Archive for August, 2008
DIY IKEA Headphone Stand [DIY]
All-things-IKEA weblog IKEA Hacker details how to make an attractive headphone stand for your desk—complete with cable-wrapping posts for cord management—using roughly $15 worth of returned parts from IKEA. The outcome, which you can check out at IKEA Hacker or in the many larger pics at the original forum post, is really impressive. The headphone [...]
Direct Line Takes You Straight to an Operator [Featured IPhone Download]
iPhone only: Inventive iPhone app Direct Line navigates automated phone systems to get you directly to an operator without having to sift through menu options yourself. To use it, just launch the app, tell it who you want to call (it supports hundreds of searchable companies), and let it take care of the rest. You [...]
Get the Most Out of Your New Town [Ungeek To Live]
Editor’s Note: Welcome my San Diego-based pal Kelly Abbott, founder of Dandelife and all-around good guy. His new weekend post series, Ungeek to Live, will highlight the ways you can get things done without always involving a computer or gadget. Not all things analog can go digital, and let’s face it, most things worth a [...]
David Levy on Having No Time to Think [Weekend Watching]
The whole reason why you spend time streamlining, automating, and speeding up your workflow isn’t to work more—it’s to make time for important things computers can’t do, like thinking. Professor David Levy argues, however, that our fast-paced world doesn’t allow for time to think deeply, the time when we come up with our best ideas [...]
Ten Words to Clinch Scrabble Victory [Fun]
Weblog mental_floss rounds up 10 short and sweet words for getting rid of your tough-to-unload but point-heavy letters at your rousing weekend game of Scrabble. We’re talking words like Aa, Qat, Zax, Cwm, Xu, and five others that are short enough to fit anywhere and will hold up to a dictionary inquest. Got your own [...]
Family Goes Cash-Only, Saves Serious Money [Credit Cards]
The Farhat family cut up all their credit cards except for one (which they put on ice), and found that living plastic-free saved them 24%—because they just didn’t buy the things they didn’t have money to afford at the moment. They cut down on time spent shopping, too. Marissa Farhat said, “I don’t have enough [...]
Frost-Proof Meat with “Drugstore Wrap” [Food]
The TipNut weblog offers an illustrated guide to wrapping meat in freezer paper for an airtight seal. It’s not hard to learn, as the major trick is folding and re-folding the creases to push out the air, along with keeping the fold tight while you tape it off. Once you’ve mastered the “drugstore wrap,” you’ll [...]
VuClip Delivers Videos to Your Phone [Cellphones]
Trying to find videos from some of your favorite video mega sites like YouTube and Daily Motion can be a pain on a phone. Web site VuClip provides a mobile-friendly search engine for a large pool of video sites, delivering those videos seamlessly to your phone. In my tests with a Windows Mobile phone and [...]
Songsterr Brings Rhythm to Guitar Tabs [Music]
When you learned to play an instrument online, you found out that teaching yourself to read tablature was a must for the aspiring guitarist. (If you’ve ever tried to learn a song on the internet, you’ve without a doubt seen tab before.) One major problem with reading tab and translating it to your guitar is [...]
How To Build an Album Art Wall on the Cheap [Step By Step]
While sprucing up our place earlier this year, we decided the wall above our mantle could use some art. Rather than pony up for frames, artwork, or blown up photographs, I decided to take advantage of the cheap albums in the dollar bin of my local record store to add beautiful artwork to my living [...]
