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Draganfly X6 UAV: UFO Thingy Packed With Carbon Fiber, HD/Night Cameras and GPS [Helicopter] 
Brian Lam via Gizmodo on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
The Draganfly series of heli cams have been impressive, but the just announced X6 is freaking amazing. The triple-tipped carbon fiber body has two carbon rotors on each end. The design allows it to move in all directions rapidly, pr
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Readernaut Helps You Decide What to Read or Not
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Readernaut is a new site for tracking what books you and your friends are reading. It’s a more beautiful LibraryThing with some super simple features.
Like most social sites, Readernau
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Get Free Airport Wi-Fi with a Simple URL Hack [Wi-Fi]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Blogger Felix Geisendorfer points out a clever URL hack that scored him free Wi-Fi at the Atlanta airport. I found that I could easily visit sites like slashdot, Google, or even this weblog, when adding a ?.jpg at th
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LinkedIn: A New Must-Have App For iPhone
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
The iPhone has been making headway in its battle to become a business-ready tool. Obviously, the addition of Microsoft Exchange support was a big step towards being considered a viable alternative to the traditional smartphones used at work, like Blackberry and Windows Mobile. However, beyond simply supporting enterprise email, the
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Up Close With Microsoft’s Photosynth: Stitch Photos Together Auto-Magically
John Biggs via TechCrunch on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
I got to cruise over to Smith Tower yesterday to talk with Microsoft Live Labs about Pho
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NYC kids build the world's loudest bicycles
Michael Trei via DVICE on Fri, 15 Aug. 2008
Sick of seeing their big brothers having all the fun with their pimped out car stereos, a group of kids in Queens, New York dubbed the Stereobike Crew, figured tha
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Google Reader Finally Introduces Granular Sharing Control
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Back in December, Google Reader announced that it was introducing a feature that let users share posts with anyone in their Gmail/Gtalk contact list. Unfortunately, the sharing was all-or-nothing - if you decided to share
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How To Send Files Larger Than 1GB - Sharewood Guide
Robin Good via Robin Good's Latest News on Mon, 11 Aug. 2008
Large files sending web services are a category of online collaboration tools that is made up of those applications that allow you to send huge files, even larger than 1GB, to one or more people, and without resorting to email attachments. In this week's Sharewood Guide, Robin Good and I have selected for you the be
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How To Demo Your Startup
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Sat, 09 Aug. 2008
Jason Calacanis’ most recent post to his email mailing list is particularly relevant to our audience. He’s spoken with 200 companies in ten minute increments as they give their pitch to be a part of the upcoming
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Preparing for the Biggest Organized Event of Them All: The Olympics
(unknown author) via Visions of China: A 2008 Olymp on Fri, 08 Aug. 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble
Interesting look from one of the photographers who'll be covering the Olympics.
I’m not sure there’s an event I ever cover that requires as much advance logistics planning as the Olympics. Travel plans start up to a year before The Games, and from there on you continue to prepare until the games begin. In this post, I will discus
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BitTorrent Fires 20% of Its Employees
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Wed, 06 Aug. 2008
BitTorrent Inc., founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol, is firing 12 of its 55 employees. The company, which also develops the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, had been struggling to make money from their download store, which is one of the causes of the layoffs.
One of
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Google Takes On Mechanical Turk With Translation Center
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Mon, 04 Aug. 2008
Google does a decent job translating Web pages from other languages, but machine-based translation is still not good enough for when you need a truly accurate translation. A new service called the
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Issuu PDF Viewer Makes Your Presentations Look Beautiful
Amit Agarwal via Digital Inspiration on Mon, 04 Aug. 2008
Issuu, a free web service that converts PDF presentations into good looking Flip magazines, just got better.
They have added a new web based PDF viewer that renders slides as regular images instead of Flash - this is useful as people ca
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Open Source Switzerland Network Testing Tool Catches ISP Throttlers In the Act [Switzerland]
Jack Loftus via Gizmodo on Mon, 04 Aug. 2008
As part of an effort to thwart future ISP infractions, a la Comcast, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released Switzerland, an open source software tool for "testing the integrity of data
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Australian Company Launches The World's Smallest Pocket Projector
(unknown author) via Gizmodo Australia on Fri, 01 Aug. 2008
While the rest of the world sits back and waits for pico projectors to make their way into mobile phones, Australian company Mint Wireless has decided to just release the world's smallest pocket projector instead. T
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Hollywood Has Finally Figured Out How to Make Web Video Pay
Frank Rose via Wired Top Stories on Thu, 31 Jul. 2008
Shared by César Córcoles
¿Hollywood 2.0?
It's a quintessential Hollywood moment: a star on a soundstage, the focal point of every person and every piece of equipment in the room. The star on this particular January day is Rosario Dawson, the 29-year-old actress who earned her cred as an Uzi-wielding prostitute in Sin City. She's b
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Software I can't work without
sergiopereira via Devlicio.us on Thu, 31 Jul. 2008
I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to.
Besides the common software development tools, like Visual Studio, SQL Server, Ruby, Office, Firefox, SVN, etc, over the years I've collected a number of small tools that I
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Balsamiq, a Mockup Creator in AIR, is on Fire
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 30 Jul. 2008
Balsamiq, an application mockup creation tool built on Adobe AIR, has generated more than $10,000 in revenue less than 6 weeks after the $79 tool launched. The one-man company was profitable within
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