safely to earth.This small documentary on the flight is probably one of the most brilliant Amateur Rocket videos out there right now.

via Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons – Slashdot.

At page 14 of Google’s results for keywords “android touchpad”, they list 447,000 results and at page 15 it drops to 144 results. Inflated result counts?

The world in parties

via The world in parties? – festival travel parties | Ask MetaFilter.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

via Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology – YouTube.

Windows 8 Developer Preview downloads

via Windows Metro Style Apps Developer Downloads.

1. use the web interface – enable this through Settings, Network

2. use an EventClient app – there’s a really slick one at a URL I’ve forgotten (hopefully someone around here will remember it) or I have a really crude one at http://swarchive.ratsauce.co.uk/eventclient.zip that was written as a quick test

3. the next version, Dharma (in beta now), will support JSON though I must admit I’m not sure what this is or how it works

via remotly control xbmc using laptop? – XBMC Community Forum.

WGU is a fully accredited online university offering online bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.

via WGU Online University | Online Degree Programs, Accredited Bachelor’s and Master’s.

• Macbook Air 11.6-Inch or 13.3-Inch (no USB 3.0)
• Lenovo IdeaPad U300s (Coming November 2011 at about $1,200)
• Lenovo X220 (There is also the Lenovo X1)
• Asus UX21 (11.6-Inch) or UX31 (13.3-Inch)
• Sony Vaio VPC-Z212GX/B 13.1-Inch
• Samsung-900X3A 13.3-Inch
• LG P220 12.5-Inch (no USB 3.0)
• Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook (Available November 2011 under $1000)
• Acer Aspire S3 (from $899)

LifeNet is a WiFi-based data communication solution designed for post-disaster scenarios. It is open-source software and designed to run on consumer devices such as laptops, smart-phones and wireless routers. LifeNet is an ad hoc networking platform over which critical software applications including chat, voice messaging, MIS systems, etc. can be easily deployed. LifeNet can grow incrementally, is robust to node failures and enables Internet sharing. A novel multi-path ad-hoc routing protocol present at its core, enables LifeNet to achieve these features.

via LifeNet: About LifeNet.

• NG.UAVP
• AeroQuad
• ArduCopter (Arduino based)
• QuadroUFO
• QuadPod
• http://wiki.openpilot.org/display/Doc/Multirotors

Hannu’s Boatyard

Free Boat Plans

Last updated September 9. 2009

via Hannu’s Boatyard | Free Boat Plans.

Where are the Files?

via T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M.

Build thread: submicro brushless motors.

Set up 4 to 6 passwords:
one for all the low-security sites,
another for any site that has your credit card number,
another for social networking,
another for email,
another for work,
and the most secure for your banking sites. Sleep better.

Keep them on a piece of paper somewhere safe like your wallet.

These rules are not always possible, but they help reduce the numbers of passwords while staying fairly secure.

via Observations: How to Know if Hackers Have Stolen Your Password.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/06/huck-finn-censorship-and-the-n-word-controversy/

local mirror of huckfinn.pdf

The 3M Aqua-Pure AP903 is a whole house water filter system which is one of the best single cartridge whole house water filter systems on the entire water filter market. The 3M Aqua-Pure AP903 features high flow rates up to 20 gallons per minute (GPM) using 1″ FNPT inlet/outlet water line connections.

via 3M Aqua-Pure AP903 Whole House Water Filter System Only $215.

Fuligo septica is a species of plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the Myxomycetes class. It is commonly known as the dog vomit slime mold^[2] or scrambled egg slime because of its peculiar yellowish, bile-colored appearance. A common species with a worldwide distribution, it is often found on bark mulch in urban areas after heavy rain or excessive watering. Their spores are produced on or in aerial sporangia and are spread by wind.

Fuligo septica – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Gosmart Clip – A Cell Phone Holder That Mounts Your Smartphone, iPhone, Blackberry, Droid onto Your Car’s Steering Wheel for GPS Navigation and easy access.

UPDATE: EFF Applauds New Electronic Privacy Bill That Tells the Government: Come Back With a Warrant!
 

As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act adopted in 1986. At that time, e-mail left on a third-party server for six months was considered to be abandoned, and thus enjoyed less privacy protection. However, the law demands warrants for the authorities to seize e-mail from a person’s hard drive.

via Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Amendment on Us | Threat Level | Wired.com.

I tried to add a 2nd google account on my Android phone and got the following error even if I connected using wifi: “can’t establish a reliable data connection to the server”.

The workaround that I found is to register your Google account through your YouTube app, after which your gmail for that account will be available for syncing.

Source http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780545

Source http://ask.metafilter.com/181167/Google-is-driving-me-nuts

Download annoyinggoogle.xml and save this file to ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile/searchplugins/ in Linux or C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\ in Windows and restart Firefox.

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>G00gle</ShortName>
<Description>Non Crappy Google Search</Description>

<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16">data:image/jpg;base64,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</Image>

<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&amp;client=firefox&amp;hl={moz:locale}&amp;q={searchTerms}"/>

<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
	<Param name="q" value="allintext:{searchTerms}%20OR%20allinurl:{searchTerms}%20OR%20allintitle:{searchTerms}"/>

  <Param name="ie" value="utf-8"/>
  <Param name="oe" value="utf-8"/>
  <Param name="aq" value="t"/>
  <!-- Dynamic parameters -->

  <Param name="rls" value="{moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}"/>
  <MozParam name="client" condition="defaultEngine" trueValue="firefox-a" falseValue="firefox"/>

</Url>
<SearchForm>http://www.google.com/</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>

Via http://ask.metafilter.com/181167/Google-is-driving-me-nuts

Classic application to disable autoruns and more: HijackThis.

Another option would be Autoruns from Sysinternals by Microsoft: Autoruns

Windows: Uninstall an Application from the Command Line

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon July 23, 2008

Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

By using the Windows Instrumentation command-line interface (WMIC), you can easily uninstall an application without having to use the GUI. Once you become familiar with the steps, it will be much faster than having to access the Add/Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. This Tech-Recipe applies to Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

1. Open a command prompt and input WMIC

wmic

2. You will see a prompt that looks like this:

wmic:root\cli>

3. At the new prompt, execute the following command:

product get name

This will generate a list of installed applications.

4. At the prompt, execute the following command:

product where name="" call uninstall

where application name is the name of the program you wish to uninstall (use the exact name provided by the previously generated list).

For example, if I were wanting to uninstall Adobe Reader 9, my command would look like this:

product where name="Adobe Reader 9" call uninstall

5. When prompted, input y to confirm that you wish to uninstall the application and press Return.

via Windows: Uninstall an Application from the Command Line | Windows | Tech-Recipes.

Flash

Open Source

3D Modeler

http://www.19.5degs.com/3d.php

Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library developed in Actionscript 2.0 and now Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash.

http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/

PaperVision3D – Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

Tutorial: http://rozengain.com/?postid=28&replyto=2296

Away3D – Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash

http://www.away3d.com/

Commercial

Kaon’s vSpace™ – From lightweight web 3D product tours, to stills and videos for Flash applications, extraordinary PowerPoint presentations, and now 3D PDFs, vSpace tools make interactive solutions possible for everyone.

http://www.kaon.com/software/swindex.html

Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD (publish your 3D models from AutoCAD directly into Google Earth)

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/google_earth_extension_beta/

Content creation programs which support Collada

https://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/Portal:Products_directory

Where to find Collada plugins: http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Collada_Plugins
SketchUp (you’ll have to unzip the .kmz file to find the .dae inside)
Blender 3D
Truespace
DX studio
Photoshop CS3 Plugin
AutoCAD 2008
3D Studio Max
Maya

Swift3D (Flash only)

http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Collada_Plugins

tag:3d&cad&animation

see-through inch-long glass frog

“Germany—The see-through skin of an inch-long glass frog reveals her eggs. Native to Venezuela, the frogs lay eggs in bushes and trees overhanging streams. Tadpoles hatch, then tumble into the current to be swept away.”

You can find the original at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/visions-of-earth/visions-earth-2008. This one was slightly modified.

/set irc_join_delay 20

The default value is 2 seconds. 20 seconds should be okay in most cases.

via irc – Prevent xchat from trying to join channels until I have been authenticated – Ask Ubuntu – Stack Exchange.

Using iptel and IPKall, you can receive free phone calls:

First, create a free account at iptel in the form of “user@iptel.org”. Configure your SIP device (mine was Handytone 386) with the IPTel.org login details. Then create a free US inbound number at IPKall with “SIP Phone Number” set as “your_user” and “SIP Proxy” set as “sip.iptel.org”.

Bonus: You can even use this free DID to verify/use a google voice account.

via DID Service Providers – voip-info.org.

I was trying to do a DHCP reservation but D-Link’s DIR-615 wouldn’t accept my phone’s MAC address because it didn’t start with “00″. Although the firmware was fixed since version 3.11NA (download update), here is what I did to work around this problem:

1. Using Firebug in Firefox, set a break-point at line 420 in file public.js
2. Edit temp_mac’s array value at position 0 from “fc” to “00″ (“fc” or anything else)
3. Continue execution of script