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This article was written on September 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

The list of uses for duct tape could probably be endless and I’m sure most of you would agree. I think it’s safe to say that the list of things you can do with duct tape is much larger than the list of things you can’t do!

Here’s CyberNet’s 15 uses for duct tape!

1. Duct tape the remote control to you hand so you never lose it or get it taken away by a friend, spouse, child, etc.
2. Wrap gifts in duct tape, and then duct tape a note to the top of the gift that says "Open me… eventually."
3. Formal wear – use duct tape to construct your tux or dress. It’ll be cheaper, and you’ll get noticed (and yes, both the dress and the tux were made of duct tape).
   
4. Pants too long? "Hem" them with duct tape.
5. Need to reduce that electric bill? Duct tape over the light switches so that you’ll think twice before you flip them on.
6. Use it as an instant mute for annoying friends, siblings, etc.
7. Create a cover for your iPod so it doesn’t get scratched up (learn how)
8. Duct tape your roommate to the wall.
   
9. No need for a fly swatter – just use duct tape!
10. Keep the cold air out – use duct tape as a window sealant
11. Valentines day – "One rose traditionally means "I Love you." A dozen roses made entirely out of duct tape means "I’ll Love you forever!"
    
12. Tape the toilet seat up or down…
    
13. Use a piece of duct tape to cover the optical sensor or the mouse ball on your co-workers mouse so that it won’t work.
14. To remove warts… yep, it’s true.
15. Need a cell phone holder or a tool belt? Just construct your own… out of duct tape of course!

Source: www.ducttapeguys.com

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This article was written on November 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

Oliver Rist, an editor at PC Magazine, decided to take a new perspective on the who Vista sucks theme going around. Normally I just pass right by these articles, but his really caught my attention by saying that Leopard is the New Vista. The article, to say the least, is hilarious. Checkout my favorite parts of the article:

What makes it worse is this convoluted argument that my Apple friends give me: They’re more upset at Microsoft on account of it being in perpetual service pack limbo because Vista was supposed to be a ground-up redesign, whereas Leopard is really just a juicy point release. That makes zero sense to me. As far as I’m concerned, they both suck.
[…]
For Leopard, the sad bundled app-as-feature is Time Machine. To hear Mac moonies tell it, this is the best thing to happen to backup since the letter b. In reality, however, it sucketh and it sucketh huge. Okay, the screen looks like Star Wars. That’s cool in an I-want-to-stay-a-virgin kind of way.
[…]
Okay, I probably had a little too much coffee this morning, but Leopard really is just one big popped balloon of disappointment. Let’s get it straight, however: I’m not any more against Leopard than I am against Vista. Both of them got too much wrong. I’ll close with a little tidbit for that pudgy PC guy in the Apple commercials who’s so sad because his users are “downgrading” to XP. Well, maybe they are—I know I did. But I’m writing this on an XP workstation right now because my Mac is busy reinstalling Tiger. Leopard can keep its glitzy crash-prone spots. I’ll stick with the OS that really “just works”—for now.

Having not tried Leopard myself I can’t criticize many of the aspects that Oliver does in his article, but it was entertaining to read nonetheless. I guess what we can take out of the article is that all operating systems suck when they first come out?

Leopard is the New Vista [PC Magazine]

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Last week I wrote about “What was Life Like Before the Computer” where a poem pointed out that before the computer, an application was used for employment, you pasted things with glue, and a virus was the flu. Times have surely changed because those words, along with many others have totally different meanings today.

It got me thinking about spell-checker and how much I, like many others, rely on it on a regular basis to keep written material free from spelling errors. What did I do without it?  It’s evolved a lot since it was first introduced, and now we have more than just a way to check for spelling mistakes, we can also check for grammar mistakes. More recently with Microsoft Office 2007, there’s also the contextual spell checker that ensures that the theirs and there’s along with the to and too’s, and all of the other homophones are used appropriately. (Image source)

As a Firefox user, I was ecstatic when spell-check was included with Firefox 2.0 because that meant that when I left comments on blogs and social network sites, I’d know if there were any errors. Without a spell-checker, I’d spend a decent amount of time everyday correcting my spelling errors. In other words, it saves me A LOT of time.

With that said, I thought this poem was very fitting. I received it as a forwarded email a long time ago as I’m sure many of you have, but I managed to track down the original author. It was written by Jerrold H. Zar who I thought would have been an English professor, or a linguistics specialist. I was wrong, he’s a Biologist. Just reading through it once is enough to make anybody appreciate the spell-checkers that are readily available today in browsers, applications, and elsewhere.

CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE by Jerrold H. Zar
(Otherwise known as “Owed to a Spelling Checker”)

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it.
Your sure real glad two no.
Its very polished in its weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a blessing.
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays comes posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we’re laks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does not phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too please.

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In front of the sculpted jaw and haunting eyes of this ridiculously-good-looking man, there is a phone. And it says: “Thanks for the cash, sucker.”

Visualized: Giorgio Armani Galaxy S originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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To be a jailbreaker means different things depending on the device that you’re busy hacking preinstalled walls from. If you’re fiddling with consoles, a legal team would come highly recommended, but if you’re tweaking mobile code, at least Windows Phone mobile code, you’re in for a much sweeter ride. The ChevronWP7 guys that brought us the first jailbreak of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 are currently in Redmond having a sitdown and a frank exchange of views with WP7 dev experience director Brandon Watson, and the amicable nature of their discourse has been evidenced by the image above. Microsoft is clearly taking a light-hearted and community-friendly approach to handling the (now inevitable) efforts at disabling limitations to its software and we can only congratulate its mobile team for doing so.

[Thanks, Tasos]

Update: Looks like Microsoft’s softie approach really is working. Shortly after the jolly news, notorious hacker Geohot announced on Twitter that he’s going to treat himself to a WP7 device; but before long, Redmond’s already reached out to offer him a free handset. Any bets on MuscleNerd hitting the tweet button next? [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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