Archive for June, 2008
Five Ways To Keep Your Car Running At Peak Fuel Efficiency [Saving Money]
Back in the good ol’ days of $2.50-per-gallon gasoline, you could ignore simple car maintenance. After all, what was it costing you? A buck here and a buck there? But when prices hit the $4 mark, things changed. Now, every cent counts, and you can save a surprising amount of scratch by performing a few [...]
Skype 4.0 Beta Overhauls Video Chat
Windows only: Skype has released an early beta of their 4.0 release for Windows users, and the best word for it is bigger. The client itself is now a full-screen affair, putting your contact list at left and offering all the user options in a big central box. Video calls are both literally bigger, [...]
Twhirl Adds Seesmic
Twhirl and Seesmic owner Loic LeMeur announced this afternoon, as reported by CenterNetwork’s Allen Stern, that Twhirl would now be supporting Seesmic video embeds within the most popular Twitter and FriendFeed client on the web. The download is in somewhat of a limited test mode now, and only available from this download link.
Presently, the extent [...]
Why You Should Carry a Digital Camera At All Times
Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover. This, my friends, is why always having a camera nearby is helpful. Oh, and no one was [...]
Home security with Twitter and a webcam
Shantanu Goel created a cool home security tool using Twitter and a linux application called Motion, a program that will monitor a webcam looking for differences between frames.
When Motion detects movement, it archives a photo of the event and has the option of triggering an external script. Shantanu combined this with a simple curl command [...]
Three Reader Gadget Pegboard Mounts [Tip Testers]
One of the most popular DIY projects we’ve ever posted is the Pegboard Gadget Mount—a cheap and easy way to organize your gadgets and cords and get them out of sight. Lots of readers have taken the original suggestion and did it in their own offices and under their own desks. After the jump, [...]
