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18 Cool Internet Tricks You Didn't Know About

18 Cool Internet Tricks You Didn't Know About
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Download Flash and Video Whatdoestheinternetthink.net Mixed Metaphors | Now available Mixed Metaphors: Selected Writings of Michael Ray Fitzgerald – a collection of my best stories for various publications, from 1984 to present. “Seems whatever I’m interested in, Fitzgerald has written about it. This is a collection that covers pop culture, militarism, tattoos, music, and just about anything else you’d want to read about. It’s a real weenie roast of a collection.” McKeen, professor and chair, Department of Journalism, Boston University; award-winning author of Mile Marker Zero, Highway 61, Home Grown in Florida and more. “From hot-dog vendors to musicians, Fitzgerald knows how to capture someone’s story. “Fitzgerald’s is an insider’s view of Northeast Florida’s rich and colorful music scene. “It’s hard to tell what Fitzgerald’s greatest asset is: his encyclopedic knowledge of North Florida’s music scene, his outspoken political views or his dry cynical wit.

5 Ways to Download a Flash Movie Steps Edit Method 1 of 5: Using a Web Conversion Program 1Find a video downloading website. One of the most popular options is KeepVid, which works with YouTube, Vimeo, and a number of other streaming sites. Downloading videos from streaming sites will most likely violate the site’s Terms of Service. Distributing copyright material without permission is illegal. 4Download the video. Edit Method 2 of 5: Using Browser Extensions 1Install a downloader extension. 4Wait for the download to finish. Edit Method 3 of 5: Downloading SWF Files 1Open the video site in Firefox. Edit Method 4 of 5: Copying SWF Files from the Browser Cache 1Open Internet Explorer, or use your computers search tool to locate your Temporary Internet Files if you use a different browser. Edit Method 5 of 5: Downloading RTMP Streams 1Install a media downloading program.

Datenschutz - Ihr gutes Recht! Visualizing 13 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution This new simulation of the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang is the most accurate yet. Like previous visualizations, Illustris can recreate the cosmic web of galaxies -- but this computer simulation also includes mixed populations of spiral and elliptical galaxies; it includes large-scale structures like galaxy clusters, bubbles, and voids of the cosmic web, as well as small-scale features, such as the chemistry of galaxies and predictions of gas and metal content. In this realistic virtual universe, Genel, MIT’s Mark Vogelsberger, and colleagues, capture the universe 12 million years after the Big Bang and traces 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. Thanks to rapid advances in computer power, they were able to simultaneously model the evolution of different components of galaxy formation, including that of baryons (visible matter) and dark matter. The picture above is centered on the most massive cluster, 15 Mpc/h deep. "Illustris is like a time machine. Credits:

How To Download Embedded Flash Files Using Your Browser Maybe, history will record Steve Jobs and his famous memo as the first nail in the Flash coffin. From browser crashes to the cool Flash animations we grew up with, the story of Flash has always led to animated debates. But thanks to Flash, the web is a far more interactive place today. HTML5 maybe the new kid on the block and while it is growing up, Flash still holds sway when one thinks of rich animations and advanced interactive games. Remember, one of the most popular sites today – Facebook – is still having fun with Flash games. It is not even the last giant standing as many online games still run on Flash. Flash animation files are embedded as SWF (Small Web Format) files in webpages. Download Flash Files Using Chrome To download SWF files in Chrome without the express help of any extensions, you have to dive into some of Chrome’s tools that are favored by developers. Open the Flash video on a Chrome tab and allow it to load completely. Download Flash Files Using Firefox All Done!

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever! Sherlock Holmes e il mistero dell'universo senza scopo  Partendo dalla malinconica conclusione di uno dei casi più raccapriccianti del grande investigatore, una riflessione sulle spiegazioni del senso dell'universo e della vita proposte da due grandi fisici e da un protagonista della controcultura psichedelica di John Horgan Il "periodo Sherlock Holmes" della mia vita purtroppo si è concluso. Ho appena finito di leggere la raccolta completa delle sue storie scritte da Arthur Conan Doyle: 4 romanzi e 56 racconti brevi. In un recente articolo avevo commentato uno strano monologo contenuto ne Il trattato navale, in cui Holmes, che di solito si concentra con autistica ossessione sulla soluzione dei crimini e respinge la metafisica, ragiona sulla rosa come possibile prova dell'esistenza di Dio. Ora ho trovato un'altra perla filosofica nel penultimo racconto della raccolta, La scatola di cartone. La storia comincia quando una signora riceve un pacco contenente due orecchie, una di uomo e una di donna. Condivido l'incredulità di

How to Sync Outlook and Google Apps Business users have gotten used to Outlook. The email client for the more than one billion Microsoft Office users on the planet has become second nature. But some companies are finding that it saves them money and maintenance to let Google host their email, calendars, and contacts, even though this means a third party will have access to email contents and targeted display ads appear in the inbox. If you could use Outlook with your Google Apps Mail (really just Gmail), you don't have to see these ads, and you get a preview panel, inbox sorting, rich formatting, right-click options, social connector, and most of the other tools Outlook offers. Thankfully, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook lets you take advantage of most of Outlook's tools—but only for Outlook 2010 so far. If you run Office 2013, you can still connect to a Gmail account through IMAP, but this will only get you mail, no calendars, tasks, or contacts. Next, click the Create profile button.

Why Happiness Scares Us Today (March 20) is the United Nations-sponsored International Day of Happiness. But for many people, joy is less a reason to celebrate and more a trigger of fear. Aversion to happiness exists across cultures, especially those that value harmony and conformity over individualism, recent research suggests. The findings challenge the Western assumption that everyone is aiming for a life full of unremitting joy. "In reality, some people don't want to be happy, and especially extremely happy," said Dan Weijers a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Weijers co-authored a review of anti-happiness research with rellow Victoria University of Wellington researcher Mohsen Joshanloo. The researchers find that reasons for avoiding happiness are varied: Some people fear too much happiness will bring sorrow, while others consider happiness a shallow, vapid emotion. Ranking happiness Happiness is a hot topic for social scientists and policy makers alike.

Running Linux from USB: Are You Doing It Right? You’ve probably heard about live Linux environments on USB drives, but did you know that you can also keep data persistent or even do a full install on the USB drive? Here are your three options for carrying Linux in your pocket. Find out which method is best for you. Write a Live ISO to USB It’s been talked about many times before, but it’s become really easy to take an ISO image of your favorite Linux distribution and write it to any appropriately sized USB drive. However, the downside to this approach is that you’ll lose all of your data as soon as you shut down or restart the computer you’re working on. If you’d like to keep a customized Linux environment in your pocket, this isn’t what you want. Enable Persistent Data If you’re an Ubuntu user, you have the option to enable persistent data on your USB drive. This is also ideal if you use a large variety of systems with the USB drive, as the Live environment will detect what hardware is available every time it boots. Conclusion

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