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Spotify is, at the moment, the hot topic across most parts of Europe. For those who have never heard of it, Spotify is a peer to peer streaming music program with virtually no buffering. It’s easy to use interface allows you to create playlists in a second and it’s huge (and growing) song base means that they probably will have your favourite song.

As of yet, it is unavailable in the US, but the latest news suggests that it will be released by the end of the year. However, it seems alot of people can’t wait that long and have managed to find ways of downloading Spotify outside of Europe.

Here’s one way – thanks to Techcrunch.

Invite yourself from anywhere:
1) go to http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
2) enter the following URL: https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
3) Create your account, for UK postcode – check http://www.postcodesearch.org.uk/

Note: I tried it and it does work – leave a comment if there are any problems.

Ok, so you’ve downloaded Spotify. Now, how to get rip/download some songs from it? Thanks to Spotify Ripping.

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Photoshop is the most well known and widely used graphics editing software out there – But it’s price tag prevents alot of people from using it. 

Luckily, there are quite a few open source/free Photoshop Alternatives. Here’s my favourite 5:

1. Paint.Net

Once a replacement for Microsoft’s Paint application, Paint.Net has grown into fully fledged graphics editing suite. I enjoy using it because it is relatively easy to use.

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Revisor

Revisor enables you to customize and compose your own Fedora based installation and live media. It does so by presenting you a GUI with all options you can click you way through, and a CLI and extended configuration files for the more advanced users.

Features that Revisor has vary from customizing the packages available during the installation and/or installed on the live media, to fully customizing the desktop environment for the live media.

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An energy potion for gamers eh? Here’s a snippet from the Mana Potions website:

What is it going to do to me? 

It will bump your mana or your HP up +160 (real world humans have about 100 mana, by the way). It’s 5-8 hours of smooth, jitter-free energy. When it comes to caffeine content, this potent shot is equivalent to about two 8-ounce Red Bulls® or four cups of crappy office coffee.

Yes that’s right kids – you have mana…..100 of them. And don’t get me started on the tagline – “less filling, more killing”.

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Just came across another great video by the guys over at Common Craft which I wanted to share. 

A short explanation of what makes the World Wide Web work: browsers, packets, servers and links.

Note from Ace: Thought I’d inject a humorous post into this site today. Done a fair few how to’s lately…

So we’ve seen a Mac’d out Apple car but what about the rest of the geeky cars out there? Ranging from having pi on your number plate to a car covered with Homer Simpsons face (made of computer keys!), we here at GizmoStyle have compiled what we hope is a pretty cool selection of nerd automobiles. Enjoy!

iPhone controlled Mazda RX-8

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Liking the look of Windows 7? Still using XP or Vista but want the look of Windows 7? Well, you have come to the right place.

Windows XP

SevenVG Refresh
Vishal Gupta has done a fantastic job with this theme. It’s simple to install, looks great, and features both normal taskbar buttons and iconized mode.

Windows 7 Complete
User DopeySneezy calls this one Complete, and he’s not wrong. Includes Windows 7 style system properties, display settings screens, and more.

Seven Remix 2.0
Niwrad Soft recently updated his theme, and it’s even more convincing than V1.0. 

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