23 June 2006

i get around



create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands



create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

16 June 2006

A Better Home Office

LaCie Ethernet Disk mini
250GB
The easy-to-use network hard drive
The easy-to-use, portable LaCie Ethernet Disk mini can be plugged in to your network to instantly share documents, slideshows and photos, or connected to your computer through USB for use as a personal storage device.
$189

Iomega Data Storage
  • Low Cost: Network storage without the expense of a server
  • Printer server capability with USB-attached printer
  • 2 USB 2.0 (host) ports to add additional storage
  • High-speed Ethernet Connectivity
  • Easy to use: Single cable install
  • $282.52

Simple shared storage for your small office or home network. Automatic network configuration makes installation a breeze, and the browser interface easily creates private folders.Maxtor Shared Storage Drive - 200GB $249.95 $213

300GB Brick Desktop Hard Drive, BlueLaCie
300GB Brick Desktop Hard Drive, Blue Build your desktop storage one Brick at a time with the new LaCie BRICK hard drives designed by Ora-Ïto. Built to perform the unique design brings a lighter side to your workspace. Only $164.99


PMG54cornerantenna.jpgPower Mac G5 14dbi Corner Directional Antenna
Get 5 times the wireless network range using this new corner-mounted antenna for your Power Mac G5 Tower. If you're stuck in that dead space known as an office corner and can't seem to get the signal strength you need, then this is the way to go. Just plug it into your standard AirPort connector and go at it. You don't have to do anything different to make it work - just plug in and start networking.
Works with all Mac OS version and all AirPort Base Stations. Also works with the other 802.11b through 802.11g networks you might find at offices, colleges, airports, coffee shops and other varied wireless environments anywhere you go - you mobile maven you.
MFP#: CA14-G5

BT500 Bluetooth Mouse BT500 Bluetooth Mouse
$39.99 $39.99 Click to remove item
Apple "Bluetooth" Keyboard Apple Wireless Keyboard
$48.77 $48.77 Click to remove item
Total $88.76


12 June 2006

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MediaLab, makers of the popular PSD2FLA Photoshop-to-Flash conversion plug-in, have introduced SiteGrinder 2.0 for converting PSD files into interactive HTML pages and Web galleries. Some of the capabilities match things Photoshop and ImageReady already offer (e.g. slicing, creating rollovers), but SiteGrinder goes further by generating scrolling text boxes, CSS-styled text from Photoshop text layers, multiple pages from Layer Comps, and more. The site lets you see the product in action and check out example pages it has generated.


VIDEO: INTEL's Next Gen Notebook Designs

How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista
Google Browser Sync Google Labs

OLD NEWS: Motorola today announced its second-generation iTunes phone: the Motorola SLVR L7 is a quad band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz) phone that is offered for Cingular mobile network users in the US (and international GSM-network roaming). The phone features iTunes software, a 262.000 color TFT display, built-in stereo speakers, mobile email/browser, a VGA camera with 4x digital zoom, video capture and playback, AOL/Yahoo!/ICQ Instant Messaging, and Bluetooth connectivity. The included iTunes Digital Jukebox software allows users to play, sort, store and manage music as well as sync with a PC/Mac. The phone also features a 512MB Micro SD card slot, which is limited to 100-song storage. The Motorola SLVR L7 is available for $200 with a 2-year contract from Cingular.

Foofbag's made-to-order sleeves, Mac-case's sleeve, iPod Gear Pouch

Cyberduck 2.6 is available


As many of you know, I've experienced numerous, nail-biting, revenge-worthy problems with my MacBook Pro. After many replacements and repairs, I finally just cracked and decided to wreak my vengeance in the form of callously installing Windows Vista, without regard for the Pro's feelings or my standing in His Steveness' eyes. After spending several hours troubleshooting tiny problems with the installer (ie, why it wouldn't install), I finally googled "Vista + MacBook" and came to one great blog on the MSDN network that made the whole thing very, very easy. (Install pictures here; driver updates here and here.)

Basically, David had it right: You do need to wipe the EFI partition, which can be nasty if you need to update the firmware or repartition your drive. But you don't need to have Windows XP already installed -- just boot from the Vista install disk instead of the XP disk after running Boot Camp. Also, after the install, you need to Repair the Vista installation to get the thing to actually boot. The Mac Drivers for Windows XP disk doesn't work, but Vista manages to load (by default or via Windows Update) most of the drivers it needs to run. Check out the blog for more details, or feel free to ask any related questions in this post's comments -- I'll do my best to provide helpful (or at least not insulting) (but no promises) answers.

An easier method to get Windows Vista to run with Boot Camp

Taco HTML v1.7.2 is Universal

A color wheel for Mac OS X

Another bit of classy video - a Beluga whale blowing beautiful bubble rings. what tickles me is how the whales watch the bubble the whole way. then when it pops, they run back to the diver for another mouthful of air to do it all over again. it's clearly play for them.

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So say you're a bigamist, and have two families going. And you want to have a picture of your kids on your keychain to impress your boss. But you need to make sure it's the right kids pictures. The solution is the Keypix digital picture keychain, which holds up to 56 JPEG photos measuring 96 x 64 pixels each. Just make sure the wives don't get their hands on it while you're napping (if you indeed have time to nap). [GT]


WoW Moviewatch: Brokeback Spire

this is a prank call to a pizza joint by a guy who tries to order an Epic Pizza for 50 gold, while trying to sweeten the deal with promises of gryphon rides.

The seminal web magazine, A List Apart, is looking for one good intern. The full details are available at Jeffrey Zeldman's web site. There's no money involved, but you'll get plenty of geek street cred, and that's arguably much more valuable in the long run. So, if any of you are looking for your big break (or at the very least, your 15 minutes of fame) this could be your chance. Prepare your application, and make sure you are prepared to discuss the relative merits and faults of the em dash and en dash.


Catalyst Studios

SketchUp for Mac: Download

And Now, the HPV Vaccine

We have just posted our Digital Trends coverage of this year's Home Entertainment Show.

It's not just a rumor. Windows evangelist and Microsoft blogging poster boy Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft for a new job at PodTech.Net.

A build-your-own gaming machine with a dual-core CPU can not only beat the pants off other offerings, it can be a lot quieter and cheaper, too. We walk you through the assembly process and show how a lot of power can be had for as little as $720.

Personal supercomputer from Tyan

Supercomputers are often the domain of physicists and scientists, but if you would like one in your home why not give the Typhoon from Tyan a shot? It is guaranteed to blow your mind away and leave the competition biting dust (pun not intended). All you need to do is to plonk down $10,000 for this self-proclaimed "Personal Supercomputer". The Typhoon is actually a cluster server and it is powered by 8 Intel Woodcrest Xeon processors with a whooping maximum memory of 48GB. Such raw power was unimaginable to the home even a few years ago, but there is almost nothing money can't buy these days. Don't expect high framerates from this setup though - it comes with a measly 16MB video card.

07 June 2006

07

Development of a hummingbird (pics included)

Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes Electricity

SeeWindowsVista.com - A Look at Vista's Upcoming Programs

iPod click of doom solved by intrepid owner

The floating Nackros Villa We’ve been enthralled by Giancarlo Zema’s fascinating Neptus 60 Cliff Habitat and Trilobis 65 floating home and Marcin Panpuch’s Relocatable Amphibious Sphere House, and we have now found another wonderful variation on the theme of living in harmony with water – the Nackros Villa. Modern Marine Homes was established in 2002 with a vision of waterside living without compromise and within 12 months, the first habited show home was in the water in Varvsholmen, Sweden.

seagate_5400.jpgSeagate announced a boatload of hard drives today, with 10 rolled out in all. The highlight of the wave of announcements was the Momentus 5400 PSD, a 160GB hybrid drive that’s set to ship in the first quarter of 2007 and is destined for Microsoft Vista-running notebooks.

The 2.5 inch drive will spin at 5400RPM, and it will be available with your choice of 128MB or 256MB of flash memory on board. That flash chip will have often-accessed data on it, and Seagate says it will reduce boot times by around 20%. Another great benefit is that it will let your notebook’s battery last from 5% to 15% longer. Plus, the drive should be more durable because all those moving parts can be parked while the flash memory is accessed.

Other notable intros were an 8GB pocket drive, a 160GB drive with full disk encryption, a 750GB Barracuda ES, a 60GB 1.8-inch perpendicular-recording drive for handhelds, and the LD25.2, a 750GB disk destined for the HDTV media center market.

Seagate to offer hybrid hard drives for Vista notebooks

Kitty vs Frontrow, Round 1

remoteboat.jpgMaking your kids clean the pool won’t be such a chore with this remote control boat/pool skimmer. The boat, which runs for 50 minutes on a full charge, picks up debris into the removable net which can be emptied out when you’re done cleaning/playing. Pretty sweet toy for $139. Remote control boat…also a pool skimmer!


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jackpc.jpgThe UK company Jade Integration is about to release a PC that is small enough to fit inside a standard wall power socket. Not only that, it can be powered solely over ethernet.
Called the Jack PC, the guts of it consists of two layered circuit boards and is powered by only 5 Watts. The face contains a VGA port, 4 USB ports, an audio and a microphone port. The CPU is an AMD RISC processor which is the equivalent of a 1.2GHz x86 processor (think standard Intel or AMD chips).
The main purpose of is to run a thin client to connect to a server so you can do most of the processing off of this device. Also, Internet Explorer 6 is included to access web applications such as your gmail or gcal. The Jack PC gets its official launch the 14th of June at the IT Works Show. UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC [ZDNet]

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District 13 shows the boys in Hollywood how it should be done: fast, full-on, and frankly an amazing assault on the optic nerves. High octane Gallic cinema.

Down in the ValleyDavid Jacobson directs Ed Norton in this troubling hybrid between modern Californian family drama and Western. Brave and original, this is a wonderfully bleak tale of violence.


Pod2Go, the versatile information manager for your iPod, has updated to v1.6.4 with various improvements and a name change to Life2Go (Did Kevin get a call from Apple about his choice in application names?). A v1.0 is also available for Windows (traitor!), though I don't know if that is a recent development with this name change.
Updates to the application itself including switching to WeatherBug for all weather information, significant changes to the Notes output and Mail storage, more specific syncing progress and more.
A demo of Life2Go is available, while a full license runs for $12.99.

VisualHub - The universal video converter


We wrote about Apple's recycling program when it was first announced, and now it is in full effect, yo. All you have to do is buy a new Mac and then you can participate in the program. You either get an email (if you purchased your Mac from the online Apple store), or you'll get asked if you want to participate at the store. You'll then get an email with instructions. Pack up your old computer (Mac or PC), take it to a FedEx location (with that email you got) and that is all!


Darn it all, here's another so-cool (yet shockingly useful) Japanese gadget that us round-eyes probably will never see. It's a one-cup rice cooker that goes neatly in the microwave, allowing you to make perfect rice without actually having to pay attention. I for one know I would eat way more rice if it was as convenient as ramen (there's nothing like ramen at 3am). Okay okay, so I could just do it with a regular rice cooker, but this is, you know, cuter. But also it probably does make better rice in small quantities. (via PopGadget)

26 May 2006

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powerbarusb.jpgWhat’s better to go with your magnetic USB hub than a magnetic power strip that can be controlled via PC? The power strip plugs into your PC using USB and has an extra USB connector so it doesn’t eat up a port. Now, you can shut off lights, monitors, heaters and iPod speakers from your PC. No more reacharounds! USB Power Bar that Turns Peripherals On & Off [Everything USB]

Wireless on/off switch from Tobias WongOn_switch_capp_2e
Have you ever wished that light switch in your flat was, say, over by the door, instead of in the back of the closet? Struggle no more! Get the wireless on/off switch by Tobias Wong and you can put it wherever you like, up to 100 feet away from the light fixture of your choice once you "simply attach the remote component." Comes in a sleek little Lucite box with a magnetic lid. $120 from uncommongoods.com.
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Wong has a variety of snarky recreations of common objects - glass chairs, rubber chandeliers, and concrete doorstops. He also has protect me from what I want tattooed on his forearm, and designed one of the most subversive pieces of bling I've ever seen. [GT]

Grow a Chi Pet in your Dashboard
chi pet widgetAh, the little plant/potter geegaw known as the Chia Pet. I don't know what meteor the plant came from, but aren't those planters cute? Relive the cuteness with Chi Pet (not affiliated with the Chia Pets of Joseph Enterprises) in your Dashboard. This little widget provides a couple of days of fun as you click the droplet to "grow" your pet's fur. Neglect the pet, and the plant dies. Nobody said life was easy, even for a bunch of pixels. To be honest, the growth cycle isn't that great. [From CoolOSXapps]

Use a webpage as your desktop with WebDesktop

Here's a handy bit of freeware. WebDesktop lets you use any web page as your desktop picture. Simply enter the URL of a terrific website (like, say, this one), set the transparency and reload rate and you're all set! When in the background, the page you're monitoring acts as your desktop picture, but when in front, you can scroll, click and otherwise interact with that site as if you were using a typical browser. MacDesktop requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or higher, is free, and universal. [Via FreeMacWare]


The Flip Wireless is a wireless KVM switch (that's keyboard, video, and mouse) that connects to two machines (Mac or Windows). The wireless part comes into play when you want to switch to from one machine to the other. Simply click the remote (with 10 feet of the KVM) and it switches, as if by magic. The Flip Wireless will be shipping in June and cost $79.99.
Bricksmith is a cool app that let's you tinker with a set of virtual Legos on your Mac. How cool is that? Plus, it is now a Universal Binary so Intel and PowerPC Macs can join in the fun, natively. Check out the tutorial to see all the cool stuff you can do with Bricksmith. Bricksmith is donationware, so if you find yourself heavily using it kick in a few bucks to support the project.

A few months ago, I mentioned Web Inspector, a WebKit alternative to the Firefox Web Developer extension. Now there's another Web Developer-esque tool available for Safari: the Safari Tidy plug-in.

Remember CSS Tweak? It's cool, and it excites me, but not in a "I'd feel guilty if my mother knew" kind of way. That's where Clean CSS comes in.
Clean CSS

25 May 2006

* PART ONE. CHIBA CITY BLUES

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead
channel.

"It's not like I'm using," Case heard someone say, as he
shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat.
"It's like my body's developed this massive drug deficiency." It
was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for
professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear
two words in Japanese.
Ratz was tending bar, his prosthetic arm jerking monotonously as he
filled a tray of glasses with draft Kirin. He saw Case and smiled, his teeth
a web work of East European steel and brown decay. Case found a place at the
bar, between the unlikely tan on one of Lonny Zone's whores and the
crisp naval uniform of a tall African whose cheekbones were ridged with
precise rows of tribal scars. "Wage was in here early, with two Joe boys,"
Ratz said, shoving a draft across the bar with his good hand. "Maybe some
business with you, Case?"

24 May 2006

24

Saving Superman from Hollywood
Amazing interactive nightclub tables. Yet another way to freak-out drunks

Weenie_roaster

core

18 May 2006

23MAY2006

Picture of Apple's 32-foot Glass Cube
New Glasses Require Piercing Bridge of Nose
The. Best. Case. Mod. Ever
Use Trillian Wherever You Go
Hotel TV Hack for Free Movies
How to Silkscreen Posters and Shirts
How to create an Awesome Logo

MySQL Cheat Sheet
http://sqlzoo.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Standardization
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/ ( Web Development Cheat Sheets)
CSS3 Preview
Beginning PHP and MySQL 5.

Read on...


Research Highlights How Bacteria Produce Energy

Office 2007 Beta 2 Download Now Available
Microsoft Beta Screenshots Galore
Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands
The Windows XP Command Line, Batch Files, and Scripting

MacBook: What you need to know
Now you can right-click on your 15" MacBookPro without needing to press ctrl. Just click on the trackpad using two fingers, and the context menu will appear.
Complete MacBook Disassembly Instructions
How to replace the Hard Drive and Ram in the Mac Book (Video)
MacWorlds Jason Snell has posted a video that shows how easily you can get in and upgrade the RAM and SATA hard drive in your new MacBook. It’s amazing. After removing just 3 screws you have access to everything. Just slide the drive out and your ready to upgrade.
Mac OS X: What Are All Those Processes?
See the guy who stole your macbook
Fun Title Award: MacBookPro Burns Women's Leg, AppleCare Suggests "RTFM"
The Big Test - MacBook As A Windows Machine


Donnie Darko director unveils futuristic follow-up in Cannes
The mild-mannered director who brought us the X-Men and The Usual Suspects is on a mission to save Superman from the Hollywood hacks. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine.Plus: The Myth of Superman by Neil Gaiman and Adam Rogers.
Million Crystal Body: Swarovski Peep Show
One million Swarovski crystals have been placed on this alluring young model, with enterprising entrepreneurs aiming to sell these pieces of micro-bling one by one, for one euro each. Presented as a strange sort of performance art, as each crystal is sold, these impresarios will remove one from the model, eventually showing her in all her glory without any crystals at all (as if they’re going to make her stand there and wait while they remove each one). That is, if they sell one million of these. So reads the breathless prose of the crystal hucksters:
“Become a part of a world-spanning campaign and watch the uncovering of our model on our website. The more stones are sold, the more will be visible of the Million Crystal Body!”
We’re thinking that with all the porn available on the Internet, you can see millions of pictures of babes more beautiful than this for free; why would you want to buy a little piece of glass, keeping it as a some sort of souvenir of a mass disrobing ceremony? It’s not surprising in a world where used panties command a pricey premium. Product Page [Million Crystal Body, via Shiny Shiny]

Mortgage your house, board up the windows - normal life ends once you start playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. For a while, anyway.
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What do you get when you cross baking, a sense of humour and web fun? Asides from this post you get pimpmysnack.com. The basic premise is that you turn your culinary wizardry into something of mammoth proportions (or just plain silly) taking photos of each step as you go along. End results include a mangificent chav gingerbreadman, Pharell'A'Rocher, a Bear potato cake that resembles an Ewok and an enormous Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.
Instant Housing

SoniColumn (image on the left) is a high column-like cylinder that can be played by touch. Grids of LEDs installed inside the column light themselves on by the users’ touch and emit unique sounds. When a user cranks the handle, the column slowly rotates itself and plays the light patterns of the user’s touch.

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By Jin-Yo Mok who also designed the Light Bead Curtain and is working on a portable version (image on the right) of his Music Box.

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As Apple gets ready to open its newest store in NYC, we've got a few photos to wet your appetite.
Sony Ericsson has finally released the slider form factor handset that we've been anticipating for months. The new W850 uses the new and improved Walkman 2.0 app, and sports a 2 megapixel camera, UMTS connectivity, and stereo Bluetooth.

New Possible SIDS Genes Identified
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday, 21 May 2006 02:05:00
from the science dept.
ScienceDaily is reporting that researchers at the Mayo Clinic have identified two more cardiac genes that could contribute to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). From the article: "In the two recent separate studies, researchers examined caveolin-3 (CAV3) and the cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) and found molecular and functional evidence in both to implicate them as SIDS-susceptibility genes. Researchers examined the tissue of 135 unrelated cases of SIDS -- in infants with an average age of 3 months old -- that had been referred to Mayo Clinic's Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory for molecular autopsy. In each study, two of the 135 cases possessed mutations in either CAV3 or RyR2."Read on...


Invisible Pet Fence from Hammacher



Invisible Pet Fence from Hammacher
Anyone who has dogs and cats for pets know that these animals hardly listen to your instructions and will often wander around the house at their leisure. Traditional methods of preventing unwarranted movement around your house include erecting gates and barriers at strategic places with precious little success. Technology comes to the rescue with the Invisible Indoor Pet Fence. Place this special collar on your mutt's neck and place the supplied transmitters where you don't want your pet to stray. If the pet in question comes within forbidden areas, it will receive a slight electrical shock. Purchase one from Hammacher for $129.95 today. Source...