I was a little irritated when Apple didn't include a dock for the iPhone 3G. That, the $30 price tag, and general laziness are the reasons I still haven't bought one. I've been able to improvise when I need one, but these DIY instructions on how to make your own cardboard iPhone dock have made my day. Get your cardstock or thin cardboard, download the provided (free) PDF, and watch the video to make your own too. The other perk besides the whole free thing? The design possibilities are endless — I'm already perusing the pretty cardstock at Paper Source!...
I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released the first issue of the Productive Magazine! 33 Pages, 17 articles, 3 MB FREE PDF download that looks like this: Productive Magazine #1 Before you download… watch the video of me introducing you to the magazine (only 6 minutes): To download, just click here! What’s in the magazine: Interview with the David Allen himself – the best-selling author of the Getting Things Done book 17 great articles by the most active productivity bloggers in the blogoshpere, make sure to check these out! Thanks to all the contributors and to everyone who helped...
I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released the first issue of the Productive Magazine! 33 Pages, 17 articles, 3 MB FREE PDF download that looks like this: Before you download…. watch the video of me introducing you to the magazine (only 6 minutes): To download, just click here! What’s in the magazine: Interview with the David Allen himself - the best-selling author of the Getting Things Done book 17 great articles by the most active productivity bloggers in the blogoshpere, make sure to check these out! Thanks to all the contributors and to everyone who helped me make this...
I'm pretty chuffed to learn that Metaplace, a games startup that I'm an advisor to -- closed a new round of financing today, netting $6.7 million from their existing VCs and Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Metaplace was started by Raph Koster, who created Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, with the idea of democratizing the creation of virtual worlds and games inside them. Instead of gigantic, elaborate virtual worlds, like Warcraft and its competitors, Metaplace allows users to create modest, personal virtual worlds the way you'd put together a MySpace page, using a toolkit that unpacks into a...
Our friend R.U. Sirius is editing a new magazine called h+ and the first issue is available as a free PDF. Humanity Plus (formerly the World Transhumanist Association) – in collaboration with former Mondo 2000 editor RU Sirius -- is pleased to present h+. A web-based quarterly magazine, h+ covers the scientific, technological, and cultural developments that are challenging and overcoming human limitations.
Recently, there has been a growing and evolving public discourse about new technological trends and possibilities. Scientists and edge thinkers are talking about– and working on -- slowing or ending aging; body and brain enhancement; biological...
Feral House has published the The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and is offering it as a bound book and a free PDF. Feral House offers this important and urgent publication of Dennis Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment this election season in two formats: an offset-printed paperback book available for the cost of $12 and a free downloadable PDF available below. David Swanson’s additional article explains how the Impeachment process is possible and necessary even after the guilty perp leaves office, and how they can be used for prosecution...
More RFID info & brainfood for you today, "The Internet of Things" by Rob van Kranenburg - A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID (free PDF) via Beyond the Beyond... Rob van Kranenburg, The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID. Report prepared by Rob van Kranenburg for the Institute of Network Cultures with contributions by Sean Dodson. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in News from the Future | Digg this!...
Nokia has announced that it is launching their Comes with Music (CmW) offering in the UK, Engadget reports. With 2.1 Million tracks from 3 of the 4 companies 'formerly known as major record labels', DRM'ed but without expiration date. Regardless of the obvious bummers (where are the indie labels, and why DRM?) I find this offer to be a very interesting step-up-the-ladder towards the Music Flat Rate that I have been describing for the past 5 years (lately, in my new book, Music 2.0... download the free PDF now!). In a way, just like Google is doing in China,...
We’re at it again. If you missed your opportunity last week to pick up a copy of the excellent pocket guide, Adobe AIR For JavaScript Developers (that’s the dead-tree version), then now’s your chance to grab a copy again. We just set live the second of Akash Mehta’s tutorials on building applications with AIR, Learn Adobe AIR, Part 2: Build A Customer Management App. This time round, Akash looks at expanding the user interface of an AIR-powered app, by exploring how to implement drag-and-drop and window management features. He also touches on menu construction and native window interaction. It’s all...
Yesterday's post on iPhone comicbooks drew some great points in the comments. But it was an email sent to me by artist Paul Jason Holden that made me realize why comics won't succeed on the iPhone, and why the App Store's "quality control" is just a euphemism for "censorship". Holden and writer Al Ewing (both 2000AD alumni) put together a comic book designed from the start to work on the iPhone's small screen, complete with "making-of" videos. They submitted it to the App Store (as a free download) and Apple refused to take it. Why? Holden: Unfortunately, Apple have...
It’s official—SitePoint readers love quizzes, and they love book giveaways even more. First, we gave you multiple chances to receive a free copy of Jack Herrington’s pocket guide to Flex 3 (the dead-tree version). All you had to do was read an article or two about developing with Adobe Flex and taking a short quiz. Now we’re doing the same thing with Adobe AIR. We’ve just published the first of two articles on building applications with AIR, Learn Adobe AIR, Part 1: Build A Note Storage App, by Akash Mehta. Clocking in at over 4,000 words, Akash gives you a...
