Friday, 26 November 2010

Great personalised video for the little people

Great personalised video for the little people


A special invitation from Santa!
www.portablenorthpole.tv
THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR THE PORTABLE NORTH POLE. This holiday season, help Santa Claus send a personalized video message to your loved ones, all the way from his Village at the North Pole!

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Bit expensive, but how fun would this be! It creates 3D models of anything you like by feeding and heating up a line of plastic, then builds the model up layer by layer.

Bit expensive, but how fun would this be! It creates 3D models of anything you like by feeding and heating up a line of plastic, then builds the model up layer by layer.


RoboSavvy UK - Store
robosavvy.com
The MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer is the new 3D printer from the popular Makerbot Industries. Makerbot 3D Printers are extremely popular in the US for their low cost, good quality printers and Robosavvy is proud to be first to bring to the UK.

Monday, 22 November 2010

How to auto-retweet : Step 1 create an account at http://twitterfeed.com, Step 2 use my yahoo pipe to create an RSS feed http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5581606723e62fea7d7fc2fed77ab44f, Step 3 log into twitter feed and use the RSS feed above to retweet to your profile. Yes its cheating but saves a lot of time.

How to auto-retweet : Step 1 create an account at http://twitterfeed.com/, Step 2 use my yahoo pipe to create an RSS feed http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5581606723e62fea7d7fc2fed77ab44f, Step 3 log into twitter feed and use the RSS feed above to retweet to your profile. Yes its cheating but saves a lot of time.


Retweet tweets with a given keyword and/or from a given user
pipes.yahoo.com
Creates an RSS feed based on: 1. A input keyword or hash tag (fed to twitter search) 2. A user name that is provided 3. Feeds out data in a Retweet format. This can be passed into another Twitter account by the feed bot from TweetBots.com

Sunday, 21 November 2010

I love contraptions - this young chap was laughed at for making a wind turbine out of bits of plastic and an old bicycle wheel when he was 14, they stopped laughing when it produced electricity for his village

I love contraptions - this young chap was laughed at for making a wind turbine out of bits of plastic and an old bicycle wheel when he was 14, they stopped laughing when it produced electricity for his village


William Kamkwamba
williamkamkwamba.typepad.com
I am a Malawian inventor, author of "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" (with Bryan Mealer) and secondary school student at African Leadership Academy.

Thursday, 18 November 2010

Just a tip - but if you need to email a document, then always convert it to a pdf - on Windows install PromoPDF, its free! Why convert your Word doc? Well, Word docs are prone to viruses so some email programs will stop them coming through, also the recipient might not have the same version of word so either they can't open the doc or the layout is wrong. The advantage of a pdf is that it retains all formatting, works on any platform and doesn't have viruses.

Just a tip - but if you need to email a document, then always convert it to a pdf - on Windows install PromoPDF, its free! Why convert your Word doc? Well, Word docs are prone to viruses so some email programs will stop them coming through, also the recipient might not have the same version of word so either they can't open the doc or the layout is wrong. The advantage of a pdf is that it retains all formatting, works on any platform and doesn't have viruses.


Create PDF Files Free — Download PrimoPDF
www.primopdf.com
Downloaded by 15+ million users. Get Nitro's PDF converter and quickly convert to PDF from 300+ file types. PrimoPDF — the 100% FREE PDF creator!

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Bit of a techy one, but if you import data into a spreadsheet from a unix database (mysql for example) it might have 'timestamp' fields. This is the number of seconds since 1st January 1970. To convert it to a date in your spreadsheet, divide by the number of seconds in a day (86400) then add 1st January 1970 (25569) for example a formula would be =(A1/86400)+25569

Bit of a techy one, but if you import data into a spreadsheet from a unix database (mysql for example) it might have 'timestamp' fields. This is the number of seconds since 1st January 1970. To convert it to a date in your spreadsheet, divide by the number of seconds in a day (86400) then add 1st January 1970 (25569) for example a formula would be =(A1/86400)+25569

Sunday, 7 November 2010

Well, after months of razzle fracking and a lot of help from Katy, the new Global Dialysis website is live! yey!! whoop whoop!!!

Well, after months of razzle fracking and a lot of help from Katy, the new Global Dialysis website is live! yey!! whoop whoop!!!


Global Dialysis
www.globaldialysis.com
Directory of over 15,000 dialysis centers in 154 countries, Dialysis Travel Specialists, Travel Tips and Stories, Centre Reviews, Patient Blogs, Message Boards, Dialysis News and Renal Jobs

Friday, 5 November 2010

If you are using Linux and need Internet Explorer for testing, then try ies4linux - it has IE versions 5,6 and 7

If you are using Linux and need Internet Explorer for testing, then try ies4linux - it has IE versions 5,6 and 7


Installation - IEs4Linux
www.tatanka.com.br
IEs 4 Linux needs two packages: cabextract and Wine. You can install them using your Linux package manager (synaptic, apt-get, yum, emerge etc) or go to their sites.