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An egg-cuber from thekitchenstore.com There is no end to the number of unusual gadgets that you can buy for your kitchen. Dark Roasted Blend has a selection, with photos. You can, for example, get a slimline toaster that produces toast with smilies on each piece, a rabbit-shaped mixer or a roll-up microwave cooker. . . . → Read More: Quirky kitchen appliances There is a useful tool to check which amazon store has the cheapest price for books, including international postage. (Unfortunately it won’t check egg poacher prices). Check out CheapRiver.com. They do a browser plug-in which will allow you to check worldwide and find the cheapest location to order from. The differences are sometimes . . . → Read More: Useful tool to check amazon book prices There have been a number of reports in the last days of iTunes app developers apparently accessing other iTunes users’ accounts to buy their applications, to increase their rating on iTunes. People have had bills of $100 or more generated for apps and books that they didn’t order. It is not clear at . . . → Read More: Online security Film from traffic cameras in Moscow. It looks like obeying traffic lights, giving way, and driving in the correct lane are considered optional by a number of drivers in Moscow. (Best to mute the sound, which has been added . . . → Read More: Moscow traffic incidents We have been trying to plan the furniture for the various rooms in our new house – we need to check everything will fit in, and think about how many power points lights and switches we need, where. For the kitchen and some other rooms we have been using the IKEA planning tools which . . . → Read More: Nice free 2D/3D modelling tool on the web If you need a temporary mail address to receive a verification mail and send a reply before you can download music or a file from the internet, 10 Minute Mail is a good solution. It will give you a mail address which is active for ten minutes before being automatically deleted. (Spotted on . . . → Read More: 10 Minute Mail … the thing moves with the speed and grace of an angry bee, while accompanied by the perfectly menacing whine of its little engine. Wow! (via Engaget) Using the waze desktop maps There is a new social mobile application on the block – waze.com. You can download the application onto your smartphone (Apple, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian at the moment, Blackberry is coming shortly) and use the free software as an on-board turn-by-turn navigation system. The maps are . . . → Read More: Help fill in the blanks on waze.com
RadarVirtuel following the volcanic dust cloud over Europe You can follow the track of the volcanic dust cloud over Europe, and the flight tracks and details of the few flights that are still taking place despite the cloud, over at RadarVirtuel.com. . . . → Read More: Follow the dust I can’t see the point in some of the more modern internet trends – I tried FaceBook and gave up after a couple of weeks, and have never felt the slightest urge to share my life using Twitter. However I know quite a few people who do use Twitter. They may want to consider . . . → Read More: Careful what you tweet… |
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