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WinFlog Extreme Toggles Aero and More via Right-Click [Featured Windows Download]

- 10 hours and 7 minutes ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/winflog.png" width="494" height="289" style="display:block;" /Windows only: Free application WinFlog Extreme adds several handy shortcuts to your right-click context menus with a Vista-specific twist. For example, with WinFlog you can toggle Aero with a quick couple of clicks, turn on Flip 3D, or perform more basic operations like turning off your monitor or ejecting your disc tray. Although the app is very Vista-specific, it does work on XPmdash;but it's not like you've got any Aero interface to toggle in the first place. For Vista users, the option to quickly toggle Aero is a great feature when you're looking to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of your PC. WinFlog Extreme is a free download, Windows only./p div class="related"a href="http://winflog.wikidot.com/"WinFlog Extreme/a [via a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/01/winflog-powers-up-your-windows-context-menus/"Download Squad/a]/div br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e283485bd8b5c0622777ec2e522182d9p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e283485bd8b5c0622777ec2e522182d9p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=e283485bd8b5c0622777ec2e522182d9" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=ksnuXOlO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=8pW341CE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=QJtrkPY3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=QJtrkPY3" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=N67MBjzG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=N67MBjzG" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/Ba7O9K7wtJ8" height="1" width="1"/

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Sure, Newspapers Could Just Die A Painful Death; But Here's Another Option

paidContent.org

- 11 hours and 2 minutes ago

pIf you want to watch news travel fast, make sure it's about the newspaper industry. Fitch, a credit-rating service, has predicted that some daily newspapers will go out of business as their parent companies default on their debt and are forced to liquidate. But this prediction is extreme: There are interim steps that papers can take to stave off the cash drain. /p p Even if Fitch is right, what if instead of liquidating the assets, the papers were reclassified and/or contributed to a not-for-profit. Presumably, someone could benefit from the tax write-off. Sam Zell, owner of Tribune, sold Newsday earlier this year; perhaps there was a gain he wants to offset. He could contribute the Baltimore Sun to a newly established not-for-profit. There was a group in Baltimore that wanted to buy the paper when Tribune was originally for sale--that group could serve as management for the paper and oversee the not-for-profit. /p p While converting to a not-for-profit won't improve the financials, it would allow the paper to ask for philanthropic support, not unlike public radio or television stations. This isn't meant to be a solution to the industry woes but instead a thought that came about after reading that McClatchy (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MNI" class="ticker" title="MNI"NYSE: MNI/a) was collaborating with the Christian Science Monitor, a not-for-profit, in some of their overseas news bureaus. I hadn't realized there were any not-for-profit papers. I'm also encouraged by the establishment of ProPublica, a not-for-profit investigative-journalism organization led by former Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger.nbsp; /p p Recently, I had an on-air personality from one of the local PBS radio stations present to my media-management class at Kent State University. Listening to him discuss the support for the station and the support for National Public Radio, I have to believe there's enough support out there for a newspaper. If the goal is to save some of these daily newspapers, perhaps this idea could save a few. /p p iLauren Rich Fine is ContentNext's Research Director. /p p /i /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=3YrmKe"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=3YrmKe" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=afiPO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=afiPO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=V9ijO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=V9ijO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=beUWo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=beUWo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=RJzKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=RJzKO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=QkByO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=QkByO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475058300" height="1" width="1"/

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Hygiene for the Worker: 1912 guide to being a sweet-smelling prole

Boing Boing

- 11 hours and 52 minutes ago

Meg sez, "I just found a copy of one of my favorite used-book finds ever, 1912's Hygiene for the Worker, on the Internet Archive. It's wonderful in so many ways. The illustrations are simultaneously delightful and creepy, the language is charmingly outdated, and the lessons in the book attempt to create a race of scrubbed-clean, milk-drinking super employees who spend their vacations at home 'laying up a greater store of health and energy than the young people who come back tired and weary from having too good a time at the mountains and other regular summer resorts.'" Hair. Most boys and girls, ordinarily, do not value or pay sufficient attention to the little things that go to make up a good appearance. Take the hair, for instance. If you want to make a good impression, don't apply for a position with your scalp and hair so unclean as to be offensive. It has now become the rule, in certain large offices, to draw the line against the girls and young women whose hair is fantastically arranged in the extreme of style. Elaborate head dressings suggest to the employer a certain vanity, self-consciousness, and frivolity that render a girl unable to put her mind seriously upon her work. Clothing. Here also should be mentioned the impro- priety of wearing, during business, clothing that seems suitable only for evening or home use. The type of waist known as the lingerie is one that the business girl should not wear in the office. It is neither sensible nor dignified. Nor is it an economy, for on account of its sheerness it requires greater care and expense in laundering ; hence, it is seldom washed as frequently as it should be. There is nothing more distasteful to the average business man than unclean finery. Boys and girls both are inclined to run to extremes of style in their dress, usually preferring garments that are of the most up-to-date cut and shape to those of more modest appear- ance, which are generally found to be made better and of more enduring materials. This is equally true of hats and shoes. An employer will probably notice whether you are wearing elaborately cut and high-heeled shoes, run down, unbrushed, and with broken laces, or whether your feet are shod in sensible, well-fitting shoes, kept clean and neat. Hygiene for the worker ([c1912]) (Thanks, Meg!)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=69239a6998db6b7416f7d0640f46cd5fp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=69239a6998db6b7416f7d0640f46cd5fp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=69239a6998db6b7416f7d0640f46cd5f" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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The Ultimate $250 Camera Shoot-Out [Battlemodo]

Gizmodo

- 14 hours and 22 minutes ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/psshootout.jpg" width="807" height="415" style="display:block;float:none;" /There are a lot of $200-$300 point and shoots on the market right now, and there's no way the test display at Best Buy is going to tell you which to buy. How is elbowing other shoppers while analyzing your hasty snapshots on a 3-inch, low-rez screen going to help you make an informed buying decision?/p pInstead, I put six of the most popular point-and-shoots on the market through some major testing. Then I decided on the one that you should buy without the hedging BS./p pstrongMeet our competitors/strongbr emEach of these compact point and shoots features optical image stabilization and is priced around $250:/em/p pa href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=camerascamcorderstype=digitalcamerassubtype=tlseriesmodel_cd=EC-TL9ZZBBA/US"Samsung TL9 ($280)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoActfcategoryid=145modelid=16718#ModelDetailAct"Canon SD790 ($250)/abr 10MP, 3X zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-Camera/26120/COOLPIX-S560.html"Nikon S560 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551storeId=10151langId=-1productId=8198552921665309170"Sony W170 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5x zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Digital-Cameras/Lumix-Digital-Cameras/model.DMC-FS20K_11002_7000000000000005702"Panasonic FS20 ($250)/abr 10MP, 4x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=13044pq-locale=en_US_requestid=7962"Kodak M1093 ($200)/abr 10MP, 3x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pstrongStudio Shoot/strongbr The shots inside were captured under diffused sunlight in full auto mode at max (10MP) resolution. I won't say that it wasn't an extreme disappointment that only one camera, the Kodak, was able to shoot with proper white balance in this situation and offer us colors as they really look (you'll have to trust me on this one). The other cameras compensated poorly, possibly metering the diffused light as tungsten light, and producing a fairly cold image because of it.br script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('camerabattlemodo', 6,''); /scriptbr Other than the color, you can't make out much from the wide shots. But if you blow the images up to their native resolution, there are huge differences. Even in the web-compressed images here, it's obvious that Canon captures the most detail:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canoncookies2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="440" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pIt's basically a tie between Sony and Kodak for second place. Here's what Kodak looks like:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakcookie2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="466" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pAnd then there's a pretty hard drop in quality. Panasonic comes in a solid last place here:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasoniccookie2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="384" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pYou can fix the color by manually choosing a smarter white balance (color temperature), or adjusting the balance in post. But you can't get the texture of those cookies back. Big win for Canon here./p pstrongMotion Photography/strongbr It's no secret that many point-and-shoots are horrible for capturing the spontaneity of a child or pet, in part due to focus lag and often an additional wait before the shot is actually taken. While DSLRs are the best solution, I wanted to see if any point-and-shoots could rise to the challenge of capturing some action./p pSo I put them to the test on a Chicago side street where cars get up to 15-20mph. After repeat testing on each model, once again, we had a clear winner. Trouble is, it's Panasonic, loser of the resolution match! Panasonic features more shooting settings than any of its competitors, so my guess is that they spent a lot of time on optimizing at least this particular preset optimization.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicmotion.jpg" width="807" height="518" style="display:block;float:none;" /br The remainder of the competition was fairly close, and I can't say that even the Panasonic model will capture any incredible sports action photography. But I will say that the Nikon and Samsung seemed to lag more than the others from button press to shot acquisition. They both tended to have the blurriest shots as well. Here's a typical result of the Nikon:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonmotion2.jpg" width="807" height="556" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongVideo/strongbr Like high-speed photography, point-and-shoots aren't fundamentally designed for video. But then again, since they all shoot video, people have begun using them more frequently than they ever used their bigger, more specialized camcorders, so a test was necessary./p pAfter playing some billiards, I found Canon's image, though not technically the highest resolution, to be the best. A point as well to its realistic sound capture of ball on ball action.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canonvideo.jpg" width="807" height="476" style="display:block;float:none;" /br Second place goes to Kodak. Even though you can make out a great deal of grain on the table's felt surface, it also captures a relatively sharp, pleasantly contrasty image when you examine each ball.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakpicnewsss.jpg" width="807" height="445" style="display:block;float:none;" /br Last place? This title is, once again, reserved for Panasonic. For some reason, the camera interpreted the red table as some sort of blurry pastel. And the sound was a like a fast food drive-through speaker.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicvideo.jpg" width="807" height="454" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongFlash/strongbr We've all been there. It's late. A friend is in town. Your cameraphone can't hope to capture a shot in your drunken stupor, especially as you're hanging out in a smokey bar. I'd loved to have recreated this scene precisely in its brilliance, but instead I opted to take pictures of my cat with the lights low.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/sonyflash.jpg" width="807" height="529" style="display:block;float:none;" /br It's an unfair challenge for a small-lensed, small-chipped camera to capture a decent picture in low light, even with flash as a crutch, but the Sony did as well as I could have hoped, illuminating my subject and her background alike, lacking the hotspots of most flash photography./p pThe other cameras were predictably mediocre, but the absolute worst at handling flash had to be the Nikon. Not only did it give my cat a washed-out glow, but it didn't even consider properly exposing that obnoxious pile of boxes behind her. The shame.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonflash.jpg" width="807" height="540" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongWeird Features and Gimmicks/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/samsung-tl9.jpg" class="center" style="display:block;" /None of these items should probably determine your buying decision, but I wanted to mention a few of the more...interesting features of the cameras. The Samsung TL9 has a set of snazzy analog dials on top that display battery life and remaining memory like a car's dashmdash;plus it plays music and movies. The Panasonic has categorized an Intelligent Auto Mode that gives a lazy but informed user a nice way to tell the camera, "hey, you may need to boost the ISO," without messing with any other controls or gimmicky menus. The Nikon will warn you if a subject's eyes are closed. The Canon has ditched the standard up, down, left, right menu dial for a spinning ring...that's bold, if not always intuitive. And Sony will shoot in 16x9 or stretch images to that ratio for quick HDTV slideshows. Plus, smile/face detectors are everywhere. How did we ever take pictures before boxes enclosed a loved one's face?/p pstrongSo What Should You Buy?/strongbr After all my testing, I'd recommend the Canon SD790. Sure, it didn't win every category, but it won the one that counts mostmdash;detail. It came first in the video category. And it never ever fell flat on its face./p pMaybe this conclusion sounds a little too clinical to you. If so, let me say that there are less tangible elements I appreciate about the Canon SD790: It includes the best built battery charger and it is the only model tested to sync with a computer via mini USB (as opposed to some annoying proprietary cable or dock). On top of those, it always seems quick to capture a shot after I pressed for the shutter, though it's still not nearly as responsive as my prosumer DSLR. The one thing I'd ask for in this camera is a more powerful zoom lens./p pIf you know an extreme technophobe, you might tell them about the Kodak M1093. It offers the simplest shooting experience with one button to choose a photo mode, one button for flash toggling and one button to actually take a picture. Digital cameras don't get simpler than that, and I have to admit, as the cheapest model in this roundup ($200), with the least techie brand name, it performs better than I expectedmdash;though it does have a propensity to bump the ISO, producing some unwanted noise./p pBut as for the Sony W170, while it does feature the widest angle lens with 5x of zoom, it's clunky in the hand and rarely brilliant in quality. As for the Nikon S560, it takes mediocre shots. The Panasonic FS20 is inconsistentmdash;bordering on horrendous much of the timemdash;and features a small screen and a dated interface. Meanwhile, the Samsung TL9 just completely fails to impress me./p pSo go ahead, pick up the Canon. It seems the company's overwhelming market share is well deserved. Or don't. I won't lose sleep or anything. Just don't come crying to me when all your pictures look like crap./p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c1a975b9131882296246399e780f880dp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c1a975b9131882296246399e780f880dp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c1a975b9131882296246399e780f880d" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=UD6vGN1K"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Wtdzgbo9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=prZIRpc4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=prZIRpc4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=z2R519Xk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=z2R519Xk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/CrXUNBcOjJ4" height="1" width="1"/

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UK's seasonal starling flocks may disappear

Guardian Unlimited

- 15 hours and 57 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/40650?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+UK%27s+seasonal+starling+flocks+may+disappearch=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Wildlife+%28Environment%29%2CConservation+%28Environment%29%2CEndangered+species+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CUK+newsc5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CClimate+Change%2CEthical+Livingc6=Juliette+Jowitc7=2008_12_04c8=1128997c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Wildlifec13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FWildlife" width="1" height="1" //divpThe sight of tens of thousands of a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/08/birds.starling"starlings/a pirouetting and wheeling together in an ever-changing cloud of rushing wings is one of the UK's great wildlife spectacles./ppBut as this year's annual season of the murmuration reaches its peak, bird experts are warning that the extraordinary scenes mask a serious decline in the species which is now listed as one of the most at-risk birds in Britain./ppThis year, as in recent years, the audience of regular birdwatchers on Brighton Pier has estimated there are about 40,000 birds doing their aerial ballet just before dusk./ppThirty years ago though it is thought the numbers were near a quarter of a million. In some flocks in other countries, the total is thought to be up to 2m./pp"People think 'wow, that's amazing, look at all those birds'," said Gemma Rogers of the RSPB. "Without putting a dampener on it, we wanted people to know: it is amazing but it's not as great as it should be and something needs to be done about it."/ppThe starling spectacle starts ever year in November, when local starling populations are swelled by a vast influx of birds from the extreme cold in northern Europe and Russia, and lasts until around March, always for about an hour before dusk./ppOne of Britain's most popular naturalists, Bill Oddie, admits exactly a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/07/conservation"how and why they make the shapes/a they do is something of a "mystery", but it is thought the birds are finding safety from predators and warmth by forming vast flocks, and perhaps communicating about the best feeding sites./ppWhy they are disappearing is also unknown, though blame is mostly being cast over loss of insects for the starlings to eat because of the increase in chemical use on farms since the 1970s and new grassland management techniques, which might be creating thickets too dense for the birds to penetrate. Further research is the first part of an RSPB project to try and stop the species' decline in the UK./ppStarlings are one of 40 bird species out of 247 regularly seen in the UK which are on the "red list" of birds of conservation concern in the UK drawn up by 14 major bird organisations./ppstrongWhere to watch starlings flock in the UK /strong/ppLeighton Moss, Lancashire/ppFen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire/ppMinsmere, Suffolk/ppNewport Wetlands, Newport/ppSomerset Levels/ppBrighton Pier/ppNorwich/ppNorthampton/ppSource: a href="http://www.rspb.org"RSPB/a/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/wildlife"Wildlife/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/"Conservation/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/endangeredspecies"Endangered species/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/D0bEShoEzIrhWQglWHZBSx6M0ZI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/D0bEShoEzIrhWQglWHZBSx6M0ZI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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