If you love your iPod but also like to feel a bit of wood in your pocket here’s the answer, the wooden iPod case.

The wooden cover’s look to come in various shades and types of wood and are available from asuka (Japanese), via tokyo mango.

I’m MAD!

Not in the Mothers Against Drunk Driving type,, but mad nonetheless.

This weekend for some weird reason, my palm pilot crapped out on me and though my contacts and memos still exist, I completely lost all distinct events listed in my calendar (my 4th pilot since 1997, love them for their simplicity, kinda frustrated right now).

Maybe I’m just dumb (don’t worry I hit the revert button right away,, nothing), but I’ve been thinking a lot about planning and scheduling apps. I have access to far too many of them, let’s see, Palm, Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Scrybe (yayy the beta is rocking, more on that later) and Evite (yes, I count Evite, it’s a great service that does a specific job very well, but lacks in my main complaint here).

On to my whine (and no, I’m not drinking any @#($* merlot!)

Why has no one created an email-able calendar event notification that is insert-able in ANY scheduling program?!

This has driven me mad for far too long. Half of my events require some other human to be there. I don’t want to “run their life” but I do want them to have a reminder available, no matter how they prefer to schedule their life. The issue we’ve all run into is simple, WE ALL PLAN DIFFERENTLY. However, we all do plan (sort of ). Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve all seen the EQ setting in iTunes, but not many of us know exactly how to use it to its full potential. In this article, Rich Tozzoli, Senior Editor of Surround Professional Magazine breaks each EQ slider down and helps you get the most out of your music.

Tutorial: Demystifing the EQ sliders in iTunes

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The Java wand lets you brew a fresh mug of coffee inside the cup.

The Java Wand is a mini French Press filter attached to a hand crafted, glass straw that brews and filters coffee, tea leaves, herbs, in the convenience of your mug.

Simply add hot water to your medium coffee grinds, brew, build flavor and in seconds sip to the very last drop through your beautifully hand crafted Java Wand ™.

More info over at Wisdom Wands, found via Book of Joe.

This is not your regular wrist watch. The Home Theater Watch was designed to give you the experience of a home theatre with the functionality of a watch. With it you can tell time and watch that movie from the Oscars or that latest Heroes episode anywhere. The screen is only 1.5”, but that’s not so bad, after all this is a watch we’re talking about, and according to Gadget Universe the movies will look the same as they would on your PC.

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Do you have a ton of DVDs? Want to watch them on your iPod? For years, the best DVD ripping program, Handbrake, was only available for Mac. But the unthinkable has happened. Handbrake has been ported for Windows. It’s still in the experimental beta stages, but you can download a PC version of Handbrake now.

If you are unfamiliar with Handbrake, it’s a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. Here’s a MethodShop.com tutorial on how to use Handbrake.

Features:

• Can encode directly from DVDs (even encrypted ones) or from VIDEO_TS folders
• Supports AC3, LPCM and MPEG audio tracks
• Outputs MP4, AVI or OGM files
• Outputs AAC, MP3 or Vorbis audio
• Supports 2-pass encoding
• Supports encoding of two audio tracks
• Includes a bitrate calculator
• Supports picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling

Links:

• Handbrake for Mac
• Handbrake for Windows
• Handbrake tutorial

PC users looking for a super DVD-to-iPod easy solution should use DVD Copy by InterVideo.

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When it snows some people make snow men, other people igloos while the petrol heads make cars.

It took 5 hours before the car was made.The frontlights are taken from a Christmas tree and the rear lights are wannabe Skyline
The wheels are donated from a old Audi Quattro from one of the car buiders.

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