Gapminder is an interactive utility for examining world statistics. It’s extremely cool if you’re curious about things like the relationship between income and life expectancy or carbon emissions and internet use. There is a scrubber for adjusting the date, so you can see how the data points have changed over time. I wonder if internet […]
Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the live web. Here are a few spoiler tips: Use Google Reader (keyboard commands make browsing faster) Use “all items view” to […]
Thanks to spammers, we now are forced waste a substantial portion of time every day, typing in obfuscated wiggly letters to prove we are human. reCATPCHA is a slick idea for using the CAPTCHA system for doing something productive (…besides distinguising between homo sapien and homo computatralis). With reCAPTCHA, the user is given two words, […]
jkOnTheRun has a great trick for cleaning the Mighty Mouse trackball: First slightly and carefully moisten the ball, I used spit on my fingertip. :) Then take a clean sheet of paper and turn the Mighty Mouse upside down. Run the ball rapidly in all directions on the paper. In about 5 seconds my problem […]
According to the completely authoritative sources of youtube and metacafe, you can extend the range of your car remote by holding the remote to your head. It’s easy enough to test, and if it works it could come in handy for finding your car in the parking lot. So far, I’ve found two videos demonstrating […]
A Series of Tubes is an AppleTV plugin that allows you to browse and view YouTube videos on your AppleTV. It’s currently in private beta and supposed to be released any day now. With a recent Digg mention, the dev team will hopefully be psyched enough to wrap up the beta stage and get rev […]
Ryan from 5Pears.org stopped by the Hacks booth at the Maker Faire yesterday. He’s been traveling for the last 50 days across the country on his bike, using his phone and a GPS to automatically update a map which details the route he’s taken, where he is, and where he’s stopped for things like gas […]
