Polymathematics for Fun and Profit

2010-04-29T18:30:00.001-04:00

UnknownDevices Recognizes Your Hardware When Device Manager Can't [Downloads]:

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2010-04-29T10:13:00.001-04:00

How Much Does CNN.com Suck? WTFCNN.com Shows You:
We’ve all had the experience. You visit cnn.com looking to c.. http://ping.fm/3EYj9

2010-04-27T14:46:00.001-04:00

How to Seamlessly Run That One Windows App You Need on a Mac [Virtual Machines]:

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2010-04-27T12:30:00.001-04:00

Woot! Off in Progress; Check Out Our Woot Guide for Maximum Loot Grabbing [Dealhacker]:

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2010-04-26T18:00:00.001-04:00

Google updates Nexus One page, tells Verizon customers to get a Droid Incredible instead (update: the Verizon N.. http://bit.ly/c49gIo

2010-04-25T17:00:00.001-04:00

Giant 'origami' crane slash tent:

Attendees at this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival in California .. http://bit.ly/dvjntn

2010-04-24T01:30:00.001-04:00

Foreign Service Institute's Extensive Language Courses Are Available Free Online [Free]:

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2010-04-22T18:00:00.001-04:00

What could your business do with 20 iPads? Box.net & TUAW want to find out: Filed under: TUAW BusinessThere.. http://bit.ly/dx886z

2010-04-22T17:30:00.001-04:00

The White House: open-source Drupal developer?:
Call it a sign of the times: not only is the Obama White Hous.. http://bit.ly/a9eiYQ

2010-04-22T11:00:00.001-04:00

Hitler's pissed off about fair use:

Hitler's back and he's pissed to discover that parodies of the bunker sce.. http://bit.ly/bzFid9

2010-04-20T17:30:00.001-04:00

The Unofficial Beta Test: WebinarListings: WebinarListing is a calendars for online webinars.
We feel it’s impo.. http://bit.ly/96QJxz

2010-04-18T22:30:00.001-04:00

AppleCare without Apple stores... still worth it: Filed under: Odds and endsOnce upon a time, I worked for a ma.. http://bit.ly/ckGfb1

2010-04-18T17:00:00.001-04:00

iPad Sprocket Pocket signals bicyclist's intentions: Filed under: iPad I love cycling and I love the iPad, but .. http://bit.ly/bMAJ3Y

2010-04-18T11:30:00.001-04:00

Hit Stop -> Stop -> Play and Other Tricks to Skip DVD Trailers and Warnings [DVDs]:

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2010-04-14T14:30:00.001-04:00

QSynergy Makes Multi-System Control Easier and Prettier [Downloads]:

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2010-04-10T11:30:00.001-04:00

Instant Virgin Atlantic Top Tier Elite Status: Enroll at this link for instant Gold status in Virgin Atlantic’s.. http://bit.ly/bE6Clf

2010-04-07T12:00:00.001-04:00

First look: Camera for iPad: Filed under: iPadNo, it's not a hardware device, but Camera for iPad (US$0.99) can.. http://bit.ly/912ti4

2010-04-07T00:30:00.001-04:00

Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker: timothy writes "Awesome: 'A gambling bill introduced by Mas.. http://bit.ly/bGOG5e

2010-04-06T19:00:00.001-04:00

Cacoo Lets Multiple Users Create Designs Collaboratively And In Real-time: Most people still use traditional ap.. http://bit.ly/dpEKxL

2010-04-06T01:30:00.001-04:00

How Can I Convert PDFs and Other Ebooks to the ePub Format? [Ask Lifehacker]:

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2010-04-06T01:00:00.001-04:00

Boston’s Raizlabs Climbs App Store’s Charts: SketchPad HD makes your iPad into a virtual notepad.
On Saturday w.. http://bit.ly/9Q5xcj

2010-04-04T16:30:00.001-04:00

D-Fend Reloaded Brings Your Favorite DOS Games to Windows [Downloads]:

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2010-04-02T12:30:00.001-04:00

Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either):
I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding co.. http://bit.ly/do8MY4

2010-04-01T23:00:00.001-04:00

Consider Maple Syrup as a Healthier Sweetener [Health]:

You .. http://bit.ly/bLNadi

2010-03-31T23:30:00.001-04:00

Middleman Syncs Virtually Any Device with iTunes on a Mac [Downloads]:

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2010-03-31T07:31:00.001-04:00

The Geek/Nerd/Dork/Dweeb Venn Diagram:

And that, my friends, is exactly why I'm a geek. Now I don't know abou.. http://bit.ly/9HGUS2

2010-03-29T10:31:00.001-04:00

Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates: Sketching and wireframing are a speciali.. http://bit.ly/97hqao

2010-03-27T17:00:00.001-04:00

How Can I Read If All My Books Have Giant Holes In The Middle?: Lightsaber Bookends:

Been searching for the p.. http://bit.ly/bPZ6f4

2010-03-25T20:30:00.001-04:00

ScreenSharingMenulet hits 2.0: Filed under: Cool toolsScreenSharingMenulet is a free (donations requested) prog.. http://bit.ly/b7hVQK

2010-03-25T10:00:00.001-04:00

Screenshot Plus and iWork: the poor man's screenshot editing suite: Filed under: Productivity, iWorkDespite the.. http://bit.ly/aMAzXt

2010-03-21T18:01:00.001-04:00

iPodMeister gives you an iPad for your old CDs: Filed under: iPad Want to get a new iPad but a little short on .. http://bit.ly/dsDMKR

2010-03-21T15:01:00.001-04:00

5 Best Twitter Analytics Tools: As a heavy Twitter user, I am always looking for ways to improve my tweeting to.. http://bit.ly/cPGuuI

2010-03-19T17:31:00.001-04:00

Dial Zero Connects to Customer Service Humans [Downloads]:

i.. http://bit.ly/8ZXned

2010-03-18T14:30:00.001-04:00

3 Ways to Prevent Boston from Losing Another Facebook: It's time to come to terms with Facebook's depar.. http://bit.ly/b2Pn8L

2010-03-18T14:01:00.001-04:00

NBP: FCC proposes "video.gov" public archive:
Say what you want about the Federal Communications Commission's.. http://bit.ly/9zJM8e

2010-03-09T01:31:00.001-05:00

Magna-Tiles:
Open-ended toys are the best. That's why construction sets like Lego, or the previously reviewed.. http://bit.ly/cGiYTU

2010-03-06T02:30:00.001-05:00

KeeFox Integrates KeePass and Firefox (At Long Last) [Downloads]: Firefox: KeeFox brings tight integration betw.. http://bit.ly/8X0a8k

2010-03-04T18:30:00.001-05:00

YouTube Launches Auto-Captions For All Videos: I’m here at YouTube’s office in San Bruno, where the company is .. http://bit.ly/d7Sl5D

2010-03-02T16:32:00.001-05:00

Squeeze Saves Hard Drive Space on Your Mac, Is Free Today, Seems Almost Magical [Downloads]: Mac only: If you&#.. http://bit.ly/a9nbn5

2010-03-01T19:01:00.001-05:00

Twitter Turns On The Firehose For Realtime Search Startups:
When it comes to getting access to all the data th.. http://bit.ly/boBWOh

2010-02-27T14:01:00.001-05:00

Nexus One coming to Verizon March 23rd?:
What better way to start your Saturday afternoon than with another Ne.. http://bit.ly/b9CDPB

2010-02-26T23:30:00.001-05:00

Not your father's PageRank: Steven Levy on how Google's search algorithm has changed over the years.

Take,.. http://bit.ly/93vy3a

2010-02-26T19:30:00.001-05:00

For all your digital guitar playing cheat sheet needs, there's i-Tab:
Admit it, you're not really working remo.. http://bit.ly/dciTon

2010-02-26T18:00:00.001-05:00

Kwizzcard printed electronic game cards do the impossible, make Magic: The Gathering even nerdier: Kwizzcard is.. http://bit.ly/aRY1hA

2010-02-25T14:31:00.001-05:00

MakerBot Cupcake CNC:
I highly recommend the MakerBot Cupcake CNC, a very cool tool! I’m an engineering stude.. http://bit.ly/9JAUpk

2010-02-23T13:03:00.001-05:00

Stop Google Chat Status Messages from Displaying in Buzz and Other Buzz Tips [Social Networks]: Google continue.. http://bit.ly/cmsiQZ

2010-02-22T16:31:00.001-05:00

Leech Plug disconnects when your gadget is charged, does Ma Earth a favor:

The TrickleStar line of products d.. http://bit.ly/8ZzXcQ

2010-02-20T23:30:00.001-05:00

Add an Alpha-Numeric Passcode to Your iPhone or iPod touch [Security]: Want a little stronger security lock-dow.. http://bit.ly/dyu0d1

2010-02-18T15:30:00.001-05:00

PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams: jargon82 writes "A Pennsylvania high school is us.. http://bit.ly/9QrLDM

2010-02-15T17:30:00.001-05:00

Adjust Your Car Mirrors to Fully Cover Your Blind Spots: Shared by Mick Very important and it has saved my butt.. http://bit.ly/dluo3b

2010-02-15T01:30:00.001-05:00

Snow Tracking: Shared by Mick All that for a pun.
[extracted from Snow Tracking via feedly] http://ping.fm/gQDol

2010-02-14T17:30:00.001-05:00

How To Replace FileVault With EncFS: agoston.horvath writes "I've written a HOWTO on replacing Mac OS X's built.. http://bit.ly/afXCiE

2010-02-13T16:31:00.001-05:00

How many oranges does it take to charge an Apple? (video):
We've seen lemons power a digital clock, and we've .. http://bit.ly/c4tRDt

2010-02-12T22:30:00.001-05:00

I forked the excellent (open source!) Notational Velocity app, and hacked in a third pane that shows...: Shared.. http://bit.ly/brSOWt

2010-02-12T21:00:00.001-05:00

Winter Olympics 2010: The iPhone experience: Filed under: Other Events, iPhone, iPod touchThe Opening Ceremony .. http://bit.ly/cAWCfj

2010-02-10T21:31:00.001-05:00

Say Hello To The Buzz Button. Google Didn’t Make It, So We Did. http://ping.fm/gwepI

2010-02-10T16:00:00.001-05:00

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF): Over the last months we released a variety of icon sets, tool.. http://bit.ly/bNkJDF

2010-02-09T16:00:00.001-05:00

Awesome Foundation Funds Awesome Innovation: The Awesome Foundation, started by 23yo Tim Hwang, gives $1,000 to.. http://bit.ly/9k86Qj

2010-02-08T15:00:00.001-05:00

Win 5 Signed Copies Of Information Is Beautiful!:
My lovely book, Information Is Beautiful, is out in the UK.. http://bit.ly/ctPTXs

2010-02-07T02:00:00.001-05:00

New Competitions for Entrepreneurs and Growing Companies: It’s great to get recognition for your small business.. http://bit.ly/dlTDul

2010-02-06T03:00:00.001-05:00

Fantastic photography of Michael Paul Smith: Shared by Mick I worked with him and helped him with his website o.. http://bit.ly/dnbJ8s

2010-02-05T12:30:00.001-05:00

FillAnyPDF Lets You Electronically Fill In and Sign Any Form [PDFs]: Fax machines are going the way of the dodo.. http://bit.ly/ausj1r

2010-02-04T16:00:00.001-05:00

Bacon Maple Lollipops Now Come Caffeinated:

Remember the post about Lollyphile's Maple Bacon Lollipops from m.. http://bit.ly/9mZYYN

2010-02-03T13:30:00.001-05:00

Five customized Automator services to help save you time: Filed under: Software, How-tos, Productivity One gem .. http://bit.ly/93a9ib

2010-02-02T17:31:00.001-05:00

Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch (updated with video!): The iPhone isn't the only handset g.. http://bit.ly/bbsPS7

2010-02-02T15:00:00.001-05:00

Delete Your Account Shows You How to Remove or Recover Online Identities [Online Identity]: Ever want to delete.. http://bit.ly/bIswml

2010-02-02T14:01:00.001-05:00

Take a Second Shot at Understanding Math [Learning]: Mathematics tends to bisect people into either fascination.. http://bit.ly/c6IZ0C

2010-02-01T19:31:00.001-05:00

After the Deadline Brings Better Grammar and Spellchecking to Firefox, and It's Awesome [Downloads]: Firefox: A.. http://bit.ly/b9ffTT

2010-01-30T16:00:00.001-05:00

Build a Network Rack with an IKEA Table [DIY]: Whether it's fate, serendipity, or someone in IKEA's design depa.. http://bit.ly/blLnKk

2010-01-29T16:30:00.001-05:00

BostInnovation’s Take on Follow Friday v1.0: Shared by Mick Well shucks, that's a surprise. Thanks.
Follow Frid.. http://bit.ly/dk7XYk

2010-01-29T15:31:00.001-05:00

Sikuli Automates Almost Anything with Screenshot Ease [Downloads]:

Windows/Mac/Linux: Ever wanted to write a .. http://bit.ly/bxmd44

2010-01-29T00:01:00.001-05:00

Monitor Your Health 24x7 With the WIN Human Recorder: kkleiner writes "Japanese venture firm WIN Human Rec.. http://bit.ly/9CTdU3

2010-01-28T20:01:00.001-05:00

Shh! BostInnovation to Throw Down Feb. 19!: Shhhhhh. It's TOP SECRET!
That’s right, ladies and gents. BostI.. http://bit.ly/bAjnqf

2010-01-28T16:01:00.001-05:00

The Problem with the Apple iPad [Rants]: Yesterday, Steve Jobs worked his charm, attempting to wow the world wi.. http://bit.ly/dqBYI9

2010-01-27T22:30:00.001-05:00

Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses?: Peter Eckersley writes "The EFF has launched a research pro.. http://bit.ly/b8r1Wx

2010-01-26T13:31:00.001-05:00

Got an iPhone App Idea? Appswell Just Might Buy It: Building iPhone apps YOU think are cool How do iPhone apps .. http://bit.ly/aFjBrN

2010-01-22T21:00:00.001-05:00

MinuteBase Creates Agendas and Manages Notes for Your Next Meeting [Meetings]: Agendas and thorough notes are a.. http://bit.ly/8AKBxD

2010-01-21T16:01:00.001-05:00

The Cornucopia: MIT's 3D food printer patiently awaits 'the future': Shared by Mick I love the futu.. http://bit.ly/617Ku8

2010-01-20T12:30:00.001-05:00

BumpTop Mac Makes Your Desktop a 3D Entity [Downloads]: Mac OS X: Like its Windows 7 counterpart, the BumpTop d.. http://bit.ly/7mPBol

2010-01-19T23:01:00.001-05:00

How to be an entrepreneur/intrapreneur and not ruin your marriage: How to be an entrepreneur/intrapreneur and n.. http://bit.ly/6bwYiJ

2010-01-19T14:31:00.001-05:00

Apple rumor roundup: future of media edition:

Now that Apple's officially announced ..

2010-01-19T00:01:00.001-05:00

Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy: destinyland writes "A New York professor has built a .. http://bit.ly/6f7ZZt

2010-01-17T01:31:00.001-05:00

The BearExtender n3 gives you more Wi-Fi range at a low cost: Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Airport, Revi.. http://bit.ly/7c77Ks

2010-01-11T17:10:00.001-05:00

Former Apple engineer: Fingerworks may be a part of the tablet: Shared by Mick Apple has a lot more fingerworks.. http://bit.ly/5yAxvP

2010-01-10T18:41:00.001-05:00

MOTO gives straight advice on smartphone touchscreen quality (video):
Like simple and unsophisticated tests? H.. http://bit.ly/7MmCT4

Some Videos From the Floor

2010-01-08T15:27:00.003-05:00

Here are a few videos and snapshots of the insanely thin TV's at the show. I guess if they have to make a '2D' Television set then they REALLY want to make it 2D.

The other video is a walk around of a unique display designed to show off something, not quite sure what, but they sell speakers.

2D TV Really 2D

Silly, Loud and Green

2010-01-08T14:41:00.001-05:00

ZOMM wireless tether hands-on: Shared by Mick I tried this out myself and it is a simple winner for me.

Forget.. http://bit.ly/71kozO

CES So Far

2010-01-08T14:33:00.002-05:00

So far there haven't been any real show stoppers at CES, except the ShowStoppers event that was turning away press and bloggers left and right because they advertised it to all press, but then decided only to let in pre-approved press, but I digress.

I have seen some different products thata will likely become standard features in the coming years. The Zomm bluetooth keychain tether looks like a simple winning product. Nothing fancy but I tried it out myself and it worked like a charm, literally a charm.

It now seems weird to look at '2D' Televisions since nearly everything here is 3D. They aren't great but they handle the 3rd dimension well. The main issue now I see is the brightness levels are too low when you have to wear sunglasses to see the image. The glasses are much better looking than anything I have used before and the active shutter wireless glasses NVidea is sell for "$200 but the price will REALLY be about $150" worked great with no flicker at all.

More to come soon. Ebooks and iphone cases, as well as the Lenovo netbooks that have great industrial design and horsepower I wasn't expecting.

2010-01-08T14:09:00.001-05:00

MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP: olsmeister writes "MagicJack is demonstrating a femtocell devic.. http://bit.ly/4QZ34H

2010-01-06T16:09:00.001-05:00

WineBottler Turns Windows Programs into Standalone OS X Applications [Downloads]: Mac only: Wine has always bee.. http://bit.ly/5B5ON3

2010-01-05T21:41:00.001-05:00

The Best Times to Buy Anything, All Year Round [Buying Guide]: You're always hearing about off-season, post-pea.. http://bit.ly/6LynpB

2010-01-04T18:10:00.001-05:00

HabitForge Helps You Form New Habits in 21-Day Blocks [Habits]: HabitForge is a simple tool for ingraining new .. http://bit.ly/58XnAl

2010-01-04T14:11:00.001-05:00

Skiff Reader is largest yet, will be hitting a Sprint Store near you:

Amazon's Kindle DX may be big, but i.. http://bit.ly/7oU2Cn

2010-01-02T19:11:00.001-05:00

Build a Storage Bin Igloo: Shared by Mick Awesome! My friends igloo made it to lifehacker.
If you've got a hank.. http://bit.ly/6aOcQY

2009-12-31T16:09:00.001-05:00

Heartwarming: Super Mario Spec Commercial:

You ever cried watching a Mario commercial? You might after this o.. http://bit.ly/5QXq4p

2009-12-31T14:40:00.001-05:00

Run Effective, Google-Style Meetings by Focusing on Data, Not Politics [Meetings]: If you're interested in .. http://bit.ly/5OHAD1

2009-12-30T21:10:00.001-05:00

Odds of being a terrorism victim on a flight:
Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com collected the data for this h.. http://bit.ly/5MsZwJ

2009-12-30T19:11:00.001-05:00

Use Google Suggest to Find Software Alternatives [Search Techniques]: You've got a file that needs opening, or .. http://bit.ly/6dXW10

2009-12-29T01:09:00.001-05:00

CES preview: three e-readers to watch in 2010:

All signs indicate that the e-reader is to CES 2010 wha.. http://bit.ly/4EtfLQ

2009-12-28T18:41:00.001-05:00

BetterTouchTool Lets You Customize Your Mac's Multitouch Gestures [Downloads]: Mac only: Whether you're using A.. http://bit.ly/5Gf75b