January 2008
67 posts
Macessity's LowKey Stand for Apple neat-freaks →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Peripherals
Tidy, huh? If you’re an iMac or Apple Studio Display owner then you’ll see the immediate appeal of this LowKey Stand from Macessity. Constructed of 0.1085-inch thick steel “power-coated” to match your rig, it neatly hides your new slim Apple keyboard from view. There’s also a powered 4-port USB port up front which helps to...
01/30/08 PHD comic: 'Why? Why??' →
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com
title: “Why? Why??” - originally published 1/30/2008 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
10x broodnodige -gratis- applicaties voor je mac →
Steeds als ik een ‘vreemde’ mac in mijn handen krijg, ben ik benieuwd naar de applicaties die erop staan. Vooral even in de Dock neuzen of ontdekken wat voor iconen er rechtsboven staan. Om jullie de gelegenheid te geven bij mij te neuzen, geef ik je hier 10 -gratis- applicaties die ik niet meer kan missen. Elke mac gebruiker met een gezonde interesse in internet moet hier toch even naar kijken....
Peter Jackson verfilmt 'The hobbit' niet →
Niet Peter Jackson maar wel de Mexicaanse regisseur Guillermo del Toro zal de prequel van de succesvolle trilogie ‘The Lord of the rings’ draaien.
Off the Mark for Wed, 30 Jan →
Error'd: ¿Qué? →
Errrrmmm… qué?
(from Jon Witte)
Although, as a programmer, Joel certainly appreciates detailed error messages, sometimes “an unexpected error occurred” will do…
In addition to attaining a whole new level of smugness, Rogier found himself much more popular after getting a new iPhone. As in, two billion new email messages more popular.
The good news here...
Bewaar al uw research-werk op één overkoepelende... →
Het internet mag dan een bijzonder krachtig instrument zijn voor researchers, het stelt hen ook voor een aantal nieuwe problemen. Want hoe stop je al die flarden informatie die je bij elkaar sprokkelt (artikelen, beelden, links, …) netjes bij elkaar in één overzichtelijke file? En evenmin onbelangrijk: hoe vind je de juiste gegevens achteraf snel weer terug? Lumifi.com reikt een oplossing aan....
New Tricks in Illegal Building: Cover it in Hay →
In many parts of the world there are development controls to preserve natural landscapes, watercourses and farmland, but there is constant pressure as well to build monster homes in the country and greenbelts are constantly under attack by devious developers or clever lawyers. Or, as in the case of Robert Fidler of Surrey in the UK, one very patient farmer. Hiding behind 40 foot high wall of hay...
hapiness factory →
hapiness factory
Introducing new search views →
Posted by Andrew Hogue, Uber Tech Lead Introducing experimental views for search results There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant — 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. Frequently this is exactly the right format, but for some searches you need more options and more control. That’s why we’ve...
One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And One Pill... →
Need to finish that work project, and wish you had the mental intensity to do it? Just take a synapse-regulating inhibitor, induce temporary autism, and you’ll want to ignore your friends and do nothing but number-crunching for days. Autism-inducers could become as popular as Provigil among the geek set by 2020. Last night, in fact, a group German researchers announced they’d...
Graffiti artist creates real-time, 3D paintings →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Regular graffiti not doing it for you? Looking for something a little more up-to-date than spraycans and brick walls? Perhaps you should direct your attention to the artist known as DAIM and his recent project creating real-time graffiti in 3D. By utilizing a multi-camera scheme, DAIM is able to smear virtual paint across an empty gallery space using special handheld...
Found Footage: MacBook Paper →
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Apple, Found Footage
If you can’t bring yourself to shell out all that moola for a real MacBook Air, why not print out a tiny MacBook Paper? The MacBook Paper is even thinner than the MacBook Air, and it comes with a case at no additional cost. Don’t even get me started on this thing’s battery life (though I am pretty sure the battery isn’t user...
Vind automatisch de nieuwste drivers en maak er... →
Om ervoor te zorgen dat uw computer soepel blijft draaien, installeert u best regelmatig de nieuwste drivers voor uw pc-hardware. Het programma DriverMax vertelt u netjes wanneer er een update voor een stuurprogramma is. Bovendien kunt u met een druk op de knop een back-up van uw drivers maken, die goud waard is wanneer het onheil toeslaat. Bijna elk onderdeel van uw computer, van het...
A Bicycle That Creates Clean Air AND Clean Water! →
As part of Specialized and Google’s Innovate-or-Die contest, we’ve seen the bicycle put to some interesting uses, including lawn mowing and powering an MIT supercomputer. Clever as those designs were, however, the Grand Prize went …
Leuke advertenties →
Tijdens het blokken van het vak Reclameleer is dit volledig pedagogisch verantwoord: een hoop toffe en opmerkelijke ads.
The Joy of Tech for Mon, 28 Jan →
Baby’s verzorgen: een handleiding →
Niet dat ik er al aan toe ben, maar een beetje voorlichting kan nooit kwaad: hoe zorg je voor baby’s -maar vooral ook: hoe niet?
Amazon Deforestation Speeds Up Once More →
When we recently dared to be optimistic about news that destruction of the Amazon may be slowing down, our commenters were quick to step in an suggest the need for more scepticism about official figures. Sadly, it seems they may have been right. New satellite imagery released by the Brazillian government reveals an unprecedented increase in the rate of deforestation: “Never before have we...
Hip Office: Ergonomic Workspace for Those on the... →
Those of us who are planted in front of a computer screen for most of our waking hours — for work or play — will appreciate this one. No matter how comfortable your chair is, we could all use more opportunities to get outside and play. If that isn’t in the cards for your normal work week, the T Module “walking desk” might be the next best thing.
Google Presentations Adds PDF Saving, Shapes... →
Google Presentations, the oft-neglected PowerPoint-like slide creator in the Google Docs suite, just received a few upgrades to its functionality and design tools. The most interesting is the ability to export Presentation files as PDFs—still not all the way to PowerPoint exporting yet, but it’s an option that makes Presentations a file conversion tool for non-MS-Office-havers and a...
Off the Mark for Fri, 25 Jan →
A Picture is Worth... Dude, Where's My Habitat? →
Habitat destruction is a process of land use change in which one habitat-type is removed and replaced with another habitat-type. In the process of land-use change, plants and animals which previously used the site are displaced or destroyed, reducing biodiversity. Urban Sprawl is one cause of habitat destruction. Other important causes of habitat destruction include mining, trawling, and...
The Speed-up Loop →
“So what do you think about the opportunity,” Ben’s recruiting agent asked. He thought about it for a few moments. It wasn’t exactly what he was looking for, but then again, he had been out of work since November of 1989 – nearly three whole months – and figured he should probably get back in to the swing of things. He told the recruiter that he’d like to talk to the client and asked to schedule...
The Wiinstrument: Play the Drums Using a Wiimote →
You probably won’t see your favorite band playing with a Nintendo Wii remote at its next concert. After all, what does a game console have in common with making music?
If that previous sentence sounded weird, let me enlighten you. The Wiinstrument is a nifty application that lets you use a Wii remote and a Nunchuck controller to play drums on the Mac.
If you have a Bluetooth-enabled Mac (and all...
Siemens combineert 802.11n met power over ethernet →
Siemens heeft het verbruik van zijn Hipath 802.11n-access points verlaagd tot 12W. De stations kunnen hierdoor gebruikmaken van power over ethernet-technologie, zodat ze alleen een netwerkkabel voor hun stroomvoorziening nodig hebben. De nieuwe Hipath-producten van Siemens bevatten twee radio’s die elk 3x3, oftewel drie zend- en drie ontvangstkanalen, mimo ondersteunen, terwijl ze toch maar...
Comic for 22 Jan 2008 →
Ancient Antarctic Lake Could Reveal Clues about... →
What secrets to life and climate change could lie hidden beneath the surface of Antarctica’s ice sheets? Andy Smith from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - who believes an ancient lake there could reveal new insights on future sea-level rises and the evolution of life under harsh conditions - is leading an expedition to find out. The lake in question - Lake Ellsworth - is located...
Unshaking and refocusing your photos →
Whether by wind, vibration, or shaky hand, we have all taken blurry photos. But in the digital era, there is no need to despair — you can remove shake and blur from your pictures after the fact. Several Linux-friendly utilities can help you.
Dining in 2015: Din-Ink →
Designboom competitions are so much fun. The theme of the latest was Dining in 2015 and it got 4843 entries from 98 countries. Din-ink, designed by andrea cingoli + paolo emilio bellisario + cristian cellini + francesca fontana from italy, was one of the three winners: Turn your favourite office tool from your desk in a common cutlery…this is din-ink. A set of pen caps, including a...
Nanoscope, the DIY ipod nano fatty A/V dock →
Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio, Portable Video
You’ve got to hand it to modder Mark Irwin, who did his fellow tinkerers proud by assembling a bunch of found objects into a very handy audio / video dock for the squat new iPod nano. The project is brilliant in its simplicity: Irwin just carved a nano-sized slot in an old slide magnifier, embedded some discarded speakers, and ended...
Suck Less at Photoshop [How To] →
Screencaster Donnie Hoyle says you suck at Photoshop, and offers a few hilarious NSFW tutorials that contain some naughty words (so don’t watch ‘em in front of the children.) Above he covers distortion, warp and layer effects. After the jump, two more show you how to cover your mistakes, and use the clone stamp.
Covering Your Mistakes Clone Stamp and Manual Cloning [via Laughing...
Video: Dolphins Playing With Bubbles →
- Funny bloopers are a click away Douglas Adams said it best: “It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a...
Adobe Magic Lens →
Adobe Magic Lens
Tomato 1.14 →
Afgelopen woensdag is versie 1.14 van Tomato verschenen. Tomato is net als HyperWRT een ‘alternatieve’ firmware voor diverse routers met een kloppend hart van Broadcom, waaronder de Linksys WRT54G, Buffalo WHR-G54S en Asus WL500G Premium. Na het flashen, dat uiteraard volledig op eigen risico geschiedt, beschikt de router over een nieuwe gebruikersinterface en diverse extra opties,...
Adobe ziet toekomst in 'computational photography' →
Adobe werkt in zijn laboratoria aan een facetlens, waamee een eenmaal genomen foto achteraf softwarematig scherpgesteld kan worden. De vinding is echter nog ver van een marktintroductie verwijderd. De 3d-lens is onderdeel van wat Adobe ‘computational photography’ noemt, zo heeft Dave Story, Adobe’s vice-president Interactive Design, vrijdag toegelicht tijdens een presentatie over...
De hond blaft voor de mens →
Rotterdam, 17 jan. Zes ‘woorden’ begrijpen wetenschappers nu van hondengeblaf. Een team van Hongaarse, Zwitserse en Franse gedragsbiologen ontwikkelden een computerprogramma dat een blaf indeelt in categorieën: ‘vreemdeling’, ‘vechten’, ‘uitlaten’, ‘alleen’, ‘bal’ en ‘spelen’. Lees meer… NRC
Industrial robot arm used as a hypnotic clock →
Got a spare Denso 6DOF industrial robot arm? Why not program it to play the integral role in a large round clock, hypnotically sweeping back and forth in regular, smooth arcs, plucking bricks and moving them, resetting them and keeping time? Seriously, this is endlessly fascinating. Link (Thanks, Dean!)
Comic for 18 Jan 2008 →
Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays →
pfman writes “A University of Washington researcher has developed a contact lens including circuitry and a matrix of LEDs. Although not yet a working prototype, this may be a foundation for terminator/robocop style overlay displays in which computer graphics could be superimposed on your normal vision. ‘Building the lenses was a challenge because materials that are safe for use in the...
Coming Soon: Nature As Amusement Park [Futurism] →
Finnish artist Ilkka Halso believes that, once we’re done depleting the ozone, destroying the rainforests, and using up all arable land, nature will be on view in amusement parks, kinda like zoo animals—glorified yet completely devoid of purpose. Below are more images of nature amusement parks from the future.
Images by Ilkka Halso Ilkka Halso via The Aesthetic Poet
AirMail: the manila folder MacBook Air sleeve gets... →
Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals
Sure, we all got a chuckle when Steve casually pulled the MacBook Air out from within a manila envelope on stage, but we didn’t exactly expect to-be owners to snag one from the supply cabinet and put it to use. Nevertheless, the quick-thinking duo that is Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans had an idea to riff on Apple’s and create — surprise,...
AirMail: the manila folder MacBook Air sleeve gets... →
Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals
Sure, we all got a chuckle when Steve casually pulled the MacBook Air out from within a manila envelope on stage, but we didn’t exactly expect to-be owners to snag one from the supply cabinet and put it to use. Nevertheless, the quick-thinking duo that is Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans had an idea to riff on Apple’s and create — surprise,...
Kako Ueda's lacy, buggy, birdy papercuts →
Artist Kako Ueda makes beautiful, complex, lacy papercuts worked with insect and bird motifs. I just lost myself in the gallery of Ueda’s work. Link (via Craft)
Meet the Disintegrator: 24 barrels of rubber band... →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
You’ve gotta admire folks who bring their trade to a whole new level, even if that does mean escalating the international arms race between builders of automated, wooden, rubber band miniguns. The 24-barrel, tripod-mountable monster you see above, lovingly known as the Disintegrator, was rather amazingly hand-carved and assembled by Anthony Smith of the UK, who...
Flame gun ad from 1972 →
(Click on thumbnail for enlargement) Mike Lorenz says
My wife recently acquired a box full of old TV Week supplements to the Philadelphia Inquirer, those small TV listing magazines for those who were too cheap to buy a TV Guide. I was browsing the issues when I came across this incredible full-page ad on the back cover of the January 23, 1972 issue.
There are just so many gems on this page,...
Meet the Disintegrator: 24 barrels of rubber band... →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
You’ve gotta admire folks who bring their trade to a whole new level, even if that does mean escalating the international arms race between builders of automated, wooden, rubber band miniguns. The 24-barrel, tripod-mountable monster you see above, lovingly known as the Disintegrator, was rather amazingly hand-carved and assembled by Anthony Smith of the UK, who...