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A friend sent this to me via e-mail and I thought it was pretty funny. With the elections coming up in the near future this may make some of you feel a little better each day.

START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK

1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’.
3. Send it to the Recrycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of ‘Barack Obama?’
6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’
7. Feel better?

GOOD! - Tomorrow we’ll do Kwame Kilpatrick!

Of course you can substitute your own choice if you’d like.

Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Kwame Kilpatrick, presidential politics, Recycle Bin

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Nokia have just announced that the sequel to their N95, the N96 dual slider (has there ever been a more exciting turn of phrase than dual slider?) will be released in North America before the end of the year.

The sleekly gorgeous cell packs an impressive 16MB plus a micro SD slot, 5 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss lens, 2.8 inch display and an integrated DVB-H mobile TV tuner.

The only downside? Expect to pay (wait for it…) $895. It’s not yet legal to sell organs for tech, right?

Via Engadget.

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Camera manufacturers are always thinking of ways to make their products stand out, so I guess the combination of Canon, tennis star Maria Sharapova, and 2.22 carat white diamonds was inevitable.

To celebrate the launch of their new limited edition range of cameras, the Canon Powershot Diamond Collection, Canon is giving away five of the dazzling gadgets via their website. They all feature 88 white diamonds around the lens which… well, it serves no purpose at all, let’s be frank, but it looks pretty.

Via Geeksugar.

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Wouldn’t it be great if a special pillow could get rid of wrinkles while we sleep (and exercise for us while it’s at it)? Researchers have purportedly developed a pillow case which diminishes wrinkles. They believe that copper ions contained in the fabric have an impact on all lines, but especially the fine lines. Moisture from the skin is said to release copper ions from the pillow cases which stimulate the production of collagen below the surface of the skin. In studies, after a few days of lying on copper pillows, lines on the faces of the subjects started to soften. (Clinical trials, supervised by a dermatologist, were carried out on 57 volunteers for four weeks, with the volunteers given either an anti-wrinkle pillow, which feels no different from normal fabric, or a similar conventional pillow.)

Jeffrey Gabbay, the owner of the Cupron company, which makes copper medical dressings, came to this invention in a roundabout manner: “The surgeon doing our wound-healing trial remarked how an increase in collagen was helping to heal wounds. We wondered if it might work on fixing wrinkles and lines on the face. So we had some copper woven pillows made up and noticed that over a few days of lying on a copper pillow, lines on the face started to soften.”

For more information, and those fascinating before-and-after photos, click here.

The pillow is priced at $29.99 at Cupron Cosmetic Products. Hey, I’ll try anything that involves sleeping, so I’ll let you know in 4 weeks if it works.

Via MedLaunches.

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I absolutely love keyboard shortcuts. The quicker I can get to something without navigating a menu tree, the better. Recently I discovered a few keyboard shortcuts that are making my life simpler and my day better.

Hide Dock

I know the dock can autohide, but most of the time I prefer to have it out in the open. Occasionally, though, it simply gets in the way. Turns out you can dynamically hide and unhide the dock with [Command]+[option]+D.

{I know this works in Tiger, but I haven’t had a chance to check Leopard so please comment and I’ll update accordingly.}

Tab Browsing

I am a tab junky. Seriously. I just closed a bunch of tabs in Firefox and I still have 39 tabs open in 7 windows. What I really need is self control, but a way to navigate all those tabs would be nice instead.

[Command]+1 will bring you to the first tab in a given window (Windows users can use [Ctrl]+1). This works for the numbers 1-8 in the format [Command]+#. [Command]+9 will bring you to the last tab in that window, no matter how many tabs you have open.

But if you just want to scroll from tab to tab, [Ctrl]+[Page Down] (or page up) does just the trick.

With these two combined, you can move about your tabs fairly quickly. Of course, 39 tabs in 7 windows might be a bit much for your system resources, no matter how quickly you can move between them.

{This works in Firefox, so if there is a similar Safari feature, please comment below.}

Changing Programs/Windows

I love Expose and have been using it more now that I am hooked up to my 19″ widescreen LCD, but it still involves using a mouse to choose which window I want to switch to. [Command]+[Tab] will allow you to switch between programs quickly using only your keyboard. [Command]+` (right above tab) will let you switch between windows inside of the active program.

But Wait… There’s More

The Mac OS, along with a ton of popular programs, are filled with keyboard shortcuts that can save you time and wrist movement. These are the ones that are making my day better today. Which one’s are helping you out? Let us know below in the comments.

Technorati Tags: keyboard shortcuts, firefox, mac, osx

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