December 2009

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Wallpaper Roundup: Ringing in the New Year – 1153th Edition

New Year’s Eve is upon us, ring it in with some New Year’s-themed wallpaper. Judging by the wallpapers we found, 2010 is going to be all the neon and sparkles the futurists of yesteryear promised us.
Note: The “Full Size” link directly under the picture only shows you the sample image we uploaded for this gallery. [...]

WSJ Pictures of the Week: Dec. 28- Dec. 31 – 1152th Edition

CRYING IN FEAR: An ethnic Hmong refugee sat inside a police truck Monday during an operation to deport thousands to the Hmong refugee camp in Huay Nam Khao in Thailand. The Thai army began the forcible return of thousands of ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers to communist Laos, despite international protests and fears they could face persecution. [...]

Shark007’s FREE Codec solutions. – 1151th Edition

Shark007’s FREE Codec solutions.

These windows media center codecs are the only codecs you will ever need.
You can choose any media player you want; everything will play.
The following filetypes are enabled and SUPPORTED by the installation of Shark’s Codec Solutions.
amr | mpc | ofr | divx | mka | ape | flac | evo | flv [...]

Muziic now plays… – 1150th Edition

Muziic now plays YouTube and Vevo videos without ads…
Quickly! Before it gets shut down! Muziic, a web app developed by a sixteen-year-old teenager, now offers YouTube and Vevo videos without ads.
We originally covered it back in March and until Christmas Day, Muziic was simply a desktop-based downloadable program. Now, however, it’s a full-featured web app [...]

Look what the Cat Dragged in… – 1149th Edition

Hey Everyone.. im Glad to be back.. after several months off due to a buddy of mine frying out my computer im back up and runnin again man you guys are slackin on the monthly points lol Good thing 2morrows New Years and they will start over
Happy New Years to All have a toast [...]

Dust and the Helix Nebula – 1148th Edition

Dust and the Helix Nebula Dust makes this cosmic eye look red. The eerie Spitzer Space Telescope image shows infrared radiation from the well-studied Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) a mere 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The two light-year diameter shroud of dust and gas around a central white dwarf has long been [...]

WiFi Signal boost! – 1147th Edition

lol, using a sive & foil has just boosted my dl connection fron 8.4 to 243kbs

:rave:

It would only make sense, after seeing what a kitchen strainer and aluminum foil can do, that a metal kitchen pot would provide a significant signal boost for a mobile broadband modem, or “dongle.” The homemade video evidence tells [...]

Happy New Year – 1146th Edition

Happy New Year
to all noobsters in the world
BEHOLD!
MY NEW YEARS PRESENT
A BANSTICK!

By majorhan

Most Popular Hive Five Topics of 2009 – 1145th Edition

Every week we pose a simple, focused question to the Lifehacker readership about a specific topic: Which is best? From netbooks and malware removal to home servers and wallpaper, here’s a look back at the most popular Hive Five topics of 2009.
The Hive Five asks the question “Which is best?” in a variety of topics [...]

Russia to knock asteroid off path – 1144th Edition

Russia considers sending spacecraft to knock asteroid off path
Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country’s space agency said Wednesday.
Anatoly Perminov said the space agency will hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to [...]