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 […]
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 […]
Google Maps has added traffic information for more than 30 U.S. cities. If available in your area, real-time traffic conditions will be displayed over the highway as color coded lines. Each color represents how fast the traffic is moving: Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 – 50 miles per hour Red: less […]
They’re sold out, but this a good bundle to get started with RFID — Dare You Experiment with the RFID Devil? Depending on who you ask, RFID technology is either the “Mark of the Beast”, or a global panacea destined to rescue the grocery stores and Walmarts of the world from shoplifting. But any good […]
The tinker.it blog (and site) has tons of great projects for designers and artists, like this one a Multitouch table – This is an experiment based on “frustrated total internal reflection” aka FTIR. This is a very basic demo and we did it just to see how it work and it took us just 4 […]
Click To Play Since its beta release, Parallels has let Mac users run Windows simultaneously with Mac OS X on any Intel Mac, which is a real boon whenever you need that one Windows-specific program you just can’t avoid. But the recent Official Update (free for all registered users of Parallels Desktop) offers the ability […]
This is pretty straight forward, this maker took apart one of those hand cranked flashlights and soldered in a plug for his phone – this video shows you how – Use A Flashlight To Power Your… Video – Link.
