Neck Rings and Torcs are worn as loose rings riding on the collar bone. Torcs with terminals are worn with the terminals facing forward. Arm Torcs were worn on the upper arm above the elbow, with the Terminals facing out. Our Torcs and Neck Rings have some spring to them, which makes them easier to put on and take off. However, Torcs or Neck Rings should not be bent back and forth — via Urweg
Got a link like http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2085/2177060015_258bcfaff9_m.jpg and want to find out which user posted it, more images by that user, see the full-size version, etc? Seek no longer, the answer is very simple — via Bram.us
Live SkyDrive is an awesome service. 25GB of web storage for free? Yeah, that sounds good to me. Sure, the 50MB per file limit is a little bit of a downside but it's still a great place to store documents, music, and photos. Heck, if you tell an app like 7zip to chunk big files up into 50MB pieces you can store whatever the heck you want. If only there was a way to access your SkyDrive storage like a local hard drive without an app like Gladinet or SD Explorer…Why, that'd make it like a free Dropbox account x 12.5! As it turns out, there is a way to do that — and it's pretty darn easy to do now that Office 2010 is here.
Scams come in all shapes and sizes, even on the Internet. One thing that I’ve noticed while doing research for RescueTheWeb is that the scammers are persistent in inventing new architectures that meet their needs. This article is a brief survey of the scamming link architectures I’ve found — via RescueTheWeb
Out of some behind-the-scenes frustration on the TUAW team email list, we seem to have discovered a quirk in Mac OS X 10.6.4. Using the built-in screenshot tools, you can copy a screenshot to the clipboard using Command + Control + Shift + 3 (or 4, for the crosshairs screenshot). From there you can paste into Preview or Mail or any other application which can take images from the clipboard — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.
John Graham-Cumming wrote an article today complaining about how a computer system he was working with described his last name as having invalid characters. It of course does not, because anything someone tells you is their name is?—?by definition?—?an appropriate identifier for them. John was understandably vexed about this situation, and he has every right to be, because names are central to our identities, virtually by definition.
Ever want to make a bunny rug? How about a huge world map? Noah at Instructables shows us how to transfer an image to any surface with a projector.
The Celtic button knot looks like the lanyard knot, but is tied with a single working end. I find them useful as a decorative stopper/terminal knot and finishing the ends of lanyard strands. Here’s a short video on tying them, and another link that also shows a sliding version for use with an adjustable necklace/neck lanyard — via Stormdrane
The smaller a dog is, the harder it is to find them a harness that will fit them properly. This tutorial will show you how to make a custom fitting small dog harness using grosgrain ribbon. The materials used for this harness are suitable for small dogs weighing 10 pounds and under only! If you want to make this style of harness for a larger dog you must use a sturdier material like nylon webbing — via Instructables
June Gilbank made this cuddly and posable crochet orangutan, and shows us some of the inner workings of his articulated body — via Instructables
Years ago we suggested sticking a borked hard drive in your freezer for a chance at recovering your data before the drive goes completely kaput. Developer site Server Zone highlights the same tip, with more detailed instructions for saving your freezer drive.
Whether or not you consider yourself an experienced birdwatcher, you’re likely to find free web service eBird a great resource for all kinds of data, including frequency, abundance, counts, and locations for tons of different species
I’ve been researching information about darning socks, and lo and behold I found what I was looking for in a back issue of Interweave Knits. It’s good to know I’ll have this technique on hand just in case I need to mend my Party Socks in a year or so.
My search for a program comparable to the Windows’ application DVD Decrypter is finally complete. If you’ve ever wanted to create an ISO of a DVD — in order to keep all of the menus, special features, language options, etc. of an encrypted DVD intact — I’ve got a straightforward solution — via Mac OS X Hints
Spam is an apparently unavoidable fact of life in email, but it’s still a shock to get an unsolicited marketing message to your mobile number. If you’ve experienced mobile spam, Australian communications regulator ACMA has set up a dedicated service to let you report it — via Lifehacker Australia
Twitter is testing a feature intended to make it more convenient and secure for end users to include shortened Web addresses, or URLs, in messages they post via the popular microblogging service and via its third-party applications. Expected to be rolled out broadly this summer, the URL shortening feature is now in limited testing and is designed to reduce the length of any Web page address, but particularly long ones
Olympus Japan has issued a warning to customers who have bought its Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact camera that it comes with an unexpected extra — a virus on its internal memory card. The first thing to point out is that the camera itself is not at risk — the autorun worm being carried on its internal memory can not activate on the Stylus Tough camera, but can attempt to infect your Windows PC. In other words, users are at risk of infecting their Windows computers with the autorun worm when they plug the device into their USB drive, a method of transmission effectively identical to the infected Samsung Wave smartphones
Google has launched one of the biggest revamps of its search engine in history, which it said would provide search results that are 70 per cent fresher
than the current algorithm. The company later revised this to say it would be 50 per cent better than before. The new indexing system, dubbed Caffeine
, will provide the largest selection of web content ever offered on Google. It’s faster — processing hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel every second — and takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database
Taking a page from the Australian broadband playbook, New Zealand has decided not to sit around while incumbent DSL operators milk the withered dugs of their cash cow until it keels over from old age. Instead, the Kiwis have established a government-owned corporation to invest NZ$1.5 billion for open-access fibre to the home. By 2020, 75 percent of residents should have, at a bare minimum, 100Mbps down/50 Mbps up with a choice of providers
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