For all you skype users out there you may want to go check out Skype’s new deal.
In short, if you’re in one of their selected countries - you can pay a premium every month and receive unlimited land line calls, any time of the day.
Enjoy.
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Well, last night I had a little problem.
Now, on my PC I have always had 2 hard disks, one running XP, the other running vista. I kept all my data safely on the XP drive, and only copied essentials over to Vista (Pictures, Music) as a backup.
Vista got full of unwanted software, driver problems and etc. so I decided to reinstall it. Now the first time I did this, I did it successfully until Internet Explorer started playing up and running multiple processes when not even open. Suspecting this to be a virus/malware, I attempted to once again reinstall Vista (it was still a clean build, I hadn’t put any time into it). This is where it went wrong.
Inside the Vista installation I was prompted to select a hard disk on which to install it. Now, both the hard disks in my machine are identical (as in, they are both Maxtor 300GB…). Out of confusion, I deleted the partition on my XP drive. This therefore meant I had effectively wiped all my data.
Long story short, it’s yet to be recovered although it should be possible. But I spent over 6 hours attempting to recover it.
And I’m now running Linux - Ubuntu, lets see how it goes. I’ll write my opinions soon.
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Greatest apologies for the lack of posts recently. School work has got me tied up until the end of next week, expect some updates then.
James.
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Most people will have heard of Facebook or might already be using it. For those who haven’t it’s an online profile similar to Myspace or Bebo with some major advantages over the others.
Its elegant and simple design make it much more to the point than Myspace or Bebo. It’s more sophisticated and mature, easier to navigate.
I highly recommend giving it a go, you may connect with some long lost mates or just to keep in touch with current friends.
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Although this is one of the safest bombs, it is still not recommended that you participate in creating it without taking safety precautions. Neither I, or any of the other Useful Box authors are liable for any damage you create with this bomb.
The Carrot Bomb.
A brand new addition to my collection of sparkler bomb recipes. Special thanks to Nick, John, Tim and Tom Weatherall.
If you haven’t heard of sparkler bombs, here is the basic rundown. We all
know that sparklers are flammable but they only spray sparks. Well,
when all bunched up together or crushed they exponentially increase in
power.
Below we can see the latest of our bombs, named the carrot.
Here’s what you need:
The Process
You’re done!
Dig a small hole in a VERY OPEN area and put the Carrot Bomb in nice and tight.
Light and run.
Couple of notes:
Here’s a few being prepped for wrapping:
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While we’re taking a short break from posting, try to grab a few laughs from this video.
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Been very sick for the last few days, will get back to updating the site by next week.
Cheers.
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For Mozilla Firefox
F1 - Help
F3 - Find
F5 - Refresh
F6 - Highlights URL Bar
F7 - Places a movable cursor on web pages for highlighting text
F10 - Highlights ‘File’ tab
F11 - Full screen
Ctrl + B - Bookmarks
Ctrl + N - Opens new window
Ctrl + A - Highlights all text on page
Ctrl + S - Save As
Ctrl + D - Add Bookmark
Ctrl + F - Find
Ctrl + G - Find
Ctrl + H - History
Ctrl + J - Downloads
Ctrl + L - Highlights URL Bar
Ctrl + W - Close
Ctrl + R - Refresh
Ctrl + T - Opens new tab
Ctrl + U - Source Code
Ctrl + I - Bookmarks
Ctrl + O - Open File
Ctrl + P - Print
Ctrl + F4 - Close Tab
Alt + V - Opens ‘View’ tab
Alt + B - Opens ‘Bookmarks’ tab
Alt + S - Open ‘History’ tab
Alt + D - Highlights URL Bar
Alt + F - Opens ‘File’ tab
Alt + H - Opens ‘Help’ tab
Alt + E - Opens ‘Edit’ tab
Alt + T - Opens ‘Tools’ tab
Alt + F4 - Close Window
Alt + Home - Home Page
Backspace - Back
Shift + Backspace - Forward
Spacebar - Toggles Checkboxes
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Came across this site not too long ago when I was deeply involved in developing my Photoshop knowledge. Although it isn’t cheating per-say it is still pretty cheeky.
Vector Magic is an online tool that can be used to turn any image that you have into a vector*.
For any of you that have vectored images in Photoshop, I’m sure you can see how much time this can save.
*Vector graphics are resolution independent because they can be output to the highest quality at any scale.
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For those of you who are at least somewhat interested in art, whether it be physical, photography, Photoshop etc. You absolutely have to check out Tutorial9.
Started by David Leggett (you may know him from GreyCobra) it is exactly what the URL suggests. A site dedicated to tutorials. This will eventually include photography tutorials but currently it is quite focused on Photoshop. And no, you don’t need to be terribly experience with Photoshop to get use out of these tutorials. Especially with the upcoming School of Photoshop section which is expected by the end of this month.
I was part of the community forum beta testing, and have watched this site grow and develop from almost the very beginning. And from what I’ve seen so far, I can tell you right now it’s going to be big. So go check it out.
P.S: New domain! www.Useful-Box.com
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