The Balanza Digital Luggage Scale is a portable weighing machine designed to save you from paying those nasty weight surcharges that are all the rage at airports right now. It’s small, digital, and can cope with up to 44 kg. $24.95. * Pack Smart. * Don’t pay overweight. * Easy to use. * Weight in Lb. or Kg. * Up to 100Lbs or 44 Kg. * Compact size for easy carry and transport. * The automatic hold feature allows you…
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Mini Water Cooler – create your own real world discussion area on your desk
Stick a Mini Water Cooler on your desk, and voila, you’ll create an instant place where your colleagues can hang out and shoot the breeze. Or gossip. Or whatever. So much better than setting up a wiki, doncha think? $12.99 and 14 inches tall. Want to start a riot of jealousy amongst your cubicle buddies? Want to bring new meaning to the term “Water Cooler Gossip”? Here is the perfect solution…Your own desk size water cooler! Simply pour water into…
Read MoreEmail Link Encoder – prevent your online email from being grabbed by spammers
Email Link Encoder is a small freeware utility which will munge your email address so you can embed it safely on your website without fear of it being harvested by spammers. Very useful tool if you’re a web owner or blogger. This antispam software utility enables you to encode your email links on your website so they can’t be extracted by rogue internet spiders looking for email addresses to add to junk mailing lists. This will help prevent you from…
Read MoreUserStyles – re-make the web the way you want
Userstyles is a collection of CSS styling codes for the Firefox browser which let you change the appearance of the web sites you visit. You’ll need to install the Stylish plugin first, then download the styles you want from the site. It’s all very free, a bit Greasemonkey and really quite scary. A blue Google? Whatever next? userstyles.org is a collection of styles that puts you in control of the appearance of websites and of Mozilla applications. These styles can…
Read MoreColormunki – colour profiling on hand and tap
Colormunki is a self-calibrating handheld device for monitor and print colour profiling. You know, to make sure that what you see on screen is what prints out. The thing adjusts to your ambient lighting and comes with software to let you set profiles for different programs. Could be useful. £375.00. Complete monitor-to-print solution for professional and advanced amateur photographers. All-in-one true spectral device for monitor, print and projector profiling. Easily portable – no cumbersome accessories. Self-calibrating device with built-in white calibration…
Read MoreExra Electromagnetic Cockroach Expeller – check your friends out of the motel poste haste
This Electro-Magnetic Cockroach Expeller sure sounds like fun. Plug it into the nearest power socket to the roach homestead, retire to the couch with a bag of Doritos and watch amazed as thousands of roaches come scuttling out of holes carrying suitcases and portable TVs. It’s got a range of 120 square metres and uses flashing lights too. Gosh. $25.00. Extra Electromagnetic Cockroach Expeller # Drives away Pest and Bugs # Uses in Homes and Apartments, Food service Outlets,…
Read MoreNetChess – online multiplayer chess for free
NetChess. Freeware chess game that gives you full online multiplayer access for fun and delectation. Interestingly enough, you can also use it to play over your local network, which makes it perfect for goofing off around the office. NetChess is a chess program that allows you to play with opponent over internet/intranet or on the local computer. You can load or save game. The built-in chat provides a quick and efficient solution to essential communication between players. This software will…
Read MoreFlyTunes – portable music service for the iPhone
FlyTunes. Free online music service streams 375 channels of ‘music, news and sport’ for you to consume everywhere on this planet. Uh…except tunnels. Or caves. Obviously. Anyhoo, it works over the Edge network, so you don’t need WiFi, but you do need a flat rate data plan. Or a very rich uncle. Check out the online demo. FlyTunes is a FREE service that gives you what you really want – portable music and talk radio that’s better than Satellite radio,…
Read MoreAlertMe House Security Pack – peace of mind for the unfeasibly paranoid
The AlertMe House Security Pack includes a web enabled central hub, a lamp, a button, two alarm detectors, a couple of motion sensors, three door and window sensors and three key fobs. Unbox the kit, install the sensors throughout the home, connect the hub to your broadband connection and you’re good to go. From now on, any time something moves that shouldn’t, you’ll be notified instantly via mobile phone, email or carrier pigeon. Ah no, wait… £399.00 plus £11.75 a…
Read MoreMark of Fitness MF-180 Exercise Monitor – finger sensing personal coach
The Mark of Fitness MF-180 Exercise Monitor promises to make you healthy, wealthy and irresistible to members of the opposite species. Or something. Heart rate monitor, calories burned, target zones and recovery rates. Bliss. $67.95. The Mark of Fitness MF-180 is the first continuous reading chest-belt-free exercise heart rate monitor available that allows full control of exercise intensity and allows easy, accurate and reliable determination of calories burned. The comfortable semi-glove design with base of finger sensing makes it ideal…
Read MoreOnly2Clicks – the speed dial to your favourite web sites
Only2Clicks. It’s a kind of online menu system for your favourite web sites. We’re talking tabbed categories, thumbnails and simple drag and drop. Think Netvibes without the complicated stuff. Actually I reckon it’s a great idea for those who are not that interested in anything other than just getting to their fave sites fast. Worth a look for your grandma maybe? If you’re like me, you might have hundreds of links stored in your browser’s bookmarks, spread across multiple folders…
Read MoreMake Windows Genuine by a simple trick – is this…uh…korrect officer?
This Make Windows Genuine hack may not be legal or even still working, but it’s still a good example of just how frustrated people are with the Microsoft authentication hoops. Try it at your peril, peeps. And remember, it’s a jungle out there. This is a discussion on Make Windows Genuine by a simple trick within the Pc Applications forums, part of the Applications/Softwares category; BEFORE Right click your desktop and select new text document. Open that document and paste…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy.
Read MoreLED Binary Code Watch – take your time telling the time
This LED Binary Code Watch looks almost normal if you squint hard and view it sideways. Then you open your eyes and realise with a huge sigh that you’re going to have to spend the next 10 minutes working out what the time was 10 minutes ago. And so on… Ah well. $159.95. [Thanks Matthew] It’s high time for high style to meet high tech and it happens in binary: HERE + NOW • Unique binary time display with top…
Read MoreDimona Fuel Cell Plane – batteries and hydrogen at 3000 feet for the first time
The Dimona Fuel Cell Plane is a joint venture test craft modified by Boeing Research and Intelligent Energy. The first test flight took place in Spain recently and seemed to go well in that no-one died and the thing flew for a while without mishap. We’re talking 62 mph at 3,300 feet for 20 minutes, so it’s not going to break any records, but don’t forget that this is zero-emission stuff. Gotta be a good sign. Video. The plane is based…
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