Here is a neat tutorial that will show you to Create an Extreme Macro Photography lens with a Pringles Can! Sounds crazy but the results speak for themselves!

Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a fantastic extension that will take a screenshot of any page loaded in the browser. If the page you’re trying to capture has scrollbars, the entire page is captured! This extension differs from the others available as it does not require Java to be installed.

Well I’ve got a well earned 10 days off coming up and after I paint by boy’s playroom, I’m gonna give this how-to a try. MythTV w/PVR-150 Setup on Ubuntu Linux Breezy Badger (5.10) will show you how to create a PVR using nothing but open-source software (an an old PC with a tv-tuner card)!

Why Every Windows User Needs a Linux Live CD. Enough said. I’ve used Live CD’s on many occasions to fix Windows problems and to perform simple tasks like cloning drives and repartitioning.

The Electric Sheep Screen-saver is an amazing and free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. When the screen saver comes on, the computers communicate with each other via the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”. Think of it as distributed computing for screensavers! Windows, Linux and Mac versions are available. I can’t remember where I first read about this screensaver, but thanks for pointing it out! It’s become a daily conversation piece around my workstation!

REUTERS has posted a nice Flash based presentation of the Top 40 Photographs of 2005. Some fantastic and tragic photos that describe the state of the human condition.

Dustin Diaz submits his list of Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time. I have to agree with his list. I have collected and created similar ones of my own this year and use them everyday in my web development.

Another advent calendar worth reading is 24 ways. Again a post every day from December 1 to December 24 except this calendar post totally awesome general web development tutorials.

Symfony is a new web development framework much like Rails or Django except its for the PHP web scripting language. If you’d like to learn this new framework, check out their symfony advent calendar that is a set of 24 tutorials, published day-by-day between December 1st and Christmas.

Did you know that the core foundation of OSX is an open-source UNIX operating system called Darwin? MacDevCenter explains Darwin and How It Powers Mac OS X.