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Update: Had this article sent to me from the New York Times, they do get the importance of Maker Faire and Detroit. Lots of stories about Maker Faire Detroit projects hitting the web, but I think they missed the real story. Here is one from a Gizmodo site about the Giant Mousetrap. It gives a [...]

Here is the link, once I get it setup I’ll update with instructions: http://sourceforge.net/projects/z2z/

Finally a hex based color picker for os x. A must for programmers that have to deal with the UI at all. http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/

This is such a gem that I had to re-post it just in case the original gets lost in the churn of the interwebs. Originally © Keith Martin 2005. Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens [...]

Just found out about bless. It is a command that allows you to modify aspects of the filesystem. Like flag a volume as bootable. One nifty option is –openfolder. From the manpage: –openfolder directory Specify a folder to be opened in the Finder when the volume is mounted by the system. So I first tried [...]

Eye-fi. Buy it. It is the best device ever. Not just because of what it can do, but because of how it gets it done. So, what does Eye-fi do? Simply put, it’s an SD card with wifi. When you take a picture it can geo-tag it based on nearby wifi hotspots using Skyhook data. [...]

I bought the droid on day one, this is why I returned it 30 days later. Edit: There were many aspects about the droid that were awesome (Google Navigation and Google Contact sync: superawesome), but in this post I’m focusing on the aspects that gave me trouble. To that end I also am trying to [...]

I just finished politwit. A twitter app to generate politically important hash tags. Currently it only supports a single campaign. But it will be expanding shortly! The goal of the app is to allow anybody with a message to start a twitter campaign that will automatically hash tag their state and national representatives. Check it [...]

Windows and, well everybody else, treat en-lines differently. When editing a Windows file under an editor such as vim at the end of each line a ctrl+m character is visibly displayed at the as ^M. To remove the ^M characters at the end of all lines in vi, do this: :%s/^V^M//g The ^v and ^m [...]