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From time to time we have shared hidden settings in applications which can be used to “tweak” an app’s behavior, such as forcing Snow Leopard’s dictionary to reuse the same window or make the print dialog expanded by default. These settings are normally changed using the Terminal.app which can be daunting to some.
Secrets is a (free!) preference panel which has collected a bunch of these settings and made changing them as simple asSource: The Unofficial Apple Weblog RSS Feed

In a side-by-side comparison, one could argue that pics from the iPhone 3GS look better than those from a Droid. That doesn’t mean you can’t make the Droid photos a little better. Adobe released a mobile Photoshop app for the iPhone a few weeks back, and the same title hits the Android Market today. The free software is limiting in terms of what picture qualities you can change, but I find myself using it on most of my pics. In fact, just yesterday I tweaked this little number usingSource: jkOnTheRun RSS Feed

You’d almost have to have been sleeping under a rock to not have caught word of the other Droid handset coming to Verizon, the HTC Droid Eris. Everybody outside of Verizon, HTC and Google has been talking up the Eris for a few weeks. The three companies are coming out today with the official announcement of the Droid Eris phone coming to Verizon on Nov. 6th, as we already knew.

The Droid Eris is Verizon’s second phone in the Droid line, thus the name, and it is basically a moreSource: jkOnTheRun RSS Feed

I love this reuse of an first-gen “sunflower” G4 iMac (aka the “Luxo”). It was also nicknamed the iLamp (due to its flexible desk lamp-like arm), so this builder went ahead and turned his into an actual lamp.

How to Recycle an iMac Luxo

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There are many different types of art that are created which use cell phones as the subject. There are paintings of mobile phones, cell phone sculptures, interactive mobile phone exhibits and mobile movies. There are also songs that mention cell phones in their lyrics. This type of art often gets overlooked. Perhaps that’s because there’s not a lot of it out there. Maybe it’s because when we think of songs and cell phones we think of our mobile phone’s multimedia functions and notSource: Dial-a-Phone RSS Feed

(Note: So, clearly, as pointed out in the comments, I reviewed the wrong site, and not the revamped one. I missed the fact that the site was being previewed and not entirely launched, which explains some of the non-streamlining… hehe. Entirely my oversight, and likely due to the fact I’ve been sick for over a week! However, the new page is still far from, um, groundbreaking–while it has a few less links, it’s still far from cohesive. Instead of blue, they went for white. What itSource: Geeks are Sexy RSS Feed

It’s no surprise that Animoto’s new video product is a hit. Upload a few short videos and images, add a song, click a button and bam, you’ve got a very high quality souvenir of your recent holiday or other event. Here’s one I put together for Foo Camp in August. More examples are here.

So far it’s a one-size-fits-all product. And since it’s such a good one no one is complaining. But there have been requests for holiday themed platforms, says CEO Brad Jefferson. And so onSource: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed

Can you shoot a TV show on roller skates? Seat of the pants madmen directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the guys that made the two Crank movies on a budget with tiny prosumer cameras and other low-fi tech, are set to provide NBC with a new one-hour show that will be (no real surprise here) a “high-intensity” drama about crisis situations.

THR says the show is called Zeroes, and the idea is to skip all the boring “buildup leading to the crisis,” and jump right into theSource: SlashFilm RSS Feed

Now this is a really different program that i recently discovered. i2sm is a free program that allows you to  convert JPG and PNG images to MIDI sound compositions. There are millions of colors in the images and i2sm translates those millions of colors into 128 possible notes to create a unique acoustic music that can sometimes turn out to be good.

The program also offers customization options. You can choose between variety of instruments and also adjust severalSource: Madhur Kapoor's Blog RSS Feed

In a way, I’m glad that I don’t live in Southern California, because otherwise I’d probably own this Hell Project classic Cadillac right now!

What can we say? I was going to use it for a Project Car Hell contestant, but what could possibly compete with a 1980 Cadillac Seville limo for this kind of price? Not only that, the seller claims “HELL YES IT DID RUN WHEN PARKED!!!! Rats chewed some of the wires.” How hard could it be? And not only do you get the reviled much-sought-afterSource: Jalopnik RSS Feed