Date Reminder is a tiny freeware program which pops up an alert from the Task Bar when a date comes up you should remember. You can set it for birthdays, appointments, your bath month, anything you like really. Useful tool. Date Reminder reminds you of recurring or nonrecurring events, like birthdays, bills to pay, appointments etc… The program can be run from the Startup folder with an option to show only, if there are any alerts for this day. If…
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Posterous – ridiculously easy way to publish your own blog
Posterous must be the easiest blogging tool in the known universe and beyond. No sign up, just send an email to [email protected] and the system automatically sets up a free blog for you, drops your content (including photo or other attachments) into a post and fires off a reply to tell you what your new blog URL is. I mean guys, it just doesn’t get any easier than that, right? Not only that, but the service will also automatically repost…
Read MoreCopyGator – keep an eye on your web content for plagiarism
CopyGator is a cool new service which finds if anyone is replubishing your content anywhere else on the Web without your permission. In this day and age, it’s common for people to…ahem…’repurpose’ your prose and use it to make money with adverts. I’ve just found a couple of sites already that are doing that with Ferret content. Just enter in your URL and the service will sniff out the users of your RSS feed, and bingo you can hire hugely expensive…
Read MoreNokia queues – Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has a fanbase!
Apparently, as we speak, people are queueing 150 deep IN THE RAIN! outside the Nokia store in London to grab one of them new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile phones. So much for only Apple having handset love. And so much for the UK sliding into ‘official’ recession this morning! Of course it wouldn’t have anything to do with the 5 million music tracks you get access to for free during the first year could it? The old Comes With Music offer is clearly…
Read MoreHorizon H Cell – fuel cells for remote control cars
Horizon make a range of fuel cells for numerous applications, including remote control cars. The Horizon H-Cell RC Fuel Cell, comes with three metal hydride, hydrogren gas canisters and a you-beaut fuel cell power unit with light emitting fans for extra cool cooling. The Fuel Cell system slots into the same space as the Tamiya 7.2V NiCad battery on the Tamiya TT-01 model car chassis and is powered by three hydrogen cylinders each holding 10L of hydrogen. Together they’re good…
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USB Stress Ball – the most useless USB gadget yet?
This USB Stress Ball must be the single most useless computer gadget ever invented. Think squishy plastic which transfers your stress induced mangling into a distorted screen image and you’ve got the idea. Not excited yet? Nor are we. You’ll probably get more satisfaction from buying a cheap pair of shoes to chuck at the monitor in troubled times. $29.90. Computer rage? Writers block? Or just works making you insane? Squeeze it, pull it, squash it & twist it, whatever you do to the…
Read MoreZepii Electric Scooter – cheap, fun, green, retro transport
The new Zepii (beware loud Who! music) is an electric scooter with a difference. At just £849 + VAT it ranks as one of the cheapest forms of electric transport on the road, rivalling even electric bicycles. It gets 40 miles on an 8 hour charge, although you can do a fast charge for four hours and get 80% of the range. It’s also deliciously retro, with lots of chrome bits which will undoubtedly rust quicker than you can say ‘cheap Chinese…
Read MoreHandwriting Calculator – calculate handwritten formulae on your phone or PC
Nokia has come out with a freeware Handwriting Calculator which lets jolly mathematical types conduct handwritten calculations on their Symbian phone, Maemo tablet or Windows PC. It seems to work fine, although my ability to craft meaningful maths formulae stops with E=MCcubed or something. One for you nerdy numeros. Video. Handwriting Calculator is a showcase of Nokia’s new handwriting recognition technology. It allows you to calculate handwritten math expressions with a touch-screen Nokia device (and with a Windows PC). Tags: freeware,…
Read MoreTucia – online photo retouching service gives you some star treatment on the cheap
If you’ve ever wanted to get the same kind of photo retouching love that the stars get when they’re pictured on magazine covers, now’s your chance. Tucia is a new online service which offers professional re-touching of any photo by a team of international Photoshop experts. All ya gotta do is upload your photo/s, add them to your project, fill in the instruction form and hand over the money via CC, Paypal or whatever. It will cost from $8.00 to $48.00…
Read MoreWorld Time Map – all the time you need, in one place
The World Time Map site features the time displayed around the globe, as well as daylight and night time hours and all that jazz. It’s customisable too, but that’s not all. There’s also a separate clock tab which you can set with your own choice of cities, as well as separate time maps for Europe, America, Canada and Australia. Now that’s what you call comprehensive. There’s even a downloadable version you can buy for $29.95. World Time Map is an indispensable…
Read MoreCarl Lewis Fitness Surf Exerciser – shoot the tube and tone the bones
This Carl Lewis Fitness Surf Exerciser looks like a fun way to break a leg…uh…get toned up and fit for the fray. It simulates the action of ‘ocean surfing’ you see, thereby promoting better health, improved fitness and a glorious topping of bleach blond hair. My 20–pack abs will have to make do with the swivel oriented Aeron workout, I’m afraid. £199.99. The Carl Lewis Surf Exerciser simulates the action of ocean surfing, so you can regularly enjoy the physical…
Read MoreBulletproof Press Vest – definitely one for the dodgier members of our profession
If I had the money, I’d definitely send a Bulletproof Press Vest out to a few members of our honourable…cough…profession to help protect them in times of crisis. Like when they’d written something derogatory about Tom Cruise or Michael ‘Too Big To Fail’ Arrington. The picture above actually features Joel Johnson of BoingBoing at work. Few people realise he was actually a location scout for a Beverley Hills based SWAT team for several years before he became a journalist. Straight up. I…
Read MoreHDD Enclosure with LCD Display – like a window into your hard drive’s soul
This 3.5” Hard Disk Enclosure with LCD Display offers you a rare and very private glimpse into the life of your external hard disk. Normally, once you pop your drive in the box and screw it tight, that’s it, no questions, no answers. Now, you get to see extremely personal details about the state of your disk, like temperature and the fan rotation speed. You can even set the thing to warn you when the things gets a little too hot…
Read MoreUltrasonic Facial System – work those pores, baby
This Ultrasonic Facial System uses 32,000 vibrations a minute to shake your skin into submission. If it doesn’t give in, tiny stormtroopers leap out of the nozzle and hack on those nasty blemishes with Samurai swords and ancient but deadly Ninja moves. No really, it says so on the box. Somewhere. Oh and it comes with attachments. $129.95. Using technology previously available only to dermatologists, this skin revitalizing system uses ultrasonic vibrations to diminish fine lines, wrinkles, and blemishes, and…
Read MoreProgDVB – freeware television software with recording
I was hunting around feverishly for a decent online television channel to use for the inauguration yesterday (Joost stuttered like crazy over here, and the BBC talk way too much) and I stumbled across ProgDVB. It’s a freeware TV watching program which gives you a huge set of global radio and TV channels to choose from, as well as cool PVR timeshift recording and a general recording feature for terrestrial and satellite broadcasts. I couldn’t record Internet TV for some reason (although the…
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