This handy little widget lets you know how long you’ve got until Beer O’ Clock for the coming week. Very useful!
Wake n’ Bacon Alarm Clock
August 8th, 2008
Given that the Unidin.co.uk team is up at the crack of dawn each morning in order to squeeze as much juice as possible out of the working day, we’re always on the lookout for ways to streamline and improve efficiency.
As such, I’ve instantly fallen in love with the idea of the Wake n’ Bacon Alarm Clock - simply place frozen bacon into the alarm clock before bed, and ten minutes before your alarm is due to go off it slow-cooks the bacon to perfection, and wakes you up to the smell of a hot, sizzling breakfast. Brilliant!
Moreso, the second page of the post lists some interesting ideas as to how to improve the common and conventional alarm clock, including holiday awareness, prescense awareness and more, and investigates alternate methods of wake up calls.
I can’t imagine the smell of bacon ever not waking me up - what do you think?
Visual Search
July 19th, 2008
As the search industry evolves and change, we see dozens of new concepts and ideas being thrown around on an almost daily basis. Many struggle to survive in niches outside of mainstream search, and very few seem to survive or flourish with any reasonable level of success. However, we’ve started to notice an improvement in the level of innovation and creativity in a number of upcoming search portals - many of which fall into the realm of ‘visual search’. Here’s a couple of our top picks!
www.searchme.com
Searchme returns page results in a visual plane - similar to how iTunes displays its album art. Very good for wetting your toes looking for products and services. Not so good for finding information based results or detail at a glance without plunging into the results themselves.
http://taggalaxy.de
Taggalaxy searches Flickr for image results based on your keywords and tag combination. Its use of planets and stars to present it’s search results is quite interesting, and it seems to bring back impressively targeted results.
DropBox
July 19th, 2008
We recently stumbled onto Dropbox - a fantastic tool for synchronizing files and folders across multiple computers (PC and Mac compatible). It’s wonderfully simple to use, and not only makes file management considerably easier over a network, but also keeps backups of deleted files, allows individual access rights for shared folders, tracks revisions and more.
One of it’s most interesting features is that you can create ‘public links’ to any files stored in your ‘public folder’ by right clicking, and selecting ‘Copy public link’. Pasting from your clipboard (ctrl+v) gives you a link that anybody can use to download that file. Nifty, eh?
Dropbox is currently in closed beta, but we have a number of invites remaining to give away. Feel free to give us a nudge to get hold of one!