I have created a script that generates a new chess puzzle from a database once a day. The puzzles can be email to you or you can subscribe via a RSS feed. A list of past chess puzzles Subscribe to the chess puzzle a day RSS feed Subscribe to a chess puzzle a day mailing [...]
On very bus stop in Vancouver there is a 5 digit code near the top left or button right that is used to identify the bus stop. i have often wondered why I can look up the bus schedules via this number especially when I call up Chris at Translink automationed phone system. People in [...]
bookmarks for funvill 120,000 Volt Van De Graaff Generator Here’s how to make a 120,000 Volt Van De Graaff generator using metal mixing bowls, PVC pipe, a bucket, a 540 size motor, copper wire brushes and a pair of pantyhose – Tagged as: [tag]physics[/tag] [tag]projects[/tag] Creating Smoke | Abduzeedo by design Some time ago I [...]
Thank to the help of herebox.org I was able to add the ability to get new links from my del.icio.us account and post them on this site once a week. the script uses curl instead of fopen which is much more secure. I made a few changes to the script. Instead of posting the links [...]
One of my new favorite spots The atmospheres is pretty nice, they have an area where you can sit down on the floor on pillows, and the normal chair and table area with pleasant music plays in the background. The portions are smaller the some of the other places I have been too but it [...]
When you add a caption to an image in Google’s Picasa/Picasa2 (and some other image editing programs) the caption is saved in a special spot in the imaged header section called IPTC data. While creating the IPTC mod for the simple gallery script I had to extract the IPTC information for the title of the [...]
Kyle Cooper has directed over 150 film title sequences, and has been credited with “almost single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form”. He is the founder of two internationally recognized film design companies, Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films. Cooper earned a M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, where he [...]
Ceramic Egglings look and feel just like real eggs, Just crack one open, add water. Perfect for brightening any home or office space. Plants thrive for months in their shell and can be replanted in soil. Spicy red pepper, lavender and wild strawberries, and many others. Price $9.50 US, each. Elsewares.com
A while ago I was looking for a truly upload and go photo gallery one that does require a database. I found an abandoned PHP project called Simple PHP gallery by Paul Griffin. No database required, automatically generates thumbnails, auto generates gallery layout based off of file structior, a truly upload and go photo gallery. [...]
How to make cheap plastic babies with plastic wrap and clear tape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX7QzfNS3xk A gallery and videos can be found on mark jenkins website, it looks like he mainly builds sculptures out of plastic wrap and clear tap. Imagen creating a scare crow with the same technique, or filling them up with LEDs to make [...]
When you take a snap shot with your digital camera your camera also saves some extra meta information to the file called Exif data. Different camaras save different information to the Exif portion of your picture most of the time it will contains information like Manufacturer, Model, Orientation, Software, Date and Time, YCbCr Positioning, Compression, [...]
I hate buying batteries, I hate having to turn my house up side down looking for a fresh battery when I desperately need it. I will go out of my way to make sure that all my little gadgets have built in NiMH/NiCd Cells with adapters that I plug in each nigh. USBCELL are your [...]
A video where lassegg hits each note on a drum and piano separately and edited them together to make a song. Its pretty good if you ask me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo Some “Youtube” people are saying that he ripped off Michel Gondry’s video but there is a pretty important difference between the two. Michel Gondry’s is mixing [...]
I found this great plug-in for [tag]Wordpress[/tag] that allows your users to subscribe to a posts comments, any reply to the post will be sent to there email automatically. This is much easier then having to check back on the post periodically to see if anyone has made a response to your response or subscribe [...]
Isnoop.net has created a package tracking tool that will map your UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL/Airborne package’s progress with Google Maps. Just enter your tracking number (the tracker automatically detects which company your package was shipped with) and press enter and you will be presented with a map of the progress of your package. Also [...]
Most people that I talk to find RSS feeds confusing. They don’t want to set up a feed reader , they can seem to understand that it could save them time in the long run and helps them organize all the blogs and news groups that they they read. Checking 35 websites every day just [...]
www.Johnchow.com has an excellent post about the importations of deep linking. With the advent of scrapers (A robot that reads blog posts RSS feeds and creates copies of content for there own website) alot of your content can be easily stolen but if you include some links to posts in your post they will be [...]
What is Google Talk or GTalk Google talk (GTalk) is a instance message client and voice over IP client provided by Google. GTalk uses an open protocal called XMPP that allowes for other XMPP instance message clients to communicate with Google’s GTalk network. XMPP is the same protocal that Jabber is based off so any [...]
If you have more than one system running XP you have obviously purchased more than one copy of the Operating System. However you may have forgotten which Product Key you used for which system. It happens. I have 5 systems and have had all of them running XP at times. XP does not store the [...]
While creating a post about julie-feeney a wonderful musician I wanted to post some streamable samples of her music. Most Projects that I found where overly complicated and bloated with features that I just didn’t need. I was about to give up and use Quicktime plugin untill i found audio-player-wordpress-plugin by 1pixelout.net its exactly what [...]