Mystery Pic 114: What Is It?

March 20, 2010

What is it? Post your guess in the comments section below. invent certain you give your whole name and the city you live in! whether you're first with the right reply, you'll earn the dubious honor of getting your name in the next issue of the awe-inspiring Mike's List newsletter. The reply will be revealed in the next issue of Mike's List. Go here to subscribe. (It's free!)

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Diamond-studded iPad says “I’m an idiot, but a rich one!”

March 15, 2010

The Apple iPad is reasonably priced. whether that bothers you, feel free to spend $19,999 on a diamond-studded iPad ("hand-set in a micro-pave styling," whatever that means). You'll feel like an idiot when the newer, faster iPad inevitably comes out within a year. (Props to Engadget)

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Found photo: Genius? Or idiotic?

March 15, 2010

Does anyone know the story behind that picture?

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The iPad paradox: Less is the new more!

March 14, 2010

I've noticed a trend online recently of new services whose main feature is that they hardly do anything. Twitter was the first major site in that new trend, which boldly asserted its limitations as features. "You can't send more than 140 characters!" "No pictures!" "No formatting!" "It does hardly anything!" Welcome to the future. The less-is-more world is here. Get used to it. And whether you're going to argue with an iPad fan about why netbooks are better, don't bother with listing what the iPad cannot do. Limitations are what society want now. (Read)

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Laptops disrupt lectures. So let’s ban lectures!

March 14, 2010

Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention -- to their laptops. A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are incompatible activities. Some professors have addressed the fundamental incompatibility of lectures and laptops by banning the laptops. But possibly it would be better to keep the laptops and ban the lectures. Here's why.

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What sort of man reads ‘Playboy’? A criminal.

March 12, 2010

Playboy Enterprises has inked a deal with  2K Games for the product-placement of Playboy magazines all by scenes in the game Mafia II. 

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Safari 4.0.5

March 11, 2010

This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and defense including: 

 Performance improvements for Top Sites
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
Stability improvements for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics
Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers

 
For detailed knowledge on the protection substance of that update, please visit that site: About Apple shield Updates.
 
SHA1 Safari Snow Leopard= b1b0c3510acf7144a6358b6e5667fb43aaa8a6b9
SHA1 Safari Leopard = 1eccb97a78bac15277702642ed1330ad359205f7
SHA1 Safari Tiger = 9f042b71a08d9c4be7f2dffa3de46622722893e4
SHA1 Safari Setup for Windows = 8715db0cee7db82a91bb408e500d255c5d0cfe7c
SHA1 Safari QuickTimeSetup = 0109adc77d5814f39bb47348df1d3280f30fd397
For explanation of what a SHA1 digest is, please visit that website:About SHA1 digest
 
 
 

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