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Geek Finds

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.

Geek Finds

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 [...]

Geek Finds

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sharpie™ Pencil

In: Geek Finds

9 Aug 2010

Coming 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… hat tip

Microsoft 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.

Google Dunks

In: fun|Geek Finds

27 May 2010

Brass Monki makes some boss sneakers, they recently did a custom pair of Nike Dunks with a Google theme.  I want them.

USB Cufflinks

In: fun|Geek Finds

27 May 2010

So James Bond. Designed by Ravi Ratan, 2GB USB Flash Drive Cufflinks (2 GB each, total 4 GB) and can be engraved with up to 8 characters, available in gunmetal and gold finishes. $195.00/per pair.  Feature functional USB drives making it possible for you to keep all of your must-have presentations and important documents with [...]

iStat

In: Geek Finds

12 Apr 2010

iStat Pro is a handy (and free) widget for Mac OS X that shows key stats about your machine at a glance: CPU & memory usage, network stats, temperature, fan RPM, and power usage.  It’s particularly handy to see your IP, both internal & external, as well as the temps of key hardware.  iStat for [...]

This 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 [...]


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