The first ever Ignite Boston was an amazing time; wall-to-wall FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. We started out the night with drinks and a bridge-building competition. A couple of rounds of lightning talks later, and people were ready for the next one! Keep your eye on the Makezine and Ignite […]
Randy writes in – This is the volkemon, (See revver aka leafblower post…and others…) not posting lately recovering from computer crash…. I live in Melbourne FL, south of the shuttle launch. We were told by local talk radio to be watching for the colors produced by the rocket exaust duing sunset… Thanks Randy, these are […]
Miss Twiss shows you how to sew an easy fashionable tie-belt. Link.
To save bandwidth and make code harder for third parties to understand, a lot of web developers will use a Javascript compression or obfuscation tool. There are a number of methods used, but almost all of them save space by removing all unnecessary whitespace. There’s a useful GNU command line utility called “indent” that can […]
Loom Knitters Circle has their new summer issue up! Check out all the great tutorials and patterns such as these Tulip Socks and the Market Tote. Link.
Hackszine reader Pete Warden is the author of a cool Firefox extension called PeteSearch. He wrote in to tell us about his progress with porting the functionality to IE: PeteSearch is an extension that mashes up Google (and Ask, Technorati, Live and Exalead) search pages to give you hot-keys, dead-link checking and split-screen preview. Now […]
Making Time has a roundup of crafty stitching fonts like the Singer Mears font above. Lots of cute free fonts! Link.
