Category: Cool Tool

  • Save or Toss

    I always run into the decision of whether to save or toss an item. Tools, especially ones that no longer give joy, or apparent service, are a real mind bender. I have carried a number with me through moves as sometimes it is hard to do a job without the tool at hand, and some…

  • 50 Apps to Track Everything…

    Our mobile phones are powerful – crazy powerful. We’re approaching a point now where our Android or iPhone is essential to our everyday lives, and attached to us almost every minute of every day. But, we also want more control. Technology is a great way for us to analyse and optimise our lives, and with…

  • Paper Airplane Machine Gun

    From PopSci: Sometimes, a person accomplishes something so great, so revolutionary, that all they can do is smile as wide as humanly possible and show off the thing. This paper airplane gun, crafted by a 3-D printing and paper airplane enthusiast, is such a device. Wordlessly, the operator fires a series of paper airplanes. Then,…

  • Top Methods from the 2013 World Aeropress Championships

    I am off to try these new recipes this weekend! These are the top 2 Aeropress methods from the 2013 World Aeropress Championships… Jeff Verellen’s winning recipe : 17 grams coffee ground 5.75 on the uber grinder, little courser than paper filter. Rinsed normal filter, aeropress in regular position. 50 grams of water at 83c…

  • Simpler Printing Using Google Cloud Print

    From Google Chrome Blog Have you ever needed to print a boarding pass, whitepaper, or speech, and didn’t have your computer at hand? Google Cloud Print helps you print from anywhere to anywhere using any device, and we’ve recently made several improvements on that front. First, if you have an Android smartphone or tablet, we’ve…

  • Portable Steel Coffee Grinder

    I was in Athens, GA, home of UGA and @petebikes showed me his Porlex JP-30 Stainless Steel Coffee Grinder and this is going to replace my Braun which is common but relatively less useful being neither adjustable, useful (as it heats the coffee and packs it), or manual.  Without it being manual it is useless…

  • The Incredible Secret Money Machine

    I found this on Cool Toolsm file it under freelancing – Incredible Secret Money Machine When I first started to get serious about making money I ran into this book written in 1978 by a hippy-hacker living in Arizona. His advice was aimed at “craft and technical” types who wanted to create a small business…