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Bookmark This! July 2, 2008 posted by

Corlive Messaging Service – new web messaging service for those fed up with unreliable spammy

The Corlive Messaging Service is a free web based alternative to email which takes the shape of an online message form. Instead of giving people your email address, you give them the address of your message form (e.g. http://corlive.com/nigel ) from where they can send you a message directly by just typing the text in. Each account holder gets their own account page with a dashboard from which they can read and send messages as well as manage a rudimentary contact address…


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Bookmark This! July 1, 2008 posted by

UnoCycle – innovative and dangerous looking electric bike…or is that ike?

The UnoCycle is a cleverly designed electric vehicle – can’t really call it a bike can we? – which works on the same kind of gyroscopic principles of the Segway. We didn’t feature it first time round because we weren’t sure whether it would ever get anywhere, but now it looks as though it might be gaining investment interest (who said oil at $140 a barrel had no silver lining eh?) Anyway, nice as it looks, you won’t mind if…


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Bookmark This! June 30, 2008 posted by

FontStruct – create and share your own fonts for free

FonStruct is a free online font building tool. You create the font, and the service then turns it into a ‘high-quality TrueType font’ ready for Mac or Windows. You’re also encouraged to share the results of your brilliant genius via an online gallery which features tags, voting and intelligent categorisation. It’s all rather cool, although I must say that typography and font creation in general are not easy crafts, and usually amateur results are fairly average. But if you’re a font-master…


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hmm..interesting June 30, 2008 posted by

WireWize – online help with setting up your home theater system

WireWize is a new service designed to help people get their home audio/visual systems working. Yep that’s right, the home theater and A/V makers have produced such a disgustingly complicated mess of connectivity in their systems that someone figures they can actually make money out of the confusion. What a great advert for the marketplace eh? You can sort of understand it with computers, but Hi-Fi and television? Sheesh! Anyhoo, the service helps out with cable choice, hookup instructions and optimisation…


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hmm..interesting June 27, 2008 posted by

Massive Yahoo! domain name price rise – is it to pay for the lawyers?

Wow, a friend just received a notification from Yahoo!. They’re raising the annual price of their domain name registration from $9.95 to $34.95 a year from next month? Really? Wow, they must be in more trouble than I thought. What a clever move. Not. And so elegantly delivered too, via a last minute single sentence in a renewal email. The way they’ve taken the care to inform their customers, explain to them why the price rise, reiterate the value for money, offer something for their client’s…


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Bookmark This! June 23, 2008 posted by

RSSVoyage – the mouse wheel RSS reader

RSSVoyage is a Flash based RSS reader which operates solely through the mouse. Swipe the rodent right and left on the desk to access random material from your feeds, and twirl the mouse wheel to dive back into the deeply nostalgic timeline of news from up to 2 days ago. You can add your own feeds as you wish, but don’t expect a lot of customisation options, because there aren’t any. Nevertheless it’s kinda cool. [Thanks Dan] Tags: rssvoyager, rss+reader, online+application


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cool tech June 21, 2008 posted by

Terrafugia Transition – the ‘roadable’ aircraft

The Terrafugia Transition is a plane that thinks it’s a car. Or vice versa. Interesting factoids for ya. They’re estimating a final price of $148,000, first production late 2009, cruise speed 115mph, range 460 miles, gas consumption 23 mpg, reverse gear, two seats and ethanol capable. So a Porsche it ain’t, but think of the glee as you fly over the I-95 donkeys on a damp Monday morning.  How will the Transition handle on the ground and in the air?…


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Bookmark This! June 19, 2008 posted by

Old Magazine Articles – delicious selection of old public domain magazines archived for our enjoyment

Old Magazine Articles is a PDF collection of wonderfully nostalgic magazines that have been lovingly scanned and indexed by Matt Jacobsen for our enjoyment. It’s an eclectic mix, ranging from World War I to silent movies, but the real pleasure comes not so much from the subject matter as from the voyeuristic glimpse into another age. Perfect browsing for a rainy Sunday.  OldMagazineArticles.com is a private undertaking and the effort of one old magazine enthusiast in particular who believes deeply that…


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Gadgets June 13, 2008 posted by

Sqish Satellite Aerial – now you see it, now you….

The Sqish Satellite Aerial is a little bit different. For one it comes with an optional Sqishoflage sticker. Send them a photo of your wall or other place where you’re going to attach the thing and the company will create a sticker which will hide it from fussy neighbours. Plus it doesn’t look like a boring grey dish, it’s more like a boring square thingie. From £149.00. [Thanks Dan]  You can make your Sqish even more discreet by adding a sqishoflage…


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hmm..interesting June 5, 2008 posted by

EcoSpeed – high performance electric bicycle kit

EcoSpeed. Range up to 100 miles, cruise speeds of 20 – 25 mph, burst speeds up to 40 mph with wind aid.  With the EcoSpeed EMD, a recumbent bike has enough performance to match a car in around town driving. That means you can forget about high gas prices — you can go over 500 miles on a dollars worth of electricity. That’s even up to 20 times better than an electric car or gas scooter. Electric bikes are legally bikes…


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cool tech June 4, 2008 posted by

NVIDIA Tegra – all day portable computing on its way at last?

The new Nvidia Tegra ‘Computer on a Chip’ is very interesting for a number of reasons. First, it is very small (smaller than a US dime coin), second it uses less than a tenth of the power of equivalent power chipsets. This means that we could be close to seeing real live all-day portable computing on a single battery charge. Which would be superb. They’re talking 130 hours audio and 30 hours HD video playback, direct support for WiFi, 1080p…


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cool tech June 3, 2008 posted by

Hongdou E-Car 2 – who hid the electric cars?

The HongDou E-Car looks like a very interesting product. Four seater, 800kg weight, 60kph, range 200 km. Price unknown, batteries lead-acid (i.e. cheap). Oh and it appears to come with ‘normal/luxury sounds’. Huh? More here. What I want to know is, where are these products going? Are they for sale, who’s buying? Why are there not more small distance runabouts like this on the road for short shopping trip stuff? Answers on an oily rag please, to…. Tags: hongdou+e-car2, electric+car,…


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Bookmark This! May 21, 2008 posted by

BookRabbit – a new kind of online bookstore and social network

BookRabbit. Well it had to come and now it has, a socially networked online bookstore with all the trimmings and none of the dusty shelves stuff. The idea is to bring together people’s love of books, with an innovative categorisation system and lots of social discourse. The site is crammed with Web 2.0 type loveliness, from the slots for video reviews, to reader reviews and a fab ‘meet the author’ feature. One unique feature is the ability to upload a photo…


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hmm..interesting May 21, 2008 posted by

Amazon faces class action suit over print on demand demands – printers miffed

A new class action suit against Amazon alleging anti-trust violations has just been filed over the company’s requirement that print on demand publishers use its in-house service BookSurge. Hmm…getting sued by your constituency is not great business practice, wonder if they’ll work that out sooner rather than later?  Amazon’s March announcement that POD publishers would be required to use Amazon’s own POD service BookSurge in order to sell books directly on Amazon’s site predictably rubbed quite a few folks the wrong way. (Technically speaking,…


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hmm..interesting May 16, 2008 posted by

Shopping Notes – yet another price drop site pops into our handbag…

ShoppingNotes is yet another service offering to send you email alerts when a product you want drops into your desired price range. It’s a sure sign of the straightened economic times when all these similar services pop up offering cheap product hunting.  We are the first ever web site that combines shopping bookmark with price watch that works with any product URLs. If you are a shopper, ShoppingNotes.com not only helps you organize all your shopping information, but also brings you significant savings with our…


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