Michigan Beach in February
By Billie · In: fun
25 Feb 2011Elph went on vacation to Vieques. He sent pictures of the view. We had to show him that he didn’t need to leave the office to get a lovely beach scene.
Featuring 140 blue balloons for water, packing peanuts for sand, green crepe paper palm trees, a beach chair, Joe the cabana boy and a message in a bottle.
Geek Finds
By Craig · In: Geek Finds
9 Feb 2011- Chatter.com: twitter for biz
- More helpdesks to checkout: OTS helpdesk, civic CRM
- Google Art Project: like streetview for inside museums. Zoom in on artwork!
- Cake PHP
- The Fall by Gorillaz was done almost entirely on an iPad
- Tiny arrows super short URL generator that uses unicode characters.
Resources for Google Apps
By JoeG · In: techtip
31 Jan 2011Part of our new Google Apps 101 class includes a list of helpful links to explore Google Apps on your own. We’ve made that list a page (updated 7 Feb 2011) on this here blog for easier access. Enjoy!
Geek Finds
By Craig · In: Geek Finds
31 Jan 2011- Ubiquisys Attocell “In essence, this would allow a 3G smartphone from one country to use their international web connection to tunnel a cell call through — presumably free of charge — and definitely bypassing those nasty roaming fees that are incurred when ringing through an overseas cellular network.” via engadget
- Bomb Sniffing Lasers – when you shoot a laser the air particles get excited and come back to the source, the bandwidth of infrared light that returns can be measured and its components identified. more via eScience
- Airview for iOS – stream video from one iOS device to another using AirPlay.
- Evernote updates blog – includes lots of updates, addons and sharing options for Evernote.
Geek Finds
By Craig · In: Geek Finds
28 Jan 2011- Mockingbird: javascript prototyping tool https://gomockingbird.com/
- Olark: support chat tool embedded with gmail chat / google talk. http://www.olark.com/
- GitHub: Opensource repository. “social coding” https://github.com/
- Prezi: Powerpoint alternative now for iPad http://prezi.com/
- PBS iOS app. I highly recommend Nova’s Making Stuff: Strength–Nanotubes and Spider silk!
- my.mckinley.com It’s a great looking site, all built on Drupal – social networking for mckinley real estate.
- Wonderlist – task manager for iOS.
- Adblock Plus released for Chrome. http://adblockplus.org/en/
Museum Day is September 25
By JoeG · In: fun|Geek Finds
14 Sep 2010
Museum Day is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Media in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket. In the Ann Arbor area you can get into the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, UM Museum of Art, and UM Exhibit Museum of Natural History. Get your ticket and find more participating museums at Smithsonian Magazine.Cooking for Geeks
By Craig · In: Books
19 Aug 2010
O’Reilly, the publisher of excellent tech guides and MAKE magazine, has just put out their latest guide: Cooking for Geeks Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food. It’s now on my wishlist.
Sharpie™ Pencil
By JoeG · In: Geek Finds
9 Aug 2010Coming in September:
Sharpie the pen makers have created a Liquid Pencil that contains an “ink” made from liquid graphite. Its liquid graphite “ink” allows the user to erase at will for up to three days. After three days the liquid graphite will then turn to ink and will become permanent, to a degree…
.co domains have gone on sale
By Elph · In: News
21 Jul 2010After much talk the .co domains are now available. Though it remains to be seen how pervasive these will become in internet culture there is a lot of enthusiasm right now. Of course, you can get them from our reseller site, http://zingitdomains.com/, or all the other domain registrars.
I’ve taken the opportunity to register zingermans.co and elph.co. Just in case it’s useful. The prices seem to be standardized around the web at $29.99 per year.
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