Archive for October, 2008
EVERYTHING IS BETTER…
In: Food| Good Stuff
31 Oct 2008Ladies and gentlemen, the bacon lampshade:
Better with bacon.
Peep the full production set from Kris Kelley on Flickr and his DIY post at Color Bars.
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- Tags: bacon
Ubuntu 8.10 Release Round-up
In: Geek Finds| News
31 Oct 2008The latest version of Ubuntu, “Intrepid Ibix,” was released on Thursday. It includes the latest version of the usual components (Gnome, X.org, etc.) with improved networking (WiFi) and portability. Recent Ubuntu releases have focused on laptops, and “Ibix” moves another step forward (peep the screenshot!). The usual sites are abuzz with this latest release. Here’s [...]
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- Tags: linux, ubuntu
JoeWare
In: Geek Finds
30 Oct 2008We needed some tools for managing Active Directory, specifically something to give us total number of accounts, and another to find inactive computers. Joeware.net has tools to accomplish both these tasks: AdFind and OldCmp (awesome reporting features!), and a couple dozen other command line tools for managing Active Directory, all simple to use and robust [...]
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- Tags: active directory, XP
LEGO-Powered Time-Tracking
In: Geek Finds
28 Oct 2008How to make time-tracking fun and tangible:
1. Buy a box of Legos.
2. Assign a color to every project.
3. Lay a Lego board by your desk.
4. For every chunk of time spent on a project, stack a Lego piece of the corresponding color on the board.
5. End of week: Admire and analyze!
Other possible uses in the [...]
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- Tags: productivity
AirMail
In: Good Stuff
26 Oct 2008The image of a MacBook Air inside a manila envelope is famous. Of course you would never carry your Air in an actual envelope, but if you want to fool passers-by into thinking you do then AirMail is for you. AirMail by Manila Mac is a fleece-lined vinyl sleeve made to look like a traditional [...]
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- Tags: macbook air
Farm to Fork: IT Goes to Cornman
In: Food
24 Oct 2008Yesterday afternoon we all rode up to Cornman Farms in Dexter to have Mark show us around. We spent a couple hours touring, harvesting, and tasting. We had a lot of fun and Mark was an excellent host – and a terrific cook, too! After our visit to the farm we all went to the [...]
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- Tags: cornman farms, dinner, Food, roadhouse
Two PDF Tools
In: Geek Finds
23 Oct 20081) DoPDF for Windows | There are lots of PDF writers/printers available for Windows – CutePDF, PrimoPDF are some I’ve used before. This week LifeHacker mentioned doPDF and I quickly adopted. The installation is quick and the interface is very simple. Mac users have easily been able to print to PDF for a while and [...]
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- Tags: free, openoffice, pdf, windows
Bent Ply Won’t Die
In: Good Stuff
20 Oct 2008Bent plywood is a staple in modern (affordable) design. It’s functional and practical, but, really, it’s nearing a saturation point. Take for example this bent ply MacBook (Pro) case. Designer Brian Kelly created the case as, “an exploration into the process of bending plywood…The laptop case is formed from two bent panels of plywood which [...]
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- Tags: design, macbook
Is this a Dell?
In: Good Stuff
20 Oct 2008Wow, Dell has come out with a small desktop computer that looks pretty decent! It’s called the Dell Studio Hybrid, though I’m not sure what it is a hybrid of, it’s still got some respectable features.
I should say that we’ve been using the Apple Mac Mini in our Deli offices, where space it extremely tight, [...]
Pollster
In: Good Stuff
16 Oct 2008For those of you needing up to the minute, interactive election poll results, check out: pollster.com.
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