This looks like a neat service. Design a model in 3D and have it built for you in a matter of days.
OMG a handheld tripod. Not a bad idea, but would be great if it could split into a normal tripod as well
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Tags: photographytripod
Holy Utility Knife Batman! - Flock is really nifty!
I’ve been learning about various social networking and bookmarking tools and there are so many !
It’s great that a tool can bring them all together into one user interface.
Flock is a browser based on Firefox that seems to interact with just about every social networking tool I use (facebook, digg, delicious, even this blog post is written from a flock plugin)
The only problem I have found so far is with Ma.gnolia.com it keeps thinking I have entered the wrong password
Download the Flock browser from
http://flock.com/beta/download/
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Tags: flocksocialnetworking
I just found out about a website that can convert blogs (and other RSS feeds) into a podcast automatically. This service called odiogo uses a text to speech system and merges those results with audio created from your text.
Here is the URL to use if you want to subscribe to the podcast version of this blog
http://podcasts.odiogo.com/ripplin-river-tech/podcasts-xml.php
This looks like a good way to spend a rainy afternoon, try to memorize some pacman patterns.
http://www.mameworld.net/pacman/patterns.html
I haven’t mounted my speakers yet, partially because they have a volume control on them and I can adjust the volume as long as I can reach it.
Well pausing the forums.arcadecontrols.com I found an application that allows me to control the volume from buttons. Using this app, I can hold the Coin button down and press the player 1 start to lower the volume and player 2 button to raise the volume. Pause button is now the Mute as well.
Discussed here http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69901.0
And downloadable from here http://hofle.com/mame/CabVol.zip
Oh, and to get this to install on Windows 2000, I was forced to install .net Version 2.0 from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en
Well it’s up to +1 F but with the windchill factor it’s still pretty cold. Must be time to post some progress on the IceBox
I ordered 1/4 tempered glass from a local glass store. Found some spiffy brass brackets for the corners.
I also found a sylvania LED light at Menards on sale for $13.
I need a more unique name, so I’m going with the ICEBOX. The oak reminds me of an antique icebox and the cold snap we have been having lately does as well.
While I am looking for glass for this arcade, I have to do some thinking…Can I come up with a better name than “The Machine Cocktail Table”? I came up with the name machine because I didn’t have a name for it and I would just say I’m going to work on “the machine” this weekend. Problem is the thing doesn’t really look like what you think of when you think machine.
Maybe something to do with the Oak (someone else already has an Oak cocktail table) or the extra cold weather (IceBox Cocktail table?, (cause it’s so cool)) we have been having lately or the fact that it is great to have inside during cold weather (Cacooning Cocktail table (ha, bleh)).
