Books for Makers - A gift guide of lost arts and new tech. This year we have a lot of new books from MAKE – each of our new books are from the team that brings you MAKE, CRAFT & HACKS – in addition to our new books we’ve searched the world for the most talented authors & publishers out there that have books in the world of making, I’m really proud of our collection this year and it’s getting better each month! If you like MAKE and the things we celebrate you’ll like these books, I’ve picked out some “lost arts” books like chainsaw art and soap box derby construction, along with more updated tech like astronomy. They make great gifts for the holidays! As you’ll see many of these books aren’t from MAKE at all, they’re books we’re selling in our store (and at Maker Faires) that we think you or your special maker out there will really enjoy!
Here we go! Art of Chainsaw Carving by Jessie GroeschenPrice: $19.95Buy: Maker store – Link. These aren’t your ordinary paper airplanes. With Whoosh Boom Splat, you can build: And many more! Phillip Torrone. The 20 Best iPod Utilities [Feature] Bubble 2.0: The Video. From the Editor of Fast Company: A Clear-eyed Analysis of Apple. No Brasil, 39 milhões têm acesso à internet. SÃO PAULO - O número de brasileiros com acesso à internet em casa ou no trabalho chegou a 39 milhões. O número é 21% maior em relação a medição feita há um ano, segundo dados da empresa de pesquisa Ibope//NetRatings divulgados nesta terça-feira.
A base de internautas do país somava 39 milhões no final do terceiro trimestre, de acordo com levantamento da companhia, acima dos 32,2 milhões de usuários verificados um ano antes. Se considerado apenas o número de pessoas com acesso à internet em casa, a base nacional de internautas evoluiu 43,7 por cento no intervalo, para 30,1 milhões. O crescimento acompanha vendas aceleradas de computadores este ano, que devem crescer cerca de 20 por cento sobre o volume comercializado em 2006, segundo projeções do setor. O nível de atividade dos internautas também apresentou avanços. 2007 Graphic Design Inspiration | Abduzeedo by design. The Allocation of Talent. Google Announces Fastest Growing Search Terms. Fold a Drinking Cup from a Sheet of Paper [MacGyver Tip]
● Feed reading. Warning, RSSoterica and kottke.org sausage-making to follow. Matt Wood has a post up on 43Folders about how he groups his RSS feeds in Google Reader for easier reading. I use pretty much the same system as Matt, but with a few more folders. I have several folders for reading long-form blogs: Always Often Sometimes Pending Food and Drink Frippery Infoglut Always, Often, and Sometimes are self-explanatory. The Pending folder is for blogs that I'm trying out, Frippery is stuff that is non-kottke.org-related to be read during non-work hours (ha!)
, and the Infoglut folder contains a bunch of blogs that have a low signal-to-noise ratio and are too high volume to keep up with unless everything else is read (any multi-author pro blogs that I read (not many) are in here). Links Yummy Photos Tumble Links contains link blogs, Yummy has a bunch of stuff from del.icio.us, Photos are photoblogs, and Tumble contains tumblelogs, FFFFOUND! 3D-box maker » 3d-box.
Quot;How Hackers Work" Thanks to the media, the word "hacker" has gotten a bad reputation. The word summons up thoughts of malicious computer users finding new ways to harass people, defraud corporations, steal information and maybe even destroy the economy or start a war by infiltrating military computer systems. While there's no denying that there are hackers out there with bad intentions, they make up only a small percentage of the hacker community. The term computer hacker first showed up in the mid-1960s. A hacker was a programmer -- someone who hacked out computer code.
Hackers were visionaries who could see new ways to use computers, creating programs that no one else could conceive. They were the pioneers of the computer industry, building everything from small applications to operating systems. In this sense, people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were all hackers -- they saw the potential of what computers could do and created ways to achieve that potential. Labs - Adobe Flex Builder Linux Public Alpha. Deutsche Grammophon launches giant, DRM-free classical music store. How to Be a Good Listener. Edit Article Four Parts:Listening with an Open MindKnowing What to SayUsing Appropriate Body LanguageListening TipsQuestions and Answers Being a good listener can help you to see the world through the eyes of others.
It enriches your understanding and expands your capacity for empathy. It also increases your contact with the outside world by helping you improve your communication skills. Good listening skills can provide you with a deeper level of understanding about someone’s situation, and helps to know what words are best to use or which words to avoid. As simple as listening (and acknowledging) may seem, doing it well, particularly when disagreements arise, takes sincere effort and lots of practice. If you want to know how to be a good listener, read on to get started!!
Ad Steps Part 1 Listening with an Open Mind Part 2 Knowing What to Say Part 3 Using Appropriate Body Language Give us 3 minutes of knowledge! Can you tell us about Business? Reddit? Removing smoke stains? Uber (application)? Tips. 20 Horrible Habits of Clients at You the Designer - Graphic Design Blog. Articles November 30, 2007 Below is a common list of issues designers have to deal with while working with clients on projects and how to avoid or solve those issues in a professional manner. 1.
Wanting Great Designs for Cheap Prices Because everyone seems to have Photoshop and know a designer nowadays, many clients tend to have a bad idea of what design is worth. Many clients also try to outsource their projects to India and other places where designers work for rock bottom prices, but you need to stick behind your work and hold out for those clients who know what you are worth. 2.
This is when clients want to see a finished design before they pay. 3. Some clients are notorious for paying slowly or not at all. 4. I find it extremely important to plan out a project as much as possible before starting work. 5. This is probably one of the most common bad habits of clients. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. This one can be good or bad. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Know Anymore Bad Habits? Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School.
Learning 2.1. Roll Your Own Professionally Designed Web Site [Weekend Project] Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid. Facebook is no paragon of virtue. It bears the hallmarks of the kind of pump-and-dump service that sees us as sticky, monetizable eyeballs in need of pimping.
The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: "So-and-so has sent you a message. " Yeah, what is it? If there was any doubt about Facebook's lack of qualification to displace the Internet with a benevolent dictatorship/walled garden, it was removed when Facebook unveiled its new advertising campaign. Many of my colleagues wonder if Facebook can be redeemed by opening up the platform, letting anyone write any app for the service, easily exporting and importing their data, and so on (this is the kind of thing Google is doing with its OpenSocial Alliance). 1 of 2 More Insights.
Fixing HTML. Douglas Crockford HTML needs fixing. The HTML 4 recommendation was published in 1999. Since then, the web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the web development community and the surprising expressive power of JavaScript, but we are at the limits. There are good ideas in HTML, but many of these were discarded in the XHTML effort. The new language I am proposing is not totally compatible with HTML 4. This is my proposal for a kinder, gentler HTML 5. The <html> tag gets an optional version attribute. No more doctypes. Script There is only one scripting language allowed on a page.
<script> tags do not specify a type or language. No more document.write. Frames No more framesets, frames, or iframes. Modules <module> creates a sub-tree which can contain a document with a communication channel. The default CSS content needs to be standardized. Encoding Entities Empty Tags Custom Tags. Spice Up Your Desktop with Time-Lapsing Wallpaper [Featured Mac Download] Hello world! VRMAG - ISSUE 22 in FullScreen QuickTime VR. Wired offers a few tips to avoid air travel ... The Art of BS: How to Succeed on Papers. The 10 Best Books of 2007. Advanced photoshop masking technique ] No mundo, há 1 celular para cada 2 habitantes. HELSINQUE -A telefonia celular atingiu 3,3 bilhões de usuários no mundo. O volume equivale a metade da população do planeta, 26 anos depois do lançamento da primeira rede de telefonia móvel, segundo dados da empresa de pesquisas Informa. Desde a ativação das primeiras redes da empresa Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT), em 1981 na Suécia, Noruega e Arábia Saudita, os celulares se tornaram o produto eletrônico mais vendido do mundo.
"O setor de celulares supera constantemente até as previsões mais otimistas sobre o crescimento da base de assinantes", disse Mark Newman, diretor de pesquisas da Informa, em nota. "Para as crianças que crescem hoje, a questão não é se elas terão um celular, é uma questão de quando", disse Newman. Nos últimos anos, o setor vem registrando forte crescimento nas periferias da China e da Índia, graças à redução nos preços dos aparelhos e das chamadas. Software That Learns from Users. Computer - internet - Search Google Like An Expert. Upgrade Your Hackintosh to OS X 10.5.1 [How To] Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download. The Longevity Pill? Top 10 Food and Drink Hacks [Lifehacker Top 10] @wouter-j: I too make mine into a "yellow cubist hedgehogs" which from now on I will use to refer to them. (previously I called them a 'mango city' which I think is the name my niece calls them - I learned the technique from her Dad who lived in Costa Rica for a couple of years and is quite adept at it) Note though, that my technique (via my brother-in-law) differs in this way - I make only one slice all the way around the edge of the pit.
Then, following that same 'incision,' cut the flesh away from the sides of the pit. This way all of the flesh is left on the two semi-spheroid halves which I then turn into the 'yellow cubist hedgehogs.' It's similar to the technique in this video, [www.youtube.com] but I just use the one thin knife, without switching to the spoon for step two. One other note.