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When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity as ink wouldn't flow down to the writing surface. They took one decade and $12 million to develop a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down underwater, and in practically any surface including crystal.

And what did Russians do.. They used a PENCIL!

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The Simplest Physics Based Puzzle Game On The iPhone

Submitted by Alucard on Sat, 08/14/2010 - 07:03
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ragdoll blaster

Looking for a free physics based puzzle game. Here's one that utilizes physics simulation creatively to create an entertaining puzzle game.

The goal of the game is simple, you'll fire a ragdoll from the canon and as long as it hits the target (using any means necessary, with the help of physics), you advance to the next stage.

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The Simplest Way To Erase Confidential Files Permanently (Unrecoverable)

Submitted by Alucard on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 07:08
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arnold schwarzenegger is eraser
[Picture borrowed from movie 'Eraser']

Say you wanted to delete some confidential files so that no one is able to recover it, including that computer repair guy that you're going to send your PC over.

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The Simplest Way To Burn Movies Into DVD

Submitted by Alucard on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 07:14
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portable dvd player

*Updated 9 August 2010* with more widely used open-source freeware.

Sometimes you want to burn family videos into DVD so that you can play it on a DVD player. Here's the simplest way to do it :) I used to have nightmares trying to get my videos into DVD..

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The Simplest Way To Backup And Share Files Across Multiple Platforms (iPhone)

Submitted by Alucard on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 07:15
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dropbox

As introduced earlier, Dropbox is a file hosting service which lets you to store and share your files across multiple platforms. For a more detailed introduction of Dropbox please read here.

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The Simplest Way To Search For A File On Your Harddisk Instantly

Submitted by Alucard on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 07:09
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search for everything

Trying to search for a file/folder by the name? Want to do it fast and simple?

Here's a tiny little program that searches your files INSTANTLY the moment you're typing, and doesn't lag your computer at all; much better than Windows' built-in file search!

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The Simplest Way To Backup And Share Files Across Multiple Platforms

Submitted by Alucard on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 19:49
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sharing files across platforms

Wanted a simple way to share files between your PC, Mac, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile or Android phone? Dropbox uses cloud computing to store your files in an online folder which is accessible by all of them.

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The Simplest Way To Fix 'Unable To Safely Remove Device' Issue

Submitted by Alucard on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 07:12
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safely remove devices
[Picture source: http://rocketdock.com/images/screenshots/thumbnails/USBIcon.png]

We use USB thumbdrives & External Harddisk all the time on our PC. However how many times when you try to 'safely remove' it, an annoying error message such as the one below pops out?

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The Simplest To Do List App For iPhone

Submitted by Alucard on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 07:06
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do it tomorrow

Do you love procrastinating? The idea of this app is simple, after you've created your to do list, a single tap will mark a task as complete while tapping on the small arrow beside it will push it till tomorrow :) Now you could party today and do your tasks tomorrow!

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