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Retouching photos to the max!

Greg Apodaca’s web portfolio showcases some of the most amazing photoshopping around. This is worth checking out to see who the real models are behind the magazine covers who we try to emulate. His site shows the original scans followed by his retouching of each image.

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How to Have a 36 Hour Day

Some great tips on how to be more productive with the 24 hours your do have. Covers topics like polyphasic sleep and GTD and software applications that you can use to save time.
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Lazy Generation protests against ban on laptops for note taking.

Professor June Entman warned her first-year law students by e-mail to bring pens and paper to take notes in class and that laptops would not be allowed.
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“My main concern was they were focusing on trying to transcribe every word that was I saying, rather than thinking and analyzing,” Entman said Monday. “The computers interfere […]


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AppleTalk interview with XP on Mac winner

AppleTalk.com.au score a scoop in getting an interview with Jesus Lopez (Otherwise known as blanka) who was part of the 2 man team that successfully got Windows XP to install and run on an Intel Mac.
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Macbreak: Leo Laporte demonstrates WinXP running on a Mac Mini

Video of Mac mini running Windows XP


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How I made my own miracle. Getting up at 6am to write.

It FINALLY dawned on me last week that the body really will adjust if I start getting up an hour earlier.My corner is the kitchen table, armed with a slice of toast and a coffee.


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The Pope Gets an iPod

You just gotta report this - now everyone’s got an iPod. Who is there left for apple to sell to?
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A group of Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI a brand new iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music.
To honor the pope’s first visit to the radio’s […]


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Woohoo! Apple deliver Intel Mac mini

As hoped and expected, Apple have released a new Mac mini based on the Intel CPUs.


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