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How an American Can Stream the BBC's Official Olympics Coverage and Overcome #NBCFail
If you're outside of the United Kingdom then getting a good live feed of the Olympics isn't easy.
This article first appeared in issue 219 of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. With web design encompassing all kinds of disciplines from code editing to photo manipulation, building up a set of tools to cover every eventuality can quickly become a very expensive exercise. However, spending huge sums on big-name packages isn’t the only option: it’s possible to pick up everything from image editors to integrated development environments and entire content management systems that won’t cost you a single penny. Our top 50 (in no particular order) includes such well known tools as WordPress and Drupal, as well as some you may have never considered such as OpenProj and Movable Type.
50 free web design tools that rock!
In every era in recent times there has been one profession that for a short while you could enter without formal training. Autodidacts in the 19th century could read the law without recourse to formal education (see Abe Lincoln). In the early 20th century it was aviation.
12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers
The 10 Best Android Apps that Make Rooting Your Phone Worth the Hassle
Android phones are spectacular little devices because they're able to so much that others simply can't, but one big snag in that greatness is that many of those best features require that the phones be rooted . Whether you plan on installing custom ROMs or not, you may want to root your phone just to use the great apps that require root access. Here are the ten most essential apps available for Android that require root. Rooting, for those of you that don't know, means giving yourself root permissions on your phone. It's similar running programs as administrators in Windows, or running a command with sudo in Linux.
Want to create a game using C++ and SFML? This is the perfect place to start! This tutorial series will follow the creation of a simple game in C++ from the very beginning till the end, a micro-version of the overall purpose of this site. C++ is an evolving language standard and a great many tutorials out there are horrifically outdated or just plain bad.
Game From Scratch C++ Edition!
Learning! Computing edition.
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Painfully Computer Pranks ~ Computer Hacking | Learn How To Hack
Computer pranks to freak out your friends and make them crying for mummy I've been posting many articles about computer pranks on this blog ( Deadly Virus Prank , The Ultimate Virus , How to Create a Fake and Harmless Virus and Facebook Virus Prank ). Today , I will show you 5 great computer pranks that will frustrate your victims very much. These pranks could be very painfully, so please use them at your own risk ;)
Hacking, and exploits and stuff. For learning puproses only.
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Tutorial to remove objects (or people) and restore the portion of the background they hide in a photo with the Resynthesizer plugin. An impressive video has been posted on Youtube to show how, with Photoshop, it is possible to delete objects in an image automatically, without any design work. The same can be done with The Gimp in fact and for longer (it is not impossible that the same algorithm has been reused).
Removing an object on a photo with GIMP
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I’ve seen many lists about the best programming books and I am sure there are a lot of books that are specific to a programming knowledge or technology – that I have not included in my list. The books I have chosen are those that are meant to inspire, increase productivity and improve your programming design skills. Note: This list has no particular order. Code Complete 2 Steve McConnell
6 Books Every Programmer Should Own
What is the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 in the OSI model? What is the difference between a hub, switch, and router? What is a VLAN? What is the difference between TCP and UDP?
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Thinking Machine 4
Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you. The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move.