Baseball fans who don't live near their childhood homes have several options for watching their favorite teams' games, but there's a great new way. The Roku, a small $99 box which easily attaches to your TV, lets you watch any game by any team in near-HD quality, provided you're not geographically ...
Squarespace for easy, gorgeous websites–and you don’t have to be an HTML geek
I recently met Erica Reitman, the marketing director of Squarespace, and I'm very impressed with what the company is doing. Based on their info page, Squarespace has been around since 2003, but it’s only recently that I’ve been reading about them and hearing their sponsorship of various podcasts I ...
Use another Mac as a second screen?
For years, I have heard the question "can I use my old iMac as a screen for my laptop?" or variants of it, and the answer has always been no, an iMac is a full computer, and you can't use it as a dumb display. That was until I discovered ScreenRecycler, a brilliant application which makes possible ...
Personalized travel guides, thanks to the wonder of the internet
I’ve been playing around with Offbeat Guides, an online travel site that aggregates data from a number of websites to create your own personalized guide to a specific city. They say they can make a custom travel guide for over 30,000 travel destinations. You put in the following info: • The city ...
Online custom palette generator
Pictaculous is a color palette generator. You upload your image to their site and it creates a custom color palette based on the image. And it's free. (The image you upload must be less than 500k and must be a PNG, JPG, or GIF file.) Great idea. Simplifies matching colored text or background to a ...
Make your own font–it’s easy and cheap
I just created my own personalized font with YourFonts. It’s incredible what technology can do—not so many years ago, you had to forge pieces of metal to create your own font face. And now anybody can do it, in 10 minutes. Here’s an example of the font I made, using my own handwriting: Here’s ...