It’s time consuming, but with the right process you can transform your vinyl collection into digital audio for archiving, sharing and playing on portable devices. To make the most of your ripped analogs, you’ll need to go a little further than just recording the audio with your sound card. There’s the whole process of normalizing […]
WIKISKY lets you see what’s up in the heavens above. You can locate many deep sky objects, get detailed information on them by simply hovering your mouse, and see high-quality Sloan Digital Sky Survey images for selected parts of the sky. Type in your current location, verify your timezone, and you can use WIKISKY to […]
As frustrated as I’ve been with Spotlight and all that I think it should be able to do but just doesn’t quite get right, I was interested in today’s news that Google Desktop is finally available for the Mac. Finally, I can search my Gmail account from my desktop and use some more sophisticated search […]
Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is awesome, he’s turning down endorsement deals and bring a $15 basketball shoe to market. I’ve always wondered why basketball shoes were so expensive, the answer is – because they can be. It’s an interesting culture hack, and parents/kids who can’t afford $150+ for pricey shoes can still hit the […]
Here’s a gigantic collection of 9800 free fonts, they seem to be pretty good and easy to search for stuff you might need. As always you get what you pay for, so (non)buyer beware – [via] Link.
Mark Danburg-Wyld sent a link to a site devoted to games developed entirely in Excel. Are you limited in what games your company’s IT/IS department will leave installed on your work machine? Well, it seems very unlikely they will take Excel away from you. And Excel, among other things, is an interesting development platform for […]
Brian Oberkirch has a great article about designing for “hackability” – the article tends to focus on software, but it’s equally applicable for (some) hardware too… In a world where anyone can create, mimic, remix Web components, the ideas that spread most easily and completely, win. Simple. You want attention? Make it simple for people […]
