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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007-
Some of the business and technical guidelines that Amazon.com follows – it’s a great recipe of sucsess and looks to empower their employees to improve their platform and innovate.
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Download Squad does a deep dive on The big G’s house – it really is a modern wonder of engineering and luxury. Remind me to buy a house like that some day.
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Now this is cool – Sodium Acetate hypersaturated in water condensing in real time to form cool shapes.
links for 2007-09-17
Monday, September 17th, 2007-
Less than three months – not too bad. I can’t help but wonder if the next iPhone firmware will reverse this hack. With Apple potentially taking a hit in revenue by not getting paid by AT&T it would make sense.
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Art, creepy style
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Uncomfortable as it might be this chairs graceful swooping curves look cool. If it were not for the ~$2m pricetag I’d be tempted to get one for Le Cinema Sparks.
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Different ways to capture thoughts via voice. Cool ways to keep those fleeting thoughts at hand!
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Well that didn’t take long – not weeks after Apple released new iPods featuring security hashes to prevent non-iTunes syncing and some clever lads have cracked the code and unlocked syncing on Linux and other platforms
links for 2007-09-16
Saturday, September 15th, 2007-
These look pretty slick – The extra buttons and scroll wheel could be useful. I might have to replace my Graphire 3!
links for 2007-09-15
Friday, September 14th, 2007-
Cool – Google Earth is adding new countries. I just popped it open and am having a blast exploring around the Middle East.
links for 2007-09-14
Thursday, September 13th, 2007-
“Snoot” DIY flash hack for speedlight and similar flashes
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Gizmodo points us to a neat office-hack: hiding the beer fridge!
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A guy put a bell jar over the entrance of a beehive and took photos of the bees building honecomb within. Neat!
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A nice modern take on a knife block – complete with blinkenlights!
My Twitter updates for 2007-09-12
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007- Headed home – Red Robin cravings are killing me – I might have to kill them back!
- The car in front of me on 520 literally just CAUGHT ON FIRE!
- My Red Robin craving is vanquished, but as a result I am 100% beached on the couch.
- Watching the TNG finale: All Good Things.
- Poking around some more with Twitter Tools and configuring the del.icio.us auto-poster. Nothing beats automatic display of gradual content.
- See – I wasn’t kidding: the car in front of me on the way home really did CATCH ON FIRE! http://tinyurl.com/yutzlr
- Laying in bed watching bonus content from the Red Dwarf complete collection.
- Showered and dressed but not really awake…
- Feeling surprisingly human again after my second cup of coffee.
- Waiting for the worlds slowest printer…
- Headed to lunch. Mmmmm lunch!
- Writing overly-detailed support guides.
- Cheering our resident iPhone hacker on in his battle for server optimization!
- Driving home… I wonder if the car in front of me will catch fire again?
links for 2007-09-13
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007-
An interesting write-up on iPhone sales. Apple is estimated to sell 18,000-27,000 iPhones PER DAY in the US!
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A collection of 20 reference sources on the internet.
Gradual content creation
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007I’ve been experimenting around with Twitter Tools and the del.icio.us auto-post blogging tool. They make for an easy way to gradually add content to Futurist Now without having to actually sit down and write a full post. The web links from the day that interest me can go through a workflow into my del.icio.us account, and inane babble about my day fits quite nicely into Twitter. I’ve placed both of these into the new infobits category to make it neat and tidy.
Not that I’ll stop writing real content by any means – just an easy way to share things that interest me day to day.
Update 1 week later: It was a great idea while it lasted, but I’ve pulled the twitter and del.icio.us posts as I’ve gotten a surprising amount of negative feedback from my users. Lesson learned.
links for 2007-09-12
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007-
A machine which fixes unhappiness by adding ice cream
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Applying the limitations of Haiku poetry to a GTD like approach to productivity. A little too restrictive for me, but an interesting idea.
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Not interested in paying $0.99 a track for ringtones for the iPhone on the iTunes store? 8 other ways to get custom ringtones onto the iPhone.
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Apple internal developers take on the iPhone hacking community
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According to the article these are undocumented Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. I found a few of them documented in the menus, but still a nice list for quick reference.