Archive for the ‘Geek Finds’ Category
Crayola’s Law
In: Geek Finds| Good Stuff
19 Jan 2010This is quickly making it’s way around the series of tubes known as The Internet and I didn’t want to miss the bandwagon.
To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935.
Except for the dayglow-ski-jacket-inspired burst of neon [...]
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Lenovo IdeaPad U1 hybrid notebook
In: Geek Finds| Review
10 Jan 2010I like what Lenovo is thinking with their IdeaPad U1 hybrid notebook. Full power notebook, Win7, detachable screen becomes self-sufficient tablet with 8 hour battery life running minimal OS. Zack Whittaker has a nice rundown of this and the Lenovo Skylight over at ZDNet.
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- Tags: Lenovo, Win7, windows
Withings WiFi Scale
In: Geek Finds
10 Jan 2010The Withings WiFi Scale blends the pure functionality of a modern digital scale with an ability for reporting and history and then takes it over the top with connectivity to your social networks. This last bit adds the component of social pressure that is sometimes very helpful in staying focused on weight loss goals. The [...]
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- Tags: fitness, iphone, twitter
Track your sleep with an iPhone app
In: Geek Finds| Review
9 Jan 2010Sleep Cycle is an iPhone app that uses the accelerometer to detect when you toss and turn as you sleep. After setting the time you would like to wake up and positioning the phone face down on the edge of your bed the software monitors your activity and attempts to wake you at the best [...]
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- Tags: fitness, iphone
Dragon Dictation for iPhone
In: Geek Finds| Review
23 Dec 2009A geek find from last week: Dragon Dictation is an iPhone app (free) that accurately captures voice and converts to text. Press the record button, speak your speak, press done, and watch the text appear. So far the only mistakes I’ve run into are with words like on, in, an being misheard, but that’s probably [...]
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Magic Mouse
In: Geek Finds
8 Dec 2009Two-finger scrolling changed my life.
When Apple added multi-touch features to the (PowerBook and) MacBook trackpads several years ago it was a significant and intuitive breakthrough in human-computer interaction. The iPhone followed shortly after, improving multi-touch and introducing gestures. These improvements are now standard technology on all Apple laptops, but those of us still rocking early [...]
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- Tags: apple, magic mouse
Ok, something about Google Wave
In: Geek Finds| Review
25 Nov 2009We’ve been playing with Google Wave here for a few weeks. We’ve used it to take minutes of meetings, float an idea and flesh it out, and collect and share information. The jury is still out on whether this is a winner but it is a thought provoking tool for real-time collaboration.
I enjoyed this post [...]
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Ringcentral review
In: Geek Finds| Review
24 Nov 2009Today I was playing with some details in the Ringcentral account that we setup for Zingerman’s Press this summer and really enjoying the ease of use and reasonable cost structure. Tonight I ran across a quick review by the good folks over at Web Worker Daily that they did last month. Enjoy.
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- Tags: voip
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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New iMacs Out Today
In: Geek Finds| News
20 Oct 2009The new iMacs feature LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays, with a new edge-to-edge glass and seamless aluminum case design. It’s quite the sexy little get up, and it’s sure to turn a few heads. Also sure to turn heads is the introduction of quad-core processors to the iMac line, though the entry level model [...]
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