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The Scosche boomCAN is portable speaker with built in USBchargeable battery for less than 25$. Available in red, blue, silver and black.
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The Scosche boomCAN is portable speaker with built in USBchargeable battery for less than 25$. Available in red, blue, silver and black.
1DollarScan is the most affordable scanning/digitizing solution provider in the world. Scanning a book costs one US Dollar for 100 pages. Currently available in Japan and San Jose, California, USA.
Pneumocell is an assembly-kit of inflatable building elements analogous to biological cell structures, which like large Lego bricks, can be quickly connected in numerous combinations to form complete constructions.
Labels: DIY, house, inflatable
Revolights is a Kickstarter based project for developing a revolutionary new bicycle light.
Labels: bicycle
The FlashToHTML5 Safari extension will automatically load the video at the highest quality available, WITHOUT advertisements! The only downside is that subtitles and user-captions are not displayed, but that's something, that may be added in the future.
If you are using a supported browser for YouTube, you can choose to use the YouTube HTML5 video player instead of the Flash player for most videos.
Labels: HTML5
Labels: hardware, Mac, Thunderbolt
From 7/23 on during the whole summer Spider Rock XL is located at the Marina Wien, Handelskai 343. There is a 360m long Flying-Fox and a so called Powerfan, where you can jump off a 30m high tower in near free fall. Open Wednesday and Thursday 4pm to 9pm, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 1pm till 9pm.
Labels: hardware, Mac, Thunderbolt
Apple introduced the new MacBook airs with Thunderbolt port, backlit keyboard, Intel HD graphics 3000 GPU, 1.6GHz i5 to 1.8GHz i7 CPUs and Bluetooth 4.0. Finally with a 256GB SSD BTO option for the 11 inch model (for 300$), but still no 8GB RAM, no Kensington security slot, no Infrared and still no 3G/4G WAN connectivity built in. Update: SSD seems to be soldered on the motherboard, so no more upgrades of the SSD as on the previous generation. Update 2: SSD is NOT soldered to the motherboard and is definitively replaceable as on the previous version. Great!
Labels: hardware, Mac, Thunderbolt
Since 7/20 MacOSX 10.7 is available as a 3.5GB download for less than 30$. Within a few weeks it will be available on a USBstick for less than 70$.
At whited00r you find up to date firmware files for iPhone 2G, 3G and iPod Touch 1G and 2G. All Whited00r firmwares are jailbroken. Latest Cydia release from Saurik is included and fully working. Whited00r enables all native features hidden in official Apple firmwares. Battery percentage, Multimedia Messages Service (MMS), tethering via bluetooth and via USB, Tap to Focus in camera, cellular data network fields and Emojii icons are only some examples., Whited00r includes the best video recording application. Recording quality is better then the one offered by application on AppStore. Moreover video are automatically exported to Photo folder (so you can easily import them to your Mac for example with iPhoto).
Are you fascinated by wolves, their biology, their relations with humans and the mysteries they still hold? Then take a look at the Wolf science center, located around 40 kilometers north of Vienna, Austria in the Ernstbrunn game park.
The Huawei E192 is a USB based UMTS/3G modem with built in DVB-T tuner, which you can use on MacOSX with the newest version of ElGatos EyeTV software.
Labels: connectivity, hardware, Mac, TV, USB
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is a mobile phone with Android 2.3, that includes a FMradio, miniHDMI and an outdoor viewable screen in an incredibly beautiful and slim package. One of the best mobile phones, I have ever used!
The JAMBOX is a portable speaker with Bluetooth, audio in port and microphone, that you can use as a speakerphone, but also as a portable speaker with amazing sound output. Battery life is around 10 hours for a full charge via microUSB. Cost is less than 200$, which sounds expensive, but if you ever saw, touched and listened to the JAWBONE, the price suddenly seems to be reasonable. Amazing!
The book Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition shows you how to use Wireshark to solve real-world network problems for less than 50$ including ebook versions.
The book Metasploit is the best penetration testers guide to the Metasploit framework for less than 50$ including ebook versions.
The book Manga guide to the universe shows you modern astronomy and astrophysics, as well as the classical discoveries and theories on which they’re built, for less than 20$ including ebook versions.
The book Manga guide to relativity explains the non-intuitive laws that shape our universe for less than 20$ including ebook versions.
The book Learn you a Haskell for great good is a hilarious, illustrated guide to this complex functional language. Packed with the author's original artwork, pop culture references, and most importantly, useful example code, this book teaches functional fundamentals in a way you never thought possible, all for less than 45$, including ebook versions.
Labels: book
With the book Land of LISP you can learn to program in LISP, one game at a time, for less than 50$. Includes lots of cartoons and ebook versions, too.
The book Programming iOS 4 by Matt Neuburg gets you a solid grounding in all the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With Programming iOS 4, you'll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. This book covers iOS 4 in a rigorous, orderly fashion—ideal whether you’re approaching iOS for the first time or need a reference to bolster existing skills. Paper version for less than 50$, ebook version less than 36$.
On 7/3 at 7.30pm Brian Ferry will give a live concert at the opera in Vienna, Austria.
With Mac screen rotate for MacOSX 10.6 you can rotate the screen and the trackpad of your MacBook air for less than 5$. Highly recommended! I have been waiting for something like this since ages!
With jailbreakme.com you can jailbreak iOS devices with iOS 4.3.3 without using a Mac or PC. You just visit jailbreakme.com with your mobile iOS device. Highly recommended!