Make Your Desktop Come Alive with GeekTool Mac.AppStorm This post is part of a series that revisits some of our readers’ favorite articles from the past that still contain awesome and relevant information that you might find useful. This post was originally published on April 19th, 2010. GeekTool is a really neat preference panel that allows widget-like functionality on a highly customizable level. Unfortunately, if you aren’t particularly geeky, this app can be a bit confusing to get up and running. Luckily enough, here at AppStorm there’s definitely no shortage of geeks such as myself to help you out! I’ll take you step by step through finding and installing scripts to make your desktop the envy of the office. Final Result Just to get a feel for where we’re going, here’s a preview of the final result. Final Result As you can see, this is a simple setup that utilizes only two scripts: date and time. The text that you see is live and updates automatically based on intervals you set. Getting Started GeekTool Website GeekTool Interface Groups
100+ awesome free and open source applications - Software - Seopher.com Posted on Tuesday 27th of September 2011 at 13:05 in SoftwareIt has always amazed me quite how many incredible, varied and useful applications are available for free on the Internet. Be it free, open source, web-based or merely passive trials - the number of top quality items on offer is huge. The purpose of this list is to help people realise that the free and open source software communities are expansive and generous. Index - what types of software I cover in this list Image, Image Editing and Graphics Office Web and web development Development Applications (IDE's) Operating Systems Video Playback and Editing Audio Anti-Virus and Security Downloading and Download Managers Remote Access Useful Applications that don't get their own category Communications Servers and Techie Stuff Games Image, Image Editing and Graphics GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a Photoshop replacement that doesn’t have "quite" as much functionality but it’s excellent for free. Audio
18 | Print These 20 Things You Don't Really Need And Your 3-D Printer Pays For Itself On Thingiverse, a site where anyone can share their 3-D digital designs for others to use, you can find the blueprints for printing a world of oddities: a scale model of a great white shark skull, Star Wars cufflinks, and the “Monster Cube” puzzle, to name a few entries among the 60,000 open-source designs that Joshua Pearce, a researcher at Michigan Technological University, estimates live on the site. But among the curiosities are also a growing number of common household items that can be made on a 3-D printer and are actually pretty useful. So Pearce decided to do the math. In a study published in the journal Mechatronics in July, Pearce discusses 20 common household items he found on Thingiverse, and how he then searched Google Shopping to calculate a range of what it would cost to get these items shipped to his door. His conclusion? That means a 3-D printer could pay for itself in as little as four months and at least within two years. This all seems exciting on the surface.
Observation des satellites artificiels Observation des satellites artificiels Par Denis Bergeron Signets: Logiciel Satellite Tracker Suivi des satellites avec un télescope Observation des satellites géostationnaires Observation des satellites Iridium Observation des satellites militaires NOSS Conclusion L'observation des satellites artificiels est un autre domaine fascinant de l'astronomie. Le site web HEAVENS ABOVE est sans doute l'un des meilleurs site web pour nous permettre d'observer la station spatiale internationale ISS, les navettes spatiales STS, les satellites spectaculaires comme les satellites IRIDIUM qui deviennent subitement très brillant de plusieurs magnitudes en quelques secondes: Il suffit au départ d'y entrer nos coordonnées locales (LATITUDE, LONGITUDE). L'AZIMUT se mesure à partir du Nord (ÉTOILE POLAIRE) vers l'EST. L'observation au télescope de la station spatiale ISS et des navettes spatiales STS permet d'y apercevoir les principales structures. Logiciel SATELLITE TRACKER
Wind Map An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind.
101 Nintendo T-Shirts For The Ultimate Nintendo Gamer To say that the Nintendo Entertainment System was a part of my childhood is quite an understatement. The original NES was in fact a big part of my childhood. I recall countless hours playing Super Mario Bros., Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, Rad Racer, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, just to name a few of my favorite titles. I remember leaving the NES on overnight just so that I could save my place in in a particular game and continue playing the next day. This list is built on that childhood love that I had for Nintendo. I’d love to hear which one of these are your favorites and whether or not you own any of these tees! If you enjoyed this post then please, please, please, tell your friends about it! 1. 2. 3. 8-Bit Blues by Jacques Maes (Threadless), $18. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49.
11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries. We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world's lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. Aerogel isn't just neat, it's useful. Price: $35 2. Inside these sealed glass balls live shrimp, algae, and bacteria, all swimming around in filtered seawater. EcoSpheres came out of research looking at ways to develop self-contained ecosystems for long duration space travel. Price: $80 3. NASA has been trying to figure out how to get a sample of rock back from Mars for a while now. Every once in a while, a meteorite smashes into Mars hard enough to eject some rocks out into orbit around the sun. Price: $70+ 4. Price: $150 5. Price: $110 6. Price: $80 7. Price: $15 8.
PreviSat | Download PreviSat software for free .htaccess Tutorial Introduction In this tutorial you will find out about the .htaccess file and the power it has to improve your website. Although .htaccess is only a file, it can change settings on the servers and allow you to do many different things, the most popular being able to have your own custom 404 error pages. .htaccess isn't difficult to use and is really just made up of a few simple instructions in a text file. Will My Host Support It? This is probably the hardest question to give a simple answer to. A good sign of whether your host allows .htaccess files is if they support password protection of folders. What Can I Do? You may be wondering what .htaccess can do, or you may have read about some of its uses but don't realise how many things you can actually do with it. Creating A .htaccess File Creating a .htaccess file may cause you a few problems. Warning Before beginning using .htaccess, I should give you one warning. Custom Error Pages Part 2 © 1999 - 2001 David Gowans