A rare squid washed up dead on a Wellington beach this morning with experts saying they believe it had been attacked in the sea — via redwolf.newsvine.com
THEY were supposed to have vanished from Scotland’s landscape 400 years ago after being hunted to extinction for their precious pelts.
However, now evidence has come to light that beavers may have been gnawing their way around parts of the country in large numbers for years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We've shown you how to reveal hidden files in the Finder from Terminal's command-line. But if you work with such files a lot, it can be a hassle to open up a Terminal window every time. MacOSXHints reader colmiak came up with an easier way to toggle hidden files from within the Finder, using Automator, a series of shell scripts, and OS X's Services menu.
Releasing a WordPress theme on a marketplace, such as ThemeForest, where the audience is so large and diverse, has some challenges. You cannot test a solution directly with the client. You need to plan in advance for all edge cases, and ensure that your theme is as customizable as possible. If you’re inexperienced, chances are that some things will unfortunately slip through the cracks. Luckily for you, we have drawn on our hard-earned wisdom to help you avoid repeating the same mistakes we made — via Nettuts+
Saying that it unfairly targets gay men and women, a federal judge in San Francisco struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, handing supporters of such unions a temporary victory in a legal battle that seems all but certain to be settled by …
I ran into Firefox’s CSS printing bug that would only print one page and let the content overflow (without clipping the page). The actual bug is documented here by Mozilla.
After scouring the Net for a fix, I found that it can be caused due to a number of reasons. Here’s the list of fixes that should help you out if you’re facing this bug:
.css-element { overflow: visible !important; }
Plenty of sites offer a quick IP address check, disposable email, URL shortening, image uploading, and quick text saving. 1dl.us offers all of them, on one page, for your bookmarking convenience.
Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web’s governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website’s code against multiple web standards at the same time. You can find the new Unicorn “all-in-one validator” on the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) website at validator.w3.org/unicorn/.
Grove is a Portland-based company lead by Joe Mansfield of Engrave and Ken Tomita of TomitaDesigns specializing in making bamboo iphone cases. Our goal is to bring art into your everyday life.
The write speed of Solid State Drives is usually lower than the read speed. Many write operations on SSDs can slow down the system performance and reduce the longevity of the drive. Specialized programs such as SSD Drive Tweaker or Flash Fire aid the user in optimizing the system for Solid State Drives — via ghacks.net
One of my husband’s favorite candies is the York Peppermint Patty. This minty-chocolate treat might not be the most popular candy bar on the market, but it’s not that far of a stretch from his favorite ice cream, mint chocolate chip — via Joyful Abode
Bounce offers free and dead-simple web site capture and annotation for hassle-free sharing of site-related notes.
Visit Bounce, plug in a URL, and Bounce snaps a screenshot of the web site you pointed it at. Once the capture is loaded you can draw boxes around elements of the site you want to annotate and immediately add text. When you share the URL for your capture others can check out your notes by mousing over the focus boxes you've created.
Look, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, it happens to everyone: your Mac has frozen up and won’t respond. I know, I know, for years we Mac folks used to love poking fun at Windows because it freezes up. Apple even made a commercial about it. As someone who has used both, I will say that I have seen this far, far less frequently with Macs… but it happens — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Dr. Macro has compiled an impressive collection of high quality photos featuring famous screen personalities from the 1940s and earlier.
The images are scanned from 8×10 publicity photos and presented in all their high rez glory. As an interesting side-note, movie stills from that era were typically captured with medium and large-format cameras with significantly higher resolution than "modern" 35mm SLRs that became common in the 1970s.
The best of all the homemade Twinkie recipes we tried, these organic vegan twinkie cakes will knock even the most conventional meat-eater’s socks off. As you might remember from our Great Twinkie Taste Off, the following recipe comes from this review which was too provocative to ignore. As the winner of the challenge, these Twinkie cakes have earned their own complete Instructable. It’s no small undertaking, but the resulting cakes are so delightful, you won’t begrudge a moment of effort, and your friends will be begging you for more — via Instructables
Welcome one and all to the 200th post at Cthulhu Crochet and Cousins. Thank you everyone for being here, especially those of you who are long time readers of the blog, and especially those of you who have taken the time to post comments or share pictures of things you’ve made with my patterns — via Cthulhu Crochet and Cousins
What to do if you're locked out of Gmail? It's a question too many users ask, after they are already locked out and are attempting to recover their account. Given the incredible amount of personal and financial information we keep in our inboxes, gaining access to a compromised Gmail account is incredibly important. Here's how to recover your Gmail account, and what you can do now, to make a future recovery easier.
Pattern in Islamic Art offers a FREE download of over 4000 images of patterns and other design features drawn from the rich cultural heritage of the Islamic world. Historically, the decorative arts have always formed a major part of Islamic aesthetic expression. Its remarkable achievements in this direction (much of which are represented here) make it an invaluable resource for designers of all kinds as well as for art-historians and art-lovers generally
12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux distros – operating systems, open source, Linux
One of the benefits of open source software that many people are most familiar with is that it’s free to download. This means you can grab great applications — such as Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite or the GIMP photo editing program — without paying a cent. However, the other major benefit of truly open source software (some “open source” software licences are more restrictive than others) is that you’re allowed to modify a program and redistribute your altered version so other people can enjoy it — via Good Gear Guide
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