Jul 3, 2009

Spy on your Plants


Have you ever wondered how in the hell this flower in your garden suddenly was blooming in the morning and it was not even visible the day before? Now Think Geek offers the Gardenwatch Cam that makes it easy to spy on your plants in the garden.

This flower surveillance camera is housed in a weather resistant plastic and features a 1.3MP CMOS. The easy to use camera lets you choose multiple time settings to take time lapse photos of your garden.

The Gardencam supports 54 degrees of field of view, 20" to infinity Focal Length and a Macro Effect at 20" with background unfocused.

Photos are stored on 8MB internal RAM extendable to 2GB with USB flash and the camera is powered by 4AA batteries (included). The batteries hold 4-6 months depending on your time lapse settings.

Specifications:
1.3MP CMOS
multiple time settings
8MB internal RAM
USB flash
4AA batteries

The cool GardenCam sells for $139.99

Why Cry Baby Analyzer


Although a baby crying is just one of those normal parts of having a baby, sometimes it’d be nice to know why exactly they are crying. Typically it’s pretty easy to figure out, give them a bottle or change their diaper and you’re good. However, sometimes the crying just keeps going, so at those points it would be nice to have a translator. Oddly, Think Geek is there to rescue you with this Why Cry Baby Analyzer.

Just whip this out and it’ll take the gadget about 20 seconds to figure out what’s wrong with your little one. It will then show a face on the screen that you can link up with the five different possible issues. There is stressed, sleepy, annoyed, bored and finally hungry. It’d be nice if it translated things a bit more specifically, but at least it’s something. It also displays the room’s temperature and humidity. To keep it powered, it requires 4 AA batteries. You can purchase it for $99.99.

Source: BBG

Jun 16, 2009

Google Wave



Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Jun 15, 2009

Personas - change the look of your Firefox web browser

Are you bored looking at your same old firefox themes and colors? Here is the treat for your eyes. Personas from Mozilla Labs, a open source which can do wonders in your browser.

Personas allow you to “skin” the top and bottom areas of Firefox only (the header and footer of the browser chrome) without any change to the look of the navigation buttons or menus. With Personas, you can easily switch between many different lightweight skins with no further installation required.

Like Personas, a Firefox theme is a type of Firefox add-on that extends the functionality of your browser and allows you to “skin” it in a variety of ways. However, unlike Personas, a theme changes the appearance of navigation buttons, toolbars and menus.

Personas are lightweight “skins” that change the look of your Firefox web browser. You can easily switch between Personas with just a few clicks. There are hundreds of Personas to choose from, with more added every day. You can even create your own and share it with others.

In less than 60 seconds, you can install a Persona and transform the look of your Firefox web browser. Visit GetPersonas.com and click the download button. After installation, you will be asked to restart Firefox.

Some samples of Personas,









Access Multiple Gmail Accounts - IE 8

Internet Explorer 8 lets you to access multiple Gmail accounts. It provide users to access multiple Gmail accounts simultaneously and independently.

This is accomplished via the New Session option, which makes it possible to log onto Web sites that track your identity across different tabs--like Gmail.

Here's how to utilize this IE8 feature:

1. Open Internet Explorer 8 and login to your Gmail account. Make sure the Remember Me option is unchecked when you sign in.

2. Press Alt-F, I, and then hit Enter. This will open a new Internet Explorer session (which for all intents and purposes is the same as a new IE window).

3. Open Gmail and sign in with different account, again making sure to uncheck Remember Me.