I’m Back.

Ive been kinda busy lately, and i’m back now.

Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Roadster.

I thought the original Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR was a nice enough car but its looks just didn’t do it for me. That was until I saw one live - the car looks way better live than in pictures. In an effort to inject more life into the slow-selling supercar, Mercedes has done away with the top and created the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Roadster. I have to admit, it is a mighty fine package.

The new Roadster features a carbon fiber roof. In fact, every body panel, except for two, is made from the exotic material. The loads of carbon haven’t done much to lower the weight of the car - it’s still super heavy. The engine is the standard SLR’s 617 HP unit instead of the 722’s 650HP motor.

The Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Roadster is the first convertible Mercedes in recent memory where the top is not fully automatic. The occupants will have to manually unlatch the roof, push upwards, and then let the motor take over. What’s up with that? The most expensive car in Mercedes’ lineup and I have to manually unlatch the roof? Forget it. There’s no way I’m paying £350,000 for that.

LEGO NXT Mindstorms Missile Launcher

Created by “bricklife”, this NXT-powered missile launcher is quite accurate to say the least. See it in action after the break.

Funny Jack Bauer qoutes.

“Due to Jack Bauer, no one looks forward to the weekend anymore, they look forward to the weekend being over, and watching 24 on Monday.

If everyone on “24″ followed Jack Bauer’s instructions, it would be called “12″.

When someone asks him how his day is going, Jack replies, “Previously, on 24…”

Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.

Don’t beg Jack Bauer to shoot you. He will simply shoot your wife. No man tells Jack Bauer what to do.

Jack Bauer could strangle you with a cordless phone.

Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.

Jack Bauer sleeps with a pillow under his gun.

Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.

Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.

During the commercials, Jack Bauer calls the CSI detectives and solves their crimes.

When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables. “

I craked my ass of after finishing reading them !

I wish i worked for Google.

Woow! I wish there was a place in Kuwait like this to work at, it would be really fun ! Take a look at the video and you’ll check out this interesting tour of the Googleplex, includes lots of interviews with employees. Employees at Google spend most of their time having fun, which is the senareio to their success. Video after the break.

Source [Youtube]

248am.com Hacked?

Come In/Go Away Doormat

We’re suckers for typography design, so we couldn’t be more intrigued by the Come In/Go Away Doormat. This ambigram tells new arrivals to “Come In,” inviting them into your home, and tells them to “Go Away” as they head out the door. Oh yeah, and it should keep some mud out of your house.

Buy it [Here] 

Source [Uncrate]

Found the #1 Mac guide in the world!!

Ok i found this Mac guide like no other Mac guide, it dosn’t just explains keyboard shortcuts, it actually, well, read it to find out!

Introduction

A lot of people have been moving to the Mac over the past few years, so a while back I thought I’d jot down a few notes about my experience over the last five years or so. The motives for anyone switching are pretty much irrelevant, and will not be discussed here - discussing relative merits of computer platforms is very much like discussing cars, and therefore largely unimportant if you are getting what you want.

Quasi-religious beliefs that any platform is better than another are not just irrelevant, but plain childish and stupid. Before maligning the Mac, Windows or Linux, make sure you know what you are talking about - most people in the IT business have “pet hatreds” towards one platform or another out of sheer ignorance, and more than a decade in the business has shown me that anyone who only has bad things to say about any given platform probably doesn’t know what (s)he’s talking about.

So if you know you want a Mac, you’ve come to the right place for a few basic hints that might just save you a lot of time.

The major “under-the-hood” issue for non-Mac users is the underlying UNIX foundation of Mac OS X - it’s quite different from what you might be used to, and if you used any sort of UNIX before, bookmark Amit Singh’s What Is Mac OS X? now and go read it after you finish this.

The second (and quite frequent) issue is the recent transition to Intel processors. The bottom line on that is: If it’s a Mac, it will work the same way regardless of what chip is inside. There will always be teething issues, but the Rosetta emulator ensures pretty much everything runs on new Intel machines with acceptable performance, and most relevant applications are already available as Universal binaries for both PowerPC and Intel machines.

And yes, you can run Windows (or Linux) on Intel-based Macs. There are at least three good ways to do it. One is doing dual boot using Boot Camp (for which Apple even supplies Windows drivers), and the other two consist of using Virtualization (i.e., running the other operating system in a virtual hardware sandbox). One is called Parallels and has been around since roughly mid-2006, and the other is called Fusion and reached public beta on December 2006.

They will not be discussed here at length, since the main point of this document is to ensure you feel at home in Mac OS X as quickly as possible.

The remainder of this is, therefore, mostly written for non-technical folk. However, I do throw in a few hints for people who are coming to Mac OS X with some computing experience and expect some “best practices”, so don’t worry if some points are a bit too technical.

Lightheads Caffeine for Mac OS X.

Found this amazing little application, cheak it out.

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

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42 Reasons normal people can switch to a Mac.

They’re compatible. Right out the box, Macs and PCs use the same:

1. Wifi. Wireless Internet works the same with Macs and PCs.

2. Internet. The vast majority of web sites work on both systems.

3. E-mail. Every form of e-mail system (except Microsoft Exchange systems) works fine on Macs. The last couple of versions of the Mac operating system, OS X, support Exchange as well, using this setup.

4. MP3 files. This is the most common form of music files. (WAV files work too. For other forms, see below.)

5. DVDs and CDs. Watch the same movies, listen to the same albums.

6. MPG files. This is a popular video format.

7. ZIP files. Mac has an unzipper just like WinZip for these compressed files.

8. PDF files. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can use ‘em.

9. Image files. All your bmp, jpg, gif and png files are just fine.

10. MOV files, a video format that’s popular on the web, will work better than ever.

With a little software, Macs can run:

1. WMA and WMV files. These “Windows-only” music and video files work after installing Windows Media for Mac.

2. AVI files. These work best on VLC, a media player that can handle nearly every file on Windows or OS X. It’s the only program you need for movies.

3. Office files (.doc, .xls, etc.). Just buy Microsoft Office as you would on a PC.

4. Photoshop files. Just, um, buy Photoshop.

5. Windows. Yep. You can install Windows and move any files and programs that still won’t work on your Mac.

Dig these nifty programs:

1. Macs come with iPhoto, iMovie, and iTunes to handle your photos, movies and music in a friendlier way than the clunky systems on Windows. Of course, if you like files and folders (so do I!) you can keep handling your media that way.

2. Adium combines AIM, Yahoo IM, Google Talk, and a bundle of other instant messaging programs. It’s slick, friendly, and customizable.

3. Firefox is a great internet browser for Windows and Mac. (You might also like the Mac’s normal browser, Safari.)

4. Dashboard widgets are little programlets that can display the weather, an inbox, the white pages, flight info, how well your computer’s doing, when Heroes is on next, and plenty of other information.

5. Quicksilver lets you start any program or open any file on your system by hitting a few keys (instead of digging through a programs folder or start menu).

6. Podworks lets you download music from an iPod to a Mac.

7. This is really just a super-useful feature that comes with OS X. Press apple-shift-4 to take a partial screenshot, just capturing the part of the screen you want. You drag and click, OS X drops the file onto your desktop. It’s a great way to clip from pictures or show someone what’s happening on your screen.

8. And there’s so much more, on lists like this and this and this and this.

Isn’t it nice when things just work?

1. The OS X operating system has four hotkeys that show your desktop, all your open programs, all the windows in one program, or your Dashboard widgets.

2. When you’re watching a video and you use those hotkeys or minimize the video, it keeps playing on screen. Sweet.

3. Say you’re moving some episodes of Heroes to a folder within a folder. If you click and drag them over, say, a folder marked “TV Shows,” you can hold them there and “TV Shows” will open, so you can drag the files over to “Heroes.” This way you don’t have to crawl around selecting and re-selecting.

4. No draggable edges on your windows means that the edges of your programs are clickable. What does this do? Well, you can slide your mouse to the edge of the screen and use the scroll bar without accidentally shrinking the window instead.

5. How much power is left in your Mac laptop? Don’t turn it on, just press the button on the case and watch the power meter light up.

6. Your software and hardware will feel beautiful. Macs don’t have dangling hooks; the clips are embedded inside the laptops instead of sticking out; the power cords on the new models have that famous magnetic connection, so if you trip on the cord, it pulls out instead of dragging the Mac onto the floor.

7. None of those #$@%^ pop-up bubbles that tell you the same thing over and over.

No crashes.

1. Windows takes so much work just to keep it running. But Macs don’t take maintenance. Viruses? Not much of a problem.

2. Defragging? Forget it.

3. Disk repair? Well, if you managed to whack this machine so hard that the built-in motion sensor didn’t save your hard drive…

4. It’s hard to crash a Mac. I drive my computers hard, so I made Windows crash every few weeks for years. I’ve owned a Mac for a year, and it’s crashed once.

Stuff really does hook up easily.

1. Cameras and camcorders, which are increasingly shipped as plug-n-play since no one really needs the dorky software that comes with them, work smoothly with Macs. (I personally recommend this line of camcorders from Sanyo.)

2. External hard drives are a breeze too. Just make sure the box doesn’t say “Windows only.” Most, such as the My Book, work smoothly with Macs.

3. Scroll areas on trackpads? Ew. Those get in the way unless you stare at your trackpad as you use it. That’s why Apple’s laptops scroll when you drag two fingers, no matter where on the trackpad you are.

4. I’ll admit one thing: It’s hard for a geek to find a good Mac mouse. If you’re not a fan of Apple’s standard-issue Mighty Mouse, spring for this nifty Logitech mouse. Even if you just use your computer to surf the web, you’ll love the extra two buttons that save you from finding the “back” and “forward” keys.

All the other Mac users will love you.

1. When you’re sharing an Internet connection, they’ll mooch your iTunes playlist. But that’s fine; they can only listen when you let them.

2. They’ll want to share tips.

3. They’ll have stories to tell.

4. They may get smug about it. Please don’t encourage them; just gently tell them the truth: You’re a normal person.

Source [ValleyWag]