Wonderful Thoughts A weblog about latest news and reveiws on technology,science,computing,software and autoblog. Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 0 0 0 850

Articles from Wonderful Thoughts

Setting Up The Mac Mini 2007-08-24 16:13:55 The Mac Mini set up has been so far, so good, and less work than I predicted. Apple has a great tool called the Migration Assistant, which walks you through some steps. You basically hook up your new Mac to the old one with a Firewire cable, boot the old Mac into target disk mode, [...] ...

Movie Notes: Do Or Die 2007-08-24 16:13:53 Note: This is an entry in the Second Webomatica Contest: So Bad They’re Good Movies 0 stars So Bad It’s Good Rating -7 stars Starring Pat Morita, Erik Estrada, Donna Speir Directed by Andy Sidaris Andy Sidaris may be the Alfred Hitchcock of So Bad It’s Good movies. His “Bullets, Bombs, and Babes” style flicks all follow a fairly standard [...] ...

Link Sharing: 8/23/07 2007-08-24 16:13:52 Finnish cover of YMCA: My wife is half Finnish so this is particularly amusing. Top Ten Suggestions For New Bloggers: By WinExtra. Great list. What Problogger Thinks About Scoble’s Hiatus: Good notes on avoiding fatigue. Writing Gripping Content: Good ideas for getting beyond link bait. Google Puts And End To Fancy Link Schemes: All those “link trains” may not [...] ...

College Freshman 101: Cooking 2007-08-24 14:11:26 Are you about to jump out of the nest and head to college for the first time? When your mother starts boo-hooing into her hankie (she will — I know, I’m a mom), tell her you’ll be fine and that you won’t starve to death because you learned a few basic cooking tips at DIY [...] ...

Liberate a childproof cap 2007-08-24 14:11:26 Child proof caps certainly have their place. However, those of us who don’t need an extra layer of protection between ourselves and the Tylenol just find them frustrating. Instructables has the fix. In fact, they’ve demonstrated how to “disable” the three types of childproof tops: “Push down and turn,” “Squeeze and turn” and “Press tab and [...] ...

Tips for getting results from sales shows and trade fairs 2007-08-24 14:11:24 Have you ever been in charge of a booth at a trade or sales show? Have you ever been an exhibitor at a craft fair or flea market? There are a multiple of proven strategies which can make your time invested at these public sales functions more worth your while. The trick is to begin [...] ...

Two cool projects for your old CDs and packaging 2007-08-24 14:11:24 CDs are wonderful things. Beyond providing 800 MB worth of storage for your growing lolcatz picture archive, they can also be used to make gaudy desk organizers, tacky Christmas ornaments, and, of course, flimsy wind chimes. Let’s face it, the majority of used CD projects are pretty lame (said while placing coffee cup on an [...] ...

Setting a stylish table 2007-08-24 14:11:23 Let’s not pull any punches, folks. Setting a table is hard. Once you get beyond all of the etiquette stuff, like which fork goes where, there is style to consider. Pottery Barn has saved us all, once again, from home decor embarrassment. Not only can you learn, simply, how to set a formal and casual table at [...] ...

Learning to speak variable levels of Spanish 2007-08-24 14:11:23 Have you ever wanted to take full advantage of traveling outside the U.S. but were afraid to based on the language barrier you would face? This was a fear of mine over a decade ago, so I found myself in an “immersion course” that concentrates lessons in foreign languages over the course of a few [...] ...

Adam Greenfield: Culture, and the adaptation of technology 2007-08-24 12:53:04 Adam Greenfield, who was speaking at the same event last night, was good enough to give me permission to blog his talk, a terrific overview of the cultural context of technology, titled “The Street Will Find a Way”. The title is a quote from William Gibson - “The street finds its own uses for things” - and helps reflect the wide range of influences on Greenfield’s work. (He’s been a US Army psyops officer, an information architect for Razorfish, a record critic for Spin, and now teaches at ITP at New York University.) Greenfield’s focus is on the “diffusion of technology into human culture”. He leads off with a study of the adoption of the electric guitar. The instrument arrives on the scene in the middle of the 20th century, with Les Paul building early instruments in the 1940s. The first commercial electric guitar is the Fender Telecaster, introduced in 1951. These instruments are basically acoustic guitars with electric pickups, ...

PasswordProtectorSD.com - Everything You Need For Your 2007-08-24 11:21:49 What it does The Password Protector SD is software that can help you create one or more member areas for your websites. The Password Protector SD is created by Ascad Networks a developer of web based programs for your personal website or small businesses. This software does a number of things for your website. By creating [...] ...

CrowdStorm.com - An Online Shopping Community 2007-08-24 11:21:47 What it does Looking into splurging for a new camera? Not sure if you are picking the best one for you at the best price? Go to CrowdStorm.com and get the suggestion and advice of others who know more about the products you want. Tag a cloud and search for any product you like. Or is [...] ...

MyMinutes.org - Freeze Just One Minute of Your Life 2007-08-24 11:21:43 What it does Daniele Alberti, the founder of MyMinutes.org, created a site where you can savor a memory, emotion, thought, or dream that has touched you deeply. MyMinutes.org is a collection of the total minutes of a solar year to which users express a memory to share on the sentimental calendar. For only one euro you can [...] ...

TemplateDeck.com - Download Web Templates 2007-08-24 11:21:43 What it does At TemplateDeck.com for a small fee you can sign up and download professionally made web templates. There are 7 different templates on the site right now which can be downloaded in XHTML/CSS formats. The site offers three different plans. For $39 Euros you can download as many templates as you wish [...] ... Download

Hiitch.com - Keeping You in the Loop 2007-08-24 11:21:42 What it does Ivan Tay and Soh Ching Boon have created Hiitch, a desktop software that helps you create an online social network. Create a profile, similar to the profiles from other social networks, and Hiitch will notify you when there is another user that complements your profile. Hitch connects you with people that you are interested [...] ...