December 2010
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HOW TO: Customise New Facebook Profiles (With Free...
There have been some amazingly creative uses of Facebook’s new profile layout recently:
You can see more cool examples here and here. There are two ways to do this, depending on whether you have Photoshop or not…
WITH PHOTOSHOP
STEP 1: Download this Photoshop PSD file:
STEP 2: Drag a picture of yourself into the canvas and put that layer behind my layer (which is essentially...
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Playlist: Best Music of 2010
2010 has been another great year for new music, with fresh and original acts taking centre stage whilst many of our established heroes take a year out releasing albums forgettable or not at all. My fave tracks of the year are:
Click any track to play the whole playlist from that point on:
Warpaint - Undertow
This year has seen me fall for several female-fronted pop acts, in particular the...
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Best NASA Photos of 2010
Caroline Hirsch of the New Yorker has kindly compiled her favourite Hubble telescope images released by NASA this year and there are some stunners, like the one above.
Check more out at The New Yorker.
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WikiRebels - The Wikileaks Documentary
Unless you’ve lived in a cave recently (or in a country that restricts access to information!) you’ll have seen popular ‘information liberators’ Wikileaks thrust into the public eye over ‘cablegate’.
This fascinating Swedish documentary (it’s in English) throws some light on the site and its shadowy founder Julian Assange. Here it is in a YouTube...
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10 Years Of The Beatles' Styles
Illustrator Maxim Dalton has just released a limited run of 500 prints of this cool poster showing how the biggest selling band of all time evolved sartorially through the 1960’s in a fifteen-step change from all black Pierre Cardin suits to the confused, messy beginnings of the decade fashion forgot.
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Reeder For Mac Beta Released
The pretty-much-default RSS reader for iPad and iPhone - Reeder - has burst out of iOS and onto our desktops. My browser homepage is set to Google Reader, which even with performance-enhancing Chrome extensions is an ugly and unwieldy page, so this is real progress in my bid to stay fully abreast of the important things in the world.
It’s basic (which is great because it’s simple...