The solution has propelled him into the Kickstarter hall of fame and inspired thousands with a video debut on TED. The app makes it easy to take a one second video every day of your life and create a chronological collage of your time spent: pure, simple, inspiring and reminiscently beautiful.
Showing posts with label gear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gear. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Chronicler App
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
LED Belt glows for safer Biking at Night
A neat idea, the Halo is an LED belt that adds visibility to a biker at night. Just don’t count on it as your sole illumination if maximum visibility is a goal.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Paracord Storage Alternatives
Crocheting and Nesting Your Paracord for Storage Alternatives:
Over the years you’ve more than likely come to the conclusion that different tools you have around the house can be used for more than one purpose. Sometimes, we figure this out by necessity in an urgent situation and other times a light bulb goes off in our heads as we look at something and think up a new idea. The latter is what happened to me one day while I was looking at coiled Type 3 Paracord sitting on my desk.
Over the years you’ve more than likely come to the conclusion that different tools you have around the house can be used for more than one purpose. Sometimes, we figure this out by necessity in an urgent situation and other times a light bulb goes off in our heads as we look at something and think up a new idea. The latter is what happened to me one day while I was looking at coiled Type 3 Paracord sitting on my desk.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
PopSci: How Can I Permanently Delete My Computer Files?
Ask a Geek: How Can I Permanently Delete My Computer Files?:
Wiped Clean Thilo Rothacker
Make sure nobody will ever see your classified documents.
Before you sell, donate, or recycle your old computer, beware: You may be handing personal information to strangers. Simply restoring the operating system to factory settings does not delete all data and neither does formatting the hard drive before reinstalling the OS.
To really wipe a drive clean, users will need to run secure-erase software. For Windows, the best bet is the command-line utility SDelete (free), which writes over the space on the drive. SDelete runs from any bootable disk or from the hard drive of another computer connected with a device such as the Universal Drive Adapter ($39.99). Linux users can try the Shred command, which overwrites files in a similar fashion.
On a Mac, the Erase command included with the Disk Utility application securely erases drive contents. As with SDelete, first delete files from the drive, then use the erase free space feature. It offers three options, from fastest, which writes zeros over unused disk space, to most secure, which overwrites the drive at least seven times. The middle setting is probably secure enough for most home users.
There is, of course, one other foolproof way to render data unrecoverable: Drill two to three holes with a quarter-inch drill bit through the drive platters.
Before you sell, donate, or recycle your old computer, beware: You may be handing personal information to strangers. Simply restoring the operating system to factory settings does not delete all data and neither does formatting the hard drive before reinstalling the OS.
To really wipe a drive clean, users will need to run secure-erase software. For Windows, the best bet is the command-line utility SDelete (free), which writes over the space on the drive. SDelete runs from any bootable disk or from the hard drive of another computer connected with a device such as the Universal Drive Adapter ($39.99). Linux users can try the Shred command, which overwrites files in a similar fashion.
On a Mac, the Erase command included with the Disk Utility application securely erases drive contents. As with SDelete, first delete files from the drive, then use the erase free space feature. It offers three options, from fastest, which writes zeros over unused disk space, to most secure, which overwrites the drive at least seven times. The middle setting is probably secure enough for most home users.
There is, of course, one other foolproof way to render data unrecoverable: Drill two to three holes with a quarter-inch drill bit through the drive platters.
Berkey Water Filters
Berkey Water Filters Provide Clean, Fresh Drinking Water At Home and In Disaster Relief:
With bottled water and potable tap water both so readily available in developed countries, it’s easy to take clean drinking water for granted. But when natural disasters strike, one of the first things to sell out on store shelves is bottled water, and running water may be either turned off or compromised by pollutants. Domestic water purifying pitchers and faucet filters are perfectly fine for every day use, but most of them simply weren’t designed to filter untreated water like the kind you may need to drink in emergency situations.
With bottled water and potable tap water both so readily available in developed countries, it’s easy to take clean drinking water for granted. But when natural disasters strike, one of the first things to sell out on store shelves is bottled water, and running water may be either turned off or compromised by pollutants. Domestic water purifying pitchers and faucet filters are perfectly fine for every day use, but most of them simply weren’t designed to filter untreated water like the kind you may need to drink in emergency situations.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
TAOM: Flashlights
How to Use a Flashlight in a Tactical Situation:
It’s late Friday night and you’re walking to your car after a fun evening with your friends downtown. As you turn the corner down an unlit side street, you see a shadow dart across the wall and hear footsteps. The hairs on your neck stand straight up. You quicken your pace, but the other footsteps speed up as well. You look around trying to make out shapes in the dark, when out of nowhere a fist connects with your cheekbone. The sucker punch takes you to the ground and you can feel your wallet being taken from your back pocket.
Before you have time to react, your assailant has disappeared back into the cover of darkness.
You really could have used a flashlight.
Before you have time to react, your assailant has disappeared back into the cover of darkness.
You really could have used a flashlight.
Gear: Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets
Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets: A selection of battery packs with enough kick to charge a tablet, plus ways to get power when completely off the grid
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Gear for the next one
In case of emergency (gear for this one or the next):
Some people in New York are fine, some are not. I don't know that this list of helpful emergency gear will be helpful this late, but I figure it's better than one more post about which smartphone rules.
(*By demand, most of this list in Amazon list form.)
Some people in New York are fine, some are not. I don't know that this list of helpful emergency gear will be helpful this late, but I figure it's better than one more post about which smartphone rules.
(*By demand, most of this list in Amazon list form.)
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Small Arms Collimator
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The TNVC Small Arms CollimatorI wish I had one in 2004--check that--I wish I had one everyday before now.
The pinnacle of technology and design
But sometimes
Friday, April 20, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
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