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Polygon bike

xlt — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:08:51 +0000

Modern concept of bike of future designed by Reindy Allendra. The bike is ultra stylish and cool with the prefect space for all your latest gizmos. It’s already fitted with features such as a music player.

Bike can convert the energy of the wheel cycle into power and automatically store it in the battery which later will be used for tail light at night and brake light. Most of all it can always recharge or supply power for your music player.

101 free high quality web templates and layouts

xlt — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:54:13 +0000

Dainis from 1stwebdesigner.com has compiled a nice collection of free high quality XHTML and CSS templates and layouts. All of them are hand-picked. And it’s just a first part. More to follow. Enjoy and use.

Update: part 2 of 101 More Quality CSS, XHTML Free Templates is now available.

Mp3 cassette player

xlt — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:45:35 +0000

NVDRS Tape — is an Mp3 player which looks like an oldshool tape cassette. The player continues to follow the 45/60/90 minutes norm or 10/15/20 select songs in digital format. Songs are uploaded via USB.

But the most interesting thing about this palayer – it works on kinetic energy – to charge the batteries you should rotate the spools!

More info about this concept at yankodesign.

Photosynthesis Solar Tree

xlt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:32:56 +0000

Just found out about pretty interesting concept of solar battery charger by designer Vivien Muller. I don’t know could it work in reality but it loks wery nice. Now you can make your own solar tree. :)

Google Calendar and Outlook

xlt — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:54:48 +0000

At my work I use Microsoft Outlook for my e-mails and works organization. Though I have Outlook, installed on one of my home computer I don’t use it. Reason – I better prefer online tools.

Few days ago I decided to try Google Calendar. And found it to be very handy time organizer and useful for my free-time organization. Google Calendar works stable and sends reminders to e-mail and even to my mobile. Last option I found very useful because I can get reminders when I need them most of all – when I’m out of office.

And what’s also good – Google Calendar can be synchronized with Outlook, as well as other desktop calendars like Thunderbird or iCal. To synchronize Google Calendar with Outlook you have to install Google Calendar Sync on your computer. Installation is fast and easy and took me less than minute. After installation enter your Google login and password and basic sync settings. Synchronization is supported for Outlook 2003 and 2007 running on Windows Vista or XP. On how to synchronize Google Calendar with other calendars read at Lifehacker.

I should add that only primary calendars of Google Calendar and Outlook can be synchronized. So if you need some item to be on both calendars (Google and Outlook) you have to copy that item to one of the primary calendars.

Computer bottle

xlt — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:51:23 +0000

No, it’s not a whiskey – it’s a fully functioning computer. Yeah, sometimes computer modding could be real fun.

70 Free Photoshop Actions to enhance your photographs

xlt — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:41:26 +0000

Just to drop a note for Photoshop lovers that Rains Wim is sharing free Photoshop actionscripts for photography enhancement – noise reduction, color correction, sharpening and much more. Actionscripts are divided into several categories. Preview of each actionscript effect is available (needs Javasript to function properly).

Free office templates

xlt — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:30:15 +0000

For Windows Office 2007 and Mac Office 2008 users – juice up your presentations with a set of free office templates from Microsoft. These templates will separate your stuff from the default looks of office suite.

Social network radio

xlt — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:34:00 +0000

Social networking is hype today. But have you ever thaought about social network … radio? Answer is Olinda – “Lego type” social network radio designed by Schulze & Webb Ltd. It can be sticked together by several different modules.

Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home.

Grokking The GIMP: free GIMP e-book

xlt — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:53:33 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is number one program when we talk about professional image editing. Unfortunately it is expensive enough. Though there are free alternatives even to Photoshop. Lot of people choose free open source software GIMP instead. GIMP is pretty equal with Adobe Photoshop in functions.

For GIMP users there is good book written by Carey Bunks and published by New Riders – “Grokking The GIMP“. The online version of this book is free and is distributed under the Open Publication License. This book will guide you to learn about GIMP. The book will teach you from basic tools of GIMP : layers, selections, masks, and colorspaces and then presenting in depth of touchup, enhancement, compositing, rendering, and image creation for the web.