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Make OS X pretty again with Uno:

UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look&feel to every single window on your system (cocoa or carbon, metal or aqua and already unified windows as well).

On an higher level, UNO's main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look&feel "as one".
UNO is aimed to those who want a clean and un-osbstructive interface while keeping the best of Aqua.

The unity level proposed by UNO does not compromises overall GUI contrast: UNO and UNO shade can be mixed up in order to achieve that usability goal."

And it's free!

-CGP fo Life-

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There's an interview with my friend Chip Mosher about his forthcoming graphic novel, Left on Mission & Revenge , which is being illustrated by Aneurin Wright, over at Comic Book Resorces here.

Check it out. And if your braving the fat sweaty masses at this years Comic Con in San Diego, they are selling 20 page previews at table E10.

-CGP fo Life-

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Aaron Schwarz (one of the people behind TShirthell.com) wants a new name. Not only does he want you to pick it, he will pay you $25,000 for it!

"My name is Aaron Schwarz and I've decided to change my name. I figured, rather than dealing with the boredom of researching mythological deities or wasting my precious time looking through popular books of names, I would just get the entire population of the world to do the job for me. Oh yeah, I'm going to give $25,000 to whoever suggests the best name."

Why are you still here? You should be suggesting a name!

-CGP fo Life-

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The 10 Commandments, re-edited as a teen comedy.

-CGP fo Life-
(Found Via BoingBoing)

Technorati Tags: teen comedy, re edited, 10 commandments, cgp, boingboing

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Gawker is a really cool open source application for making time-lapse video's with an iSight (or other camera's I assume), but what makes it Capworthy (yes it's a real word, look it up) is the fact that it has Bonjour network support!

"Gawker is an application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using an iSight camera. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users to record your image stream. Streams can also be combined to create a time-lapse movie with two locations side-by-side."

So I just installed it on some coworkers iMac's and MacBook Pro's, then hid the application, and now I am spying on them all from a different side of the building.
So very evil, so very fun.

-CGP fo Life-

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One Red Paperclip is so brilliant and retarded at the same time I am amazed I didn't think of it.

"My name is Kyle MacDonald and I am trying to trade one red paperclip for a house. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005 and I am making a series of trades for bigger or better things. My current item up for trade is one afternoon with Alice Cooper. Do you want to spend one afternoon with Alice Cooper? Pop your offer over to me at (oneredpaperclip@gmail.com) or give me a shout at 310-689-8867. (If you can't get through - please send a text message) You can see the current offers here. I live in Montreal Canada but will go anywhere in the world for the right offer."

So he started with one red paperclip, which he traded for a fish shaped pen. The pen was traded for a door handle which was in turn traded for an old coleman camping stove. The stove was traded for a beatup red generator but that got traded for a keg of beer and a neon sign. The beer and sign combo got him a snowmobile. The snowmobile was traded for a trip to someplace called Yahk which was (smartly) traded for a moving van. The van got traded up for a recording contract which was turned into a year without rent in Phoenix. And finally, that year in phoenix was traded for a day with Alice Cooper. Just damn cool.

-CGP fo Life-

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The artists over at Graffiti Research Lab have combined conductive paint and LED's to make some very very cool Graffiti art. They even show you how to do it on Instructables.com and have posted a video of the process.

-CGP fo Life-

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Apple has updated FrontRow with some very cool networking features. Normally FrontRow wont run on a mac without Apple's built in IR reciever, but thanks to Andrew Escobar and his excellent FrontRow Enabler anyone with Mac OS X 10.4.5 can use FrontRow. Add a cheap Keyspan IR reciever and your favorite programable remote or Gyro mouse and your good to go.

-CGP fo Life-

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In one the greatest Simpson episodes ever Homer planted tobacco seeds, tomato seeds, gummi bears, and some plutonium and was rewarded with an excellent crop of Tomacco.This guy couldn't find any plutonium (or the gummi bears??) so he grafted a tomato plant right to some tobacco roots. Genius!

-CGP fo Life-

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The Mac OS X beta of Google Earth has been leaked, and it works pretty damn well.

"Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more."

The beta can be found here. If you want to sue someone over posting it, try these guys.

-CGP fo Life-

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Acclaim, one of the largest video game publishers in the world, is bankrupt. So all of their publishing rights are up for auction at very low prices. Classics like Bubble Bobble, Mortal Kombat, and NBA Jams. Lucrative cross liscenses like The Simpsons and South Park. I might pick a few up just to make some of my MAME roms legal.

-CGP fo Life-

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What drunk college student wouldn't want this?? It'a 6 foot tall bubble that you can get in and do battle on the water!

"Have a blast in the Nuclear Globe! Climb inside this giant 6-foot sphere and rock-and-roll across the water. The inset cups on the outer surface help grip and paddle your way through the water as you spin the globe. Using two Nuclear Globes, you can engage in Nuclear Face-Off as you and an oppponent compete to bump and bounce each other into submission. Prepare for combat!"

When your finished battling and pass out on the beach in Cancun, the locals can use it to float to America.

-CGP fo Life-

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I am amazed it took this long.

"A super-fun sex toy that plugs into your iPod! The music-activated vibrating bullet stimulates you in time with your favourite music. And you can listen to your songs while you're enjoying the vibrations... Use the his-and-hers attachments to add extra excitement. Turn him into a vibrator with the stretchy ring and use the soft sleeve for sensitive stimulation. No music player? You can still use the iBuzz for orgasmic fun. Just turn on and enjoy the 7 amazing vibration patterns - press the arrow buttons until you find the one that suits your mood. Supplied with all the wires you need to use any any MP3 player or music source."

The iBuzz
To bad for your girlfriend they won't ship them to the US.

-CGP fo Life-

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This article from Esquire magazine is a must read. The writer outsourced his entire life to India. One personal assistant for his job, and another for his personal life. Both of them in cubicles 10,000 miles away, managing every little detail. Everything from research work to gift buying. The writer keeps pushing the limits of both the assistants and the people in his life.

-CGP fo Life-

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This chick installed BOCHS (an x86 emulator) on a Sony PSP. Then she installed FreeDos and Basilisk II/vMac (Mac 68k emulators). Sure it takes 4 hours to boot, and has no keyboard/mouse support, but it's still damn cool. She should have taken it one more step and installed STELLA for some Atari 2600 action!
All the required files are available from her site as well.
(Thanks Oldies)

-CGP fo Life-

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This video of a high school percussion band playing songs from DJ Shadow's Endtroducing.. is incredible. From the composer's website:

"In the Winter and Spring of 2005, I started the Shadow Percussion Project, where I attempted to adapt a few tracks off DJ Shadow's remarkable album Endtroducing for a live performance group. By mid-February I had arranged both Building Steam with a Grain of Salt and Changeling for Percussion Quintet. Eager to hear what these arrangements sounded like, I brought the music to the Minnetonka High School Percussion Ensemble, an extracurricular music program that I instruct. The students responded to the music positively, even though it was extremely challenging. After a few months of intense rehearsal, the students performed both tracks for a live audience on Monday, May 16 2005. The following video contains the final performance."

In other semi-related news, I recieved my Public Works package today. The only delemma is "Do I wear the shirts or try and save them??" But I know, no matter how hard I try and save them, I will end up wearing them all. Maybe I'll post some photo's of the unboxing if anyone cares.

-CGP fo Life-

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I know I say this about a new application every month, but Teleport is my new favorite application for Mac OS X.
If you use more than one mac at a time, and each have their own monitors, this application lets you share a single keyboard and mouse between the two (or more) computers. Way cooler than any KVM switch and you can use it with your laptops. Their description:

" teleport is a simple utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Works on Panther and Tiger (sorry, no more Jaguar support). ��� Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers."

-CGP fo Life-

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The Beastie Boys have released a cappella MP3's of a number of songs on their website. For your remixing pleasure, they even list the BPM's. They are limited to personal use, and new ones will be posted each week.

Heres what's up there now:

3 the Hard Way
Alive
An Open Letter To NYC
Brr Stick 'Em
Ch-Check It Out
Ch-Check It Out (Just Blaze)
Oh Word?
Rhyme the Rhyme Well
Right Right Now Now
Root Down
Triple Trouble

-CGP fo Life-

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BOCHS, the open-source x86 emulator, has been ported to the Sony PSP. How long until someone combines these instructions to install windows on your psp with these directions on installing Mac OS X Tiger x86 on generic pc's??

-KRS Juan-

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Back in ancient times, before the likes of electricity and the wheel, people played music on these things called records. CoverFlow brings back the experience of digging through your LP's and finding the one you want by it's album art. It's currently a tech-demo, but is quite functional, and with a little polish this could be my favorite application of the year. There appears to be some troubles with it expiring soon (or already maybe?), but hopefully that will be cleared up soon.

-CGP fo Life-

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Dan Dickinson's blog pointed out the MegaMan Effect. This little gem from the ADHOC/MacHack conference is a little Mac OS X app that runs in the backround, and anytime you launch an application you get a full MegaMan styled intro to that application complete with stars and music. Sure it's just a novelty, but on slower macs that have a delay before launching applications anyways, you may as well have a song and dance first right?

-CGP fo Life-

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Besk one is back bitches!! After getting robbed by some punk ass tricks and trick ass marks - I've begun replacing all the booty that got snatched from my pad.

Fresh out of the box, I'm posting from my new PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7Ghz, with two 250GB SATA Hard Drives, 2.5GB Ram, and a shiny new 23" Cinema HD Display! (yes I'm now shit-ass poor, and yes I had to finance half, but hell... that's what credits for right???)

So here's the contest, since I lost all of my data, and all of my apps that were on the system that got nicked, I need suggestions for cool apps, utilities, widgets, desktop accessories etc... to populate what is at the moment a tragically baren wasteland of hard drives, lusting for creamy nuggets of digital wonderment and content galore.

Leave your suggestions in the comments, and I'll pick my fav - the winner will get - well probably nothing, and possibly just a rant from me pointing out your shortcomings as a man/your mothers weight/or some other rude and/or crass comment - but it'll be fun, you know you like it!

No seriously, the winner will get a front page entry on CapsGetPeeled.com with me doing a full review on the winning app, and giving you your 5 minutes of glorious westside representation :)

Peace bitches!
-CGP fo Life-

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Artist Alex Schweder has created some Scratch-and-sniff Wallpaper

"Still-life of Beefsteak and Cheese, 2004
Paper, Ink, & Scented Varnish; Each sheet 34" x 21.5"
This line of wallpaper explores color and scent in relation to their construction of a "succulent" space. Set up as three sheets with the same striped pattern, different ratios of scented scratch n?sniff varnishes and colored inks allow a room to be more or less visually or olfactoraly intense but evenly delicious. The name of the wallpaper sets up an expectation of savory flavors in the color while the scent of donuts evokes an unseen sweetness."

It's called Beefsteak and Cheese, but it smells like donuts??? This is one step closer to Willy Wonka's lickable wallpaper!

-CGP Fo Life-

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Arn't you glad you don't use Windows? Dont you wish the New York Subway System didn't either?
Thank's to Halfie for snapping this photo.

-CGP fo Life-

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Not many Beer Bongs have their own domain, and usually for good reason, but this multi-stage, multi-person, compressed air powered Beer Bong truely deserves it's name: The Ultimate Beer Bong.

"My good friend, Billy Holder, and I created what we called 'The Device' some time ago. It was a successful over complication of a beer delivery funnel, also known as a 'beer bong'. Sadly Billy moved out, and there was a deep loss felt from 'The Device' and such the incarnation of 'The Device 2.0¨'. This was to be the biggest, most over complicated, most over engineered beer bong ever created. In fact it was to be such a spectacle it was to have it's own documentry website, and thus you have read this, and it has been done.

The basic idea, simultaneously tap two beer sources being either a sankey Keg, or a 5-gallon party ball, push it with a replenishing air compressor to either a faucet, or up to a 4-gallon upper holding tank with four hoses leading off into four mouths racing to finish their hose.
Specs:
Media type: Keg / Partyball / Water / Air
PSI: Tank-120/First drop-30/BeerSwitch drop-12-14
Upper Tank: 4-gallon capacity with hoses / Activly intercooled via radiator and refidgerator based resevoir.
BeerSwitch: Able to redirect water, air, or beer from two sources into two faucets, up to the main tank, or all three at the same time. "

-CGP fo Life-

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Found this on Dan Dickinson's blog. What more needs to be said after this?

-CGP fo Life-

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In todays busy world, what kidnapper has time to cut out and paste individual letters to a ransom note. Hasn't technology progressed beyond that yet? Yes it has!

Spell With Flickr uses photo's from Flickr to make your words.

Web of Letters does the same but using Yahoo! Image Search

And lastly theres AmazType. Put in your favorite book, musician, or dvd, and using images that match that name on Amazon it builds the requested word. Check em out.

-CGP fo Life-

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The US food and Drug Administration has given approval for giving US soldiers MDMA (the physcoactive ingredient in ecstacy) to treat post-traumatic stress disorder

"Scientists behind the trial in South Carolina think the feelings of emotional closeness reported by those taking the drug could help the soldiers talk about their experiences to therapists. Several victims of rape and sexual abuse with post-traumatic stress disorder, for whom existing treatments are ineffective, have been given MDMA since the research began last year."

Most Soldiers already have glowsticks in their emergency kit, no word on if pacifiers will be added as well.

-CGP fo Life-

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New episodes of The Family Guy will appear on Fox on Sunday, May 1st at 9pm!!!!

Cant wait that long? Fox will be airing the pilot to American Dad on superbowl sunday (Sunday, February 6th) after The Simpsons.

-CGP fo Freakin Life-

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A new version of xLink Kai has been released for Mac OS X. This version has a nice GUI and an installer. There is also a nice tutorial for the non-technical. Xlink Kai is a cross-platform xbox linking tool, allowing you to play other people over the internet for free.

-CGP fo Life-

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Bungie Studio's excellent series of Marathon games (the prequals to Halo) are now 100% freely available for download. Marathon 1, 2, and Marathon Infinity went open-source back in 2000, but all the music, art, and maps were not legal to download. Now you can download all of it. And thanks to Aleph One you can play them on Mac OS X, in OpenGL, and with better networking.

"Marathon, Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity are now all available free of charge. Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity are fully compatible with Aleph One; just replace the Marathon 2 or Infinity application with the Aleph One application, and enjoy the benefits of OpenGL graphics, improved networking, and everything else that has been added to the game engine since it went open-source in 2000"

-CGP fo Life-

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The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that the BioSphere 2 is going up for sale! Someone dig Pauly Shore out of his dumpster and tell him to find a Baldwin brother.

-CGP fo Life-

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The first public beta of PCSX for Mac OS X is out. PCSX is one of the best and most popluar Playstation 1 emulators for PC and thanks to opensource we now have a Mac OS X version. I have not had a chance to try it myself but reports on the web say it's much much better than Flarestorm. You will need a PSX bios image to run it, but they can be found via google pretty easily.

-CGP fo Life-

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According to Karelia's blog Watson is now free, if you can find it.

"So ... as of today, Watson (bumps and bruises and all, but still in decent shape) is now freely available. But the catch is, we can't make a new version that doesn't require entering a registration code; we don't have the source to Watson anymore. But we can give out a registration code that anybody is welcome to use.

So here's the deal. Get a copy of Watson from a friend, or look for it somewhere on the Internet, as Karelia can't provide it directly......... Then launch it and choose "Register Watson..." under the "Watson" menu.
* Enter your name and (optionally) your organization.
* In the E-mail address field, enter:
nobody@karelia.com
* And in the Registration field, enter:
BNVQTTW 4P3SMC7 R7L8S3V 1XGKGG7A"

Not all the plugins still work, but this was an amazing tool that should never be forgotten.

-CGP fo Life-

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Remember DJ Dangermouse's Grey Album? It was a full remix of Jay-Z's Black Album, and the Beatles White Album. Well Dangermouse is back, and this time he's made a video mashup of one of the songs from the Grey Album. Grab it before the lawyers go nuts.

-CGP fo Life-

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For his graduate thesis from the MIT MediaLab this guy used 2 CueCats (those free barcode readers from RadioShack), 2 Technics 1200's, and some homemade electronics to build his own homebrew version of FinalScratch.

"These pages document my final (graduate thesis) project at the Media Laboratory. The five month-long project concentrated on the development of a hardware/software interface for controlling musical events on a computer using a set of disk-jockey turntables and paper ‘records’ that can be printed or drawn. These records contain visual markings representing programming information for synthesis and/or sequencing of music, which is optically interpreted by a plug-in cartridge (aka spinal cat) for the turntable tonearm. The cartridge then communicates with software on a host computer via MIDI or serial protocols."

Check out the cool photo's or read the Thesis for yourself.

-CGP fo Life-

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"I wish I was a tennis racket!"

(Image stolen from Ace)
-CGP fo Life-

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Do you know this AfroNinja? If you do, you can win $50. If you dont, then you should watch his video where he gets his ass kicked by the floor!.
From the request:
"Another silly video is spreading rapidly through the Internet, this
one dubbed the "Afro Ninja." My challenge: Please identify (by name)
the man in the video. If you're able to find his contact information
or any other details about the video's origins, feel free to pass them
on too."

-CGP fo Life-

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If I had a powerbook G4 I would be all over this! Cult Of Mac is showing off some custom made laser engraved powerbook g4 tops that look awsome. The guys who made it are considering doing it as a business if they see demand. Send an email to defor@eastrain.com for more info.

-CGP fo Life-

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Metal Slug, the greatest 2D game ever made, is making the transition to 3d. Announced at the Tokyo Game Show friday, it's only been announced for Japan and for the PS2.

From the Gamespot article:
"It's safe to say that this installment in the Metal Slug series is very early in development. With that caveat, the version being shown on video has some pretty low-quality textures and only rudimentary animation at this point. The gameplay also seems very basic, with the only on-screen indicators being a life meter (so it's safe to assume that you'll be able to take more than one hit before dying, unlike most other Metal Slug games), ammo and grenade counters, and a basic radar display that shows off enemy locations. "

Hopefully it will keep the Metal Slug magic that stole thousands of my quarters over the years.

-CGP fo Life-

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The ultimate Apple nerd's wet dream: 1,566 xServe G5's. This 25 teraflop behemoth is used for missile research at Colsa corporation for the US Army. The only question is Is it fast enough to run Doom 3 on a 30" Cinema Display?

-CGP fo Life-

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Vaporizing is not just for rich pot-heads anymore, now alcoholics can join in the fun as well with AWOL:

"AWOL, an acronym for Alcohol With Out Liquid, is a machine that mixes spirits with pressurized oxygen. A cloudy alcohol vapor is created which can be inhaled. "

At $2995 for the small one these are obviously not meant for home use, but for bar's to use like kegs. Not even technically out yet, New York officials are already trying to get them outlawed.

-CGP fo Life-

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Found this on BoingBoing. It's Pac-Man, but your Mary-Kate Olsen and inbetween mentioning what a whore you are, you snort up massive lines of coke while chasing the demon heads of the cast of Full House. It's full of bugs but the slander couldnt be better.
Play it before they are sued into oblivion.

-CGP fo Life-

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The RetroZone sells a line of retro (hence the creative name) console controllers adapted to USB to be used with modern emulators. They sell NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari, Commadore, and Intellivision controllers. Want to build your own? The RetroKit has everything you need to make your own retro usb controller.

-CGP fo Life-

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