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Category: Maker

  • Ask an Engineer

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    From adafruit comes “Ask An Engineer” on Vimeo.  Sign up and watch, read the Adafruit blog, get online and ASK! See all the videos.

  • DorkbotPDX: People Doing Strange Things with Electricity.

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    DorkbotPDX About DorkbotPDX DorkbotPDX has crawled out of the womb and is in the now permanent (revolutionary) process of defining itself. We are a community of creative types who enjoy experimenting, finding art in technology and pushing the limits of whatever is in front of us. We meet on an regular, informal basis every other…

  • Rapportive

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    The company name Rapportive says it all, build rapport with the people you GMail.  I am using the Rapportive Chrome Extension and it pulls up the recent tweets and other information from users you receive and send emails to.  This tool is working out well to increase the professionalism of my Customer Relationship Management.

  • Wi-Fi Troubleshooting

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    I recently begain using inSSIDer 2 to troubleshoot WLAN networks, primarily because I am running Windows 7 on 64-bit machines and this one works very well with that.  MetaGeek has done a nice job and I suppose it was time I upgraded from NetStumbler.

  • In The Shop: Miro 3.0 and the New Miro Video Converter

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    Drop on over to GetMiro.com and download the new Miro 3.0 which is billed as “Faster, louder, smoother, subtitles!” and upgrade.  For those who don’t use Miro to organize and play all your video files as well as subscribe to Hulu, TED and an amazing amount of other feeds, well, why not? What I am…

  • A nice article on the schedule of a MAKEr

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    Paul Graham has a nice explanation of the difference in time and schedules between makers and managers at http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html.  For those of us who have worked at large companies it is the explanation of why we always sound like we have plans (Dilbert) but never accomplish them.  One of the nuggets in the article is…

  • NerdyShirts :: The Most Awesome Shirts in the World :: funny t-shirts

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    NerdyShirts :: The Most Awesome Shirts in the World :: funny t-shirts Price: $20.00 We are proud to bring you probably the most cutting edge t-shirt of the 21st century. This t-shirt features a magical talk bubble which you or your friends can write, draw or scribble on. Once enough hilarity has ensued, toss it…