Look Around Corners and Over Walls with a DIY Periscope [Weekend Project] (8)
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Peek over walls and look around corners with a periscope—a long tool that uses two mirrors to show you hard-to-reach places. Over at how-to site Instructables, they've got the step by step for putting together a periscope using a thin mints box, duct tape, two small mirrors, and an X-Acto knife. The kids will love this one. Super Stealthy Spy Periscope! [Instructables via Make]
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Davis S said:
this would be nice for spying...
Download Squad Week in Review (1)
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Filed under: Weekend Review3 out of 4 doctors recommend reading Download Squad every day. But if you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week. Read them over and call us in the morning if you don't feel better. Lesser known weapons to trick out your malware arsenalYou probably know all the big names in antivirus, anti-spyware behavior. But just because companies like ...
Video Disclosure (8)
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Over the past 24 hours, a story has blown up regarding video blogging and the lack of disclosure. We first wrote about the issues of video blogger disclosure with regards to Morgan Webb and her show Webb Alert. When she launched the show, it was produced (and still is I believe) by ad network Federated Media. It sure seems to me like video bloggers have a different code when it comes to disclosure. Whether it's ...
Cartoon: Favicon Dead Pool (9)
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Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.
Rewind, play, rewind, play: AudioLobe makes transcription easier (2)
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Filed under: Audio, Macintosh, Productivity, CommercialIf you ever tried your hand at transcribing audio to text you're probably familiar with rewinding and playing back passages over and over again. What if you could slow down that audio file without altering the pitch to make it easier for you? Well if you're a Mac users, you're in luck as JS8 Media has developed a handy utility able to alter the speed of audio files without effecting ...
Take Psychedelic Pictures with Your iPhone (24)
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Wired's How-To Wiki demonstrates how to exploit the iPhone's unusual shutter to take distorted photographs. The trick? Just twist your camera as you're taking a picture. The reason? The iPhone uses a CMOS sensor, which more or less "wipes" the shutter across the sensor like a scanner rather than the circular aperture of a traditional camera. The iPhone's CMOS scanner seems to be a bit slower than, say, the CMOS sensor on your Canon camera. ...
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war2d2 said:
For all you too-cool-for-school iPhoners out there.
Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool (55)
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Blogging for all intents and purposes has been around for about the ten year mark. During that time it has gone through many changes as more platforms and tools became available that made it easier and easier for just about anyone to become a blogger. Styles of blogs have grown as well with everything from the original personal weblog style right through to today’s political blogs, tech blogs, and one of the hottest niches around ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
Shared because he used the word, "twaddle" - good article, too :-)
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Garry said:
Posterous gets a prominent mention on a Mashable editorial about how Twitter ISN'T a microblogging platform.
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cvander said:
I agree. twitter is another im. And we need it as a protocol to descentralice it..
Why you don't get what you Googled for [Search] (5)
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Have you noticed that you don't always get the exact terms you searched for anymore on Google? Instead of oh-so-literal keyword matching and filters such as +site:valleywag.com, Google lines up a team of technologies that try to guess what you're really looking for. Information retrieval specialist Amit Singhal walked through them in a Google Blog post . I edited out 80 percent of the verbiage — mostly by deleting the term world class every time ...
Drew York City (1)
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So I’m hanging in one of my favorite places in the world, New York City. Favorite because of the people. New York City didn’t jive with me as a place to live but that’s ok. I can see why my friends love this city. I got to hang out at the Rocketboom office yesterday with some of the coolest, most talented people on the planet yesterday and really enjoyed myself. Then I got to hang ...
Rickroll the vote! [Politics] (4)
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Sean Tevis: he's from the Internet, but he's only running for representative of a small part of it — District 15 in Olathe, Kansas. Why limit his donors to just the people he'll represent, when really, this election is all about Open Government and Transparency? "It's Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner" is Tevis's fundraising webcomic. Admit it. If you donate the $8.34 Tevis asks for, you're just voting ...
Nails on a Chalkboard: The Google Chat Notification Sound (7)
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There’s a scene in the movie “Dumb and Dumber” in which Jim Carrey asks, “Do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?” And then he screeches at the top of his lungs. If that movie was made today you could easily substitute Carrey’s screaming for the notification sound Google Chat makes. You are feverishly working on deadline, concentrating to craft the perfect sent- Dunk!… -ence, when that noise cuts through your ...
Twinkle, Twinkle…Twitter Star (7)
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Yesterday evening, at a beachside dinner organized by our investors, True Ventures, I sat at a table full of relatively young entrepreneurs (I’m pretty sure I raised the average age by a few years.) Most of us had iPhones — both old and new — and most were Twitter users. So it should come as no surprise that we all had an opinion about Twitterrfic, an iPhone client for Twitter. To sum up everyone’s thoughts ...
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Nick said:
I agree 100%. Twiterrific UI is awful. And assuming their only value is to repackage information, that spells death for the company.
Mount a Camera on Your Bike [How To] (28)
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Photography enthusiast blog Photojojo details how to mount your point-and-shoot camera on your bicycle for fun and creative shooting. The supplies are cheap (under $10), and putting it all together is a breeze. When you're done, you could use it to snap photos at intervals for a time-lapse or shoot some video like Photojojo did above. If your camera doesn't support time-lapse (or you just want to really soup it up), check out how to ...
Cloned dog in canoe [Caption Contest] (2)
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As F. Scott Fitzgerald once quipped, "The rich are different than you and me." Case in point here is this pet cruising on Echo Lake in the Sierras, apparently one of six privately cloned in South Korea from a deceased dog named Missy. Have a better caption? The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Only the truly unfortunate use Comic Sans" by sample032. (Photo by Steve Jurvetson)
Twiddla: Simple Collaboration Software That Works Almost Anywhere (30)
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Twiddla, a free service that lets users draw and annotate webpages with their peers, has launched a new version of its site that introduces a number of new features. Compared to enterprise-grade collaboration software, Twiddla falls a little short - there’s no screen sharing or video chat, and the software seems a little buggy. But for ease of use and compatibility it can’t be beat: the browser based AJAX software is platform-agnostic, requires no plugins, ...
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Kerry said:
thats a brilliant site
When Facebook Goes Down, What Should its Fail Whale Be? (9)
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Typically I give a popular service around an hour to get its act together before posting about its downtime, but for the last 15 minutes or so my Twitter friend timeline has been lighting up with messages about Facebook being down. Being Friday and all, I figured why not have some fun with it. Twitter’s “fail whale” has become somewhat iconic, at least for those of us that use the site regularly and have become ...
Grabbing some love upstairs at Google [Geek Love] (4)
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"You asked if I was headed upstairs for a meeting and I said, "not exactly. I am here for GoogleApps." Oh, Pink Scarf Girl. We want to find your Missed Connections "Moment" Man, too. White, male, 20s, dressed casual? Who could that be? Just be sure to use protection with what you're grabbing "downstairs," too. The best in daycare is so pricey these days.
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Oscar said:
jesus, people
Google’s Lively: Another ‘What If’ at Google? (15)
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This is a guest post written by Bernard Moon, Vice President of the Lunsford Group, a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, investment boutique, and real estate. Bernard blogs at Silicon Moon. The recent announcement of Google’s Lively product has created a stir in some circles, but for me it’s a yawner. Why? It’s another Google product not related to their bread and butter of search and ...
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Derick Valadao said:
really fascinating article about google and their marketing strategy.
