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 […]
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 […]
Jim writes – “I just read your Google Calculator post, and thought you’d like Frink (which I prefer)… In this web interface, you can enter any arbitrarily complex Frink expression (see the documentation) in the “From:” box and click “Calculate”. If you also enter a value in the “To:” box, it is treated as the […]
Computer controlled rapid manufacturing meets Nixie, Big Blue Saw writes – “This gorgeous image was sent in by one of our customers, who used parts from Big Blue Saw to make a Nixie clock. This digital clock uses Nixie tubes, neon tubes which display the time. The creator, Joe Hoffman, tells us that the Nixie […]
Here’s how to make a really cool Google Earth panorama viewer – “DigitalUrban is pleased to release its Panorama Viewer for Google Earth. The viewer has been created to be as easy to use as possible, all that is needed is a panorama – either from your local drive or via the web at sites […]
