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When they're in use, hard drives vibrate, and that means they can get noisy—unless they have the right shock absorbers. In an oldie-but-goodie article, the folks at the Silent PC Review rigged up a hard drive bay with thick elastic bands they picked up at the local crafts store. The resulting setup suspends the drives in space with the elastic, which absorbs vibrations and gives the drives plenty of breathing room. Writer Mike Chin says: As a simple test, when I touch the drive while it was running, I can feel a fair amount of vibration. But when I touch touch the case right next to the hard drive—or any part of the case, there is NO vibration from the drive. None at all.When I showed one of my suspended drive systems to my favorite local dealer, it was the complete absence of vibration in the case tha read more » 
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A Website built using web standards will always be easy to use, maintain and promote through search engines. This type of website can be made manually by gathering together all necessary elements or automatically with the help of a content management system.
Not all content management systems applications will have an output in totally compliance with web standards. TYPOLight CMS (content management system) is one of the few PHP applications that makes use of XHTML and CSS to output W3C/W... read more »
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Not all content management systems applications will have an output in totally compliance with web standards. TYPOLight CMS (content management system) is one of the few PHP applications that makes use of XHTML and CSS to output W3C/W... read more »
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You can get decent photos out of a standard, consumer-grade digital camera, but a little post-processing can turn them into fantastic wide-angle landscapes. You don't need to be one of those people who can explain the concept of lateral chromatic aberration to get truly eye-catching digital pictures. With a few shutter clicks and some free, cross-platform software, you can easily mesh standard digi-cam shots into true landscapes, fix one photo's deficiencies with another, and create layered photo collages. Let's take a look at how to use the free, open source application Hugin to make two basic kinds of panoramas.
What you'll need
A digital camera that embeds EXIF data in its pictures (that's basically all of them)
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Reuters - President George W. Bush is very concerned about global food shortages and has asked senior
aides to look into how the United States can help alleviate the
problem, the White House said on Monday. read more »
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Web marketer and migraine sufferer Scott Clark is tracking all the daily variables—food, environment, activity, and the like—that surround his attacks with a migraine diary, and he's found text-to-speech services like Jott (original post) are the best hassle-free tool for the job. Not only will Jott (or ReQall or most similar systems) automatically record the date and time of the entries, but it's always accessible by cell phone, and one can create a dedicated "inbox" for migraines to separate the diary from productivity-related read more »
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Reuters - Chinese forces found firearms hidden throughout a Tibetan temple in an ethnic Tibetan area of
southwestern China which has been the scene of anti-Chinese
riots in recent weeks, state television said. read more »
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Gordon Brown has become embroiled in an acrimonious row with banking chiefs over who was to blame for the credit crisis as a poll shows voters lack faith in the Prime Minister's ability to handle the credit crisis. read more »
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Four British teenage girls and their tour guide have been killed
and another 15 people injured in a bus crash in Ecuador, just two
weeks into a three-month South American trip. read more »
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and another 15 people injured in a bus crash in Ecuador, just two
weeks into a three-month South American trip. read more »
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