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Awesome September 17, 2008 posted by

Ubiquity – the awesome web task engine for Firefox

I’ve been playing with Mozilla’s new free Ubiquity plugin for Firefox and it’s fab. It basically provides instant access to a whole bunch of web applications and other useful tools via a really easy to use command line interface. Now don’t get scared, it’s really really easy to use and incredibly flexible. To access the proglet you hit CTRL key and spacebar together, and up pops a small box waiting for your instructions. There are 50 commands in existence right…


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Awesome September 15, 2008 posted by

Snappages – free online website creator goes all beautiful Web 2.0 on our heads…

Snappages is a gorgeous free online website creator and editor, which goes waaaay beyond your conventional services by offering some really cool editing features, so you can actually create sites that look….gasp….modern and hip. The editor is clean and simple, and although the developer has deliberately restricted the amount of customisation you can do in order to keep things under control, there are enough variations to keep most people happy. I especially liked the ability to customise a theme separately to…


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Awesome September 11, 2008 posted by

Opentape – free open source tool to create your own online mixtapes

Opentape is a free open source package to allow anyone to create their own version of the currently defunct Muxtape online mixtape application. Download the software, unzip and then upload the files to your own webserver and you’re good to go. Your own personal playlist creator. You’ll need to upload your choice of legally owned MP3 music of course, but that’s part of the fun isn’t it? The interface is spartan but very usable, and there’s all the functionality you’ll need,…


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Awesome September 5, 2008 posted by

The Eclipse 400 – zoom zoom ZOOM

I don’t usually call inanimate objects pretty but one look at the Eclipse 400 and I was hooked. This must be one of the prettiest planes I’ve seen for quite a while and I’m not really a plane person. Designed by Eclipse Aviation as a business/sport plane, the Eclipse 400 is a single engine, V-tail jet aircraft. The things is, it’s a sports plane so it’s not very big. In fact it can only carry 3 people plus the driver…


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The Eclipse 400 – zoom zoom ZOOM
Awesome September 3, 2008 posted by

Weather Watcher – turn your computer into a superb weather station

If you’re into weather, then you’re going to love love love Weather Watcher. We’re talking a beautifully arranged and fully featured Windows freeware application which delivers everything you’ll need for tracking your weather forecasts of choice (apart from 100% certainty of course). The main feature is the at a glance city forecast which covers all the important bits in a great interface. You can track by hour or via the 9 day tab, along with a barometer and wind tracker….


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Weather Watcher – turn your computer into a superb weather station
Awesome August 28, 2008 posted by

Fonolo – declaring war on automated phone menus

Canadian startup Fonolo have declared war on automated phone menus, or as they call them “phone trees”. Fonolo’s proprietary investigation system spiders through all the available options in a phone menu, records all the options and turns them into a visible menu system displayed in a web browser. To use a company phone menu you simply go to the Fonolo website, select the company phone menu you need and find the right option on the graphical menu. You then tell…


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Awesome August 4, 2008 posted by

Watercone gets funding – yay for the good guys…

We featured the very cool Watercone low cost water purifier and desalination device a while back, saddened by the lack of any investment to get this to commercial production. Well, the good news is the announcement of a partner – Tinox GmbH from Munich – who’ve agreed to start mass production and worldwide distribution later this year. Oh and it’s won some awards along the way too. Excellent!  The Watercone is a solar powered water desalinator that takes salt or brackish water…


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Awesome July 31, 2008 posted by

Yamaha DGC1M4 Disklavier Mark IV Grand Piano – the piano that thinks it’s a computer

The new Yamaha DGC1M4 Disklavier Mark IV Grand Piano is a piano in the same way that a space shuttle is a crop duster. Yeah sure, it makes reassuringly nice grand piano sounds when you plink the keys, but does your aging honky-tonk in the basement feature: Direct Internet connection for streaming music from the web to your keys. Pocket Remote Control touchscreen PDA with wireless LAN card for song control. Karaoke player with microphone input Integrated piano teacher (with auto-follow accompaniment)…


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Awesome July 21, 2008 posted by

Westfalia Verdier Solar Powered Camper – awesome camper concept needs to get made

This awesome Westfalia Verdier Camper is a concept product that has yet to see production as far as we can tell. It comes with some fabulous features, and lots of hybrid drive technology and solar power loveliness. It’s Canadian, sleeps two adults and two kids and will cost around $69,000 a pop if/when it ever touches asphalt.  A system of intelligent solar panels called ” SUN TRACKER “. This system makes it possible to provide electricity to the on-board accessories while the vehicle is…


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Awesome July 16, 2008 posted by

The Periodic Table of Videos – video brings dusty science to life in super charming style

The Periodic Table of Videos is so wonderful it’s not true. Ostensibly an initiative from the University of Nottingham in the UK, it has either deliberately or unwittingly delivered to us all a new superstar in the tradition of the greatest of Internet characters. Professor Martyn Poliakoff, CBE, sir you fit the picture of a Hollywood boffin in to an absolute T, but clearly you’re the real deal. Check out a few of the videos (for example the Iron one (Fe) or even the…


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Awesome July 14, 2008 posted by

Post-A-Note Pen – perfect solution for the memory challenged note taker

The Post-A-Note Pen comes with its own supply of self-adhesive notes, which means you’ll never have to scrabble around for a piece of paper when you’re trying to grab their phone number in an emergency. The retro touch is quite nice too, all that fiddling around with your phone, trying to get the numbers into your contacts is so…like…clumsy, isn’t it? Anyway it’s £19.95 and don’t ask the price of the refill cartridges.  Ever wished you had a piece of paper…


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Awesome July 14, 2008 posted by

TheWorld Browser – superb new web browser defines new era in software development?

TheWorld Browser is a freeware web browser from software developers Phoenix Studio. Ho-hum I hear you say. Yeah well get this. It runs off the Internet Explorer engine, fits into a 566 KB file (!) available in either standard or no install versions and is about 3 times as fast as Firefox or *any other browser* I’ve ever used. What’s really astonishing is the fact that it is fully featured, no cut down compromises here. Tabbed interface with sophisticated and…


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Awesome July 11, 2008 posted by

Hands on with the Nokia N82 – the next generation super phone

I’ve been playing with the Nokia N82 Symbian powered smartphone for the past few weeks, and I’ve got to say that this is a gorgeous piece of equipment all round. Regular readers will know I’m an unabashed Nokia fan, so the previous statement is probably no surprise, but even taking into account my obvious pathetic bias, this is quite a beast in many glorious ways.


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Awesome July 10, 2008 posted by

The Pencil Project – brilliant free Firefox add-on turns the browser into a full blown sketching tool

The Pencil Project is a brilliant example of just how powerful the Firefox platform has become in terms of adding high value applications to the web browser. This free Open Source add-on turns Firefox into a fully featured sketching and diagraming application which can be used for anything from prototyping and wireframing web designs to producing org charts and other business style stuff.   Once installed you just fire it up and you’re in the application, complete with common template…


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