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This is really cool, using a special dual coloured origami paper you can create a Yoda. The image above shows the Yoda created by Fumiaki Kawahata. It looks like it will take ages and you need to have skill and accuracy but it is worth while. You will end up with a really cool Master [...]

This quite detailed tutorial shows you how to create a fake software box in photoshop. You can also use it in Macromedia Fireworks, although not all the options will be in the same place. This is good if you are selling software as it “gives off the impression that you are an established business and [...]

If you are annoyed at how expensive the Memory Stick’s are from Sony, and you can’t even go more than 1GB then this solution is for you. A huge exposed circuitry provides you a converter, so you stick in your cheap 2GB Compact Flash card and off you go. It has even been tested with [...]

It looks like the Mac Mini’s are being updates, secretly. If you order your Mac Mini from the online Apple Store, you may get a new bumped up Mini, or an older one. They will arrive in the same boxes and labels, so you won’t know until you turn it on. The reason Apple are [...]

Microsoft is now claiming that their new Windows Vista will boot in 2 to 3 seconds. Er, I don’t think so. Microsoft, do you think people are stupid? As Engadget points “you’re lucky if your machine boots in six minutes or shuts down in two“. What ever their radical claims are I don’t think it [...]

So I posted last week about the Treo 700w and how Engadget managed to get their hand on one. Well yesterday the Treo was officially announced. They didn’t have any special details that we didn’t already know about, but one bad thing is that the screen’s resolution is 240 x 240 and not 320 [...]

The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
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My Mac Desktop for Tuesday 27th September 2005.

A wired version of the Xbox 360 controller has been sold on eBay for $91. So some stupid guy has bought for around £46 a controller to a system which isn’t even out yet. Sure they could use it with a PC (if it worked), but still why pay that much when the console will [...]

The entire building is a parking machine. Just drive your car into the bay. Each bay rotates through the building to maximize usage of space. Your parking ticket will retrieve your car back to the bottom bay. You back out your car onto the rotating circle. It will turn your car so you can drive [...]