How To Balloon Map Your Neighbourhood 
In Memoriam: Our Favourite Apps And Services That Have Gone Belly Up 
John Cleese Talks iPhones, Beer, Groupies, Texting And The World's Worst Airlines 
Eating For $2 A Day: What Live Below The Line Can Learn From Mastercheap 
Take Your Ideas From Start To Finish With Wunderkit 
Can BlackBerry 10 Save The BlackBerry? You have no idea what you’re doing. This is great, says author Neil Gaiman in a commencement speech at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Being unfamiliar with established rules and limits is a plus when you’re trying to be creative and make things: “If you don’t know it’s impossible, it’s easier to do.”
We discuss a number of web services designed to keep you productive, but when you have half a dozen different web and storage apps to keep track of they can take more time than they save. That’s where Hojoki comes in. The service connects to all of your productivity tools and collects your updates, code revisions, new files, comments and more into one feed that you can monitor in one place.
Feeling overwhelmed by your inbox, your to-dos, your errands, your to-reads and all the rest? Of course you are. We all are. Microsoft-ian and speaker Scott Hanselman delivers a practical and inspiring talk on digging yourself out of the guilt-ridden cycles of distraction and interruption, and it’s full of productivity gems.
If the mic on your phone, laptop or other device leaves a bit to be desired, the bootlegMIC is a simple DIY mic that sounds fantastic and takes up almost no space at all.
If you love to homebrew but live in an area where temperatures get too hot for proper fermentation you can resolve yourself to wait to brew or you can build a badarse Arduino Nano-controlled UberFridge which will maintain temperatures set to a tenth of a degree and can be monitored or controlled using a custom webapp. If you have a spare working fridge the build will cost around $US100 in parts.
Harsh chemical drain unclogging solutions can actually be abrasive enough to make your pipes leak after the clog is dissolved. Instead considering pouring a half bottle of white vinegar down your drain every three months to keep clogs from forming.
AniExplorer enables hidden animations in the Windows Explorer interface, letting you customise your file manager and give it a little pizazz.
Everyone loves the iPhone’s headset with volume and music controls on the inline remote, but if you have an Android phone, you can actually get iPhone-designed buds working with your device. All it takes is a little DIY magic.
Ever felt like Google Maps doesn’t provide enough detail of the aerial view of your neighbourhood? Ever wanted to make your own maps or participate in a little homegrown science? Balloon mapping is a cheap way to take aerial pictures for all sorts of purposes — even events like weddings, graduations or parties — and it’s dead simple to do it yourself. Here’s how it works.
There are a lot of ways to fix issues with your browser, but they often require you to delete all your data — stored passwords, cookies, form history and other things that take a while to build back up. Firefox’s Beta and Aurora channels now have a new feature called “Reset Firefox”, which lets you start fresh while still keeping some of your old information.
