cool invention round-up at zuzafun.com

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Inspiration

Shown here is a Belt with an accurate yardstick built-in. click the pic for more interesting ideas. Read More...

AnywhereFM - get your music anywhere

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Music

Listen to your iTunes library from any web browser using Anywhere.FM, a slick webapp that hosts and streams your music with its web-based player. The Anywhere.FM beta is almost too good to be true right now, with free unlimited uploads and listens (but the service may charge in the future).

Download a free Anywhere.FM iTunes uploader application that will detect your library and upload all your songs to Anywhere.FM for you. Read More...

Teuco Seaside Bathtub

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Bathtubs

I love that the tagline is "The Future of Pleasure"

Italian Spa designer Teuco takes bathtub design to a whole new level. The Seaside breaks the concept of conventional bathroom constraints and becomes it’s own indoor spa. I love the clean lines, alluring highlights and elegant cushions that transform your entire bathing experience.

Water cascades from an entire ledge along one side of the tub, reflecting the light in the turbulence created by the blower jets. The bathing side of the tub, reminiscent of a bank or shore-line, rises gently to a platform with comfortable cushions inviting rest and relaxation. Read More...

Guthrie House in Santiago Chile

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Architecture

FELIPE ASSADI + FRANCISCA PULIDO Architechts

love it. click the pic for more. Read More...

Light Graffiti - How to

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Art | D.I.Y.

From MAKE Magazine

Gear

this is a small collection of flashlights, biking-lights and flashing LED lights they all work with batteries so that you are mobile you also get nice results with fireworks & torches .

there are 3 different type of lights we use:

xenon: makes a warm golden light.
LED: makes a thin precise line.
cold cathode: thick line.

but the best results you get by experimenting, use filters and things that reflect light. (click the pic for more)

HOW TO DO IT

the basics:
to get the best results you need a tripod. the exposure should be around 10-30 sec. or longer if needed. stay in front of the camera and do your writing.

to not overexpose set the camera to about iso100, and close your aperture as much as possible. if there is still too much light you might have to use a nd-filter.it is always nice to integrate the surrounding into your picture. Read More...

125 Code Snippets for web designers

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Useful stuff on the Internet

Proof of Purchase

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Poetry | Art

Unknown author collects receipts of their purchases and writes small notes on the receipts, then scans and posts them online. Voyeuristic and interesting. click the barcode to se the site. Read More...

Make powerful online forms easily with Wufoo

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Useful stuff on the Internet

Wufoo makes great use of ajax to create a very nice user experience on the admin side of things. You can place your finished form in either an embedded iframe (as I have in this post) or on a dedicated web page. You can receive new responses by email or RSS, response data can be filtered and displayed in a variety of ways in the reports section and there is easy control over the look and feel of the forms your users interact with. There are more functions available than I’ll go into here, but the system is still very easy to use.

Free accounts include let you create 3 forms with 10 fields, 100 submissions and 10 reports. Premium accounts bump up these numbers, allow respondents to upload files and be redirected to a URL of your choosing after the form is completed. Four service levels are available at between $9 and $199 per month. Wufoo also supports all UTFF characters, so forms can be multilingual. Read More...

Google Pirate

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Useful stuff on the Internet

Use power of Google to scour every corner of the internet for exactly what you need. Don’t know complicated search strings? No worries, Google Pirate makes it simple. Pick a category and enter a basic search term, then check out the results. Click the pic for more. Read More...

Google Hacking Database

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Hacks

GHDB (a.k.a. Google Hacking Database) is HTML/JavaScript wrapper application that uses advance JavaScript techniques to scrape information from Johnny’s Google Hacking Database without the need for hosted server side scripts. Here is what I need to say about this application:

In attempt to show the real dangers of AJAX APIs I’ve created completely harmless interface to Johnny’s Google Hacking Database. Keep in mind that no service side scripts are required from my side. Also, keep in mind that all I am providing here is a single HTML page with a few JavaScript files to glue the interface together. Read More...

Nabolister - an online video search engine

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: video

Nabolister is a Movie Sharing, TV Series linking, Video-Site-Rating powerhouse of a community. But it's more than just that. It's also an incredibly powerful search engine that indexes virtually all known movie link websites. It wasn't just one feature that pushed Nabolister ahead of all others, but rather a combination of all useful tools and functions that the site has to offer.

The site itself... terrible, the content turned up by the search engine? seemingly infinite. Read More...

Joox.net - another great video streaming site

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: video

This website streams videos of all genres; Bollywood, Anime, Movies, TV Series, Cartoons and the list continues. What's so slick about Joox is their video quality and 100% working video rate. Their custom script allows members to add high quality, DivX videos from Stage6.com, which are instantly embedded on the site in a section marked as "recently added, needs confirmation". These videos remain a different color from the other video links until a specific number of members confirm that the video works, and is categorized correctly. What's more, if a video is removed from Stage6.com it is instantly cleared from Joox's database, preventing any chance you'll ever come across a broken video! Read More...

The Bargainist - A deal blog

29/Sep/2007 Filed in: Retail Lust

The Bargainist updates multiple times per day, so stop by often to check out the latest deals. You can bookmark our site, subscribe to our RSS feed or get our free Daily Deals email.

The Bargainist was named one of TIME Magazine's Top 10 Web Sites of 2006. The site was also named one of PC Magazine's Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites of 2007.

The Bargainist is published by Zombie Corp, the company behind Uncrate, the well-known buyer's guide for men, and Outblush, the popular women's shopping blog. Read More...

Ace Jet 170 - a design blog

21/Sep/2007 Filed in: Design

Ace Jet 170 is the awesome blog. click the pic to see it.

snip: "I'm an English graphic designer now living in Belfast. Married with two very young, active, funny and very brilliant boys. At work I develop and implement brands and corporate IDs mostly, work very hard and eat cake.

I love stuff and Ace Jet 170 sets out to record the stuff I've found over the years and find in the future. Found on holiday, at boot sales, in book shops or junk shops, littering the pavement, dropped into a waste bin. Interesting stuff.

And then there's the stuff other people send me. I wasn't expecting that: more interesting stuff, from some very nice people. That's here too.

Feast upon the stuff."
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Nasonex Bee (a deeper look at the 2 versions)

21/Sep/2007 Filed in: Amusing

I don't watch a lot of commercials thanks to TIVO, but these Nasonex commercials seem to be on a lot. They follow this strange current trend of using a 3D animated character to shill for a product. I find this one interesting because there have been major refinements since Bee 1.0 and his faux French accent... he is now Latin and played by Antonio Banderas! and the Pepe Le Pew references have been removed. Click the pic to view both ads and read snarky reader commentary. Read More...

Mango - free online language courses

21/Sep/2007 Filed in: Useful stuff on the Internet

Mango is a set of Flash based language lessons. It has a simple interface and the lessons are well done. Check it out. Read More...

Bacon + Chocolate = surprisingly delicious

21/Sep/2007 Filed in: Food

This is sweeping through the office right now. Chocolate coats your mouth and leads to the crunch of smoked bacon pieces! Quite good... $7 Read More...