Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at his Macworld keynote speech today, rumored to exist for the last year, it'next big thing from Apple. It has a widescreen multi-touch screen, which isn't a touch screen but a "revolutionary user interface". It’s anyone's guess what Apple mean by that, but it certainly looks interesting.

The iPhone has an impressive specification and runs a slimmed down version of OSX, so it’s sure to offer plenty of eye candy. It has built in WiFi, Bluetooth and EDGE aswell as a 320×480 screen and a 2Megapixel camera. Two versions will be available, a 4GB for £257 and an 8GB for £309.

Pictures at Gizmodo

If you spend alot of time on forums, there’s an easy way to make a panel of clickable images which copy the location of the image to your clipboard so you can paste it onto a forum. It’s good for emoticons or anything else which takes a while to type out. You can arrange the images any way you want, then add the following piece of Javascript to the head:

<script type="text/javascript">
function toclip(iurl) {
	if(document.getElementById('forum').checked) {
		var imgtext = '[img]'+iurl+'[/img]';
	} else {
		var imgtext = '<img src="'+iurl+'" alt="" />';
	}
	if (window.clipboardData) {
		window.clipboardData.setData("Text", imgtext); //IE
	} else if (window.netscape) {
		netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect');
		var clip = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/widget/clipboard1'].
createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIClipboard);
		if (!clip) return;
		var trans = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/widget/transferable1'].
createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsITransferable);
		if (!trans) return;
		trans.addDataFlavor('text/unicode');
		var str = new Object();
		var len = new Object();
		var str = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/supports-string1"].
createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsISupportsString);
		var copytext=imgtext;
		str.data=copytext;
		trans.setTransferData("text/unicode",str,copytext.length*2);
		var clipid=Components.interfaces.nsIClipboard;
		if (!clip) return false;
		clip.setData(trans,null,clipid.kGlobalClipboard);
		}
//   alert("Following info was copied to your clipboard:\n\n" + iurl);
	return false;
}
</script>

Then to copy the text to the clipboard when the icon is clicked, call the function with Javascript:

<a onclick="toclip('http://url//of/image.gif');"
href="#"><img src="image.gif" alt="Woot" /></a>

The function works fine with IE, but to get it working in Firefox, you need to allow Firefox clipboard access. Type about:config into the address bar, then 'signed' as the filter, and set the value to true.

I've been running Vista and XP side by side for a few months now, and what I designated as a small partition has slowly got bigger and bigger until there was no space left on my Vista partition, so today I decided to re-jig my partitions. No problem, but due to the lack of partition managers for Vista, I had to boot back to XP and fire up Partition Magic. The problem started when I tried to boot back to Vista, which gave me loads of errors about files not being found before refusing to boot. I was pretty baffled by this point, because from XP I could see that the files that Vista was complaining were missing were right there where they were supposed to be. To fix Vista, I had to boot from the install CD and use the automated recovery tool, but then when I started Vista, my drive letters were all wrong. Now I could see which partitions matched which drive letters, but windows wouldn’t let me change them because they were for the system drive. After a good two hours of trawling through technet, I eventually found a solution:

1. Go to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
2. Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "\DosDevices\C:".
3. Rename it to an unused drive letter "\DosDevices\Z:".
This frees up drive letter C.
4. Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "\DosDevices\D:".
5. Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "\DosDevices\C:".
6. Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and then name it back to "\DosDevices\D:".

MS KB article

I checked my server logs last night, just to see if there was anything interesting. I use two different domains, one for my blog and one for images I use on forums and the like, so the logs for mi6.nu, my images domain are like a breadcrumb trail of my last month's browsing. I was pretty surprised to see a few URLs I'd never heard of as the referrers. A finnish site about Lordi was one and MySpace.com was the other. I hate MySpace, and there's no way I'd have wasted my bandwidth hosting pictures for it. The images being linked was Contemplating Existence, a wallpaper I made last year. Some Idiot was using the image as his background. It's great that he liked my wallpaper but firstly it's my property, he can't use it without my permission, and secondly, it's over 200KB, and was loaded 350 times in December. That's 65MB of bandwidth I've paid for!

I decided to teach the leech a lesson using .htaccess (info in read more), which lets you serve up a different image for specified referrers. Inspired by a recent blog post I'd read, I thought the Goatse pic would be a good choice. For anyone that doesn't know, Goatse was a site available at the turn of the millenium which scarred millions of impressionable AOL kiddies. Now whenever someone from an external site tries to use one of those images, they'll get a nice surprise. Let that be a lesson to anyone else who's thinking of leeching my bandwidth!

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Each bug is a real bug, with it's carbon guts removed, and metal/silicon guts put in their place by artist Mike Libby. “He spent his youth developing a keen understanding of the material world looking under rocks, dismantling appliances and practicing alchemy with ingredients found under the kitchen sink.”

Insect Labs [Via: HackedGadgets]

For years, competitors at the World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan have shown their eating prowess by gobbling as many meat and potato pies as they could manage in three minutes. But this year, in a break from tradition, the champion scoffers will compete to eat just a single pie in the fastest time possible.

Organisers of the annual event say the changes have been made in light of the Government's healthy eating advice and anti-obesity campaign, and will also offer vegetarian options.

“They've taken things too far this year - pies are supposed to be meat and potato and anything else just isn't normal,” said Dave Smyth, 48, from Hindley, who won the first contest in 1992 when he ate an impressive four pies in three minutes.

Source: The Times

This guy must have had way too much time on his hands, but it's still pretty impressive.

[Via: Schrankmonster]

The Lake District Tourist Board have set up a hotline for depressed Britons to call when they feel like being comforted. Callers can listen to sounds like Cumberland sausages being cooked, Lake Windermere and a reading of Wordsworth's 'Daffodils'.

Eric Robson of Cumbria Tourism said: “Few of us enjoy getting up in the dark or coming home in it. Making the most of daylight and how you spend your weekends could be important for keeping the winter blues at bay.”

Source: LifeStyleExtra

Lordi, the Finnish monsters who won Eurovision have released their own brand of cola.

“The Lordi phenomenon has brought the whole nation together”, said Ritva Sinisalo, of the beer company which makes the drink.

The lead singer, Mr Lordi designed the label featuring the five members of the band in their monster costumes. Lordi kick off their Bringing Back the Balls to Europe tour in Stockholm on 16 September, and play five UK dates in October.

Source: BBC

A professor at the University of Florida has proved that vampires couldn't ever have existed.

Vampires supposedly feed on human blood, and once bitten, a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others. If on Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911 and the first vampire came into existence that day, then bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600. A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have become vampires with nobody left to feed on.

If mortality rates were taken into consideration, the population would disappear much faster. Even an unrealistically high reproduction rate couldn't counteract this effect.

Source: Yahoo News

A 15-year-old boy stole a bus, drove it along a public transit route, picked up passengers and collected fares, authorities said Sunday.

“I drove that bus better than most of the LYNX drivers could,” the teen, who is too young to drive legally, told a deputy after he was stopped and arrested. “There isn't a scratch on it. I know how to start it, drive it, lower it, raise it.”

Davis had previously been charged for a similar bus theft. Passengers and deputies noted Davis drove the bus at normal speeds and made all the appropriate stops on the route. One passenger, suspicious of the youthful looks of the driver, called 911.

He was charged with grand theft auto and driving without a license. A court hearing was scheduled Tuesday to determine whether he will be charged as an adult.

If you're going to steal a bus, it would make sense to get a load of passengers, then go an a rampage before crashing over a cliff. He must have forgotten to act out the last part.

Source: TwinCities

Urinals shaped like an opera singer's mouth have been removed from an operahouse in Vienna.

The urinals included a set of lips, teeth and a bright red tongue, but a spokeswoman for the Vienna Department of Womens' Affairs said they were “tasteless and offensive”.

The owner of the operahouse, Neuhard Gerhard said he found it odd that the urinals, which had been in use for three years had only become an issue in the run-up to Austria's national elections.

Source: WGAL

An interesting to the miniatures competition at Craftster.org, others included a miniature room, wedding cake and Mona Lisa.

The burger was a little over one inch tall and about an inch wide.

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All actions are expressed by rewriting of a cell background color. Each one of cells as a dot, and move it by make cell's background color high-speed rewriting. Although I did not think it's possiblele, but now it's possiblele by the favor of the improvement in a performance of a personal computer. The window zoom is 10%, so the each cell can not be seen. But it is A CELL.”

Even works on Excel 2007, and there's a version of space invaders available aswell.

Download [Via: SchrankMonster]

Looks like a 'corn dog', but made from pancake instead of whatever corn dogs are made from.

Read more [Via: Junk Food Blog]