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Cool Tools Show 189: Jordan Bunker Our guest this week is Jordan Bunker. Jordan is a freelance engineer, designer, artist, and prop-maker based out of Oakland, California. He’s also a former Make: magazine technical editor and BattleBots robot builder. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram at @TensorFlux. Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes | RSS | Transcript | Download MP3 | See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page Show notes: Dykem Steel Blue Layout Fluid Spray ($14) When working with metals, it’s useful to be able to make clear, precise lines on the surface to be worked on. McMaster-Carr Catalog MCMaster Carr is one of my go-to companies for just about any kind of material or hardware needed for a project. Air Force Jumpsuit (used, varies) In my shop, I do a lot of welding, grinding, and working with chemicals. Also mentioned: Make: magazine Skill Builder Articles I recently moved to San Francisco to work for Make Magazine, as a technical editor.

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Integrate Your Interests – from Mindhacker « The Blog of Charles 20 Sep I have been reading the book Mindhacker by Ron and Marty Hale-Evans. It is a collection of 60 tips, tricks and games to take your mind to the next level. This blog article is about a Perl script developed by Ron to take two search terms at random from a file of his “obsessions” then send a query to Google. Each line of text is a valid Google search term, for example, “mind hacks”. I recoded the script in Python and made it available at the end of this post. 10 Free MP3 Albums To Download [Sound Sunday] This week’s edition of Sound Sunday is full of good stuff! You will find several debut albums, a music video produced by Olan Rogers, an experimental soundtrack, the third Tangram album featured on Sound Sunday, some Hip Hop, but most of all great pop and rock. If you have any suggestions, feel free to use the comments or drop me an eMail [tina at makeuseof dot com]. Awake! Awake! – We’ve Been Strangers

Leftycartoons Matomeno ANYTHING scissors is a scissors. Since there is an explicit case, they stand by themselves. It gives an impression of some object. The pair of scissors - stands up in front of people. Google Reader (1000+) Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more. - Microsoft SMS&P Partner Community Blog - By Eric Ligman Throughout the year I try to share resources and information with you that I think will be helpful for you. Often times these resources will include links to free eBooks that we make available on a variety of topics. Today, I thought I would post a large collection of eBooks for you here so that you can find them in one place and consume them as you see fit.

Wall Tapestries, Throw Blankets, Tapestry Wall Hangings, Throw Pillows, Furniture Throws, Afghan Throws Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine Suunto Ambit puts GPS navigation, performance tracking and heart rate monitor on your wrist Suunto Ambit puts GPS navigation, performance tracking and heart rate monitor on your wrist Image Gallery (24 images) The Ambit watch is Suunto's latest GPS-enabled watch, following up on the X10. The package is designed to provide outdoor athletes with a suite of tools - GPS, sports computer, heart rate monitor - to train and adventure successfully.

How to Make Limited-Time App Deals Last Forever At least in the case of the Starbucks free apps, the developers get paid. (At least that's how I understand it. I know, it gets in the way of consumer-bashing, but you can have your fill of that on the Consumerist.) You know the developers still get paid in these sales, right? Whether or not they get 'stimulated' is up to them. Tech Current - Ultimate Windows Tweaker - TweakUI For Windows 7 and Vista We are pleased to release our Ultimate Windows Tweaker for Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.2 is a freeware TweakUI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows 7 & Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. This Tweaker was first released at the Microsoft South Asia MVP Meet 2008. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application to customize your Windows to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, it can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks.

Tutorial for Newbies - Tutorials Tutorial for Newbies As a person who started using AHK having absolutely zero programming experience (never taken a class or read a book on computers in my life), I will give you my 2 cents on learning it. I think exploring the forum works great if you have even a little bit of background in this area. If, like me, you have none, I would learn it in the following order (this is how I would do it if I had to do it over again). My reasoning here is that for a person starting from scratch, you need to learn concepts before learning commands, and the forum is geared more towards commands.

Free Software for College Students If you’re in college, check out these eight lesser known, but still indispensable software applications for your computer. We bet these will be as useful as Dropbox and Evernote! Photo by Samantha Decker. Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. 1.

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