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Save ~$20 daily by visiting Giveawayoftheday.com

It's been some time since the giveawayoftheday.com team started a very special service, making one commercial piece of software free for one day. This means, that every morning they deliver another great application to the world from a publisher who promotes himself by providing it. According to this website's success and the amount of visits, it's an ultimate win-win solution. Not that each offer is desirable for everyone but if you check this site every 24 hours, believe me, you'll find something very interesting and useful for yourself, sooner or later. I do. Very often.

Self education getting easy with ShowMeDo.com

I'd like to suggest this website to everyone who likes to learn something useful, not the boring but entertaining way. There is a plenty of tutorial videos at ShowMeDo.com that could help your creative soul. The categories are Blender (which I like the most), Java, Python, Linux, Ruby and Screencasting. More vids should come soon - support the project by educating yourself... And it's free, by the way :)

Invisibility becoming real?

A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory. The device mostly hid a small copper cylinder from microwaves in tests at Duke University, North Carolina. It works by deflecting the microwaves around the object and restoring them on the other side, as if they had passed through empty space. But making an object vanish before a person's eyes is still the stuff of science fiction - for now.

Swarm & Stack @ digg.com

Funny and useful services called Swarm & Stack are available on the social oriented bookmarking site digg.com. It shows all latest and most viewed diggs in a nice flash application so that you're always getting the best news and tips from this nice interface. Note that this little app takes quite a lot of CPU time but it's worth to try. Check it out here.

Barebone Asus T2-PH2 by experience

Looking for a low-end mulimedial computer with additional features? I've been having a minitower Asus T2-PH2 for about two weeks and this is my experience. The black-silver case looks really good, it has some built-in features like CD & radio player, time display and a card-reader. There are also USB, FireWire and S/PDIF ports on the front panel. Inside the case is a good ATX12V PSU with enough power for this 1xPCI + 1xPCI-E system (250W x 16A/3.3V x 16 A/5V x 16A/12V). Mini-ATX MB (24pin ATX) is based on the Intel 945G chipset that supports the latest LGA775 Pentium 4 processor (I have only Celeron 3.06 GHz CPU). A Aluminium cooler with a copper base and heat-pipes takes care of the CPU temperature, this works fine in my opinion. For RAM modules there's up to 2 x 1 GB space available. The biggest drawback of this barebone is as I think tight space under PCI-E slot which is caused by its minitower case so that you must be careful while choosing additional graphics card to overchange integrated intel GPU (I've chosen nVidia's 7300GT by Asus which works very well for me). Another disadvantage is that while running this system in Player mode (CD & radio without need to run your OS), the CPU fan doesn't slow down and makes this feature quite noisy which is really unfortunate. Fortunately, I don't use this often but music maniacs could be a little disappointed. Despite these disadvantages I would recommend this barebone as a very good choice within low-end barebone computers for a favorable price.