The ioSafe Solo External Hard Drive
This external HD, in 500 GB, 1TB or 1.5TB, is fireproof for 30 minutes at 1550o F and can stand submerged in 10′ water for 3 days. It comes with a 3 year disaster recovery plan, and is priced fairly reasonably.
Month: January 2009
The Solvatten solar powered water purifier.
It takes around 4 – 8 hours to purify a full one, but it’s less resource intense than boiling the water.
iPhone for Enterprise
The iphone for enterprise tools are here. They allow you to set passwords of larger than 4 digits (with alphanumerics) and assign profiles to devices. Quite a neat toolkit.
OV Chipkaart – following the Dutch
The OV chipcard is something like London’s Oyster cards. They allow people to use busses, trams and trains all over the country. One of the problems though, is that the Dutch public transport system isn’t nationalised, it’s privatised, meaning there are loads of different companies all over the country. Anyway, it turns out that not Read more about OV Chipkaart – following the Dutch[…]
TiltShiftMaker
Photography: TiltShiftMaker Turns Your Photos Into Miniature Sets Upload a photo and it’ll alter the picture so that it looks like the front lens is at an angle instead of parallel to the rear lens in the casing.
TrueMotion
TrueMotion is a Wii controller by Sixense which is way way better than the actual Wii controller because it has a much more accurate way of determining where the stick is in space. So they’re releasing it for the PC at around $100,- with a game.
Disney Star Guitarist
This works a bit like guitar hero, but with strings you can put on your own real guitar and plug into the PC / Mac. So you learn how to play a real guitar, one that will work even when you’re not plugged into the PC.
Green Energy: Kinesis K2 Puts Solar and Wind Charging Power In a Handheld Unit
Very usefull if you’re an outdoors type of person who does like his gadgets:
JVC intros KDX-AV77 touchscreen car head unit
Not being a fan of taking the control panel off your radio every time you leave the car, I used to have a Sony with a blank face, which swivelled when you wanted to use the controls. This JVC is fully touch screen, allowing the same functionality.
Has Palm done it?
The new Palm Pre looks very awesome: smaller than an iphone, slideable keyboard (I love that keyboard, it’s very very good) and an OS which seems slicker than Apple’s. Other than that it seems to have all the prerequisite bits and bobs, such as wifi, gprs, reasonabley poor camera, gps, bluetooth, 480×320 display. Contact management Read more about Has Palm done it?[…]
Windows Tip: Boost Performance by Checking IDE Drive Transfer Mode
If you’re struggling with decreased performance on a Windows based machine, it’s a simple fix to check to make sure your IDE drives aren’t operating in a slower, ineffective transfer mode. When fresh from the box—or your workbench— your computer should have had all it’s IDE drives set in Direct Memory Access mode. This is Read more about Windows Tip: Boost Performance by Checking IDE Drive Transfer Mode[…]
OQO Model 2
This thing is totally awesome: a UPMP the size of a phone with a touchscreen, sliding qwerty keyboard with 3G in it. At $1500 the price isn’t too bad either.
Mouseless
This Firefox extension adds numbers to every link on a site. Pressing ctrl + the number opens that link.
The R Project for Statistical Computing
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics […] R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides Read more about The R Project for Statistical Computing[…]
Real View 3D scanner
This machine will take a 3D object on a turntable and scan it in 3D
Datto’s Box 2 Box
This drive uses P2P technology to back up your drives synchronysly anywhere on the planet. Sounds good, but you do need to have 2 of these drives. They’re made to sync to each other. It won’t plug in to your existing NAS automagically. Your source drive would need some way of identifying and sending the Read more about Datto’s Box 2 Box[…]
Shazam
Shazam allows you to identify any tune you hear through your iphone speakers.
Trash powered cars
Here’s a howto on converting your car to run on trash, using fairly simple technologies.
Asus Eee keyboard
It’s a full size keyboard. With a touchscreen. And a whole PC inside it. With loads of ports on it. Now you just need a roll up screen to carry it in and you’re superportable!
Install-It
Featured Windows Download: Install-It Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications. Very simple to use and set up.
Disable Startup
This program takes around 4MB space but saves it later. Whenever a program wants to add itself as a startup program, this gives you the option of allowing or disallowing it. This means no more unwanted adobe crap starting up with your PC.
Quickoffice MobileFiles Pro
This allows for editing of office (word / excel / powerpoint) files on the iphone / ipod
Pocket Informant
For my agenda I’m a firm believer in the week view. I want it to look just like an old fashioned paper agenda. This seems to be quite difficult for some reason, as there are very very few apps on the PC or Windows Mobile that can do this. Pocket informant looks like it has Read more about Pocket Informant[…]
JPG Magazine
JPG Magazine is a crowd sourcing art experiment: they let people submit and vote on the pictures that would be printed in the bi-monthly issue. The results were a vibrant, colourfull amateur(ish) photography magazine. Unfortunately the venture has had to close down, but they have all their issues for free online so you can still Read more about JPG Magazine[…]
Stanza
This turns your ipod touch into an ebook reader. It has sources to free books (such as Project Guthenburg) and also allows you to buy commercial books for around $8 – $10.