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Interesting, so PDF is going to be an open ISO standard…. The Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification for AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) – there of course a lot of efforts going on with (open document format) too. MAKE sends out […]
Here’s a great list of Flickr hacks from Thomas Hawk, he writes – “One of the nice things about Flickr is that because of their open API a whole host of developers have built more and more interesting things to do with the site. It’s interesting to me today that so many of the ways […]
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.
