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Awesome April 4, 2008 posted by
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Meet the Casting Directors – so you think all these YouTube celebs are real?

Meet the Casting Directors. It’s Friday, and if you have time, you really should go grab a coffee, kick back with your shoes off and indulge yourself with this oh so funny video trilogy from New York playwright Jeff Whitty. It’s a genius work. Jeff and Jenn Blimpkin, I salute you! [Language most definitely NSFW!] Part Two. Part Three. Tags: meet+the+casting+directors, video, youtube, youtube+celebrities


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Awesome April 2, 2008 posted by
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Drop.io – awesome new online share engine adds speed privacy and innovation to file sharing

Drop.io. On the face of it, this new service looks like just another file sharing service, but don’t be fooled, peeps. Under the hood, the developers have thrown together a bunch of very cool tools which make this a very cool application indeed and way way beyond just file sharing.  For starters it’s instant to use, if you just want to share a file fast with someone without sending it via email or FTP. Just give the share (aka a drop)…


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Awesome April 1, 2008 posted by
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Sola Unagi Solar Generator – handheld solar power station charges 20 phones at a time

Sola Unagi Solar Generator. This 10kg power house of a solar carry-on can store enough juice in its internal battery packs to run a laptop for up to 6 hours, a small fridge for 4 hours and charge up 20 mobile phones at a time. It’s a Fuji Technologies design [PDF] and at just $1360.00 a pop, looks like it’s a tech box whose time has come.  In comparison with a gasoline generator, SOLAR UNAGI only weighs half of it at 10kgs,…


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Awesome March 31, 2008 posted by
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The Music Collection Generator – five tools for creating a great free music collection

The music industry wants to tax us for using our Internet connection? How quaint. Wasn’t there a protest about that sort of thing a while back? Oh yes, ‘no taxation without representation.’ That’s it. Anyhoo, while they’re trying desperately to retrieve a dead and gone business model, teh internets is moving on apace as ever. Here’s a set of tools which are perfect for building (or recreating even) your perfect music collection. First off you’ll need the most excellent Orbit Downloader. This freeware program…


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Awesome March 29, 2008 posted by
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Dean Kamen’s Slingshot water purifier and Stirling generator tech – low cost water and power for the developing world

Dean Kamen has unveiled the latest iteration of his power and water package for the third world. The two components are a water purifier called Slingshot that uses a fraction of the power of alternatives and a Stirling engine based power generator that works on cow dung. The $1500 water purifier will produce 1000 liters of water a day, while the $3,700 generator produces around 1 kW, which is enough to deliver light to a small village. The two products…


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Awesome March 25, 2008 posted by
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Network Magic – at last an awesomely easy way to manage your home wireless network

Network Magic is one of those software products that is quite simply a game changer. Install it on your home computers and instantly gain the power to configure, test and use all of the wireless components in your network area. Thinking about getting a wireless printer? Forget it, just install this on a computer which is hooked up to a printer and you’ll give every machine in the house (or office) access to that printer. Sure you can do this…


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Awesome March 21, 2008 posted by
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Slicethepie – or how to bind the fan and artist ever closer together and make money

Slicethepie. I’ve been banging on about Sellaband for a while now, but I’ve got to say that this effort knocks it out of the park. Again it’s a new style artist label community play, but with some lovely features and significant differences to the Sellaband model. For a start, this bunch don’t take away the artists publishing or copyright (Sellaband take away the publishing rights on every track they help produce). It’s a smallish point, but important. Secondly, the interaction and…


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Awesome March 14, 2008 posted by
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Flight Stats – awesome travellers tool helps improve your journey experience in every way

Flight Stats is one awesome flying resource for anyone who travels, and even those who stay at home. Before you go you can check up on flight status, airport delays and weather and even get airport tips and performance ratings to give you a head start on the crowds. Once you’re en-route, your flight can be tracked in real time and those meeting you can plan their pickup down to the last second by getting alerts sent via SMS to…


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Awesome March 13, 2008 posted by
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Google Ad Manager – 600 pound gorilla stretches, yawns, advertising forest quakes in terror

Google Ad Manager. Hot on the heels of the Doubleclick acquisition announcement, we get news that Google is testing their new display advertising engine for delivering direct client ads on your website. That’s incredible news and it’s astounding that they’ve moved so fast to re-package the Doubleclick tech. If Google can do for display ads what they did for text ads with Adsense/Adwords, then it could revolutionise the World Wide Web. Really! Why? It integrates completely with Adsense. If you don’t have any banner ads…


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Awesome March 12, 2008 posted by
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Crayon Physics – oooooooooh!

Crayon Physics. Petri Purho’s innovative game prototype is so much fun that it’s…well…beyond. There’s a full-on commercial version called Crayon Physics Deluxe coming. Oh my giddy feet.  You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects. With left mouse button you can draw and with right you can remove objects. Tags: crayon+physics, game, freeware


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Awesome March 6, 2008 posted by
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Phun – awesome physics play box may devour hours of your life

Phun. 2D Physics Sandbox. Warning Advisory: don’t download this software unless you have time to spare. Especially don’t download this if you are in any way attracted to gravity, random shapes, puzzles, physics experimentation and other such pastimes. Video.  Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction. Tags: phun, physics+game, freeware


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Awesome March 4, 2008 posted by
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Sun Times – super cool freeware plots climate, aviation and astronomical movements

Sun Times is a very cool freeware program which provides more information than you’re ever going to need on sunrise/sunset times, climate averages and global flight schedules and routes. The data is constantly updated and you can run cool time based animations to view astronomical movements and temperature changes for just about every place on earth. The maps are a little crude, and the interface takes some getting used to, but the lush dataset more than makes up for it. This…


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Awesome February 27, 2008 posted by
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EA Sims Online goes free of charge – classic multiplayer game gets freeware play mode

Sims Online Free. Ooh, Electronic Arts has released a free version of the classic Sims Online game. If you’ve been living on Mars for a while, The Sims is one of the biggest game franchises on the planet, and the online version, which used to cost $9.99 a month, was notable for some pretty cool visuals and unique gameplay. Well the developers have now re-jigged the code, updated it all and re-released it in both free and pay to play versions. The pay per…


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Awesome February 22, 2008 posted by
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Try this. Go to Google and enter ‘mofo’ as a search term. First result? Giggle! (er..maybe they should consider a domain name change?) Tags: humor, google+search, mofo


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Awesome February 18, 2008 posted by
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Picture Placer – genius product revolutionises the chore of hanging your pictures

Picture Placer. What an absolute gem of a product. Hook this super simple gizmo onto the picture wire on your frame, push to mark the spot on the wall, bang the nail in and bingo, a perfect position every time. Even when hanging multiple frames in alignment. It’s a stupid job that always takes far longer than it should, which makes this thing just perfect. Watch the video. It’s not going to get rid of Uncertain Uma or Dithering Dave, but nevertheless…


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