If you have ever turned on the Television only to see a commercial for some product that you had the idea for but just didn't know how to make it happen you really need to check out quirky.com for just $99 you can submit your idea which will compete with that weeks submissions and if your selected the quirky community will help you develop it, produce and sell it and give you a cut of the profits. You can also help people with their inventions and get a piece of the action when they start selling the product its a win-win for everyone.

Here are my favorite products they have already developed:

If you ever had any problems identifying different types of computer hardware this poster can help. Posted at deviantart.com by ~Sonic840

Google announced today they have a new initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online and are now partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles. An easy way to find new magazines is to search for "Browse all issues" on http://books.google.com/.

Long before Star Wars at the end of WWII it was discovered that Nazi scientists at a research center in Hillersleben were laying plans for a space station 5,100 miles up, from which a "sun gun" much like the death star could focus the suns energy on the enemies of Nazi Germany. A high ranking United States Army Ordnance officer declared that after an exhaustive interrogation of the scientists was revealed that plans had already been drawn up and determined that a dish just three kilometers square would have the power to destroy nations or boil ocean water.

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Google's new internet browser officially kicks ass it's new JavaScript virtual machine called V8 is the fastest hands down of any of todays browsers. Here are the results of a JavaScript test run against todays other popular browsers test your own browser here JavaScript Test

Internet Explorer 8.0	Google Chrome 0.2.149.30	Firefox Version 3.0.1

Currently users are forced to remember hundreds of passwords to websites and various other authentication systems which require passwords. Due to the wide variety of systems many end users to manage the large numbers of passwords which is complicated to keep straight when you are using a strong password which expires on a rotating schedule. In the original article it was suggested to create an uncrackable password was to put characters from all 5 of these rows in your passwords to increase the time it takes to get cracked and when possible use ALT-Chars which makes passwords uncrackable.

Congress has set a final deadline for the HDTV transition of February 17, 2009. Most television stations will continue broadcasting both analog and digital programming until February 17, 2009, when all analog broadcasting will stop. Most people don’t use over the air broadcasting anymore since the picture and signal quality usually sucked. The mandate from congress to upgrade to HD has changed all that with most local television stations now broadcasting in High Definition. New televisions come with a built in HDTV tuner if yours doesn’t you can request a free $40 coupon to receive a converter box here https://www.dtv2009.gov/.

The only other thing you need is a good DIY HDTV antenna which you can build for next to nothing with the following instructions:

The Solar Death Ray idea has been around since about 213 BC when Archimedes purportedly destroyed the Roman fleet at the siege of Syracuse by setting them on fire with his invention of the burning mirrors.

I have been asked a few times what is so great about SSH or what can it do for me. The easiest answer I could come up with to tell non techies, was you can surf pr0n at work and you might not get fired. Although I wouldn't recommend doing this, using SSH to circumvent a corporate firewall can be useful at times if you need to get to that one blocked website for whatever reason. Configuring an SSH server for this purpose is not that hard if you have an old pc, high speed Internet connection, and know how to install Linux.