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G-Spot geolocation apps for iPhone 3G: includes G-Park (parking app) and a really neat compass widget for the iPhone 3G.
G-Park in three easy steps:

1. Park your car and hit the Park Me! button.
2. Get lost.
3. Hit the Where Did I Park? button. Brings up Google maps and creates turn-by-turn directions that will take you right back to your car!

The Shibboleth System is an Internet2-sponsored standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner. Continue Reading »

When you can’t be there…bVisual. bVisual is state of the art in visual web conferencing. Once you use bVisual you won’t ever want to go back to the old way of doing online presentations, seminars, webinars, or meetings. Continue Reading »

T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Plan: Time to Stop America’s Addiction to Foreign Oil. Fascinating plan to use alternative energy (wind) to help the US and the world climb out of our oil dependence. He advocates wind + natural gas (as an intermediate step). Well, as one environmentalist comments: “he’s got it half right (wind)”. Continue Reading »

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design means to us?

Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity

Z800 3DVisor: “Get Inside The Game”. The Z800 3DVisor is the first PDS (personal display system) to deliver on the promise of immersive 3D adventure and entertainment. The Z800 3DVisor surrounds you with an enormous virtual display – for your favorite game, your favorite movie, or your work. Continue Reading »

TeacherTube: teach the world.

Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. Continue Reading »

The Shit Box from the Brown Corporation (no kidding!) is a lightweight portable cardboard toilet, made specifically for outdoor use. The box pops up from a convenient 14 inch flat pack to a rigid, reusable, comfortable toilet. Each box comes with ten degradable poo bags.

The Caroline Collective: coworking space in Houston, TX. Long overdue in Houston, Caroline Collective was created to positively impact the cultural landscape of Houston by fostering community, collaboration and creativity across all artistic and technological disciplines.
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Schoorbs is a free room/resource booking system licensed under the GPLv2 which is served as a web application using PHP and MySQL/PostgreSQL.

OpenAjax Alliance: Standardizing Ajax Development. The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies. Continue Reading »

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10′ UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. Continue Reading »

Transom: a showcase & workshop for new public radio. Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more. Continue Reading »

High Density Vertical Bioreactor (HDVB) - The Holy Grail in the renewable energy sector has been to create a clean, green process which uses only light, water and air to create fuel. Continue Reading »

Cradlepoint personal 3G/Wifi bridge : The PHS300 creates a fully portable WiFi Hotspot from broadband-enabled cellular phones and modems. Take WiFi to a new level by ‘bringing it with you’.

Light fantastic: pedestrians to generate power (Times Online / UK) - the power of the wind and the tide have been harnessed – now the footfall of trudging shoppers is to become the latest source of emission-free energy.

Underfloor generators, powered by “heel strike” and designed by British engineers, may soon be installed in supermarkets and railway stations. Continue Reading »

Effective methods to protect email addresses from spammers:Publishing an email address on a web page invites more spam. Protect your address by masking it from the email harvesters (spambots) used by spammers. This article tests 50 masking methods against 23 harvesters to see which methods work to stop spammers, and which do not.

Employee Engagement Zingers: David Zinger on Results That Matter - 325 Free Articles. Interesting collection of articles on employee engagement and leadership. My favorite article so far: “Employees as Hamsters: A “Wheely” Big Deal?

Slacker Manager: Tongue-in-cheek blog about management philosophies and styles. Good collection of reference sites for management engagement methodologies and practices. Part of the b5media blogsphere, a global new media network featuring more than 327 blogs on a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports.

HDR: High Dynamic Range photography. “There are some photography techniques that really give me the goose bumps, but the good ones. HDR is one of those techniques… and you’ll probably love these as much as I do.

“In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.” - From Wikipedia. Continue Reading »

The Psychotronic (Video) Guide to Archive.org. “I’ve been spending a lot of time digging around in the Internet Archive. In the course of my excavations, I uncovered a metric buttload of old cult filmage in the public domain, and in a fit of obsessive-compulsive mania, decided to make a list that included every film in the archive that also makes an appearance in Michael Weldon’s essential guide to midnight movies, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film.” Continue Reading »

Welcome to InterfaceLIFT, your source for graphical user interface enhancements for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. We specialize in desktop wallpaper, icons, themes, and news with a focus on community. New content is posted virtually every day so make sure to bookmark us and come back often. Continue Reading »

Blacktree.com: useful utilities for Apple products. A particularly useful tool is Quicksilver, a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data (hard to describe in words). VERY useful. Continue Reading »

The Pyramid of Screaming : “You can only scream beneath you”

You see, we all learn as children that screaming leads to results, and it’s no different in the workplace. America was built on the backs of men and women who were yelled at to work harder, and the tradition has been screamed from generation to generation. But you can’t just scream at anybody… that would be counter-productive. That’s why it’s imperative you understand where you stand on the Pyramid of Screaming™. Continue Reading »

Country Tech (cartoons): In this day and age, we often forget that not everyone grew up with technology, so here to help bridge the gap, I present “Technology for Country Folk” Continue Reading »

Webpages That Suck: Learn good web design by looking at bad web design (”Our 12th year of sucking”). See Worst Sites of 2007 for (horrific) recent examples. Continue Reading »

YUI Mainstream Theme for Wordpress.

Green Building.com : everything you want to know about green building.

Digital Information 250 Years From Now: a fascinating article with some current statistics that are really amazing. “Last year Google’s archives touched 100 exabytes of data from the web. Continue Reading »

Dr. Fun webcomic archive :Classic webcomic (one of the first) that went on mostly unheralded for most of it’s 13-year stint (1993-2006). Wonderful work.

Hackers for Charity: organization devoted to helping charities.

We provide professional references to hackers willing to use their technical skills to help charities through our technical services initiative. Continue Reading »

Evolt.com: collection of old web browsers. A true collection of web history. Actual working executables of the various browsers including NSCA Mosaic, Omniweb, and Cyberdog, to name a few.

Trunk Monkey : Suburban Auto Group released a series of Trunk Monkey Super Bowl commercials for 2003 and 2004. The ad agency that produced these commercials is R/West. Although the Suburban Auto Group popularized the Trunkmonkey with their Trunk Monkey commercials, Sean Sosik-Hamor and the Subaru community were responsible for creating the concept back in 2000. Continue Reading »

Stress relief - virtual bubblewrap : trust me, this will drive your workmates crazy !

BlimpTV video on Vista: HILARIOUS video about MS Vista Operating System.

Launchpad Coworking in Austin: It’s true — coworking is coming to Austin. Going stir-crazy working alone? Need somewhere to meet with clients? Can’t bear to look at your cubicle walls any more? Tired of trying to find a plug at the coffee shop? We’ve got you covered.

Come see us in July 2008. We’ll save you a seat Continue Reading »

Tux for President : So who am I? I’m Tux. And I’m throwing my hat into the ring. I might as well, I can’t keep the thing on my silly head.

What do I stand for? Just one thing: Linux. Oh yeah, and fish. Continue Reading »

A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects: All software is subject to copyright law. The moment you save code to a file, copyright law gives you certain rights to control what other people can do with your work. Continue Reading »

Abyss Web Server: a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Continue Reading »

FL_UI_D lab : (one of) Steve Mann’s (”Cyberman”) labs. FLUIDly Limitless User Interface Device, where the acronym itself is fluid except that it pertains specifically to User Interface. Continue Reading »

The First Texas Barcamp on Google’s Android Mobile Platform is scheduled for May 17th, 2008, in Bryan, TX. See the wiki for more details.

Real Programmers : Fun comic about the infamous (and endless) programmers’ debate about editors at the XKCD comics page.

The winner between EMACS and VI: butterflies.

Inpiration Overload : 100 CSS galleries you should check out.

Open Designs: collection of XHTML and CSS-based templates.

The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing hundreds of XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download. Continue Reading »

the phoenix commotion : low-income housing based on landfill materials. Mission statement: The Phoenix Commotion is committed to reducing the landfill waste-stream by diverting usable building materials into the construction of low-income housing, with an unskilled, minimum-wage labor force. Continue Reading »

13 Great Tools For Organizing The Web: (Sean P. Aune, Mashable) - The web is a big and wonderful place, full of exciting pages and information that we all would like to go back to from time to time. Then comes the problem when you open your bookmarks and… you can’t remember the name of the site, or what folder you put it in, or you find a bookmark and you can’t remember why you saved it! Continue Reading »

HTML Tidy: HTML formatting / cleanup utility.
When editing HTML it’s easy to make mistakes. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Continue Reading »

VIEVU PVR-PRO: the clip-on portable PVR. This little bugger isn’t much larger than a traditional pager (remember those?) and can reportedly capture video at 640 x 480 (30 frames-per-second), and while we’re not told how much internal capacity is housed, it can store some four hours of content before needing to be emptied.

Star Wars Meets Monty Python’s Camelot: “It’s only a model”.

Eddie Izzard does Star Trek on YouTube. Hard to describe, but great for ST fans. “Captain, this entire planet is made of weelly-weey…You know, I think this might just be a box with weelly-weey written on it.”

fhqwhgads: an Internet humor meme introduced via HomeStar Runner’s character StrongBad. Another part of the “mythos” is the video entitled “Everything to the Limit”.

ToyCon: Intelligent toys from around the world. Of particular interest is the Digicolor / RAMI toy which teaches binary arithmetic.

On The Luck Of Seven : an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo, a new york city based activist, organizer, blogger, barcamper and coworker.

for seven months, he will traverse the seven continents, dive into the seven oceans, and attempt to visit the seven ancient wonders of the world. using a new media Continue Reading »

Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait: This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); Con