Monthly Archives: July 2002

general July 14, 2002 posted by

PDA battery saver

The Belkin Penlight Stylus is a $9.99 doobry which combines a tiny LED torch (aka flashlight) with a PDA stylus. So instead of using the backlight on your Palm, for instance, you can use the stylus light to illuminate the PDA screen and save precious battery life. Geddit?

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USB without the PC

The new USB to Go specification is designed to let devices talk together down a USB cable without having to insert a PC into the chain. Think digital cameras hooking up to mobile phones or printers directly, that sort of thing. It’s a supplement to the USB 2.0 spec, and of course is sort of a competitor to things like Bluetooth and Firewire, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

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New open source multimedia standard

On2 and Vorbis have announced an agreement to deliver a full open source suite of products for delivering compressed audio and video. This is another shot across the bows for the established codec owners like Apple, Microsoft and Real and should provide a neat alternative to things like MPEG4.

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The Infinite Light

The Infinite Light from those rather stylish Swedish people at Snowcrash is a ‘virtual’ light source. OK, since you asked, it’s a video of a light that you playback onto a screen via a projector or TV. Very strange these Nordic folk!

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Internet radio a go-go

The recent CARP ruling which appears to ruin the chances of commercial Internet radio ever reaching its full potential, seems to have spurred a rash of new alternative resources. In fact it looks as though the CARP fiasco could be yet another own goal by those strange folks at the RIAA. * Exhibit One: Peercast is an open source P2P broadcasting service which uses the Gnutella network to distribute audio streams to whoever wants to tune in. * Exhibit Two:…

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The Bill of Rights – Security Edition

The US Bill of Rights printed on pocket sized bits of metal. Why? ‘The next time you travel by air, take the Security Edition of the Bill of Rights along with you. When asked to empty your pockets, proudly toss the Bill of Rights in the plastic bin. You need to get used to offering up the bill of rights for inspection and government workers need to get used to deciding if you’ll be allowed to keep the Bill of…

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The Hints and Tips site

Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. The Hints and Tips site is a sort of mini-portal which contains nothing more than reader submitted hints and tips on all sorts of topics. And sometimes with witty editorial additions. Nice.

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general July 13, 2002 posted by

Whois Report

The Whois Report lets you search for domain names using a whole load of clever criteria. This means that you can also search for expired names as well as cleverly constructed names with prefixes and suffixes galore.

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404 heaven!

I love it! The 404 Research Lab, a site dedicated to the humble but glorious 404 Site Not Found message. Links to the best and funniest ones, how to do your own, and tips and tricks. Unmissable.

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Fancy a break?

Tired of trekking down to the same old resort every year for your holidays? Want to spice things up a bit? Then how about the Thrillseekers Stunt Experience vacation of a lifetime? This 5 day fun packed blah…. And…er…good luck.

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Pathintosh

From the ‘too much time on their hands’ dept. This fellow has embedded an Apple PowerBook laptop into his Nissan SUV. But properly, none of that duct tape and black paint nonsense. And these folks at Q-PC install this kind of stuff in all kinds of vehicles for a living.

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Transl8t It!

Transl8t It! could prove a boon for those poor unfortunates who have trouble understanding SMS text speak. Or even those who want to get ‘in with the crwd’. Enter in the English and out comes txt, or vice versa. And whle wr on the sbject, LeetSpeak.com is yet another Web based l337 translator, but it’s nicely done nonetheless. L8R. Update: And if you really really want to out-geek the geeks, you’ll need to talk binary using the Binary Converter* –…

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