Sunday, December 14, 2008
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DIY Greeting Card Holder
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re flush with Christmas cards but lack an enormous mantle to spread them out on, check out this DIY greeting card holder. Instructables user Very Keri had a ton of Christmas cards and no where to put them. By recycling an unused art canvas with a fresh wrap of festive fabric and attaching bands of ribbon around it, she created a unique greeting card holder. It can be hung on the wall or propped up, and the entire project is easily customised to blend in with any decor just by the colour of ribbons and fabric you use. Make Your Own Greeting Card Holder [Instructables] More »
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WPClipart Archives Free Clipart
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Don’t embarrass yourself by busting out the same tired stock clip art for your next Power Point tour de force. WPClipart has a pile of royalty free images to share. The archive currently has 23,872 images, covering thousands of subjects. A significant portion of them are in lossless formats. The site is organised into categories, but if casual browsing fails to find you the perfect gem you’ve been searching for there is always keyword based searches. You can even download the entire collection as a single archive, making it easier to use offline. For more free clipart, check out the Open Clip Art Library. WPClipart [via DownloadSquad] More »
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BookCrossing Tracks Your Books In The Wild
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re looking for a novel way to keep your books out of landfills, release them into the wild with a tracking number from BookCrossing.com to see how far and wide they roam. After signing up for an account you can begin tagging your books and releasing them. Give them to friends, leave them on airplanes or coffee shop tables, anything to put them out where they can be found and enjoyed. Each book you release will have a unique ID number that allows future readers to visit BookCrossing and track where the book has been and what other people have to say about it. Some of the more well traveled books have hundreds of entries showing where they were found and what the readers has to say about the book. You can order labels or simply download the templates from their website and print them on label paper. If you’d like to jump right in and start sending lots of books on new adventures, you can order packets of pre-numbered labels. All the pre-numbered labels are registered to your account so all that’s left to do is slap them in the covers of the books and leave them in interesting places to be found and passed on. Bookcrossing [via DumbLittleMan] More »
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Top 10 DIY Photography Tools
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | As productivity thinker Merlin Mann recently wrote, getting better at photography can be a long-haul test of willpower and humility. It doesn’t have to be expensive, though. Whether you’re rocking a digital single-lens reflex model or a reliable point-and-shoot, there are a lot of different shots and gear you can experiment with, and important lessons to learn, that cost less than $50, if anything. Read on for our roundup of ten cheap or free DIY projects and lessons for aspiring photographers. Photo by Marcin Wichary. More »
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Pac-Man Tops Most Downloaded Android Apps List
1:58AM Gina Trapani | Fast Company publishes the most popular Android applications downloaded so far from the Android Market, which opened on October 22nd. Pac-Man tops the list at number one, followed by MySpace Mobile, The Weather Channel, and ShopSavvy. Check out our picks for the best Android apps to boost your mobile productivity. [via Gizmodo] More »
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