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2008-06-08

The teasmade is making a comeback

"A gentle sound softens the blast from even the most raucous alarm clock in thousands of bedrooms.

A low, distant humming which is not usually enough to wake you, but is oddly comforting if it does."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-461366/The-teasmade-making-comeback.html

Motion Sensing SpotOn LED Light

"SpotOn is a small and portable handsfree light that’s perfect for lighting dark areas such as the closet, cupboard, dresser and hallway. Installation is just peel and stick. An integrated motion sensor turns the light on automatically when it detects movement."

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2008/03/15/motion-sensing-spoton-led-light/

Telescope could focus light without a mirror or lens

"A proposed space telescope would focus light primarily with a patterned sheet of metal rather than a large mirror or lens. The telescope would have amazingly sharp vision and could spot Earth-size planets around other stars, its backers say."

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13820-telescope-could-focus-light-without-a-mirror-or-lens.html

Fontstruct

"FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks."

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Salvation Army Special Forces

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-05/bizarro-salvation-army-special-forces.jpg

Telnet Ascii Star Wars

"... a telnet server that broadcasts Star Wars Episode IV to your command line as animated tevixt."

http://lifehacker.com/373571/watch-star-wars-in-text-via-telnet

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Find Flickr image by sketching

Flickrvision

http://flickrvision.com/

Flickr Tag Galaxy

http://www.taggalaxy.de/

Caethglud yr ebol

Another delightful photograph from Brynmeillion

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brynmeillion/2539208803/

Update Scanner

"Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don't provide Atom or RSS feeds."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3362

Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool

"... displays a Lynx view of a web page via right-click or Tool menu..."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1944

Screengrab

"Screengrab saves entire webpages as images..."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146

LinkChecker

"Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today."

http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/linkchecker/

Backup Firefox Passwords (the Manual Way)

"Sure there are tools, downloads and services that may do this for you, but what fun is that? Just in case you don’t feel the need to download another addition to the browser just yet - here is how you can backup your Firefox saved passwords the manual way."

http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/05/20/backup-firefox-passwords-the-manual-way/

shortText.com Firefox Extension

"shortText.com Firefox Extension lets you create a URL for any selected text in Firefox. "

http://shorttext.com/extension.aspx

Database add-on for Firefox: SQLite Manager 0.2.39

"Then I came across the SQLite Manager add-on for Firefox and was surprised (quite pleasantly)! This add-on is a full-featured management tool that just happens to live within your FF installation. How nice is that, I say?"

http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/2008/05/database-add-on-for-firefox-sqlite.html

7 Ways to Copy Successfully in Firefox

"Sure, you can highlight with your mouse, right-click and copy - but why do that when there are so many awesome add-ons for Firefox that will help you get it done better and faster? If your looking for an extension to help power up your browser’s copying of links, information and more I have seven of them that should help you get the job done."

http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/04/29/7-ways-to-copy-successfully-in-firefox/