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Hex Color Picker

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The Hex Color Picker is a very handy tool for web designers who code by hand and need to specify colors by hex code. It adds a sixth tab to OS [...]

TUAW Best of the Week

Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review
Weekend has broken, like the first weekend. TUAW has posted, like the first post. Praise for the blog posts, praise for the weekend, praise for the best posts of TUAW all week. Mine is the round up, mine is the weekend review. Mine is the [...]

Ask: Is the Algorithm Working?

It’s Friday night in London. You’re out on the town with some friends at the local pub, drinking some beers and the call of nature beckons. Making your way to the restroom you’re confronted with advertising that tells you that 75% of online information goes through one company. On the other side of the Pond, [...]

Http:BL Returns Control of Website Access Back to Website Owners

Introducing http:BLSince its inception, the front page of Project Honey Pot has promised that we will “Help Stop Spammers Before They Even Get Your Email Address.” Today we make good on that promise. Introducing http:BL, a service that allows you to use the data generated by Project Honey Pot in order to keep malicious web [...]

Rescue Time: Automated Time Management meets Web 2.0

Time Management as a distributed concept is not new, from long corporate training days with free lunches (the lunch often being the highlight) through to earlier software packages, and even through to today, with a wealth of Web 2.0 options focusing on providing the user with the tools to better manage their own time and [...]

Google In Talks To Acquire SimplyHired

Rumors surfaced today that Google is in discussions to acquire job search engine Simply Hired. Trip Chowdry, a research analyst at Global Equity Research first spoke about it, and the story was then picked up by Alarm:Clock.
I spoke with Simply Hired president Dion Lim, who confirmed that there is “lots of interest in us” from [...]

How-to: Use your TiVo Series3 eSATA port to add an external drive

Filed under: DVRs, Cable, OTA

Holy crap, there’s finally a way to use the eSATA port on your Series3 to expand your drive space! We’ve got the full writeup over on Engadget classic, check it out! Go on, ‘git!

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Radio controlled horse racing

When I first read about this gadget, I thought it was quite an odd product but when I watched the short video clip I changed my mind. It’s basically a horse racing track where you and a couple of friends race around using small radio controlled horses. The $100 set comes with 1 white and [...]

World’s biggest vending machine

Japan, the mother of vending machines, gives you the world’s biggest vending machine - or I guess a better description would be to call it an automated shop. Check out the article, it’s actually quite cool. The store is UNIQLO UT.
Tokyo T-shirts [tokyotimes.org]
via [Wired]

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Vista’s aero sucks laptop batteries

According to this article the battery drain when running Vista on a laptop is because of the Aero effect. I guess most laptop makers will put out some kind of power management scheme that will give you a better balance between battery life and performance.
“When Aero is turned off, battery life is equal to or [...]