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Cooking for Geeks
In: Books
19 Aug 2010O’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.
Load Batteries in Either Direction with Instaload
In: Geek Finds
16 Jul 2010Microsoft has come up with a simple tech fix for the festering problem of figuring out which direction to insert batteries into a device. Forgo the cryptic symbols and dark spaces, and simply put them in any direction you want. Via wired.
Earthday Electronics Recycling
In: Green
29 Mar 2010Once again, the Ann Arbor Public Schools and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative at U-M are providing free electronics recycling. Schools and businesses can drop off items Thursday and Friday, April 22-23, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Washtenaw Intermediate School District, 1819 South Wagner Rd. The general public can drop off items [...]
Google Adds Bicycle Routes to Maps
In: Transportation
10 Mar 2010Google has added cycling maps to its list of map options. Look for the Bicycling option right along with the other transportation options: walking, car or public transit. The route it comes up with from the Deli to the Bakehouse is pretty straightforward: link Google does offer the following caveat: “Bicycling directions are in beta. [...]
Nominate Ann Arbor for Google Fiber
In: Collaboration|News
2 Mar 2010Google is planning on launching an experimental, ultra high-speed (over 1 gigabit per second) network, and test it in location(s) across the country. “The level of community support” will be one of the key criteria used by the Google decision makers. You can do your part by nominating Ann Arbor at A2Fiber.com
Bike-Share World Map
18 Feb 2010Here’s a great mashup of data put together by MetroBike and the Bike-Sharing blog overlaid in Google Maps. It shows the locations of bike sharing programs across the globe: Check it out.
First Glimpse at Google Chrome OS
In: Geek Finds|Good Stuff|News
19 Nov 2009Not to be confused with Google’s Chrome web browser, or its mobile phone platform, Chrome OS is Google’s web centric operating system for laptops and desktops. Lifehacker has a great preview worth checking.
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Free Wifi at Airports for the Holidays courtesy of Google
In: Good Stuff|News
16 Nov 2009Google is sponsoring free wifi at 47 airports across the US now until Jan 15th. Accompanying it is a photo contest as well as matching donations up to $250,000 from Google to participating non-profits. Unfortunately, DTW is not one of the participating airports. See details and participants.
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OSX Snow Leopard glitches
In: News|Work updates
5 Oct 2009With every major OS release, you can expect some applications to break, and things to act up until a few patches are released–The latest version of OSX, Snow Leopard is no exception. ZingIT along with some help from a few brave ZCoBbers have been putting it to the test and we’ve found some lingering weirdness: [...]
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Winclone
In: Geek Finds
17 Aug 2009With Netrestore end of life, Winclone has become my go-to app for duplicating Bootcamped partitions in OSX. I appreciate the added ability to shrink and resize existing Windows partitions.
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