Archive for February, 2008

How it’s Made: Glassblowing

Friday, February 29th, 2008

If you’ve always wanted to learn about the process of glassblowing, then check out this interesting “How it’s Made” segment. Video after the break.
Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating the molten glass into a glass blob with the aid of the blowpipe. A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith, or […]

PICTURES: Water Tower or Home?

Friday, February 29th, 2008

At first glance, this may look like a facade, but in reality, it’s a cleverly disguised water tower that has been converted into a loft. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
what you’re actually looking at is the top of an old 30,000 gallon water tower, brilliantly designed 85 years ago […]

XP or Vista? [Reader Poll]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

According to News.com, Microsoft is slashing prices on several versions of Vista, dropping upgrade versions of Vista Ultimate to $219 from $299 (full version drops to $319) and Home Premium from $129 to $159 for U.S. customers. Naturally, the price drop has raised a lot of eyebrows from Vista haters and XP die-hards, which got […]

Nortel shares sink, but CEO’s pay rises

Friday, February 29th, 2008

TORONTO (Reuters) - Despite unsteady performance, a new round of layoffs and a plunge in its share price, Nortel Networks Corp raised the total compensation of chief executive Mike Zafirovski by about $1.8 million in 2007, regulatory filings show.

Original post by Kevin Purdy

Family Guy Spins off Cleveland

Friday, February 29th, 2008

E Online is reporting that a new spinoff is currently in the works to feature Cleveland, the soft-spoken neighbor in popular animated sitcom Family Guy. “Not much is known about Cleveland other than the fact it will revolve around the Brown clan. It’s unclear whether the series will remain set in the town of Quahog […]

Cap Your Browsing Bandwidth with Firefox Throttle [Featured Firefox Extension]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Windows only: Firefox extension Firefox Throttle caps your download and upload rates in Firefox you so can throttle the amount of bandwidth Firefox can use. The extension is full-featured, with options for excluding specific web domains and toggling the bandwidth throttle, along with some simple traffic stats for the current session. If you really want […]

Cap Your Browsing Bandwidth with Firefox Throttle [Featured Firefox Extension]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Windows only: Firefox extension Firefox Throttle caps your download and upload rates in Firefox you so can throttle the amount of bandwidth Firefox can use. The extension is full-featured, with options for excluding specific web domains and toggling the bandwidth throttle, along with some simple traffic stats for the current session. If you really want […]

Cap Your Browsing Bandwidth with Firefox Throttle [Featured Firefox Extension]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Windows only: Firefox extension Firefox Throttle caps your download and upload rates in Firefox you so can throttle the amount of bandwidth Firefox can use. The extension is full-featured, with options for excluding specific web domains and toggling the bandwidth throttle, along with some simple traffic stats for the current session. If you really want […]

New Radar Maps of Moon

Friday, February 29th, 2008

SpaceAdmiral writes to mention that NASA has some new high-resolution radar maps of the Moon obtained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The new images have also been used to create a simulation of the Moon’s day and a movie of a Moon landing from the point of view of the astronaut. “NASA is eying the […]

Beef Up Your Firefox Downloads with DownThemAll 1.0 [Featured Firefox Extension]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Firefox/Thunderbird (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you download a lot of files through your browser, chances are Firefox’s default download manager doesn’t really impress. Luckily there’s DownThemAll, the free Firefox extension and download manager that makes managing, speeding up, and supercharging your downloads a breeze—and today, DownThemAll has updated to their 1.0 release (after over a year without […]

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