I’ve always aspired to have a video wall, until the thought of all those talking heads and ceaselessly moving images remind me to steer clear of the TV aisle for now. But thanks to video search engine Blinx, I can now have one virtually. You can customize your own video wall (6 screen or 16, you decide), or search the Blinx library. It’s not YouTube, but the video viewer is interesting. And the price is right.
The Web has revolutionized the way that people do research, and now it’s in the process of doing the same for learning. There are already numerous websites that cover how things work, how ‘to do things’, give tutorials, and provide detailed academic info. Video is starting to intrude on the predominently text-based industry as well. We can also look forward to more freely available interactive learning environments as sites learn how to monetize their sites without charging for their content.
Read the entire article featuring over a dozen of these learning/howto sites over at Gizmos for Geeks.
Two guys from Brazil demonstrate how to fix the dreaded red rings of death on the Microsoft Xbox 360. Reminds me of the “color” TV we had growing up. Two whacks on the side of the set and you got color. Source: YouTube via 1Pstart.com
Alice Update: I travel a lot and employ the hack in every elevator I can. Sadly, I have noticed that most elevators have disabled the “express mode” but every now and then you find one that works and zoom your way past many a crowded floor.
I use to live in New York and can still remember the searing pain brought about by grocery day. The items always looked manageable at the store, but the palm-cutting plastic grocery bag handles had a way of turning ugly after a few blocks. If I only had the One Trip Bag Holder - a simple handle you clip around your bags to make hauling more efficient and less painful.
Features:
• Soft Squeeze Grip
• 50 lb. capacity
• Made of high strength plastic
• Easy open thumb tab
• Durable locking tab - safely secures bags
• Dimensions: 6.5″H x 5.5″W x 1.0″D
You have to stare at this a little while to get a good sense of it (not that the contraption make sense in any way.) Looks like a scooter-drawn ox cart painting scaffold. Source: funniestgadgets.com
“[Unstoppable Copier] allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.”
This is silly yet interesting. First some facts about Google Maps: “Each marker and even the speech bubbles with further information cast a shadow on the maps and satellite images. While zooming in on the map, the pixel size of the markers on the screen always stay at the same size. But if their size is seen in relation to their environment they shrink when the user zooms in.”
Basically that knowledge got guy named Aram Bartholl all worked up, and he decided to re-create the map markers in real life. To scale. “The size of the rebuilt red Marker in reality corresponds to the size of a marker in the web interface in max zoom factor of the map.”
