2006-03-20


Light-Up Clothes and Costumes By Enlighted Designs

How did I ever survive without this?

(Click the link for more models)
The Cult of Mac Blog: "Torched MacBook Power Connector"

MacBook Power connector with magnetic lock - a bit too ingenious?

2006-03-17

TGIF spam - Weekend project - build your own WiFi receiver tower

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=301&p=1

This really required enthusiasm!

Couldn't he just have installed a repeater in the church tower?

TGIF spam - Vaskeanvisning

Raising children ...





2006-03-16

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

It is indeed!
Where to Get PGP

BTW, if you are interested in Zfone, you might also want PGP for mail encryption. Check it out!
Zfone - VoIP version of PGPfone in public beta (WinXP to be released soon)

Finally Zimmermann updates PGPfone - but let's see if the US will let him!

ZNet story: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39211234,00.htm
electro^plankton (http://www.tranism.com/weblog/)

Beautiful layout, tasteful pictures, and weird things.

2006-03-11

SUSE Linux 10.0 from NOVELL: "SUSE Linux 10.0 from Novell provides everything today's Linux user needs for home computing and computing on the go"

Interesting! Comes with OpenOffice 2.0 which should allow direct use of standard MS Office documents and spreadsheets. The ingenious addition from Novell, apparently has been to add support for MS VBA scripting, which means compatibility also for doc and xls macros.
Løberute Planlæggeren - Find en løberute

Sharing planned running tracks - and now covering all of Denmark.

Nice initiative.
Getting Started With RFID: "an excerpt from the ExtremeTech book: RFID Toys"

Background info before DIY projects. Neat overview.
Get Microsoft Watch via RSS
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1097192,00.asp

Good site to stay tuned - but do they do podcasts?

2006-03-02

Search Flickr by drawing a sketch

 
This doesn't work too well for finding exactly the photo you want - but all the same, it's an entertaining tool for finding 'random' pictures at Flickr. 
 

OQO - the ideal tablet pc?

 
world's smallest Windows XP computer

The OQO model 01+ ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-featured Windows XP computer. The OQO has a 1GHz processor, a 30GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, a color transflective display, and integrated wireless, as well as FireWire and USB ports.

fits in your pocket

Just 4.9 inches long, 3.4 inches wide, 0.9 inches thin, and weighing only 14 ounces, the model 01+ can fit in a pocket or purse and go with you anywhere. For easy typing and cursor control it has a complete thumb keyboard with TrackStik and mouse buttons as well as digital pen and thumbwheel.

- unfortunately it costs $2k - for at pc limited to VGA, but it is rather nice anyway