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Last weeks links that inspired, impressed or just seemed share worthy.

DCI Scores.com : Drum and Bugle Corps rankings and information

Your one stop place to get all the info you need on scores and rankings for Drum Corps International tours. I’ve been following this site for 4 years now.

Tags: drum, bugle, corps, marching, chops, scores, percussion, brass, stadium, summer music

DecaffeinatID: A Very Simple IDS / Log Watching App / ARPWatch For Windows

Spend a lot of time in wifi hotspots? Worried about people using exploits or hacks to access your windows laptop? DecaffeinatID is designed to alert you to these sorts of problem and best of all: It’s free!

Tags: log watching, ids, arpwatch, arp, hotspot, wifi, hacking

Real Snail Mail - Send email at the speed of a snail (literally)

Developers using rfid transmitters to send email with snails. Very cool idea (albiet very slow) From the developers: “For testing purposes some messages may be forwarded sooner than expected. Sorry we can not guarantee unreliability of service at this time. We hope to have RealSnailMail working less predictably as soon as possible.”

Tags: snails, email, mail, slow, speed of light, rfid, siggraph

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Klok - Personal Time Tracking made Easy - Free Software

Time tracking has never been so easily cross-platform and enjoyable. Whether you’re a freelancer working on multiple projects with different billable rates or someone who just wants to keep track of the time you spend on different tasks, Klok can help. Klok is a cross-platform time-tracking application built on Adobe AIR.

Tags: time tracking, project management, tasks, consulting, adobe air

Fastest-ever flashgun captures image of light wave

80 attosecond (billionths of a billionth of a second) long pulse “photographed”. Flashes that last just billionths of a billionth of a second have been used to take photographs of a laser beam pulse.
Amazing that we can measure things this quick and this small!

Tags: science, light, lightspeed, physics, pulse, laser, electron, photon

Knight Rider-themed GPS system with authentic KITT voice - Autoblog

For all you Knight Rider fans no longer moved by finding a perfect 45 rpm single of “A Knight Rider Christmas,” Mio has a brand new toy that’s capable of Knight Industries Two Thousand level antics. The Knight Rider-themed GPS unit has voice prompts recorded by the one-and-only William Daniels (thankfully not Val Kilmer), the original voice of KITT, and asks cordially “Hello Michael, where do you want to go today?” when powered up.

Tags: kitt, knight rider, gps, mio, william daniels

92 Must See Creative Photographs

An incredible selection of beautiful, artistic or just strange photos. Due to the popularity of the last 56 Awe Inspiring Must See Creative Photographs post I thought I would do …

Tags: pictures, photos, inspiring, amazing, creative

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Baby Smash! by Scott Hanselman

Easy way to let your kids feel like a grownup typing away at the keyboard without running the risk of deletions, reconfigurations or managing to do things that even a network admin doesn’t know how to do.

Tags: children, babies, kids, computer, windows, smash, fun, colorful, kidware

Microsoft TechNet - ServerQuest

Blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the Earth. In a unique campaign promoting its TechNet service, Microsoft pulls back the veil of ones and zeros surrounding I.T. professionals with a brand new interactive adventure called Server Quest.

Is this the dawn of a new Microsoft? One dedicated to putting the fun back into network administration?

Tags: microsoft, games, timewaster, 8bit, online, administration, i.t., server, windows

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Amnesty” Generator for Vista

Convert your Google gadgets into Vista sidebar gadgets. There are vastly more google gadgets available then sidebar gadgets so far. With this little app you can easily migrate all those google gadgets into your shiny new vista install in no time at all.

Tags: google, sidebar, gadgets, vista, google desktop, desktop, tweak, tools, utility

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MozBackup

Easily backup multiple different Mozilla applications with one tiny tool. Perfect for getting that highly customized Thunderbird/lightning & Firefox setup you spent months getting just exactly the way you wanted it!

Tags: mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, lightning, backup, utility, godsend, save, restore

How to Create a Cloneable SharePoint Virtual Machine

If you’re doing SharePoint development you’re probably doing it on a virtual machine, and if you’re not you probably should be. Often it’s useful to have more than one machine available whether that’s for multiple clients, projects or developers. Here’s a simple method to having a ready to go virtual image.

Tags: windows, sharepoint, server, virtual, image, clone, development, microsoft, sysprep

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