Constant Garden Speakers: Make Your Desk Look Like Shrek Crop Field

As far as concepts go this device, known as the Constant Garden, is certainly one of the more fascinating we’ve come across of late in serving not only as an appointments manager capable of reminding you of important meetings but also a ambient background audio device that plays ‘nice garden sounds’ (such as birdsong, we assume) designed to act as a calming influence to lower anxiety in the office as well as remind you that there’s more to life than just work.

Create 3D photos with Stereo Holga camera

it's a beautifully modded Holga toy camera capable of creating 3-D photos. Randy Smith, who's made a career out of customizing the toy cameras, took two perfectly good Holgas, introduced them to a diamond-tipped bandsaw and emerged with a stereoscopic Frankenstein, with the build quality of a factory-made piece.

Taking shots like this was especially popular in the early 20th century, and was carried on with toys like the Viewmaster into the present day. The gimmick doesn't come cheap, though, and with each build taking about six man-hours in Smith's one-man factory, who would expect them to? Pricing starts at $250 and each craftsman-quality camera is built to order.
The fused camera ends up with lenses roughly the same distance apart as human eyes, creating two slightly different angles of the same subject. These sample images taken by the hydra Holga can be viewed with crossed eyes (really! try it!). For those who can't make that technique work (or don't want to), following animated GIF made from the pics also gives the illusion of perspective.

Read Online Documents in Google Docs or Gmail account

Gmail has this nice feature where you can open PDF files and Office documents directly in your Google Docs account bypassing the need of any desktop software like Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Office.

If you find this Gmail feature handy, you’ll probably also enjoy using the "Send to Google Docs" extension for Firefox.

This extension (download link) lets you read online documents directly in your Google Docs account with a simple right click (see screenshot).

It works with popular file formats like PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and all Open Document formats. "Send to Docs" can also import HTML web pages in Google Docs provided they have the right extension.

You right click any document link on the web, choose "Send to Google Docs" from the context menu and the file will immediately open as a Google Document. The file also gets saved permanently in your Google Docs account.

Double LCD monitor additional small screen

This LCD monitor Korean production company Woojin unique in that the top is another small monitor. Quite unusual decision to comply.The display is 19 diagonal inches, resolution 1280 x 1024, contrast ratio, brightness of 300cd/m2 and response time 8ms. Additional 8,4-дюймовый same display with a resolution of 800 x 600, 350:1 contrast and brightness of 200cd/m2. Mystery remains only what it (additional display) purpose? There are ideas?

Windows Live Search Tricks

When it comes to web search, Windows Live stands a distant third behind Google and Yahoo!.
There are however are some lesser-known features in Live Search that aren’t just useful, you won’t find them in any of the other popular search engines. Let’s take a look:

1. Watch Video Preview in Search Results

When you hover the mouse over any of the thumbnail images appearing in Live Video Search, it will automatically play a short preview of the video so you have a good idea about the clip without visiting the target website where that video is hosted.

As you may have noticed in the screencast above, this video preview feature is available for all clip indexed by Live Search whether they are on YouTube, MySpace, CNN or ABC News.

2. Find Web Pages That Link to Documents, MP3s, Videos, ZIPs ..

The contains: operator is Live Search lets you find web pages that link to other online documents and multimedia files like music and video. This is very different from Google’s filetype: search operator (also available in Live Search) which looks for content inside PDF and Office documents.

For example, if you are looking to download a Microsoft Word report from Gartner site that is about elearning, just type: "elearning site:gartner.com contains:doc"

Similarly, if you like to find all pages on Wikipedia that link to MP3 files, type "site:wikipedia.org contains:mp3"

Another example - to learn about software that you can download from the Google website, use "site:google.com contains:zip OR contains:exe"

3. Save Images & Pictures As Your Search the Web

Live Image Search includes something called a scratch pad that lets you save collection of images with a simple drag-n-drop. This comes very handy if you are searching for images using different keywords and need to shortlist only a few from that large collection.

4. Get Live Search Results as RSS Feeds

While there are external services that let you subscribe to search results via RSS feeds, neither Yahoo! nor Google provide RSS feeds of their search results.

You can however subscribe to search pages from Windows Live as RSS feed via this undocumented hack. Open Live Search, type your query and then on the results page, appened "&format=rss" to the URL. See example:

Search Page: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=iphone

RSS Feed: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=iphone&format=rss

This parameter converts the Live Search page into an RSS feed that you can add to your news reader.

5. Limit Your Search to Website that offer RSS Feeds

Another interesting search operator in Live Search is "hasfeed" - it lets you find only those web pages that link to RSS feeds. For instance, you could say "micheal phelps hasfeed:" to find web pages that are about "michael phelps" and also syndicate content as RSS feeds.

You can group hasfeed: with other search operators so if want to know about all pages related to movies on ABC website that have feeds, just type "movies site:abc.com hasfeed:"

6. Specify Weight (Preference) in the Search Query

Say you are planning for an upcoming vacation and need some advice related to holiday destinations. Now rather than searching for "holiday destinations" that will return very broad results, you could add the prefer: operator and specify places that you’re really keen to visit though you don’t mind other suggestions.