The site is about a home-built, all-purpose machine tool that can do every type of job a regular machine shop does and that can be easily built with scrap material. Although it weighs almost a thousand pounds, the machine tool is capable of doing accurate work on everything from the smallest models to large industrial parts. They sell the plans for it, looks kinda neat. Link.
Is this the end of Word as we know it? Scribe adds Word Processor like functionality to web forms, including opening and saving form entries as files. Open and save form entries as files. Quickly save to a local file as you type. Never lose a post again due to your internet connection being dropped or laptop battery going out. [via] Link. OpenOffice, Word, Pages, all word processing apps should all have hooks like this.
Adjusting the power supply voltage to your CPU can make all the difference between an erratically performing speed-hack and a stable screaming demon. Overclockers love to tweak every available parameter in attempts to squeeze every bit of performance out of their CPUs and system boards. Cranking up the speed is the most obvious way to get the CPU to run faster, but to get or keep it running at higher speeds you may have to jack up the CPU’s power supply voltage a notch or two. Link.
Here’s another neat site that takes any URL you give it and makes a mobile version. I tried it with the MAKEzine.com site and it looks really good. I wonder if this, along with RSS viewers / services for mobile devices is how we’ll just use the mobile web–no one really seems to want to create another version just for phones. [via] Link. (You might need to hit refresh after it loads for some reason).
…your weekend iPhoto fun project: the Life Poster, Tiger Edition. Select 96 photos in your iPhoto library, click a button, then sit back and watch while your Mac does the work of assembling the photos into a spectacular poster. Link.
I’ve been thinking about using Audio book services that distribute audio books on CD. I’m trying out Simply Audio Books and added Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I’ve wanted to read this for awhile, now I can listen to it. As an added bonus, Bradbury reads the book himself. Here’s a screen shot of the audio book added to my “Bookshelf.” I’ll keep posting once the CDs get here.
Evio violin simulator, works kind of like one of those Beatamania things, you play the violin along with the on screen prompt and get a score depending on how well you do. Works via motion sensors that detect if you’re moving the bow across the strings right. There is also a “Evio Jr.” aimed at the wee ones that has a Karaoke function. [via] Link.
