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• Why could you close the Windows 95 Start button?

  Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing - one of the best Windows blogs on the web - has a very interesting item up about a certain bit of behaviour in Windows 95 I was unaware of. Basically, there's a neat little trick where you can close and move the Start button. It wasn't a feature, but a bug.

• Yet another menubar might land In Ubuntu 12.04

  It looks like a new "locally integrated menu" will make it into Unity, starting with version 5.6.0. There's basically no information about the new locally integrated menubar, except for two bug reports which link to some custom Unity, Compiz, Metacity and Light Themes branches so to see "LIM" in ...

• Samsung doesn't think Apple can compete in the ...

  Today Samsung AV product lead Chris Moseley had comments about Apple's rumored entrance into the television marketplace that sound eerily similar to that which Palm CEO Ed Colligan's said a few years back about how Apple's ability to simply walk into this market and figure it out like they had m ...

• Samsung doesn't think Apple can compete in the ...

  Today Samsung AV product lead Chris Moseley had comments about Apple's rumored entrance into the television marketplace that sound eerily similar to that which Palm CEO Ed Colligan's said a few years back about how Apple's ability to simply walk into this market and figure it out like they had m ...

• Why Microsoft developers need a style guide

  What your interface communicates to users can be just as important as what your software does, writes Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister in discussing the latest edition of the 'Microsoft Manual of Style,' a style guide aimed at designers and developers who create Microsoft software, as well as t ...

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• New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon

  Iddo Genuth writes "Research conducted by a team of North American scientist shows our solar system is special, contrary to the accepted theory that it is an average planetary system. Using computer simulations to follow the development of planets, it was shown that very specific conditions are ...

• ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years

  Kligat writes "For the first time since 2003, the International Space Station has utilized the rockets on the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle to dodge leftover remnants of a defunct satellite. The Russian Cosmos-2421 was launched in June 2006 to track Western Navy vessels and ...

• Live Architecture — Grow Your Own Home

  Ostracus writes to share a new take on the word "treehouse." Engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv have taken the application of tree shaping to the next level, designing everything from streetlamps to houses. "A home built from trees, the researchers said, would be a natural storm protec ...

• Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter

  KentuckyFC writes to mention that new data from the orbiting observatory PAMELA may shed some additional light on the question of dark matter. Still only a preliminary announcement, the new findings apparently support the "Minimal Dark Matter" model where a particle called a "Wino" is responsibl ...

• Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label

  Anti-Globalism writes to tell us that in a new book titled The Numerati, author Stephen Baker introduces us to some of the math wizardry that is used to label or track our movements through purchases, phone calls, internet usage and other habits. "One of the most promising laboratories for the N ...

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• O Samuel a comer com pauzinhos!

  O Samuel a comer com pauzinhos! Quinta-feira, 17 Julho 2008 O meu puto é despachado e isto de comer com paus, com garfos ou colheres cá para ele vai tudo dar ao mesmo, o importante é levar a comida até à boca, pode não chegar lá à primeira tentativa... mas leve o tempo que levar há-de lá chegar! ...

• Quem precisa do Bob Proctor quando se tem a Ju ...

  Quem precisa do Bob Proctor quando se tem a Julie Andrews? Terça-feira, 8 Julho 2008 Ora cantem lá comigo... sim cantem mesmo!!! Garanto que isto ajuda! I Have Confidence - The Sound of Music What will this day be like? I wonder. What will my future be? I wonder. It could be so exciting ...

• Foi hoje!

  Foi hoje! Segunda-feira, 7 Julho 2008 Foi hoje - que fique registado para a posteridade - que assinei o contrato que nos vai levar nesta aventura que será a Alemanha! Foi hoje também que entreguei no departamento de recursos humanos da empresa onde já trabalho há quase 10 anos uma carta de demis ...

• Samuel:

  Samuel: Quarta-feira, 2 Julho 2008 Mais ou menos filho... vamos para aqui! Vídeo promocional da cidade de Düsseldorf, vale a pena ver até ao fim! Depois de ver isto, e como se não bastasse, fiquei ainda a saber que segundo estudos da Mercer (multinacional de recursos humanos) Düsseldorf é a ...

• Este ano já não vou ter férias!

  Este ano já não vou ter férias! Quarta-feira, 2 Julho 2008 Pois é este ano não há mais férias para mim, foi uma semaninha em Junho e era agora no mês que vem... pois... era... mas ainda que isto pareça um pesadelo não é - é precisamente o contrário é um sonho que está prestes a tornar-se realida ...