This little app Hey Tell allows you to use your phone like a walkie-talkie and leave small voice notes for your friends and family. Sure helps when you are walking and want to send someone a text, just push to talk. And it is FREE! You can, of course, add on a little bit and get the ability to “push your voice” out to multiple people. Could be handy for sending out reminders to a list of say, students. Just saying.
This little printer would be the perfect little gem to sit at my mother’s home and the family could send her little notes. BERG has come up with this little printer.
PressBooks is a new tool to let authors and publishers create books via WordPress and some other magic. Check out this video of Chris Brogan interviewing PressBook’s Hugh McGuire and then go sign up for an account.
Gone are the days of hundreds of wasteful laundry sheets and mambo-mango-vanilla-sea-breeze scented clothes. Personalize your clothes with your signature scent the green way!
Here’s a DIY Video Created for Beloved Earth.
So, I’ve worked up this little video to talk about “why” it is important to have video on your website. For example, did you know that having a video-like a how-to video- on your website can increase your Google ranking? It’s true. Scroll down, to the bottom of my website and see a couple more examples of videos I have created. I also recently pulled together this little animation video describing why you need a how-to video. So, think about one of your products or services that might become even more popular, with your customers, and let’s talk video.
About a year ago I had found this funky square frying pan out on the street. The odd shape attracted me, yet the aluminum metal made it not the greatest frying pan. Fast forward to this year; I wanted a bird feeder and thought about the old frying pan.
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A trip to the hardware store [one of my favorite places to shop] gave me the bits and pieces I needed.
$1.19 1 -5/16″ threaded rod
$ .99 3- 2″ diameter washers @.33/ea
$ .57 3 -5/16″ nuts @.09/ea
$ .14 1-5/16″ cap nut
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$3.17 Total Cost
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Step 1: Removing the old lid knob
This actually proved to be the most difficult step of the whole project. However, after some strong wiggling with the pliers, it popped off and left a small hole in the lid, from which I began.
Step 2: Enlarge the hole on the lid
I used a simple drill-bit holder [not professionally recommended, but it worked] to enlarge the hole left by the old lid knob.
Step 3: Prepare lid
As I wanted the lid to remain as a roof, I put the threaded rod into the hole and capped the outside top of the lid with the cap nut. Then, I added the washer up into the inside of the lid and secured that with another nut.
Step 4: Preparing the bottom of the pan
I measured to find the exact center of the bottom pan, marked it and pounded the drill-bit holder to create a small hole. This was easy, as aluminum is lightweight. I then used a series of drill bits [from my tool box] to further enlarge the hole until it would allow the 5/16″ threaded rod to pass through the bottom of the pan.
Step 5: Drainage
I pounded a few small holes into the bottom of the pan, to allow for any rain/snow drainage-again using the drill-bit holder.
Step 6: Screen lining
To keep the birdseed from falling through the drainage holes, I cut a small square of lightweight screen to line the bottom of the pan. Again, I poking a hole into the screen lining to allow the rod to pass.
Step 7: Attaching the bottom pan
I put a nut onto the threaded rod, then a washer, [just as I had done for the lid in Step 3] positioned the bird feeder onto the slotted perch [the old air conditioner shelf] and -from the bottom- threaded on the washer and the last nut. I tightened the nuts-to fit snug and straightened out the bird feeder.
Step 8: Fill the feeder and wait.
I often see cardinals flying up and down our street, so I’ve added extra black sunflower seeds in hopes of attracting them to the feeder. I also hope the old air conditioner shelf will serve as a landing pad and dream the hungry birds will soon be perched up onto the edges of the frying pan and have a nice meal.
Click to find out why you need a how-to video…
In the ‘Just for Fun’ department; this innovative video.
Back in grad school, in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, I worked on the concept of a business that would take-in files [pdfs] and then print them and ship the final book off to you. I called it: Imprint. The web design is in some dusty storage box on a floppy disk [remember those?]. ubyu has brought my idea alive and they look like they make a beautiful product.
ubyu intro from ubyu on Vimeo.
Since I’m on a bit of a wish list theme here I just have to add this:
Mitch’s Multi-Monitor, Over the Top Home Office is certainly wired for function and fun. And if a deck of screens isn’t enough splitting the two types of desks is genius to me.
And just look at how beautifully this whole office works. Rest and read at the other end. Ahhhhh…
