iSofa Amazingly Creative Drawing Vs Photography This wonderful work has done by a very talented Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine. This creative artist was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He Studied graphic arts and sculpture and I also have a degree in journalism. Lets take a look at some of his awesome works that he calls “Drawing Vs Photography” or “Imagination Vs Reality”. Top 10 Hardware Boosting Hacks I just did the pogoplug hack this weekend. The LH article is outdated, but the info is available online at ArchLinuxARM.org. I'm not sure rooting a pogoplug is worth the bother now. Rasberry Pi is now available, unless $30, two extra USB ports and Gigabit ethernet is critically important, the RasPi blows the pogoplug out of the water (the additional IO is nice, but the real win is a larger developer community). I did get a pogoplug with the intention of rooting it but realised that its was much more useful to me as it stood. I realize this is article is a few days old, but I just wanted to second this. Now I've just got to figure out what I want to put on it... It's a fun project. I tried running Subsonic, which I used to serve up media from my old computer, but the pogoplug doesn't seem to have enough horsepower for on-the-fly LAME transcoding.
60 Open Source and Free Mac Apps « AppStorm We regularly feature commercial software on AppStorm, so decided it was time to bring a roundup of completely free (and often open source) apps to your attention. If you’re on a budget, you’ll be pleased to know that a variety of great OS X software is available free. Applications are broken down into various categories, with each one containing a ‘featured’ app and several other free solutions. I hope you find something useful, and do let me know if your favorite freeware app isn’t on the list! Web Browsers Firefox Firefox There’s a reason why Firefox has stormed ahead over the past few years to take such a large share of the browser market. A variety of different extensions are available, taking the functionality of the browser far beyond the basics. Email & Communication Thunderbird Thunderbird Developed by the same people behind Firefox, Thunderbird is a worthy alternative to Mail.app on the Mac. NetNewsWire NetNewsWire Twitter Nambu Nambu Music & Audio Spotify Spotify Video Photography Picasa Picasa
69 Awesomely Free Snow Leopard Compatible Apps Posted 10/15/2009 at 12:53pm | by Mac|Life Staff The word free gets thrown around quite a lot lately. Cell phone carriers offer "free" phones that are tethered to a two-year contract. Those free rooms in Vegas come at the price of three hours of your life spent listening to a time share pitch. Even Steve Jobs said the new camera in the iPod nano was free. To help get free back to its rightful place of, well free, we've compiled a list of apps and services that are indeed free and won't require you to sit through a pitch about how great it is to be a foster parent to a monkey. We would also like to note that some of these apps are donationware. Adium - Talk to anyone The go to chat app on Macs for years. Alarm Clock - WAKE UP! Versatile alarm clock app can wake you up to your iTunes music, and even wake up your computer first if it happens to be sleeping. Anxiety - So much to do Lightweight to-do list that syncs with iCal and Mail. AppCleaner - Clean your virtual room Audacity - Sound off
Downloads - Networking & Security - Undercover 100+ Portraits of Iconic People of All Time Today we bring you a great collection of portraits of the most iconic people throughout history. Portraits explore the relationship between the subject and the photographer or artist and usually continue to impress the viewer years after they have been created. The common thread running through all of these portraits is superlative design. Each is a masterpiece in its own right, from the medieval painted portraits right up to the most current photographs. This collection is arranged in alphabetical order and is by no means complete. We encourage you to post comments as to which portraits we’ve missed, that you feel should be part of this collection. We hope that this collection inspires you, makes you gasp and even smile. Afghan Girl This photo was taken as part of the National Geographic “Green Eyes” project, tracking the genetic trait of green eyes passed down through the Mongols of Genghis Khan’s time. Buzz Aldrin Muhammad Ali Ali was a three-time heavyweight World Champion in boxing. Bono
Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Apps Finding excellent free software for your Mac is increasingly tough. In our fourth annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac, we're highlighting the best free downloads for better productivity, communication, media management, and more. The Lifehacker Pack is a yearly snapshot of our favorite, must-have applications for each of our favorite platforms. If you're curious to see how things have changed this year, here's last year's Lifehacker Pack for Mac. Want to skip to a specific category? Productivity Quicksilver Simply put, Quicksilver makes everything you do on your Mac easier. Download Page Notational Velocity What makes Notational Velocity great is that it has the exact amount of features needed in a note taking app with no fluff. Download Page DashExpander Text expansion is one those pieces of productivity software that most people only associate with power users, but it's incredibly handy for just about everyone. Download Page Wunderlist Download Page Internet/Communication Chrome Download Page Adium
40+ awesome free Windows apps you can download in 2 seconds Depending on your internet connection you might be able to download a lot more (or a lot less) than 1Mb in two seconds - but calling this a post about apps under a meg just isn't quite as much fun! No, you don't really need to pay too much attention to an application's hard drive footprint any more. After all, when you can buy a 1.5Tb drive for less than $150US, what difference does a few megs here or there make? On the other hand, it's amazing to see what some developers are able to accomplish with a very small amount of code. There are a ton of great, free applications that have been created in less than 1Mb - I didn't fully realize just how many until I started putting this list together. Desktop/Shell Enhancements Launchy (408Kb) - Hotkeys FTW! Open++ (114Kb) - Helps you tweak your context menu six ways from Sunday. ViGlance (198Kb) - Want Windows 7's iconized taskbar in XP or Vista? VirtuaWin (385Kb) - Most Linux distributions enable multiple virtual desktops by default. Encryption
100 Snow Leopard Tips, Tricks, and Features | Mac|Life - StumbleUpon Posted 08/31/2009 at 11:02am | by Arvind Srinivasan and Roberto Baldwin After installing Snow Leopard on our Macs, the Mac|Life staff began scouring the inner crevices of 10.6 looking for all the features we can. While Snow Leopard has been advertised as more of a speed increase and "tightening of screws" of the OS, it still has some great features that'll help you work faster. After spending the weekend with the new OS, we found 100 features, tips, and tricks that should help get you up to speed and make you a Snow Leopard power user. If you have a tip or feature we missed, drop it in the comments and we'll add it to the article. Battery Status If you've secretly suspected that your MacBook's battery isn't working correctly, Snow Leopard can tell you what your geek senses have know all along. No Leopard, no problem If you're running Tiger on your machine, don't worry. QuickTime X video record Need to record a quick video with your iSight or USB camera? Language and texts Time is relative
50 Things Every Mac Geek Should Know Posted 03/04/2009 at 5:01am | by Mac|Life Staff You probably didn’t know you could change these options, but you can. Apple tried its best to give us the most useful set of icons in various iPhone menus, but there are also more ways to customize them than you might think. In the case of the icons that appear at the bottom of the screen when you tap iPod from the Home screen, you can change the default icons (Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos) if you want to. Tap More, then tap Edit. On the resulting Configure screen, you can select an icon from the middle, hold your finger on it for a moment, and drag it down to the bottom to replace one of the defaults. When a contact has two phone numbers, you’ll get your choice of which to text. Favorites and Recents are handy for quickly placing phone calls to people in your Favorites and Recents lists, but you can also text too. Mac OS X uses a subsystem based on a Unix-style OS that uses permissions in its file system.