Here’s Hack #87, Display Negative Time Values, from David and Raina Hawley’s Excel Hacks, 2nd Edition. Millions of users create and share Excel spreadsheets every day, but few go deeply enough to learn the techniques that will make their work much easier. Yet there are many ways to take advantage of Excel’s sophisticated capabilities without […]
Here’s a twitter-free version of how to get plants to indicate they need water using about $1.50 in parts, thanks Ben! Link. Related: HOW TO – Make plants talk! They’ll Twitter you when they need to be watered (and more)… – Link.
Here’s a pretty simple way to make the camera on your iPhone into a decent one. Create a macro-lens for your iPhone by taping a broken digital camera lens to the camera and attaching it with a paper clip. Pretty nice. Macro-Lens hardware Mod – [via], Link
Regine @ we make money not art on Design Interactions Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada’s “Animal superpowers” – Animals have senses beyond human experience, they instinctively feel approaching tsunamis through low frequencies, communicate through pheromones or can navigate through magnetic fields. Students of Design Interactions Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada, in collaboration with MBA students […]
This is a great how-to on building a GPS system for your DSLR camera. The pictures are tagged with the exact GPS coordinates for later reference. Nice work! This version eliminates the need for the expensive MC-35 and even the special 10-pin connector. I’ve opted for a quick GPS receiver and encased everything in a […]
Improv Everywhere brought desktop computers into Starbucks, complete with CRT monitors, and went about their compubusiness. It’s called Mission: Mobile Desktop. Try it at home! – [via] Link.
This is awesome news from the GameCube Linux Wiki: 24 Feb 2008: Long time, no see Although we haven’t posted any news in the last 2 years, we have silently continued our work keeping the kernel patches up to date. With the latest 2.6.24 release we have added support for the USB Gecko adapter as […]
