ZingIT http://zsn-it.com/blog Fun and interesting insights from Zingerman's IT Dept Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:40:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Morning treat http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ZingIT/~3/18mIewnLYVI/ http://zsn-it.com/blog/2011/03/morning-treat/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:40:49 +0000 Billie http://zsn-it.com/blog/?p=2280

]]> http://zsn-it.com/blog/2011/03/morning-treat/feed/ 1 http://zsn-it.com/blog/2011/03/morning-treat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=morning-treat Michigan Beach in February http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ZingIT/~3/-rhpZLLb39I/ http://zsn-it.com/blog/2011/02/michigan-beach-in-february/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:04:06 +0000 Billie http://zsn-it.com/blog/?p=2274 Elph went on vacation to Vieques. He sent pictures of the view. We had to show him that he didn’t need to leave the office to get a lovely beach scene.

Featuring 140 blue balloons for water, packing peanuts for sand, green crepe paper palm trees, a beach chair, Joe the cabana boy and a message in a bottle.

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  • Chatter.com: twitter for biz
  • More helpdesks to checkout: OTS helpdesk, civic CRM
  • Google Art Project: like streetview for inside museums.  Zoom in on artwork!
  • Cake PHP
  • The Fall by Gorillaz was done almost entirely on an iPad
  • Tiny arrows super short URL generator that uses unicode characters.
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    • Ubiquisys Attocell “In essence, this would allow a 3G smartphone from one country to use their international web connection to tunnel a cell call through — presumably free of charge — and definitely bypassing those nasty roaming fees that are incurred when ringing through an overseas cellular network.” via engadget
    • Bomb Sniffing Lasers – when you shoot a laser the air particles get excited and come back to the source, the bandwidth of infrared light that returns can be measured and its components identified. more via eScience
    • Airview for iOS – stream video from one iOS device to another using AirPlay.
    • Evernote updates blog – includes lots of updates, addons and sharing options for Evernote.
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  • Mockingbird: javascript prototyping tool https://gomockingbird.com/
  • Olark: support chat tool embedded with gmail chat / google talk. http://www.olark.com/
  • GitHub: Opensource repository.  “social coding” https://github.com/
  • Prezi:  Powerpoint alternative now for iPad http://prezi.com/
  • PBS iOS app. I highly recommend Nova’s Making Stuff: Strength–Nanotubes and Spider silk!
  • my.mckinley.com It’s a great looking site, all built on Drupal – social networking for mckinley real estate.
  • Wonderlist – task manager for iOS.
  • Adblock Plus released for Chrome.  http://adblockplus.org/en/
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    Museum Day is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Media in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket.  In the Ann Arbor area you can get into the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, UM Museum of Art, and UM Exhibit Museum of Natural History.  Get your ticket and find more participating museums at Smithsonian Magazine.
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    Sharpie the pen makers have created a Liquid Pencil that contains an “ink” made from liquid graphite. Its liquid graphite “ink” allows the user to erase at will for up to three days. After three days the liquid graphite will then turn to ink and will become permanent, to a degree…

    hat tip

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    I’ve taken the opportunity to register zingermans.co and elph.co. Just in case it’s useful. The prices seem to be standardized around the web at $29.99 per year.

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