Archive for March, 2009
Free Up Space with Monolingual
In: Geek Finds
15 Mar 2009If you’re like most early adopters of a solid state hard drive, you’re probably doing everything you can to conserve space. One of our Macbook Air users was constantly running up against the storage limits of his new fangled 64GB SSD. There are a number of things that you can do upon a fresh install [...]
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- Tags: apple, mac, os x
Shh… Zingerman’s Warehouse Sale!
In: Food
13 Mar 2009Zingerman’s Mail Order is holding a secret warehouse sale for locals only. I passed by this morning and scored a bottle of Tenuta di Valgiano olive oil for only $21! Better hurry on down today to take advantage of the great deals! Fridays 11am-7pm only! Here’s the lowdown from the Zingerman’s staff mailing list: Square [...]
Convert PDFs to Word Over the Web
In: Geek Finds
12 Mar 2009PDF-to-Word is a free web tool that coverts pdfs into editable word documents. I’ve found that it does a very accurate job, especially with text-heavy documents using standard fonts. Keeping in mind, depending on the size of the original document and the server load, it can take awhile to receive the finished converted document–a six [...]
Nerd alert! This Saturday is 3/14, also known as Pi Day. Woot! posted 9 ways they’ll celebrate the day, but in the ZCoB it seems like natural thing to do is get pie at the Bakehouse! (I should be in marketing)
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Sixth Sense Wearable Tech on TED
In: Good Stuff
11 Mar 2009Yet another must see on TED: Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo their self described “Minority Report”-esque device.
Fix your iBook with a $2 vise clamp
In: Geek Finds|Good Stuff
10 Mar 2009We had a 6 year old iBook come in with the following symtoms: -it had a blank black screen -it wouldn’t boot -the fan whirred at top speed The fix: clamp the case down in just the right spot to apply pressure on the logic board. This certainly is not a long term fix, but [...]
Nuclear Grade Duct Tape
In: Geek Goods
9 Mar 2009Elph found this last week – a wonderfully geeky find – duct tape that will survive nuclear fallout. The product description puts its well, “…ideal for use in nuclear tape facilities and it is certified for low leachable halogens and sulfur. It also provides sunlight and UV resistance for up to one year without the [...]
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Benjamin from Rishi Tea
In: Tea
8 Mar 2009Vanessa from the Deli invited us to come hear one of our favorite tea vendors speak. Benjamin Harrison from Rishi Tea was in town and Billie, Joe and I went down to drink tea and here him speak about tea. I won’t do a transcript of our time, though I did take some copious notes; [...]
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QWERTY Rock
In: Good Stuff
7 Mar 2009Numero Group blogged this a few days ago, they got it from WFMU, who got it from the source, Ron Winter: QWERTY Rock (Flash) is basically a pre-programmed drum machine that lets you bang out your own beats using your computer’s keyboard. Have more fun, do less work!
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Flaming Cheese Curl
In: Food|Geek Finds
5 Mar 2009Kristie and Mail Order told me that people in the UP, Alaska, and other northernly places often carry a bag of cheese curls in their cars in case of emergency. I figured it was so if you got hungry while burried in a snow drift you’d have something to eat. Partly true, though a cheese [...]
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- Tags: cheese, fire
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