The home building industry has been fairly static for a long while, but now an enterprising company wants to do for self build what IKEA has done for wardrobes. The company, Glog Homes, sells DIY blueprints and ‘house kits’ which they say anyone can use to build their own house in a matter of weeks.
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Technology changes so quickly that it makes big purchases like a laptop more difficult. You want something that’s fast, reliable, and isn’t going to be old news too quickly. While you might be more inclined to go with things that are gigantic and impressive, you don’t always need to shell out the big bucks.
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We love listening to music, and we’ll listen to it all day long if we can. Of course, you have to sprinkle in watching some silly Internet videos in between! However, you aren’t always in a place where you can let your tunes blast out of the speakers, and need headphones. There are all sorts of situations that can call for cable accessories like laying in bed and needing an extension cord, wanting to share music with friends but also…
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While matters may have been easy to settle with a duel in the past, we’ve since moved on to better forms of diplomacy. No need for all that nonsense involving guns and bullets. However, you can’t help but want to see who would’ve been the fastest shot every now and again. What better weapon than marshmallows to experiment with?
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There are three truths in life – you will always be standing in the queue that moves the slowest, if you take an umbrella it will not rain and you can never ever have enough WiFi signal.
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I like gadgets… and chances are you like them too. The Ogio Renegade Backpack lets you haul around all of your technological marvels without missing a beat. This should not be confused with Who’s Got the Beat although it is comforting to know you still have the beat if you are trying to perform ‘Who’s Got the Beat’ in the first place . Confused? Me too. Let’s continue…
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Victorinox, the Swiss Army Knife creators, have come up with an ultra cool smartphone app which takes the concept of multi-use tools and adapts it firmly for the digital 21st century.
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There’s no question that the web is becoming more and more of a visual medium every day. Where once we had feature articles we now have Pinterest, where there were paragraphs now there’s Twitter.
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My doesn’t time fly? So it’s the final day of our Red Ferret Traveling Tunes Giveaway. That’s right, there’s almost no time left to get your chance at these cool goodies. So don’t delay, enter today! Look at that, poetry.
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If you’ve used a camera that has changeable lenses, then you probably own a strap to keep it around your neck. While the strap isn’t costly, it can save you quite a bit of money by making sure your camera doesn’t say hello to the ground. While they are helpful, they can also be somewhat awkward, and get in the way.
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Do you remember when a new portable gaming system came out and you thought it was a little too pricey? The original Nintendo Game Boy came out in 1989, and started off at around $90. While the quality of handheld gaming has vastly improved since then, do you think you could find it in you to put down $350 for one?
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When your parents decided they wanted to go above and beyond for dinner, they would normally pull out an old cookbook and make some crazy dish. Maybe it was good, maybe it was terrible, but they would go back and forth between the book and what they were doing a thousand times over to make sure they were making things correctly. After you get used to creating a dish, you don’t really need the cookbook anymore, and start fiddling with…
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Like many readers of the Red Ferret, I spend much of my working day in front of a computer, and like others I have an inbox flooded with emails arriving every minute, in addition to client and business partner phone calls…and in between all of this I need to get work done. There are a number of good task management and work organization systems out-there (David Allen’s GTD, 43Folder’s Inbox Zero, etc …) but they all need to be supported…
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One of the juiciest targets of the eco-energy industry over the years has been how to harvest the incredible amount of human activity such as walking, running, or even scratching an ear, into useable electrical power.
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Have you ever looked at a photo you took and wished that you could remove something in the background that was annoying or unnecessary? Until now the only way to do this was either to fire up a high quality image editor like Photoshop, or send the image off to a processing service like the most excellent Tucia.com.
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