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Awesome May 20, 2009 posted by Nigel

Ships – awesome free ship simulation game for Google Earth

Ships is an awesome looking free ship simulation game which works with Google Earth. If you’ve ever wanted to captain the Queen Mary liner or slink about in a scruffy freighter, this is your chance. Of course much of the time it can get lonely at sea, so make lots of sandwiches for transatlantic runs. Most fabulous. In this ship simulation program you get to be the helmsman of your own fleet of ships. “Ships” will take you past worlds…

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Awesome May 20, 2009 posted by Dan

Earth Album – explore your planet

Earth Album is a very simple and very effective mashup of Flickr and Google Earth. Just move the cursor around and you’ll be stabbed in the eye with gorgeous imagery from your chosen country or region. You can then refine your search using keywords to focus on a particular area. There’s also a Cooliris version if photo walls are your thing. Have a quick look, you won’t be disappointed. [Photo of Svalbard from Flickr] Earth album is a simpler, slicker…

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Awesome May 19, 2009 posted by Nigel

Google Street View Trike – the awesomest high tech low tech solution ever

This Google Street View Trike is designed so the company can grab images from off-road footpaths and other inaccessible terrain in Europe for the Google maps application. First deployment will be Italy and then the UK. It is just wonderful what those guys come up with, although we’re feeling just a tad sorry for the poor geek dude who has to pedal the rig around the hedgerows. We’re assuming there’s electric pedal assist buried in there somewhere? The so-called Google Trike, which…

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Awesome May 18, 2009 posted by Nigel

Google search results update – lots of nice stuff arrives to bolster their style

Wow, Google has just updated its search results page and it’s a doozy. Just click on the ‘Show options..’ button at the top of your search results and you’ll get a an awesome list of subordinate criteria. What makes it v. cool is the excellent value of the filters, e.g. video, forums, reviews, time, images and even a very visual search Wonder Wheel option. Wow. Try it, it looks like an excellent addition to the page, and something I’ll be using…a…

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Awesome May 12, 2009 posted by Nigel

Xandros Presto – hands on with a real Microsoft Windows killer

Xandros Presto is one of those products which, provocative headlines aside, actually could be a game changer in the computing world. The software is basically Linux bundled as a Windows application, which means it’s fast and easy to install, and provides a bunch of cool benefits to Joe Public computer user. Point One: Yes of course you need Windows to run this, but the 5 minute installation is super simple and after that you need never see your Windows installation…

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Awesome May 8, 2009 posted by Nigel

Gruber Assist – the invisible electric bike retrofit

The Gruber Assist kit is a very cool electrical motor retrofit for standard bicycles which gives pedal assist power from an invisible drive train. The clever bit is to embed the 22 inch long motor and drive assembly into the frame by making it tubular, so instead of having to replace wheels, you just have to replace a seat pillar (video). The kit offers 200W of power, weighs a trifling 900 g and comes with a saddlebag housed NiMH battery (or LiION option)…

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Awesome May 5, 2009 posted by Dan

Nano Reisen – take a journey through the nano world

Nano Reisen is a fascinating interactive Flash trip into the nano world. The journey takes you through how light is created in LEDs, the structure of computer components and all the way down the biological rabbit hole through DNA and into the nucleus of a carbon atom. There’s a lot to digest and it’s very detailed but do yourself a favour and have look, you’ll need 10-15 minutes to do it some justice. It’s a German site, but multi-lingual with…

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Awesome April 30, 2009 posted by Nigel

Game Booster – maximise your computer power by switching off unnecessary processes

Game Booster is an awesome free utility that switches off unnecessary Windows background processes and programs to provide maximum performance for game playing. As we all know Windows sucks…has a habit of loading up all sorts of unimportant stuff in the background, so the ability to shut them all down is really excellent, even for standard computing needs. Up till now it’s been impossible to do this easily and fast, but this program changes all that. You can also set up a…

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Awesome April 30, 2009 posted by Dan

Memolio – super stylish digital photo printing service

Memolio is a fantastic new twist on getting your digital photos printed. Simply upload 24 of your favourite digital photos and they’ll print them onto a swish, business card sized (103 mm x 62 mm), fan-out display album. Each page is double-sided and printed on white polyester which is waterproof, tear-proof even compliant with toy regulations so they should be tough and kid friendly. Making the album is easy and everything is browser-based. Just upload 24 photos (.jpg, .gif or…

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Awesome April 30, 2009 posted by Dan

Jarrad Woods – how to quit your job in style

Everyone dreams of quitting a horrible job in a blaze of glory, but most of us end up just slinking out the door. What do you do then if you want to quit, stay on good terms with your old boss and still go out in style? Well if you’re a software developer like Jarrad Woods , you code your resignation notice in a Mario brothers-esque game and sit back and reap the publicity. When Jarrad resigned from software developer…

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Awesome April 29, 2009 posted by Dan

2008 TC3 – the surprise meteorite

Cast your mind back to the 7th of October, 2008. Anything special happen that day? Nope, me neither. Well as it happens, that was the day an asteroid became a meteorite and crashed to earth. So what, you say, meteorites hit the Earth all time. Well this one was a little different because astronomers knew it was going to hit us. The asteroid was called 2008 TC3, a 4 metre near-earth object that was first spotted by SpaceGuard orbiting just…

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Awesome April 29, 2009 posted by Nigel

Miro Adopt – adopt a line of code and help fund open source

Miro Adopt is a brilliant scheme to help fund one of the neatest open source projects around. Miro is an excellent free HD video player and TiVo type program grabber which will automatically download Internet video programming of your choice and store it on your hard disk for later viewing. Great for grabbing a whole series or must-have items like GeekBrief TV and TED Talks. It’s also BitTorrent friendly via LegalTorrent which makes it even more useful. Now the devs have…

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Awesome April 28, 2009 posted by Dan

The Hunt For Gollum – a Lord of the Rings fan movie

The Hunt for Gollum is a fan-made addition to the Lord of the Rings saga, with its world premiere on the 3rd of May, 2009. From a quick look at the two trailers, it’s looking pretty darn good. The script for the Hunt for Gollum has been pieced together from the appendices of the Lord of the Rings books. Chris Bouchard, the writer-director, then assembled a team of dedicated cast and crew and began filming around the UK. The 40…

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Awesome April 28, 2009 posted by Nigel

IdeaPaint – super cool paint turns any smooth wall into a whiteboard

IdeaPaint is a single coat roller applied paint that turns any smooth surface into a dry-erase writing surface. How cool is that? Of course it’s great for idea merchants, but maybe not so hot for conscientious (read fussy) homemakers who may blanche at the idea of a living room full of little Jimmy’s scribbles. But at work it’s gotta be awesome for team brainstorming rooms. It costs $199.50 for a 50 sq foot kit. Use IdeaPaint to transform office walls,…

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Awesome April 27, 2009 posted by Nigel

DIY High Speed Book Scanner – digitise your book library on the cheap cheap

This DIY High Speed Book Scanner is genius incarnate. It uses low cost materials – around $300 if you’re a good scavenger – and offers manual twin page scanning fast enough to do an average book in 20 minutes. Two cameras, two lights, a DIY book platen with perspex lid and that’s it. It’s efficient, simple, eco friendly and comes with some open source software for converting from images into PDF. Lovely stuff. Video. After suffering through scanning many of my…

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