Life is a Mystery

2 June 2008 . Comment

FFR: Sticker Shields

Make those park permit stickers more removable with Sticker Shields. (We only have one car, so no intent to use one sticker for multiple vehicles, just wanting to make year-to-year changes easier.) I dreamt of a product like this a few months ago. But I didn’t think to go look for it until prompted by lifehacker. Actually, the comments at lifehacker are more useful than the product itself, lots of ideas for making stickers more removable.

2 June 2008 . Comment

FFR: Stylish

I just learned about the nifty Firefox plugin called Stylish that lets you assign alternate styles to web pages and even to the Firefox browser interface. I wonder if Stylish might be used as a web development tool as a way to experiment with new styles for sites?

25 May 2008 . Comment

FFR: Ajax demos

AjaxDaddy might be a place to go learn some Web2.0 tricks someday.

22 May 2008 . Comment

FFR: Gas temperature

This little map could get more and more interesting as the coming decade wears on. I can easily imagine gas prices over $10/gallon within five years. Maybe we’ll all be looking at maps like this. Try zooming in.

gasmap.png

18 May 2008 . Comment

FFR: Mac battery charger

Just in case I’m ever looking for an external battery charger, this one looks simple and effective.

11 May 2008 . Comment

FFR: FontStruct

This looks like fun!

5 May 2008 . Comment

FFR: To Do

Remember the Milk looks like it keeps growing into a pretty reasonable to do list manager.

4 May 2008 . Comment

FFR: Time lapse Mac

Try Gawker. And for the opposite, try FrameByFrame. Or for both, if you don’t mind paying: iStopMotion.

4 May 2008 . Comment

FFR: Free Faxing

The drop.io service now offers free faxing. Could be useful.

25 April 2008 . Comment

FFR: MHS doing good

The IMLS project the MHS has undertaken with George Mason is bearing some very nice fruit: Omeka. I have yet to try the software, but I am encouraged by the packaging. Good license, nice use of CSS on the websites. Interesting set of showcases. Nice developer conversation and documentation. It looks like this may be a nice alternative for folks setting up digital collections, and maybe an interesting project to contribute to.

Eric Celeste / Saint Paul, Minnesota / 651.323.2009 / efc@clst.org