Posts Tagged ‘geek goodies’

Make your own Apple boss

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Copied from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):

“I love this — papercraft artist Jay Hauf has constructed a little papercraft Steve Jobs cutout. Over on his Flickr account, he’s posted a picture that you can print out, cut out, and then fold up into the form of our favorite CEO. The little figure even comes with a paper iPhone, though I guess if you want (and if you’re a little skilled with Photoshop), you could put an iPad or another Apple product in there.”

If you want your own paper-based CEO (and, frankly, who wouldn’t?), then visit Flickr.

iPad announced… geeks complain…

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

So Apple finally announced it’s latest gadget – the iPad. Possibly the most-eagerly awaited tablet since Moses was on the scene (© All today’s newspapers), the iPad is – in layman’s terms – an VERY BIG iPhone… but without the phone bit.
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Facial Expression Computer Control

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Made me smile… visit Geek and Poke for more geeky japery.

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Interesting… but I don’t see Clapton playing one

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The jury’s still out as to whether I want one… or will stick with the “boring old strings” of my usual guitars.


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Retro web sites

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Forgot about this until I stumbled upon it again today: what would the Apple web site have looked like in 1983.

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Google Autocomplete is weird

Friday, December 18th, 2009

For those of you unfamiliar with it, Google autocomplete is a ‘feature’ whereas the omnipresent search engine tries to guess what you’re looking for as you type, presumably based on previous searches.

Well, some people are quite, quite odd as the fabulous Autocompleteme demonstrates.

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