Nice review from MAKE pal Natalie Zee. If you want to take your knitting or your crochet projects to the next level, knitPro can let you add some personal touches through this online web application. Just upload a JPG of a pattern, image, type, or logo and instantly the application will generate a PDF graph that you can apply to your crafts project. Link.
LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters. We liberate the audio files through this webblog/podcast every week. Subscribed! Link. You can also listen to human and computer read ones from Project Gutenberg. Link.
Create Digital Music has a round up of some of the ways you can record audio with a portable device – my fav is still the iPod, running podzilla, but it’s not always the best of course…while Nano is certainly deeply drool-worthy for listening, wouldn’t it be great to have an iPod-like device for recording? Here are some of your options- Link.
Handy, I put mind on an iPod…Cross-platform Portable Firefox works by using John Haller’s excellent Portable Firefox 1.0.6 on the Windows side of things, and a little script I made on the Mac side of things. The script basically keeps two versions of all user profile files. The reason why is simple: as I am sure some of you have figured out, Windows Firefox profiles are not completely compatible with Mac Firefox, only certian files. Link.
“Have Fries Will Travel”. The book is an adventure story featuring “Rock” an eco-rap singer (strangely, this rapper wears a cowboy hat). He buys Tiny, a smelly diesel car, at a used car lot. Rock soon has Tiny running on vegetable oil from Rock’s favorite restaurant. With Tiny’s exhaust smelling like fries, the two set off on a road trip to encourage others to use biodiesel in their cars. Along the way, they visit farmers growing soybeans especially for making biodiesel. Link.
The Green Building is humming, and not just from activities in its labs and offices and classrooms. Thanks to Carrie Bodle (SM Visual Studies 2005), Building 54 has been turned into a giant speaker, resonating with sounds from the upper level of the Earth’s atmosphere. Every day, through Friday, Sept. 16, from 12-1 p.m., “Sonification / Listening Up,” a large-scale sound installation using 35 speakers installed on the south facade of the building, will broadcast an abstract sound collage generated from research data collected in the ionosphere. Link.
Here’s a PDF you can print out and construct your own iPod nano out of paper. The site is in Spanish, but it’s pretty easy to figure out what needs to be done, and it’s actual size too! Link.
