“The Personal Soundtrack Shirt is an amazing new wearable audio solution that features a working speaker embedded into the front of the shirt. When you push the appropriate button on the pocketable remote you get music or sound effects appropriate for any situation… everything from drum roll, to cat call whistle, to western showdown.” via ThinkGeek

Six: Multi-Color LED Lightbulb w/Remote (49.99) [Received: NO]

“The Multi-Color LED Lightbulb is a super bright LED bulb that can transition through dozens of color and brightness combinations and is compatible with a standard lightbulb socket. The included IR remote can select an individual color or brightness level or choose one of four different transition effects. Great for mood lighting, decorating, parties or special lighting environments.” via ThinkGeek

Five: Sony VAIO Wi-Fi Photo Frame (299.99) [Received: Kodak P720]

“Capture pictures out of thin air. With wireless technologies that let you display your pictures in a whole new way, the Wi-Fi Photo Frame makes it simple for anyone with a high-speed internet connection to relive those special moments—wherever they may be.” via Sony Style

Four: M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 Reference Monitors (199.95) [Received: Sony Studio Monitor Headphones]

“The compact Studiophile™ AV 40 powered speakers deliver the same proven M-Audio technology favored by top producers, recording engineers and musicians around the world. The combination of 4” polypropylene-coated drivers and 3/4” ferrofluid-cooled silk dome tweeters provides punchy lows, crisp highs and a balanced, uncolored response.” via M-Audio

Three: Apple TV (229.00) [Received: Not Yet..]

“Apple TV gives you access to an easy-to-navigate world of entertainment. Rent HD movies. Buy HD TV shows. Listen to your iTunes music. Even show off your photos. Connect one HDMI cable and, just like that, Apple TV turns your TV into so much more.” via Apple

Two: Double Breasted Winter Jacket [Received: YES]

One: MacBook (1299.00) [Received: NO]

Update: Happy Holidays everyone!

Photo Credit: Krisdecurtis

Protect yourself! Password protect your internet enabled cameras!

Other possible search keywords include;

inurl:/view.shtml
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG)
inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
inurl:view/index.shtml
inurl:view/view.shtml
liveapplet
intitle:”live view” intitle:axis
intitle:liveapplet
allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera”
intitle:axis intitle:”video server”
intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html”
intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 206M”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 206W”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 210″
inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion”
intitle:start inurl:cgistart
intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
intext:”MOBOTIX M1″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX M10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX D10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
intitle:”sony network camera snc-p1″
intitle:”sony network camera snc-m1″
site:.viewnetcam.com -www.viewnetcam.com
intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
intitle:”netcam live image”
intitle:”i-Catcher Console - Web Monitor”

Photo Credit: I Know the Things You Do by Thomas Hawk

Solar power (better)

The US-Mexico border is a very sunny place and integrating photovoltaic solar panels into a fence should be fairly easy, per se. Lets say that every square foot of solar panels produce around 0.85 watts per square foot for six hours a day. If we integrate 12,475,5840 sq. feet worth of photovoltaics into a stretch of 12 foot tall fence, 1,969 miles long, we could produce about 106,042 kW conservatively.

0.85 W x 12,475,5840 sq. feet = 106,042 kW x 1,753 hours = 186 gWh

That’s almost 186 gWh every year or roughly enough energy to power about 21,000 homes.

UPDATE: I’m awaiting an email from a Californian compony called Nanosolar who has produced a type of solar panel printing press, per se. Which promises to be less expensive than silicon photovoltaics.

Cost

I would guesstimate that this type of installation would cost around $954,378,000 about 33% more money then the current 3 billion dollar estimate.

Wind power (best)

The US-Mexico border is also quite a windy place and integrating wind turbines into a fence should be fairly easy, per se. Lets say that each wind turbine is rated at one-hundred kW yet the wind only blows at an average of 15 MPH so power generation is only at 20 kW or 20% maximum capacity.

100 kW x .20 = 20 kW x 8760 hours = 175,200 kWh - awea.org

Each wind generator would still produce 175,200 kWh every year! If we built 20, 100kW wind generators running at just 20% their maximum capacity, every mile. We could produce over 3,504,000 kW’s every mile or 6,899 gWh (Gigawatt hours) every year. That’s enough energy to power about 1,169,400 average US households!

Cost

For the sake of discussion lets guesstimate that each turbine costs about two-hundred thousand US dollars. I would guesstimate that this type of installation would cost around $7.8 billion US dollars or about 260% more money then the current 3 billion dollar estimate.

We could possibly even sell shares of the fence to companies, in return for initial startup capital.

Monetary Return

Since wind power and solar power only need wind or sun for fuel and very little maintenance. These types of installations should pay for themselves in less than a decade or a little over 8 years for wind power selling at $0.13 cents a kWh. When they really starts producing what is basically, free energy!

Environmental Return

Since most of the United States electricity demand is met by coal-fired power plants and 1 kWh of electricity produced from a coal powered station emits about 2.1 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Therefore by installing photovoltaics on the fence would remove about 397,526,257 pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere every year or installing wind power would remove about 14,753,400,720 pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere every year!

Conclusion

Though each type of installation would be expensive. With the help of initial start-up investments and the money the government was going to spend anyway, on the fence. The Installation of either photovoltaics or wind generators, on the fence, would establish the United States as the center of renewable energy production.

We need to act. We need to be able innovate again! Lets go out there and make a difference! Happy Earth Day!

TweetSavr is my second Mac OS X screensaver that connects to your Twitter account to display your latest tweets, your friends, or even public tweets. TweetSavr allows you to keep up-to date with Twitter without having to be sitting in front of your Mac.

System Requirements:

PowerPC or Intel Macintosh, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5+, and Quartz Extreme

Download Now (#1 Mirror)

Instructions:

To install TweetSavr open the DMG and drag “TweetSavr” to the “Screensavers” folder.

To use TweetSavr open “System Preferences” and select “Desktop & Screen saver.” TweetSavr should show up on the bottom of the list in the “Other” section.

Personal Timeline: Grab the Twitter RSS URL from the bottom of your Twitter profile. It Should look something like; (feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/6075622.rss).

Personal Timeline with Friends: Grab the Twitter RSS URL from the bottom of your Twitter home. It Should look something like; (feed://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/6075622.rss).

Public Timeline: Grab this Twitter URL; (feed://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss).

For more beautiful software visit; zuurdesign.com.

Ever need to complete the same mundane task on a daily basis? If so, Cron is for you! Cron can make your life easier by scheduling those mundane tasks to be ran automatically. Cron is a daemon and runs in the background of basically every Linux based system.

Update: Continuing our journey into the magical world of open source software I would like to expand on my home security tutorial. A wonderful person by the name of Morgan Storey has made a few scripts available, to automate the mundane process of activating motion when you leave and help clean up after Motion. Here are the scripts if you would like to use them.

Step One: How to configure cron?

To start off the configuration file for cron is call crontab. This is where the cron daemon checks to see what needs to be done, to check if crond (cron daemon) is running type ps aux | grep crond into the terminal. Check if crond is returned in the results, if not you can start cron by adding the line crond to one of your start up scripts.

Now lets create our first scheduled task. Start off by typing crontab -e into terminal, please note I’m using nano as the default text editor on my system.

Here is an ASCII repartition of how the scheduling system works in cron. The command is stated at the right of the time to be executed.

# +---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  +------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  +---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  +------- month (1 - 12)
# |  |  |  |  +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7)
# |  |  |  |  |
  *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed

For example if you want an entry to be executed at 12PM every monday you would;

0  12  *  *  1  /command_directory/executed_command

Each line represents a seperate crontab entry.

The asterisk (*) is a wild-card meaning I want the entry above to be executed no matter the day or month.

Step Two: How to create a shell script?

To make cron, even more, useful you should know how to create a shell script (groups of commands).

A shell script is basically a group of commands that work together towards a common goal. Lets say we wanted to make a script that deletes the contents of a few folders. We would make the script look similar to this;

#!/bin/bash

# Simple folder delete

rm ~/samplefolder/*

rm ~/samplefolder2/*

echo "Folders deleted!"

A shell script can even execute multiple commands at the same time by using a double ampersand (&). For example;

#!/bin/bash

# Simple folder delete

rm ~/samplefolder/* && rm ~/samplefolder2/*

echo "Folders deleted!"

For more information on creating shell scripts there is a very nice tutorial on the Ubuntu Forums; here.

Requirements

• PC with Ubuntu installed
• USB webcam(s)
• 30-90 minutes of free time

Introduction

Evernote is an amazing note taking application that allows you to jot down anything that comes to mind. Then automatically syncs all of your thoughts between multiple computers and phones. It even has built-in handwriting recognition!

Take notes while browsing, in any web browser.

“Noteworthy” features

Evernote is neat for several reasons,

• No download required, you can use Evernote from your browser
• Optional downloadable desktop app, for both OS X and Windows
• Syncs between the web app and the desktop app
• Syncs between your computer and your phone
• Handwriting recognition engine built-in

Invitation

Evernote is in private beta, which means you have to be invited. I do have a few invitations though (first come first serve). If you would like to receive an Evernote invite just leave a comment on this post.

People who pay attention should have noticed the wonderful new InfectedProject theme. As with the last theme it has been generously provided by Derek Punsalan. Sorry for the downtime and hope you enjoy!

Photo credit: Mel B. (Flickr)

Remember to turn all your lights off for at least 1 hour between 8pm and 9pm in your local time-zone tonight. For more information visit earthhourus.org.

I think we might see the iPhone and iPod touch start to challenge portable systems like the PSP and the DS.

Reasons to think so:

• Production costs should be less then deploying a PSP or DS game (No need for cartridges or UMDs, bleh!).
• Xcode has a very streamlined coding environment when compared to other IDEs
• It is fast (620 MHz, faster than my old PowerMac G4. Haha!)
• The accelerometer, Duh!

So what are you waiting for? Get coding!

One more thing, binaries from the iPhone (or iPod Touch) do not work in the simulator. Since it needs i386 binaries instead of armv6.