John Watson’s Writer is just beautiful. A simple, no frills, yet perfectly useful online word-processor done in the green screen format of old. It’s even got a word count and spell checker for goodness sake. Oh and I’ve just noticed that you can change the text colour – amber, grey, lots of choices. Wow, lovely. Tags: writer, online+application, word+processor
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40 Hard Drive Tools – diagnose your disk ad nauseum
Here’s a list of more hard disk tools and utilities than you can shake a stick at. Diagnose, test and verify at will. Pretty cool candidate for a bookmark. Tags: hard+disk+tools, software, disk+diagnosis
Read MoreVirtual Photographer – free Photoshop plugin for image effects
Virtual Photographer. A freeware plugin for Photoshop and compatibles which gives you a range of image effects for your photos, ranging from different film stock looks to colorisation. Pretty neat all round. virtualPhotographer lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images, with just one click. virtualPhotographer includes over 50 presets that automatically apply combinations of film grain, color modification, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many artistic effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that…
Read MoreArchport Classic – the sneaker safe
The ArchPort Classic is a sneaker with a secret stash ‘wallet cartridge’. Perfect for hiding your…ahem…stuff while you’re working out or kicking back, or whatever else grabs your fancy. Don’t go thinking you’ll be able to store your Faberge eggs in there though, will ya? It’s only got room for 3 credit cards and a few Benjamins. $79.95. [Via Smartstuff] ArchPort is a new and innovative technology that incorporates a patented wallet cartridge into the shoe sole. The Archport Urban…
Read More1 GB OLED Leather Band Digital Wristwatch – retro modern multimedia
The 1 GB OLED Digital Wristwatch comes with a very olde worlde leather strap, so you can pretend that you’re olde school, when in fact you’re nothing more than a petit-bourgeois poser of the worst kind. Of course that won’t stop you from impressing the locals with photos of your ex in glorious 1.5” full colour tiny-vision. An hour and a half charge will give you up to 8 hours playback, enough to bore the pants off everyone in the village….
Read MoreCat Cable Clips – meeow the master untangler
The Cat Cable Clip is a suction cup based cable tidy system that’s designed to bring a smile to your face at the same time. Comes in a set of three, and will organise anything from power to Firewire cables, although the suction cups might struggle with heavyweight wires. $3.99. Ani cable clips come with a set of three animal clips to organize your desktop. Use your cable clips to hold several cables together neatly, eliminating cable clutter from your…
Read MoreCumulate Draw – Open Source online drawing application
Cumulate Draw is an Open Source drawing application. You can either use it online (on an ad supported basis), or apply for a download of the source code for non-commercial use. It’s a pretty nice package. Simple to use and with all the right features you’d expect (as well as a shape editor to create your own design elements). A worthy and faster alternative to Gliffy, even though there’s no shared editing. Check it out. Tags: Cumulate+Draw, online+application, open+source
Read MoreFinetune Desktop – Adobe Apollo powered music player shines
The folks at Finetune have launched a new standalone music player called Finetune Desktop based on the sparkling new Apollo technology from Adobe, which makes it *very cutting edge*. This ferret braved the dangers and downloaded and installed it all, and guess what, it works? And works well. Lots of eye candy, snappy performance, easy install. What’s not to like? So now you can listen to your favourite artists all day without tying up your browser. And did we mention the pretty cool iTunes integration? Golly,…
Read MoreJoost invites – GigaOM to the rescue?
Apparently GigaOM and Joost have set up a page to provide thousands of Joost invites to those who apply. It looks a bit broken now though, so don’t blame me if it doesn’t work. And I’m still waiting for some Zattoo invites to hand out, but don’t hold yer breath, OK? Tags: joost+invites
Read MoreHomer Bluetooth Audio Dongle – beam me out snotty
The Homer HDO-1010 Bluetooth Audio Dongle turns any plain old HiFi system into a Bluetooth powered, wireless beaming, audio networking behemoth. Well OK, perhaps not a behemoth as such, but certainly it will get your sounds beamed to your BT headphones or speakers quicker than you can say ‘the RIAA suckz’. Play time 2 hours, standby 70 hours. Connect your audio equipment to wireless Bluetooth equipped headphones and speakers. Compatible with CE,FCC and BQB regulations. Tags: homer+bluetooth+dongle, HiFi, wireless
Read MoreG-Force Big Ben LED Weather Station Clock – atomic hurricane chaser
The G-Force Big Ben LED Weather Station Clock. There seems to be a trend in calling clock things Big Ben right now, wonder why? Anyhoo, this one is a full on LED festooned (sorry Mike) atomic radio signal regulated, weather station, temperature gauge and calendar all rolled into one slinky form factor. $54.95. In addition to a highly accurate, atomic clock and calendar, you’ll know the temperature inside your home and outdoors thanks to a battery-powered, wireless outdoor transmitter. This transmitter…
Read MoreWizzybug – the fun powered vehicle for disabled children
The Wizzybug is a fun little electric runabout which has been designed to give more mobility to disabled children up to 5 years old. Calling it a wheelchair doesn’t really do it justice, what with the sporty red colour and optional trailer. It’s small enough to put into a car, runs for three days on a charge and costs around £1500. Nice. [Via Gizmag] Wizzybug is a fun powered vehicle for disabled children to experience early years mobility. It has a…
Read MorePicture Yourself There – Navpix blog blogs locations
Picture Yourself There is a new blog from the Navpix GPS people, which marries their GPS camera navigation technology with a useful and interesting diary of interesting locations that you can visit using your Navman GPS system. Yes it’s a shameless marketing ploy to get people to buy Navman products, but if it gets traction it could actually turn out to be quite a valuable place to find new locations to visit on your travels. The idea is that the blog…
Read MoreSchmedley – Netvibes for Mac lovers
Schmedley. It’s Netvibes created by an art director who’s just received a new Web 2.0 icon and widget palette for Xmas. You wanna know how I know? It’s got a Mac Dock clone at the bottom of the screen. Oh yes it has. It’s Alpha, and unfortunately all that eye candy makes for rather lacklustre performance, and much as I like some of the features (the Movies panel is uber cool), I suspect that Netvibes doesn’t have to worry quite yet. [Thanks Daniel] The Web 2.0 world is overrun…
Read MoreNowThen – phonecam your life, live…
NowThen. Think Twitter combined with Filckr mixed in with some Web 2.0 sauce and a healthy dose of phone cam MMS magic. I’m in UR headz, messin’ with UR lifestyles. Simply register or login or just send your name directly to nowthen’s phone number. Once received, nowthen.com will automatically store your messages and pictures for you. In this way, you can see what your friends are up to, wherever you are and wherever they are. You also get to choose…
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