Hamachi is a small freeware application that creates virtual private networks (vpn) on the fly without configuration at all - well almost. You can download the application from the hamachi homepage, once downloaded install and run the software. Versions for Windows, Linux (installation guide) and Macintosh OS X exist, means everyone should be happy although the linux and mac versions are console only while the windows one comes with a gui. Before I go into configuration details I want to describe the main advantage of Hamachi, it gives you LAN over the Internet.

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This is a video from the dynamic graphics project at the University of Toronto named: Keeping it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen in BumpTop. Big title, ain’t it ? What they did is project the concept of the normal desktop, the real one not the one from your computer to your computer by making it 3 dimensional. Files are shown as three dimensional items as well that can be placed on top of each other, sorted, deleted and manipulated manifold.

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I have to make two announcements: I bought a poker blog some days ago and will write interesting poker related articles daily for it. I’am not a poker professional which means I will be writing from my perspective, from someone who likes the thrill and excitement of the game. If you like Poker and play at places like Party Poker or Pokerstars you might pay my blog a visit and hopefully enjoy the content there. You can reach it at 2blogpoker.com.

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Keyboard shortcuts make our lifes easier, hitting Win +M is nicer than to minimize every windows by hand. Windows XP already has a method of assigning new keyboard shortcuts to programs but this method is very limited. You are only allowed to assign shortcuts using a combination of at least two STRG, ALT and SHIFT keys plus one additional letter, number or symbol.

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You can use url hacks to download mp3 files from myspace. Why would someone want to use an url hack if a much easier method exists ? All you need is the freeware MySpace MP3 Gopher. Once installed you paste a friend id into the mp3 gopher and activate the button get song listing. Myspace MP3 Gopher then connects to myspace and downloads a listing of all available songs from that friend id.

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