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Interesting article on the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a “device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe.”

Remember this place?

This is how it looks ten years later:

Via waxy and Greg Smith.

This text-to-speech generator is done rather well.

If you’re tired of having to use a portable jump drive or email whenever you need to transfer files between your work and home computers, I suggest Dropbox. This is a great idea perfected.

This is one of the coolest online image editors I’ve seen.

A very interesting history of computer data storage, in pictures.

Get it all right here.

Get your skull font here.

This guy was one of the people chosen by Microsoft to take photos for the new Vista wallpapers. Only two photos in this set were chosen–be sure and check out the rest.

sTablauncher is a small, highly useful little app that allows easy access to any number of programs and links on your desktop. It sits out of the way in little transparent tabs, freeing up your toolbar and start menu. Hey, why not.

I’ve recently found a very useful virtual desktop utility, Dexpot. It takes a little getting used to, but it allows you to work with multiple desktops at once, and easily manages all of them so you always have an uncluttered workspace. Here’s a screenshot showing one of the modes:


Check it out.

these are keepers.

Your keychain jump drive can function as your personal PC with mojopac.

Try a pre-release version of Windows Vista here.

another tiny spell checker for Windows.

The Ultimate computer case-mod list. To wit:

Now I can quit wondering what to do with all these whiskey bottles I’ve got laying around.

You can download this program and make your computer function like the new Windows Vista. I use it on both my computers, basically for the Apple-esque toolbar that comes with it.

Screenshots of Windows 1.0 to XP

Well, call me a geek (you’re a geek!), but I love me some USB drive action. This little feller is one of the handiest things I’ve used in years, other than, well, the computer itself. Which is funny because the USB drive may soon replace the traditional computer. What am I talking about? I’m talking about lightweight programs that fit on your USB drive and can be taken with you from computer to computer. Right now I’ve got 22 separate programs on my USB drive, which combined offer all the functions I’ll ever use: image editor, email client, browser, word processor, antivirus, you name it. And together they only take up 20MB of space. Now I realize that this is virtually useless for people who only use one computer, but if you use another at work or on the road, there you go. Save space on your hard drive and run the programs off of your USB drive. It is not hard to imagine this sort of trend affecting the CPU market, either. One day you may be able to buy just a monitor, plug your USB drive into it and have access to any program you want, no bulky and expensive hard drive needed. If you’re interested, go here and here for a multitude of sites that host free lightweight programs you can use.