CleVR is a very cool way to create groovy interactive panoramas out of your photos. It’s all done online – just upload the separate images you want to stitch together – and you can also share them with others, which is neat. Oh and the whole thing is free, free, free. As in bird. CleVR is a seriously easy way of creating and sharing panoramic photos. It not only helps you create stunning panoramas, but it also lets you turn them…
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Teacher James – teach or learn English online
Teacher James is a pretty cool new service which brings together English teachers and potential students via video resumes, availability calendars and profiles and webcam based tuition. There’s even a space for student reviews. Great way to offer global language tuition in an efficient way. Teacher James, unlike other online tutoring programs, simulates a Face-to-Face Teacher/Student setting over the internet. The e-English interface is specially designed for those who have an internet connection and a webcam, to take English lessons…
Read MoreJumbo Universal Remote – big friendly buttons
The Innovage Jumbo Universal Remote comes with large soft-touch buttons and enough smarts to control up to four different A/V devices. Not all at once, of course you understand. That would be difficult and perhaps rather noisy. No, we’re talking a linear service here. One device at a time. Think you can live with that? £14.99. The Jumbo Remote by Innovage presents a solution to several common problems. You can replace all your existing remotes with one easy to use handset…
Read MoreFED Phone Charger – the uber versatile power pod
The FED Charger is a multi-model mobile phone charger which looks like it could be pretty useful if you have many different handsets in your home. The device copes with Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry and Mini USB (Motorola) straight off, and the addition of connectors lets you charge up other makes like LG too. There’s even connectors for iPod, PSP and other handheld toys. €17.50. Tags: fed, phone+charger
Read MoreJonny Glow Toilet Locator – find that pan fast in the dark
The Jonny Glow Toilet Locator uses no electricity, batteries or hidden magic sauce to help you hit the toilet pan accurately. Instead it relies on good ole glow in the dark stick-on strips. Your family will thank you. As will your slippers. $11.99. JONNY GLOW is uniquely designed to “help you see where you are going” in the middle of the night. Once applied to your toilet, the glow-in-the-dark strips of JONNY GLOW will help you to accurately use the…
Read MoreIron Radio Alarm Clock – wrinkle free smooth sounds
Give your other half an Iron Radio Alarm Clock for their birthday and watch their eyes light up. No honestly, it’ll work. Especially when they get to play with the iPod dock socket shaped like a plug. $24.00. Iron Radio Alarm Clock functions as a speaker as well. Tags: iron+clock+radio, alarm+clock
Read MoreByteSense – track your Adsense earnings trend
Robin sends me news of his ByteSense tool for tracking and charting your Adsense earnings over time. Just upload the relevant Adsense report and get an instant reading on whether you can afford that new yacht. Or just a Snickers. The thin grey line is a plot of your average daily earnings. This allows you to relate the predictions to reality. This line has been smoothed over the week to reduce any highly erratic days. The 300 & 150 Moving Averages (MA)…
Read MoreMpire Shopping Companion – browser plugin for instant price checks
The free Mpire Shopping Companion provides an instant price comparison in your browser window while you’re doing online shopping. It’s available as a plugin for Firefox or IE7 and actually works as advertised. Of course it doesn’t handle every store or every product, but it’s still a pretty neat way of checking around to see whether you’re getting the best bargain. How long before online stores start blocking it, I wonder? While shopping your favorite online stores, the Mpire shopping companion gives…
Read MoreMobigator – Skype calls redirected to your mobile for free-ish
The Mobigator transfers incoming home or office Skype calls to your mobile phone for free (as long as you’ve got a family mobile call plan) via an internal SIM card. The Skype call arrives, the device calls out to your mobile via its internal SIM and you chat with the caller using the link-up. The Pro version lets you direct calls to multiple mobile phones in an office scenario. £185.99. MobiGater is a device which transfers your Skype calls to your mobile…
Read MoreAK47 Walkie Talkie Phone – retro freedom fighters only please
The AK-47 Walkie-Talkie Phone. Yep, you’ve guessed it, a normal dual band GSM mobile phone built to resemble a yesteryear walkie talkie handset. In Chinese livery. With an integrated 2 megapixel camera and MP3 player. Oh and did we mention that it actually functions as a walkie talkie too? Urban grunt style doesn’t get any better than this, does it? $225.00. Vibrating Alert, Games, Long Standby Time, Walkie-talkie! Indepent walkie-talkie system and phone system. Separate system for power switch, conversation,…
Read MoreMouse Jiggler – keep your computer alive
The Mouse Jiggler stops your computer going to sleep or the screensaver triggering. Offered in a fast or slow version for $29.95. Words fail. Computer Forensics Investigators use Mouse Jiggler to prevent password dialog boxes due to screen savers or sleep mode. IT Professionals use Mouse Jiggler to prevent password dialog boxes due to screen savers or sleep mode after an employee is terminated and they need to maintain access to a computer. IT professionals or office workers use Mouse…
Read MoreDIY Russian Camera – Nikon dreadfully worried
This DIY Russian camera is apparently made out of two matchboxes and a beer can. There’s photos too, so it works. Man, I’ll never look at a Canon EOS the same way again. Tags: diy, camera, photography
Read MoreBluebottle Freemail – spam fighting service
Bluebottle bills itself as a free anti-spam email service, which is clearly a good thing. Works with opt-in verification though (unknown emails are challenged before being released to your inbox) which makes it a bit kludgier than normal. Still worth keeping a note just in case you get swamped. Bluebottle is easy to use. When Bluebottle receives an email from an address or domain not on your ‘Allowed’ list, a verification request is sent asking the sender to verify themselves…
Read MoreOctoshape – video streaming rival arrives Joost in time
Octoshape is a Joost rival which is gaining visibility without all the hype. Developed by a couple of Danish university uber-geek professors, the system uses a tech they call Grid-Casting (which looks a lot like BitTorrent in structure) to stream scalable video out of the door. As I said before, I don’t think that Joost is necessarily a shoe-in to own this market, take a look at the Egmont movie trailer channel to get an idea of the potential Octoshape…
Read MoreFuture Toilet – top up tinkles
The Future Toilet. UK design team come up with toilet seat that raises up with a lever push and comes down automatically when the toilet is flushed. Ladies across the Western world cry out with joy and happiness. Men giggle with embarrassment. £350.00 on eBay. [Video] This problem, which is as old as the toilet itself, has been solved by a company based in North London who have invented a toilet with a lever to lift the seat and cover…
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