Friday, February 5, 2010 - Page 2
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The Theatre Rendering Farm

Today’s featured workspace has quite a few points of interest: it’s a temporary Mac-based rendering farm temporarily set up in a theatre to handle the heavy lifting of designing the visuals for a stage production.


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Get To Know Windows 7 Libraries Inside And Out

The new Libraries feature in Windows 7 makes it easier to manage your files and folders. Today we take a comprehensive look at everything you can do with Windows 7 Libraries.


Fix

Set Up A Whole-House Speaker System Through Your Phone Lines

Ed. note: It can be pretty expensive (and a big pain) to install a wired, whole-house speaker system, but reader Tom O’Brien writes in with his low-tech solution: Route your speakers through the phone lines already installed in your house.


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Become A Gmail Master Redux

Gmail is easily the most popular email application among power users, and with good reason: It’s an excellent app. But if you haven’t gotten to know its best shortcuts, tricks, Labs features and add-ons, it’s time you made Gmail sing.


Fix

Hack Your Kindle To Support Bluetooth

If you want to mess around with modding your Kindle but you don’t want to deal the wires and extensive case modding that comes with most hacks, this clever mod puts a Bluetooth receiver in your Kindle.


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Get The Nexus One Multitouch Update Without Waiting

Nexus One owners should receive an over-the-air update soon that brings multitouch gestures, a better Maps app and improved 3G connectivity. “Soon” is relative, though. If you’re tired of waiting, a five-minute, legitimate procedure can update your phone right now.


Communicate

SlingPlayer iPhone App Gets Go-Ahead To Stream Over 3G

If you’ve got a SlingBox and an iPhone, you could previously fork over another $37 to get the SlingPlayer app and watch your home TV and recordings … over Wi-Fi, which kind of defeated the whole purpose of mobile watching (aren’t you usually home already when you’re on Wi-Fi?).


Travel

Google Map Buddy Generates High Resolution, Full Size Area Maps

Want a wall-sized satellite view of your suburb? A full-page street map of the town you’re visiting? Google Map Buddy, a free, portable map maker, grabs data from Google Maps and arranges it exactly how you want it.


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Allerglobal Generates Allergy Travel Cards In Multiple Languages

Having food allergies can be a big enough hassle in your native country, let alone when travelling where you don’t speak the language very well. Allerglobal helps you make language-specific food allergy cards to communicate in restaurants.


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iTunes Provides Browser-Based iPhone App Previews

iTunes is letting more of its content out onto the open web these days, offering up song previews and, just recently, iPhone/iPod app details.