About:Me is a new Firefox add-on which provides a bunch of charts and graphs showing your web browsing habits. If you want to know exactly why you got zero work done yesterday, just type ‘about:me’ into your Firefox address box and watch in stupified glory as graphs detailing 14 hours of Reddit and Hacker News flash onto your screen. Awe inspiring. The goal of the about:me page is to give you a more interesting view of statistics about your browser usage. The…
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Setster – swiftly embed an instant appointments calendar onto your site
Setster is a very cool new application to let you embed a fully functional appointment calendar on any website with just a few lines of code. There are other appointment services around – e.g. BookFresh.com – but this is the first time I’ve seen one which uses this cool widget type interface as a user interface. By doing it this way, the service immediately becomes more attractive to small companies with a web presence who don’t want to ‘offshore’ their service…
Read MoreBank Teller – ‘allo copper
Here in Oz we ditched copper coins years ago, nothing under 5c here, and New Zealand went even further, their lowest coin is 10 cents. It sure makes things easier, but please no jokes about our respective currencies. If you’ve been saving your respective currency since the financiapocalypse then by now you’re probably awash in small change. If so head on over to the Herrington catalogue and pick up the Bank Teller automatic coin sorter and packer. The Bank Teller…
Read MoreRFID 2.5″ SATA HDD Enclosure – Locks your data up safely
RFID. Is there anything it can’t be added to? This RFID 2.5″ SATA HDD Enclosure keeps your important data safe by encrypting it. The only way to decrypt it is to wave one of the included RFID tags at it and like magic your data is good to go. After you’ve finished using it, wave your fob at it and it’s all safely locked back up again. The enclosure can take a maximum drive size of 160Gb and it comes…
Read MoreSolar Oak Effect Post Lights – brightens any pathway
Check out these Smart Solar Oak Effect Post Lights, a great addition to any garden. Made from wood effect plastic with a plastic frosted lens, these cool looking light posts come with stake and deck-mount options. Available in packs of 4 with replaceable rechargeable batteries, these resemble real wood and automatically light for up to 8 hours each night. Measuring 15 inches when staked, these solar powered posts need no added wiring and are sure to add a touch of…
Read MoreEVGA UV Plus – USB to DVI adapter
Mini USB monitors are fun, but kinda limiting. The EVGA UV Plus provides you with a USB powered external monitor of your choice. Just plug the UV Plus into any USB port and plug a DVI monitor into the other and you’ll have an extra screen. It’s limited to 1600 x 1200 resolution but you can get all the usual display modes, Clone, Extended Desktop etc and it can also run Vista’s Aero interface. The unit itself has magnetic feet,…
Read MoreSesame Street does Mad Men – Mad, sad, happy Men
Sesame Street does Mad Men. Not much else to say really. Tags: sesame+street, mad+men, sesame+street+mad+men
Read MoreKM Firelighters – Match and firelighter in one
Fire can be tricky stuff to make sometimes. Sure firelighters make fires easier to start but it’s still a two step process. These KM Firelighters are a match and firelighter in one. Best of all they’re made out of wood so there’s no greasy, smelly firelighter hands to wash. Just strike the four match heads and away you go. Comes in a pack of 20, burns for 8 minutes and they’re �1.93. While you’re there, check out their terrifying wooden…
Read MoreSamsung DualView – Dual screen digital camera
I used to have great fun informing people that the little shiny square next to the camera on their camera phone was a mirror to help them frame self portraits. Well Samsung have taken that idea and made it complicated by releasing the Samsung DualView digital camera with two LCDs, one on the back and one on the front for just that purpose. It has a 12.2 Megapixel sensor, touch-sensitive 3.5″ main LCD, 1.5″ secondary LCD, gesture-based UI and HD…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Livestream Livepack – awesome portable wireless HD video streaming system could change the world – Remember those old satellite… OMGG – The Batmobile lives! – Whoa, so some dude’s built a… Pongster – Pong fun for the extreme enthusiast – Remember Pong? That fun… Think the Earth WN-2 – the global watch – The WN-2 is a watch modeled on the… Victorinox…
Read MoreDigital Peephole Viewer – Improves the view through your door
This Digital Peephole Viewer is designed to fit into your existing optical peephole without any external cameras or wiring. Just remove your old, fish-eyed analogue peephole and install the futuristic digital peephole and in five minutes you’re done. To see who’s out there just press the button, press it again to zoom in. Needs 2 AA batteries and they’re good for about 1,700 views. They’re pretty new and they only seem to be available to buy in Australia at the…
Read MoreMini MP3 DV Cam – I spy with my little i-….
This Mini MP3 DV Cam looks vaguely familiar but we just can’t put our finger on it. Hmm…nope, it’ll come to us in a minute. Anyhoo, we’re looking at a 1.3 megapixel, AVI format, 20 fps digital video camera with 2 hours running time and support for microSD cards up to 8 GB. Priced to peturb the paranoid. Picture pixel: 1.3 megapixels # View angle: 65 degrees # Video compression: AVI format # Video resolution: 640 x 480 pixels #…
Read MoreTubeRadio – Spotify gets a feisty scruffy hustler as a neighbour
TubeRadio is a new arrival on the ‘all you can stream’ music scene, and while it’s nowhere near as polished as our current Swedish favourite Spotify, it’s actually not a bad effort at all. If Spotify is a suave rich uncle, TubeRadio is his slightly bratty nephew from the south side of the tracks, a bit gap-toothed and indolent but with good intentions. Sure it’s yet another YouTube audio scraping site, but at least they’ve gone and added some real extra…
Read MoreSweet Home 3D – freeware house planner gives hope to ugly kitchens
The Sweet Home 3D freeware program features a bunch of useful tools for planning out your perfect family nest. There’s a furniture catalogue as well as a section where you can list out your current furniture to embarrass yourself. You can also scan in the blueprints of your home to speed up the design phase, and then edit, draw and customise the look and feel of your place as you need. The 3D view is the icing on the cake….
Read MoreCasio Databank – Classic reissue
Tokyoflash have some limited edition watches going at the moment including a re-release of the classic Casio Databank calculator watch with a couple of modern fashion touches. Telephone number storage, calculator, display in 13 languages and water resistant to 3 atmospheres. Sounds great to me. US$112.28 A true classic brought back to life. The calculator watch has made a comeback on the streets of Tokyo and everybody wants one! The Casio Multi-Lingual DataBank is an original design with updated looks…
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