Category: Gadgets
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Awesome Flickr Based Screen Saver
Slickr, by cellar door software gives you a photo screen saver that scrolls through your (or everybody’s) flickr photos. Cool pan/zoom/fade effects kinda like the similar screen saver on OSX. Bonus, if you have a dual monitor rig, it shows different slide shows on each screen. Check it out.
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Wow, that’s a little excessive…
Was flipping through the latest PC Magazine, and spotted a full page ad for the new Black Diamond high end cell phone. Its got a pretty sexy form factor, Windows Mobile, Quad Band, Mini SD slot, 4 Megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, and two diamonds…. Hey wait, two diamonds? Yep. This is one of the those…
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Bring that Beat Back
Was pleasantly surprised at my recent birthday (yeah, I’m feeling old again) to receive a new MP3 player and some other useful electronic gadgets from my Amazon.com wishlist. Props to the wife and in-laws for the hook up. The new player is a Samsung YP-F1XB. Features include: Tiny. Its about 3/4th the size of a…
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Cool Web Technology: DabbleDB
Making my bi-weekly scan through CssMania, I spotted DabbleDB. At first, I thought they were just another webified ASP version of Microsoft Access (there are a bunch of them these days, along with some simpler open source projects that attempt to do the same.) They are kind of like Access, but with a lot smarter…
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Now that’s a monitor!
Dell is now selling a 30″ widescreen lcd, ala Apple. I’ve seen Apple’s in person, and its pretty impressive; guessing that Dell’s is just as nice. Until the bucks start rolling in by the truckload, I’ll stick with my recently acquired Dell 20″ widescreen. Sure, it ain’t no 30 incher, but at less than a…
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Turn CDs into an iPod?
A while back, I was on Gizmodo and found a company that was offering to trade used CDs for an iPod. Too good to be true? Millennium Music has their exchange rates posted for CDs to a number of iPod models (or you can just cash out if you want.) Basically, you package up your…
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Cool Google Maps Hack
A while back, my pal Larry showed me a cool mapping site that lets you take out a virtual tape measure and measure distances arbitrarily. It really hit the spot for figuring out how far I’ve been running. Today, via Make, I found a Google Maps hack called the Gmaps Pedometer. Using the same awesome…
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Coming Soon: Self Heating Containers?
Yep! Buy your pre-brewed coffee (or tea, soup, or even baby formula) in its own self heating container. A company called Ontech has blown through a cool $20 millon in development of the idea, now protected by 120 different patents. Be sure to check out their demo video. Hmm. I can hardly wait for the…
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Teeny Tiny Linux Box
Slashdot reports about Picotux a new Linux compatible PC the size of a RJ-45 ethernet jack. Wow, that’s pretty darn small, and its only 99 Euros. Now if I just had a cool project to use it in!
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TikiUSB?
Whoa, this is pretty cool. A tiki shaped USB drive. How cool is that? They’re a little pricey, but they’re hand made. Probably no more expensive than a one made by a street vendor in Maui. Don’t be the last on your block to get yours.