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Popular Science magazine has partnered with Google and is offering their entire 137-year archive for on-line browsing, for free. You can see each issue appearing just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements.
It’s an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology’s incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. In the future, we’ll be adding more advanced features for searching and browsing.
SOURCE: Popular Science
This Apple iPad promo/commercial spoof graphically points out some of the negative aspects of the iPad’s form factor.
This is for the benefit of the fat-fingered-folk amongst us who have trouble using the tiny touch screen keyboard on their mobile devices.
In this video we demonstrate our latest discover of how to create a capacitive stylus from little more than a scrap of anti-static protective film from a hard drive I just bought. The stylus works surprisingly well either in your hands or while wearing gloves.
SOURCE: pocketnow.com VIA: YouTube
If you are nostalgic for a look at a Radio Shack Catalog, vintage 1939 to 2005, then the Radio Shack Catalog Online Archive is just the site for you. They even have some Radio Shack TV commercials touting CB radios and eight-track tape players.
What is RadioShackCatalogs.com? This website is dedicated to America’s technology store… RadioShack. Radio Shack has been in business since 1921, over 90 years. And for 65 of those years has produced an outstanding electronics and technology catalog, surpassing the catalog of all rival companies.
Through the decades, this catalog expanded to contain a mix of hi-fidelity stereos, amplifiers, radios, phonographs, speakers, TVs, CBs, communication equipment, computers, electronic components, antennas, electronic test equipment, educational kits, toys, gadgets, appliances, tools, batteries, and more.
Products from the RadioShack catalog were purchased by the everyday consumer, hobbyist, and professional. At this website you will be able to view these old 1939-2005 Radio Shack catalogs, year by year, page by page. What’s unique about this website is that the catalogs are presented as a VIRTUAL catalog, in a "page-flipping" format. This gives you the experience of paging-through an actual Radio Shack catalog.
SOURCE: RadioShackCatalogs.com
This is interesting because of the number of overweight hams. I first learned of this thing when it was described by a user, Leo Laporte.
The WiFi Body Scale is different from your average bathroom scale in that it is connected. No, not in the Sopranos sense. I mean that it will weigh you, display the results to you on a large backlit graphic screen and then it will optionally send the info to the world via Twitter to provide you with motivation, as well as allowing you to graphically monitor your (hopefully) reducing poundage, on-line.
An included free service links your scale to the internet. The web dashboard is the extension of your WiFi scale. From any web browser, or from the free iPhone application supplied by Withings, you can log on and see a rich, relevant view of all of your weight data collected by your scale, with no time limitation and in total confidentiality.
Everyday the WiFi scale measures your lean and fat mass automatically. This allows you to concentrate on the origins of your weight variations.
The web dashboard offers a rich graphical interface with easy browsing over time and allows you to zoom in on the date ranges of your choice. You therefore take pleasure in observing the evolution of your fitness in a simple, intuitive environment.
SOURCE: withings.com
The other day the WOOT Web site featured a Jabra BT2040 Bluetooth headset for cell phones. I found their comments to be quite entertaining.
But we like it because it’s the perfect prop for freaking out the squares during our frequent walkabouts in the big city. Here are our favorite things to say into our Jabra BT2040 Bluetooth Headset when we know bystanders are eavesdropping:
.: “I’m on my way home, so put on that slinky little negligee I like, Dad.”
.: “The people at the rendering plant are starting to ask uncomfortable questions.”
.: “Put five large on the Houston Oilers to win it all.”
.: “I don’t care what people say. I’ll never believe Michael Jordan could do that to those puppies.”
.: “Please, baby. If you’ll just come back to me, I’ll never ask you to do that in front of strangers ever again.”
.: “I just wanted to tell you goodbye before I martyr myself. May God strike down the infidels.”
.: “Yeah, yeah, yeah-–the doctors keep telling me I’m contagious, too.”
.: “Man, that deal-a-day web site is the perfect front for laundering our cocaine profits
SOURCE: woot.com
Jason Calacanis, entrepreneur and Founder of Weblogs, Inc., whose Non Disclosure Agreement with Apple expired at midnight — says in a series of Twitter posts about the Apple Tablet:
.: For background: apple asked me to do press tomorrow on cnbc, cnn, etc. As a pundit they gave me tablet 10 days ago. 3people dropped it off!
.: Apple Tablet has thumbpads on each side for mouse guestures, reads fingerprint for security. Up to 5 profiles by finerprint for family.
.: Yes, apple tablet is oled + back has solar pad for recharging, but it really doesn’t work quickly. More a gimmic. Verizon+att,wifi yes!
.: Apple tablet’s 2 cameras is sick feature for video conferencing: u shoot what’s in front of you + yourself. Augmented video conferncing!
.: steve jobs outdid himself, its greatest device ever!!!
.: Apple tablet games are sick. Basically nintendo wii-level innovation. Custom farmville app is insane. Mark pincus is demoing with steve tmmr
.: apple tablet connects to other tablets over wifi for gaming. There will be LAN parties with these things, people playingFirst personshooters
.: Off to bed, but I assure you I’m not joking and the specs are real…. Most of all that this is best gadget ever made and NOT overhyped.
.: also, Farmville for Apple tablet is a huge game changer. I know for a FACT Mark Pincus is onstage tomorrow with Jobs.
SOURCE: Jason Calacanis
| UPDATE 1-27-2010: CNET has a play-by-play account of Steve Job’s presentation this morning. |
| FURTHER UPDATE 1-27-2010: Calicanis is now saying, “I have the iPad 2.0 and Steve Jobs showed the Apple iPad version 1.0 today. That is why mine has better specs.” |
| FINAL UPDATE 1-28-2010: Calicanis now says, “Listen apple fanboys, you guys didn’t get OBViOUS joke! I described 15 pound,$4k desktop computer as. $499, 2pound tablet! A *joke* come on!” |
OK, I recognize that there has been an inordinate number of posts lately about Twitter and iPhone/iPod Touch apps. The reason is that Twitter has a great deal of potential for actual usefulness, and the iPhone/iPod Touch is an incredible tool whose power is just now being tapped.
Contributing to Twitter’s usefulness, its co-creator Dom Sagolla has prepared the Hypertext Edition of 140 Characters which covers all the basics of great short-form writing, including the importance of communicating with simplicity, honesty, and humor. It is presented in a new iPhone/iPod Touch book format that is being constantly updated with fresh content.
The latest text version, 1.1.0, was released on November 30, 2009. Consider it to be the equivalent of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for today’s social media and marketing messages.
Someone remanded us of this quote from Thomas Jefferson, "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." If teaching us brevity and clarity of thought is its only accomplishment, I will always be grateful to Twitter.
Available in the iTunes App Store
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Ah, hah! Finally, a solution to the previous stranglehold of the proprietary, iTunes only, access to files on your iPhone, or iPod Touch.
It’s surprising that this nifty little utility for Windows PCs (sorry, Mac users) has avoided our attention for so long, but not anymore. In case we weren’t the last ones that hadn’t heard about this, iPhone Folders by Bozhenov Artem is a great way to access the files on your iPod touch and iPhone from Windows. Because it hooks in as a Windows Explorer extension, there is no software to run once it’s installed: it just works. The iPhone or iPod touch just shows up like any other hard-drive, and the extension even includes support for displaying application icons for .app folders in thumbnail mode. It’s very slick, almost as if it was functionality that Apple forgot to ship.
SOURCE: ipodtouchfans.com
My name is Bob, and I am a ham radio operator, freelance web developer and a retired commercial radio personality. It turns out that I also enjoy blogging...
