Year: 2007

Spool Knitting 101

Diane of CraftyPod has gotten me facinated with spool knitting with her post which has lots of photos of the process. Diane says, “This type of knitting, sometimes called corking, is familiar to Girl Scouts and schoolkids the world over, and yields thin, hollow tubes of knitting. They can be used for trim, of course, […]

A digital stereoscopic viewer

This is pretty neat, the prototype was made with a 3D printer too– Neochroma is a mobile phone attachment that puts a big screen into the palm of your hand. The installed base of camera phones has reached 850 million in 2006. 1.5 billion are predicted for 2010 (source: Lyra Research). While billions of shots […]

Pipe Your News Ticker

Pipe Your News Ticker

Via the Hacks Authors’ Blogs feed, we find Jim Bumgardner’s Pipes Picayune & Daily Tube mashup news ticker: Headlines from a BBC RSS feed are fed, via Y! Pipes, to my news ticker, which is implemented in Flash. Click on the spinning newspaper to read the story in full on the original website. This widget […]

Pass the Ly Detector

Pass the Ly Detector

Writing wonks and anal editors rejoice! Gina Trapani just released her Ly Detector as a Greasemonkey script! If you’re at all familiar with Strunk and White, you know that excessive use of adverbs – words that end in -ly – isn’t a sign of strong writing. All of us writers struggle with sentence-weakening generally’s and […]

Browse Craigslist Photos with Listpic

Browse Craigslist Photos with Listpic

Over at Parent Hacks, Asha Dornfest points to Listpic, a “visual Craigslist browser” that lets you search your city’s Craigslist listings by keyword or category and display the results as image thumbnails. Price and location are included with the photo, mousing over reveals some details on the item, and clicking the image opens a pop-up […]