Magazine publishers are finding new ways to connect with readers through Facebook by giving them an opportunity to read content and subscribe without leaving the social networking site, AdAge reported last week. Until recently, companies have widely used Facebook to direct traffic to external Web sites.
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Has Time Inc. found a way to monetize content on Facebook?
This year, in the lead-up to and during the Faire, we wanted to gather together a little ad hoc community of makers who are presenting at the event and ask them to do some posts for us. We want you to be able to look over their shoulders to get a sense of what’s going into their preparations, and through their minds — what they’re psyched about, nervous about, what they’re excited to see at the Faire
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The road to Maker Faire: Michael Wood
CherryPal has launched two new netbooks Asia, C117 and C118 Asia Asia running the Android operating system 1.6 and are designed with the developing countries in the middle. Both models are powered by the VIA 8505 Asia ARM9 processor running at 533 MHz, 256 MB RAM and 2 GB of flash memory
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CherryPal C117 And C118 New Asia Netbook
So designer Eric Ku made this chair out of the letters in the word chair, so you can sit while you spell. Think it would be possible to build a generic set of letters that you could use to build anything that you spelled out? [via theo's gallimaufry ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Furniture | Digg this!
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Yo Dawg, I heard you like chairs
Found in the MAKE Flickr pool : Mario Caicedo Langer of Bogotá, Colombia, built this excellent prop weapon called the Pistol WTF 2000 that packs light and sound effects. (Click on the image for a bigger pic.) MATERIALS: My old heat gun (RIP), pieces of video camera, industrial plastic rollers, toilet tank tree, blender glass funds. Coming to Instructables
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Costume ray gun
The dynamic between Long Term Evolution (LTE) and WiMax has been about the same for a while: LTE has more powerful carriers on its side, but is behind WiMax in rollouts. That situation is fundamentally unchanged, but the industry is closing in on a new
Printer News: You Must Remove the HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf Laser Printer From the Box But it Takes Over From There HP makes it easy to start printing from the LaserJet Pro M1212nf shortly after it you remove it from the box.
Apparently, no one in comedy group The Station was able to get the game working when they were kids. Did you have any success? I don’t think I’ve ever actually played the game, but can attest to having seen a working life-sized version at Maker Faire : In true parody form, they also have a making-of video
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Did mousetrap ever work?
Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.
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Daily Dispatch: Car hackers: the latest scare; A BlackBerry app shows radiation level
The elections that took place last week in the UK recently created some conflict between media mogul Robert Murdoch and Alexander Lebedev , the Russian billionaire who purchased the Independent along with two other UK newspapers earlier this year. Luke Harding , writing for The Guardian , recently interviewed Lebedev about the apparent spat.
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Lebedev discusses with The Guardian his present and future plans
In this edition of the CRAFT Video, I’ll show you how to make a custom fabric bike seat cover . You might make one if your bike seat is in disrepair, needs protection from rain, or, if you’re like me, you want to cover up your nice saddle to deter potential thieves from lifting your seat while your bike is locked up outside. Pop over to CRAFT for the complete instructions
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CRAFT Video: Sew an easy bike seat cover
The Sunday Times editor, John Witherow , told his staff at a meeting last Thursday that print-based business is unlikely to be viable in the future. Witherow said the future of news is “digital” and announced the launch of a Sunday Times iPhone app soon, according to Guardian .
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Sunday Times confirms staff cuts and plans for iPhone app
Printer News: Canon imageRUNNER 2545 Multifunction Laser Continues Printing While You Change the Toner If a summer Olympics for printers existed, the Canon imageRUNNER 2545 would contend for the gold in the sprints. This workgroup laser multifunction prints (and copies) up to 45 black-and-white pages per minute with a fast, first-page out from a cold start.
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Canon imageRUNNER 2545 Delivers Fast Black-and-White Prints
This week Ray passes along the latest photographic news relating to Nikon and Nikonians: Nikonians Academy Sets us apart Adobe offers Release candidate of Camera Raw 6.1 Adobe TV offers 24 free tutorials on Photoshop CS5 DxO Labs announces Optics Pro 6.2 Nikonian Darrell Young Download Nikonians News Flash #153 (NPC-NF-2010-05-15.mp3; 5:06; 4.67MB; MP3 format)
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Nikonians News Flash #153
InfoWorld’s Matt Hamblen has written a very insightful article about something that IT managers should be worried about, if they aren’t already: Wireless is evolving so quickly that IT managers are up against it when it comes to planning and managing
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The Hard Job of Managing Mobility
I’ll be teaching a class I’m calling “Quick Bread” this Sunday at the home of the founder of the Institute for Urban Homesteading. It’s not about quickbreads but about making a good, regular loaf of bread as fast as possible. There are all manner of very affordable one-off classes at IUH.
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Baking Bread this Sunday at Institute for Urban Homesteading
Adobe’s co-founder and co-chairman says concerns about security in Flash Player are “old news.” Adobe even cites a Symantec study as evidence of their security record. But when you read that study, as I did, you get a completely different, and quite alarming story.
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How secure is Flash? Here’s what Adobe won’t tell you
For all its impressive advances of the past thirty years — the move from analog to digital and its data and wireline voice initiatives chief among them — the cable industry has lagged wireless voice.
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Cable Still Struggling for a Viable Wireless Voice Play
Ever wondered what exactly the big deal is with video being added to DSLRs? We catch up with our friend, Michael Mariant, who enlightens us on the use of a DSLR for professional cinematography. Download The Image Doctors #117 (MP4 format)
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ID#117: The Image Doctors
Where the Epson could laser print a color photo that compared to the results obtained from ink jet printers , this Brother looks almost like it was printed by a newspaper. Also if you try printing a solid color test, you will see streaks …
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brother mfc-9320cw high quality digital color all-in-one printer …