When you stay at a hotel, you’ve likely used those lamps that are either right above your bed, or up and off to the side a bit. For those of you out there who like to read just before bed, this is a dream come true. Bedside table lamps do their job and everything, but having a dedicated light just for reading makes it that much easier to really immerse yourself into the story as there’s nothing in your peripheral…
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When kids reach an age where they sort of understand their surroundings, they immediately want to do whatever you’re doing. If you’re working on the car, they want to have a wrench in their hands. Should you be building a shed, they want to hold the hammer and nails. While this is all good and well, kids oftentimes don’t have the best judgment for dangerous situations. It’s hard to tell your kids that they can’t work alongside you. If you…
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There’s a certain sort of charm that comes with using a typewriter. It’s not really that it makes typing easier, as it’s actually quite a bit more difficult to get everything right on the first try. However, the tap-tap-tapping and the �ding� hitting the end of a line were quite satisfying to hear.
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. The DIY Calculator is the ultimate custom desk tool – What rule book is it that says we… IPWebcam turns your Android phone into a remote webcam [Freeware] – As if to remind us once again just… Topsy is a deeply interesting search engine – Over the years we’ve covered a… Allure Tabletop Fire Pit won’t set your house on ablaze –…
Read MoreThere was a time when the cup holder so kindly provided in your car by ToyoForChev was used solely for restraining the morning commuter beverage. Y’know, the Starbucks special that ensured you got to work sane and alive? Well no longer, peeps. Nowadays that little indentation is being kidnapped for other uses, some trivial some important.
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This London Underground Circuit Map Radio is so cool it hurts. Delivered to us via the excellent artistic talent of Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, the whole is clearly greater than the sum of its parts. What makes this doubly delicious is the fact that the original iconic Tube map we all use today was designed in 1933 by an electrical engineer called Harry Beck who worked for London Underground, and he once produced a joke map with the stations replaced…
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It’s been a while since I’ve had a good experience with a bicycle. While I can pedal away on them at the gym, going out and about on a regular bike is an entirely different ordeal (whoever said you never forget how to ride a bike was wrong). However, if you’re like me, you probably still have a 10 speed lying around in the garage that hardly sees use. If you want to work up the courage to go out…
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Not everyone has tastes that can be found at your regular furniture store. There are some eclectic souls out there that want something you’re not going to see everyday. Those people often like ambiguity, and perhaps with a hint of irony. So why not buy something you see everyday, but use it in a way that no one else would?
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Yes, that’s right. Ovens attack people. You can’t tell me you’ve never tried to bake or make something in the oven and just barely touched the door or the rack while it was blazing hot. If you have experienced this momentary, but excruciating pain, then you’ve probably tried to buy oven mits, wrap your hands in towels, or even go as far as using a stick to prod your food closer to you.
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Chinese manufacturing portal Global Sources has just posted a very interesting article displaying six products which indicate the dimensions and possible specifications of the rumored upcoming iPad Mini product. We’re usually not fond of feeding the rumor mill, but what intrigues us about this case is the fact that the Chinese factory complex is clearly fully ready for such a product to appear on the market, even though we don’t know exactly when that could be. According to the accessory…
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The recent spate of password hacks around the world shows that the problem of protecting important information is moving to another level. As the crackers become more sophisticated and bold, the attacks are likely to increase, which means we’ll all have to take more care with our password management and procedures. One weapon in the fight could be increased reliance on security tokens – physical implements which add to the conventional password/PIN security process.
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Amazon’s Kindle e-book platform is turning out to be a real revolution in the book market. E-Books on Amazon now outsell printed books by a huge margin, and that change happened in an astonishing four years after launch of the Kindle. Amazon has been selling books for sixteen years in total. Amazing. Now a new phenomena is springing up, lending Kindle books, and it can even earn you money.
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Why can’t they sort out our batteries? It’s been decades now, and we’re still suffering from phones with half a day working life, MP3 players which run out mid-song and laptops which explode can’t even play a whole movie on battery. It’s not good enough. Even worse, no-one seems to make accurate battery gauges to indicate how long we’ve got to go before dark time, which makes it all very hit or miss.
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There are many different kinds of keyboards out there that are all aimed at specific purposes. Some were made to be easy to clean, some light up, and have extra buttons. There’s always going to be a huge range because everyone has different needs. While you can find some cheap, basic keyboards, you can also find some over-the-top, heavy-duty ones that will blow your mind.
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It’s good to pace yourself when eating pretty much anything. However, you can never have too much of a good thing when eating fresh fruits and vegetables. If you happen to be a fan of cherries specifically, then you know that you have to deal with chewing each one individually to try and get the seed out so you don’t break you teeth on them.
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