Spiffy Text (aka text2logo) is a free online logo creator. The idea is sound, although I must say the presentation of the site leaves a bit to be desired. Nice idea, shame about the package. Still, that’s probably churlish, since they’re offering the service for free (with a watermark mind you). So if you’re in the market for a cheap and cheerful plain style logotype, then this place is probably worth a visit. www.text2logo.com is our original site, but this new…
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Fuelly – track, share and compare your car’s fuel consumption
Fuelly is a groovy new online service to help you track your car’s fuel consumption. Set up an account, add your car/s, and every time you fill up, enter in your trip or odometer reading and fuel quantity. The service then calculates a running mileage figure for your vehicle that you can admire, discuss and try to improve over time. I love it, because it’s a classic case of using the power of the web community to help improve some…
Read MoreNikkai In Car Journey Recorder – a cheap way to catch the action
This Nikkai In Car Journey Recorder comes with absolutely no exciting, different, innovative feature whatsoever, except for a price which puts it into the cheapo MP3 player bracket. It’s 1.3 megapixel, 2 x AAA battery, 9 hour recording on 1GB SD card, four hour use boring. There, now you know. £39.99. Quick and simple installation of this in-card SD Journey Recorder gives you the ability to record the road ahead. Not only is this for purposes involving RTAs but can have…
Read MoreManhattan Wireless Touchpad – geek your computer from across the room
The Manhattan Wireless Touchpad promises total control over your computer from anywhere within a 7 metre radius. Yes it’s using Bluetooth, and yes that means your PC must have Bluetooth on board, but that’s a minor barrier when it comes to demonstrating this level of cool. Just make it happen. Oh and did we mention the integrated laser pointer. Oooh…. $59.99. Control your Media-PC or a boardroom presentation from across the room with this handy Pocket Wireless Touchpad with Media…
Read MoreMemjet high speed printers almost here – spit printers menace your inkjet
We first mentioned the Memjet high speed printing technology early last year and now it looks as though the products are almost ready for prime time. A prototype was on the stands at CES and spokespeople were saying that products from various manufacturers would be on sale later this year. Printing at 1 second per page on the desktop is quite an amazing concept, so it will be interesting to see whether the tech lives up to the expectations. Kim Beswick,…
Read MoreRay Flash – turn your ordinary flash gun into a ring flash
The Ray Flash is an add-on accessory which converts a conventional hot shoe flash into a fancy pants ring flash used by those hoity toity professional types. There’s no electronics involved, just a system of ‘light shapers’ which direct the light around the lens. Clever it is, impressive the results. $199.95. The Ray Flash (U.S. and international patents pending) is a unique adapter for your hot-shoe flash unit designed to replicate the lighting effect produced by traditional, expensive, and heavy powered studio…
Read MoreDrawing for Children – free art program for tiny Titians
Drawing For Children is a free drawing program for kids. It’s super simple easy to use for very young kids with most of the work being done by simple drag and drop clipart, icons or patterns. Super duper fun. Drawing for Childen is a free drawing program for children with many nice options. You can draw with many different pens, you can put stamps on your drawings, create all sort of text effects, and much more. The program is suitable…
Read MoreCredit Crunch Report – Welcome to the New Age
It’s pretty clear now that we’re heading for the mother and father of all recessions. There’s acres of newsprint and online discussion about the whys, wherefores and such, so I won’t repeat it, but I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what I believe this could mean for our gadget obsessed, consumerised world in the near and not so near future. Of course it’s not the end of the world and we will survive, however it’s…
Read MoreObama Buckle Spy Camera – don’t leave home tomorrow without one
The Obama Buckle Spy Camera is a masterpiece of engineering which is destined to go down in history as one of the most awesomest gadgets ever to hit teh internets. Ladies and gentlemen we’re talking a hidden mic and camera, plus a microSD card port supporting 8 GB of memory all in a delightful and elegant aluminium casing. The video recorder is also built into the thing, which means you’re basically carrying around a full blown camcorder at waist level….
Read MoreDatto Box2Box – the world’s first P2P offsite backup device
The Datto Box2Box is an ingenious new device which lets you set up an off-site backup system quickly and easily. Just attach one box to the computer at one location, add another box at a remote location and presto, you’ve got yourself a linked off-site backup solution with minimal hassle. You can buy the boxes singly or in ready matched pairs, and with different storage capacities up to 500GB. The data is all encrypted, and the thing comes with a…
Read MoreYorozu Universal Speaker Kit – the milk carton speaker for the rest of us
The Yorozu Universal Speaker Kit promises to turn anything into a speaker via the use of vibrations. We’ve come across this tech before of course, but what I particularly like about this puppy is the fact they give you a milk carton in the box to start off with. It’s like they’re saying, ‘you guys are too dumb to work this out for yourself, so here’s a box to help you understand’. Sweet of them, eh? $89.00. The Yorozu Audio…
Read MoreSitelauncher – Firefox add-in makes it simple to access your fave sites
SiteLauncher is a Firefox plugin which gives instant keystroke access to your favourite websites. Once installed you can navigate instantly to the site by pressing a custom defined keystrokes (e.g. alt-shift-a for Amazon). You know what, it’s pretty cool. And rather useful. The big thing with all these helpers is to remember they’re there of course. I think I’m going to use this… A Firefox add-on that gives a highly convenient and clutter-free method to quickly open websites that you…
Read MoreWhat to Rent – a very cool personalised movie recommendation service
What to Rent is a very cool free movie recommendation service which asks a lot of left field type questions to build a profile of your tastes and then uses the profile to deliver movie suggestions on demand. Surprisingly the questions have nothing to do with movies per se, but are instead based on stuff like relationships and general attitudes. You also tell it your mood and whether you want to watch something inside or outside your comfort zone, which adds a…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. Write for Us – Guest Writers – Do you fancy writing for one of… DIY Mobile CCTV System – the DIY bolt-anywhere surveillance kit – DIY Mobile CCTV System. Bolt this… K2 Charger – 2-in-1 wind and solar charger for your bits – The K2 Charger is a real… Credit Card Survival Tool – pack a little insurance in your back pocket, why…
Read MoreNight Owl iGen Night Vision Camera – take snaps in the dark
The Night Owl iGen Night Vision Camera not only amplifies light 650x but can also grab black and white snaps onto an SD Memory Card. Now quite why you’d want to do this again after the first couple of expeditions out on a cold frosty eve is a mystery to us, but obviously there’s some sort of market out there. $599.00. The Night Owl iGen 20/20 Night Vision Monocular NOIGM3X-IC is a night vision viewer with still camera built in. This night device…
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