@Torley: Yes, bone-fide bokeh is best of course — but the Photoshop "Lens Blur" filter is pretty good at simulating it, esp. on 16-bit HDR images. You can even choose the aperture shape if you like.

There are two things lacking here. First of all, they seem to use just gaussian blurring, which is quite different from the out-of-focus blurring that occurs in optical devices.

This is very simple. Pins 1 and 4 (the ones on the end) provide power, 2 and 3 (the ones in the middle) are for data transfer. Simply make a short cable with one female and one mail connector, where the two pins in the middle are not connected.

This is bad advice methinks. In any case, the standard unix command is cat (stands for conCATenate).

@LoudBanana: Are your boyfriend and your mom's cousin offended by the jokes? What meaning does your stepdad put into it and are the jokes actually funny?

I have to admit that I think LifeHacker articles are on the decline. For quite some time now most of the articles seem to be about utilities and methods to make X look nice, or like Y - but its still X (be it FF, Windows Vista or whatever). That's not LifeHacking, that's just fluff.

Oh, sorry.. like Qwaint I missed the link too :)

Looks awesome. If anyone is feeling generous, I'd absolutely love an invite myself (arnarbi at gmail).

VOTE: vim

If you really want to be bad-ass like the hard-core programmer guys, check out distributed version control systems such as git, mercurial, darcs and others. The good thing is that they don't require you to set up a seperate server (and a seperate backup plan for it), the history is all maintained in the directory…

I've never understood this "distraction free word-processor" idea. How about just

The interface looks very nice. Generally you'll find the same torrent on multiple sites, they are easy to identify through their hash value. [Torrentz.com] uses that to collapse multiple results so that you only get one line pr. torrent.