http://blog.evaria.com The personal pages Sat, 17 May 2008 09:57:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en DExposE2 is a task switching application similar to the one found on Mac's OS X. Setup is straight forward, and after tweaking the settings just a little bit (to your likings) it's ready to go. By default you'll get all your open applications side by side on the desktop (press ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/introducing-dexpose2/ The moment has arrived! Mozilla are welcoming all testers to help with Firefox 3 RC1 Testday (Part 1). This will be the biggest testday of the year, and they need your help. What: Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Testday (Part 1) When: Friday, May 16, 2008 from 7am - ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/firefox-3-rc1-testday/ As announced on Weblog Tools Collection and on the WordPress Plugin Competition Blog itself I just thought I'd help spread the word about the upcoming WordPress 2.5 Plugin Competition. And besides the fame and glory there's already some cash and goodies in the pot for the winner(s). You can read all ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/wordpress-plugin-competition/ Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIEwUxMrJ4Y] Attract more visitors. Visitors bring along friends from social networks like Facebook, orkut, and others to interact on your ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/introducing-google-friend-connect/ WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a single rich application portal that blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Kids of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface. WorldWide ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/introducing-worldwide-telescope/ A simple test to find out where to recruit the right person for the job... Put about 100 bricks in some Particular order in a closed Room with an Open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/how-to-recruit-the-right-person/ Yet another season has gone by under the good management of Benitez. Liverpool didn't make it to the final in the Champions League this year, but it was a close race against Chelsea in the Semi-finals. 4th place in the league ensures yet another year with CL , and the ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/end-of-season-for-liverpool/ The public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now ready for testing. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage. If you are a regular user ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/help-test-openofficeorg-30/ Very few people bother to read the end user license agreements as they are, to be honest, quite boring. But then again you might discover restrictions and limitations you never thought would be covered (lawyers are clever bastards). A friend of mine tipped me off about the following from Mac: THE ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/macs-anti-nuclear-eula/ The recently released GTA 4 looks like it's going to beat all previous sales records. The title sold a record 609,000 copies on its first day of release, generating an estimated £24.4m ($48.5m). The previous record holder was GTA: San Andreas, which sold 501,000 copies in 24 hours in October ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/gta-4-looks-like-a-winner/ Did you think SPAM was a new phenomenon? Think again! The first 400 The first spammer submitted 400 messages on 4th May 1978 to DEC-users - an early version of what we today call a PC (Personal Computer). The message was sent using ARPANET, the Internet's ancestor. Numbers are slightly up... Since then SPAM ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/30-year-with-spam/ Religious traditions are diverse and sometimes as bizarre as they can get. A village in Solapur, Maharashtra, has a dangerous tradition of throwing newborns from a height of 15 meters onto a sheet, which is held by devotees. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6NA8sIlJe8] The infants are thrown off the roof of the Baba Sheikh Umar Saheb ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/indian-babies-thrown-off-roofs/ It appears that the authors of Grand Theft Auto IV doesn't think to highly about Apple and Apple users? Kind of an easter egg on Grand Theft Auto IV on one of the computers in the internet cafe: And another one featuring the iFruit: Have a great weekend!Share This http://blog.evaria.com/2008/ifruit-fruit-from-gta-iv/ Looking for a something special for your home computer? Then you should definitely take a look at the latest Steampunk LCD mod by Datamancer. It's going to be featured in an upcoming remake of the old Nosferatu silent film and then most likely be auctioned on eBay. Not sure if it ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/steampunked-lcd-and-keyboard/ fit-PC is a tiny, noiseless, extremely power-efficient PC - designed by CompuLab - one of the leading vendors in embedded computing. fit-PC draws only 3-5 Watts when running Windows or Linux - consuming as little power as a standard PC does in stand-by mode. fit-PC is built of eco-friendly materials ... http://blog.evaria.com/2008/where-a-fat-pc-doesnt-fit/