Chuck Lorre’s How to Write a Hit Sitcom. Painfully frank and brutal. Language NSW. His Vanity Cards are also worth a read if you have time. This is a man with a desperate need to get on stage and play some more rock and roll. CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #294 “We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.” Pema Chödrön “Blink already, dammit!” Chuck Lörre Tags: chuck+lorre, how+to+write+a+hit+sitcom, television
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Ferret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. DiskAlarm – freeware keeps track of your hard disk temp, saves lives… – DiskAlarm is a small Windows… Complaints Choirs – art, as life, as culture, as our village – Complaints Choirs have been… LucidChart – fab new charts application does it all – It’s hard for new web applications… Mustek ScanExpress S324 – the pocket scanner with color LCD preview –…
Read MoreAutomatic Baseball Pitching Machine – Fore! No wait…
This Automatic Baseball Pitching Machine should help perfect your skills. Failing that, why not just set it up in the yard and give the dog some exercise for a while? Balls fly up to 5 metres and you get four balls and an adjustable pitch angle thrown in for free. $29.90. AUTOMATIC Pitching! Practice your Hitting Skills! Pitches Balls Up to 5 meters. Bat and Balls are included, Ready-to-play set. Just turn it ON and start to play! Great fun…
Read MoreDigital Photo Frame Lamp – combo saves desk space, acts as family reminder
This Digital Photo Frame Lamp combo not only saves your desk space, but also helps to remind you who those people you rarely see are. It’s a 3.5 inch LCD screen, and can hold 1500 images in memory. Uploaded via USB. Oh, and it’s an alarm clock too. More space saving. Let’s call this the Tardis of desk accessories, eh? $129.95. The photo frame holds up to 1500 images in its internal 128 MB memory (uploaded via USB from…
Read MoreSolar Butterfly – awww…..
Awww…this Solar Butterfly. What more to be said? $20.00. Butterfly flutters when light hits solar panel. Tags: gadget, solar+butterfly, solar+power, ecological
Read MoreGemei A330 – 3D games console emulator with WiFi multiplayer at a great price
This Gemei A330 Handheld Games Console features 3D gaming, console emulation (e.g. GameBoy, SNES, MegaDrive etc) plus WiFi 2 player multiplayer and all for just $97.99. It comes with 4GB internal memory, a miniSD slot, FM radio and will also play standard multimedia such as MP3, WAV, MP4 and FLV on the 3 inch colour screen. Oh and there’s an internal mic for audio recording. Golly! Gemei A330 game station comes not only with the emulator on-board, but also maintains a fairly…
Read MoreDexClock – beautiful free wallpaper clocks for your computer desktop
Dexclock is a freeware program for managing gorgeous desktop wallpaper clocks for your computer. There’s a beautiful selection on offer, and you can add to your collection as more are added to the catalogue. Available for Mac and PC. Wallpaper Clocks are desktop backgrounds for your computer with a real-time working clock blended into the artwork. We already have this feature implemented in Dexpot, our virtual desktop manager, but because of your overwhelming feedback, we started this little project for a stand-alone Wallpaper Clock…
Read MoreAudioDraft – crowdsource your next music need
AudioDraft is a new crowdsourced music service, which helps musicians hook up with those who need custom music tracks. Anyone can post a request (or contest) for some music, which musicians can bid for. The buyer sets the license terms (exclusivity and duration) and the prize fee, and then gets to select and rate the best entries. Once a winner is chosen, the fee is paid to the lucky musician and the buyer gets their music to use as specified. It’s a clever adaptation of the current…
Read More89 Music Blogs – free, ever-lovin’ music for all to enjoy
There’s a great thread currently running on Metafilter listing 89 music blogs which offer a wide range of excellent music to hear and enjoy. The music is all free and legal, and offered for streaming and/or download. Nice! If you on occasion like wfmu’s Beware of the Blog, you’ll like these on occasion as well. Mostly strange, exotica, hip hop, noise, electronic, experimental, punk, industrial. No single-artist blogs. Updated seldom to constantly, all field tested at time of this post. Arranged alphabetically. All…
Read MoreSwiftpoint Mouse – designed for laptops, by robots
The Swiftpoint Mouse is designed specifically to work with laptop computers. The manufacturers made it small enough to carry around on a magnetic mount in the USB port, and easy enough to use on the palm rest of your notebook near the trackpad. In case you don’t have a desk handy, see? Other features include an innovative ‘shove’ scroll, which uses the rubberized scroll wheel to move up and down the screen easily. These new portable mouse products are all…
Read MoreFlying F160 Quad SIM Phone – world’s first 4 SIM card cell phone
This Flying F160 is the world’s first Quad SIM card, quad standby mobile phone. Quite why you’d need four SIM cards in your phone is another matter, although I suppose for permanent travellers this could save a bunch of time swapping out cards when you cross a border. The rest of the spec is pretty so-so, with a 2 inch touchscreen, TV & FM radio, 0.3 mp camera and a choice of colors. Priced, however, at a very reasonable $75.00 unlocked….
Read MoreUSB MinoCam Webcam II – small, portable, simple plug and play…
Just got me one of these USB MinoCam Webcam II things, and it’s actually surprisingly good. The image quality is excellent, but there again the packaging does say it’s got a light sensitivity of 0.6 lux (i.e less than a candle) and 8 megapixel resolution. I’m not sure I believe the latter (probably interpolated up from 5 mp or something), but the results are cool. The other neat thing is the twisty camera head, which means you can straighten up…
Read MoreGrenade Screwdriver Set – if at first you don’t succeed…blow it up?
This Grenade Screwdriver Set is weird. So what’s the deal, does war and putting up a shelf fit together? Is the object to liberate the IKEA wardrobe? Will this tool make it easier to subdue that broken table lamp? Yeah we could go on. But we won’t. $5.00. STAINLESS STILL, PP 6PCS SCREW DRIVER SET Tags: gadget, grenade+screwdriver+set
Read MoreDVD Slideshow GUI – freeware lets you create photo slideshows on DVD
DVD Slideshow GUI is a freeware program which is designed to let you create slideshows of your photos on DVD. Just import the images you want into the program, add timings, transitions, animations and text as needed, and hit the export button when you’re happy. You can export to an .img file which is ready for burning to a DVD with something like ImgBurn. Fast and easy. DVD slideshow GUI is packed with features – 237 transitions, 83 Effects you can add…
Read More15 (almost but not quite) iPad Clones for Apple Haters
Here you go. 15 iPad Clones for Apple Haters. They’re almost totally horrible, but it’s a fun game to play right? I love the functionality my iPac gives me…But I don’t like the inflated prices or the quasi-cult forming around the Apple brand. I’m not alone… so to appease the other half of me, the part that HATES Apple, manufacturers are marketing questionable (read: illegal) iPad knockoffs. Tags: ipad+clones, 15+ipad+clones+for+apple+haters, apple, shanzhai
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