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December 2009
*NEW!* Dirt Cheap Advertising Secrets Audio Course By Brett - Download Audio Books / Teaching
DIY Book Scanning
In January 2009, I made a cheap, simple book scanner and in April I put the complete plans online. Since then, many people have built their own scanners and made incredible improvements. This site is a place where we work together to further the art of DIY book scanners and software.
A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network
HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to be a "Central Nervous System for the Earth" (CeNSE). It's a research and development program to build a planetwide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors."
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November 2009
Build a Cheap But Powerful Boxee Media Center - Boxee - Lifehacker
New Phones
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October 2009
s3fs-fuse - Project Hosting on Google Code
Amazon's S3 is a nice and cheap way to have a remote backup system. But it is REST based which make it not very easy to use. This project just add the normal file system semantic to it.
SpamCop.net - Beware of cheap imitations
September 2009
Cheap Fisheye - a set on Flickr
Discount Usability: 20 Years (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Simple user testing with 5 participants, paper prototyping, and heuristic evaluation offer a cheap, fast, and early focus on usability, as well as many rounds of iterative design.
russell davies: meet the new schtick (2)
Mr Gray was smart enough to realise two things; firstly that Lulu have made the mechanics of book-making so cheap and easy that you can move straight to the physical form of the thing as soon as you want. The best way to write a book is bundle all your notes and rough thoughts together and stick them in a book. Then carry that around, make amendments, even invite other people to do the same, until you fancy making another version. And one day, who knows there'll be a definitive 'finished' version. But maybe there never will be.
August 2009
