December 2008
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November 2008
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Happy Birthday, Leo Laporte!!!
Super Talent Technology - Pico USB Flash Drives →
Pico Series USB drives are incredibly small and stylish flash drives offering up to 8GB data storage. Pico drives feature up to 30 MB/s transfer speeds. Measuring merely 1.50”x0.50”, not only are Pico drives ideal for transporting data, digital images, and presentations, they are also the perfect accessory to adorn keychains, mobile phones, or wearing as a necklace.
odiogo.com - Create text-to-speech podcast from... →
Odiogo’s media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.
Here’s my feeds. The second one streams right from your browser:
http://podcasts.odiogo.com/trumcgowan/podcasts-xml.php
...
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Get Behind the Shield! Hotspot Shield by... →
Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop or iPhone and our Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant…
Throwboy Dock Icon pillows
We’re in the middle of gift guide season right now, but here’s a gift that would fit great on any Mac user’s list: Throwboy has designed a set of throw pillows after some of the Dock’s most famous icons, including iTunes, iPhoto, Dashboard, and the Finder. They’re 100% fleece, hand-crafted, and look cuddly as all get out.
You can pick up a pillow (for yourself or...
Make a Scanner Camera →
Photo by Charlie Sorrel
Got an old scanner kicking around? You can easily repurpose it for use as an artistic and experimental digital camera using some black foam-core board, a roll of light-proof tape and a cheap lens. Learn how in Wired.com’s How-To Wiki.
TapeDeck discounted for National Day of Listening →
The National Day of Listening — right around the holidays, StoryCorps and NPR sponsor a day when you’re meant to sit down with loved ones and pick up some of that oral history that has served the human race so well so far. And the folks at Toasty Code are doing their part to get these recordings done by offering their TapeDeck audio recording software for 20% off all this week...
Pixelbreaker - PolarClock →
PolarClock 3.0 is available as a screen saver for Mac and Windows, and also as a dashboard widget for OSX Tiger.
mir.aculo.us - rotatorize →
Drag rotatorize to your bookmark bar, and click on it when on a site with lots of images. For webkit based browsers.
Blues 101
If you’ve ever enjoyed Blues music, you need to understand its fundamental rules. Most Blues begin with: “Woke up this morning…” “I got a good woman” is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, “I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town.” The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right,...
Ziibii floats updates to your iPhone →
Do you like keeping up with friends on social networks? Do you have an iPhone? If so, you might be interested in a new social networking application for the iPhone called Ziibii.
Cult of Mac - How To: iPhone Binder Clip Stand →
Inspired by our previous post on an iPhone stand from a standard binder clip, CoM reader Rich Sipe took matters into hand and fashioned another one […]
The Invader Scarf
“Your trusty friend that keeps you warm on your travels across the galexy. Or the bus stop. This is the first in a series of our Space Invader QR-Code scarfs. The code holds messages that can be decoded by any mobile phone with a QR-Code scanner.”
get it here
Tuttuki Bako "poking box" lets you torment low-res...
While we don’t expect it to be the type of interface that’ll replace touch screens anytime soon, Bandai is certainly forging some interesting new ground with its so-called Tuttuki Bako device, or “poking box,” which actually lets you stick your finger right into the device to control the on-screen finger. That’s apparently done with the aid of some motion sensors...
Spock: Observe the grouping of antagonistic aboriginals evincing primitive projectile weaponry.
McCoy: You mean savage-looking tribesmen waving spears?
Spock: I believe I just said that, doctor.
Close, but not quite
For your evening amusement (and nothing more), Flickr user elbewerk has found a creative way to try and convince people that, no, he’s not actually using a PC.
I tried doing something like that once. I put an apple core inside my iMac to give it that “dual core” advantage.
via TUAW
Tilt-shift Your Mac →
These fabulous tilt-shift G4 iMacs are the work of joelsuplido on Flickr. He’s got a whole set of them, there’s more Mac ones to drool over. It’s not just the tilt-shift effect, its the colors; they’re gorgeous.
These images were made using Joe Prytherch’s Auto tilt-shift Photoshop action, which you can grab and use for free.
via Cult of Mac
One of the little joys in life: trying to sing a...
da da dnn dnn dnn laaaaaaaaaaaaa…. do do do doo do do ddd… fwa, FROMP!!!!!! laaa!!! la laaaaa!!!! la laaaaaa!!!! dun duhn!!!!! da daaaaa!!!!! ba ba baa da baa!!! <silence> na na na naa na na do do do… doooooooooo… WAP!!! la laaaa!!! fwe fweeeee!!! <timpani> pum pum PUMM!!! the end.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google →
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Louis Vuitton Custom iPod Trunk →
Fashion czar Karl Lagerfeld, who put his hand to an iPod casehimself once for Italian fashion house Fendi, owns a custom iPod trunk to support his professed love of Mac.
Lagerfeld totes his gear around in a handcrafted custom trunk from Louis Vuitton. Well, probably some bedraggled assistant has to pack his wardrobe of 20 iPods, one charger (what just one?), JBL iPod speakers and a...
Bajca Emoticon Keyboard →
Then you realize this thing makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Next: the one-key LOL keyboard.
via Gizmodo via Crunchgear
Numberkey Transforms iPhone Into Sweet Wireless... →
via Gizmodo via iTunes via technabob
$1.99 on the iTunes App Store
SGN’s iFun Turns iPhone Into PC Game Controller http://tinyurl.com/5f55mn
Jerry Yang’s Entire Memo to His Employees on Stepping Down as CEO http://tinyurl.com/5g2jv2
vote for your favorite “TWiT Helmet’s in Weird Places” here: http://is.gd/7ATM
Apples get Apple Branding
These apples with Apple logos and products are the handiwork of a Japanese Apple fan who covered Fuji apples with custom Apple stickers, then waited a month them for to mature.
via Cult of Mac via Teche Blog
iPod nano update released, adds support for new... →
Support for Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic (yeah, the ones we’ve been waiting for)
Support for Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic
Fixed instability issues when using Nike + iPod Sport Kit
Added a setting to turn off Cover Flow when rotating iPod nano and a Cover Flow menu item under the Music menu
When Shuffle setting is set to Songs, pressing play on a song...
“zol “z’ol” n. 1. To zoink in an out loud fashion in response...”
– thefrogman
Brainqorn: The clean and intelligent thought pop
Apple is Big Brother!!! Run!!!!! →
Your iPhone is watching you. If you’ve got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker who exposed the security flaw in a webcast Thursday.
via wired.com
Belkin's switch-to-mac USB cable →
Peripheral maker Belkin has taken note of the fact that a lot of people are switching to Macs. Their new Switch-to-Mac USB Cable, available in the US now for US$49.99, is designed to streamline the process of moving files from your PC running Windows XP or Vista to your Mac running Tiger or Leopard.
via TUAW
Apple Insider | Apple may turn to carbon fiber for... →
Apple enthusiastically claimed ownership to the world’s thinnest notebook earlier this year with the introduction of the MacBook Air, but is rumored to be unsatisfied with the system’s weight, which it now hopes to drop below 3 pounds. As such, people who’ve proven familiar with the company’s portable plans say the Mac maker has been looking into substituting carbon fiber...
Make Cake in a Mug - Wired How-To Wiki →
With Cake in a Mug, you can have a hot, delicious, fresh-baked chocolate cake in minutes! And all it takes is a microwave, some hot chocolate mix, and a couple of ingredients you’ve probably got in your kitchen.
Flash Drive Bottle Opener
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Taco Unorthodoxyness
trumcgowan’s mousepad looks like a giant black rubbery taco when it’s rolled up
trumcgowan has the urge to eat his mousepad
trumcgowan’s mousepad doesn’t taste like a taco at all
trumcgowan gets a drink of water
trumcgowan wonders what would happen if he put taco sauce on his taco-like mousepad
trumcgowan gets taco sauce
trumcgowan tries eating taco sauce drenched...
Fake invite contest - a set on Flickr →
20 photos | 7,113 views items are from between 07 Feb 2006 & 23 Feb 2006.
