10,000 iPhone Apps… and grooooowing (4)
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148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps, says 10,000 applications have now been released on the iPhone App store (the site is named after the fact that you can add up to 148 applications to an iPhone or iPod touch). A tribute page shows a mini icon for every application. And it also gives some interesting data. About 24% of apps are free; 35% cost $.99. The average cost is $3.12, including free apps. About ...
Cool OSX Apps Transition To Paid Membership Site (1)
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Dear Cool OSX Apps Users, Cool OSX Apps is currently faced with a serious financial burden! We pay for the site out of our own pockets, from the expensive hosting bill each month to maintaining the site and ensuring it runs at optimal speed, so you all as the users can have the most pleasant browsing experience when utilizing our site. However, the expenses are growing each month, proving to be detrimental in being able ...
Changing The Light Bulb On Top Of The St. Louis Gateway Arch (8)
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Here’s a KTVI news story on Chuck Kalert, the guy who has changed the light bulb on the top of the Saint Louis Gateway Arch each year for the last 15 years. The top of the Arch is 630 feet above the ground. via The J-Walk Blog This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Changing The Light Bulb On Top Of ...
Why Homebrew is Better (12)
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Every professional performer always does the same thing at exactly the same moment in every show they do. What I like are things that are different every time. That's why I like amateurs. -- Andy Warhol What Andy Warhol said about professionals vs. amateurs is true not just in theatre, but in lots of DIY pursuits such as brewing your own beer. Homebrew is better because each time it's different. The beer that you buy ...
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mwilliams said:
Boing Boing hit the nail on the head. Home brew is so fantastic and the reward of drinking your own is incredible. I'll be brewing a Gingerbread Ale for the Holidays in an hour or two, good timing on this article.
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Jason Hammer said:
I need to follow in my brother's footsteps and begin brewing my own beer
The Gonad Gourmet (10)
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With the Thanksgiving turkey behind us, here's something else you don't eat regularly: meaty balls. Check out The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking with Balls by Serbian chef, Ljubomir Erovic. This multimedia cookbook tells you how to peel and slice animal testicles to make such wonders as Testicle Pizza - just add your own toppings! Wouldn't you know *it* tastes like chicken. But *it* works like Viagra! Ever since I was a little boy I listened to ...
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Vitak said:
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Boob Job piggybank sold as girl's room decor (21)
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How to be a terrible parent: buy your daughter one of these "boob job" piggybanks, sold on a site specializing in girls' room decor. Stuff like this makes me want to smack someone. TEACHING FISCAL DISCIPLINE
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Vitak said:
All I want for Christmas is a boob job piggy bank.
Mile-long secret tunnel in central London for sale (20)
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A stuffy, noisy mile-long secret Cold War tunnel is up for sale in London, asking price $7.4 million -- it's only five minutes' walk from my office, too, connecting up Chancery Lane with the Thames. It's only got two lifts, which means you couldn't possibly get fire-code approval to run it as a hotel or club, but there's all kinds of intriguing possibilities (e.g. ball pit) for this much subterranean volume. But it was not ...
How To Calibrate Your New HDTV (and Not Lose Your Mind) [How To] (34)
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Confession: Until a few days ago, I'd never calibrated my TV. There are a couple reasons for this. First, and most simply, I'm not down with buying a calibration disc that I will likely use once then never touch again. And second, to me, HDTV calibration is the gadget geek's equivalent to chasing the dragon. I've seen endless A/V forum posts of new TV owners begging and pleading for that one true setting for their ...
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Verónica Muñoz said:
Post obligado para los obsesivos con la calidad de imagen y sonido como yo. Calibrar tu televisor HD con el THX Optimizer. Por lo visto, viene con la mayoría de DVDs 'THX Certified', así que podría ser que ya lo tuvieseis en vuestra colección de DVDs. En el post incluye una lista de las películas que lo llevan.
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brianwyrick said:
Good info.
Golden Shellback weatherproof coating now on sale (14)
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We'll be frank -- we had kind of forgotten about the altogether astounding Golden Shellback after seeing it work its magic on video this summer, but now the weatherproof coating is on sale, and it's mighty tempting. For the argonauts out there (or just you clumsy kids) who can't seem to honor the natural separation between gadget and liquid, this coating keeps your precious gizmo safe from the occasional splash of rain, mist, fog, steam ...
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Sandra said:
too bad it was already too late for my iPhone...
My iPhone Is a Mac, My Android Is a PC (51)
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I’ve been using an Android G1 phone for more than a month now on a daily basis, but I still haven’t given up my iPhone. The more I use them both, the more that I realize my iPhone is a Mac and my Android is a PC. That is not necessarily a bad thing—except for when my Android crashes (which is a lot). Okay, it does not actually crash so much as it freezes up, ...
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Alex said:
Picture of a BSOD' Gphone taken from an iPhone
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Seynaeve said:
My iPhone Is a Mac, My Android Is an UNSTABLE LINUX
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Devlin D said:
I find my fiancee's iPhone just as bad. Safari crashes at least once every session. The Facebook app crashes constantly. There was a stretch where it kept dropping her calls. The other day she tried to charge it and for a few hours all she got a black screen with stripes running across it.
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Nikos Kouremenos said:
quite an analogy
Dealmonger: 10X Loupe $2 (1)
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Rings & Things is selling this 10X loupe for $1.90. Loupes help out with close-up magnification when you need both your hands. While this one is hardly a quality loupe, it should work fine for occasional magnification. 10X Loupe [Rings & Things] Street Pricing [Google Products] Via Amazon [What’s This?]
DIY oil change... (5)
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There are many Instructables about changing your oil, but only one starts like this: I learned to do oil changes in high school speech class. One of the boys worked in a garage. He gave a really great how-to demonstration/speech about changing oil. He gave another about rotating tires, but there isn't anything complicated about that. After each speech the teacher had the other students critique the performance. I didn't understand one of the speeches ...
Stephen Fry Slams the BlackBerry Storm [Ouch] (15)
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We have a soft spot for genius comedian-actor-writer-gadget-juggler Stephen Fry here at the Giz. He speaks things as he sees them, as an end user, with his usual wit. Lately he has been playing with a BlackBerry Storm and, like our review, he thinks that it's no you-know-who killer. In fact, he completely smashes it in his condensed Twitter review: Been playing with the BB Storm. Shockingly bad. I mean embarrassingly awful. Such a disappointment. ...
TUAW talks to boxee and brings you invites (10)
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Filed under: iTunes, Open Source, Mac mini, Interviews, TUAW Interview, Beta Beat, Apple TV Happy Thanksgiving! I'm super thankful that I have been able to spend the last 13 months blogging for TUAW and interacting with all of you. On a more superficial note, I am also thankful for my Macs and all the cool stuff Apple products enable me to do. The newest member of my Apple family is the Apple TV. Yesterday, I ...
Rick Astley Does Live Rickroll At Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (11)
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guest post by mikl-em We’re In Your Thanksgiving Parade, Rolling Your Rick As David Crosby said Everybody’s been burned. And okay, maybe not everybody has been Rickrolled, but earlier this year SurveyUSA estimated that 18 Million people in the US have had the video for Rick Astley’s 1987 pop gem Never Gonna Give You Up foisted upon them by a surreptitious href. For anyone who is unfamiliar this phenomenon, I won’t bother explaining. But instead ...
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patrick said:
i love rick astley. he has a great sense of humor.
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dH said:
OMG after this I've started to think about all this rickroll hype was the biggest ever existed viral-marketing for a great comeback... :P
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SharonG said:
ok this is incredibly pathetic.
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Jason said:
I take away three things from this: 1. Internet is now driving pop culture like never before. 2. Rick Astley is really cool to have agreed to do this. 3. Goatse balloons at Macy's parade: it could happen.
Tilt-Shift Video Makes Demolition Derby Look Even Sillier [Special (59)
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This is one of the most amazing pieces of eye candy I've found in a long time: A demolition derby—full of monster trucks, scrap cars, and even a giant Godzilla—filmed with tilt-shift photography, then put together in a time-lapse video. The final effect is extraordinary. If you wonder how something so gigantic and destructive could look so tiny and harmless, the answer is a combination of techniques. One is the use of time-lapse, which makes ...
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nonameplayer said:
soo coooooolllll
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Klemen Verdnik said:
it's like watching the Celebrity Deathmatch
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huixing said:
One is the use of time-lapse, which makes you lose frames and gives motion a jerking quality that helps fooling the brain into thinking that you are watching miniatures.
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Geoff said:
I love tilt-shit photography for some reason. Need to build a lens.
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שאול א said:
לחובבי צילום - זה ממש אבל ממש יוצא מגדר הרגיל
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db said:
This is such an awesome technique. I'm always impressed by the results. This video is no exception!
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rcraswell said:
Pretty cool
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Fred said:
This is cool, but I can handle about one more video of tilt-shift time lapse and then it officially joins the photo novelty graveyard with HDR.
Fizz Saver is Like a Beer Tap...but for Soda Bottles [Kitchen Tech] (20)
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For those of you who have an unhealthy obsession with bar style beer taps, but also want to avoid becoming a functional alcoholic, you might want to check out the Fizz Saver. Basically, you screw the Fizz Saver onto your 2-liter bottle of soda, place the base on a flat surface, and voila—you get a soda dispenser. And as the name implies, it also keeps your soda from going flat (apparently). Since there's no explanation ...
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