Superuse.org has pictures of weird houses and structures made with recycled materials. Also read about Radiotime.com and Americantowns.com.
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“Switching to the Mac, Leopard Edition,” by David Pogue ($30 from missingmanuals.com ). Mac users get very few viruses, no spyware and very little spam.
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Our past encounters with equipment from Genius has left us with the impression that “right around average” would be a better name, but this radio combo is a step up. In addition to the CD and iPod dock, the iTempo 800 has an alarm clock and an S-Video connection, so you can display photos and videos from your iPod on a big TV screen.
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We have some really good stuff this week: a super thin graphics tablet and a teeny-tiny computer. Let’s kick off with the tiny computer: We were charmed by a new miniature computer from Asus.
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We got our eager hands on a CyberTablet Z12 from Adesso (adesso.com). It works with any PC or Mac and sells for $122, which is around the midpoint for such tablets. You can write notes, draw highly defined pictures, edit photos and use it to add your signature to email and documents.
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We buy a new computer every couple of years, and over time we have a lot of good stuff stored on the old ones. Bob has pulled the hard drives out, and we have four of them sitting on shelves. Now we can plug them in and use the older stuff anytime we want.
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Newsflashr.com has an interesting new way to look at topics in the news. It’s called a “tag cloud.” A box at one side of the page contains dozens of key words and phrases: like Iraq, fake Ferraris, crisis, etc. Click on one and you get links to stories from many sources. New stories have their subject in pink, older stories are in blue. But no stories are more than seven hours old.
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Ideatango.com for inventors and MutualArt.com for art lovers.
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A free service at VirusTotal.com will take any PC file that is ten megabytes or less and put it through a rigorous scan by 32 of the best anti-virus programs.
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New computers are fairly inexpensive now, but refurbished computers are the cheapest of all.
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