Category: Cool Tool
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Ever Heard of DuckDuckGo?
What is DuckDuckGo? From their official website: “DuckDuckGo is a general purpose search engine that is intended to be your starting place when searching the Internet. Use it to get way more instant answers, way less spam and real privacy, which we believe adds up to a much better overall search experience.” From their privacy…
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Future of 3D Printing: Autodesk 123D
Reblogged from Cool Tools as I am waiting for my MakerBot to finish. Printing in 3D is now no more complicated than printing photos in Picasa. First you design something in Autodesk 123D (in my case, my first project was a device housing prototype). Then pick "Make" from the menu. You can print your…
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Sugru: Fixing My Dishwasher
In the interests of full disclosure I have to admit I have let the dishwasher go too long. But I had to toss out a perfectly good dishwasher just because the racks are gone, then my spouse reminds me the soap dish is wrong and as new owners are expected within the year, they will…
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Chrome Extension: Highlight to Search
Everyone has a list and a love of AddOns and Extensions for Firefox and Google. I am no different. And I have gone through the period of time when I have a lot of them, and when I have less of them. What made the largest difference in my use was when Google made it…
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iPod Magic
I found myself with a fully loaded iPod this week and without the iTunes library that used to support it. I downloaded, and copied to run from the iPod itself, Sharepod. From the website, Sharepod can: Add and remove music, videos, playlists and artwork on your iPod. Backup all those tracks you just can’t lose…