Archive for August, 2008

Fotoviewr - turn your Flickr photos into a slideshow

| Posted Aug 31st, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


Fotoviewr is a new (free) Web-based service to turn your Flickr (or SmugMug) photos into a cooler interactive slideshow for your friends and family. You could easily get a slideshow set up in less than a minute with Fotoviewr - just plug in a Flickr/SmugMug username, then select the photoset you want to display and [...]

ZYB - Sync your Cell Phone’s contacts to the Web

| Posted Aug 30th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


Think about it for just 1 second - you don’t remember any phone numbers any more, do you? Yup, neither do I. Problem is that many of those numbers I need are only stored in my cell phone. I’ve got a Palm and even now, I fail to sync it to the Palm desktop software [...]

TuneUp - clean up your iTunes music collection

| Posted Aug 29th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


If you’ve got an iPod or an iPhone, then chances are that you use iTunes as well. You’ve spent hours and days ripping your CDs into iTunes, and well, you’ve got a bit of a mess, because all of the song titles, artists and cover art isn’t there. Sometimes, artist names end up with multiple [...]

Obama Takes #1 Spot on Twitter

| Posted Aug 25th, 2008 by methodshop [e-mail, website]


While John McCain is still learning how to use email (we’re not kidding), his U.S. Presidential competition has completely mastered the micro-blogging service Twitter.
This month, American presidential candidate Barack Obama dethroned Kevin Rose from Digg.com and became the most popular person on Twitter. According to Twitterholic, a website that measures the “followers” of Twitter accounts, [...]

Edison: freeware app to automate your computer’s energy use

| Posted Aug 24th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


Edison is a freeware application for your Windows XP or Vista machine that regulates its energy use, mainly by doing things like turning off your monitor, spinning down your hard drive and/or putting your computer into standby or hibernation.
Assuming you haven’t been a good boy/girl and already turned on some of those power-saving features, then [...]

33 Cool LEGO Creations

| Posted Aug 23rd, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


Trendhunter magazine has a nice article with a collection of cool creations either based on Legos or with Legos at its core. My favorites: Lego cufflinks, Lego Las Vegas, and ice trays that make ice Lego bricks.

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mophie Juice Pack extends iPhone’s battery life

| Posted Aug 22nd, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


If your an iPhone owner with a surfing/e-mail ‘habit’, then you may need some more juice (aka battery life). mophie has a product for the iPhone (and one for the iPod Touch too) called the Juice Pack that increases Standby Time to 250 hours, Talk Time to 8 hours, Video playback to 7 hours and [...]

iSpring Free converts PowerPoint presentations into Flash

| Posted Aug 20th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


For the geek that has to do presentations, iSpring Free is a neat little tool that converts your PowerPoint presentations into Adobe Flash slideshows. So no more sticking this slides up on the Web, and needing your visitors to download then open up on their computer (and they need to have Powerpoint Viewer at a [...]

Flatwire - clean up your cabling

| Posted Aug 19th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


You may love your gadgets, but hate the mess of cables that it typically involves. If you’ve got a bit of extra cash to spend on the ‘problem’, then you should take a look at FlatWire Technologies which is a company that makes FlatWire, ultra-thin, surface mounted wiring for audio, video, data and even low-voltage [...]

GraGraph home earthquake meter

| Posted Aug 18th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]


No, it’s not a predictor of impending quakes, but the GraGraph will sound an alert and tell you how large the earthquake is on the Richter scale (anywhere from 3 to 10).
Hopefully, you’ll never have to use it, so for that reason, it has a built-in LCD clock, alarm and night-light! The GraGraph will also [...]

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