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A follow up from our how-to use a multimeter video… Here’s a resister calc dashboard widget for Mac OS X – “Resistulator – A resistor calculator. It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is […]
Now *this* is a Mac collection, check out the homemade Mac bar! – Link.
I like the way osalt lists open source alternatives along with their commercial counterpart, very handy…. Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software: Find alternatives for Visio -> Dia, OpenOffice Draw or Kivio Or for iTunes -> Amarok or Banshee Check-out Microsoft Access, Photoshop or Norton Ghost on you own. Our mission is […]
Ray made a homemade, low-tech version of the supine computer desk/system (The Ergopod 500) – Thanks Joe! Link. Related: Office Organix, Ergopod 500 – Link.
This is pretty neat, a prototype of a USB drive that’s also a ruler. You could make one of these on your own from an old or freebie USB drive and some woodworking … [via] – Link.
Richjd posted up a PC application called R.EXE to help you learn about Ohm’s law… “OHM’s LAW – What it is. How it works. A personal LEARNING AID for the interested and patient learner. Just read the following pages with care or call them up using the HELP function under program execution. A) Learn the […]
Jim writes – “I just read your Google Calculator post, and thought you’d like Frink (which I prefer)… In this web interface, you can enter any arbitrarily complex Frink expression (see the documentation) in the “From:” box and click “Calculate”. If you also enter a value in the “To:” box, it is treated as the […]
