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6 Changes Every SEO Should Make BEFORE the Over-Optimization Penalty Hits – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-04-20 04:30:54

Posted by randfish Having overly optimized web pages could soon get your websites in some hot water with Google and their search results. It has recently been announced that Google will start to penalize websites that engage in over-optimization practices. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we will be covering some changes that you should be [...] > read more

Remove Deleted Videos from YouTube Playlists

Published on 2012-04-19 18:49:00

Just because you add a YouTube video to a playlist doesn’t mean you’ll be able to watch it in the future. Many YouTube videos are removed because of copyright infringement, but some of them are deleted by the uploaders. YouTube now shows a warning at the top of the page when some of the videos [...] > read more

Google Drive References in Google Docs for Android

Published on 2012-04-19 18:09:00

The Google Drive launch is not far away and there’s more evidence for this in the Google Docs app for Android. Daniel Baker noticed that the Google Docs app for Android can handle the links that start with “https://drive.google.com“. The Android app includes many references to Google Drive, which is just a new name for [...] > read more

YouTube Preview, Now in HTML5

Published on 2012-04-19 16:06:00

When YouTube launched the feature that shows a filmstrip of thumbnails when you mouse over a video, it only worked in the Flash player. Now it’s also available in the HTML5 player. Unfortunately, the HTML5 player doesn’t support yet the second seek bar for videos that are longer than 90 minutes. It’s nice to see [...] > read more

GoogleBowling, Negative SEO & Outing

Published on 2012-04-19 06:46:54

Excessive Complexity & Unintended Consequences Sergey Brin recently said: You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive. The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle [...] > read more

Why Big Brands Get All the Breaks

Published on 2012-04-19 00:30:29

Posted by Dr. Pete If you live outside of the ivory walls of the Fortune 500, it can sometimes seem like Google gives big brands all the breaks. This isn’t just sour grapes – some examples are very public. When JC Penney and Overstock got a slap on the wrist for widespread and intentional link [...] > read more

Link: The perils of opinionated software like Rails

Published on 2012-04-18 19:47:00

An old guest blogpost on RailsInside caught my interest, called The perils of opinionated software like Rails. It’s never a good idea to get too fanatical about one’s choice of framework – so I definitely recommend having a read. He raises some good points, including the should-be-obvious “the opposite of bad software is not necessarily [...] > read more

Tell Us About Your Favorite Dashboard!

Published on 2012-04-18 17:30:17

Posted by Karen Semyan One of the recent water cooler conversations around the Mozplex has been about dashboards. The question: What makes a great dashboard? We all use these top-level reports in various apps everyday, for professional and personal reasons, and some are better than others. > read more

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards II

Published on 2012-04-18 13:13:04

In yesterday’s post about Microsoft’s lobbying of the Cabinet Office against truly open standards based on RF licensing, I spent some time examining the first part of a letter sent by the company on 20 May last year. The second part concentrates on the issue of open standards for document exchange. This touches on one [...] > read more

Is TPP To Blame For The Continuing Delay In Passing New Zealand’s 2008 Bill That Excludes Software Patents?

Published on 2012-04-18 13:10:02

As Techdirt reported a couple of years ago, a hard-fought campaign in New Zealand to prevent software patents being granted there seemed to have paid off, with a Patents Bill explicitly excluding them that came with the following commentary: > read more

ZOMG! Mozcon Agenda Now Live (and Early Bird Pricing Ends Friday)

Published on 2012-04-18 03:29:54

Posted by randfish Every year, our annual summer customer conference, Mozcon, sells out to capacity, and this year is shaping up to be no different. In my opinion this is largely due to the speakers and the format. The content is among the best I see each year because the conference has developed a reputation [...] > read more

How to Improve Your Rankings with Semantic Keyword Research

Published on 2012-04-17 06:27:48

Posted by neilpatel This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. From Venice updates, in the last year alone the SEO landscape [...] > read more

9 Tangible Linkable Asset Ideas and How to Build Links to Them

Published on 2012-04-16 16:27:16

Posted by kaiserthesage This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. When I started to work as an SEO for an Australian-based [...] > read more

jQuery Mobile Advanced Tutorial

Published on 2012-04-16 11:53:58

Today’s tutorial is going to show you how you can use jQuery Mobile with PHP, MySQL and a bit of AJAX to build a small mobile web application. At the end of this tutorial you will know how to add new RSS feed name and url into the database, how to delete the record from [...] > read more

How Authorship (and Google+) Will Change Linkbuilding

Published on 2012-04-16 02:26:48

Posted by Tom Anthony Google's relationship with links has changed over the last 15 years – it started out as a love affair but nowadays the Facebook status would probably read: "It's Complicated". > read more

How Authorship (and Google+) Will Change Linkbuilding

Published on 2012-04-16 02:26:48

How to Check Which Links Can Harm Your Site’s Rankings

Published on 2012-04-15 19:26:33

Posted by Modesto Siotos This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Matt Cutts' statement in March 2012 that Google would be [...] > read more

How to Check Which Links Can Harm Your Site’s Rankings

Published on 2012-04-15 19:26:33

Consumer Ad Awareness in Search Results

Published on 2012-04-15 12:08:37

For the following study, we asked “Does this search result have ads on it? ” to 1,000 searchers, per search results. Due to these surveys requiring a smaller image (to fit the ad unit size) we chose search results that generally had more ads on them (typically 3 or 4) so that the background had [...] > read more

Consumer Ad Awareness in Search Results

Published on 2012-04-15 12:08:37

Making a jQuery Page Flip Magazine with turn.js

Published on 2012-04-15 12:04:47

In this tutorial we are going to use PHP and the turn.js plugin, an implementation of the page flip effect with pure CSS3 and jQuery, to build a pretty magazine. We will fetch the most popular images from Instagram every hour, and use them as pages. > read more

Making a jQuery Page Flip Magazine with turn.js

Published on 2012-04-15 12:04:47

Which Source Do You Trust Most?

Published on 2012-04-15 11:46:05

Which do you trust most as a source of advice on important issues? People tend to trust friends & family and the mainstream media far more than they trust websites & search engines. Vote All (1204) friends & family 37.1% (+3.0 / -2.9) newspapers 32.5% (+3.0 / -2.8) search engines 19.3% (+2.6 / -2.4) social media websites 6.7% (+2.0 / [...] > read more

Which Source Do You Trust Most?

Published on 2012-04-15 11:46:05

How Did You Choose Your Primary Search Engine?

Published on 2012-04-15 11:24:58

When you search, how did you pick your primary search engine? Most people use the search engine which they believe has the best relevancy, whatever their computer came with, or what a friend recommended. Vote All (1190) it has superior relevancy 30.4% (+3.0 / -2.9) the computer had a default selected 26.8% (+2.9 / -2.7) a friend told [...] > read more

How Did You Choose Your Primary Search Engine?

Published on 2012-04-15 11:24:58

How Many Search Engines?

Published on 2012-04-15 10:54:38

How many search engines do you typically use in a given month? Most people only use 1 or 2 search engines in any given month. Vote All (1223) 1 48.9% (+3.1 / -3.1) 2 26.2% (+2.9 / -2.7) 3 9.1% (+2.2 / -1.8) 4 4.7% (+2.0 / -1.4) 5 or more 11.1% (+2.3 / -2.0) There isn’t much difference between men [...] > read more

How Many Search Engines?

Published on 2012-04-15 10:54:38

Search Again or Click On the Second Page of Search Results?

Published on 2012-04-15 10:41:00

If you use a search engine but don’t find what you are looking for, which are you more likely to do? People are more likely to search again with a new keyword than they are to click onto the second page of search results. Vote All (1189) search again with a different word 55.7% (+3.2 / -3.3) [...] > read more

Search Again or Click On the Second Page of Search Results?

Published on 2012-04-15 10:41:00

YouTube’s Topics Experiment

Published on 2012-04-14 06:26:00

Back in 2010, YouTube started to test a feature that associated videos with topics. At that time, the experiment tried to improve search results pages by allowing you to find related videos. YouTube Topics is still available as a separate page that lists the most popular topics and lets you find topic channels like this [...] > read more

YouTube’s Topics Experiment

Published on 2012-04-14 06:26:00

Android C2DM Client Login key expiration

Published on 2012-04-13 11:44:00

[This post is by Francesco Nerieri, engineering team lead for C2DM > read more

Android C2DM Client Login key expiration

Published on 2012-04-13 11:44:00

[This post is by Francesco Nerieri, engineering team lead for C2DM > read more

Overcoming Your Winter of Dis-Content – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-04-13 04:25:38

Posted by randfish Are you and your content suffering from the blues after this long Winter? Well have no fear, warmer weather is here and it's time to overcome that winter of dis-"content". Today we will be talking about 5 ways to overcome the content fatigue you may be experiencing. After watching the videos, please [...] > read more

A Small Success Story Inspired by SEOmoz and its Contributors

Published on 2012-04-12 21:25:14

Posted by Aran Smithson This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I’m the e-commerce manager for an online retailer specialising in [...] > read more

A Small Success Story Inspired by SEOmoz and its Contributors

Published on 2012-04-12 21:25:14

Citation Labs Review – Here’s Why I Use it

Published on 2012-04-12 15:30:41

So what are we calling it today? Link building, link prospecting, content marketing, linkbait, socialbait, PR ? Whatever it is and whatever sub-definitions exist for the process of finding quality, related websites to link back to yours is difficult and time-consuming work. As with most processes associated with SEO campaigns, or website marketing campaigns in [...] > read more

Citation Labs Review – Here’s Why I Use it

Published on 2012-04-12 15:30:41

New Seller Countries in Google Play

Published on 2012-04-12 15:30:00

Over the past year we’ve been working to expand the list of countries and currencies from which Android developers can sell their products. Starting today, developers in Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, and Mexico can sell priced applications and in-app products on Google Play, using their local bank accounts for payments. Welcome developers! If you develop [...] > read more

How Should You Handle Expired Content?

Published on 2012-04-12 00:24:43

Posted by Stephanie Chang Introduction Handling expired content can be an overwhelming experience for any SEO in charge of a dynamic website, whether it be an e-commerce, a classified (example: job search, real estate listings), or a seasonal/promotional (example: New York Fashion Week) site. Even something as fundamental as glancing at the Google Webmaster Tools [...] > read more

How Should You Handle Expired Content?

Published on 2012-04-12 00:24:43

Senior RoR Dev… back on the market in Sydney

Published on 2012-04-11 22:13:00

So, after a trip to Thailand, I’m finally back home in Oz and ready to look for a new role. Here’s a quick overview of what I’m looking for, and what I’ve done – get in touch if we match up What I’m looking for I prefer building meaty applications solving interesting problems. I’m not [...] > read more

Open Textbook Startup Sued For Allegedly Copying ‘Distinctive Selection, Arrangement, and Presentation’ Of Facts From Existing Titles

Published on 2012-04-11 13:59:23

The Boycott Elsevier movement discussed here on Techdirt several times was born of a frustration at the high prices of academic journals. But another area arguably afflicted even more is that of textbooks for higher education: > read more

Another Billion-Dollar Open Source Company: Instagram

Published on 2012-04-11 13:58:01

Earlier this week I wrote about the first company based on open source to reach a turnover of one billion dollars. But of course, there are lots of multi-billion dollar turnover companies that are based on open source – Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. – it’s just that they don’t make money off it directly. On [...] > read more

Unhappy With Even Minimal Scrutiny, US Removes Last Pretense Of TPP Transparency

Published on 2012-04-11 13:46:49

One of the central problems of ACTA has been its lack of transparency. TPP has also been negotiated behind closed doors, but unlike ACTA has permitted at least one small opportunity for public groups to engage with the negotiators through the use of stakeholder forums, where organizations and even individuals were permitted to give short [...] > read more

Of Microsoft, Netscape, Patents and Open Standards

Published on 2012-04-11 13:45:37

I still remember well the day in October 1994 when I downloaded the first beta of Netscape’s browser. It was instantly obvious that this was a step beyond anything we’d had until then, and that it was the dawn of a new Internet era. On Open Enterprise blog. > read more

If Piracy Is So Devastating, Why Are We Seeing An Unprecedented Outpouring Of Creativity?

Published on 2012-04-11 13:38:31

One of the favorite tropes of the anti-piracy crowd is that all this unauthorized sharing is killing culture, pauperizing artists and generally making the world go to hell in a handbasket. The only pieces of evidence adduced in support of that position are the market reports put together for the copyright industries that (a) say [...] > read more

Red Hat’s Billion Dollars And the Power of Free

Published on 2012-04-11 13:36:42

Recently, there was some justified excitement that Red Hat had finally done it, and turned in annual sales of over $1 billion. A couple of years ago, I wrote a post here on Computerworld UK wondering why there were no companies based around open source that had managed to achieve such billion-dollar turnovers, and suggested [...] > read more

General Consumer Awareness of SEM & SEO

Published on 2012-04-11 12:47:39

Which of the following have you heard of? More people have heard of paid search / AdWords than have SEO / link building. One of the big issues with this question is that since it had numerous check boxes it had a lower response rate (roughly 10% vs an average of closer to 16% to [...] > read more

Mini HTML vCard : HTML jQuery Portfolio Template with Demo

Published on 2012-04-11 11:30:19

Mini HTML vCard is a free HTML jQuery vCard portfolio template.It is a single-page, mini websitethat is powered with JavaScript (jQuery) and focuses on quickly displaying information about a person. The template is completely static except the contact form which requires PHP to function. If you would like the contact form messages being e-mailed to [...] > read more

A New Google+ Interface

Published on 2012-04-11 09:37:00

Google+ has a new interface that brings a lot of changes. It’s not yet available to everyone and that’s because it rolls out over the next few days. The new interface has a vertical navigation bar that lets you reorder and hide apps. When you mouse over an app, Google+ shows a list of quick [...] > read more

5 Tips for Managing Your Community on Google+

Published on 2012-04-11 03:23:45

Posted by jennita The day Google+ opened up brand pages, I anxiously refreshed my Gmail inbox all day long until I finally got the email inviting me to create a company page. I knew that by creating the page under my personal account that I’d be the only one able to manage it for the [...] > read more

Accessibility: Are You Serving All Your Users?

Published on 2012-04-10 12:35:00

[This post is by Joe Fernandez, a technical writer for developer.android.com who cares about accessibility and usability. > read more

Non-Intuitive Search Queries & Resources for Link Building

Published on 2012-04-10 06:23:27

Posted by randfish If you've been in the SEO world a while, you're undoubtedly employing search queries to help discover and earn links (e.g. this blog post, this > read more

Paid Placement in Search Engines

Published on 2012-04-10 05:08:09

In the below poll we didn’t make any distinction between AdWords & organic SEO investments. If we did I am not sure how it would have impacted the voting. How do you feel about people paying for placement in search engines? Nearly 2 in 3 people dislike money manipulating search results. response All (1201) I think [...] > read more

Content Locking Ads

Published on 2012-04-10 04:53:51

Google recently launched a consumer insights survey product, which quizes users for access to premium content. How do users get access to these poll questions? Google locks premium content behind them, likeso: Google has long stated that “cloaking is bad” and that it was deceptive & users didn’t like it. Earlier this year Google also [...] > read more

Ad Retargeting

Published on 2012-04-10 04:48:37

How do you feel about companies tracking your online behavior to target ads? Surprisingly, nearly 1 in 11 people like ad retargeting. However, over 3 in 5 people dislike it. response All (1250) I dislike it because it feels creepy 62.3% (+3.1 / -3.3) I don’t care either way 29.3% (+3.1 / -2.9) I like more relevant ads [...] > read more

Hot Off The Press: More Universal Results Included with Your Campaign Rankings

Published on 2012-04-09 23:23:08

Posted by adamf When last I wrote, we had added the ability to see local universal search results along with your campaign rankings. I'm happy to let you know that we just launched an update that adds sitelinks, video, and photo results as well. Now you can get even better visibility into exactly how good [...] > read more

Simplified Google Account Switching

Published on 2012-04-09 19:25:00

Google’s navigation bar widget that shows information about your account has been updated and now makes it easier to switch to a different account. All the accounts are automatically displayed, so you no longer have to click a link to see them. It’s nice to see that Google went back to basics and removed the [...] > read more

A New Window Manager for Chrome OS

Published on 2012-04-09 19:00:00

Chromebook users who install the latest Dev channel release of Chrome OS will be surprised to notice that Chrome OS looks more like a desktop operating system. Google has been working on a new window manager called Aura that brings many features of a desktop OS. Chrome OS now has a desktop, a taskbar, apps [...] > read more

Gmail’s People Widget Shows Recent Photo Attachments

Published on 2012-04-09 18:22:00

Gmail has never included an option to manage the attachments from the messages you’ve received. You can’t see a list of PDFs received this month or a list of photos sent by one of your friends. Gmail’s advanced search features let you find the messages that include PDF files or photos, but you have to [...] > read more

Google Music Labs

Published on 2012-04-09 17:31:00

If you’re looking for more features for Google Music, try the new Labs page. Google informs that “Google Play music labs are a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change, break, or disappear at any time.” Right now, there are three experimental features available: desktop notifications for Chrome, [...] > read more

Google+ Integration

Published on 2012-04-09 17:18:27

As publishers we tend to be the Google+ hosted version of a page will outrank the legitimate original source – which screws up the economics of online publishing. But do users care about how Google+ was integrated directly into the search results? Generally no. How do you feel Google+ integration has impacted Google’s relevancy? Under [...] > read more

Excel and Google Docs: Tools for the Ultimate SEO Dashboard

Published on 2012-04-09 16:22:33

Posted by Mitch Monsen This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I love SEO tools. I’m sort of a pack-rat when [...] > read more

An SEO’s Guide to Video Hosting and Embedding

Published on 2012-04-09 02:22:00

Posted by PhilNottingham I’m frequently asked: “How should I host my videos for SEO purposes? Is it better to use YouTube, Vimeo or third party hosting?” My response to this question is invariably terse, along the lines of "it depends on the style of your content and what you want to achieve with it". Each [...] > read more

Editorial Objectivity

Published on 2012-04-08 15:18:02

Should search engines be able to preferentially promote their own services in their search results? Nearly 3 in 4 people think that search engines should not be able to preferentially promote their own services. vote All (1226) no, results should be objective 74.1% (+3.1 / -3.4) yes, it is their search results 25.9% (+3.4 / [...] > read more

Linkscape Index Delay Explained

Published on 2012-04-06 18:20:31

Posted by BrandonF Last night we had to delay the Linkscape index launch date yet again to April 27th as can be seen on our release schedule. This is the second time we have had to adjust the launch date this processing cycle meaning there will be almost two months between index releases. We know [...] > read more

jQuery Multi-level Photo Map

Published on 2012-04-06 11:16:18

This multi-level map based image gallery makes it possible to show images related to their location. The first level indicates the location of the places where each one has a set of images, and the second level shows each single image and its location. > read more

Where TPP Goes Beyond ACTA — And How It Shows Us The Future Of IP Enforcement

Published on 2012-04-06 06:43:48

ACTA and TPP have much in common. That’s no coincidence, since they are both born of a common desire to move away from multilateral forums like WIPO that are relatively open to scrutiny, to invitation-only groups negotiating behind closed doors. That lack of transparency has allowed all kinds of extreme measures to be proposed without [...] > read more

Polish Government Funding ‘Full Set Of Educational Materials’ Available Under CC-BY

Published on 2012-04-06 06:42:44

One of the fields that is ripe for disruption by open digital technologies and business models based on abundance is education. That’s already starting to happening with growing successes in the areas of open access and free textbooks. Now here’s a major win for open educational resources in Poland (via Slashdot): > read more

A Copyright First: Bogus Copyright Takedown Leads To Australian Court Awarding $150k Damages

Published on 2012-04-06 06:41:20

We’re so inured to hearing about unjustified claims of copyright infringement going unpunished that’s it’s good to come across a case where extensive damages were awarded for the harm caused. It concerns a film that the Australian artist Richard Bell made in New York, with the help of an assistant called Tanya Steele: > read more

What Quilting’s Legal Battles Can Teach Us About Copyright

Published on 2012-04-06 06:40:07

Last year Techdirt wrote about Leah Day, who was trying to introduce a free model to quilting – apparently a bold thing to do. Sadly, it seems that the ownership mentality is nonetheless spreading in her field, as she reports in this really excellent new blog post entitled “Copyright Terrorism”: > read more

German Scriptwriters Attack ‘Greens, Pirates, Left-wingers And Internet Community’ For Daring To Have Different Views On Copyright

Published on 2012-04-06 06:38:56

The German series “Tatort” (“Crime Scene”) has been running since 1970, and remains one of the most popular programs on German television. Given this venerable position, it’s perhaps not completely surprising that its scriptwriters – 51 of them — have written an open letter complaining about the supposedly negative attitudes of some groups to copyright [...] > read more

How to Stop Over Optimizing and Start Creating for SEO – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-04-06 04:20:15

Posted by Cyrus Shepard Is your website hurting because of over optimization? It's a question every SEO faces at one time or another. Over optimization penalties have been around for awhile, but Matt Cutts recently announced Google will soon crack down harder on sites that take SEO too the extremes. How do you know when [...] > read more

Our Imminent Summer of Digital Discontent

Published on 2012-04-05 04:37:59

As you may have noticed, the weather is rather confused in the UK at the moment – one moment sweltering, the next freezing. But I predict this summer is certainly going to be hot, judging at least by what’s going on in the world of digital rights. First of all, there’s ACTA. In a surprising [...] > read more

What’s Better – On-page SEO or Link-building?

Published on 2012-04-05 00:19:31

Posted by Dr. Pete Every week, without fail, I hear someone ask where they should put their SEO budget – in on-page tactics or in link-building. Unfortunately, there are plenty of SEO companies and consultants lining up to give them the answer – and that answer just happens (“coincidentally”) to be whatever the company/consultant is [...] > read more

Startup Marketing: How to Earn Customers Without Paying for Them

Published on 2012-04-04 17:19:06

Posted by randfish Last week, on the very kind invitation of Dmitri Grabov, I gave a presentation in London to the Hacker News monthly meetup group. The event was sponsored and hosted by some friends at Forward, and attended by startup folks from all around the greater London area. Like my presentation in Silicon Valley, [...] > read more

Content Curation Guide for SEO – What, How, Why

Published on 2012-04-04 03:18:39

Posted by gfiorelli1 When it comes to the Internet, I imagine it as the warehouse where the Ark is archived at the end of Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ark is that outstanding content someone has produced and that no other will be able to see again, because it is forgotten [...] > read more

Patience is a Virtue

Published on 2012-04-03 15:39:41

Sorry I haven’t blogged as much lately, but one of our employees recently had a child and Google sending out so many warning messages in webmaster central has created a ton of demand for independent SEO advice. Our growth in demand last month was higher than any month outside of the time a few years [...] > read more

Simple AJAX jQuery Commenting System

Published on 2012-04-03 13:19:49

This time, we are making a Simple AJAX Commenting System. It will feature a gravatar integration and demonstrate how to achieve effective communication between jQuery and PHP/MySQL with the help of JSON. To read more about this article Click Here For demo > read more

Meetup at the Search Church in Philadelphia – We Want YOU to Speak

Published on 2012-04-03 13:18:07

Posted by jennita Hey party people! We are really excited to announce that the Mozzers are headed to Philadelphia. That's right! On May 10th we're having a meetup at the infamous MozCation events in the past, you know that we're all about actionable content, great networking and loads of fun (you know the F in [...] > read more

Gmail’s YouTube Lightbox

Published on 2012-04-03 10:04:00

When an email message includes includes links to YouTube videos, Gmail shows a gadget that lets you watch the videos inside Gmail. The YouTube preview feature graduated from Gmail Labs two years ago. Gmail now tests another interface for previewing YouTube videos, but it only works for YouTube’s email digests. When you click one of [...] > read more

It’s Easier to Organize Files in Google Docs

Published on 2012-04-03 07:00:00

Google Docs now lets you move a file to a folder without using the Docs list. Just click the “folder” icon next to the title of the file and you can pick one or more folders. This works for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, PDF files and any other files. Google uses the word “collection” instead [...] > read more

Using Passive Link Building to Build Links with No Budget

Published on 2012-04-03 06:17:50

Posted by CraigBradford Not everyone has massive budgets or time to invest in link building so this post is for all the people out there that need to find creative ways to get the highest ROI from any time they do invest in link building. I want to show you a process I use to [...] > read more

Show Keyword Position Using Filters And Advanced Segments

Published on 2012-04-02 16:17:13

Posted by Bryan Casson This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. There are many ways to filter your Google Anlaytics results, [...] > read more

Urgent: Defend a Balanced UK Approach to Copyright

Published on 2012-04-01 05:25:19

Copyright consultations seem to be like buses: you wait for years, then several come at once. In the wake of the Hargreaves report, and the follow-up UK government consultation, we have another one, albeit rather different in emphasis. On Open Enterprise blog. > read more

Open Standards Licensing: Apple’s Key Evidence

Published on 2012-04-01 05:22:51

As regular readers know, there is a struggle going on between the free software community that needs open standards to be RF (strictly speaking “restriction-free”, but usually called “royalty-free”) and traditional companies based on proprietary software that are pushing for FRAND - Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory – not least because it will allow licences like [...] > read more

ACTA Update XI

Published on 2012-04-01 05:20:31

Although I’ve not written about ACTA here for a few weeks, things are still bubbling away in Brussels. Here’s a good summary of what’s going on from La Quadrature du Net, probably the best source of information on ACTA: On Open Enterprise blog. > read more

If ACTA Is So Great, Where Are All The Supporters Extolling Its Virtues?

Published on 2012-04-01 05:18:46

One of the striking features of the ACTA debate is the deafening silence from those who are in favor of it. Maybe that’s down to the SOPA effect: companies and organizations are frightened of being associated with such an unpopular idea. Of course, it could just be that even its most fervent supporters can’t really [...] > read more

UK Publishers Association Outraged It Wasn’t Consulted Ahead Of The Public Over Open Access To Publicly-Funded Research

Published on 2012-04-01 05:17:15

While the global boycott of Elsevier by academics continues to gain momentum and signatures – at the time of writing, the number is approaching 9000 – there’s an open access storm in a teacup brewing in the UK. > read more

Huge, Amazing Changes at SEOmoz: A Documentary of My Success

Published on 2012-04-01 05:16:38

Posted by Aaron Wheeler My name is Aaron Wheeler and, up until a couple of weeks ago, I was the manager of the Help Team here at SEOmoz. Rand's been out of the office at conferences and I've decided it's time to make my move. I've been waiting for this moment for 2 years now, [...] > read more

Google April Fools’ Day 2012

Published on 2012-03-31 13:47:00

April Fools’ Day is now associated with Google and the countless pranks which show that Google hasn’t lost its cheerfulness. The first hoax for this year comes from Google Japan: you can now try the 8-bit version of Google Maps. Just click the “quest” button in the regular Google Maps interface. “Our engineering team in [...] > read more

The New On-Page Optimization – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-03-30 04:15:21

Posted by JoannaLord In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we are covering some advanced techniques that you can use to optimize your landing pages. The typical web user has evolved and it's important for web marketers to evolve with them. By taking a look at how the web has changed we can make more informed decisions [...] > read more

The New On-Page Optimization – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-03-30 04:15:21

Building Awesome Relationships For Links, Likes, and Love

Published on 2012-03-29 21:15:06

Posted by Fryed7 This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Link building isn't really link building. It's relationship building. Links are [...] > read more

Building Awesome Relationships For Links, Likes, and Love

Published on 2012-03-29 21:15:06

Making the Android Developer Console work for your whole team

Published on 2012-03-29 12:20:00

[This post is by Ellie Powers, a product manager on the Google Play team. — Tim Bray] As your apps have gotten more successful, more people have joined your team. Today, we’re making it easier to work together on analyzing and managing your published Android apps. Sharing passwords is generally a bad idea; so as of now, [...] > read more

Uncrawled 301s – A Quick Fix for When Relaunches Go Too Well

Published on 2012-03-29 07:10:41

Posted by Everett Sizemore A lot of things can go wrong when you change most of the URLs on a website with thousands or millions of pages. But this is the story of how something went a little too "right", and how it was fixed by doing something a little bit "wrong". The Relaunch Timeline [...] > read more

Uncrawled 301s – A Quick Fix for When Relaunches Go Too Well

Published on 2012-03-29 07:10:41

Outreach Letters for Link Building [Real Examples]

Published on 2012-03-28 17:10:29

Posted by Peter Attia This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Outreach letters are a primary element in any quality link [...] > read more

Outreach Letters for Link Building [Real Examples]

Published on 2012-03-28 17:10:29

Google Account Stats

Published on 2012-03-28 12:21:00

Google added an interesting feature that shows stats for services like Google Latitude, Gmail, Google Search and more. If you go to the Account Activity page, you can opt in for a monthly report that provides a “summary of your account activity across many Google products”. It’s like a personal Google Analytics, but it’s less [...] > read more

Google Account Stats

Published on 2012-03-28 12:21:00

The Lowdown on Structured Data and Schema.org – Your Questions Answered!

Published on 2012-03-28 03:10:08

Posted by Daniel Butler This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. First of all, thank you to everyone who listened in [...] > read more

The Lowdown on Structured Data and Schema.org – Your Questions Answered!

Published on 2012-03-28 03:10:08

Romanians are Smart or How to Change the Google Autocomplete Suggestions

Published on 2012-03-27 20:09:49

Posted by gabandrei This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I am a Romanian. I am proud of it, despite of [...] > read more

Romanians are Smart or How to Change the Google Autocomplete Suggestions

Published on 2012-03-27 20:09:49

Google Experiments With a Collapsible Search Sidebar

Published on 2012-03-27 18:32:00

Google tests a new search interface that hides the options from the sidebar by default. You need to click a small arrow icon to see the list of specialized search engines and some advanced search options that let you filter results. Essentially, this experiment hides the sidebar’s content, but the sidebar still takes up space. [...] > read more

Google Experiments With a Collapsible Search Sidebar

Published on 2012-03-27 18:32:00

Illustrated Guide To Web Experiments

Published on 2012-03-27 06:09:24

Posted by thogenhaven Web experimentation is a great tool to increase engagement and conversion rates. The primary strength of experiments is the possibility to isolate variables, and thus examine causality between different metrics such as tagline and conversion rate. > read more

Illustrated Guide To Web Experiments

Published on 2012-03-27 06:09:24

Google Play, Added to the Navigation Bar

Published on 2012-03-27 02:38:00

There’s a new service in Google’s navigation bar: Google Play. The link replaces Google Music and it’s prominently placed next to popular services like Google Maps and YouTube. For now, the link takes you to the Google Play homepage and your query is ignored. It’s interesting to notice that Google’s navigation bar changed its purpose [...] > read more

Google Play, Added to the Navigation Bar

Published on 2012-03-27 02:38:00

Link: What is turning women off coding?

Published on 2012-03-26 22:00:00

Following from are women in tech really in tech we have: Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code by Miriam Posner Which points out the important cultural aspect of why it is that women are often not coders. If you are not a woman in tech, and wonder why there are [...] > read more

Link: What is turning women off coding?

Published on 2012-03-26 22:00:00

Unnatural Link Warnings and Blog Networks

Published on 2012-03-26 16:09:09

Posted by Carson Ward Advice and Confessions from a Reformed Link Network Spammer There was only one time when link building was the easiest, least challenging part of my SEO work. I was a link network spammer, relying upon services with names like "blog networks" and "article networks." These services allow paid subscribers to post [...] > read more

Interactive Image Vamp up with jQuery, CSS3 and PHP

Published on 2012-03-26 12:17:25

Today we will show you how to create an online application for giving some funny touches to an image. We will be using jQuery and jQuery UI for dragging and resizing little bling elements like mustaches and glasses. With PHP the image and the bling elements will get merged and the end result can be [...] > read more

Building Links with Video Content

Published on 2012-03-26 02:08:45

Posted by Jacob Klein You've finally done it. You are in possession of the hottest video the internet has ever seen. > read more

Why You May Need To Hide Your Google Places Address ASAP

Published on 2012-03-25 19:08:31

Posted by MiriamEllis Last month, the inglorious septic system at my little old home in the country backed up and my washing machine erupted, drowning my laundry room and kitchen in two inches of water. I waded right into the flood at 9 o'clock at night with my arms full of grocery bags, shouted some [...] > read more

Collection Society To Libraries: No Story Time For Kids Unless You Pay To Read Aloud

Published on 2012-03-13 14:36:05

If there’s a common trait of the various rightsholders groups around the world, it is their sense of entitlement. If anyone does anything with a work under copyright, they feel they have a right to regulate it and be paid for it. A good example is the claim by the Authors Guild that owners of [...] > read more

Do We Have a Right To Open Public Data?

Published on 2012-03-13 14:35:07

The progress made by the open data movement is pretty extraordinary. A few years ago, data was something that only statisticians cared about, but today it is one of the most vibrant areas of exploration and innovation. I think that’s in part because of open source’s example of how opening things up allows people to [...] > read more

European Commission Blames Social Networks For ACTA Failure; Worried About Its Imminent Directive On Copyright Enforcement

Published on 2012-03-13 14:32:19

Now that the EU’s ratification of ACTA has departed from the original script of everyone just waving it through, the European Commission is clearly trying to come up with Plan B. Some insights into its thinking can be gained from the minutes (pdf) of a recent Commission meeting, pointed out to us by André Rebentisch.� [...] > read more

Ajax Domain Checker Application with JQuery

Published on 2012-03-13 11:49:02

I was searching about checking domain names availablity using Ajax and PHP. I found some solution and I thought to create a post on my blog so that any one can get this simple script easily. I used jQuery and CSS3 to put some attractive look in this. Share it if you like this tutorial. [...] > read more

Unifying Key Store Access in ICS

Published on 2012-03-13 11:15:00

[This post is a group effort by Tony Chan, Fred Chung, Brian Carlstrom, and Kenny Root. — Tim Bray] Android 4.0 (ICS) comes with a number of enhancements that make it easier for people to bring their personal Android devices to work. In this post, we’re going to have a look at the key store functionality. Back in [...] > read more

The Brand of SEO and the Trend of Inbound Marketing

Published on 2012-03-13 06:02:14

Posted by randfish The web marketing community, and specifically many folks in the search field have recently been engaging in lots of conversations about the industry's nomenclature. I think these discussions are excellent to have and I'm glad we're openly communicating with one another on the topic. If there's to be a shift or a [...] > read more

The Brand of SEO and the Trend of Inbound Marketing

Published on 2012-03-13 06:02:14

Understand and Rock the Google Venice Update

Published on 2012-03-12 16:01:21

Posted by NiftyMarketing This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I am slightly shocked and simply amused that the recent Inbound [...] > read more

Understand and Rock the Google Venice Update

Published on 2012-03-12 16:01:21

Go the fuck home…

Published on 2012-03-12 14:25:00

Jeff Atwood (of CodingHorror) recently left StackExchange after four years of really hard work. He gave his reasons in a farewell to StackExchange – explaining that he has realised that, as amazing as it is to work on a brilliant project… it’s not worth missing out on your children. To this I’ll add a recent [...] > read more

Display your Favorite Tweets using PHP and jQuery

Published on 2012-03-12 12:25:04

If you have a twitter account, you oftentimes find yourself looking for a way to display your latest tweets on your website or blog. This is pretty much a solved problem. There are jQuery plugins, PHP classes andtutorials that show you how to do this. However, what happens if you only want to display certain [...] > read more

Display your Favorite Tweets using PHP and jQuery

Published on 2012-03-12 12:25:04

Link Building Tools We Use at Distilled

Published on 2012-03-12 02:00:23

Posted by willcritchlow We recently gathered up a list of all the link building tools and resources we turn to daily across the company at Distilled. In the "TAGFEE" spirit of generosity, we thought it might be useful to others and we thought we'd share it here. Link building is on our minds a lot [...] > read more

Link Building Tools We Use at Distilled

Published on 2012-03-12 02:00:23

SFBrowser File Manager With PHP and jQuery

Published on 2012-03-11 11:42:00

SFBrowser�is an�open source�application,�built with PHP and jQuery, for�managing files online with an Ajaxed interface. Besides listing files and folders, it can�upload, delete, rename and preview them. Uploading can be accomplished via an Ajaxed or Flash-based uploader (queued multiple uploads, progress bar, canceling, selection filtering, size filtering). The functionality�can be extended with plugins. There are few [...] > read more

SFBrowser File Manager With PHP and jQuery

Published on 2012-03-11 11:42:00

The Web Developer’s Interactive Cheatsheet for SEO and the Open Graph

Published on 2012-03-10 20:46:15

Posted by Ray Grieselhuber This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. A couple of months ago, I came across Web Developer's [...] > read more

The Web Developer’s Interactive Cheatsheet for SEO and the Open Graph

Published on 2012-03-10 20:46:15

Google’s Easter Eggs for Binary and Other Number Systems

Published on 2012-03-10 12:18:00

Google has some new geeky Easter eggs. When you search for [binary], [octal] and [hexadecimal], Google writes the number of results using the numeral system from the query. Make sure that “search plus your world” is disabled to see the Easter eggs. Either click the “hide personal results” button below the search box or sign [...] > read more

Google’s Easter Eggs for Binary and Other Number Systems

Published on 2012-03-10 12:18:00

Google Toolbar Built Into Chrome?

Published on 2012-03-10 06:22:00

Now that Google Toolbar is no longer available for Firefox, you can only install it if you use Internet Explorer. If you visit Google Toolbar’s site using Chrome, Google shows an interesting message: “You’re using Chrome, that’s great. All of the features of GoogleToolbar are already built into your browser. You can search from the [...] > read more

Google Toolbar Built Into Chrome?

Published on 2012-03-10 06:22:00

Visualizing the Marketing Funnel – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-03-09 04:45:20

Posted by randfish In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we will be talking about visualizing and measuring your marketing funnel. All too often basic web analytics can mislead marketers which can lead to investing in the wrong channels. Understanding what content drives people to your site and when will allow you to make much more informed [...] > read more

Visualizing the Marketing Funnel – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-03-09 04:45:20

Achieving an SEO-Friendly Domain Migration – The Infographic

Published on 2012-03-08 20:45:06

Posted by aleyda This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Domain migrations are one of those activities that even if in [...] > read more

Achieving an SEO-Friendly Domain Migration – The Infographic

Published on 2012-03-08 20:45:06

Google’s Unified Gaming Platform

Published on 2012-03-08 13:04:00

Google Play may not be a great name for an ebook store, but it’s the perfect name for a game platform. Right now, you can only download Android games from Google Play, but that may change in the future. “By next year, we will not be (…) talking about Google+ Games, Chrome Web Store games, [...] > read more

YouTube Scrobbler

Published on 2012-03-08 11:57:00

If you frequently watch music videos or listen to music on YouTube and you also use Last.fm, there’s a Chrome extension that scrobbles these songs. The official Last.fm client supports players like iTunes and Windows Media Player, but YouTube is probably the largest online repository of free music and it can be used as a [...] > read more

8 great MySQL Performance Tips

Published on 2012-03-08 10:48:11

You finished your brand new application, everything is working like a charm. Users are coming and using your web. Everybody is happy.�Then, suddenly, a big burst of users kills your MySQL server and your site is down. What went wrong? How can you prevent it?�Here are some tips on MySQL Performance which will help you [...] > read more

An Open Letter to New SEOs

Published on 2012-03-08 04:44:27

Posted by Dr. Pete Dear New SEOs, First off, let me congratulate you. Whether by luck or good planning, you’ve entered the field at a time when business is booming and just about every decent company I know of is looking for talent. So, you may be wondering – why aren’t they hiring you? Maybe [...] > read more

Audio Books in Google Play?

Published on 2012-03-07 22:12:39

It looks like Google Play, the unified online store launched yesterday, could add a new type of digital content: audio books. The Google Play help center includes an empty page titled “Audio Books“. There are also two genres with a similar name: “audio books” and “audiobooks”, but the ebook store doesn’t include audio books. Genres [...] > read more

New Google +1 Buttons

Published on 2012-03-07 16:16:00

The ubiquitous +1 buttons will soon have a new look. The updated version is available when you subscribe to the Google+ Platform Preview, at least for now. “Following in the footsteps of our new red and white Google+ icon, the +1 button is sporting a fresh coat of paint,” informs Google. While the new buttons [...] > read more

Gmail’s New Loading Screen

Published on 2012-03-07 15:27:00

Sometimes little things can make a difference. Gmail’s updated loading screen makes Google’s mail service look more like a native app and the transition to the actual interface is much smoother. The progress bar and the “loading” message are now centered and no longer look like an afterthought. In the new Gmail interface you’ll also [...] > read more

Branding & The Cycle

Published on 2012-03-07 13:36:12

Since it took me a few hours to put together my SMX presentation I figured it was worth sharing that information on the blog as well. This post will discuss examples of how Google has dialed up their brand bias over time & points to where Google may be headed in the future. Note that [...] > read more

Why SEO Consultants Push Brand

Published on 2012-03-07 13:35:02

At SMX I gave a presentation on brand & how Google has biased the algorithms toward brands. having already seeing the bulk of my argument months prior, Bryson Meunier spoke after me and put together a presentation that used bogus statistics & was basically a smear of me. He was so over the top with [...] > read more

Modern platforms: flash, disk, log-structured, update-in-place

Published on 2012-03-07 11:38:00

Someone who knows a lot about storage asked me whether we can spend IOPS to improve compression. When deploying a pure-flash server I want a database engine that optimizes for compression as more compression means less flash must be purchased. The engine can do extra IOPS in search of more compression. Column-wise storage is an [...] > read more

Google’s Thank You Notes

Published on 2012-03-07 11:38:00

Google sometimes displays some annotations below search snippets. Showing that one of the people you trust +1′d a page is useful and might help you decide to click a search result. Now Google also adds a link that lets you send a thank you note to the person that +1′d page: “Your +1 helped me [...] > read more

How to display latest Google+ updates with PHP and Unofficial Google+ API

Published on 2012-03-07 10:31:08

As we are all waiting for official Google Plus API, I browsed the internet looking for some unofficial ways for implementing Google Plus into web applications.�I found some very interesting stuff, but the most advanced is Jason Striegel’s Unofficial Google API. For the moment it consists the following: GoogleUtil – functions for parsing the almost-JSON [...] > read more

The Google+ Upgrade

Published on 2012-03-07 08:03:00

After a strong start, Google+ could have lost its momentum, at least if we are to believe ComScore’s numbers. “According to comScore, Google+ users averaged only three minutes on the site during January, a pittance compared to Facebook’s average of 405 minutes per visitor.” That’s a really low number, but I’m not sure it’s accurate. [...] > read more

Influencer Marketing – What it is, and Why YOU Need to be Doing it

Published on 2012-03-07 04:44:00

Posted by Eric Enge This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Content marketing is an increasingly hot topic these days. More [...] > read more

Introducing Google Play

Published on 2012-03-06 12:10:00

[This post is by Kenneth Lui, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] For more than a year we’ve been focused on expanding the reach, content, and monetization opportunities of Android Market. We started by extending the store to users on the web and then went on to add books, movies, and music. The number of people [...] > read more

Obfuscate your e-mail address with PHP, JavaScript and CSS

Published on 2012-03-06 10:25:44

According to Wikipedia, more than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted. That’s around 200 billion spam messages per day.�To keep this insane amount of spam out of your inbox, you should keep your e-mail safe when you display it on web. One of the ways to keep it safe is to [...] > read more

12 Things That Will Kill Your Blog Post Every Time

Published on 2012-03-06 04:43:23

Posted by neilpatel This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Blogging is a lot like fishing. Some people do it all [...] > read more

Android Apps Break the 50MB Barrier

Published on 2012-03-05 19:00:00

Android applications have historically been limited to a maximum size of 50MB. This works for most apps, and smaller is usually better — every megabyte you add makes it harder for your users to download and get started. However, some types of apps, like high-quality 3D interactive games, require more local resources. So today, we’re expanding the [...] > read more

Maximizing Google Analytics Insight for SEO with Custom Reports

Published on 2012-03-05 12:06:33

Google Analytics – one of the most powerful tools for any SEO, assuming you know how to get the data you need from it. One of my favorite things about Google Analytics is how many tools that put at your disposal for quickly analyzing the data you care most about. But again, that all assumes [...] > read more

Building an AJAX currency converter with PHP, jQuery and Google

Published on 2012-03-05 10:46:24

As you may already know, Google has a calculator feature built in their search engine, which can be used to convert measures, currencies, get stock quotes, weather data and many other features. You can see this features explained here. Why wouldn’t we use it for something useful and build a simple AJAX currency converter using [...] > read more

How to Leverage Content Communities to Expand Your Brand Reach

Published on 2012-03-05 04:42:54

Posted by Julianne Staino “Content is King!” Ah, the wonderfully overused statement that makes me want to throw my monitor at the wall and then hang my head in shame because it’s actually true. I feel like I can safely assume that we can all agree on the increasing importance of awesome content. Recently, it [...] > read more

What Susan G Komen Doesn’t Understand About Communities and You Should

Published on 2012-03-02 20:41:53

Posted by ericpratum This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Recently, Susan G. Komen pulled some funding for Planned Parenthood, and [...] > read more

EC Defends Interoperability, but Misses Bigger Picture

Published on 2012-03-02 09:36:30

Here’s an interesting move from the European Commission: On Open Enterprise blog. > read more

‘We, The Web Kids’: Manifesto For An Anti-ACTA Generation

Published on 2012-03-02 09:32:44

One of the striking features of the demonstrations against ACTA that took place across Europe over the last few weeks was the youth of the participants. That’s not to say that only young people are concerned about ACTA, but it’s an indication that they take its assault on the Internet very personally — unlike, perhaps, [...] > read more

Does Guernsey Really Want To Become Famous — And Ostracized — For Introducing Image Rights?

Published on 2012-03-02 09:29:51

Just as the original term of copyright has been constantly extended from the original 14 years in the Statute of Anne, so the the scope of intellectual monopolies has been widened by the introduction of new ways in which people assert ownership of abstractions. Here’s the latest idea: a right to protect your image.� On [...] > read more

Dutch Research Reveals Wide Scope For Copyright Flexibilities In EU Laws

Published on 2012-03-02 09:27:46

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a surprising initiative by the Netherlands to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright law. Given that leadership from the Dutch government, it’s probably no surprise that a few days later, the Dutch Parliament also showed itself in the political vanguard by voting not to ratify ACTA for [...] > read more

EU Censorship Plan With A Cheesy Name: The Clean IT Project

Published on 2012-03-02 09:26:33

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt reported on UK politicians calling for ISPs to “take down” terrorist content. Now it seems that the idea has not only spread to other European countries, but even acquired a cheesy name: “the Clean IT Project“.� On Techdirt. > read more

Guest Blogging Strategies – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-03-02 04:41:26

Posted by randfish Guest blogging can be a great way to help build up your brand, earn recognition, and even get some great links back to your site. When guest blogging it's important to study your audience so that you can produce the best content possible. Exceptional content is often heavily shared and that has [...] > read more

11 Google Analytics Tricks to Use for Your Website

Published on 2012-03-01 20:41:12

Posted by Eugen Oprea This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Do you know what is the most common question that [...] > read more

Exploring the New Features in Bing Webmaster Tools

Published on 2012-02-29 20:40:19

Posted by Daniel Butler This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Bing recently announced some pretty cool new features within their [...] > read more

Creating a tweet / share system with jQuery

Published on 2012-02-29 12:05:12

With the advent of social networking sites the standards of web development have really improved, Sharing what is on your mind can take less than 140 characters and more for other sites like facebook and the new kid on the block google plus. In this tutorial we are going to create a sharing system emulating [...] > read more

Stop Paying for Stupid Clicks: Negative Keywords for Positive ROI

Published on 2012-02-29 04:39:45

Posted by KeriMorgret One of my guilty pleasures is looking through the search query reports (SQR) of an AdWords campaign for the cringe-worthy search queries that led to someone clicking on a PPC ad. Really Google? You felt that goat transportation cost was related to my keyword of freight costs? Or that a babe cam [...] > read more

Stop Paying for Stupid Clicks: Negative Keywords for Positive ROI

Published on 2012-02-29 04:39:45

Are "Women in tech" really in tech?

Published on 2012-02-29 04:07:00

Anneke Jong has posted an interesting article called why we need to rethink women in tech, which points out the real reason for the seeming disparity in numbers of “women in tech” comes about due to the definition of “in tech” being used. She explains that while several recent articles are applauding the increase of [...] > read more

February Linkscape Update: 66 Billion URLs

Published on 2012-02-28 20:39:32

Posted by randfish After some wrestling with Amazon's EC2 and the tragic loss of many hard disks therein, we've finally finished processing and have released the latest Linkscape update (previously scheduled for Feb. 14). This new index is, once again, quite large in comparison to our prior indices, and contains a mix of crawl data [...] > read more

February Linkscape Update: 66 Billion URLs

Published on 2012-02-28 20:39:32

How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO

Published on 2012-02-28 20:39:24

Posted by wilreynolds This past week I gave the keynote presentation at Searchfest in Portland and I hit on a few themes that seemed to resonate with the audience, and with Rand. So I wanted to share them here. It’s what I have been passionate about trumpeting for some time now. And it’s that the [...] > read more

How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO

Published on 2012-02-28 20:39:24

New App Stats for Publishers on Android Market

Published on 2012-02-28 13:12:00

If you’ve published an app on Android Market, you’ve probably used Application Statistics to help tune your development and marketing efforts. Application Statistics is a set of dashboards in the Developer Console that shows your app’s installation performance across key dimensions such as countries, platform versions, device models, and others. Today we are making Application [...] > read more

Tracking Micro Conversions with Event Tracking for Improving SEO Campaigns

Published on 2012-02-28 12:37:12

Conversions. The one metric we all know we should be focusing on, and yet it’s the one thing that gets overlooked the most. So many of us focus on just one main conversion point, and forget how many other types of visitor engagement exist on our sites. These other engagement points, or less-important conversions are [...] > read more

Tracking Micro Conversions with Event Tracking for Improving SEO Campaigns

Published on 2012-02-28 12:37:12

The Struggle Between Copyright and the Internet

Published on 2012-02-28 09:41:18

January 18, 2012 may well go down as a pivotal date in the history of the Internet – and of copyright.� For on that day, the English-language Wikipedia and thousands of other websites were blacked out or modified to protest against two bills passing through the US legislative system that were designed to fight copyright [...] > read more

The Struggle Between Copyright and the Internet

Published on 2012-02-28 09:41:18

UK Open Standards Consultation Submission

Published on 2012-02-28 09:38:16

Somewhat belatedly (apologies), here is the second part of my analysis of the UK government’s Open Standards consultation. As well as a quick look at the remaining two chapters, I include my responses to individual questions at the end. On Open Enterprise blog. > read more

UK Open Standards Consultation Submission

Published on 2012-02-28 09:38:16

WURFL: a cautionary tale

Published on 2012-02-28 09:28:46

A few months ago, I wrote about the library management program Koha, and how the irruption of money into the previously tranquil world of open source led to some painful arguments. Sadly, that’s not a unique example, as the recent case of WURFL demonstrates. On The H Open. > read more

Open Mailto: Links Using Gmail in Google Chrome

Published on 2012-02-28 08:51:00

A few months after Google Calendar added support for handling webcal: links in Chrome, Gmail can now become from the options dialog. { Thanks, Kevin. } > read more

92 Ways to Get (and Maximize) Press Coverage

Published on 2012-02-28 04:38:43

Posted by chriswinfield This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I love Ben Affleck's first scene in the movie "Boiler Room." [...] > read more

Web Site Migration Guide – Tips For SEOs

Published on 2012-02-27 20:38:17

Posted by Modesto Siotos This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Site migrations occur now and again for a various reasons [...] > read more

Interview with Local Marketing Experts Jake Puhl & Adam Zilko

Published on 2012-02-27 12:34:57

This is Eric here at SEO Book and today we’re going to be talking all things local search with a couple of local search experts from Firegang.com. Jacob Puhl and Adam Zilko are joining us today, thanks for the time guys and we are thrilled to have you here. Adam: Thank you. Jacob: Thank you. [...] > read more

zGrid : PHP / AJAX / jQuery based Grid System

Published on 2012-02-27 11:34:04

I found a Grid system using PHP, jQuery and Ajax. I want to share this with my dear users. It is not very well parametrized or generic but if have little much understanding of jQuery and Ajax then its easy to use. Give your feed back about zGrid. Direct Link Demo > read more

The Return of GoTo / Overture (and AOL)?

Published on 2012-02-27 05:35:06

Overture wasn’t able to build itself into a credible search destination in part because their brand was positioned incorrectly as being primarily about paid ads that only would backfill with other results in when the ad auction was empty, so as a destination it was seen as a payolla engine. Likewise AOL peaked because it [...] > read more

Create Crawlable, Link-Friendly AJAX Websites Using pushState()

Published on 2012-02-27 04:37:27

Posted by RobOusbey Many people have an interest in building websites that take advantage of AJAX principles, while still being accessible to search engines. This is an important issue that I've written about before in a (now obsolete) post from 2010. The tactic I shared then has been superseded by new technologies, so it's time [...] > read more

Create Crawlable, Link-Friendly AJAX Websites Using pushState()

Published on 2012-02-27 04:37:27

UK Labour Party: Let’s Just Get On With Kicking People Offline Over Copyright Infringement

Published on 2012-02-25 04:26:16

As Techdirt reported at the time, the UK’s Digital Economy Bill was rammed through Parliament, without proper scrutiny or even much democratic process, in the dying hours of the previous government. Since then, the implementation of the Digital Economy Act has moved forward relatively slowly. That’s partly because there have been a series of legal [...] > read more

UK Labour Party: Let’s Just Get On With Kicking People Offline Over Copyright Infringement

Published on 2012-02-25 04:26:16

Why Ebook Portal Library.nu Differed From Other Filesharing Sites

Published on 2012-02-25 03:28:06

A couple of weeks ago the popular ebook portal Library.nu was shut down, apparently voluntarily, after a coalition of book publishers obtained an injunction against it and a similar site. As an excellent post on the kNOw Future Inc. blog points out, Library.nu was significant in a number of ways:� On Techdirt. > read more

Why Ebook Portal Library.nu Differed From Other Filesharing Sites

Published on 2012-02-25 03:28:06

One More Copyright Infringement, And HADOPI Must Disconnect Itself From The Net

Published on 2012-02-25 03:10:04

The governmental body that oversees France’s “three-strikes” law, HADOPI, has already been caught once infringing on the copyright of others — by using a logo designed with unlicensed fonts. Now it’s been spotted using photographs without respecting the so-called “moral rights” of the photographer, which include the right to attribution (French original), absent on HADOPI’s [...] > read more

One More Copyright Infringement, And HADOPI Must Disconnect Itself From The Net

Published on 2012-02-25 03:10:04

Trademark Lobby Wants To Help European Court of Justice Forget About EU Citizens’ Rights

Published on 2012-02-25 03:07:08

It was only yesterday that the European Commissioner Karel de Gucht made the surprise announcement that the European Commission would be referring ACTA to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) “to assess whether ACTA is incompatible — in any way — with the EU’s fundamental rights and freedoms.” Just a few hours after that, there [...] > read more

Do You Need Permission To Take A Photo With A Chair In It? You Might In France…

Published on 2012-02-25 03:05:21

The British Journal of Photography (BJP) brings us yet another story of aggressive assertion of copyright wreaking harm on artists — the very people it allegedly empowers. It concerns some photos in Getty Images’ stock library that have chairs in them. Because a few of those chairs are “famous” in the sense that they were [...] > read more

Google Analytics Certification and How to Pass the GAIQ Test

Published on 2012-02-24 20:36:39

Posted by Slingshot SEO This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. When I hear the word, “cookies,” I generally think of [...] > read more

Towards the Perfect Browser

Published on 2012-02-24 18:09:00

Chrome is clearly the most Apple-like Google product. Many of its features are copied by other browsers: from the simple interface to automatic updates, powerful JavaScript engines, unified address bar and search box, shorter release cycles and much more. When it was released, Chrome’s team had a clear vision and no feature was there by [...] > read more

A Strange Google Mobile Experiment

Published on 2012-02-24 17:13:00

Sometimes it’s difficult to understand Google. A few weeks after dropping the non-obvious navigation menu from the desktop UI, Google tests a new mobile interface that uses the same menu. Cascading menus on a mobile device? They’re too large and many Google services are missing (Reader, Blog Search, iGoogle, Product Search, Google Finance, Picasa Web, [...] > read more

The Math of CRO – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-02-24 04:36:20

Posted by rickperreault This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. This week we are talking about math…. Don't worry it's not [...] > read more

What Community Builders Can Learn From Research

Published on 2012-02-23 20:35:39

Posted by thogenhaven Two weeks ago, Tom Critchlow suggested that we work to close the gap between inbound marketing and content marketing communities. It's time to build bridges again, this time between inbound marketing and research. In this post, you'll find research on participation patterns, how to spot high-value users, seeding content in a new [...] > read more

It’s Our First Pandaversary!

Published on 2012-02-23 18:48:55

Sharing is caring! Please share Embed code is here. > read more

Google Drive Will Support Third Party Apps

Published on 2012-02-23 16:37:00

Back in November 2010, a comment from the Google Docs source code revealed some new features that will be available: third party apps, Cloud Print integration and sync. It turns out that the upcoming Google Drive release will add support for third party apps and Google will also include a SDK for developers. This way, [...] > read more

I’m on AllTop for ruby

Published on 2012-02-23 10:29:00

I made it to the SEO link-building experimentation in the last few weeks. > read more

The 2 User Metrics That Matter for SEO

Published on 2012-02-23 04:35:07

Posted by Dr. Pete In the wake of Google’s Panda updates, there’s been a lot of fear regarding user metrics and how they impact SEO.� Many people are afraid that “bad” signals in analytics data, especially high bounce rates and low time-on-site, could potentially harm their rankings. I don’t think Google is tapping into analytics [...] > read more

Meet Mozzers at #SMX West 2012

Published on 2012-02-22 20:34:56

Posted by jennita Conferences are always a great way to get out and meet the SEOmoz community. Luckily we have SMX West coming up next week and quite a few Mozzers will be attending, speaking, live blogging and tweeting. We want to get a chance to meet as many of you as possible so I [...] > read more

Google Docs for Android Adds Real-Time Collaboration

Published on 2012-02-22 16:45:00

When Google released the Android app for Google Docs, the application didn’t include many features that weren’t available from the browser. The latest updates made the app more useful: there’s a better tablet interface, offline access to your documents and now you can edit documents collaboratively. The most powerful Google Docs feature (real-time collaboration) is [...] > read more

Adaptive Images with php and javascript

Published on 2012-02-22 15:14:43

Adaptive Images detects your visitor’s screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page’s embeded HTML images. No mark-up changes needed. It is intended for use with Responsive Designs and to be combined with Fluid Image techniques.Features: Works on your existing site Requires no mark-up changes Device agnostic [...] > read more

European Commission Suggests ACTA’s Opponents Don’t Have ‘Democratic Intentions’

Published on 2012-02-22 11:32:11

Last week, we had a story about the IFPI (the international equivalent of the RIAA) saying that the ACTA protests were trying to “silence the democratic process”. You might have thought that was bad enough, but here’s worse.� On Techdirt. > read more

ACTA Update VII

Published on 2012-02-22 11:12:40

One of the widely-recognised problems with ACTA is the lack of transparency surrounding its negotiation. Since I have addressed this issue at length elsewhere, I won’t repeat myself here. But it occurred to me that there is another way of looking at transparency, and that is in terms of consultation. In a sense, it’s the [...] > read more

Buying Links is Shallow, Short-Term Thinking. Buying Blogs? Now that’s a Strategy.

Published on 2012-02-22 04:34:22

Posted by randfish I've been running an experiment with some dark-hatted links for several months, consistently hoping Google will catch them and remove their value. So far… Nothing. Well, except top 3 rankings for all the anchor text pointed at those pages.�Google's webspam team has all the incentive, brainpower and money in the world, yet [...] > read more

Setting Up Actionable SEO Dashboards in the New Google Analytics

Published on 2012-02-22 02:57:10

There have been many mixed reviews about the latest Google Analytics UI. Putting the frustration of having to learn a new UI aside (here’s a great guide to navigating the new Google Analytics interface), the new Google Analytics actually brings to the table great customization options. One of my favorites being custom dashboards. Both the [...] > read more

The New SEO Process (Quit Being Kanye)

Published on 2012-02-21 04:33:58

Posted by iPullRank The responsibilities of SEO practitioners have changed to include far more of the digital ecosystem, yet for so many, much of the SEO process remains the same. Currently there are several segments of SEO strategy seen as optional that are actually absolutely imperative to the success of an SEO campaign, as well [...] > read more

The New SEO Process (Quit Being Kanye)

Published on 2012-02-21 04:33:58

Lessons Learned by an Over-Optimizer

Published on 2012-02-20 20:33:34

Posted by shirtsthatgo This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I own and run ShirtsThatGo, which is a small ecommerce site [...] > read more

Lessons Learned by an Over-Optimizer

Published on 2012-02-20 20:33:34

Monitor Which Social Networks Your Visitors are Logged Into With Google Analytics

Published on 2012-02-20 04:33:08

Posted by Tom Anthony At Distilled's SearchLove conference in London back in October, Mat Clayton from Mixcloud provided a great snippet of Javascript that could be used to record whether visitors to your site were logged into Facebook or not. This has a few uses, such as customising which social buttons you show your user [...] > read more

Monitor Which Social Networks Your Visitors are Logged Into With Google Analytics

Published on 2012-02-20 04:33:08

Broken Link Building Guide: From Noob to Novice

Published on 2012-02-19 12:32:21

Posted by Anthony D. Nelson This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Howdy Mozzers, My name is Anthony and I'm from [...] > read more

Broken Link Building Guide: From Noob to Novice

Published on 2012-02-19 12:32:21

Industry-average productivity?

Published on 2012-02-18 16:47:20

An interesting point here that is quite true. Effort isn’t enough… however – is it really possible to compare groups of IT guys against “industry average”? What data do we have on “industry average”? < Have we gathered reliable data on any of these? How would be go about collecting it and is it even [...] > read more

Industry-average productivity?

Published on 2012-02-18 16:47:20

Help with Nomenclature for Links & Brand Mentions

Published on 2012-02-18 12:31:51

Posted by randfish Hey gang – short blog post on a topic our product and marketing teams have been noodling around with. As many of you know, we've got our Linkscape index, which is crawled, processed and served out on a monthly basis (there's a new index about every 30 days). We also have a [...] > read more

Help with Nomenclature for Links & Brand Mentions

Published on 2012-02-18 12:31:51

Location: A Ranking Factor in Organic SERPs

Published on 2012-02-17 20:31:30

Posted by MichaelC We're all familiar with: personalization, SPYW, and the mix of organic + local + shopping + news etc. we call "universal search". Today, we're going to talk about the results that APPEAR to be pure organic, ignoring AdWords, Google Places results, image, news, video, shopping, social influenced results, etc. Now, looking just [...] > read more

Location: A Ranking Factor in Organic SERPs

Published on 2012-02-17 20:31:30

Roles & Responsibilities of a Web Marketing Team – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-02-17 04:30:56

Posted by randfish This week we talk about the different roles and responsibilities of a web marketing team. What does it take to have a successful marketing team that will take your brand to the next level? What metrics should your team measure? Your marketing team will go through a few different stages while your [...] > read more

Roles & Responsibilities of a Web Marketing Team – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2012-02-17 04:30:56

SOCA’s Frightening New Approach to Music Piracy

Published on 2012-02-17 02:40:20

Yesterday I wrote about the unusual aspects of the Serious Organised Crime Agency’s take-down of the music site RnBXclusive. As I noted then, there are still lots of questions to be answered here, but another piece of the puzzle has been given to us in the form of the following statement on SOCA’s Web site: [...] > read more

SOCA’s Frightening New Approach to Music Piracy

Published on 2012-02-17 02:40:20

Would Steve Jobs Have Approved? Artist Offers His Apple Monologue, Performance Rights, For Free

Published on 2012-02-17 02:38:49

As sales of its products soar, and its share price continues to climb, Apple has come under increasing scrutiny because of the working conditions in the Chinese factories where its iPhone and iPad are manufactured. This has led Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, to announce recently that the Fair Labor Association will be conducting audits of [...] > read more

Would Steve Jobs Have Approved? Artist Offers His Apple Monologue, Performance Rights, For Free

Published on 2012-02-17 02:38:49

Portuguese Artists Association Struggles To Get Even 100 Members On List In Favor Of Exorbitant New Private Copying Levies

Published on 2012-02-17 02:37:12

Few ideas display a sense of entitlement better than that of private copying levies. For they assume, by definition, that artists’ representatives have a right to money from the public simply because there is some kind of storage that could be used to hold digital copies of copyright files, and that every time such a [...] > read more

Serious Organised Crime Agency Takes Down Music Site

Published on 2012-02-17 02:32:19

One of the positive outcomes of the debate that has raged around SOPA/PIPA is that more people have looked at the facts, rather than listened to the rhetoric, surrounding piracy. In particular, the copyright industries’ hitherto unchallenged claim that piracy is destroying their business is finally being challenged – not least by reports like “The [...] > read more

How Do We Know That Piracy Isn’t Really A Big Issue? Because Media Companies Still Haven’t Needed To Change As A Result Of It

Published on 2012-02-17 02:29:14

UK Publishers Pretend To Embrace Copyright Reform… In Order To Kill Copyright Reform

Published on 2012-02-17 02:20:55

One of the bolder ideas in the UK’s Hargreaves report was the suggestion that a Digital Copyright Exchange should be set up. The idea here is to promote innovative uses of digital content by making it much easier to acquire the necessary licenses from rightsholders. So it’s interesting to see the UK Publishers Association (PA) [...] > read more

Head of Mozilla Says ACTA Is ‘A Bad Way To Develop Internet Policy’

Published on 2012-02-17 02:19:17

One telling sign of the widespread concern about SOPA/PIPA was that the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the open source Firefox and Thunderbird projects, abandoned its non-interventionist policy, and came out strongly against the bills. It first signed a joint letter sent to the key sponsors of both bills, and then modified its home page, [...] > read more

ACTA Update VI

Published on 2012-02-17 02:17:53

Yesterday, a disturbing story appeared on the German taz.de site: EU MPs have received thousands of emails from ACTA opponents. But no more: the Parliamentary authorities have decided that all ACTA emails will go straight into the spam folder. On Open Enterprise blog. > read more

Google Realtime Search, Temporarily Unavailable

Published on 2011-07-05 00:43:23

It’s not the most popular Google service, but Google Realtime is useful as an alternative to Twitter’s search engine. The service is no longer available at the moment, the “Realtime” option disappeared from Google’s side > read more

The Huge Untapped Potential of Q&A Content for SEO

Published on 2011-07-04 19:56:05

Posted by willcritchlow Question and answer content has been around on the internet a lot longer than the web. From the early days of usenet (and before that, on prehistoric technologies that came before my time) people have been asking experts for a > read more

The Open Knowledge Foundation Comes of Age

Published on 2011-07-04 08:36:02

The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) was launched just over seven years ago: May 24th 2004: The Open Knowledge Foundation was launched today with explicit objectives to promote the openness of all forms of knowledge where knowledge is taken to include > read more

10 Robust Services To Determine How Fast Your Web Page Loads

Published on 2011-07-04 07:54:32

Site owners often need to bookmark a number of web page speed testing web tools. These tests include site loading time testers, optimization testers, site comparison tools, and performance tools of any web page. You can read our previous post too whe > read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of TN3 jQuery Image Gallery Pro License

Published on 2011-07-04 05:39:29

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which TN3 Gallery were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them free pro license of TN3 Gallery. Ammar Cody Paul McClay Tommy Brunn Alex7 Kelly LG Andrew Brown > read more

Happy Fourth of July!

Published on 2011-07-04 02:01:31

From all of us at MAKE: Happy July 4th to all those celebrating American Independence Day. Please sear your dead things or tofu dogs with care and practice your pyrotechnics with all caution. Be safe, have fun, and happy 4th! > read more

Ring-shaped 3D Scanner

Published on 2011-07-03 21:15:50

MAKE subscriber Uros wrote to us to share the projects by some of the students in ENSCI, a product design school in Paris, France. I especially liked the design of the 3D scanner demonstrated in the video above. The scanner uses a laser pointer movin > read more

MicroRAX iPad Stand

Published on 2011-07-02 13:00:39

Ken Kremer built this adjustable iPad stand using MicroRAX, including some of the new hotness hinged connectors the MicroRAX guys were showing off at Maker Faire this May. Very nice! > read more

The Rise and Fall and Rise of HTML

Published on 2011-07-02 10:01:30

HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it would be difficult to encourage the whole world to use a new global information system, I wanted to bring on > read more

How Google+ Transformed Picasa Web

Published on 2011-07-02 09:43:06

Even though it’s not obvious, after you enable Google+ in your Google account, Picasa Web turns into a completely new app with a different set of rules. Some of these rules make Google’s photo sharing service unusable for many existing us > read more

Mini Maker Faire North Carolina near space balloon launch: success!

Published on 2011-07-02 08:30:01

Christopher Gorski wrote in to let us know that NC Near Space Research‘s NSL-6 photos came out great! We only reached about 60 kft, but we got some great space photos and several of other aircraft, which is a first for us. … NSL-6 Balloon > read more

Delight in these Quadrotor Fails

Published on 2011-07-02 08:00:40

We’ve been highlighting a lot of the amazing stunts that are performed with quadrotors lately; it practically seems like these little buzzing aircraft are infallible superstars. Well, if you’re sick of them acting like the BMOC and want t > read more

How-To: Resistor Necktie

Published on 2011-07-02 03:15:00

In this episode of Becky’s Workshop on CRAFT, learn to construct a basic long necktie with stripes to represent your favorite value of resistor – fashion inspired by the electronics bench! Learn to work with slippery fabrics cut on the bi > read more

Skill Builder: Caffenol Homebrew Film Developer

Published on 2011-07-02 03:14:57

Only If you’re interested in trying this out yourself and are looking for more resources, the recipe that I used is based on a how-to at Photojojo and I found a lot of great advice from the discussion forums in the Caffenol group on Flickr. The > read more

Beer Wheel Drive Vehicle

Published on 2011-07-01 20:30:55

No longer must those looking for a giant, 14-person bicycle outfitted with beer coolers look across the Atlantic for their machines. My friend, übermaker Casimir Sienkiewicz, (it sounds just like it’s spelled) has produced the first in what I > read more

Geek Toys : Harry Potter Marauder’s Map

Published on 2011-07-01 16:56:29

Sneak around Hogwarts with Harry and friends If you need to sneak about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry without being noticed by the wrong people, you need a Marauders Map. This highly detailed replica is printed on quality parchment pap > read more

Home & Office : The OCD Chef Cutting Board

Published on 2011-07-01 16:56:26

I don’t have OCD! I’m… fussy…! Etched with precise measurements, and exacting angles for the obsessive compulsive “fussy” chef! $24.99 > read more

Geek Toys : 18" Limited Edition Abe Sapien Action Figure

Published on 2011-07-01 16:56:25

18 inches of BPRD, evil-fighting fun! Hellboy’s best buddy – in 18 inches of all his glory. Straight from the how he looked in Hellboy 2, honest Abe is ready to fight for what’s right (aka: his right to party). Includes a removable > read more

The Five Linking Mistakes You Didn’t Know You Were Making

Published on 2011-06-29 19:55:13

Posted by Josh Gill This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc > read more

Moral Suasion

Published on 2011-06-29 19:00:24

The life of a modern-day maker is greatly eased by the abundance of free or cheap services for hosting communities, files, communications, and computation. But for all the promise of cloud computing, there’s plenty of peril, too, especially for any > read more

People Widget and Other New Gmail Features

Published on 2011-06-29 18:42:33

Gmail added a lot of new features lately. The People Widget, announced one month ago, should be available to everyone. The widget shows information about the people you’re communicating with: profile photos, occupation, recent Buzz messages, re > read more

More Free Storage in Picasa Web for Google+ Users

Published on 2011-06-29 18:42:29

Picasa Web Albums offers more free storage if you are a Google+ user. According to Picasa Web’s help center, “photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage”. If you upload ph > read more

Adam Savage on NewsHour, Discussing Maker Movement

Published on 2011-06-29 18:30:57

Here’s a wonderful Maker Faire interview with Adam Savage, conducted by Miles O’Brien, which aired tonight on PBS NewsHour. Adam discusses Maker Faire and MAKE, the maker movement, the sad death of shop classes in schools, our current his > read more

Daughter Board

Published on 2011-06-29 18:00:57

Micheal Dittman and his daughter Paige built longboards together, based on the Read all of Michael’s article on his blog: Project: Building Father/Daughter Longboards Build your own longboard. Here are the instructions on Make: Projects: Simple > read more

News From The Future: States Pass Laws Allowing Driverless Cars

Published on 2011-06-29 17:00:27

News From The Future: States Pass Laws Allowing Driverless Cars… via CiS. For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed not to be operating a motor vehicle if the motor vehicle is driven autonomously through the use of artificial-i > read more

Hackerspace Happenings: Power Racing Series at the KC Maker Faire

Published on 2011-06-29 17:00:14

Power Racing Series at the Kansas City Maker Faire I have just become aware of the awesomeness that is the Power Racing Series, where groups (cough, hackerspaces) are encouraged to build and race souped-up versions of Power Wheels and other ride-on d > read more

The Kukri Knife of Nepal

Published on 2011-06-29 16:00:36

I’m a sucker for things on the Interwebs that are either interestingly made or good for making other things. I’m really jazzed about my new Nepalese kukri which qualifies mighty well on both counts. A kukri is the incredibly large and heavy knife > read more

Zen Button

Published on 2011-06-29 15:00:19

Pete Prodoehl needed a button. A button with a USB connection that would emulate a single keypress. He’s built two now. They’re dead simple: a Teensy USB development board, a cable, a button, and a lovely die-cast aluminum enclosure from > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Wanted: Bad Horse

Published on 2011-06-29 04:54:50

Bad Horse Bad Horse Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come shoe you? You know, if they’d used Parelli on him, they never would have had this problem. Then again, we also wouldn’t have his singing minions or his terrible death w > read more

Geek Kids : Solitaire Chess

Published on 2011-06-29 04:54:47

This strategic twist on the timeless classic is the perfect vehicle for learning chess or perfecting your game. The perfect vehicle for learning chess, perfecting your game, or just killing time when nobodys around. 60 challenges in four levels from > read more

Home & Office : Cameral Lens Mug

Published on 2011-06-29 04:54:47

Quirky mug looks like a real DSLR camera lens The Camera Lens Mug is decidedly cheaper than a real camera lens and is washable to boot. Fill it with your beverage of choice and take a big swig o’ DSLR. The included lens hood top keeps your drin > read more

Home & Office : Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cup Set

Published on 2011-06-29 04:54:43

Enjoy a cup of coffee with the three-finger-salute that refreshes! Drink cup set that looks like your favorite three keyboard keys! $11.99 > read more

Geek Toys : Halo Minimates

Published on 2011-06-29 04:54:42

The tiniest UNSC recruits you ever did see In 2552, the Covenant arrives at Reach, the UNSC’s last major stronghold, and bombard the planet, turning its surface to molten glass. This box set features a teal color Mark-VI Spartan, The Jackal Maj > read more

Computer Stuff : Contort USB Hub

Published on 2011-06-29 04:54:40

Flexible USB hub protects your devices and corrals your cords Wouldnt it be great if your USB hub had some flexibility? The Contort Flexible USB Hub is a four-port USB hub and cord manager, with a flexible neck to protect all your USB devices from ac > read more

Home & Office : Portal 2 Test Chamber Stickers

Published on 2011-06-29 04:54:37

Label the dangers in your test chamber… and cake. (Not that cake needs a label.) This sticker sheet contains 9 individual black and white stickers featuring the various types of hazards (and cake!) one might encounter in a test chamber. They ar > read more

Google Takeout

Published on 2011-06-28 21:42:02

Google wants to differentiate from Facebook by offering a lot of ways to export your data. Google Takeout is a feature that’s included in Google+, but it’s also available as a standalone service. You can use it to export your contacts, Go > read more

The Google+ Bar

Published on 2011-06-28 21:42:00

A page from the Google+ help center explains the purpose of the new Google navigation bar: The Google+ bar, which appears at the top of Google products, is your connection to Google+. You can share what’s on your mind, view your Google+ notific > read more

Google Swiffy Converts Flash to HTML5

Published on 2011-06-28 21:41:56

Google Labs has a new useful tool for developers: Swiffy. The application allows you to convert Flash SWF files to HTML5, so you can use any supported modern browser to load the content, even if the browser happens to be Mobile Safari. “Swiffy > read more

FTC’s Google Probe

Published on 2011-06-28 00:41:37

Google confirmed that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has began a review of Google’s business practices after many companies complained that Google used its dominance in the search market unfairly. “Those companies said that Google̵ > read more

Gmail’s New Inbox Styles

Published on 2011-06-28 00:41:35

Gmail’s Priority Inbox is an advanced version of the regular inbox, with customizable sections for power users. For some people, Priority Inbox looked intimidating, so that’s probably the reason why Gmail tests a new version of the regula > read more

A New Google Homepage Experiment

Published on 2011-06-28 00:41:32

Another day, another Google experiment. This time, Google tests a new design for the homepage that combines two experimental features that have already been used (the black navigation bar and the blue search button) with a new way to display the link > read more

Collins Lab: Switches

Published on 2011-06-27 23:16:27

Easily overlooked, but elemental to electronics hardware, the manually operated switch is the simplest of electromechanical devices — and likely the most familiar. While the most basic switch is… well, quite basic, there’s a crazy-h > read more

Geek Toys : Harry Potter Proclamation Board

Published on 2011-06-27 22:54:19

Be the Dolores Umbridge of your home, classroom, office, or game room. If you would like to ruin everything for the people in your life, you need a Proclamation Board. Crafted of wood and measuring 34 in height, it has plenty of room for your Educati > read more

Home & Office : Test Chamber Sticker Sheet

Published on 2011-06-27 22:54:19

T-Shirts & Apparel : Wheatley Laboratories

Published on 2011-06-27 22:54:16

We made this just for you, Fatty-Fatty No Parents. So we dig Stephen Merchant as Wheatley. But then we found out we could have had Richard Ayoade in the role. GAH! What??? There was an option for Moss??? See? You were fine until we told you, weren > read more

Geek Toys : Godzilla Kaiju World Wars Board Game

Published on 2011-06-27 22:54:16

Godzilla, Rodan, Gigan, and King Ghidorah battle it out across a large, destructible city! The Xiliens have invaded again, and are pitting Earth’s mightiest Kaiju warriors against each other in a world-wide brawl of monstrous proportions. Godzi > read more

How Can Sony Extend an Olive Branch to Makers, Hackers, and Innovators?

Published on 2011-06-27 17:00:49

We’ve been covering On your post Sony’s biggest problem, is also why they have been successful. They are huge. It is hard not to consider purchasing Sony products when you are in the market for electronics because they generally make a go > read more

The ProtoSnap, Sparkfuns New Duino

Published on 2011-06-27 16:53:05

I spent today at EYEO Festival in Minneapolis, a really cool interactive conference with an awesome makery twist. One of the seminars was Sparkfun’s introduction of a sweet new Arduino configuration they call the ProtoSnap. The cost was a hilar > read more

Talks and Scenes from Maker Faire: KC

Published on 2011-06-26 16:30:15

Looks like they’ve been having a whiz-bang time at Maker Faire: Kansas City this weekend. It’s so heartening and inspiring to see these smaller, regional Faires coming into their own and really feeling like full-bandwidth Maker Faires. NI > read more

Kanagawa Kinetic Coffee Table

Published on 2011-06-26 09:00:42

I think William “Alex” Mecker’s Kanagawa Coffee Table would make a nice conversation piece in any living room. And at the very least, serves as excellent inspiration for laser cut furniture and mechanics. Inspired by the work of kinetic scu > read more

Find Similar Images from a Site

Published on 2011-06-26 06:41:20

Google Image Search has a nifty feature that was added a couple of months ago, but it’s not so easy to find. If you restrict the results to a site and click “similar” next to one of the images, Google will only show similar images f > read more

Google’s Experimental Black Navigation Bar

Published on 2011-06-26 06:41:16

A while ago, I spotted a black navigation bar in a Google page and wondered if it’s a bug or a new Google experiment. It turns out that it’s yet another experiment. At least three readers of this blog saw the black navigation bar on Googl > read more

Former SONY Enemy #1

Published on 2011-06-25 22:24:23

Former SONY Enemy #1 – Geohot Now Working at Facebook on iPad apps George Hotz, the infamous iPhone hacker, and the victim of a recent Sony lawsuit, now works at Facebook. A member of the Chronic-Dev Team named Joshua Hill (P0sixninja) said thi > read more

Darylls Digital Dominos

Published on 2011-06-25 18:47:48

Check out Daryll Strauss’s Digital Dominos: I revealed the Digital Domino at the CrashSpace booth at MakerFaire this year. It’s a small electronics kit that allows users to line up virtual dominoes and knock them over by pressing a button > read more

Computer Stuff : Spikepak Backpack

Published on 2011-06-25 10:53:35

Large soft leather spiky backpack would make Bowser jealous! Large soft leather spiky backpack would make King Koopa jealous! $49.99 > read more

Geek Kids : iDuck – Bathtub Music

Published on 2011-06-25 10:53:32

Toss out your old rubber ducky with the bathwater. This one plays mp3s! iDuck is here to make bath time more musical! Hell float around and play your wee geeks favorite tunes to distract them while you scrub behind their ears. Totally safe and waterp > read more

Home & Office : Salt and Power Shakers

Published on 2011-06-25 10:53:31

These aren’t D Cell batteries! They’re salt and pepper shakers! Stylish salt and pepper shakers shaped like D Cell Batteries! $11.99 > read more

Computer Stuff : Rubik’s Cube Speaker

Published on 2011-06-25 10:53:25

Looks like a Rubik’s Cube – but it’s a speaker! Rock out with this Rubik’s Cube speaker. Looks like a cube, but sounds like a bunch of music. Powered by USB, so you can rock out at work and at home. $29.99 > read more

Enable Google Toolbar in Firefox 5

Published on 2011-06-25 09:41:02

If you’ve installed Firefox 5 and noticed that Google Toolbar wasn’t updated to support the new Firefox release, there’s a simple way to enable the extension: install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter. “After installing the Ad > read more

YouTube Tests a Black Player

Published on 2011-06-25 09:40:57

A few readers spotted a new YouTube player with a redesigned control bar that uses a black background. The current control bar doesn’t stand out so that you can focus on the video you are watching. A YouTube user says that he “would reall > read more

How to Use Google Music on an iPad or iPhone

Published on 2011-06-25 09:40:54

I mentioned in a previous post that you can use Google Music Beta on an iPad and even on an iPhone or iPod Touch, but some users complained that it didn’t work for them. Google Music loads well, but after clicking the “play” button > read more

Solar Sinter Project: 3D Printing with Sunlight and Sand

Published on 2011-06-25 08:00:29

I’m absolutely amazed by Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter Project, a 3D printer that uses the sun for power and sand as its raw material: In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this p > read more

Gadgets : U-Socket USB Wallplug

Published on 2011-06-22 22:52:26

Add USB sockets to your wall outlet with this awesome kit! Add 2 USB power outlets to your own wall outlets quickly, easily, and safely! $24.99 > read more

Geek Kids : Angry Birds Game

Published on 2011-06-22 22:52:24

Build. Launch. Destroy. Build your pig lairs with structure pieces, then knock them down with your Angry Birds. Game includes three birds, green pigs, slingshot launcher, Jenga-like structure pieces, and mission cards. $23.99 > read more

Geek Kids : Angry Birds Card Game

Published on 2011-06-22 22:52:20

From the makers of UNO… Angry Birds with cards & dice! Be the first person to strategically knock out the object cards with your bird cards. Then shoot the die to topple the golden eggs and win with this quick-play game thats based on the p > read more

Elastic Park Balloon Art Dinosaurs

Published on 2011-06-22 19:00:27

Although I must admit having had my fill of awkward “origami” portmanteaux, there is no denying that balloon artist Larry Moss and his team of talented “Airigami” designers and sculptors are producing some pretty amazing work. > read more

Congrats to SONY

Published on 2011-06-22 17:00:45

Congrats to SONY – Now 50% of the DMCAs on GitHub, a milestone to be proud of for sure. But wait, there’s more! Alexander Egorenkov, known as ‘Graf_Chokolo’ on the internet, was targeting by Sony after hacking the PS3 last yea > read more

Two New Woodworking How-Tos on Make: Projects

Published on 2011-06-22 16:31:40

We’ve just posted two awesome woodworking pieces on Make: Projects by MAKE woodworking guru, Len Cullum. They show you, step by step, how to build a lovely set of low horses (think no-legged saw horses) and how to fix cracks in wood stock with > read more

Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 03: Volkswagens Fun Theory, Best Education / Outreach Program

Published on 2011-06-22 15:29:10

The idea behind Volkswagen’s The Fun Theory program is simple: reward socially useful behaviors by making them into opportunities for play. Or, to quote a great sage, “You find the fun and snap! The job’s a game.” The Fun Theo > read more

Follow up: Real Operation Game

Published on 2011-06-22 14:33:13

It’s “Real Operation”. This project (2001) used a live web interface, built in Macromedia Flash, that allowed the web visitor to play the game “operation” – if you touched the area surrounding the organ you needed > read more

Bob Thompsons Homeschooler Chemistry Set

Published on 2011-06-22 13:05:34

Robert Bruce Thompson, author of Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, has assembled a chemistry set to sell to amateur chemistry buffs and homeschoolers. Because chemistry is widely considered to be the most difficult lab course to do wel > read more

Make A Sketch Draws With Processing

Published on 2011-06-22 10:30:28

Milwaukee, WI, maker Pete Prodoehl’s Make A Sketch uses a Seeduino and prototyping shield to translate the turns of potentiometers into lines on the screen. The Make A Sketch features an Arduino-based controller and a Processing application tha > read more

Google’s New Currency Converter

Published on 2011-06-21 21:39:51

Google updated the OneBox for currency conversion. Until recently, when you searched for [1 usd in eur] or [200 gbp to peso], Google displayed the result and that was it. The new OneBox includes a graph for historical exchange rates and an interactiv > read more

Vancouver Mini Maker Faire

Published on 2011-06-21 19:53:18

Come meet nearly 100 the finest makers the Vancouver, BC area has to offer and see their projects at the first annual Vancouver Mini Maker Faire this Saturday and Sunday 10am-5pm. Hosted by Vancouver Hackspace, we have been fortunate enough to have f > read more

Tool Review: Silhouette Electronic Cutter

Published on 2011-06-21 17:00:08

I recently got my hands on a Silhouette SD electronic cutter. It’s a little computer-controlled craft robot with very sharp teeth! Use it to cut out designs for all sorts of things: paper crafts and scrapbooking, vinyl lettering, glass and meta > read more

Home & Office : Tyvek Wallets

Published on 2011-06-21 16:51:56

New styles! Star Trek, Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern!! Lugging your colorful bits of remuneration around shouldn’t be done in the same old dull way. Let ThinkGeek show you a nearly indestructible way to carry your money and show off your > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Lucky Kitty Babydoll

Published on 2011-06-21 16:51:55

Maneki neko says “ohai!” Seeing a lucky cat upon entering an establishment makes us feel warm and fuzzy. Of course, we could be saying that because it’s often a restaurant we see them in and while we’re writing this we’r > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : I like you less IRL.

Published on 2011-06-21 16:51:53

Real life is overrated. You know, when you send me stupid email and IMs, I get to keep my facial expressions private. When you show up and say that stupid thing to me in person, you get said face realtime. Neither of us will be happy. So maybe you sh > read more

Books : Minifigure Customization

Published on 2011-06-21 16:51:51

The best book on customizing Minifigures ever! Sure LEGO has a lot of cool Minifigures. But why not make some of your own? This is THE guide to changing hair color, casting your own special pieces, and making the folks in your world exactly as you wa > read more

Geek Toys : DIY Stretchy Band Design Kit

Published on 2011-06-21 16:51:49

Create your own rubber band shapes and things. Rubber bands are fun. And now they come in all shapes and sizes. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could make your own? Now you can. But you probably were expecting that sort of answer from us. $9.99 > read more

Geek Kids : Toddler Rocket Stomp Launcher

Published on 2011-06-21 16:51:48

The best way to turn a temper tantrum into a fun afternoon Stomp your way to space with the Toddler Stomp Launcher. Simply put the base on the floor, dock the squishy rocket to the base, then stomp with all your might on the red bubble. The harder yo > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : The Guild of Calamitous Intent

Published on 2011-06-21 16:51:46

First-rate professional menace to all who qualify. When today’s superheroes apply for licensed aggression, they expect the best, and that’s just what we give them. The Guild of Calamitous Intent has provided quality arch services and orga > read more

Faceted Navigation Design Showcase

Published on 2011-06-21 02:56:02

I’ve been working on improving the faceted navigation interface for one of the websites I manage. Much has been written about faceted navigation (also known as faceted search, faceted browsing, or guided navigation) as a design pattern, which I > read more

What Is Search Engine Optimization – SEO?

Published on 2011-06-21 02:17:34

By. Jonathan Hook SEO or search engine optimization is a technique of taking the most appropriate targeted keyword phrases associated your web site and ensuring that this ranks your web site highly in search engines so that when somebody looks for pa > read more

A New Perspective On Link Building

Published on 2011-06-21 01:52:56

Posted by Dan Deceuster This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, > read more

Building Faceted Navigation That Doesn’t Suck

Published on 2011-06-21 01:52:49

Posted by MikeCP Back in February I wrote a post here on SEOmoz called "Tips and Must-Haves for your eCommerce Platform". One of the essentials I mentioned was faceted navigation that doesn’t suck. The fact is, a good faceted navigation > read more

Bob Pease

Published on 2011-06-21 00:58:49

Sad news, Bob Pease died yesterday - Bob Pease (Robert A. Pease) was an analog integrated circuit design expert and technical author. He has designed several very successful integrated circuits, many of them in continuous production for multiple deca > read more

What Will Happen if You Use the Microsoft Kinect SDK

Published on 2011-06-21 00:58:47

I am totally 100% serious right now. Really. [Thanks, Rory Box!] Video link. > read more

In the Maker Shed: Motion-Sensitive Camera Trap Parts Kit

Published on 2011-06-21 00:58:46

The Motion-Sensitive Camera Trap Parts Kit from the Maker Shed allows you add new abilities to your IR remote ready digital camera. Use the motion sensitive mode to take stunning wildlife shots or catch a bad guy. Then flip a switch to take time laps > read more

Soft-Circuit GPS Helps You Find Home

Published on 2011-06-21 00:58:41

The find home detector is a device to show me the way home by indicating the direction with a light. It uses a LilyPad, GPS, compass and some LEDs. Using the GPS to get a position and then calculate the direction to the location of my home. The compa > read more

Ultra Simple 360-degree Photo Hack

Published on 2011-06-21 00:58:39

Photographing a spherical reflector and post-processing the image to produce a one-shot panorama is not a new idea; what’s really cool about Ryan Burnside’s recent project is how cheap and accessible he’s made the process. Besides t > read more

Turn a Computer Power Supply Into a Desktop Power Supply

Published on 2011-06-20 20:31:57

Phil Levchenko shot this tutorial showing how to turn an ATX power supply into a DPS. Small tutorial on Computer ATX Power Supplies. How to use them, how to connect them in series, in parallel. What is 12V rails? Is it possible to connect 12V rails t > read more

Favorite Kid-Dad Project Videos

Published on 2011-06-19 15:30:55

If you’re looking to start a fun project with dad, here’s a round-up of kid-friendly projects videos, put together by MAKE Managing Editor Keith Hammond. Thanks, Keith! Compressed Air Rockets I’d hazard it’s the single most po > read more

Adventures in Android ADK Development: Hardware

Published on 2011-06-19 14:30:39

At this point in my I installed a system update to bring the phone up to snuff, specifically to OS version 2.3.4 (Gingerbread). The ADK and USB host functionality requires 2.3.4 or later. Using the steps in this guide, I set up the phone for developm > read more

Tips My Dad Says Downloadable Card

Published on 2011-06-19 12:00:12

Here’s a downloadable card we put together of some of the best content from our > read more

Tips My Dad Says (Happy Fathers Day to All of the MAKE Pops)

Published on 2011-06-19 10:30:11

Earlier in the week, We’ve divided some of the best tips we collected into categories: General Tips (2), General Tips (Practical) (3), Repair and Maintenance (4), and Tool Tips (5). Click on the numbers below to view the categories. And do read > read more

How-To: Cinemagraphs

Published on 2011-06-19 08:00:49

While animated GIFs have been around for a while, they’ve recently been adopted by photographers to add small amounts of looping motion to otherwise still images. It’s no wonder they’ve been seen all over the web lately, as the resu > read more

Google’s Gay Rainbow

Published on 2011-06-19 06:39:20

It’s not the first June when Google changes the search results interface when you search for [gay] and other related terms. While in 2009 and 2010 Google added a colorful bar below the search box, this year there’s a rainbow next to the s > read more

Google Docs Tests Offline Support, Powered by HTML5

Published on 2011-06-19 06:39:18

Google Docs team promised to bring back offline support this summer, but some traces of the new offline interface are already available. “I logged into Docs today and saw this! It’s not yet functional, but an exciting sign! The code is be > read more

Chromification of the Operating System

Published on 2011-06-19 06:39:15

Three years ago, when Google launched Chrome many people wondered if it will be successful. Chrome became a very popular browser, with more than 160 million active users, but its most important achievement was accelerating the development of all the > read more

Google Could Add Face Recognition to Google Profiles

Published on 2011-06-19 06:39:14

Florian Rohrweck found a lot of interesting things analyzing Google’s code. For example, Google Profiles will add an option that will allow Google to recognize your face in other people’s photos. Picasa Web’s name tags can become gl > read more

Google Tests a New Interface

Published on 2011-06-19 06:39:12

Another day, another Google experiment. This time, Google tests a new search button inspired by Bing and removes the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button from the homepage, probably because it’s no longer useful. Google Instant makes th > read more

Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 02: PanaVise, Most Repair-Friendly

Published on 2011-06-18 16:28:50

Back in June, 2010, Within two days, the president of PanaVise appeared in the post’s comments: Here’s the deal. Go to PanaVise.com. Look for the link at the top titled contact. Select my name, Gary Richter, President. Tell me the following: > read more

Leatherbound Book Works binary book of Genesis at Mini Maker Faire NC

Published on 2011-06-18 16:00:55

When I asked Michael Greer of Leatherbound Book Works if he only did books in atoms (as opposed to books made of bits, he said that he does, in fact, have a book he’s working on in binary form. However, the leatherbound Book of Genesis (the fir > read more

Dad Greets the Bus Each Morning in Costume

Published on 2011-06-18 14:30:27

This silly business makes me really happy and is a great way to celebrate the dads who go out of their way to have fun with their kids, make a creative environment for them, and demonstrate that you don’t always have to paint inside the lines. > read more

50 Useful And Free HTML Newsletter Templates

Published on 2011-06-18 13:52:37

In email marketing, the design and layout of your newsletter plays an imperative role in the success of your marketing campaign. The design of your email newsletter can greatly determine how your campaign would attract the attention of your target ma > read more

Scaling Link Building – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-06-18 13:52:34

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �Link building can be the most tedious and time-consuming task of SEO. At least, that’s how a lot of people feel about it. Ever want to know how to scale link building to avoid the pitfalls of wasted time and effort > read more

Diamond Engraving Tool for Eggbot

Published on 2011-06-18 02:55:34

Our friends Lenore and Windell created an attachment to engrave glass, stone, and ceramic with an Eggbot. The engraving tip itself is a small single-point industrial diamond, mounted on a thin steel shaft, in a fixture that holds it where the pen wou > read more

Geek Toys : Dead Space Action Figures

Published on 2011-06-17 22:51:21

Highly detailed and articulated figures from the sci-fi/horror shooter Dead Space 2 You may be full of bad ideas, but picking up these figures is not one of them. Isaac Clarke and Necromorph are fully detailed with multiple points of articulation. LE > read more

Home & Office : Aikiou Cat Stimulo Feeding Station

Published on 2011-06-17 22:51:21

Make Kitteh work for his kibble! Hide the bits of kibble in the bowls many tubes. When Kitteh wants food, all he needs to do is reach into the tubes with his paw and fish it out. Its like the hunting and foraging that his ancestors did… but wit > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Cthulhu Slippers

Published on 2011-06-17 22:51:19

Slide your feet into an Elder God today. Cthulhu may be in an eternal slumber, but you need something to protect your feet when you emerge from yours. $29.99 > read more

Computer Stuff : Razer Nostromo Gaming Keypad

Published on 2011-06-17 22:51:19

The ultimate gaming keypad, as easy to use as it is deadly. The Razer Nostromos all-new configurator software is as easy to use as it is deadly, allowing you to conveniently customize all the buttons with any game command or key binding to open up a > read more

Sony Thinks Rube Goldberg Machine Will Help Sell New Tablet

Published on 2011-06-17 17:00:38

Above is Sony’s teaser video for their giant-looking tablets. Sony, the company that And a tablet? Ask Samsung and RIM how their “tablet” sales are doing. Besides, we all know it’s going to have some weird proprietary memory s > read more

Ziploc Vacuum Bags for Sous Vide at Home

Published on 2011-06-17 16:35:10

Seattle Food Geek Scott Heimendinger (author of the DIY Sous Vide article from MAKE 25) wrote up a nice comparison of the very inexpensive $4.20 Ziploc Vacuum System vs. the $150 FoodSaver for cooking sous vide. Spoiler alert: They compare favorably, > read more

Google’s Lists of Related Searches

Published on 2011-06-17 12:38:51

Google started to show a new universal search result with related queries. If you search for the name of a category, Google will list some of the most popular members of that category. For example, you can search for [German cars], [rock bands], [Ind > read more

Make: Live Episode 11: Photo and Video (preview video)

Published on 2011-06-17 12:00:57

Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep11 is all about photography and video. We’ll be giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how we put together Make: Live and Matt Griffin from MakerBot wi > read more

The Arrogance of Artists (and Publishers)

Published on 2011-06-17 11:42:43

You wouldn’t expect much else from a meeting organised by WIPO, but this is pretty rich even for them: Copyright is necessary to allow authors to live from their trade and to guarantee their independence, and exceptions should be decided by aut > read more

Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics

Published on 2011-06-16 22:54:12

Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics @ WIRED Magazine… For 25 years, the field of robotics has been bedeviled by a fundamental problem: If a robot is to move through the world, it needs to be able to create a map of its environmen > read more

Why we unplugged our expensive PBX system & bought a $15 answering machine.

Published on 2011-06-16 22:50:49

I’m sure some people out there might be amazed to learn that the JVM office isn’t VoIP, our number doesn’t ring to our iPhones, and we did indeed unplug the expensive PBX system we had and turn back the clock with a $15 answering ma > read more

Home-Built Funicular (Motorized People-Mover) on Make: Projects

Published on 2011-06-16 20:00:04

Make: Projects community member Jeff Johnson is putting the fun back in funicular with his awesome people/firewood/beer-moving tram built to get from their family lake house down to the dock 147 feet below. Looking for a big summer project? Jeff shar > read more

NASA Make: Challenge 2011 Winners

Published on 2011-06-16 19:30:54

Houston, we have a … winner! This spring we teamed up with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, and Teachers in Space to pose the NASA Make: Challenge, a do-it-yourself technology and education space competition that > read more

Geek Toys : Portal 2 Interactive Gels

Published on 2011-06-16 16:51:10

Straight from Aperture Science!! Straight from Aperture Science come these sample packs of Interactive Gels. They have crazy properties and are a fun collectible from one of your favorite games. We know it is. So there. $14.99 – $39.99 > read more

Electronics : iMSO-104 iPad Oscilloscope

Published on 2011-06-16 16:51:06

The first mixed signal oscilloscope designed specifically for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad The first mixed signal oscilloscope designed specifically for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Intuitive hand gestures are used to navigate, set trigger l > read more

Geek Toys : Chibithulhu Plush

Published on 2011-06-16 16:51:03

Cute. Cuddly. Sanity-blasting. Spawned by artist John Kovalic and the game Munchkin Cthulhu, the Chibithulhu is the evillest, cutest plush in the universe. Beware, though. Chibithulhu demands offerings and sacrifices. $19.99 > read more

Geek Dads Guide to Weekend Fun

Published on 2011-06-16 16:00:44

In anticipation of Father’s Day (this weekend!) we’re offering this review of Geek Dad’s Guide to Weekend Fun. We think the book is, well, fun, and we think you’ll agree. And as an added bonus, we’re giving MAKE readers > read more

Microsoft Says Using Open Source Kinect Drivers Voids Warranty

Published on 2011-06-16 15:45:54

So close, but so far I know that other drivers and development software for Kinect are available on the Web. Can I use the Kinect sensor device with these other drivers or software instead of the SDK Beta? No. Use of the Kinect sensor device is subje > read more

How Plastic Bottles Are Recycled (video)

Published on 2011-06-16 14:30:49

Wow! This video lives up to that classic “How it’s Made” episode about Styrofoam, except this one reduces contributions to landfills. Look inside the Ecostar recycling facility in Wisconsin to see how plastic bottles are recycled. [ > read more

6 Extreme Canonical Tricks

Published on 2011-06-16 01:51:58

Posted by Dr. Pete After I wrote about my intentional experiment in catastrophic canonicalization last year, I started getting a lot of questions about other uses (and abuses) of the canonical tag. In many cases, I couldn’t find much data out i > read more

Presenting the #MozCon 2011 Agenda

Published on 2011-06-16 01:51:57

Posted by jennita Over the past couple months, we’ve had lots of people asking about the full agenda for MozCon. Well my friends, I’m super excited to announce that the agenda is complete! As Rand mentioned in his initial post, we have a > read more

5 Warning Signs of a Bad SEO Client

Published on 2011-06-16 01:51:55

Posted by jsturgeon This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc > read more

Make Facebook Comments Box Indexable by Search Engines

Published on 2011-06-16 01:51:50

Posted by Roy Peleg This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc > read more

Google Tests New Search Snippets UIs

Published on 2011-06-15 18:38:36

Google continues to test various changes to the search interface. A recent experiment places URLs above the snippets, decreases text size for the snippets and moves the links to the cached pages and similar pages to the Instant Preview box. ThereR > read more

My Maps Becomes My Places

Published on 2011-06-15 18:38:34

Google Maps updated the “My Maps” section, which now includes the places you’ve starred and rated. Mapplets are no longer available and custom maps aren’t popular enough to have their own section, so “My Maps” beca > read more

Google Instant for Image Search

Published on 2011-06-15 18:38:29

Google Instant is now available for image search results, but only as an experimental feature. After you enable “Instant on Images”, Google will start to autocomplete your queries and show image results before you finish entering the quer > read more

Androidcontrollerism: Hardware Options on Android, in Detail; Android Player Piano

Published on 2011-06-15 17:00:54

Androidcontrollerism: Hardware Options on Android, in Detail; Android Player Piano… Peter writes - Adding hardware to tablets, as it has with decades of computing technology, can open up new worlds for software and music. It can animate a conve > read more

iCufflinks

Published on 2011-06-15 17:00:32

Just in time for Father’s Day, make Dad’s sleeves glow with light up power button cufflinks: Sophisticated. Modern. Open Source. Gorgeously machined aluminum with a subtle pulsating LED. Perfect for Father’s day or for that geek who > read more

Getting Dad Started with Arduino

Published on 2011-06-15 16:30:18

Father’s Day 2011 is just up ahead and I’m sure that a large percentage of us have waited until the last minute to get dad a nice little something. If you have one of those dads who patiently taught you how to repair your car, rip plywood > read more

Flat Pack Spider Milled from Aluminum Plate

Published on 2011-06-15 04:52:02

Executed by vrogy, from Thingiverse user dino-girl’s “spiderasaur” plans. We have featured vrogy’s work many times beofre; check the links below for some of my personal faves. More: > read more

Google Adds Voice Search, Visual Search and Results Prerendering

Published on 2011-06-14 21:38:12

Two of the most important Google mobile services: voice search and visual search will now be available from your computer. Voice search, a feature that’s built into Android, also works in Google Chrome and allows you to search using your voice. > read more

Does Google Use Facebook Shares to Influence Search Rankings?

Published on 2011-06-14 19:51:40

Posted by Matt Peters Intro from Rand - this post comes from Dr. Matt Peters, SEOmoz’s data scientist. He came on board in February of this year after stints at Harvard (working on climate science models), Washington Mutual, JP Morgan and Fanni > read more

Why Clients Have the Same Issues/Questions – It’s Not About SEO… But About the People!

Published on 2011-06-14 19:51:37

Posted by aleyda This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I > read more

Hackerspace Happenings: Road Show & Two Hands Project News

Published on 2011-06-14 19:30:51

Make: Live — Hackerspace Roadshow Make: Live featured four spaces in its last show, including the Hack Factory, i3detroit, Milwaukee Makerspace, as well as Noisebridge. Love seeing all those projects — and very impressive spaces, guys! Tw > read more

Awwwards Latest Digital Book Giveaway

Published on 2011-06-14 19:05:13

Awwwards is running a contest, where 50 winners will get the free digital copy of Awwwards latest book. Well, you guys know what they are doing? Lets say it once again for n00bs. The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the Internet, which > read more

Toolbox Review: iMSO-104 Oscilloscope for iPad & iPhone

Published on 2011-06-14 18:30:48

Oscium’s iMSO-104 hardware offers to turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a 12MSPS digital oscilloscope with an analog bandwidth of 5MHz. For folks like me with limited desk space & shifting work environments, that’s an interesting > read more

Interview with Food Sculptor Ray Villafane

Published on 2011-06-14 16:30:51

Before we completely close out our Food theme, we wanted to highlight the amazing food art of Ray Villafane. We posted about Ray’s Starting off his career as a grade school art teacher, Ray eventually entered the world of professional sculpting > read more

Digi-Comp II by EMSL (video)

Published on 2011-06-14 12:20:44

Wow, check out the video tour of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories’ functional recreation of the classic educational binary computer Digi-Comp II. Several weeks ago, we talked about bringing our giant Digi-Comp II to Maker Faire. But now we’ > read more

Five Great Websites To Download High-Quality Design Freebies

Published on 2011-06-14 11:15:50

There are many websites out there for us for design freebies, but getting by good ones and free is not that easy. That is why I am sharingFive Great Websites To Download High-Quality Design Freebies. Read each entry in the list and see which one suit > read more

ISS Lamp Glows When Space Station is Overhead

Published on 2011-06-12 08:00:33

Nathan Bergey’s ISS Lamp notifies him when the International Space Station is in transit over his location. It acts as a reminder of the wonder of what’s being accomplished by humans in orbit around Earth: The International Space Station > read more

YouTube’s Pages for Blogs, Now Available

Published on 2011-06-12 06:37:30

The YouTube feature I mentioned a few days ago is publicly available: YouTube automatically generates pages that list the most recent videos embedded in a blog. “By crawling web feeds of sites that have embedded videos, we’ve built dedica > read more

Google Experiments with Removing URLs from Search Results Listings

Published on 2011-06-12 06:36:57

Google tests a new feature that replaces the URL with the site’s name in search results snippets. David, who noticed this change, says that he searched for [madvertise] and “most of the results looked normal, with the website title, snipp > read more

Geek Kids : Brush with Genius

Published on 2011-06-11 16:45:16

You a child of the 80s with young children of your own? You want one of these. This watercolor paintbrush sings when you dip it in watercolors and brush it on paper. (You can also close the circuit with your finger!) If you miss Bill Cosby and Pictur > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : nom nom nom Bunny Babydoll

Published on 2011-06-11 16:45:15

Yoink! The cookies may be okay, but the carrot cake is definitely not safe. Imagine a bunny trying to cart that away. *little cream cheese frosting rabbit tracks across the kitchen* $21.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Domo Rawr Wars Copilot

Published on 2011-06-11 16:45:14

Always let the fuzzy brown guy win. Every time you watch the prequels, the Empire kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens. $17.99 – $18.99 > read more

Books : Zombie High Yearbook ’64

Published on 2011-06-11 16:45:11

Fond memories from 1964 – for all you zombies, that is. The 1960s were a crazy time. Imagine how much more crazier they would be if you were a zombie? Take a stroll through memory lane with the yearbook from 1964 – from Zombie High! $13.9 > read more

Gadgets : sugru Hacking Putty

Published on 2011-06-11 16:45:11

Hack, fix, and customize anything with this innovative and awesome putty! sugru is awesome. It hardens in about 24 hours, it’s waterproof, it’s slightly flexible. In a word, it’s abso-friggin’-lutely amazing and you need some > read more

Geek Kids : Pat the Zombie

Published on 2011-06-11 16:45:09

A classic childrens tale turned delightfully macabre Remember the delightful tale of Pat the Bunny? Soft bunny fur, daddys scratchy face, Mommys wedding ring? Its exactly like that, except with blood, gore, and decaying flesh. $11.99 > read more

Geek Kids : Let’s Panic About Babies!

Published on 2011-06-11 16:45:08

Pregnancy & baby-rearing was never this hilarious Want to be the hero of the baby shower? Give this book to the mom-to-be. Its a hilarious compilation of essays, questions, and answers about pregnancy and child-rearing. Youll laugh until you cry, > read more

SMX Advanced: Andy Atkins-Kruger Talks International SEO and Yandex – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-06-11 01:43:09

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �When most of us talk about SEO, the search engines we implicitly refer to are Google and Bing/Yahoo, but that’s about it. Do you know which of these search engines is most popular in Russia? Neither! The largest se > read more

Printable Analog Sine/Cosine Calculating Machine

Published on 2011-06-10 19:00:45

Thingiverse user lalbritton created this Ideal Harmonic Transformer: Was “Analog Sine/Cosine Calculating Machine”, but then I found the actual name for this device, which I really like. It is a thing to hold, enjoy turning the crank, and > read more

News From The Future: Genetically Altered Cows Produce Human Milk

Published on 2011-06-10 17:00:02

News From The Future: Genetically Altered Cows Produce Human Milk The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk. Human milk contains high quantities of key nu > read more

Interns Corner: Make Labs Tour

Published on 2011-06-10 16:41:22

From left to right: Eric Chu, Brian Melani, Tyler Moskowite, Nick Raymond By Nick Raymond, engineering intern Photos by Gregory Hayes, photo intern For this Intern’s Corner post, we (the MAKE interns) are going to give you a tour of our awesome new > read more

Pittsburgh Museum MakeShop: Its Working

Published on 2011-06-10 12:45:02

In April, I visited the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and met with Executive Director Jane Werner and her staff. They were excited to show me their MakeShop, a place inside the museum where anyone can make something. Jane told me that the mus > read more

Harvards $14 Swarm-bot Design

Published on 2011-06-10 11:10:55

If you’re interested in studying real-world robot swarms, the unit cost is everything. Reportedly, most commercial swarm bots cost $100 or more, so this innovative design from Michael Rubenstein, Nicholas Hoff, and Radhika Nagpal of the Harvard > read more

New in the Maker Shed: Red Blinky Grid

Published on 2011-06-10 10:00:51

The Red Blinky Grid, as seen on Wednesday night’s episode of Make: Live, is now available in the Maker Shed. The Red Blinky Grid is matrix of 56 LEDs that can display text and animations in a variety of ways. To program the Red Blinky Grid simp > read more

Lego Orrery

Published on 2011-06-10 09:00:50

MAKE blog regular Guy Himber built this orrery for an online Lego competition… so sweet. I always wanted to build something like this ever since I saw a giant fantasy orrery in the movie Dark Crystal. As it has been on my builder’s ‘wis > read more

Garden Pool in MAKE Volume 26

Published on 2011-06-10 09:00:07

Dennis and Danielle McClung bought a foreclosed home in Mesa, Ariz. Rather than filling it with water or concrete, they turned it into greenhouse which they call Garden Pool. Read all about this and many other inspiring human creations in the handsom > read more

RepRap Family Tree

Published on 2011-06-10 08:08:16

Of interest to desktop industrialists and infographics connoisseurs alike, this visual history of RepRap forks from Thingiverse user watsdesign. More details are available on the RepRap wiki, and, naturally, a poster is for sale. > read more

Dancing Android ADK Robot Tablet Interface

Published on 2011-06-09 22:44:12

I’m crazy about this demo of direct servo control using an Android tablet and the Arduino-based ADK. Youtuber chrisjrelliot says “Build instructions are in progress and the code will be open-sourced shortly.” This is just the sor > read more

Etched-PCB Doctor Who Artwork

Published on 2011-06-09 22:44:10

Love George Hadley’s etched PCB art influenced by the awe-inspiring British science fiction show Doctor Who: The main good time-traveling race in the show is called the Time Lords that live on the planet Gallifrey. The Gallifreyan artwork used > read more

10 Projects to Make with Dad for Kids 10 and Under

Published on 2011-06-09 20:00:44

Nothing says love like quality time spent making together. This year for Fathers Day, why not find a cool project that you and your Dad can make together? Here are 10 project ideas for kids 10 and under. Next week, we’ll have another roundup fo > read more

SMX Advanced: Duane Forrester from Bing Talks Social, Schema Markup, and Honey Badger – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-06-09 19:42:59

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �This week, SMX Advanced has taken over Seattle – and we’ve managed to get a piece of the action! That’s right – we’ve got Duane Forrester, the Senior Project Manager of Bing’s Webmaste > read more

Early Launch of SERPs Analysis Tool + June Linkscape Update

Published on 2011-06-09 19:42:57

Posted by randfish If you’re anything like me, you spend several hours each month (maybe more often) preparing elaborate worksheets of ranking analyses to help uncover why a particular site/page is outranking another and what it will take to re > read more

Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 01: Microsoft Kinect, Most Hackable Gadget

Published on 2011-06-09 18:00:34

It is my great pleasure to kick off the first ever MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Award season with a nomination that will probably raise a few eyebrows. We nominate Microsoft Corporation, for their gestural and natural-language video game controller, > read more

Lemelson-MIT Programs Fifth Annual EurekaFest (June 16-18)

Published on 2011-06-09 16:30:24

The Lemelson-MIT Program’s fifth annual EurekaFest is taking place Thursday, June 16 through Saturday, June 18 in Boston, MA. This three day event will bring together innovators of all ages, including 14 teams of high school-age inventors. The aim > read more

The Alkali Metal Series, Reacting with Air and Water

Published on 2011-06-09 15:10:38

If I understand the annotations on this, YouTuber ironnica’s only posted video, correctly, the footage was produced by a New Jersey educational media company in 1991, and the delightfully British narration more recently by somebody associated w > read more

Skateboarding With Six Cameras Attached To Your Body

Published on 2011-06-09 14:30:14

Extremities is a short skateboard video that shows skater Aryeh Kraus with 6 tiny go pro cameras attached to his body and 3 more cameras filming from afar. One of the cameras is below the skate deck! You get to watch all of the skating from several p > read more

Make: Live 6/08/11 Hackerspace Roadshow (video)

Published on 2011-06-09 12:44:47

Make: Live episode 10 is our first Hackerspace Roadshow! Thanks to our guests from Twin Cities Maker, Milwaukee Makerspace, i3Detroit, and Noisebridge. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : One Does Not Simply Telnet into Mordor

Published on 2011-06-09 04:44:26

Yes, it’s old. It still makes us laugh. Actually, we suspect there are a bunch of MUDs out there that would disagree with this statement. For instance, we initially thought we weren’t going to be able to simply Telnet into mordormud.net, > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : I Like Big Bots

Published on 2011-06-09 04:44:25

Baby got backup. Large, metal backup. We apologize in advance for the puns you are about to receive. Hopefully the illustration to the left makes it worth it. If you like robots (and we’re not sure why you’re here if you don’t), be > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Waffle Good Babydoll

Published on 2011-06-09 04:44:22

Bear claw, bear claw, bite. Certain foods just fall in to alignments. Pancakes and waffles? Good, obviously. But while waffles are lawful good, pancakes are chaotic good. The syrup goes all over the place and there’s the dreaded butter well. Wa > read more

Computer Stuff : Bluetooth Keyboard Case for iPad

Published on 2011-06-09 04:44:19

iPad 2 version now available! Why yes, this lovely iPad case with an integrated Bluetooth keyboard does transform your iPad into ghetto netbook, a netbook with 3G (maybe) and a multi-touch screen! $59.99 > read more

Using the Android Open Accessory API without a Nexus

Published on 2011-06-08 18:42:59

Technically, the On June 5th, 2011, about 40 people (or more) gathered at Noisebridge to put our collective heads together to get our Android phones going with Arduino. … I have a new (8 day old) T-Mobile G2 phone (also known as HTC Vision). It > read more

Jeris Motion-Detecting LED Dress

Published on 2011-06-08 17:31:56

I love how Jeri Ellsworth almost always shows up at events with an impressive hack, from the infamous NES Purse, to the “Brain Bulb” she wore at Maker Faire Bay Area, to this glorious geek sartorial, the Barbot LED Dress. She wore this to > read more

News From The Future: Augment Reality Stamps

Published on 2011-06-08 17:01:23

The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and TNT Post present the first stamps in the world with augmented reality. The stamps show five futuristic buildings designed by famous Dutch architects. When put in front of a webcam, these buildings will > read more

MAKE Dad Something That Rocks

Published on 2011-06-08 15:21:34

Never mind “special.” Dad doesn’t want something “special” for Father’s Day: He wants something awesome. Something that he can use. And if you made it yourself, it will remind him how unexpectedly competent his kid > read more

8 Methods + Lots of Tools for Getting to Know Your Audience

Published on 2011-06-08 13:42:44

Posted by Laura Lippay Music to enjoy while reading this post:�We Know Something You Don’t Know by DJ Format &�Jurassic 5 You provide something specific: That might be a product, a service, a trustworthy source of information, a c > read more

3D Printed Bikini

Published on 2011-06-08 12:00:49

These ladies have got it: combine form and function in one 3D file, and print out an entire bathing suit! It’s made from flexible nylon12 cured with an SLS process. I love hearing ladies talk about circle-fill algorithms. If you do too, donR > read more

Solar Cellphone

Published on 2011-06-08 04:30:28

Modern solar and battery technologies will soon make it into our everyday gadgets. Until then, you’ll have to hack together something akin to Paulie1982′s solar powered cellphone. [via hackaday] > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : DIAF Babydoll

Published on 2011-06-07 22:44:07

Now with a helpful instructional diagram! Much as we wish idiots would DIAF, it’s not likely. According to the National Safety Council, the lifetime odds for someone in the U.S. of dying in a fire (exposure to smoke, fire, and flames) are 1:117 > read more

Gadgets : Atom Watch

Published on 2011-06-07 22:44:07

The building block of matter, now available in swanky wristwatch form The three-dimensional design represents each component of the atom; the nucleus of protons and neutrons, the orbiting electrons, the trajectory path of the orbiting electrons. The > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Beetlejuice Venn Diagram

Published on 2011-06-07 22:44:07

Say it with us three times fast. While we have you here, we’ll say that we’re sad that Betelgeuse (the star, aka Alpha Orionis) is / was / will have be sometime in the past future going supernova. Okay. Now on to the shirt that has the sa > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : DIAF

Published on 2011-06-07 22:43:59

This solves that pesky problem of annoying people not being on fire. Much as we wish idiots would DIAF, it’s not likely. According to the National Safety Council, the lifetime odds for someone in the U.S. of dying in a fire (exposure to smoke, > read more

Chrome Shifts Into a New Gear

Published on 2011-06-07 21:35:41

Chrome 12 is now available in the stable channel and all the Chrome users can try the new features. 1. App search in the address bar. 2. Clear Flash cookies (or Local Shared Objects) using the “Clear browsing data” dialog, instead of visi > read more

Google Discontinues Its First Specialized Search Engines

Published on 2011-06-07 21:35:40

They’re no longer popular, but they’re the first specialized search engines offered by Google, long before Image Search, Google News or Blog Search. Some people might remember Google Linux, Google BSD, Google Mac, Google Microsoft, the se > read more

Checkboxes are Back in Google Docs

Published on 2011-06-07 21:35:39

Google Docs tried to get rid of checkboxes in the new UI, but users complained and the feature is now back by popular demand. “This is actually a hybrid of checkboxes and the more recent selection model. So you can use checkboxes, but you can a > read more

Better Embedding Code for Google +1 Buttons

Published on 2011-06-07 21:35:38

Google wants to see a +1 button on each Web page, but many people hate embedding widgets and buttons because they clutter pages and add hundreds of milliseconds to the page loading time. Google is obsessed with speed and performance, but it didn̵ > read more

Bre Pettis on Colbert Report Tomorrow Night (Wed)

Published on 2011-06-07 18:16:02

Bre Pettis, former MAKE video star and co-founder of MakerBot Industries, will be the Colbert Report tomorrow night, Wednesday, 6/8, at 11:30pm. Make it a deep geek night. Watch Make: Live and then see Bre on Colbert. I hope Bre’s head doesn > read more

New Edition of the Ranking Factors for 2011 is Now Live!

Published on 2011-06-07 07:40:47

Posted by randfish Since 2005, SEOmoz has released a new version of the Search Ranking Factors survey�every two years, a piece of content that many in the SEO world have used and referenced. This year, we’ve continued that tradition and ad > read more

Showing Off Aluminums Natural Reactivity via Gallium Alloy

Published on 2011-06-07 00:39:03

Very interesting vid from 18-year-old Hayden Parker, who impressed me greatly with his animated chemistry demonstrations at Maker Faire. Metallic aluminum can be dissolved in liquid gallium to create an aluminum-bearing alloy that is liquid at ambien > read more

Excellent MicroRAX/Linxmotion Robot Legs

Published on 2011-06-06 19:44:54

Lynxmotion.net forum member ohbowz of Los Angeles built these beauteous limbs by combing two different building sets. Sweet! I made this biped with the intention of building a full body. I merged MicroRax parts with the lynxmotion parts, a little bit > read more

Open Hardware Summit 2011

Published on 2011-06-06 17:00:45

The Open Hardware Summit is now accepting submissions for proposed talks, breakout sessions and demos. The deadline is June 24th, 2011. Ayah writes: The Open Hardware Summit (OHS) invites submissions for the second annual summit, to be held on Septem > read more

Gadgets : WeWood Chrono Watch

Published on 2011-06-06 16:43:28

Save the planet with this 100% natural wood watch The WeWood Chrono Watch is made of 100% natural wood, saved from scraps from the flooring industry that would otherwise be destroyed. Saved from the fires! The watch features a wood case, bracelet, an > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : n00b Creeper

Published on 2011-06-06 16:43:26

Totally pwn3d! Much as we hate to admit it, each of us was a n00b at one point in time. Although we like to think we were hatched from the helm of Master Chief fully formed…. $12.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : I [Heart] New New York Babydoll

Published on 2011-06-06 16:43:24

In a New New York nanosecond. We had requests for I [Heart] New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York shirts after that episode of Doctor Who, which we can’t make for a variety of complicated reasons. But it spawned t > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : I [Heart] New New York

Published on 2011-06-06 16:43:18

This big apple has been genetically enhanced for maximum enjoyment. We had requests for I [Heart] New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York shirts after that episode of Doctor Who, which we can’t make for a variety of > read more

Happy Fathers Day from MAKE, a Gift Guide for Dad

Published on 2011-06-06 15:30:41

Father’s day is Sunday, June 19, 2011. Started by Sonora Dodd to honor her father who raised five children alone after the Civil War, President Coolidge supported the idea, Lyndon signed a proclamation, and in 1972 it was official. Dad deserves > read more

Math Monday: Cardboard Catenary Arches

Published on 2011-06-06 14:00:45

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The shape of a hanging chain is called a catenary curve.� Each link settles in to an equilibrium angle relative to its neighbors, so if you turn everything over, those angles give a plan for blocks wh > read more

Google’s IPv6 Test

Published on 2011-06-06 03:35:23

As promised in January, Google will test IPv6 on June 8. IPv6 is the new version of the Internet Protocol which allows a lot more devices to connect to the Internet. “Google has been supporting IPv6 since early 2008, when we first began offerin > read more

YouTube’s Pages for Blogs

Published on 2011-06-06 03:35:20

Philippe Lagane spotted a new YouTube feature: a special page that lists the most recent videos embedded by a blog. The page includes short snippets from the blog posts and allows you to play all the videos and add them to a playlist. A Google search > read more

8 Tips for Blogger Outreach

Published on 2011-06-06 01:40:27

Posted by robmillard Hi there SEOmoz readers – I’m Rob and I work at Distilled as an SEO Consultant. Blogger outreach is a topic I’ve spoken about recently at SMX London and I wanted to share some of the tips with you here on the SE > read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of Web Hosting Accounts With Unlimited Resources From Zyma

Published on 2011-06-05 17:39:03

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Web Hosting Accounts With Unlimited Resources from Zyma were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these 15 comments to give them free Web Hosting Accounts With Unlimited Resource > read more

Slow Motion Video from High Speed Photography

Published on 2011-06-05 09:00:56

Normally, ultra slow motion video requires very expensive cameras and lots of light. Using an unconventional method reminiscent of Eadweard Muybridge’s Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, Destin from Smarter Every Day caught slow motion video of a bull > read more

How to Make Your Own Gin Without a Still

Published on 2011-06-04 12:00:56

My favorite bartender/mixologist/drink blogger Jefferey Morgenthaler has written a number of excellent articles about making your own cocktail compounds, such as …what many people don’t realize is that gin and vodka begin life in the exact sa > read more

More Pictures in Google Search

Published on 2011-06-04 09:35:02

When you type a query that’s popular in Google Image Search, Google’s Web search engine shows a list of the most relevant images in an OneBox result. If you add “pictures”, “images” to your query, the OneBox now in > read more

441 Drops of Water, Neatly Arranged by Machine

Published on 2011-06-04 08:00:17

It’s mesmerizing to watch Pe Lang‘s mechanical artwork in motion, especially this machine that arranges droplets of water on an omniphobic surface. From Triangulation: Falling objects – positioning systems from 2009-2011 is a custom > read more

Announcing Photography and Video Month

Published on 2011-06-04 02:36:54

June has such great overhead lighting, don’t you think? We do. So we decided to designate June as Photography and Video month here at MAKE. It’s a perfect time to get outside, get some fresh air, and work on your soul-capturing skills. Ov > read more

News From The Future: Dolphins Soldiers

Published on 2011-06-03 17:00:43

News From The Future: Dolphins Soldiers …the Navy sent some real marine mammals into action off the Pacific. Four bottle-nosed dolphins trained to find underwater mines demonstrated their abilities during Operation Trident Fury, a joint U.S.-Ca > read more

The GottaGiddaWay Micro-Hut/Cabin

Published on 2011-06-03 17:00:41

“Tiny Yellow House” host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen gives MAKE a look at his brand new, multifaceted micro-structure/sleeper-cabin, “The GottaGiddaWay”- a homeless prototype built for $100.00. Subscribe to the MAKE P > read more

Workshop Weekend Wrap-Up

Published on 2011-06-03 16:00:26

Michael Shiloh with some old-school breadboarding Working with EL wire REALLY old-school breadboarding I love the concept behind the Bay Area Workshop Weekend event — take the inspiration and enthusiasm generated from Maker Faire Bay Area and p > read more

How-To: Classic Leather Water Bottle

Published on 2011-06-03 15:29:01

A commenter on my recent More: > read more

TV-B-Gone Jacket

Published on 2011-06-03 14:52:05

Whenever I bring my TV-B-Gone out to restaurants, I look suspicious pointing it around. So I embedded the device into a jacket and turned it into a wearable TV silencer. For the switch, I sewed paths of conductive thread that become bridged by the me > read more

DIY Breakout Desk for iPad 2

Published on 2011-06-03 14:31:28

Reed Ghazala’s breakout desk turns the iPad into a serious music tool. So many cool experimental music apps on the iPad! But what a lousy interface. Dealing with dongles to get audio into and out of the thing is a pain. This desk allows all jac > read more

How-To: Bokeh Photography Effect

Published on 2011-06-03 14:00:56

“Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word for “blur” or “haze.” It’s used to describe the quality of the out of focus areas of a photograph. If you’ve ever read a photography forum, you’ll know that th > read more

Project Management Tips for Marketing Teams – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-06-03 13:39:57

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �Time management is one of the toughest parts of any job, but in web marketing, it’s impossible to do your job if you can’t manage your projects. Since web marketers are wearers of many hats, it’s helpfu > read more

Schema.org – A New Approach to Structured Data for SEO

Published on 2011-06-03 13:39:54

Posted by richardbaxterseo Just every now and again, search engines love to throw our merry band of SEO types the occasional curveball and keep us on our toes with new toys and updates. Yesterday was one such day for the world of structured data in w > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Go Zombies! Babydoll

Published on 2011-06-02 22:42:45

Theyre hungry; theyre undead. They only wanna eat your head! Theyre hungry; theyre undead. They only wanna eat your head! Go Zombies! Go Zombies! Go, Go, GO ZOMBIES! $19.99 > read more

Geek Toys : Brain Stress Ball

Published on 2011-06-02 22:42:39

Being smart is stressful. Take it out on this lil’ gooey brain. Open the petri dish, retrieve the purply-gray brain, squish the gooey thing in your hand a bit. Then pull back and hurl it with all your might against the nearest wall. SPLAT! The > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Go Zombies!

Published on 2011-06-02 22:42:37

Gimme a Z! *collective moan from the crowd* Theyre hungry; theyre undead. They only wanna eat your head! Go Zombies! Go Zombies! Go, Go, GO ZOMBIES! $19.99 – $22.99 > read more

Gadgets : Bicycle Spoke LED Light

Published on 2011-06-02 22:42:34

Easily slips into your bike’s spokes to add a brilliant bit of light to your bicycle tires. Easily slips into your bike’s spokes to add a brilliant bit of light to your bicycle tires. Helps you be seen in low light conditions . . . and lo > read more

Gadgets : Messograf Caliper Pen

Published on 2011-06-02 22:42:28

Measure twice, write once. With the same pen. Leave it to the Germans to make a sexy and useful writing device. It’s a pen, it’s a Vernier caliper, it’s a metric screw thread scale, it’s a tire tread depth scale. All that and > read more

Call For Makers

Published on 2011-06-02 22:35:35

We are now accepting entries for the 2nd Annual World Maker Faire New York, September 17 and 18, 2011 at the New York Hall of Science. We look forward to reviewing your application. Key Points: • World Maker Faire New York: September 17 and 18, 201 > read more

Smiley Face Technologies

Published on 2011-06-02 20:00:05

There are innumerable things to make one depressed these days. Oil spills, a dysfunctional economy, worsening political extremism, and an awful long-term environmental outlook. Fortunately for me, I have an antidote that keeps me upbeat, something sp > read more

The Best Maker TV Shows of All Time

Published on 2011-06-02 17:00:27

This week’s column is a fun one. Previously I rounded up These are in (mostly) alphabetic order, but at the end I pick my favorite of all time — you can decide if I’m correct The A-Team The A-Team is an American action adventure televis > read more

YouTube Reactions

Published on 2011-06-02 15:34:45

YouTube tests a new feature that allows users to express their reactions without posting silly comments. They can just click one of the six buttons (LOL, OMG, EPIC, CUTE, WTF, FAIL) and instantly tag the video. YouTube already highlights tags that us > read more

Recycling Paperbacks as Partitions

Published on 2011-06-02 14:58:59

Diane spotted this interesting idea from London designer Lucy Norman, who writes: There is currently no infrastructure set up to recycle the paper from books because the paper is low grade and the glue on the spine must be removed. The Paperback Part > read more

And The Winning City for #MozCation Is…

Published on 2011-06-02 07:39:42

Posted by jennita Come on now, you didn’t think I’d spill beans just like that did you? Before I give you the goods, let me refresh your memory in case this is the first time you’re hearing about MozCation. A few weeks ago, we asked > read more

The Tweet Effect: How Twitter Affects Rankings

Published on 2011-06-02 07:39:39

Posted by dohertyjf This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc > read more

45+ Useful Yet Free eBooks For Designers And Developers

Published on 2011-06-02 05:22:06

Internet has made the world of knowledge and information so much open than it ever had before. With thousands of tutorials available online and proper standards in place, it just takes few days of study to master even the most complicated skills. Des > read more

Superstars and Nested Labels, Now Standard Gmail Features

Published on 2011-06-01 18:32:02

Gmail’s blog announced that three experimental features have graduated from Gmail Labs: superstars, nested labels and advanced IMAP controls. There’s also a Gmail Labs feature that will no longer be available: the Google Search box. Super > read more

Google +1 Button for Websites

Published on 2011-06-01 18:31:59

When Google launched the +1 button for search results back in March, many people wondered why the button couldn’t be added to any site. Now you can add the button to your site using a simple JavaScript code, just like the buttons for Twitter an > read more

News From The Future: Theft Impossible

Published on 2011-06-01 17:00:23

As more devices are “always on” and have geolocative features (either built in or by network access) it’s going to be harder for anyone to actually steal and keep any type of laptop, Kindle, phone, tablet. My iPhone can be located i > read more

Home & Office : Magneticat Cat Toy

Published on 2011-06-01 16:42:11

Mesmerizing magnetic motion to captivate your cat This fishing pole style toy uses the power of magnets to entertain your feline for hours. A magnet in the base repels the magnet in the dangly ladybug, causing it to move and twitch at the end of its > read more

Free Premium Download: WonderFox DVD Ripper

Published on 2011-06-01 16:26:01

We have got a great honor to give an exclusive chance to download and enjoy WonderFox DVD Ripper for free to SmashingApps.com visitors. It’s a paid product, but now is being given away from June 1 to June 7, 2011. During this period, You can get t > read more

How The Internet Is Killing Our Planet (Infographic)

Published on 2011-06-01 13:20:16

It’s not that easy to believe and understand that we are killing our planet’s environment every time we use internet for any task. Yes, you read it right, while majority of the global names are trying to incorporate eco-friendly green env > read more

DIY Open Source Inkjet Printer

Published on 2011-06-01 13:09:15

The prototype design used a carriage assembly constructed from steel rods that were assembled using connectors that can be printed on an FDM machine. The entire carriage system is driven along the x-axis by a belt attached to a stepper motor. The pri > read more

Thermite Experimenters Online Video Notebook

Published on 2011-06-01 04:34:04

Most of our readers will probably have at least passing familiarity with thermite, and many, if asked, would probably be able to identify the most common thermite reaction: a mixture of powdered aluminum and iron oxide which, properly ignited, produc > read more

An SEO’s Guide to HTTP Status Codes (An Infographic)

Published on 2011-06-01 01:39:29

Posted by Dr. Pete A while back, I started thinking about how the different status codes and redirects (301s, 302s, etc.) might look visually. I started drawing up some ideas for what was going to be an illustrated blog post, but then it suddenly daw > read more

Head Smacking Tip #20: Don’t Ask Sites for Links. Find People and Connect.

Published on 2011-06-01 01:39:25

Posted by randfish Many of us trained in the ways of classical SEO are familiar with the link building process: Step 1: Find relevant sites from which to get a link. Step 2: Search for contact information (email or phone number). Step 3: Get in touch > read more

Google Tests a New Mobile Navigation Bar

Published on 2011-05-31 21:31:45

Some Google users spotted an experimental interface for Google’s mobile search site. The horizontal navigation bar now includes icons, just like the vertical desktop bar. While the new interface is less streamlined, it looks more like a Web app > read more

Hackerspace Happenings: GGHC Winner Announced

Published on 2011-05-31 19:19:03

Great Global Hackerspace Challenge Winner Crowned As MAKE online editor and GGHC judge Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire Local and regional Makers will show off their creations at the third Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire (http://www.a2makerfaire.com), held 10 a > read more

Adventures in Android ADK Development

Published on 2011-05-31 17:30:06

As you may have I received one of the official ADK kits from Google last weekend. It consists of the ADK USB micro-controller board (a kind of souped-up Arduino Mega2560/USB Host Shield that plugs into an Android device as well as your computer), and > read more

Astronomers Unveil Most Complete 3-D Map of Local Universe

Published on 2011-05-31 17:00:36

Map of the universe… …astronomers unveiled the most complete 3-D map of the local universe (out to a distance of 380 million light-years) ever created. Taking more than 10 years to complete, the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) also is notabl > read more

Radio Shack at the Faire

Published on 2011-05-31 16:30:57

Radio Shack Blog Post: Amy and Lauren Recap Maker Faire I really enjoyed meeting the Radio Shack folks at Maker Faire Bay Area. They seemed genuinely interested in understanding the needs of makers and trying to stock the types of products that we mi > read more

Maker Shed: Maker Faire Specials Ends at Midnight (PST)

Published on 2011-05-31 14:30:53

If You Missed Maker Faire, or Forgot to Pick Up Some Gifts… First, we are ever-so-proud of our 14,000 square foot Maker Shed pop-up store, which featured dozens of our favorite authors and makers showing off their latest projects and wares. Wit > read more

School of the Visual Arts Seeks Unique Sysadmin

Published on 2011-05-31 12:00:05

There are two positions available at SVA in NYC: a systems administrator in the MFA Interaction Design and Visible Futures lab, and another for managing servers and the woodshop. It’s a unique opportunity to work with talented students in a hig > read more

Hosting Solutions

Published on 2011-05-29 17:00:40

Setting up any website can easily become a real challenge as most people who ever decided to jump into the world of Web-based business have already experienced. This difficulty is derived from the large set of tools and skills they need to master in > read more

Recalling Everyday Things

Published on 2011-05-28 20:00:28

This topic seemed fitting for Memorial Day weekend. A few months ago on vacation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, I went into a used bookstore which the proprietor proudly told me was “the westernmost bookstore in the United States.” Sear > read more

Showcase Of Unbelievably Realistic 3D Artworks

Published on 2011-05-28 17:49:09

Human eye always get enthralled by 3D artworks because 3D artworks are created with a creative and artistic approach and look extremely eye-catching and attention-grabbing. This is the reason why 3D artworks have become so much popular all over the w > read more

DIY Photobooth Rig with Custom Button

Published on 2011-05-28 09:00:21

Given the responsibility of creating a photo booth for an annual work party, Pete Prodoehl from Rasterweb decided he wanted to use Sparkbooth, an Adobe AIR-based application that can turn a computer into a photo booth. Normally, a partygoer activates > read more

Better Internet Marketing With Linkshiftr

Published on 2011-05-28 07:36:56

This article is written by Valerie and sponsored by Linkshiftr.com. Internet marketing has become a must-have solution for all businesses, from Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurs. However, while it’s undoubtedly beneficial, it’s not necessari > read more

Mike Rowe, Adam Savage, (and Others) on FORA.tv from Maker Faire

Published on 2011-05-27 22:45:03

Our friends at FORA.tv, who do such a wonderful job of covering the talks at Maker Faire, have released the videos of Mike Rowe and Adam Savage’s presentations. Next week, they’ll be releasing the Center Stage talks as well (which include > read more

Propane Tanks Repurposed Into Furniture Art

Published on 2011-05-27 18:25:20

Sculptor Colin Selig was inspired by the curves of a junk propane tank on his property, and turned it into art. His fabrication photos show the whole process from scraps of rusty metal to sandblasted and powder-coated furniture. I like how he puts th > read more

Skill Builder: Knife Skills 101

Published on 2011-05-27 18:00:33

This excerpt from Jeff Potter’s book, Cooking for Geeks, which I cannot praise highly enough, covers the basics of knife play in the kitchen. -Gareth Knife Basics The sound of a failed disk drive grinding itself down is pretty bad, but watching > read more

Skill Builder: Kitchen Equipment (Part 2)

Published on 2011-05-27 17:01:57

In this second Skill Builder installment on Kitchen Equipment, Cooking for Geeks author Jeff Potter discusses more essential tools and their use. Next up: Knife play! -Gareth Measuring Cups and Scales In addition to the common items used for measurin > read more

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: Prisoners forced to gold farm in virtual worlds

Published on 2011-05-27 17:00:40

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: Prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work… As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he wo > read more

Geek Toys : Oh No . . . Zombies! Board Game

Published on 2011-05-27 16:40:59

Survive the zombies and call for help, or become a zombie and eat the other players! Running from zombies is fun, but this game lets you kill them too! But not only can you kill them, if you’re not careful they can zombify you! And then you get > read more

Geek Toys : Magnet Powered Spinning Top

Published on 2011-05-27 16:40:59

It spins and it spins and it spins (for about a week) – looking like it is from that movie about dreams. Spin the top and (so long as you have a battery in the base) it will continue to spin for about a week. Is it magic? No, it’s magneti > read more

Home & Office : GeekDad mug

Published on 2011-05-27 16:40:58

If GeekDad hasn’t had his caffeine, don’t ask him for favors. This mug was designed by GeekDads, for GeekDads. It even features the WIRED GeekDad logo! It’s the perfect gift for the GeekDad in your life. Because everyone knows, if D > read more

New in the Maker Shed: Ultimate Microcontroller Pack

Published on 2011-05-27 16:23:59

The Ultimate Microcontroller Pack from the Maker Shed includes everything you need to dive right into the world of microcontollers. The 100+ components allow you to complete nearly any online tutorial without having to source individual parts. Everyo > read more

Follow up, Jeri Ellsworth vs Talking buses #Trimet Jeri won

Published on 2011-05-27 16:00:04

Here’s a follow up to my previous post “ After posting her video “peterbartek” posted the comment “I hate to tell you this but; you have set back the progress of women 100 years”… It seems odd to have such ha > read more

Will Apple Redeem Piracy?

Published on 2011-05-27 04:02:23

One of the central arguments I and others make is that piracy is actually *good* for media producers in all sorts of ways (there lots of links to examples in my submission to the Hargreaves enquiry.) The content industry has simply refused to conside > read more

Competitive Link Analysis Tips – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-05-27 01:38:47

Posted by caseyhen We all want to build up the reputation and authority of our websites and this week Rand discusses some competitive link analysis tips using Open Site Explorer. He talks about how to avoid some common pitfalls when trying to get sim > read more

4 Facebook Marketing Tactics You Might Not Know About

Published on 2011-05-27 01:38:46

Posted by jennita So you think you have Facebook all figured out. You have your fan page with a couple custom tabs set up, you’ve started an ad campaign and every one of your products on your site has the "like" button installed (which > read more

Big Update to the SEOmoz Toolbar for Firefox!

Published on 2011-05-27 01:38:46

Posted by adamf I’m happy to share a bit of good news for all of you Firefox toolbar aficionados–we have just launched the MozBar V2 . This is the biggest update we have made to the toolbar in the past year, and includes a bunch of great > read more

Super Awesome Sylvias Goes ModPodge

Published on 2011-05-26 20:30:33

One of my favorite moments at Maker Faire Bay Are was getting to hang out with Super Awesome Sylvia and her entire family, including her grandparents! Turns out, they’re ALL super awesome. I was sort of stunned when Sylvia asked me for my autog > read more

Mitch Altman on Manufacturing Your Design

Published on 2011-05-26 20:00:08

Mitch Altman is one of those blessed human beings who is always smiling, and the most beautiful thing about his smile is that it’s completely genuine. The man lives what he believes and loves what he does. The inventor of the TV-B-Gone, Mitch h > read more

Cansole: Arduino Based Video Game Console in a Can

Published on 2011-05-26 19:30:50

Tinkerer and author John Graham-Cumming (he wrote the Geek Atlas) created an Arduino-based gaming system that fits in a can. On the left is the main controller (the power switch is visible) and on the right is the expansion controller with its cable. > read more

Skill Builder: Kitchen Equipment (Part 1)

Published on 2011-05-26 18:30:46

In this installment of Food Skill Builder, our guest geek chef, Jeff Potter, discusses some essential kitchen tools (ooh… tools) and tips for their proper use. In part 2 (tomorrow), we’ll look at measuring, timing, weighing, storing and s > read more

How-To: Get Started with Make: Projects

Published on 2011-05-26 17:00:36

For those of you eager to boast about your maker prowess, but haven’t yet tried Make: Projects, I encourage you to take a look at this video to introduce you to what the site is all about and how it works. Make: Projects is a constantly growing > read more

Maker Teen Inspired by Faire to Build Robot Minions

Published on 2011-05-26 16:00:15

Ben (left) and his friend Vincent, learning how to solder at Maker Faire New York 2010 The trashcan telepresence bot (named MAYA) Ben built after the Faire MAYA making friends at a local nursing home Right before this past weekend’s Maker Faire > read more

How SEOmoz Gained 1000s of Visits from Google News (You Can Too)

Published on 2011-05-25 19:38:37

Posted by Cyrus Shepard Consider this image below from the SEOmoz Google Analytics account. Behold a sight rarely displayed in SEO blogs.� Notice the similarities to a typical Kansas highway.�Both are dead flat, contain no peaks or valleys, > read more

A Peek at the People Who Make Maker Faire

Published on 2011-05-25 18:12:05

One of our Maker Faire Daily bloggers, Kent Barnes, posted a few pics of the crew doing their thing during this weekend’s Faire. There are so many amazing people who put in untold numbers of hours to make these shows happen. Here are just a few > read more

A Book About Lithium batteries Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy

Published on 2011-05-25 17:00:09

A book about Lithium batteries “Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy”… This looks interesting! Electric cars are real—see the Tesla Roadster, Chevy Volt, and hybrids like the Nissan Lea > read more

Honduran High Schoolers Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Interface

Published on 2011-05-25 14:52:19

Honduran teenager Luis Cruz, whose low-cost The human eye is polarized, with the front of the eye being positive and the back of the eye being negative. This is caused by a concentration of negatively charged nerves in the retina on the back of the e > read more

Onyx Ashantis TED Performance Demo

Published on 2011-05-25 12:26:06

Check out Onyx Ashanti‘s electrifying demo performance of his new Beatjazz Controller at last night’s TED 2012 Full Spectrum auditions in New York City — he’s on 34:40 – 41:10. Onyx has been designing, building, and prog > read more

Education Day at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 (video)

Published on 2011-05-25 12:00:20

Maker Faire Education Day is opportunity for schools from near and far to bring their students to a sneak preview of Maker Faire. Some of our most engaging makers hosted 1600 kids and everyone had an amazing time. The students roamed from exhibit to > read more

A Box Made From A Dried Orange Peel

Published on 2011-05-25 11:58:53

Here’s a link to the fantastic British brainy-toys site Grand Illusions that I’ve been hoarding for awhile, hoping to someday reproduce the process and post it as a tutorial. I have tried sun-drying several of the largest orange peels I c > read more

In the Maker Shed: Arduino Uno

Published on 2011-05-25 10:00:15

The Arduino Uno from the Maker Shed is a great tool for physical computing and the brains behind many Maker Faire projects — It’s a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer > read more

Lego Die-Rolling Robot

Published on 2011-05-25 09:52:22

Just what you need to speed up your D&D sessions! The mission: To make an absurdly overcomplicated robot to do something as simple as roll some dice. It’s sort of a Rube Goldberg machine although for the sake of practicality there’s > read more

Peer to Patent in the UK: Worth a Punt?

Published on 2011-05-25 09:44:35

As I’ve written too many times, software patents make no sense for lots of reasons. Although rather more circumspect than me in its phraseology, the Hargreaves Review essentially agreed: In this case, the Review believes the balance of evidence > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Gummy Shot Glasses

Published on 2011-05-25 04:40:41

Drink the shot and then eat the shot glass! Two distinct sets of shot glasses. Each colorful, each functional, and each delicious! Yup, they are made out of gummy candy to complement your beverage of choice and be a delicious, edible chaser. $14.99 > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Ghost Pepper Chili Flakes

Published on 2011-05-25 04:40:40

One of the world’s hottest peppers – ready to be sprinkled on anything! Flakes of one of the hottest peppers in the world await you in a little travel tin. Great for adding a whole lotta heat to any recipe, premade foods, or desserts! Fir > read more

Home & Office : GeekDad Bumper Stickers

Published on 2011-05-25 04:40:39

Express your geek parent pride on the back of your Dadmobile Having kids means trading in your Batmobile for a Dadmobile, but it’s worth it when your kid runs around the house screaming: “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I’m the man who’ > read more

Home & Office : Giant Tetris Wall Graphics

Published on 2011-05-25 04:40:38

Ever wanted to play Tetris on the back of the door of your office? Now you can! Just peel and stick these wall graphics to any flat surface and turn it into a retro puzzle game in progress. $34.99 > read more

Maker Shed A Best DIY Project at the Faire

Published on 2011-05-24 23:30:41

Popular Mechanics did a “Top 10 Coolest DIY Projects” at the Faire and they chose Maker Shed as one of the coolest things. Sweet! Imagine a vast, tech-loving hardware store packed full of robots, gadgets, software, musical instruments and > read more

MAKE is Live on Flipboard

Published on 2011-05-24 23:30:39

MAKE is now accessible on Flipboard and we think our content is looking pretty sweet in this format. It’s a really unique and handsome way to view some of our offerings. For those of you unfamiliar with Flipboard, it’s an iPad app that pu > read more

No More Offline Gmail in Google Chrome

Published on 2011-05-24 21:28:08

Chrome 12, the upcoming version of Google’s browser which is likely to be released today, removes a useful feature: the built-in Gears plugin. While most Google services dropped support for Gears and removed offline access, Gears is still being > read more

Google Tests Extended Flight OneBox

Published on 2011-05-24 21:28:07

Google started to test a more advanced OneBox for flight-related searches. Right now, when you search for [flights from London to Barcelona] Google links to services like Expedia, Orbitz or Kayak. The OneBox is useful, but it doesn’t show a lis > read more

Hacking Club-Mate

Published on 2011-05-24 21:00:05

Club-Mate is a German club beverage that basically consists of lightly-carbonated, lightly-sweetened, heavily caffeinated tea. Somehow it was adopted by the German and Austrian hacker scene as their official staying-up-late-and-coding beverage. It’ > read more

Maker Faire Afterglow on Facebook

Published on 2011-05-24 20:51:06

Popular Mechanics shared a slideshow of their fave DIY projects There’s a lot of excited post-Faire activity over on our Maker Faire Facebook page. People are sharing their experiences, posting photos and videos, and generally gushing over thei > read more

Music Album Filtering in Google Video

Published on 2011-05-24 00:28:03

Google started to learn more about music. After improving the Web search results for music videos by adding metadata, Google added the same enhancements to Google Video. Now you can even find a list of popular albums when you search for an artist. Se > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Photosynthesis UV-Sensitive Ladies’ Shirt

Published on 2011-05-23 22:40:34

Just add photons. And $13.99. One of the first flowcharts many of us were exposed to was the one for photosynthesis, which is basically the formula for awesome in picture form. No wonder we like flowcharts so much. $13.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Photosynthesis UV-Sensitive Shirt

Published on 2011-05-23 22:40:34

Really awesome shirt on sale for stupid cheap. One of the first flowcharts many of us were exposed to was the one for photosynthesis, which is basically the equation for awesome in picture form. No wonder we like flowcharts so much. $13.99 > read more

Home & Office : ForkChops 3-in-1 Eating Utensils

Published on 2011-05-23 22:40:33

A cutlery threesome: fork, knife, and chopsticks – all in one. Use them one way, and you have a sturdy plastic fork and knife set. Flip them around, and you have chopsticks. No matter what food you tackle, you’ll always be ready. $5.99 > read more

Geek Toys : Root Beer Brewing Kit

Published on 2011-05-23 22:40:33

Brew your own rich and creamy root beer. Mmmm. Root Beer. Root Beer is delicious. But like Frankenstein, the best root beer is the one you make yourself. This kit has all the main ingredients you’ll need (you just need to add 2 types of sugar a > read more

Inductance, Multicolored Levitating Bubbles

Published on 2011-05-23 19:55:29

Physalia‘s “Inductance” project was displayed at this year’s F5 “creativity festival”. It consists of an electromagnet levitating a bunch of plastic spheres, each of which has an electromagnet inside! So awesome. > read more

Math Monday: Fold Your Own Hyperbolic Paraboloids

Published on 2011-05-23 14:14:44

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics By pleating a square sheet of paper with a pattern of concentric squares, one can fold a saddle shape that mathematicians call a hyperbolic paraboloid, sometimes nicknamed a hypar. Erik Demaine led a works > read more

Maker Faire Goat Eats Microphone

Published on 2011-05-23 13:12:00

Yesterday in Homegrown Village at Maker Faire, our video crew found themselves with a unique gear crisis. During an interview, a goat ate the antenna off the wireless microphone. OM NOM! Get ready for some awesome video maker profiles from Maker Fair > read more

Maker Faire Bay Area is Over, But the Fun Has Just Begun

Published on 2011-05-23 10:27:26

Alas, we just closed the gates on Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It was, by all accounts (that I’ve heard) an inspired success. Happy, huge but well-mannered crowds, hundred of amazing makers, and an embarrassment of things to see, make, test, ride > read more

Caution on that "Call for Caution on Open Source"

Published on 2011-05-23 10:24:53

The Guardian has published a very curious piece today, entitled: “A Call for Caution on Open Source”. It concludes: The UK coalition government should take considered note that the procurement of open source software buys neither governments nor > read more

Owen Grace: Guitar Zeros

Published on 2011-05-22 20:27:16

Watching the stream from the MAKE and CRAFT demo stages, I was totally impressed by Owen Grace and the work he’s done with Electronic Arts, converting game controller guitars into playable instruments. In a Maker Faire success story, Owen told > read more

Arc Attack! Plays Dr. Who

Published on 2011-05-22 19:42:22

Arc Attack! is back with their unique blend of high voltage and melodic ozone creation with tesla coils. It appears that there are a couple of kids in the faraday cage. How’s that for a memorable childhood experience? > read more

Maker Faire in Photos

Published on 2011-05-22 18:04:42

Lucky for those of us left behind, the fine folks at Maker Faire have been tagging their pictures and adding them to the MAKE Flickr pool. I see steam, lights, robots, festive Faire goers and more. If you aren’t able to make it to San Mateo thi > read more

Finals and Awards Ceremony in GGHC (5pm at Maker Faire)

Published on 2011-05-22 16:56:35

We’re excited to be closing in on the final judging and award ceremony for element14′s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge. The finals and ceremony will take place on the Innovation Stage at Maker Faire (5pm). The esteemed judges on the pa > read more

MFBA Day Two, Now With More Awesome!

Published on 2011-05-22 11:53:08

Makers are already lining up for day two of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. If it was anything like yesterday, it should really be something to bleat about. Here are the salient details for those who are coming to the Faire or for those just curious: Make > read more

Autism Initiative Announced at Maker Faire

Published on 2011-05-22 06:23:56

Today, on the Center Stage at Maker Faire, Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, announced Hacking Autism, a social initiative for advancing and making accessible technologies to tackle the challenges that people with autism face e > read more

Google Business Profiles?

Published on 2011-05-22 06:23:21

The source code of the Google Profiles page includes a broken link that has a revealing anchor text: “business profiles”. The link sends you to a page that doesn’t exist: http://www.google.com/_/managepages, but this feature could a > read more

More Features in Google Maps for Mobile Browsers

Published on 2011-05-22 06:23:20

One of the most underrated Google mobile Web apps is Google Maps. Most smartphones and tablets have a native app for Google Maps, so a mobile Web app doesn’t seem necessary. Unfortunately, native apps aren’t always updated frequently and > read more

How Google Docs Killed GDrive

Published on 2011-05-22 06:23:20

“In The Plex“, Steven Levy’s recently launched book about Google, has an interesting story about GDrive, an online storage service developed by Google. People first found about GDrive from a leaked Google document, back in 2006. GDr > read more

Google’s Black Navigation Bar

Published on 2011-05-22 06:23:19

For some reason, the navigation bar displayed at the top of Google’s “connected accounts” page is special. The bar has a black background and grey links. Hopefully, this is just a bug and not a redesigned navigation bar. The “ > read more

How to Build a Great Contest

Published on 2011-05-22 01:37:27

Posted by Arnaud Joakim This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, > read more

Maker Faire Day One

Published on 2011-05-21 22:10:42

The gates have just closed on the first day of Maker Faire. And man is our everything tired. It was an amazing first day, with gorgeous sunny skies, throngs of the curious and creatively-dressed, and some thousand makers enthusiastically chattering a > read more

Steve Davee: Tinker Teacher

Published on 2011-05-21 21:54:40

Steve Davee is a curious person who is impressive adept at cultivating curiosity in his students. He’s a Science & Math Teacher and Technology/ Documentation Specialist for Opal School and The Center for Children’s Learning of the Portla > read more

Young Makers

Published on 2011-05-21 20:06:21

On the Innovation Stage at Maker Faire, you can hear about the Young Makers program at 6pm Saturday. How can we give more kids the opportunity to make things and bring them to exhibit at Maker Faire? That was the question asked first by Tony DeRose o > read more

Swamp Kirin

Published on 2011-05-21 18:14:48

If you’re wandering the grounds of Maker Faire, you may happen upon the Swamp Kirin, a mechanical beast created by Seabat Studios. Built for her little brother, Seth, after the reaction that he had when their father had told them his tales of s > read more

In the MakerShed: Cooking for Geeks

Published on 2011-05-21 02:23:40

Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer — used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it’s cooking? Then Cookin > read more

Introducing the MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards

Published on 2011-05-20 21:00:15

For a long time now, MAKE has wanted to find some way to publicly acknowledge companies that have responded in a positive way to the growing influence of maker/hacker culture. In 2006, we published But we would really prefer to be using a carrot, tha > read more

Mobile SEO Tips For Everyone – Filmed on an iPad 2 – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-05-20 19:37:12

Posted by Aaron Wheeler We all use our cell phones (and those of us lucky enough, tablets) to figure out where we are and what’s around us while we’re on the go. While GPS�is a godsend, location isn’t the only thing you need to > read more

DONT MISS IT! Make: Live Episode 09: Maker Faire Bay Area

Published on 2011-05-20 19:00:40

Make: Live is broadcasting shortly! Don’t miss our Maker Faire episode where guests Super Awesome Sylvia, Jimmie Rogers, and Russell the electric giraffe join us live from the Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 preparty. We’ll be right next to the > read more

Time-Lapse Colossus Assembly

Published on 2011-05-20 16:08:44

Over two days, the massive Colossus sculpture was erected on the midway at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It reaches an impressive 70 feet into the sky and features three hanging boulders that rotate around the central support. We filmed this time-lapse > read more

Maker Faire Gets Rolling

Published on 2011-05-20 15:31:21

Things are starting to spin up nicely at the fairgrounds, with Education Day playing host to some 1,000 kids from local area schools this morning. The kids got to preview the show, watch demos and performances and discuss projects with 75 makers. The > read more

Painstakingly Embossed Portraits on Disposable Aluminum Pans

Published on 2011-05-20 15:00:28

From artist Idan Friedman’s profiles project. “All people featured in the project,” he writes, “are part of my everyday life, ranging from close friends to passers-by.” [via Dude Craft] > read more

Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets (the Interview)

Published on 2011-05-20 12:23:28

Tero Karvinen and Kimmo Karvinen are authors of the recently-published Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets, which teaches you how to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, and make your own cell phone appl > read more

GGHC Finalist Profile Hackerspace Charlotte

Published on 2011-05-20 12:23:27

Tuesday and last week we profiled two of the three finalists of element14′s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge — Pumping Station: One’s The project consists of felt shapes resembling electronics symbols found in schematics. However, > read more

Cornelia Hoskin Talks HOMEGROWN Village and Maker Faire

Published on 2011-05-20 12:23:27

HOMEGROWN Village is about to make its third appearance at Maker Faire Bay Area. Here’s how they describe their presence at the Faire: “The HOMEGROWN Village at Maker Faire Bay Area is an opportunity to connect people with the story of ou > read more

Geek Kids : Star Wars Craft Book

Published on 2011-05-20 04:39:59

Give in to the power of the crafty side. Dozens of awesome Star Wars projects you can make at home. Chewbacca Sock Puppets. Ewok Flower Vases. AT-AT Herb Gardens. Even if you’re not crafty, the high quality photographs and detailed instructions > read more

Home & Office : Star Wars Trash Compactor Bookends

Published on 2011-05-20 04:39:58

Hand-painted bookends to hold up your trashiest novels These bookends thankfully do not smell like garbage, but they do portray this favorite Star Wars scene in detail. They’re cast in high-quality polystone and hand-painted, so they’ll b > read more

Home & Office : Molecular Cocktails Starter Kit

Published on 2011-05-20 04:39:58

Mix unusual and exotic cocktails using science! Mix unusual and exotic cocktails using science! $79.99 > read more

Gadgets : Beta Inkless Emergency Pen Keyring

Published on 2011-05-20 04:39:57

Ultra-convenient pen always within reach and never needs ink EVER! Ultra-convenient pen always within reach and never needs ink EVER! $38.99 > read more

Home & Office : iRepel Nanotech Chef’s Gear

Published on 2011-05-20 04:39:57

Virtually stain-proof chef’s jacket – nanotechnology beads stains and liquids right off! Virtually stain-proof chef’s jacket – nanotechnology beads stains and liquids right off! $49.99 > read more

Books : Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred

Published on 2011-05-20 04:39:56

All sorts of fun, geeky stuff to make with your kids. Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred is packed with fun craft and toy-making projects for geeks on a budget. Inside, youll find illustrated instructions for 24 quirky playthings. $23.99 > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Case o’ Bawls

Published on 2011-05-20 04:39:56

BAWLS Cherry – now available in bottles! Hey folks! G33K B33R is here! What is it? It’s the world’s best caffeinated root beer from the fine folks at BAWLS! Woohoo! Check out the new BAWLS flavor right now and get your BAWLS on hipp > read more

Google Maps OneBox Outlines

Published on 2011-05-19 15:22:54

Google’s OneBox displayed when you search for the name of a country, a city or a zip code got smarter. Google added an outline around the location you want to find, so the map is even more useful. For example, try searching for [Bronx], [Detroi > read more

Marketing Ethics: Persuasion vs. Manipulation

Published on 2011-05-19 13:37:09

Posted by Dr. Pete The debate over “white hat” vs. “black hat” tactics in SEO seems to resurface every few months, followed soon after by a debate over whether those labels or the debate itself are even worth having. I thought > read more

Six Useful Tools To Create Distraction Free Writing Environment

Published on 2011-05-19 10:11:17

Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and various other things on your computer distract you from important tasks that you turned on your computer for. When it comes to writing these distractions can be very problematic since writing requires your full attention > read more

Hackerspace Happenings: Find JB at Maker Faire, Earn $125 in Shed Money

Published on 2011-05-18 17:00:21

Hackerspace Members: Going to Maker Faire? Get $125 in Maker Shed Loot! I will be at Maker Faire all day Saturday and Sunday A.M., and I want to hear about your awesome hackerspace projects! Find me at the Faire (might want to start at the MAKE table > read more

Classy Camera Lens Cross-Sections

Published on 2011-05-18 14:55:32

Michael Zheng of PetaPixel credits these beautiful photographs to one Duncan Meeder, whose personal web presence, if it exists, escapes my Googling. This example is identified as a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm. [via Boing Boing] More: > read more

How-To: Vacuum-Seal Cheap Ziploc Bags

Published on 2011-05-18 11:56:30

Really great tip from forum member cashsale, who didn’t want to shell out for a purpose-built vacuum sealer and dedicated vacuum bags for his home sous-vide cooking: Put whatever you want to seal in a smaller ziploc bag that’s open just a > read more

In the MakerShed: Prototino ATMega328 Kit

Published on 2011-05-18 10:00:19

Ready to move that Arduino project from the breadboard to something more permanent? The Prototino ATMega328 kit is your answer. Soldering your project directly to the Prototino makes it more robust and less expensive than embedding your regular Ardui > read more

Pendulum Pr0n

Published on 2011-05-18 09:01:58

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion. The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length o > read more

21 Content Types to Share with Google

Published on 2011-05-18 07:37:06

Posted by Lindsay The search engines are hungry for vertical search content. The representation of content types beyond the traditional webpage in the SERPs seems to grow on a daily basis. In many cases it is actually easier to rank for a vertical ch > read more

Vivify a Drab Wall with Magnetic Primer and Instant Film

Published on 2011-05-18 06:00:43

Last weekend I had the chance to visit the new office space of M Booth, a public relations agency in New York City. To decorate an otherwise drab wall, they magnetized it and covered it Polaroid-style instant photo prints, attaching each photo to the > read more

Gmail’s New Ad System

Published on 2011-05-17 21:13:20

I’ve previously reported about Gmail’s experiments with image ads and personalized ads, but it seems that these tests are two pieces from a puzzle: a new ad-matching system for Gmail. New York Times reports that the new algorithms try to > read more

Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets

Published on 2011-05-17 21:13:19

Google Spreadsheets added an advanced feature that’s really useful for summarizing data: pivot tables. “In essence, a pivot table does just that — it allows you to ‘pivot’ or rotate data, thus looking at it from differen > read more

Skill Builder: Hello, Kitchen!

Published on 2011-05-17 19:00:53

Jeff Potter’s book, Cooking for Geeks, is based on a simple premise: “We geeks are fascinated by how things work, and most of us eat, too.” Food month here on MAKE is built upon that same idea. We’re going to be excerpting fro > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : The Minecraft Logo That Never Was

Published on 2011-05-17 16:39:46

So close we can almost taste the porkchop. So you know how when the US Mint prints something upside down on a coin, it’s worth a lot more? Or when the postal service effs something up on a stamp? Errors numismatic or philatelic make the final p > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : The Minecraft Logo That Never Was Babydoll

Published on 2011-05-17 16:39:46

Let’s pretend like this never happened, shall we? So you know how when the US Mint prints something upside down on a coin, it’s worth a lot more? Or when the postal service effs something up on a stamp? Errors numismatic or philatelic mak > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : The Flash Hockey Stripe Babydoll

Published on 2011-05-17 16:39:45

See, this is why I wanted to have a costume meeting. When we launched our Batgirl and Wonder Woman costume tees, our female customers (that’d be you) told us y’all loved them and that you wanted even more options. We listened. Here’ > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Superman Hockey Stripe Babydoll

Published on 2011-05-17 16:39:44

Cape not included. When we launched our Batgirl and Wonder Woman costume tees, our female customers (that’d be you) told us y’all loved them and that you wanted even more options. We listened. Here’s a good start to that end…. > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Green Lantern Hockey Stripe Babydoll

Published on 2011-05-17 16:39:44

Ring not included. When we launched our Batgirl and Wonder Woman costume tees, our female customers (that’d be you) told us y’all loved them and that you wanted even more options. We listened. Here’s a good start to that end…. > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Batman Hockey Stripe Babydoll

Published on 2011-05-17 16:39:43

Utility belt not included. When we launched our Batgirl and Wonder Woman costume tees, our female customers (that’d be you) told us y’all loved them and that you wanted even more options. We listened. Here’s a good start to that end > read more

Books : F in Exams

Published on 2011-05-17 16:39:43

Some of the funniest wrong answers to test questions ever! Many times exams just ask questions we don’t know the answer to. True, we could leave it blank. But it’s so much more fun to write something funny. At least the teacher or profess > read more

Streaming Demos Live from Maker Faire Bay Area 2011

Published on 2011-05-17 12:30:13

The demo stages in the MAKE and CRAFT booths in the center of Expo Hall at Maker Faire this weekend are packed with back-to-back demos all weekend long. We’ll be streaming a selection of these demos live on the Maker Faire Ustream channel for t > read more

Raising the Bar on Data Sharing: Introducing Open Analytics

Published on 2011-05-17 01:36:45

Posted by caseyhen On the Internet, there is one thing that is as reliable as the gold in Fort Knox: a website’s analytics. How many times have you read a great blog post with amazing infographics or just a post that was very well written and w > read more

What Makes an Effective Link Builder

Published on 2011-05-17 01:36:44

Posted by Justin Briggs Good link builders are a special breed of SEOs. There are a lot of solid SEOs in the industry, but effectively building links is much different from keyword research, copywriting, and technical analysis. I’ve been thinki > read more

How-To: Office Supply X-Wing

Published on 2011-05-17 00:13:21

� If you find yourself annoyed at the waste of valuable man-minutes and materiel that went into this effort from Instructables user spookylean, I can only congratulate you on your strong management potential. Me, I just want to zoom it around my > read more

More Google News Settings

Published on 2011-05-17 00:13:12

Barry Schwartz spotted some new options that let you personalize Google News. If you go to the Google News settings page, you can tweak Google News to show fewer press releases, more blog posts or even hide all the blog posts and press releases. R > read more

Google’s Define Operator, No Longer Useful

Published on 2011-05-17 00:13:12

Last month, Google added a new search options in the sidebar: dictionary. It’s a new interface for Google Dictionary that combines definitions from a reputable dictionary with definitions from the Web, usage examples and other useful informatio > read more

A New Interface for Google News: No Clusters, No Clutter

Published on 2011-05-17 00:13:12

Google News has a redesigned interface that tries to remove the visual clutter and make multimedia content more discoverable. All Google News clusters are collapsed by default, except for the top news story. Clusters include more links, a special sec > read more

Playlists in YouTube’s Drop Down Menu

Published on 2011-05-17 00:13:11

YouTube’s drop down menu at the top of the page now includes a list of all your playlists and makes it easier to access your favorite videos, your liked videos and the videos added to the “Watch later” playlist. “You will now > read more

Tiny Skee Ball Machine

Published on 2011-05-16 20:30:17

Samuel Seide, who built this excellent > read more

Russel the Giraffe Makes the Funny Papers

Published on 2011-05-16 18:31:55

Former Make: Labs intern Matthew Dalton and his friend Jake Rogers do this cute geek webcomic called R&D. Today’s strip is on Maker Faire Bay Area, and Russel, the event’s perennial robo-giraffe. Other maker creations, other tech fad > read more

Use Android Open Accessory Without Android Programming

Published on 2011-05-16 18:00:55

“follower” wrote in with yet another cool project for the Handbag makes it possible to create Arduino-based accessories for Android devices without creating an Android app. You both define the Android application user interface and implem > read more

Competitive Analysis in Under 60 Seconds Using Google Docs

Published on 2011-05-15 19:36:38

Posted by Tom Anthony This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, I > read more

Dale Dougherty on Bay Area Tech Talk Show

Published on 2011-05-15 15:02:59

Nice segment with Dale, on NBC’s Bay Area Sunday tech news show Press: Here, talking about next weekend’s Maker Faire Bay Area. > read more

Lego Technic Super-8 Movie Projector

Published on 2011-05-15 13:00:09

KGroce of Tennessee wrote in to share this sweet projector, built by Friedemann Wachsmuth: A fully functional Super 8 Movie Projector I built with Kalle using Lego Technic. The only non-Lego parts are the lens, the reel spindles and the lamp. The pro > read more

DIY Water Rocket, With Video

Published on 2011-05-15 10:00:21

Cobbler from Portland, OR, built a water rocket and added video, capturing how awesomely his rocket flew, as well as renewing the adoration of his daughter! I built the Water Rocket project from vol. 5, made a few small modifications, and shot a vide > read more

Sites still using flash and rockin it!

Published on 2011-05-15 08:42:40

Between JQuery and HTML, our old friend for animation on the web, Flash, has been feeling pretty neglected lately. While we do think it’s a good thing that there are some alternatives for adding a little movement on the web, and less people are > read more

Avviso Library for Arduino and Processing Sends iOS Push Alerts

Published on 2011-05-15 08:00:43

Mike Colagrosso created Avviso, a Processing and Arduino library for sending push alerts to iOS devices using the Prowl API. This would make projects such as More: > read more

Cambridge Mini Maker Faire 2011

Published on 2011-05-14 13:30:14

When you bring together group of makers and their projects, sometimes it’s all sunshine and unicorns, and sometimes you get fierce winds and two thunderstorms during a four-hour event. Last weekend in Cambridge, our hale and hearty makers defie > read more

Confirmed! Standard Arduino Works With Android Open Accessory

Published on 2011-05-14 10:30:01

Not long after A lot of people have been put off by the price of the reference hardware kit, which is roughly $390. What’s worse, they appear to be sold out until end of May, and Microchip’s cheaper ($80) alternative doesn’t arrive until July. > read more

Mini Documentary About Mini Maker Faire Toronto

Published on 2011-05-14 08:00:41

Especially with the excitement building around the upcoming Maker Faire Bay Area, I highly recommend this fantastic video from Mini Maker Faire Toronto which asks what it means to be a maker. Ryan Varga, the video’s creator says, “this fi > read more

Live engineering chat with Jeri Ellsworth and Limor Ladyada Fried tonight

Published on 2011-05-14 05:00:45

BIG NEWS! On ASK AN ENGINEER – Jeri Ellsworth will be a guest! Sat. 5/14 10pm ET. Jeri and Ladyada will talk all things electronics, LIVE this Saturday night ***TONIGHT*** at 10pm ET! I will be behind the scenes running camera, stop by! Jeri wa > read more

The Kitchen-Table Industrialists

Published on 2011-05-14 02:12:16

The Kitchen-Table Industrialists @ NYTimes.com… A lot of familiar makers celebrated. A version of this article will appear in print on May 15, 2011, on page MM50 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Meet The Makers. If you lived in Detroit > read more

Geek Kids : Zoomy Handheld Digital Microscope

Published on 2011-05-13 22:39:12

Displays digital images on your computer screen, captures photos and even records video Hold the hand-friendly scope over an object, turn the top to focus, then press the single control button to take videos or still images from 35 to 53x magnificati > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Tetris Skull and Crossbones

Published on 2011-05-13 22:39:11

Kickin it old school. Tetris is dangerous. Like any good puzzle game, it’s a total timesuck. You decide you’ll play for another 15 minutes, and 4 hours later, you’re wondering why you’re so hungry. ThinkGeek reminds you always > read more

Geek Kids : Smart Heart Pulse Monitor

Published on 2011-05-13 22:39:11

Listen up to hear your heartbeat, then calculate your pulse rate Practice your cardio (Rule #1 for Zombieland!) and use the Smart Heart Pulse Monitor to check your heart rates. Operation is really simple. Hold it over your heart and press the button > read more

Geek Toys : Cthulhu Dice

Published on 2011-05-13 22:39:10

Hold on to that last thread of sanity if you hope to win… and live. This quick and sanity-eroding dice game is a lightweight filler game for 2-8 players. Roll the dice embossed with tentacles and Elder Signs… but don’t roll Cthulhu > read more

Geek Toys : Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of Ashardalon

Published on 2011-05-13 22:39:10

Venture into a monster-infested labyrinth – alone or with up to 4 friends. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to hop in and out of the dragon’s lair with whoever happens to be sitting around on a Friday night? Playable with 1-5 adventu > read more

Books : The Star Trek Cookbook

Published on 2011-05-13 22:39:09

And make some Star Trek delicacies while you’re at it. Gagh, anyone? All sorts of delicious Star Trek delicacies, from the chef of the USS Voyager himself. That’s right, Neelix is ready to take your on a culinary tour through the cosmos. > read more

Books : Zombie Cupcakes

Published on 2011-05-13 22:39:09

Time to make the undead cupcakes! Regular cupcakes are boring. But add some specially sculpted arms or ravens or maggots and some delicious red jelly, and suddenly you have a cupcake straight from your nightmares. Except tasty. $14.99 > read more

Flex 3.5 and using asdocs

Published on 2011-05-13 22:12:53

I just noticed that running asdocs on 3.5 will throw the following error: Loading configuration file C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Flash Builder 4sdks3.5.0frameworksflex-config.xml Adobe ASDoc Version 3.5.0 build 12683 Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Adob > read more

MAKE Volume 26: Combination Lock Made from Money

Published on 2011-05-13 18:31:20

In each issue of MAKE magazine (since Volume 10), columnist Tom Parker offers a new installation of Make Money, where he shows you examples of how “Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.” Tom has covered > read more

SEOmoz Google Analytics Setup – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-05-13 07:36:18

Posted by caseyhen This week, Tom Critchlow from Distilled, talks about the suggestions he has given to SEOmoz to improve our Google Analytics setup. �These suggestions are as easy as adding events to specific user actions or as complex as addin > read more

Introducing MozCation: Nominate Your City for an SEOmoz Meetup

Published on 2011-05-13 07:36:17

Posted by jennita Imagine this if you will… you’re sitting in your office in Denver, working away and see a tweet come through your stream about an SEOmoz meetup in New York City. You think to yourself, "self… why do they always > read more

MAKE Karts and Wheels Contest Winner Jeremy Ashinghurst Interview

Published on 2011-05-12 20:00:11

Leading up to MAKE Volume 26, we ran a fun and simple 1. How did you get started building soapbox cars? First I became interested in driving soapbox karts (on a whim). Then, before I’d even gotten in one, I concluded that I absolutely must make > read more

How-To: Make a Daft Punk Helmet

Published on 2011-05-12 19:30:29

Here’s an amazing how-to from Harrison Krix, a self-proclaimed dork living in Atlanta who spent 17 months (yes, months) designing and building this awesomely cool Daft Punk Helmet. Then he got a photographer friend to snap some shots of him wea > read more

6 Free Ways You Can Create And Manage Invoices Online

Published on 2011-05-12 17:31:27

Businesses have to deal with invoices all the time. Invoices need to be customized according to the client. After creating an invoice, a business needs to keep a record of it. Thus if you are running a business you could surely use tools that help yo > read more

Hey look, the first Android Arduino Accessory project

Published on 2011-05-12 17:16:16

That was fast… Android ADK project that shows the Artist and Track info for the song your Android device is playing from the new Music Beta service from Google. The sign gets the current track metadata from the new Android Music App. The spectr > read more

Geek Kids : Hide & Seek Electronic Monkey

Published on 2011-05-12 16:39:05

Le singe est sur la branche. The perfect hide & seek companion for your wee geek. Hide him anywhere! The seeker wand tracks the monkey. The wand glows as you get closer or further away from the monkey until you finally find his hiding place. $34. > read more

Geek Kids : Hide & Seek Plush Monkey

Published on 2011-05-12 16:39:05

Hide and seek for the only child – monkey style! The perfect hide & seek companion for your wee geek. Hide him anywhere! The seeker wand tracks the monkey. When your wee geek gets close, the monkey will start making noises. Listen for the s > read more

Home & Office : Ice Attacks! Ice Cube Tray

Published on 2011-05-12 16:39:04

Silicone ice-cube tray with asteroid and UFO shapes! Silicone ice-cube tray with asteroid and UFO shapes! $8.99 > read more

Gadgets : iStuck Bubble Gum Phone Stand

Published on 2011-05-12 16:39:04

Bubblegum stuck to your shoe sucks, but having it hold up your phone is kinda awesome! Bubblegum stuck to your shoe sucks, but having it hold up your phone is kinda awesome! $5.99 > read more

New in PRO: Subfolders + Root Domains; Linkscape Update + More

Published on 2011-05-12 01:36:03

Posted by randfish SEOmoz PRO has been taking some big leaps in improvement, albeit quietly. You may have noticed many small improvements and fewer bugs (though we’re still working out some kinks), but you might not have noticed one awesome cha > read more

5 Tactics to Improve Your Community Balance

Published on 2011-05-12 01:36:02

Posted by thogenhaven With more than 100 million Americans contributing content online this year, websites are doing anything they can to attract users to contribute to their site. With the notable exception of search engines, all major websites are > read more

Chromebooks

Published on 2011-05-11 18:09:33

Fast, simple, secure, built for the Web, doesn’t require administration. It’s a Chromebook, a Chrome OS notebook that will be available starting from next month. “Chromebooks will be available online June 15 in the U.S., U.K., Franc > read more

Google Tasks API

Published on 2011-05-11 18:09:33

Just when you thought that Google Tasks was abandoned, Google releases an API for Google Tasks. “The Google Tasks API provides developers with a powerful set of API endpoints for searching, reading, and updating Google Tasks content and metadat > read more

MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest Deadline Extended!

Published on 2011-05-11 18:05:02

We’ve extended the deadline for our MAKE Volume 27 robot contest by one week. The new deadline is 11:59 PDT on Friday, May 20, 2011. Got bots with character? We want to meet them! We’re in search of entertaining bots that you’ve bui > read more

Shooting Through the Viewfinder

Published on 2011-05-11 17:30:39

Over the weekend, I visited the California Academy of Sciences with my family, and while in the aquarium area, I noticed a cool camera contraption. Jen Kennedy, who teaches photography at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, California, was sho > read more

Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces

Published on 2011-05-11 17:00:03

Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces, Thomas writes in… We do not share the malaise of many librarians who worry that the Internet and e-books are going to make public libraries obsolete. On the contrary, these shifts liberat > read more

Codebox: Explore Recursion with Processing

Published on 2011-05-11 16:30:28

Recursion is an important programming technique that lends itself to a variety of areas, not least of which is creating interesting visual images. In brief, recursion is a technique for breaking a complex problem into smaller and simpler versions of > read more

How-To: Detail Sander From Disposable Electric Toothbrush

Published on 2011-05-11 15:09:55

An easy, useful, inexpensive, and delightful improvisation from model-maker and Instructables user WiredWebbo101, who needed a handy tool to sand primer in some hard-to-reach places on his models. So he modified a disposable electric toothbrush by fl > read more

Toolbox Review: Extech 382213 Desktop Power Supply

Published on 2011-05-11 14:30:28

Don’t let the sexy name fool you, the Extech 382213 is all business — the business of powering your awesome hacking projects! The 382213 plays the desktop power supply role — it gives you carefully measured voltages to play with whe > read more

Angriest Most Useless Machine

Published on 2011-05-11 04:11:03

This very entertaining take on the classic most useless machine gag is not quite so patient as its ancestors. Oh sure, it does what they all do: When you turn it on, it turns itself off. And it’ll do that over and over again. But, much like my > read more

REMINDER: Maker Faire Early Bird Tickets Offer Ending Soon

Published on 2011-05-11 04:11:02

We’re closing in on the 10th annual Maker Faire Bay Area next weekend, May 21-22. We hope you are as excited as we are about this always-inspiring event. Our popular Early Bird Ticket offer is about to expire this Thursday at 12:01 AM PDT. If y > read more

Why your newly launched website isnt being found.

Published on 2011-05-11 02:41:56

Just because a website is “launched” on the web, doesn’t mean you’ll be rocketed up to #1 in Google! This is why search engine optimization companies will charge you thousands of dollars to run campaigns for you. Even still, t > read more

Google Music Streaming

Published on 2011-05-10 21:09:25

Wall Street Journal reports that Google will unveil a music streaming service at the Google I/O developer conference. “Users of the service are expected to be able to listen to songs they have uploaded to the service in a so-called streaming mo > read more

Android: Past, Present and Future

Published on 2011-05-10 21:09:25

Google I/O‘s first keynote was all about Android and there were many impressive announcements. Android stats continue to be surprising: 100 million activated Android devices, 400,000 Android devices activated every day, 200,000 apps in the Andr > read more

Google Image Search Clustering

Published on 2011-05-10 21:09:24

Google Image Search added a new feature that lets you group images by subject. Instead of showing images related to different topics in a single view, Google’s image search engine finds the most relevant related searches and shows the top resul > read more

Adventures in A/B Testing Marketing Emails

Published on 2011-05-10 20:35:44

At Supercircuits, we run A/B (or split) tests on our marketing emails on a regular basis. Here are some recent ones — see if you can guess which email was the winner for each. Unless indicated otherwise, the email itself was the same and just t > read more

Competitor Analysis for Linkbuilding: A Guide for People who Hate Linkbuilding

Published on 2011-05-10 19:35:58

Posted by Stephen This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. > read more

5 Suggestions for Google Suggest

Published on 2011-05-10 19:35:57

Posted by Rhea This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I l > read more

Beyond Blog Posts – A Guide to Innovative Content Types

Published on 2011-05-10 19:35:57

Posted by Tom Critchlow Producing great content is a high ROI activity. Too often however I see people focused on producing individual pieces of content aiming to get links and attention. Putting together a content strategy requires much more than a > read more

Geek Toys : 2 foot tall Shogun Warriors Go Lion

Published on 2011-05-10 04:38:09

Two feet tall, five pounds, five lions. Limited edition. Get on it, Voltron fans! Put this giant GoLion on your desk and take bets on who says “FORM FEET AND LEGS” vs. “I’ll FORM THE HEAD”. Use the questions above to con > read more

Geek Toys : Domo Plush

Published on 2011-05-10 04:38:09

Small enough to take with you wherever you need a little Domo in your life. What is Domo-kun? Who knows. But he’s cute, hates apples, and will fart if he gets nervous or upset. Just like grandpa. $9.99 > read more

Geek Kids : Thermochromic Glux Putty

Published on 2011-05-10 04:38:08

Stretches like rubber, bounces like a ball, tears like paper, and changes color when you touch it Stretches like rubber, bounces like a ball, tears like paper, and changes color when you touch it. Addictingly fun to squeeze, shape, and play with, the > read more

Life-Size Portal Turret Replica, Including Laser

Published on 2011-05-10 00:10:42

I think it’s safe to describe Ryan Palser as a “replica video game prop master” at this point. Those of you who enjoyed his fantastic P.S. I am particularly impressed by the eye. P.P.S. Thanks to Ryan and everybody else who took the > read more

Google Calendar Adds Event Colors

Published on 2011-05-10 00:09:20

Google Calendar still doesn’t offer support for labels, but you can now pick a color for each event. By default, each event inherits the calendar’s color, but you can change it by clicking the event and using the small drop-down displayed > read more

One-Sheet Plywood Staircase

Published on 2011-05-09 22:17:16

I’ve always enjoyed the mental exercise of planning a piece of plywood furniture to maximize efficient use of the material in the sheet stock, so I tend to appreciate good ones when they pop up, every now and again. Here’s a nice example, > read more

Skill Builder: Blessed are the Cheesemakers

Published on 2011-05-09 19:30:51

We first published MAKE’s Grand Fromage Dale Dougherty’s, Ignite talk on cheese in the fall of 2009. But in light of our food theme this month, I thought we should reprise it. For those of you unfamiliar with Ignite, each speaker is given > read more

Arduino-Based Interactive Sculptures

Published on 2011-05-09 19:00:31

Paul Myoda, known in part for having helped create the Ground Zero installation Tribute in Light, has built a series of Arduino-based interactive sculptures, which will be shown at Miami’s Dorsch Gallery through June 4th. [Thanks, Brook] Check > read more

New Flesh Workshop: Costumed Superheroes Hideout

Published on 2011-05-09 18:00:51

If you attended the 1st annual World Maker Faire last September in New York City, you probably saw a gold and silver, armor-clad, tool-dispensing superhero figure running around. His name is Doctor Adventure and he’s one of a growing number of > read more

FBI Tracking Device Teardown

Published on 2011-05-09 15:15:29

Our pals at iFixit have scored a pretty sweet scoop with this photo-expos� of the guts of an official FBI bumper-beeper. We partnered with Wired to bring you a peek inside an FBI car-tracking device. The device is similar to the one Yasir Afifi > read more

Google’s Humans.txt File

Published on 2011-05-09 03:09:16

Google has a robots.txt file that lists all paths that can’t be crawled by Web spiders, but there’s also a humans.txt file which tries to show that Google is not all about bots and algorithms. “Google is built by a large team of eng > read more

Rules from The Tinkers Handbook

Published on 2011-05-08 19:30:05

For eight days, David Malki’s Wondermark webcomic was turned into the Tinker’s Handbook, a loving send-up of MAKE and maker culture. He ended the “handbook” with this wonderful Wondermark’s Nominally-Essential TinkerR > read more

The Hack Factory Needs You

Published on 2011-05-08 19:00:54

Twin Cities Maker, the organization that rents the Hack Factory hackerspace in Minneapolis, may be homeless without your help. When TC Maker moved into the space in January of 2010, it was on a sub-lease basis, where the principle leaseholder rented > read more

Righting Wrongs by Re-writing Ebooks

Published on 2011-05-08 18:35:10

One key property of printed books is that it is very hard to modify them. Digital books, by contrast, are trivially easy to re-write – provided they are released under a licence that permits that. One early enlightened example of a book that do > read more

Its Mothers Day!

Published on 2011-05-08 13:43:12

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the maker moms everywhere (and that would be ALL of them). Here, mom made you a delicious algae smoothie. What doesn’t say love like a tall glass of cyanobacteria? > read more

Lets Make Stuff

Published on 2011-05-08 08:00:08

I think this “Let’s Make Stuff” box with colorfully painted woodcut letters by Scott Albrecht would look perfect on my workshop wall. [via FFFFOUND!] > read more

Google Tests a New Search Interface

Published on 2011-05-08 06:09:14

Many users noticed a new interface for Google’s search results pages that tries to better separate results. There’s a lot of space between the results, but that’s not useful when you try to find the best answer for your query. Huffi > read more

Google Talk and AIM to Become Interoperable

Published on 2011-05-08 06:09:14

When you log in to your AIM account in Gmail, you get a message from AOL that links to this page. In the next few days, Google and AOL are working together to change the way you connect to AIM buddies within Gmail. After this change, Gmail and AIM us > read more

Another Business Model for Art: eBay

Published on 2011-05-08 04:25:58

One of the things that I and others like to emphasise is that investigating new business models is crucial for the survival of art, artists and the companies that work with them. A signal failure to do that has led to the current excesses by the cont > read more

Great Global Hackerspace Challenge Update

Published on 2011-05-07 13:00:26

With up to thirty hackerspaces participating in element14′s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge, it’s hard to summarize all of their work over the past few weeks. However, XinCheJian’s Ricky Ng-Adam’s GGHC Awards does a great j > read more

Watch Laughing Baby Videos Under the Stars in this YouTube Theater

Published on 2011-05-07 11:08:33

This outdoor YouTube theater by Cranbrook Academy of Art student Aaron Jones was constructed with zip ties and fence piping: The structure itself is comprised of post processed chain link fence pipe selected for its inherent ability to form an interl > read more

Cross-Domain Canonical The New 301? – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-05-07 01:35:16

Posted by caseyhen About a year ago Google announced the release of the canonical tag to the SEO world. �The canonical tag helps in solving issues with duplicate content by letting Google know that pages with the tag are copies of the original p > read more

Illustration in Vintage Album Covers

Published on 2011-05-06 20:41:02

One of my favorite things to do is look at vintage design and illustration to gain new inspiration and to see what’s been done in the past in the realm of graphic design and illustration. During a recent outing to a bunch of local thrift stores > read more

Twitter Round up for April 2011

Published on 2011-05-06 20:41:02

Here we are another month into 2011 and April seemed to be a good month for finding helpful info on Twitter … lots of marketing, advertising and social media type things and a good amount on web design. Also, if you’re a writer and would > read more

Only One Week Left for Early Bird Discounts on Maker Faire Tickets

Published on 2011-05-06 20:30:06

Maker Faire Bay Area is approaching fast – only 15 days! And this means that you have only one more week to score Early Bird ticket discounts. If you order before midnight PDT on Wednesday, May 11, you’ll get $5.00 off all ticket prices. > read more

MakeShift 25 Deadline June 3

Published on 2011-05-06 18:30:03

Calling all braaaaaaains… The deadline to submit a solution for the MakeShift that was featured in MAKE Volume 25 is June 3! This one was a personal favorite. (Also, I’m the zombie in the bottom left corner of the window!) Check out some fun > read more

Linux For PS3 Is Back!

Published on 2011-05-06 17:00:00

Ok, we’re back! The Gitbrew gang gets my awesome makers of the year award > read more

MicroSD Drive Poses As Mini Atari 810 Floppy

Published on 2011-05-06 12:00:50

We owned an Atari 800, when I was a kid, and also owned the full-size original version of this drive, as I recall. Rossum built this tiny simulacrum around an MicroSD drive that uses 8 GB cards. The case is a 3D print from Shapeways. [via Boing Boing > read more

Make: Live Episode 08: Brewing Beer & Coffee (preview video)

Published on 2011-05-06 11:00:22

Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep08 is all about brewing- beer and coffee. Make: Live 08 – Brewing Beer & Coffee Wednesday May 11th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on htt > read more

30 Colorful Examples of Vector-based Artworks

Published on 2011-05-06 10:56:00

If you search the internet for a while, you will come to know that vector art or vector images are the most wanted inspirational collection on the net. Designers all over the world are trying to create unique styles by incorporating new and unique id > read more

The Diving Spudmarine

Published on 2011-05-06 10:00:57

As a kid with two older brothers, I knew how important it was to be the first to crack open a new box of cereal and sift through the contents for the toy inside. I remember fishing out a plastic toy submarine and I absolutely loved it. When you fille > read more

In the Maker Shed: Retro Fun with the Monochron Clock Kit

Published on 2011-05-06 10:00:42

The Monochron clock kit from the Maker Shed is a completely hackable, open source, clock kit that has a funky retro feel. It can be programmed to display several different clock “faces” or you can program you own. The kit comes complete w > read more

Open Source Drill Press

Published on 2011-05-06 09:03:14

This beast — a hydraulic drill press powered by a 20hp engine, appears to be connected to the Global Village Construction Set project. [Via Pat] > read more

Sharpie Pen Plotter

Published on 2011-05-06 06:00:38

Check out this Sharpie plotter attachment for the Phlatprinter CNC kit cutter. Even though it requires a manual pen swap, it’s still mesmerizing to watch it plot in image. [via reddit] > read more

Collins Lab: Brainwave Beats

Published on 2011-05-05 20:30:10

Measuring brainwaves is not just for neuroscientists anymore – new affordable consumer level EEG devices ( & even Cool – but how shall we use these new found sensory powers? To automatically compose electronic music, of course! Those > read more

Got Bots with Character? Enter the MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest!

Published on 2011-05-05 20:05:30

Does your bot have tons of character? Does it make you laugh uncontrollably or pat it on the back for being so clever? Then certainly your bot deserves the chance to appear on the pages of MAKE Volume 27, the upcoming Robot issue. We’re running > read more

How to Create Presentations Like Rand

Published on 2011-05-05 19:35:08

Posted by willcritchlow Has anyone else noticed that Rand’s presentations are getting better and better recently? Obviously he’s been a great presenter for a long time, but I’ve noticed him upping his game recently particularly in t > read more

Google Analytics Now Tracks Page Load Speed

Published on 2011-05-05 19:35:08

Posted by Tom Critchlow Improving site speed is crucially important, Craig at Distilled recently wrote a phenomenal post�site speed for dummies�which really breaks down WHY improving site speed is a high ROI activity and there was a great Y > read more

Fat Pandas and Thin Content

Published on 2011-05-05 19:35:07

Posted by Dr. Pete If you’ve been hit by the Panda update or are just worried about its implications, you’ve probably read a lot about “thin” content. We spend our whole lives trying to get thin, and now Google suddenly hates > read more

Tell Us What Youd Like To See In MAKE, Win A Subscription

Published on 2011-05-05 18:00:50

We’ve had some great feedback lately to our contest questions, so we’ve decided to throw the door wide open on the latest element14 giveaway and see what flies in! The comments on the entry page are rocking along great, so far, but we wan > read more

News From The Future: People Who Make Your iGadgets Have Anti-Suicide Agreements

Published on 2011-05-05 17:00:02

And you thought the iTunes EULA was pretty demanding? “You are NOT allowed to commit suicide: Workers in Chinese iPad factories forced to sign pledges” - Factories making sought-after Apple iPads and iPhones in China are forcing staff to > read more

Child Designs Wheelchair for Bunny

Published on 2011-05-05 16:00:01

The All Terrain Bunny, or ATB for short, is a wheelchair for a paraplegic baby rabbit designed by young Liam O’Rourke in Tucson, AZ. Good going! When the O’Rourke family of Tucson found a couple of Easter-time bunnies in their back yard, > read more

Scotch Tape Renders Frosted Glass Clear

Published on 2011-05-05 15:00:19

OK, so, maybe the fact that, under vacuum, > read more

Sequencing Valve Controls Six Streams of Water

Published on 2011-05-05 14:30:15

Rob Torcellini of Eastford, CT, built this valve for controlling water in his aquaponics system. I love all the clever mechanical tricks found inside! This is a sequencing / indexing valve that I designed a couple of years ago. This uses a pinching m > read more

Google Chrome’s Emotional Ad

Published on 2011-05-04 18:08:53

Google Chrome’s ads have always been great, but this one is probably the only Google ad that could make you cry. It’s a story about a father that emails his daughter photos and videos with her happy moments as she grows up. He uses Google > read more

Google’s New Snippets for News Sites

Published on 2011-05-04 18:08:53

After changing the snippets for Twitter accounts, Google now displays the latest headlines in the snippets for news sites. Search for [washington post], [nytimes], [le monde], [gazzetta dello sport] and you’ll find the latest news from the snip > read more

A More Obvious Sign Out Link

Published on 2011-05-04 18:08:52

When Google launched the new compact menus in the navigation bar, many users wondered why it’s so difficult to sign out. The “sign out” link was buried in one of the menus and it wasn’t obvious how to find it. Now the link is > read more

News From The Future: Your GPS Data Sold to Cops for Speed Traps

Published on 2011-05-04 17:00:46

TomTom sold user data to police, motorists then targeted with speed traps… Following reports that TomTom had sold traffic data collected from GPS device users to police who then used it to determine locations for speed traps, the company has is > read more

May is Food Month on MAKE!

Published on 2011-05-04 16:00:31

May is a celebration of food-making here on MAKE, everything from growing it, to preparing it, to hacking the tools and techniques you use in make it. And we won’t forget about the unparalleled joys of snarfing it down. Food preparing is a type > read more

Marines Field-Improvised Chess Set From Afghanistan

Published on 2011-05-04 15:00:03

Appeared in the comments on this post, which features a heavily stylized shell-casing set for sale by Etsy seller OldeWorldCC. Unless I miss my guesses, the queens are .50 BMG rounds, the kings .50 BMG casings, the rooks 40mm grenade casings, the bis > read more

10 Super Easy SEO Copywriting Tips for Improved Link Building

Published on 2011-05-04 13:35:03

Posted by Cyrus Shepard Compare the two posts below, both written by the exact same SEO expert and each containing around the same number of words. Without knowing the subject, can you guess which post earned more links? Try 378 to 6. In addition to > read more

Signal to Noise #2 at Museum of the Moving Image

Published on 2011-05-04 13:20:19

Babycastle’s hacked video games at Signal to Noise #1 – photo by Wendy Moger Bross Signal to Noise returns to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC, this Saturday, May 7, with many installations converting electricity into visual > read more

Toner Transfer and Muriatic Acid Etchant: Making PCBs at LVL1

Published on 2011-05-04 13:16:54

Brad Lyuster of Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace wrote an excellent guide to etching your own PCBs. A few months ago, the spoiled electrical engineer that I am, I never would have considered making my own PCBs. Any project worth taking off the bre > read more

Meet The Makers: Nirav Patel

Published on 2011-05-04 12:00:49

Nirav Patel is literally making things with a wave of his hand. Harnessing a hacked Kinect, he has written a program for “Gestural 3D Printing”. He calls the project “inane and irrelevant” but it is actually a perfect, shining > read more

How-To: Portal Sentry Turret Egg Cup

Published on 2011-05-04 04:09:25

A small serving of genius from Instructables user Supernewby. [via CRAFT] More: > read more

Sony suffers second data breach

Published on 2011-05-03 17:00:37

Sony suffers second data breach with theft of 25m more user details @ Technology | guardian.co.uk… The crisis at Sony deepened on Tuesday as it admitted that an extra 25 million customers who played games on its Sony Online Entertainment ( > read more

Hackerspace Happenings: Interactive Show at NYCR and GGHSC Finals

Published on 2011-05-03 15:30:22

NYC Resistor Interactive Show on May 7th NYCR will be hosting our super duper Interactive Show. The theme this year is ANYTHING INTERACTIVE. That’s right, ANYTHING… INTERACTIVE. That includes people, peoples! Music? Yeah, we got it. Blink > read more

MAKE Magazine Subscription Giveaway from element14

Published on 2011-05-03 13:30:04

The folks at element14 are giving away TEN one-year subs to MAKE in a giveaway on our Make: Arduino page. To be eligible leave a comment on the giveaway page (as per the instructions given there. That’s it! The eligible commenting period will l > read more

The Latest in Arduino 01

Published on 2011-05-03 13:00:41

Welcome to the newest video series from makezine.com, The Latest in Arduino. This series will cover information related to the Arduino, including book reviews, interviews with makers using the Arduino (and -duino clones) for special projects, new A > read more

Do the Maths

Published on 2011-05-03 11:25:37

Long-time readers of this blog will know that I like to point out that software patents shouldn’t be allowed because (among other reasons) software routines are just algorithms, and algorithms are just maths, which is pure knowledge. Well, a sp > read more

The Day I Nearly Dumped Firefox

Published on 2011-05-03 10:24:09

I remember well the moment when the beta version of Netscape Navigator 0.9 was released in October 1994. It was so clearly superior to the main Mosaic browser I was running at the time, that there was no question about using anything else thereafter. > read more

Why Did Wikileaks Fail New Zealand?

Published on 2011-05-03 09:54:19

As I noted elsewhere, we now know that the US played a major role in pushing for tougher copyright regimes in Canada, Spain and Sweden. It seems that we must add New Zealand to the list of countries that were nobbled: As you may recall, back in 2008, > read more

Tool Review: Technicians Pocket Screwdriver

Published on 2011-05-03 09:30:08

I have roughly one zillion screwdrivers at my disposal. I’ve got a few sets of general purpose screwdrivers, many small jewelers and electronics screwdrivers, and even some nice ones attached to Swiss Army knives and Leatherman multi-tools. But > read more

Arduino-Controlled Ultrasonic Sensor Helps You Park Your Car

Published on 2011-05-03 09:00:13

Eric Rogers of Hawaii built this ranger to warn him — via FM radio — when he was about to bump into another car when backing into a tight parking space. The Park Ranger is an ultrasonic-ranging prototype, based upon the Arduino and the Am > read more

Kinetic Sculpture Manipulates Rare Earth Magnets

Published on 2011-05-03 00:08:59

Dave Johnson’s magnet machine has a lot of fascinating details: This machine manipulates small spherical rare earth magnets. slicing one at a time from the end of a long chain, moving it around a bit, then dropping it back to re-connect at the > read more

Roasting Pan Guitar Resonator

Published on 2011-05-03 00:08:59

Shamus built this cool guitar using a flea-market aluminum roasting pan as the resonator body. Sounds good! Play the embedded vid to hear it sing at 1:50, or rewind to hear the build deets. [Thanks, Alan Dove!] More: Cigar Box Guitar > read more

Google Chrome Tests Multiple Profiles

Published on 2011-05-03 00:08:24

As previously promised, Google started to test multiple profiles for Google Chrome. It’s a Chrome OS feature that’s now available in Chrome’s Canary builds and Chromium. Just enter about:flags in the address bar, enable “Multi > read more

Have You Heard of Codebending?

Published on 2011-05-02 21:30:50

Have you ever heard of codebending? I hadn’t. Apparently it’s the physical patching together of little bits of computer code, using jacks and patch cables, and then bending the resulting code-cum-sound. Nifty. And you’ve got to love > read more

Kinect Han Solo in Carbonite

Published on 2011-05-02 19:00:48

This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get frozen in 3D. We are already exporting the 3D models for 3D printing. So stay tuned. The software will be open source soon if anyone is intereste > read more

Reminder: Bike Book Giveaway

Published on 2011-05-02 18:31:44

Don’t forget that the drawing for two copies of Chris Nodder’s book, The Little Book of Bike Boo Boos, ends tonight at Midnight PDT. To be eligible, go to The comments on the post are great, with Chris and other bike know-it-alls helping > read more

Meet The Makers: Meredith Scheff

Published on 2011-05-02 17:00:28

The first thing Meredith Scheff ever made was, and I quote, “probably a mess!” She quickly moved onto creating things much more worthwhile. Her North Star Skirt was one of the most interesting projects at Maker Faire last year. Meredith d > read more

Bike Bottle Rack

Published on 2011-05-02 15:00:28

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Math Monday: Pencil Star

Published on 2011-05-02 14:00:19

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics We’ve seen mathematical pencil constructions in There are five identical 16-pencil units around a central axis. Two units are shown below, before assembling. Each has the form of a hyperbolic parabol > read more

Danielle Baskins Hand-Painted Bike Helmets

Published on 2011-05-02 12:00:45

This weekend at the New Amsterdam Bike Show I saw Danielle Baskin’s hand-painted bike/skate helmets. She even has a line based on a deck of tarot cards. > read more

Optimizing Your Google Places Page

Published on 2011-05-02 01:34:50

Posted by Geoff Kenyon �As increasing number of searches have local intent behind them, Google is showing Places listings in many more SERPs. This presents an opportunity to either gain a spot on the first page for many businesses or to gain mor > read more

Interactive Light Sculpture

Published on 2011-05-01 19:00:16

This interactive sculpture, built by Andrew and Deborah O’Malley of Ottawa, ON, has 120 light panels each featuring a Shiftbrite and capacitive touch sensor. XBees for each side connect the sculpture to a controlling laptop. More: > read more

Turning Trash into Toys for Learning

Published on 2011-05-01 13:00:14

At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves — while learning basic principles of science and design. [Thanks, Daniel] More > read more

Analog Projection Clock

Published on 2011-05-01 10:00:18

Spiritus of Yekaterinburg, the Russian Federation, built this analog projection clock with a mirror and a surface-mount white LED. > read more

How-To: Set Up An Electronics Lab

Published on 2011-05-01 08:00:53

Dave Jones from the Electronics Engineering Video Blog shows us what tools he recommends for a starter electronics lab. He makes a few surprisingly inexpensive recommendations for multimeters, oscilloscopes, function generators, bench power supplies, > read more

Make: Bike Shop Bike Repair Book Giveaway

Published on 2011-04-30 18:30:03

We hope you enjoyed this month’s Bike Shop theme and Skill Builder series. As with all of our Skill Builder sets, we’ll continue to add content going forward, and we always have great ongoing bike coverage under our Thanks to Chris Nodder > read more

Four years of Marble Machines

Published on 2011-04-30 16:08:30

Japanese YouTube user denha compiled this chronicle of marble machines that they have made over the last four years. In addition to the video of them working, there are also explanations of most of the mechanisms on their site. [via Make: Japan] > read more

Moral Bankruptcy of the Copyright Industry

Published on 2011-04-30 10:58:51

As anyone who has followed the area for a while learns, the copyright industry has an extraordinary sense of entitlement. It seems to think that it has a right to demand that governments around the world preserve its outdated business models and exis > read more

Google’s New Link for Bypassing Country Redirects

Published on 2011-04-30 09:08:08

Google has always displayed a link on the homepage that bypassed country redirects: “Google.com in English” or “Go to Google.com”, depending on the language. The link sent users to google.com/ncr (ncr=no country redirect), the > read more

Networked Etch A Sketch For Long Distance Doodling

Published on 2011-04-30 08:00:57

Product Design student Andrew Little created the Connect A Sketch, a networked version of the ever-popular Etch A Sketch mechanical drawing toy: We all love to leave personal messages for one another, be it productive or playful, Connect A Sketch was > read more

Is this a new feature?

Published on 2011-04-30 07:32:26

Is this an amazing new feature or the next step after the change to bugs.mysql.com? I was about to file a bug report to improve the MySQL manual, but that won’t happen now: Go to page for MySQL Reference manual Type text in “Search Manual > read more

Gadgets : Micro-Plus EX 9-in-1 Multi-tool

Published on 2011-04-30 04:36:31

Micro-Plus EX 9-in-1 Multi-tool $9.99 > read more

Geek Kids : Doctor Who Save the Universe Board Game

Published on 2011-04-30 04:36:31

Fly your TARDIS as you collect your enemies, battling other players to collect them all! The rules are easy, the goal simple: collect more pairs of enemy disks than everyone else. One of the few times in your life you stand a chance of seeing an Adip > read more

Geek Kids : Baby’s First Tech Trio

Published on 2011-04-30 04:36:30

A trio of realistic looking tech devices for the discerning geek baby Baby’s First Tech Trio features a realistic looking MP3 player, smartphone, and TV remote. Plenty of buttons to push with real feedback in lights and sounds. It may just conv > read more

Geek Kids : Smens

Published on 2011-04-30 04:36:30

If you loved sniffing smelly markers, you’ll want these scented pens. Set of 10 scented pens that keep their scent for two years: Pink Lemonade, Red Licorice, Banana Fo Fana, Ninja Berry, Ahola, Caramel Corn, Black Licorice, Creamsicle, Passion > read more

Geek Kids : Kids Doctor Who – Time Wars Board Game

Published on 2011-04-30 04:36:30

Flip the board and race through time as you battle the Time Wars. If only navigating the time vortex were this easy and fun in real life! In this fabulous game, every player is given a unique mission involving at least two of the Doctor’s enemi > read more

Geek Kids : World of Geekcraft Projects

Published on 2011-04-30 04:36:29

25 super-cool craft projects in a variety of geeky themes Learn how to make your own geeky crafts with this collection of 25 geeky projects. Each project has step-by-step instructions, how-to illustrations, and color photographs. From Mario to Morse > read more

Printable Strandbeests

Published on 2011-04-29 23:15:55

The amazing Meredith Yayanos, of Coilhouse (my hands-down favorite art/culture actual-print zine), posted news of these awesome mini versions of kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen’s now-iconic Strandbeests. They’re 3D printed, already assembled > read more

PIGS IN SPAAAAAAAACE

Published on 2011-04-29 18:30:51

Now that our space program is over, we can all look forward to getting back to basics (don’t freak, it’s not real)… > read more

Top 10: Bike Repair

Published on 2011-04-29 17:30:15

#10 How To: Make A Dial-Gauge Bicycle Wheel Building Stand For $100 ” #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 Did I miss a good one? Let me know, below! > read more

Geek Field Trip Report! Smithsonian Office of Exhibits Central

Published on 2011-04-29 16:15:08

“Uncle Beazley,” after his refresh at OEC Recently, I had the rare opportunity to visit the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) in Landover, MD. A friend of mine, Richard Gould, is an Exhibits Specialist there > read more

Make: Live 4/27/11 Karts and Wheels (video)

Published on 2011-04-28 22:08:20

Make: Live ep07 is all about projects from the new MAKE v26, Karts & Wheels! Thanks to our guests Mark Frauenfelder, Jared Ficklin, Nick Raymond and Eric Chu. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTune > read more

Memento Mori

Published on 2011-04-28 20:00:30

I’m often puzzled by how satisfying older technology is. What a treat it is to muscle around an ancient teletype, feeding it new-old paper-tape or rolls of industrial paper with the weight of a bygone era. What pleasure I take from the length of pi > read more

If Youre Going To Kill It, Open Source It!

Published on 2011-04-28 17:00:06

Some companies fail, some kill off product lines that are not profitable, but in the end, where does all the knowledge go? Nowhere, usually. In a world of disposable everything, is it time that we demand companies do what’s good for humankind i > read more

For Sale: Full-Scale Saturn V F-1 Engine Model

Published on 2011-04-28 15:00:13

Nineteen feet tall. Twelve feet in diameter. The F-1 is still the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever put into service. Manufactured by Rocketdyne, five F-1 engines were used in the first stage of each Saturn V rocket, each > read more

Frida V, a Mapping Bicycle

Published on 2011-04-28 14:38:34

We Frida V. is a rugged and comfortable bicycle equipped for efficient exploration and mapping of public urban spaces. It carries a small computer, GPS positioning device, 802.11 wireless network transciever and a basic audiovisual recording unit. Th > read more

Recycled Circuit Chairs

Published on 2011-04-28 12:00:30

Out of all of the PCB furniture I’ve seen, I think these Binary Chairs use the beige box materials most creatively. The computer case frame, the woven seats made from ethernet and ribbon cable– swoon! BNR0110001101101000011000010110100101 > read more

Radio Shack Decides It Loves DIYers After All

Published on 2011-04-28 10:00:48

Via @idris_arslanian: After shrinking its electronic components aisle down to a single parsimonious cabinet flanked by overpriced batteries, TVs, and cell phones, it would appear that the Shack has been forced to re-evaluate its priorities given the > read more

Everyones doing it

Published on 2011-04-28 08:40:04

Although we don’t offer in house SEO now we did years ago. We just don’t have the staff to accommodate it since it can be a full time job in and of itself but we have kept up on the, “tricks of the trade” so to speak. We’ > read more

MAKE Volume 26, Karts & Wheels, On Newsstands NOW!

Published on 2011-04-28 08:08:10

If you’ve been waiting patiently for your local newsstand or book megalomart to get in their copies of the latest MAKE (Volume 26), it’s here! So, step onto your homemade Segway, into your gasified truck, or climb onto your three-story fr > read more

DONT MISS IT! Make: Live Episode 07: Karts & Wheels

Published on 2011-04-28 08:08:10

Make: Live is broadcasting shortly! Don’t miss guests Mark Frauenfelder, Jared Ficklin, and MAKE interns Nick Raymond and Eric Chu. Make: Live 07 – Karts & Wheels Wednesday April 27th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on U > read more

Breaking the Monopoly of Celebration

Published on 2011-04-27 23:33:50

Today is apparently something called “World Intellectual Property Day“. How bizarre to be celebrating government-backed monopolies that lock down knowledge. According to the WIPO site: The aims of World IP Day are: to raise awareness of h > read more

Listening and Downloading MP3s for Free

Published on 2011-04-27 19:07:50

For anyone who uses the Internet seriously, there is more to the web than just looking for flower pictures or checking Facebook profiles during work hours. The Internet offers a wealth of valuable resources, such as Free Mp3s, that would otherwise co > read more

Maker Faire Bay Area: Christian Ristow Interview

Published on 2011-04-27 18:00:15

Artist Christian Ristow builds badass machines. And the one he’s installing at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 and 22, is no exception. This massive interactive piece, named Fledgling, is as engaging as it is stunning. We caught > read more

Finally, a cheap and LEGAL music download website

Published on 2011-04-27 17:22:17

When it comes to mp3 download sites, iTunes is probably the first legal option that comes to mind, although most people don’t even consider legal download these days due to the ridiculous prices these services charge, not to mention the DRM-rid > read more

NASA Make: Challenge Entry Deadline (4/30/11)

Published on 2011-04-27 17:03:21

Reminder: This Saturday (April 30) is the deadline for the NASA Make: Challenge! Go here for complete rules and guidelines for submissions. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! � Here’s the archived video of last week’s > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Highly Caffeinated Brownies and Cookies

Published on 2011-04-27 16:36:17

Loaded with taste and loaded with caffeine. 200mg per cookie/brownie! These cookies and brownies are hands down some of the most delicious ones we’ve ever tasted. The fact that they are also loaded with 200mg of caffeine, makes them our most fa > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Brain Lollipop

Published on 2011-04-27 16:36:16

A little green brain for you to suck on. Zombie eat brains. And now you can eat brains too. Well, suck on them. Yummy brain pops. Suck suck suck braaaaains. $2.99 – $7.99 > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Bacon Lollipop

Published on 2011-04-27 16:36:16

And a big swirly meat-pop for you to lick. It looks like an old time lollipop, but it tastes like bacon. Kind of like dessert and breakfast meeting and having a delicious child. And you get to eat that bacony child. Yum. $3.99 – $6.99 > read more

Geek Toys : Grow Your Own World’s Largest Tree

Published on 2011-04-27 16:36:15

Grow a Giant Sequoia – the world’s largest living thing. On this planet, the largest living thing is the Giant Sequoia. And now you can grow your own. Help deliver oxygen to the Earth and leave your mark (in a good way) on the planet. $8. > read more

Geek Toys : Finger Tentacles

Published on 2011-04-27 16:36:15

Everyone needs finger-extending tentacles. Buy them by the hand! Regular fingers are boring. So, take your hand to the next level by adding some tentacles to your fingers. Slip them on and get ready for fun. $9.99 > read more

Reduce Bounce Rate by Making a Landing Page More Like a Landing Page

Published on 2011-04-27 02:34:02

After the home page the most popular landing pages for Supercircuits (one of the online stores I run) are the category pages. While they are well optimized for SEO, since I joined the company I’ve wanted to make them more like landing pages > read more

Great Content for SEO: Simpler than You Ever Imagined

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:21

Posted by randfish Today I want to share an incredibly simple yet massively powerful process for building search-optimized, "great content." There’s no fancy tricks and nothing propetiary about the approach, but it is rare indeed to fin > read more

Geek Toys : Giant Futurama Plush

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:20

Beware, Zoidberg only loves you for your clutch of eggs Choose from three giant plush from the animated TV series Futurama: Bender to be your drinking buddy, Nibbler and his dark matter to remind you to change your underpants, and Zoidberg to mate wi > read more

Home & Office : Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver Pen

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:19

Ballpoint pen modeled to look like eleventh Doctor’s sonic screwdriver A convenient, pen-sized replica of the eleventh Doctor’s sonic screwdriver. It writes in black or green, but does not open, close, or fix anything. Unless said thing c > read more

Geek Toys : Doctor Who Adipose Plush

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:19

Does not actually contain real human fat inside Want to lose weight quickly? Take our miracle pill. Sure, “the fat just walks away” but if Miss Foster flips the switch, you’re dead. But hey, you’ve birthed a litter of tiny ado > read more

Home & Office : Doctor Who Dalek Projection Clock

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:19

Dalek alarm clock just like Davros would have used! Start your day the Dalek way – because nothing wakes you like the threat of extermination! This clock projects the time onto your ceiling and cycles through three sound effects – hover, > read more

Books : Game of Thrones Boxed Set

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:18

“Grabs hold and won’t let go. It’s brilliant.” – Robert Jordan George R.R. Martin has been dubbed “The American Tolkien” by Time magazine. A Song of Ice and Fire starts with A Game of Thrones and has become t > read more

Computer Stuff : USB Mushroom Lamp

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:18

If Mario had a desk job, he’d want these. The red mushroom lamp makes Mario sit a little taller and the green mushroom lamp gives him the energy needed to power through until the weekend. If you put them on your desk, they may do the same for y > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Uncanny Valley

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:17

We ain’t talkin about no X-Men, neither. The Uncanny Valley. Even if you haven’t hung out with robots, you’ve experienced it in video games and movies. It’s that feeling you get when a representation of the human form is eeril > read more

Geek Toys : 5" Angry Birds Plush w/ Sound

Published on 2011-04-27 01:34:17

Re-enact that devilishly difficult level in the comfort of your living room, complete with sound effects Your feathered comrades have escaped the limitations of the smartphone screen to wage war in the real world! Small, cuddly, absolutely throwable. > read more

Time Lapse Camera Dolly

Published on 2011-04-26 04:00:33

DIY Time Lapse Dolly from Derek Mellott on Vimeo. Check out this great time lapse camera dolly from maker Derek Mellott. [via DIYPhotography] > read more

PRO Q&A Forum Upgrades & Changes

Published on 2011-04-25 19:34:11

Posted by jennita Well hello there friends, it’s been a few weeks since we’ve chatted about our new PRO Q&A forum. To be honest, over here at the MozPlex we’ve been pretty blown away by the volume and amazingness of both the que > read more

7 NEW Tips for Running a Twitter Giveaway

Published on 2011-04-25 19:34:10

Posted by RobOusbey I’ve written before about running competitions for link building, but given the increasingly important role of Twitter in online marketing and SEO, it’s time to address a popular mechanic: Twitter competitions. � > read more

John Iovine: Geiger Counter Sanity Check

Published on 2011-04-25 18:30:18

Clip from Images SI website Through his company Images Scientific Instruments, John Iovine has been designing, making, and selling Geiger counters for nearly 15 years. MAKE’s Paul Spinrad talked with him about the recent run on Geiger counters, how > read more

Meet The Makers: Sung Kim

Published on 2011-04-25 17:00:40

Sung Kim’s father gave him his first skil saw when he was just seven years old. His mother provided him with modeling clay as a safer alternative not long after that. Sung’s grandfather-in-law, ship builder Dean Stevens, left him a covete > read more

Skill Builder: Your Own SpinScooter

Published on 2011-04-25 16:00:45

Our friends RadBrad and KoolKat, from Atomic Zombie, posted this cool SpinScooter build on Make: Projects. Besides the fact that it requires welding (if you can do this, maybe a friend can), it’s fairly simple project, and the result is a wacky > read more

Math Monday: Microscopic Fractals

Published on 2011-04-25 14:00:01

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics We have seen various ways to make the Sierpinski tetrahedron in In this higher-magnification view of just one corner, you can see more of the detailed structure within the speck. I wonder if someday direct > read more

Proto Labs $100K Prize Aims to Help Makers

Published on 2011-04-25 13:22:44

Proto Labs, the “world’s fastest custom manufacturer of prototype and low-volume parts” is offering an $100,000 prize to help inventors and creators develop their projects: In 2011 we will award $100,000 in Firstcut CNC machined and > read more

Build a Wirebot Motion Platform

Published on 2011-04-25 12:29:47

You know those wire-actuated sky cameras they use to capture aerial footage of sporting events in large stadiums? Turns out that type of motion-control platform is called a “wirebot,” and our fabulous guest author Riley Porter has just po > read more

Timelapse of Giant Papercraft Audi

Published on 2011-04-25 12:00:51

It took 245 hours and 750 parts printed on 285 pages of paper to construct this Audi A7 model by Taras Lesko. [via BoingBoing] > read more

Making the Final Journey Home

Published on 2011-04-24 11:46:45

My friend Larry Marten’s father passed away last week and Larry set out to build his coffin. But figuring how to build a coffin was the easy part of this DIY story. The Coffin Larry Built Larry wanted to bring his father’s body from the h > read more

Today: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Published on 2011-04-24 08:00:14

Today, the last Sunday in April, is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Celebrate by pulling out that that shoe box or Quaker Oats container camera that you’ve tucked away, or create a brand new pinhole camera with any of the many tutorials out > read more

Vibratron Robot Makes Music Using Steel Balls

Published on 2011-04-24 03:00:04

The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club built this Vibratron instrument as part of their ambitious RobOrchestra project. It looks awesome! I hope they go on tour soon. You can check out their website for more details, and some video demonstrations of the m > read more

RIP Video Game Pioneer Gerald Lawson

Published on 2011-04-23 15:01:04

Video game pioneer Gerald Lawson, co-inventor of the Channel F video game console, died this week from complications of diabetes. The LA Times wrote that his father was “a science-loving longshoreman” The obituary includes an except from > read more

Thereglyph, an RF Synthesizer

Published on 2011-04-23 13:23:14

Reed Ghazala‘s Thereglyph looks oh-so sweet and sounds even better: Radio interference, traditionally a problem in audio, can be used to our advantage. By means of the Thereglyph instrument I would like to introduce to circuit-bending a concept > read more

Pyrotechnical Painting

Published on 2011-04-23 09:00:47

File this one under art, Arduino, and pyrotechnics: Fire Painting by Sanela Jahic is described as follows: The cybernetic construction in “Fire Painting” sets off explosive levels of kerosene. Its burning can be handled by subtile movemen > read more

Geek Toys : tokidoki Unicornos

Published on 2011-04-23 07:33:28

We’ve heard that love is blind. Did you know cute is blind, too? Boxed, that is. A tiny unicorn with cupcake sprinkles in its pink mane? Or one with a mohawk? Or dreads? You know something this kawaii can only come from the mind of Simone Legno > read more

Making a Trapeze Bar

Published on 2011-04-23 06:33:55

My friend Mike is making a trapeze bar, cool stuff - Recently, while watching me splice a thimble for the 2nd time, a friend of mine made the observation that a trapeze bar is made entirely of work… and a little bit of rope. Indeed. Sewing the cove > read more

Victorian House Has Secret Garage, Might Actually Be Robot in Disguise

Published on 2011-04-23 03:00:44

The official word about this Victorian house that has a secret garage is that it was created by Beausoleil Architects as a way to comply with building housing codes. I’m not buying it though- I think that it’s actually just a cover for a > read more

Super Cheap Seed Starters on Make: Projects

Published on 2011-04-22 19:28:02

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to get some seeds started. Frequent MAKE contributor and off-grid aficionado Abe Connally teaches us how to make cheap and simple soil blocks to avoid transplant mortality (from MAKE Volume 24). He uses a c > read more

45 Stunning Examples Of Birds Eye View Photography That Captured The Beauty Of Earth

Published on 2011-04-22 18:49:59

Here is an awe-inspiring collection of Bird’s Eye View photography that is a special technique of capturing photographs from an elevated location. This gives the bird’s eye view of the object being photographed. In Bird’s Eye View Photo > read more

Reflector Pockets for Cycling

Published on 2011-04-22 18:00:22

Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. Becky posted this great video on CRAFT about making a pair of reflector flaps that tuck into your back pockets when you’re not using them and can > read more

Good reputation or name dropping?

Published on 2011-04-22 16:39:28

A lot of companies bring in new clients based on their previous client list but this can be misleading. Just because someone has worked with a big name client doesn’t mean that they’re a more effective or better marketing company. Recently a pote > read more

ArcAttacks Musical Tools and Appliances

Published on 2011-04-22 16:00:15

Joe DiPrima of ArcAttack! sent us a link to this video of their MIDI-orchestrated tools and appliance jam. We asked Joe to provide some more details of the build. Here’s what he sent us. Thanks, Joe! The completed 8-relay control board The main > read more

Skull Resewn From Old Baseball

Published on 2011-04-22 15:20:12

Great find over on Recyclart. Somebody needs to put a curse on it and put it up for sale on a dusty corner shelf in some out-of-the-way antique shop. More: > read more

3D-Printed U-Boat

Published on 2011-04-22 13:46:48

Matthew LaBerge of Minneapolis, MN, printed Thingiverse user Skimbal’s U-Boat. I just love his technique for getting away from the printer during the monster all-day prints — he watches from his iPad using a webcam and the Go2MyPC remote > read more

Skill Builder: Fixing a Flat

Published on 2011-04-22 10:30:59

Image from Road Cycling Tips In this Skill Builder piece, guest contributor and mountain biker Chris Nodder (author of Bike Boo Boos) outlines how to deal with punctures on both tube and tubeless bicycle tires. – Gareth Puncture – Regular > read more

Make: Live Episode 07: Karts and Wheels (preview video)

Published on 2011-04-22 10:00:54

Make: Live 07 – Karts and Wheels Wednesday April 27th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with #makelive to interact live with the show. We also give away a fabulous prize fr > read more

Correlation Data for SEO and Social Media Analysis – Part 1 – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-04-22 01:33:28

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �One of the most helpful aids in doing SEO is knowing what factors actually affect your rankings. It seems obvious on its face, but not everyone prioritizes their SEO work with the knowledge of how changes to a site and l > read more

Post-Panda, Your Original Content is Being Outranked by Scrapers & Partners

Published on 2011-04-22 01:33:27

Posted by BryanCrow This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc > read more

6 Lesser Known Websites To Buy/Sell Your Cars

Published on 2011-04-21 13:50:10

With online business and trade being commonplace these days, there’s no wonder when we talk about online automobile selling/buying. For years now, there have been countless websites present online which allow people to buy and sell cars. Auto > read more

The Current State of Mobile App World (Infographic)

Published on 2011-04-21 12:12:39

The trend of having a mobile version of any website or application is growing very fast. The main reason behind this trend is a rapidly increasing usage of smartphones all over the world. And ofcourse no brand would ever want to loose their mobile au > read more

Fiddle Tunes on the 8-Bit Violin

Published on 2011-04-21 12:00:43

Make: Live guest Ranjit Bhatnagar writes: “These guys at the Thingamajigs DIY Instruments Tailgate Party really know how to operate a pointy rectangular fiddle!” More: > read more

555 Contest Winners Announced

Published on 2011-04-21 09:00:59

Jeri and Chris of the 555 contest have announced the results: Artistic Randy Elwin — Le Domineux Sergio Gonzalez — 555 Alien Sculpture Jim Frize — 555 Synth Sequencer Complex Alan Yates — 555 Adding Machine Alexis Kotlowy R > read more

Why Time is Patently on Open Source’s Side

Published on 2011-04-21 07:28:10

So far, I’ve held off from writing about the proposed sale of 882 Novell patents to a consortium “organised by Microsoft”, since there have been so many twists and turns – first it was on, then off – that making sensible stateme > read more

iPad Dry Erase Template

Published on 2011-04-21 06:00:59

Building a tablet app? Then you’ll dig this cool iPad Dry Erase Board from Design Commission. It even comes with a couple of pens and a handy list of icons on the back. [via SwissMiss] > read more

Maker Faire Bay Area: Colossus Interview

Published on 2011-04-20 20:29:33

One of the biggest installations coming to this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area on May 21 and 22 is Zachary Coffin’s Colossus. This nearly 70-foot-tall sculpture allows participants to spin 40,000lbs of stone and steel. Needless to say, we ca > read more

Google Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer

Published on 2011-04-20 19:33:48

Google launched a new version of its toolbar for Internet Explorer, but it’s only for IE8 and IE9. Google Toolbar 7 focuses on search: there’s support for Google Instant, the search box is a lot bigger and all the other features are avail > read more

Calling all California Masonic Makers!

Published on 2011-04-20 19:32:24

My friend Gary Peare informed me that the next issue of California Freemason magazine is devoted to craft artisans. If you fit the bill send a “detailed email” to communications@freemason.org. They are looking for people with personal or > read more

8 Easy Wins for On-page SEO

Published on 2011-04-20 19:32:11

Posted by Dr. Pete Even the best advice is useless if you can’t put it into play. As a consultant who started his professional life as a coder, I always try to consider the effort and cost of implementing any changes I advise. Don’t get m > read more

Flashback: VCR Cat Feeder from MAKE Volume 03

Published on 2011-04-20 19:00:46

One of the most iconic projects from the pages of MAKE is the VCR Cat Feeder from MAKE Volume 03 (2005). It’s depressing to think of all the discarded VCRs in the world, but author James Larsson gave us a creative and useful way to repurpose th > read more

Check Out the Improved Makezine.com Homepage

Published on 2011-04-20 18:01:18

On Monday AM, we rolled out a few changes to the makezine.com homepage. If you’re used to coming to the site through blog.makezine.com, you might want to start coming in through the front door. Every day, we’ll be updating the three-image > read more

Making a Map with String

Published on 2011-04-20 17:00:41

This is a cute way of making some “map art” with just a map and colored strings. > read more

The Make: Aduino Giveaway Closes Tonight!

Published on 2011-04-20 16:00:05

We’ve gotten an awesome response to our giveaway of a Maker Shed Projects Pack for Arduino. It’s not surprising, given how cool this kit is, all of what it contains, and the fact that the contents are worth $100! We’ve been enjoying > read more

Marble-Shooting Wooden Crossbow Punches Through Plywood

Published on 2011-04-20 15:00:10

Just another little bit of sweetness from Matthias Wandel, whose fantastic “woodworking for engineers” site, woodgears.ca, we have, to date, linked to more than a dozen times. See below. More: > read more

EEG-Controlled Nerf Stampede

Published on 2011-04-20 14:30:45

Chris Meyer modified his Nerf gun with a BlueSMiRF bluetooth module, NeuroSky MindSet EEG set, and an Arduino Uno — now he can fire the weapon with a mere thought! More: Visit our Make: Arduino page > read more

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddles masses yearning to breathe free

Published on 2011-04-19 20:39:18

Recently, I’ve had a spate of clients who have come to me after having not so pleasant experiences with other marketing companies or agencies. The vast majority of these people have paid a fortune for products or services that didn’t benefit th > read more

The Dr. Who Drank Infectious Broth, Gave Himself an Ulcer, and Solved a Medical Mystery

Published on 2011-04-19 18:00:21

The Dr. Who Drank Infectious Broth, Gave Himself an Ulcer, and Solved a Medical Mystery. One of my favorite Nobel prize winner-stories of all time… Unable to make his case in studies with lab mice (because H. pylori affects only primates) and p > read more

Skill Builder: Basic Bike Teardown

Published on 2011-04-19 16:30:54

RadBrad and KoolKat, of Atomic Zombie, wrote this wonderful guide to the fine art of bicycle deconstruction. You can learn a lot about a machine by stripping it down to its constituent parts. And in this case, you end up with a lot of parts that you > read more

A Waltzing Textile Plant

Published on 2011-04-19 15:30:39

Misbehaving technology got you down? Here’s a pretty video to relax to. Titled Valsa das Máquinas (Machine´s Waltz), it features equipment from a Brazilian textile factory set to a waltz. Throw in a spinning jenny or two, and we’ll have > read more

Rifled PVC Pipe For More Accurate Spud Guns

Published on 2011-04-19 15:06:34

Thanks to a commenter on last week’s > read more

Facebook + Twitter’s Influence on Google’s Search Rankings

Published on 2011-04-19 13:32:08

Posted by randfish Since last December’s admission from Google + Bing’s search teams�regarding the direct impact of Twitter + Facebook on search rankings, marketers have been asking two questions: What signals are Google + Bing count > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Aperture Logo (1970s)

Published on 2011-04-19 13:31:49

Groovy, man. To the left side of the buffet table is a lovely gelatin salad with bits of cake floating in it. It is not currently on fire. $19.99 – $21.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Aperture Laboratories Turret Schematic

Published on 2011-04-19 13:31:48

65% more bullet per bullet! It’s good to have friends, isn’t it? You have a friend in science. And you’ll have two friends in science if you buy a Turret Sentry for your home! Having a friend in science inside your house has to be j > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Aperture Logo (1940s) Babydoll

Published on 2011-04-19 13:31:48

Now in TECHNICOLOR! The 1940s introduced the Slinky, the microwave, Velcro. Don’t miss out on this vintage Aperture Science Innovators shirt with the original logo. (Note: Shirt not guaranteed to be vintage. Logo guaranteed to be 100% fictional > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Aperture Logo (1940s)

Published on 2011-04-19 13:31:47

Blast from the past. The 1940s introduced the Slinky, the microwave, Velcro. Don’t miss out on this vintage Aperture Science Innovators shirt with the original logo. (Note: Shirt not guaranteed to be vintage. Logo guaranteed to be 100% fictiona > read more

Reminder: Arduino Giveaway, Deal of the Day

Published on 2011-04-19 04:24:22

Check out Stephen Hobley’s ‘duino-driven Laser Harp on Make: Projects. It’s an Arduino-flavored Monday here at makezine.com. Our Arduino Projects Pack giveaway is ongoing, and today’s Deal of The Day bundles a 1-year subscript > read more

Standing desk prototype #1

Published on 2011-04-19 04:24:21

I built an elevated platform so I could try working at a standing desk. It’s 11.5 inches high, and I built it from .75″ x .75″ sticks and .5″ plywood. I added lots of triangular bracing and then sat on it to make sure it could > read more

Elaborate & Mesmerizing LEGO Great Ball Contraption

Published on 2011-04-19 04:00:15

This video from YouTuber akiyuky is close to 8 minutes of heavy duty LEGO automation that will almost certainly suck you in. Colored balls are hurried along the machine using over twenty GBC modules of varying complexity. Watch as they’re swept > read more

The Future, According to Google’s Results

Published on 2011-04-19 01:33:34

Today’s XKCD comic explores the future using the top Google results for queries like “by the year *”, “by *”. According to Google’s search results, one year after the 2012 Apocalypse, “microchi > read more

Java and QuickTime Require Permission in Google Chrome

Published on 2011-04-19 01:33:33

Last year, Chrome’s team promised to add some features that improve plug-in security. One of them is already included in the latest dev builds: “some plug-ins are widely installed but typically not required for today’s Internet expe > read more

O’Reilly MySQL & more 2011 was great

Published on 2011-04-19 01:31:48

I hope this is held again in 2012 and that Oracle sends more developers to the conference. I had useful conversations with the four developers and development managers who attended from Oracle. I also had great discussions with Percona, Monty Program > read more

Erase a CD in style with high voltage electricity

Published on 2011-04-19 01:12:42

Youtube user Photonicinduction shows how to erase a CD using a high voltage step up transformer. It’s probably not the most efficient way to go about things, but it does look cool! [Thanks, Matt!] > read more

NASA Maps its Open Gov/Citizen Science Efforts

Published on 2011-04-18 23:07:48

Our friends at On Orbit posted a link to this NASA poster showing their milestones in creating more open source agency in their agency and providing more tools for citizen science. As part of the NASA Open Government plan released on April 7,201 0, N > read more

Live NASA Make: Challenge Webcast Tuesday 11am PT

Published on 2011-04-18 21:30:37

Don’t miss Tuesday’s live webcast where Dale Dougherty and YOU ask questions of the experts around the NASA Make: Challenge! The NASA Make Challenge is an invitation for makers to participate in the exploration of space and give students > read more

More Paperclip Snub Dodecahedron Fun

Published on 2011-04-18 19:30:11

Here’s another response to George Hart’s challenge to build a snub dodecahedron out of paperclips. A few weeks ago, we showed you Charlotte DeKoning’s build, using twist-tie wires at the junctions. This morning, we got this beauty s > read more

MAKE, Makers in the Washington Post

Published on 2011-04-17 22:22:35

Photo by Matt McClain for the Washington Post Washington Post writer Michael S. Rosenwald has a piece in today’s Sunday Business section entitled “Tech mogul? Nope. Any old hack will do.” It looks at the impact that the maker moveme > read more

3D-Printed Lathe

Published on 2011-04-17 21:54:11

If you’d like to try your hand at turning on a lathe, but don’t want to shell out for a machine, how about printing your own EZLathe? Paul writes: So I’ve built a complete mini lathe system I’m calling the EZLathe… Fully > read more

The One-Hour Hat

Published on 2011-04-17 14:31:46

Late April is probably not the ideal time of year to get interested in designing and making fleece hats, but that’s what has happened to me over the past day or so. The other night, I decided that the fleece hat I’ve worn for most of the > read more

Coffee Table Train Layout

Published on 2011-04-17 10:00:42

Jaxan of Sacramento, CA, built a N-scale model train into an Ikea “Liatorp” coffee table. [Via Ikea Hackers] > read more

Laser Cut Your Own Gear Coaster Set

Published on 2011-04-17 08:00:55

Eric Weinhoffer submitted these photos of his cool laser cut gear coasters to the MAKE Flickr pool. He designed the coasters in AutoCAD and made the file available to all of us over at Thingiverse. Thanks for sharing, Eric! > read more

Videos Uploaded to Google Video Will Be Removed Next Month

Published on 2011-04-17 07:33:24

Google sent the following message to everyone who uploaded videos to Google Video: Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we’re re > read more

Personalized Cotton Candy Maker

Published on 2011-04-17 03:31:07

From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user usopyon and friends created this internet-enabled cotton candy machine. It consists of an Arduino-powered colored sugar mixer, which dispenses measured amounts of pink, green, and blue sugar to create a uniquely > read more

6 Simple But Really Useful Mac OSX Apps

Published on 2011-04-17 01:32:28

There are many mac osx apps are out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 6 Simple But Really Useful Mac OSX Apps. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best. You are welcome if > read more

Lego Quad Flexpicker Can Sort 48 Bricks Per Minute

Published on 2011-04-16 13:00:26

Shep’s quad flexpicker packs 6 NXT microcontroller bricks, 22 motors and servos, and 26 sensors and muxes, and takes the form of four delta robots grabbing bricks from a conveyor. The grippers are pneumatic and are controlled via IR signals. So > read more

Google Quick Scroll Integrates with Instant Previews

Published on 2011-04-16 10:33:19

If you use Quick Scroll for Chrome or Google Toolbar, Google highlights the sections of the page that are the most relevant to your query. That means you can click on a search result and quickly find the best matches. Google Quick Scroll now integrat > read more

Enter the MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest!

Published on 2011-04-16 06:23:18

Here at headquarters, we’re cranking on producing the next issue of MAKE, Volume 27, themed Robots! What better way to celebrate than to host a fun, simple robot contest? We liked the open-endedness of our Volume 26 The rules are simple: 1. Com > read more

Find the Future Game at the New York Public Library

Published on 2011-04-16 06:23:17

Find the Future Game at the New York Public Library, excellent glimpse of the Find the Future at NYPL is an augmented reality game by Jane McGonigal that celebrates the 100th birthday of the New York Public Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarz > read more

Make: Arduino Giveaway!

Published on 2011-04-16 06:23:16

Our comrades in the Maker Shed have given us one of their awesome Projects Pack for Arduino V2 kits to give away in the Make: Arduino area! The giveaway will run through Wed midnight (4/20), ending at 11:59m PDT. We’ll be giving a lucky winner > read more

NASA Make Challenge Webcast

Published on 2011-04-15 20:53:45

We’re hosting an imromptu webcast for the NASA Make Challenge next Tuesday! Dale Dougherty hosts: The NASA Make Challenge is an invitation for makers to participate in the exploration of space and give students an opportunity to build an experi > read more

How to Make SEO Happen – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-04-15 19:32:00

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �Sure, you know SEO like you know the back of your hand. You know how to linkbuild, and you know how to do keyword research. Of course you’ve got a lot of SEO knowledge – you’ve been watching these White > read more

Bring The Fresh: A Comprehensive Online Money Making Resource

Published on 2011-04-15 19:31:38

This post is sponsored by BringTheFresh.com that shows you how to make money online. Online moneymaking tools are nothing new – there are hundreds of different programs, courses and books out there, all of which proclaim they are the best option fo > read more

Likelihood of a computer issue being solved by (Graph)

Published on 2011-04-15 16:38:47

Being a computer user we all have to face random issues with our computers. If diagnosed correctly, most of the time it just fixes after restart and few chances are that we have to put little efforts for configuration, installation/re-installation an > read more

Felt & LED Pinball Bumper Necklace

Published on 2011-04-15 15:30:06

Learn needle felting basics from Moxie and make this pinball bumper necklace in this episode of the CRAFT Video. Build up 3D forms using tiny pokes and wool roving. You can even embed an LED to make your pinball bumper light up. Caught the bug? Check > read more

How not to get a potential clients attention with email.

Published on 2011-04-15 14:38:50

This little post could actually have had a number of titles: “How to make yourself look as unprofessional as possible to a potential client.” “How to seem like a spammer even if you might not be.” “How to lose all profes > read more

Better Google News in Opera Mini

Published on 2011-04-15 13:33:16

Opera Mini is one of the most popular mobile browsers, but not many websites optimize their interface for Opera Mini. Most Google services have two mobile interfaces: a basic WAP interface and a more advanced interface for smartphones. Opera Mini alw > read more

Maker Faire Bay Area: The Paper Airplane Guy Interview

Published on 2011-04-14 20:17:39

Every year, you never know what wonders to expect at the Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place on May 21 and 22 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. But there are a handful of makers who have been there since the very first Faire in 2006. One of these makers i > read more

Oregon Manifest Bike Building Competition

Published on 2011-04-14 18:30:48

Jamie Nichols and Phillip Ross, of Team Metrofiets, with one of their cargo bikes (not a utility bike for the competition) The Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge is a design and build competition where some of the best custom bike craft > read more

Google Translate, Now With Voice Input

Published on 2011-04-14 16:33:09

Google Chrome 11 added support for HTML speech input API. “With this API, developers can give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice to text. When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and then speak into your compute > read more

HacDC Spaceblimp video from latest launch

Published on 2011-04-14 16:01:37

The folks at HacDC have now done four successful “spaceblimp” launches. The latest took place this past Sunday (April 10) in Maryland. They write: We launched from Breezewood Elementary School‎ at 1:30 pm, the balloon popped at 2:41 pm > read more

DIY Geiger Counters Take Center Stage

Published on 2011-04-14 15:30:14

MAKE’s Resources Pachube Pachube is a realtime data infrastructure platform for the Internet of Things, managing millions of datapoints per day from thousands of individuals, organisations and companies around the world. Pachube’s powerfu > read more

Confusingly Adorable Lego AT-AT

Published on 2011-04-14 15:19:08

By Flickr user MacLane, for a recent contest on Lego Star Wars enthusiast-site From Bricks to Bothans. > read more

The Story of SEOmoz

Published on 2011-04-14 13:31:54

Posted by randfish Several weeks back, I gave a very unique talk at LUISS University in Rome, Italy at the bequest of the US State Department and the�Business Association Italy America�(BAIA). The audience was small, but the energy was fant > read more

Home & Office : Plush iPaw’d For Dogs

Published on 2011-04-14 13:31:00

A pampered pooch’s dream come true – his own i’Pawd! The Plush i’Pawd features icons for many dog-friendly apps. Of course, since we know your dog enjoys chewing, we have made sure the i’Pawd is made only of the best che > read more

Geek Kids : Squishables

Published on 2011-04-14 13:30:59

Free hugs! Squishable Android, Cthulhu, Narwhal, and T-Rex want to be squeezed. Soft and cuddly companions, Squishables are round and friendly and just begging for hugs. The 15″ full-size Squishable is perfect for big kid to adult sized hugs an > read more

Home & Office : Pet Loc8tor

Published on 2011-04-14 13:30:59

Guides you to within 1 inch of your lost pet, child, or those pesky walking keys of yours. This credit card sized device is specifically designed for locating missing pets. Just press the button and the Loc8tor’s audio and visual clues will poi > read more

Make: Live is Tonight! Episode 06: Bikes, Basics to Extremes

Published on 2011-04-13 22:20:41

Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our bikes episode where guests Nick Normal and William Thomas Porter join us with pedal-powered projects. We’ll also be giving away some tools from Digi-Key to one lucky member of the chat. Giveaway pri > read more

Google Highlights Recent Image Search Results

Published on 2011-04-13 19:33:05

Google started to index images a lot faster and it now even highlights recent results by showing a small label like “1 day ago” or “22 hours ago” below the image. You can’t yet restrict the results to recent images, but > read more

Google Calendar’s Favicon Changes Every Day

Published on 2011-04-13 19:33:04

When Google Calendar changed the favicon, many people wondered why it only shows 31. “Does it mean that starting today, every day will be the 31st ? Serously, favicon should be changed everyday to match the date,” suggested a Google Calen > read more

Google’s Big Blue Bar

Published on 2011-04-13 19:33:04

“Come here often? Make Google your homepage” is the new promotional message that tries to convince Internet Explorer users to set Google as their homepage. After all, it’s easier to convince people to change the homepage than to ins > read more

Opera Turbo Uses WebP to Compress Images

Published on 2011-04-13 19:33:03

Opera is probably the best browser for slow Internet connections, especially if you enable Opera Turbo, a proxy that compresses web pages. Opera 11.10 improved this feature significantly by replacing highly compressed JPEGs with WebP images. “T > read more

DONT MISS IT! Make: Live Episode 06: Bikes, Basics to Extremes

Published on 2011-04-13 19:00:08

Make: Live is broadcasting shortly! Don’t miss guests Nick Normal and William Thomas Porter. Make: Live 06 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes Wednesday April 13th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStr > read more

Maker Faire Bay Area: Stanford Solar Car Project Interview

Published on 2011-04-13 18:20:36

The countdown to our sixth annual Maker Faire Bay Area has begun! This year’s Faire, the world’s largest DIY festival, is taking place on May 21 and 22 at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds south of San Francisco. Mark your calendars, if yo > read more

Inventor Portrait: Steven Sasson

Published on 2011-04-13 17:00:00

David has an interview with the inventor of the digital camera, he writes - This is my portrait of Steven Sasson, inventor of the digital camera. He was the 32nd inventor in my project. I shot him in October at Kodak’s headquarters in Rochester > read more

Open MAKE, THIS Saturday, April 16th, 10am

Published on 2011-04-13 16:30:13

Wood is the theme for this month’s Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Four featured makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater, between 1pm and 2pm, and they’ll be ta > read more

How-To: Phoenix Quilt

Published on 2011-04-13 14:56:54

Never had too much interest in making or owning a quilt until I saw this one Becky just spotted from Instructables user csiebe. [via CRAFT] More: TARDIS Quilt > read more

Bolt-Action Spud Gun

Published on 2011-04-12 04:19:40

Jeremy Cook advances the potato cannon arms race from muzzle- to breech-loading eras with this .602 caliber pneumatic spud gun prototype that fires from a high-pressure gas reservoir instead of via the familiar fuel-ignition system. He writes: The ac > read more

Google Told You So.

Published on 2011-04-12 01:31:47

Posted by Laura Lippay Music selection to enjoy with this post: The Unforgiven (Metallica) In October of 2007 I was standing in front of a full house at the Yahoo Sunnyvale headquarters. I was on a mission to try to explain, with very little actual e > read more

SEOmoz Feature Preview: The SERP Analysis Report (Please Share Your Feedback!)

Published on 2011-04-12 01:31:46

Posted by adamf First of all, thanks to everyone who played along with our little April Fool’s prank a couple of weeks back. I apologize if we made our fake Future Rank tool seem a little too real. As penance, I thought I would offer a sneak pe > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Umbrella Corporation

Published on 2011-04-12 01:30:41

Back in stock! The Umbrella Corporation has a position available immediately for a full-time laboratory assistant at the Arklay Research Facility. The lab’s focus is virology, with an emphasis on its application in genetic engineering. Top secr > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Ferrous Wheel Babydoll

Published on 2011-04-12 01:30:41

Horrible chemistry puns now available for ladies, too. We’re am-bivalent about this shirt. But we’re not really, which makes that statement iron-ic. HA! This shirt lends itself to so many bad jokes. Just be glad we didn’t try to mak > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : For Sale By Owner Babydoll

Published on 2011-04-12 01:30:40

MOTIVATED SELLER!!! Gracious living in a nice, quiet setting (you know – space). Reasonably priced, plus owner willing to negotiate an allowance to be given at closing. $27.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : OMG Pwnies – Kids

Published on 2011-04-12 01:30:40

Pwnies for mini geeks! Our sister site, Slashdot, pimped out their design a few April Fools ago with an OMG! Ponies!!! pink theme. We love the idea and are doing them one better. $12.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : For Sale By Owner

Published on 2011-04-12 01:30:39

This one won’t last long! Gracious living in a nice, quiet setting (you know – space). Reasonably priced, plus owner willing to negotiate an allowance to be given at closing. $27.99 – $29.99 > read more

Skill Builder: Bre Builds a Bike

Published on 2011-04-11 23:00:53

On this video from the vault (Weekend Projects, 2007), Bre Pettis and his friend Dave Neff bodge together a bike for Bre from several trashed bikes. More: See all of our Follow the Bike Shop Skill Builder series > read more

Algae-Dispensing Vending Machine

Published on 2011-04-11 19:00:13

Haberlandt acts as a biotechnological vending machine by growing and maintaining an algae in a super optimized and continuous production state. Haberlandt is designed to sustain any suspension culture, currently consisting on Spirulina algae (Arthros > read more

Polite houseguests print and repair

Published on 2011-04-11 00:11:47

Last night I was out on an adventure. In the morning, the shower curtain fell down because the pole was a bit too short. After I pulled the paper towel tube shim out, I tried to twist the rod to lengthen it. Since it was maxed out, it needed a little > read more

PVC Pipe Garbage Corral

Published on 2011-04-10 20:30:44

Chalk up another win for > read more

White Hat SEO: It F@$#ing works

Published on 2011-04-10 19:31:43

Posted by randfish I hate webspam. I hate what it’s done to the reputation of hardworking, honest, smart web marketers who help websites earn search traffic. I hate how it’s poisoned the acronym SEO; a title I’m proud to wear. I hat > read more

Attaching Motors (and Attaching to Motors)

Published on 2011-04-10 16:30:53

Recently, we’ve been messing around with motors and gears at Pemtech. Students in one of my classes are building an underwater ROV, and we don’t have any decent propellers. Rather than shop for them, we’re fabbing our own with the l > read more

Program AVR microcontrollers using your Arduino and the Senpai shield

Published on 2011-04-10 15:00:24

Jaroslaw Lupinski designed the Senpai (Shield for Extra Nimble Programming of Arduino) shield, to make it easy to program AVR microcontrollers using an Arduino: If you want to take your device to the next level, you’ll need to program a bare AV > read more

The SegWii: A Wiimote-Controlled Self-Balancing Robot

Published on 2011-04-10 13:17:04

17-year-old hardware hacker Tijmen Verhulsdonck of the Netherlands built this self-balancing robot with two Arduinos and a Wiimote. [Via Arduino blog] > read more

Take a Phototour of this Marvelous Woodshop

Published on 2011-04-10 08:00:09

Designer Keith Scharwath took a tour of Woodshop, the San Francisco studio of Jeff Canham, Lyke Bartels, Danny Hess and Josh Duthie. Check out the nice batch of photos that he took while he was there. [via Color By Numbers] > read more

The Brilliant Bing for iPad

Published on 2011-04-10 07:32:27

Microsoft has recently released an iPad app for Bing that’s really impressive. “Bing for iPad goes beyond the traditional search experience, offering a unique and visually rich way to search the Web. The app is designed from the ground up > read more

An Extensive Rumor Roundup About iPhone 5 (Infographic)

Published on 2011-04-10 04:48:54

Apple products like Mac, iPhone, iPod, iPad etc always keep their positions in the technology news. Now a days, everyone is looking at the upcoming release of iPhone 5 and many people has different insights about it which they are sharing with the wo > read more

Old school on the web

Published on 2011-04-09 22:38:19

I recently came across a bunch of old Geocities screenshots lying around in a folder on my computer. I wanted to unearth these gems and share them with a wider audience. Sometimes it’s good to look back on what came before - mostly so that we > read more

Elegant Advanced Search Implementation

Published on 2011-04-09 14:07:06

I like this advanced search implementation on Elance a lot: It makes it easy to choose between searching for jobs or talent without making the search interface overly complicated. On a related note, I have been noticing more sites are integrating the > read more

If Users Treat Local Search Results Differently, Why Wont Google?

Published on 2011-04-09 13:31:35

Posted by Jeff.Gold This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc > read more

Google Tests a Search Option for Definitions

Published on 2011-04-09 10:32:24

Google experiments with a search option that lets you find the definition of a word without using the define: operator or adding “definition” to the query. Selecting the “dictionary” option from the sidebar doesn’t restr > read more

Turn Your iOS Device into an Oscilloscope

Published on 2011-04-09 08:00:58

For iOS device owners that mess around with electronics, Oscium recently announced the release of the iMSO-104 mixed signal oscilloscope for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The hardware, which connects via the dock connector, doesn’t ship unt > read more

Comment Winner

Published on 2011-04-09 06:11:14

The winner of the best comment out of the 240+ comments on Gearloose is not a duck – the beak form is more chicken-like. He’s shown to actually engineer stuff – other than, for example, Batman, who for the most part only tells other > read more

Building Bikes From Steel

Published on 2011-04-08 18:30:47

FROM STEEL: The Making of a Soulcraft More: > read more

Recycled Recumbents Revisited

Published on 2011-04-08 14:57:31

Then Now > read more

Boy Scouts Debut Robotics Badge

Published on 2011-04-08 13:47:15

The BSA, in association with NASA, has a released a new merit badge for robotics, featuring one of the Mars rovers on the patch. When people think of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), they envision activities like camping, knot-tying, and canoeing, bu > read more

Reading Levels in Google’s Sidebar

Published on 2011-04-08 13:32:13

Google’s search options sidebar includes a feature that was only available in the advanced search page: filtering results by reading level. If you enable this feature, Google will classify search results based on the complexity of the text. You > read more

Only A Few More Hours To Help Name The Best Comic Maker Of All Time!

Published on 2011-04-08 11:35:05

There are over 200 comments on As I said on the post, I’m going to award a prize to the best comment. The prize is Superman: The Black Ring by Paul Cornell & Pete Woods HARDCOVER! Be funny, be smart, be creative, and it’s yours! I’ll do a > read more

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Wall Warts (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Published on 2011-04-08 11:00:47

Jon Chandler has written a fantastic getting-started article on selecting an AC-to-DC power supply for your home electronics project over at Digital DIY. It covers the very basic details of voltage and current selection, and goes on to clearly and su > read more

IOIO Lets You Control Your Electronics Project From Your Android Phone

Published on 2011-04-08 08:58:02

Ytai from Tel Aviv wrote in with a cool new board he developed: I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new product I’ve been working on for the past months! IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo) is a product which lets you connect electronic cir > read more

SEO Link Analysis Pitfalls – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-04-08 07:31:29

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �Over the past couple of weeks Rand has been discussing the�metrics available for link research�and how to use them appropriately for different research situations. While these metrics and strategies can certain > read more

Using Tools & APIs To Track Your Social Media Strategy

Published on 2011-04-08 07:31:28

Posted by Tom Critchlow Social media is becoming increasingly important for SEO. Just in the last week we’ve seen the launch of Google +1 and early correlation data showing Facebook shares are highly correlated with rankings. In this post IR > read more

Untouched By Human Hands

Published on 2011-04-07 20:00:53

I spent most of 2008 researching my novel For the Win, which is largely set in the factory cities of South China’s Pearl River Delta. If you own something stamped MADE IN CHINA (and you do!), chances are it was made in one of these cities, where te > read more

Scratch Built Palisades Muppet Theatre

Published on 2011-04-07 18:31:44

“Some people have too much time on their hands!” That’s a frequent, snarky comment we get after we post a project with an intense level of dedication to something as seemingly frivolous as Lego spaceships, highly detailed gaming min > read more

Gmail Lets You Disable Auto-Adding Contacts

Published on 2011-04-07 16:31:59

As previously announced, Gmail added a setting that lets you disable automatically saving email addresses to your contacts. Go to the Settings page, find the section “Create contacts for auto-complete” and you’ll notice that the fol > read more

Paperclip Snub Dodecahedron

Published on 2011-04-07 16:30:53

I can’t tell you how much it warms my editor’s heart to see readers trying their hands at the projects we publish and reporting the results back to us. Charlotte DeKoning saw our recent Math Monday column on making She writes: I saw the r > read more

Top 10: Recumbent Bikes

Published on 2011-04-07 15:21:58

#10 #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 Did I miss a good one? Let me know, below! > read more

Which Comic Book Character Is The Greatest Maker Of All Time?

Published on 2011-04-07 14:00:49

It’s that time again, where I stick out my neck and offer up some opinion in these here parts. Previously we contemplated why the For many geeks, nerds, and makers, comic books are modern mythologies to be studied and learned from. We don’ > read more

BREAKING NEWS: OSHW Logo Selected!

Published on 2011-04-07 13:18:37

OSHW Logo Selected! The results of the public votes for the OSHW logo are in! Almost 9000 people voted, and the community selected “Golden Orb” by Macklin Chaffee as the OSHW Logo v1.0 (submitted on Feb 11th, 2011). Congratulations Golden Orb, th > read more

Laser-Cut Polygonal Sculptures

Published on 2011-04-07 13:15:23

Paul Kinsky of Worcester, MA, developed an algorithm that transforms 3D models into laser-cut pieces that can be assembled into a physical version of that model. > read more

Animatronic Peep Show

Published on 2011-04-07 11:03:12

The good kind. You know, with little marshmallow candies shaped like chicks baby birds? Built by Kyle Ringgenberg: In the spirit of Easter, I’ve designed and constructed an audio-animatronic “Peep” Show. This is inspired by a long-running pun a > read more

Fifteen-Digit Nixie Clock

Published on 2011-04-07 09:25:34

After staring at the Union Square clock about 100 times, I decided to replicate it at home, so that I can watch the digits scroll by on my desktop. I named the clock after one of my favorite quotes from the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops, where t > read more

Twitter round up for March 2011

Published on 2011-04-07 02:37:48

Every month we try to round up the best of informative and useful articles and information posted on Twitter. This month there was a grab bag of marketing, social media and topics on design. Enjoy! � Related posts: Twitter Round Up – Janua > read more

Crawler Face-off: Xenu vs. Screaming Frog

Published on 2011-04-07 01:31:19

Posted by Dr. Pete Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a number of new web-based SEO crawlers (including our own Pro App here on SEOmoz). They’re great tools and can provide a lot of insight, but sometimes you’ve just got to g > read more

Without CRO & On-Site Optimization, It’s Tempting to Abandon SEO

Published on 2011-04-07 01:31:18

Posted by Bill4Time This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc > read more

Retargeting: What It Is & How to Use It

Published on 2011-04-07 01:31:17

Posted by JoannaLord I’ve wanted to write this post for a couple weeks now, knowing that the topic of retargeting is hot, hot, hot. I�noticed that as more marketers hear of retargeting there still seems to be quite a bit of confusion aroun > read more

Google’s Tilted Easter Egg

Published on 2011-04-06 19:31:55

If you search for [tilt], [tilted] or [askew] on a smartphone using Google, you might notice a strange special effect: Google’s search results page is tilted to the right. It’s an Easter Egg, just like the “did you mean” link > read more

Mammoth Mountain Art Park

Published on 2011-04-06 19:02:20

While most folks are gazing longingly toward summertime, some of us snow junkies are holding onto the last glimpses of winter on the mountaintops. In California, Mammoth ski area is always the last bastion of snow terrain (they close in July), and th > read more

Google Starts Science Fair, Pitching Products to Students

Published on 2011-04-06 17:00:32

Google Starts Science Fair, Pitching Products to Students @ NYTimes.com… Google is synonymous with “search engine,” and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with “science.” The company is getting into the science fair business > read more

Old Bike Refresh

Published on 2011-04-06 16:31:49

There are a lot of old, broken down bikes out there — we have at least one in our garage. It’s a good bike. It’s a little beaten and bruised, a little rusty, but a quick strip-down, a few fresh coats of paint, some lubrication, new > read more

Tactile Deep-Space Imagery For The Visually Impaired

Published on 2011-04-06 15:11:24

NASA’s Amazing Space project has a monthly Tactile Astronomy feature that provides public-domain files for printing “feelable” versions of Hubble’s deep space photographs on special printers: Tactile Astronomy supports our eff > read more

Portotrash, a mini trash can that clips to your table

Published on 2011-04-06 14:00:36

Jack Talbert designed this Portotrash unit, which lets you clip a plastic bag to your table to use as a convenient trash bag. It looks like it could come in handy, especially when doing messy tasks such as clipping wire leads. He’s pre-selling > read more

YouTube’s New Search Options Format

Published on 2011-04-05 22:31:45

YouTube has a new interface for related searches and advanced search options. Now you can select multiple filters from a category and combine related searches. For example, you can find long-form HD videos that are available in the WebM format. If yo > read more

Brix, a New Google Docs App

Published on 2011-04-05 22:31:44

Google Docs code includes references to a new application code-named Brix. The files created using this application are called “Brix documents”, so Brix can’t be a photo editor or a video editor. Here’s an icon that could be u > read more

Great Email plus Landing Page Marketing Campaign

Published on 2011-04-05 20:06:56

I enjoyed this marketing email I received recently from Paramore|Redd, in particular, how the landing page coordinates with the email campaign to provide a consistent user experience. Here’s the email: And here’s the landing page it > read more

How To Manage Twitter: Do It Your Way

Published on 2011-04-05 19:31:05

Posted by jennita These days it seems like every time we turn around someone is telling us how to manage our Twitter account(s). Whether they’re talking about managing a business, a community or even a personal account, I sort of feel like I > read more

Early Ranking Factors Data + an April Linkscape Update

Published on 2011-04-05 19:31:05

Posted by randfish It’s that time of the month… There’s new data in Linkscape’s index, which means Open Site Explorer, Moz’s SEO Toolbar, our API and many of our other tools all have new links and metrics. Here are the s > read more

Skill Builder: April is Bike Month!

Published on 2011-04-05 17:30:51

This month’s skill set is a little different than the previous Electronics, Also a little different this month is the scope of what we we’re covering. We’re calling it “Bike Shop” because of its diverse offerings of R > read more

Rest in Fleece: Wool Coffins

Published on 2011-04-05 17:00:07

Crafty and green way to go… To help it survive — and thrive — in Britain’s shrinking textile industry, Hainsworth, a 225-year-old, family-run wool mill in West Yorkshire, England, has developed niche uses for wool. Its product range i > read more

Twitter.com Gets New Homepage Design (Screenshot)

Published on 2011-04-05 15:48:46

Luckily, I got a chance to open the twitter.com with their new home page design about which hardly few people know till now. The first impression of the new homepage design looks very similar to Facebook homepage. Currently, it has not been officiall > read more

How-To: Cast A Bowl Between Two Balloons

Published on 2011-04-05 15:30:04

Interesting experimental process, thoroughly documented in photos and on video, from designer Maarten De Ceulaer. [via NOTCOT] > read more

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Published on 2011-04-05 14:00:49

I love this Möbius Gear design, made by Aaron Hoover for a Procedural Solid Modeling class back in 2009. It looks impossible at first glance, but the trick is that the inside gear is actually made from a flexible material, so it can deform as it spi > read more

Blingy iPod Nano Wristband

Published on 2011-04-05 04:00:25

Isn’t the iPod Nano enough? Do you really need the $18k worth of diamonds to go along with it? Well, if that’s a no-brainer, then you’ll dig this fancy iPod Nano wristband enclosure from ZShock. [via Engadget] > read more

Homemade TRON playset

Published on 2011-04-05 02:13:56

Brett King posted this Custom TRON Light Cycle Board Game and Playset in the MAKE Forums: I thought I would share my latest project, which is a TRON game that I made to play with my kids. It took some time to plan out, but implementation was fairly s > read more

The Locks of Manuel Guerra

Published on 2011-04-04 19:00:50

Ray from the Hack Factory clued me into this guy’s work. In an era where locks are factory-made and bland, Manuel Guerra of Cuenca, Ecuador, made some beautiful pieces before his death. > read more

Wave Machine From Tape, Toothpicks, and Gummy Bears

Published on 2011-04-04 18:30:36

What I look for in a project, more than any other single quality, is doing a lot with a little. This “wave machine” demo from the UK’s National STEM Centre, targeted to science teachers for classroom use, is a great example. It̵ > read more

Taking Digital Literally: The Binary Hand Dance!

Published on 2011-04-04 18:00:34

Vi Hart melts my mind again with a totally fun video explanation of binary counting with dancing hands and groovy music. The amount of intelligence, creativity, sense of humor, and the sheer joy of exploring ideas is downright dizzying. She makes it > read more

Math Monday: Mathematical Coffee Table

Published on 2011-04-04 16:50:01

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you make a coffee table that express a mathematical idea and place it right in the middle of your living room, that certainly makes a statement to all who visit that math is central in your life. This l > read more

One Year Later: Changes in SEO

Published on 2011-04-04 13:30:53

Posted by Kate Morris It’s been a year, one calendar year since I joined Distilled. My first task was to write a post for SEOmoz as the rest of the Distilled office (all in London then) was going to be out on holiday (the Brits and their bank h > read more

How To Effectively Use the Internet To Save Money

Published on 2011-04-04 13:30:49

This article is guest posted by Sally. One of the first steps to saving money by using the internet is to try to get the best value for your money. This may require you to spend a lot of time performing research. You should research the item that you > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Mordorable! Babydoll

Published on 2011-04-04 13:30:26

Talk about preciousssss! Who doesn’t want to go to Mordor? With its mountain vistas and minimalist landscapes, your vacation photos are sure to turn out great. (Did we mention black is slimming?) Ancient castles to visit. New species to observe > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Minecraft Confused

Published on 2011-04-04 13:30:25

Does not compute. Snowballs, slimeballs… sure balls exist in Minecraft, but it’s not like they’re really spherical now, are they? You can go and build one with a huge diameter, and you end up with… a really, really big sphere- > read more

Excellent Opportunity for Small and Medium Sized Companies

Published on 2011-04-03 13:15:49

When developing a website for your company, one of the main tasks is picking the web hosting solution that works best for your business needs and the website you are developing. The problem is, there’s a large variety of options that can make i > read more

Intricate 3D-Printed Gaming Dice

Published on 2011-04-03 10:00:54

Chuck Stover’s Thorn Dice can be purchased from Shapeways. A set of six printed in stainless steel appear to run around $75 excluding taxes. You can get them cheaper printed in plastic but according to Stover, “They look fine in plastic b > read more

Homebrew Liquid Resin 3D Printer Gets Resolution Boost

Published on 2011-04-03 08:00:28

We’ve previously posted about He’s keeping most of the juicy bits to himself but he did tell us that the improvement he achieved were due to multiple changes in the process. He tweaked the software to use a more precise curing time, the resin > read more

An Opportunity for Small/Medium Real Estate Agencies

Published on 2011-04-03 07:23:20

In these day and age, people use the Internet on a daily for searching (and finding) all sorts of information, from the local weather forecast to where they’ll spend their weekend to more serious stuff such as their next home. This, on the ot > read more

Recycle your E-Waste throughout April in NYC

Published on 2011-04-03 06:30:37

The Lower East Side Ecology Center in NYC is sponsoring e-waste recycling events throughout all five boroughs for the month of April (aka “Earth Month”). You can find a list of their drop-off sites here, and their FAQ about acceptable ite > read more

Milwaukee Makerspace Grand Opening Party

Published on 2011-04-03 03:31:31

The Milwaukee Makerspace is having a grand opening party next weekend on Saturday, April 9th, 2011. They’ve got a great schedule of events planned, including a Power Wheels race, stump the maker contest, circuit etching and biodiesel demonstrat > read more

EMSL is Back with a New Drink Making Unit

Published on 2011-04-02 19:00:02

A lot of us saw a tantalizing glimpse of EMSL‘s sweet new barbot on the most recent episode of Make: Live, and here it is! Twice the pumps, twice the ingredients and twice the radness of This year, we’ve designed a brand new bartending ma > read more

Current State Of Freedom On The Internet (Infographic)

Published on 2011-04-02 16:56:55

That’s not new for most of us that there are so many countries where government controls the internet and don’t allow their peoples to use internet without censoring specific or some contents. Every country has different content to censor > read more

Awesome Hexapod Packs an LED Matrix

Published on 2011-04-02 13:00:12

SAMSA is based on the Wiring board, with an ATmega128 microcontroller, and SAMSA II on the Arduino Mega, with an ATmega1280. Both are pretty similar, tough the ATmega1280 has 8 KB SRAM, twice the ATmega128. For SAMSA II the Arduino IDE was not used. > read more

Kindergarten Shop Class

Published on 2011-04-02 08:00:29

Julie Scelfo from The New York Times writes about woodworking classes that are geared toward a younger set of children, some even as young as five years old. From Brian Cohen, co-founder of Beam Camp: “My partner and I saw that kids were spending t > read more

Engineering your Career

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:34

Engineering your Career – video interviews at Microchip via Jeri. > read more

Furniture Made From Close-Packed Tennis Balls

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:32

Actually these HEX chairs from designer Hugh Hayden made the rounds back in 2009, but they’re just now coming across my radar via this round-up of tennis ball furniture that recently tripped one of my Google auto-alerts. There are plenty of unu > read more

Kinect Self-Awareness Hack

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:32

For the sake of humanity, Kinect hackers, please exercise caution! [via Dangerous Prototypes] > read more

LED / Paper Clip Hybrid

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:31

I’m slightly conflicted about this concept from Korean designer Sungho Lee: Intuitively, I love it! Super cool! How clever! I want to make a bunch of my own—as I imagine Mr. Lee did—by cutting up some paper clips, clipping the leads > read more

Liberty Vintage Motorcycles Video Portrait

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:31

Etsy’s got a gorgeous profile video out in their Handmade Portraits series about Adam Cramer of Liberty Vintage Motorcycles: I met Adam Cramer five or six years ago, when I was living in South Philadelphia. My film career was just getting start > read more

Android-Powered Lego Megaminx Solver

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:30

Cubes are so passé. The Megaminx is a dodecahedron with 12 faces, each with 5 edges. Each face can be rotated in a similar way to the well-known Rubik’s Cube puzzle. The robot itself is built out of LEGO using a Mindstorms NXT kit for driving > read more

Invisible Ink Printer (PDF)

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:29

Download a PDF of The Invisible Ink Printer project instructions here. Thanks to Mike Golembewski for the original article in MAKE Volume 16. > read more

How-To for Secret Agents: Invisible Ink Printer Mod

Published on 2011-04-02 06:05:28

Make: Online readers who are secret agents—or secret agent wannabes—will love this project, which comes to us from MAKE Volume 16. By replacing the ink in a color inkjet cartridge with concentrated lemon juice, you can print with invisi > read more

Homebrew analog TV

Published on 2011-04-02 02:52:21

Japanese Maker Satoshi Shibuichi built this impressive looking analog television set (translation), which uses vacuum tubes to display video on a tiny CRT monitor. Schematics and photos of the build are available at the website, however if you’ > read more

Google April Fools’ Day 2011

Published on 2011-04-02 02:05:37

This year, Google’s hoaxes are less inspired and some of them aren’t original either, but they’re still funny. Here are some of them: 1. Google China invented teleportation. “Through the search is to let Google take you throug > read more

Blogger Views

Published on 2011-04-01 05:05:35

Blogger added five dynamic templates that transform blogs into interactive apps. Just add /view to the URL of a blog that offers full feeds (for example: googlesystem.blogspot.com/view) and you’ll be able to try the new views: flipcard, mosaic, > read more

Microsoft’s Antitrust Complaint

Published on 2011-04-01 05:05:34

Microsoft will file a formal antitrust complaint against Google “as part of the European Commission’s ongoing investigation into whether Google has violated European competition law”. Brad Smith, Senior Vice President at Microsoft, > read more

How Tweeting can help your Law Practice

Published on 2011-03-31 23:50:00

Do you have a law firm with an online presence? What are you doing to optimize your site and business? Today, it isn’t sufficient to just optimize your website. Many lawyers are now taking a more proactive approach and have now started taking to so > read more

Google +1 And The Rise of Social SEO

Published on 2011-03-31 20:03:18

Posted by Tom_C Today Google announced the release of a new social feature: +1 Read more about the launch from these in-depth blog posts: Danny’s ever-excellent coverage:�http://searchengineland.com/meet-1-googles-answer-to-the-facebook-li > read more

The Art of Productive Procrastination

Published on 2011-03-31 20:00:34

About four times a year I seem to be able to concentrate well for eight hours in a row — in fact, about 48 hours in a row — and I just let it happen. I don’t know when it will occur or why, but it’s typically when some manic inspiration strik > read more

Hacked Kinect used for Ghost in the Shell

Published on 2011-03-31 17:00:50

Hacked Kinect used for “Ghost in the Shell”… A new age in interactive technology takes you directly into the world of anime. Celebrating the 3D re-release of “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society” > read more

Top 10: Gears!

Published on 2011-03-31 16:45:22

We have done both #10 #9 Roll Your Own Da Vinci-Style Worm Gear — DIY How-To From Make: Projects #8 #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 Geared Candleholder — DIY How-To From Make: Projects #1 Did I miss a good one? Let me know, below! > read more

Solar Powered Remote Control

Published on 2011-03-31 15:24:28

Shawn Blaszak from Pumping Station: One shows how to build a remote control that charges on your windowsill while you’re hacking away in the cube farm. [Via @pdp7] > read more

How-To: Mountain Painting

Published on 2011-03-31 12:00:31

In the latest CRAFT Video, Meg Allan Cole shows us how to use ripped cardboard as a template for this color block mountain painting. > read more

ThinkGeek Giving Away Damaged Stock to Hackerspaces, Schools

Published on 2011-03-31 10:56:42

How cool is that? From Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog: We have a problem. And it’s growing at a rate proportional to our return pile. We can’t, in good conscience, resell damaged electronics. And we can’t donate them to charity–th > read more

Maker Faire Newcastle, 2011

Published on 2011-03-30 19:00:52

Sean Montgomery’s heartbeat sculpture, BBC News On March 11, 12, Maker Faire UK pitched its big, geeky tent once again in Newcastle. This BBC News “Tech Know” segment (link below) and article offer a fun little wrap-up of the event. > read more

Congrats Jason Scott & Internet Archive!

Published on 2011-03-30 17:00:17

In makers-we-like-to-celebrate-news… The Internet Archive just hired the best person in world for something that calls itself the Internet Archive. Congrats Jason, and congrats to all of us – quite a bit of computing history will not be l > read more

Circuitry, Anatomy, and Repair Tips for Common CFL Lamps

Published on 2011-03-30 16:30:28

I don’t know about you, but I’m so used to the paradigm established by old-style incandescent bulbs that when one of my CFL’s “blows out,” it doesn’t even occur to me that I might be able to repair it in the garage > read more

Make Real Time Autostereograms Using a Kinect

Published on 2011-03-30 15:41:05

Here’s a neat way to visualize 3d data from your Kinect: turn it into a live autostereogram! Kyle McDonald and Golan Levin put together this ofxAutostereogram project using Open Frameworks. Source code to the project is available at the link. > read more

Codebox: Create Image Filters with Matrix Multiplication

Published on 2011-03-30 14:30:23

Color filters allow you to alter an image by … well … filtering out colors from an image. While Processing has some filters built-in, it’s often handy to be able to create your own custom filters. For example, the site Anaglyph Meth > read more

Where To Place Your Adsense Ads For Maximum Profit

Published on 2011-03-30 14:03:09

This article is guest posted by Lior. One of the most hotly debated issues among Adsense users is where to place ads on your site to maximize your CTR and, thus, your profit. Outside of a few basic principles, it seems everyone has a different theory > read more

Link Anatomy – Understanding The Value Of A Link

Published on 2011-03-30 14:03:09

T-Shirts & Apparel : Yuri’s Night 2011 Babydoll

Published on 2011-03-30 14:03:07

Limited edition, ThinkGeek exclusive. Get this limited edition shirt celebrating the 50th anniversary of manned space flight. A ThinkGeek exclusive! $19.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Yuri’s Night 2011 Shirt

Published on 2011-03-30 14:03:06

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of manned space flight. Get this limited edition shirt celebrating the 50th anniversary of manned space flight. A ThinkGeek exclusive! $16.99 – $18.99 > read more

Augmented Reality Gear Simulates Weather

Published on 2011-03-30 13:53:22

Magic Vision Lab‘s weather simulator is great, but I think it needs an air conditioner slash personal sprinkler to make it more realistic. We examined a range of weather phenomenon and how they may be simulated in a mobile augmented reality sys > read more

Rugged iPod Nano Wristband

Published on 2011-03-29 18:04:19

I’ve seen a few stylized watchbands for the iPod Nano, but this “Super Modern” custom leather cuff from Etsy user Will Pesek is uniquely rugged without sparing the good looks. [via LikeCool] > read more

Q&A: Open Source Electronics Pioneer Limor Fried on the DIY Revolution

Published on 2011-03-29 17:00:15

Q&A: Open Source Electronics Pioneer Limor Fried on the DIY Revolution @ WIRED… Limor Fried is a maker’s maker. Sure, she’s got prime geek credentials: She earned an electrical engineering degree from MIT, invented several delightfully > read more

How-To: Ship An Obelisk

Published on 2011-03-29 15:01:22

In the 19th century, three ancient Egyptian obelisks made of solid granite—each weighing north of 200 tons—were shipped from Egypt to London, Paris, and New York. Postcolonial-era questions about whether ancient Egyptian obelisks shouldn& > read more

Doing Da Vinci

Published on 2011-03-29 13:30:21

Alan Federman built our Da Vinci Reciprocating Gear project in MAKE Volume 24 (video above). He has a number of other cool working Da Vinci models, built in wood, on his YouTube channel. You can learn a lot about the basic mechanics of gears, cranks, > read more

LED Matrix Quilt

Published on 2011-03-29 12:00:56

Wow! Katie Dektar made this LED matrix quilt, and she posted up plenty of process pictures showing how it all works. I sewed the rows of the matrix by machine (by putting the conductive thread in the bobbin). They all come together in the corner wher > read more

Quadrotor Drones Playing Catch

Published on 2011-03-29 11:11:12

They call it “juggling,” which, I must say, in deference to all the jugglers out there: it ain’t. But “catch” is still an extremely impressive addition to the extremely impressive list of extremely impressive stunts whic > read more

MakerBot Interface Board Kit Lets You Print Without a PC

Published on 2011-03-29 10:30:43

Today we are happy to announce a new product in the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic line, our new MakerBot Gen 4 Interface Board Kit v1.1! This is a fun DIY Interface that allows your to operate your Thing-O-Matic independently, without the use of a computer! > read more

Arduino Tic-Tac-Toe

Published on 2011-03-29 09:00:26

John Boxall’s Tic-Tac-Toe game uses a Freetronics Eleven ‘duino clone, a Sparkfun LCD and a set of ScrewShields. [Via Dangerous Prototypes] > read more

Laser Cutting LPs to Make Dinosaur Models

Published on 2011-03-29 08:07:09

When we have Well, Andrew Hyde and Matthew Wettergreen of Record Monsters seem to have figured out how to do it. But, for perhaps understandable reasons, they don’t give any details about their process. And they’re using it to make these > read more

Weed Out Your Lowest Performing Pages [Panda Strategies]

Published on 2011-03-29 08:02:28

Posted by richardbaxterseo This morning I set myself a challenge. Using some inspiration from recent�excellent ideas, strategies and articles about the Panda update, I decided to see if I could cobble together a quick strategy to weed out pages > read more

When lunch was awesome.

Published on 2011-03-28 04:37:10

Does anyone else remember the era of the cool, metal lunch box? Any cartoon, movie, tv show, etc. that a kid was into inevitably would crack out a lunch box right around “back to school” season. No related posts. > read more

Information Architecture, Faceted Navigation & Duplicate Content (Oh My!)

Published on 2011-03-28 01:53:40

Posted by Hannah Smith Hello there. You look lovely. I’m Hannah and I’m an SEO Consultant for Distilled. I’m British which means I spell things strangely sometimes, we like to make things more complicated than they really need to be > read more

4 SEO Presentations w/ Tips, Graphics + Data You Can Use

Published on 2011-03-28 01:53:39

Posted by randfish NOTE: All of the slide decks in this post are free to download and distribute, as are any of the stats/graphics in them (please reference the source if you do). Hopefully they’ll be helpful learning tools and will make your d > read more

Running Arduino Sketches on a BlinkM

Published on 2011-03-27 19:00:46

TodBot shows how to load Arduino sketches on a BlinkM Smart LED. > read more

The Evolution Of Web Browsers (Infographic)

Published on 2011-03-27 17:19:51

As we know web browsers are a necessity for us to browse the world wide web and web browser isn’t just a software which was once created and we have been using that same application today. Like technology, it has evolved from time to time, and > read more

Lego Mindstorms Construct Sorts Bricks By Shape

Published on 2011-03-27 13:00:44

akiyukyi’s brick sorter uses a digital scale and a webcam to sort bricks into broad categories like gears, Technic beams, plates, and so on. [Via The NXT Step] > read more

Old Trumpet Finds New Life as iPhone Amplifier

Published on 2011-03-27 08:00:43

What’s not to love about Christopher Locke’s Analog Tele-Phonographer? Constructed from a salvaged trumpet and various machine parts, the device amplifies and directs music played by a docked phone without the need for additional power. A > read more

DIY Modern WiFi Radio

Published on 2011-03-27 03:00:06

Jan Wante built this slick WiFi radio. He started with Jeff Keyzer’s excellent instructions, then added a custom wood and metal case, LCD interface, and encoder wheel to build it into a finished product. Looks great! [via Mighty Ohm] > read more

Turn Your iOS Device into a DSLR Remote

Published on 2011-03-26 11:00:42

The iPhone Guru posted this how-to on making your own infrared transmitter so that you can use your iOS device (such as iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad) as a remote control for your DSLR. This hack is a quick one and you may even have the required compon > read more

The Breathtaking Photos Of Spectacular Places On Earth (Earth Hour Special)

Published on 2011-03-26 07:55:04

Earth Hour is globally celebrated environmental event organized by World Wide Fund for Nature. This is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliance > read more

The Re-Emergence of DIY vs. Big Organizations by Johnny Lee

Published on 2011-03-26 06:03:31

Today we have a special guest post The Re-Emergence of DIY vs Big Organizations by Johnny Lee. The post is here on MAKE in its entirety with permission. It’s an excellent read for makers, innovators, and any company looking to harness the smart > read more

Make: Projects Build a Wind Lantern

Published on 2011-03-25 18:00:38

On the latest Make: Live, we had Dustyn Roberts, our mechanics mentor for the month, give us a tour of her Wind Lantern project, from her book Making Things Move. She’s also has put up the build on Make: Projects. It’s a fun introduction > read more

Biomimetic Octopus Tentacle Manipulator

Published on 2011-03-25 15:30:38

From a group of what seem to be mostly Italian scientists with the delightfully ominous name of The Octopus Project. Construction details were published as Design of a Biomimetic Robotic Octopus Arm in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics in 2009. A 200 > read more

Enclosing the Ocean Commons

Published on 2011-03-25 15:05:50

The oceans belong to everyone – well, more or less. That is, they form a classic commons. But of course, that fact doesn’t stop people claiming that they own stuff even here: Molecules derived from marine resources and used for medical ap > read more

Ornithopter Drone Actually Looks Like a Bird

Published on 2011-03-25 14:27:14

By the crazy German mad scientists at Festo. SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds – one of the oldest d > read more

Which Link Metrics Should I Use? Part 1 of 2 – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-03-25 13:53:12

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �For both personal knowledge and client satisfaction, it’s really important to be able to track SEO progress quantitatively as well as qualitatively. One of the benefits and detriments of the field of SEO is that th > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Romulan Ale Star Trek Energy Drink

Published on 2011-03-25 13:50:22

Won’t get you drunk, but it will deliver tons of caffeine, flavor, and Star Trek-liciousness! Although not approved by the United Federation of Planets, this Romulan Ale is delicious! Each can has some vitamins and 84 mg of caffeine. That’ > read more

Home & Office : Portal 2 Co-Op Bots Poster

Published on 2011-03-25 13:50:21

Excited about Portal 2? Put it on your wall! If you’re as excited about Portal 2 as we are, perhaps you’d like to decorate your wall with this shiny Portal 2 Co-Op Bots Poster. And then eat some cake. $8.99 > read more

Six Browsers For Most Intuitive Web Surfing Experience On Your Android Phone

Published on 2011-03-25 11:01:14

There are many apps out there for android phones, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Six Browsers For Most Intuitive Web Surfing Experience On Android. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits > read more

Creepy shoulder-mounted telepresence robot

Published on 2011-03-25 08:56:39

TEROOS lets a distant friend accompany you and see/hear through the robot’s camera and mic. A mini directional speaker allows the robot to whisper in your ear, which is even more weird. [Via JWZ] > read more

Smarter iPad 2 Smart Cover

Published on 2011-03-25 06:00:20

Check out this super sleek wooden roll top cover for the iPad 2 from Dutch case manufacturer Miniot. Made from a single piece of cherrywood, the case fits snug to the tablet using internal magnets. The design differs from the stock Apple Smart Cover > read more

Yahoo Search Direct

Published on 2011-03-25 05:04:41

Yahoo has recently launched a new feature called Yahoo Search Direct that aims to find answers for simple questions. “Search Direct is the first fundamental shift in search in more than a decade. For the first time, driving users to a results p > read more

Google Video Previews

Published on 2011-03-25 05:04:41

Google’s instant previews for video sites weren’t very useful because most video sites use Flash and the software that generates thumbnails can’t handle Flash. That’s probably one of the reasons why Google replaced the standar > read more

Upgrading Documents to the New Google Docs Editor

Published on 2011-03-25 05:04:40

Last year’s update of the Google Docs word processor had an important flaw: no backwards compatibility. You couldn’t open your old documents in the new editor and you couldn’t even upgrade your existing documents to the new format. > read more

Ultimaker Pick & Place

Published on 2011-03-25 02:02:52

Erik de Bruijn is working on adapting his Ultimaker 3D printer to act as a pick & place machine. Assembling medium quantities of PCBs was never within the reach of a home based manufacturer. It requires expensive equipment, but most of these par > read more

SVA Launches MFA in Products of Design

Published on 2011-03-25 02:02:51

A new graduate program launches at the School of the Visual Arts in NYC! I’m excited to be among the faculty. Core77′s Allan Chochinov chairs the new program, called Products of Design: Today marks the launch of a new MFA program at the S > read more

Feeling Twitchie?

Published on 2011-03-24 20:00:26

Remember Each kit comes with: 3 servomotors 6 laser-cut wooden parts Circuit board ATMEGA168 preloaded with LilyPad firmware and Twitchie software Various electronic parts such as LEDs, capacitors, and resistors Printed manual > read more

MAKE Presents: The Oscilloscope

Published on 2011-03-24 19:57:15

Oscilloscopes are surprisingly easy to use once you’re familiar with a few basic controls. They’re extremely useful for testing and can provide newcomers with a whole new way to view the world of electronics & electricity – plu > read more

RoboGames 2011 Discount Ticket Offer

Published on 2011-03-24 18:00:00

Our wireheaded cohort over at RoboGames have made another generous offer this year to all MAKE readers. David Calkins writes… RoboGames invites all MAKE readers to discounted tickets to “RoboGames 2011,” the eight annual internation > read more

Deconstructed Electronics Art with Ben Innes

Published on 2011-03-24 16:00:41

Ben Innes is a Knoxville, TN-based artist/photographer who does (among other things) installations of deconstructed electronics. Our friends at element14 have teamed up with Ben to create an art piece to be shown at Maker Faire Bay Area (May 21, 22). > read more

Top 10: Free Downloads

Published on 2011-03-24 15:00:55

Woohoo! Free stuff! Not counting software, here (except a coupla fonts), because almost without exception, all the software we’ve covered on Make: Online is free, and we’ve covered a lot of it. Free software’s a whole series of roun > read more

Raising money for your robotics team

Published on 2011-03-23 21:00:00

David from the Arduino team writes – I have been blogging a couple of times about the Complubot robotics team. It is the robotics team made of kids, based in Madrid, that has won the class B Soccer world championship the last 3 years. The team > read more

DONT MISS IT! Make: Live Episode 05: Kinetic Contraptions

Published on 2011-03-23 19:30:07

Make: Live is broadcasting shortly! Don’t miss guests Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories (Lenore Edman and Windell Oskay) and Dustyn Roberts. Make: Live 05 – Kinetic Contraptions Wednesday March 23rd, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live > read more

Reuben Margolins Kinetic Wave Sculptures

Published on 2011-03-23 19:00:17

Our > read more

Skill Set: More on Tapping Skills

Published on 2011-03-23 17:00:29

In response to my Making threads is a very useful skill. Being able to fasten parts with their own threads can reduce the total parts count and the complexity of a project. When I worked in a tooling shop, I tapped hundreds of holes. Here are some ti > read more

Red Bull got hacked by Alpha One Labs

Published on 2011-03-23 14:30:57

I swung by the new Alpha One Labs digs in north Brooklyn last night for their weekly open-meeting. Just before the meeting was about to begin, a representative from Red Bull (one of our Because other hackerspaces around the U.S. will be receiving the > read more

Litte Pictureframe is watching You

Published on 2011-03-23 14:15:12

Nikolaus Gradwohl wrote in to share his little pictureframe project, which turns an old LCD picture frame into a fun animation piece: I found a cheap digital picture frame at a local electronics store a while ago and searched a project for it. So i i > read more

Hacking a Geiger Counter

Published on 2011-03-23 13:03:25

Akiba from Tokyo Hackerspace has been understandably interested in geiger counters of late. The day after the nuclear problems started occurring at the plant, geiger counters started popping up on Ustream. After that, Pachube set up special accounts > read more

Make: Live is Tonight! Episode 05: Kinetic Contraptions

Published on 2011-03-23 12:00:15

Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our mechanics episode where guests Lenore Edman, Windell Oskay, and Dustyn Roberts join us to show off their kinetic projects. We’ll also be giving away some motors from Digi-Key to one lucky member of > read more

Mil-Surplus Heli Helmet Game Headset Probably Cooler Than Yours

Published on 2011-03-23 11:10:12

Probably much heavier, too, to be fair. el8id modified this bargain-bin surplus helicopter helmet—which came ready-made with speakers and a mic—to communicate with a gaming console or a cell phone as a bluetooth headset. It also includes& > read more

In The Maker Shed: Povard Kit

Published on 2011-03-23 10:00:55

The Povard is a large hand held POV device that is built onto a very cool laser cut and etched acrylic bezel. A POV “tricks” your eyes into seeing a full image when only part of the image is visible at one time. This effect is called the “Persi > read more

Evangelizing a Data-Driven Culture

Published on 2011-03-23 01:53:03

Posted by JoannaLord Imagine this scenario: It’s Monday afternoon, you just spent the first half of your day wading through last week’s stats, comparing metrics, data-mining for the greater good, and assembling it into an easy-to-digest s > read more

Headsmacking Tip #18: Use Discussion Search as Competitive Intel

Published on 2011-03-23 01:53:02

Posted by randfish Most of us in the search field have likely seen the addition of "Discussions" to Google’s search options. It lets searchers specifically target either forums or Q+A sites for their queries (or both, by default), and i > read more

Boden Email Design Showcase

Published on 2011-03-23 01:52:53

I quickly became a fan of Boden’s emails thanks to their colorful, textured designs. Whether it’s the main brand, Boden, or the two sub-brands, mini Boden and Johnnie b, the emails are always fun and interesting with many delightful desig > read more

Talkin Trash with Nemo Gould

Published on 2011-03-22 16:00:03

This post is one of a set sponsored by Dial for Men and their “30 Days of Dirt” campaign. We had complete editorial control over the content and decided to talk to some makers who aren’t afraid to get good and dirty in their work. F > read more

OSHW Logo is now up for voting!

Published on 2011-03-22 15:30:47

OSHW Logo Public VOTE! IT’S TIME TO CAST YOUR VOTE! On February 10th, 2011, we launched the Open Hardware Definition v1.0, and launched a competition to select an OSHW Logo. Over 129 submissions have come in over 2 weeks, and a very active discussi > read more

Blast From The Past: SpringWalker Running Exoskeleton

Published on 2011-03-22 15:11:48

I am indebted to a commenter on yesterday’s > read more

Individually labeled egg

Published on 2011-03-22 14:00:43

If you’ve ever cracked into a nice hardboiled egg in the morning and wondered about the nutrition content, then you might want to check out this egg nutrition label. Designed by Thingiverse user dnewman and printed on an EggBot art robot, it sh > read more

DIY Isomorphic Keyboard

Published on 2011-03-22 13:00:17

This is a velocity sensitive MIDI isomorphic keyboard. 192 total keys. The project came out of Louisville Soundbuilders, a fortnightly meeting of circuitbenders, synth engineers and experimental musicians. After seeing a couple of my failed variation > read more

QuizSnack VIP Membership Giveaway

Published on 2011-03-22 12:35:18

QuizSnack is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the 1 year VIP license of worth $288. Well, you guys know what QuizSnack is? Lets say it once again for n00bs. QuizSnack is one of the most easy to use online polling software on the market. It > read more

Minimals: Digital Assembly Meets Art

Published on 2011-03-22 12:15:34

MINIMALS, which is currently being exhibited at Boston’s Axiom Gallery, is a work by my friends and labmates Jonathan Bachrach and Jonathan Ward. In the academic world, they both research “digital assembly,” or the idea that in “th > read more

NASA Make: Challenge Submission Guidelines

Published on 2011-03-22 04:02:02

We’ve published the rules and guidelines for the 2011 NASA Make: Challenge, which invites makers to propose kits that high school students can build in their classrooms to explore a scientific, technical, or math concept by flying the kits on a > read more

Smart Cover for Original iPad

Published on 2011-03-22 04:00:29

Dan Provost over at Studio Neat managed to brute force one of those fancy new Smart Covers onto his first generation iPad by gluing four rare earth magnets to the spine of the iPad. It doesn’t turn the iPad screen on or off and you’ll hav > read more

Connecting with the Gateway

Published on 2011-03-21 23:05:29

If you’re working with Adobe Managed Services and try to connect via Workbench using the Adobe LiveCycle Gateway, there’s a chance that port 8443 will be in use and prevent you from connecting. �If that’s the case and you’ > read more

Serious Simulation

Published on 2011-03-21 23:00:34

Sean’s posting of this week’s Viperpit.org > read more

Defining Your True Competitors

Published on 2011-03-21 19:52:56

Posted by Benjamin Estes One of the first things to figure out for an SEO campaign is who your site is competing against in the SERPs.� If you are consulting for a client, just asking what they know about their competitors might not be enough.&# > read more

Link Building London: Absolutely Remarkable

Published on 2011-03-21 19:52:55

Posted by randfish I have attended an extremely large number of SEO-focused events in the past 7 years, planned and run seminars and training myself, contributed keynotes and sessions to major conferences and yet, I believe Distilled’s Link Bui > read more

Strobe-animated LED Phenakistoscope

Published on 2011-03-21 19:30:39

In response to last week’s Codebox column on LED Strobe Animation Device More: Build a Phenakistoscope (Make: Projects) From MAKE magazine: Want to know how to build an auto-phenakistoscope? How about a laser light show in a lunchbox? Or a simp > read more

Barter for Instruction at Trade School

Published on 2011-03-21 16:00:12

Tucked away in a back room on the 3rd floor of a nondescript church in NYC’s NoLita neighborhood is Trade School. An initiative of Our Goods, Trade School encourages students to “barter for instruction.” Basically you take a free cl > read more

Skeletonics Exoskeleton Is Kinda Like Stilts For Your Whole Body

Published on 2011-03-21 15:09:31

All the primary source material here appears to be in Japanese, in which I am sadly illiterate, but word on the street is that this is a college-level student engineering project. It’s called Skeletonics, and I want to describe the technology a > read more

Math Monday: Spherical Weaving with Pipe Cleaners

Published on 2011-03-21 14:00:17

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Pipe cleaners are easily woven into flat lattice patterns, but spherical weaves are more challenging. Here is a good exercise in spherical thinking that is much harder than it looks. The thirty pipe cleane > read more

Google Chrome’s Experimental New Tab Page for Touch Screens

Published on 2011-03-20 20:04:16

A recent Chromium build added a new option to the about:flags page: an experimental new tab page. The updated new tab page is a work in progress and it’s optimized for touch screens. Right now, it only includes the web apps you’ve previou > read more

Installing an Application Using Internet Explorer 9

Published on 2011-03-20 20:04:15

I tried to download the latest Chromium build using Internet Explorer 9 and it was one of the most painful downloading experiences. Microsoft tries to protect users from downloading malware and uses a feature called SmartScreen Filter that “che > read more

Calls For Makers Bay Area (Closing), Detroit (Launching)

Published on 2011-03-20 18:15:00

Our fearless Faire Director, Sherry Huss, texted today to remind me that the “Call for Makers” for the Bay Area Faire closes tomorrow (March 21). If you haven’t submitted yet, brew yourself a pot of strong coffee, beget your big ide > read more

NES Guitar in the Wild

Published on 2011-03-20 12:12:05

If you ever wanted to see a NES guitar in action, here’s your chance. The one-man band is called The Gizzards and he packs lots of circuit-bent goodness. [Via GetLoFi] > read more

Wellesley College Engineering

Published on 2011-03-20 11:45:20

Friday afternoon, I was vising my friend Amon Millner at Olin College. After finishing up, he invited me to go with him to the nearby Wellesley College and their Engineering Studio. Not knowing quite what to expect, but always interested in seeing ha > read more

Dew Buckets Evaporation Cools Your Drinks

Published on 2011-03-20 08:23:32

Instructables user JamesRPatrick created a self-cooling drink bucket. This version is designed to accept three 20oz bottles of soda or three 12oz cans. If you haven’t heard about evaporative coolers, they use warm water and evaporation to cool > read more

LEGO Spaceship Alphabet

Published on 2011-03-20 08:00:56

Kudos to Mark Anderson, who made this incredible LEGO spaceship alphabet: I was looking to create some LEGO spaceships, but ran into a brick wall when it came to design. I mean what hasn’t been done to death already?! So, to kick start my creat > read more

Homebrew Luge Track Comes Complete with Electronic Timers

Published on 2011-03-20 02:38:19

Ryan Micallef and friends put together a backyard luge challenge that they call the Mario Cup, but were having trouble making accurate measurements of participant’s tract times. Fortunately, they are also hackers, so they threw together an auto > read more

Quickly Edit Google Calendar Events

Published on 2011-03-19 23:04:12

You no longer have to double click on a Google Calendar event to edit its name. Now you can just click on the event’s name and quickly edit it from the description balloon. { Thanks, Maarten. } > read more

Ethics of Intellectual Monopolies: the Video

Published on 2011-03-19 08:53:53

I was pleased to discover last night that the video of my talk at FSCONS last November is now available: Glyn Moody – Keynote: Ethics of Intellectual Monopolies from FSCONS on Vimeo. Real masochists may wish to sing along using my presentation > read more

How-To: Turn Your Music into Karaoke Tracks

Published on 2011-03-19 08:00:33

If you’re a maker that likes to let your inner Michael Bublé or Beyoncé out, How-To Geek has a step-by-step guide to using Audacity to remove the vocal tracks from your favorite song. Here’s how it works: Vocals are normally placed in t > read more

7 Essential Google Intelligence Custom Alerts That Keep Me Sane

Published on 2011-03-19 07:52:47

Posted by RebeccaLehmann This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz > read more

Computer Stuff : Zerg Messenger Bag

Published on 2011-03-19 07:49:03

Acts like a Sunken Colony against everyday elements and hazards Designed for gamers who want to keep their gear protected, stay comfortable, and look good doing it. With its weather-proof heavy duty construction, it acts like a Sunken Colony against > read more

More on the iPod-controlled GTO

Published on 2011-03-19 06:01:05

In this follow-up to a Here’s an article on Jalopnik describing the Dave’s system. More: > read more

Energy Harvesting

Published on 2011-03-19 06:01:05

Energy Harvesting – Is It For Fools? by Jeri Ellsworth… Extremely funny video! Jeri build’s a pedal powered 1980′s Nintedo excise bike to shows several ways to harvest energy with Linear Technologies power management products. > read more

Where Have All the Robots Gone?

Published on 2011-03-19 06:01:04

Right after the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, I began jokingly mentioning to friends: “At least Japan has lots of robots that can help.” Then, as the days have worn on, and the tragedies mount, I started seeing comme > read more

Retractable Kitchen Island Controlled by iPhone

Published on 2011-03-18 15:16:24

Tim Thaler built a kitchen island that retracts into the floor, and is controlled by an iPhone. Retractable Kitchen Island Controlled by iPhone > read more

Avoid Marring, Open Plastic Cases With A Cut Credit Card

Published on 2011-03-18 14:58:53

Clever tip from reader Ryan O’Horo. [Thanks, Ryan!] More: > read more

Albrecht D

Published on 2011-03-18 13:52:21

16th Century engraver Albrech Dürer created a famous image of a beetle, and AFOL Tyler “Legohaulic” Clites legoized it! Sweet. > read more

Open Source’s Kith and Kindred

Published on 2011-03-18 11:23:27

One of the things that interests me is the way that the ideas underlying open source are being applied in other fields. That’s something that I normally cover in my other blog, but sometimes things happen in those other domains that have ramifi > read more

Billboards Converted To Swingsets

Published on 2011-03-18 11:03:31

Yes, please. All of them. From Paris architect Didier Faustino. [via Dude Craft] > read more

How-To: DSLR Pinhole Photography

Published on 2011-03-18 10:00:45

We’ve featured our fair share of pinhole photography projects here at MAKE, and it’s no wonder. As complicated as cameras have become, it seems amazing that photos can be taken with something as simple as a tiny hole in a shoe box. But if > read more

How-To: Documentation Camera Dolly

Published on 2011-03-18 01:59:55

I’m continually blown away with Steve Hoefer’s work. Check out his documentation camera dolly (complete with instructions): I know a lot of people who make lots of stuff. They even take the time to share as much as they can about their pr > read more

Nine Powerful Apps That Convert Your iPhone Into A Knowledge Hub

Published on 2011-03-18 01:52:53

No matter how many applications you have installed on your iOS device, you are always on the lookout for the next free and fun iOS app and specially for those apps that may make your iPhone more useful for you. Thanks to countless iOS developers you > read more

Exactly How Powerful Are Tweets & Retweets? Help Us Find Out!

Published on 2011-03-18 01:52:44

Posted by jennita Over the last few months we’ve heard a lot of talk about how social signals are starting to influence rankings, but how powerful are those tweets really? Today I wanted to explore what we know so far, take a look at some examp > read more

Sharing Everything I Learned As A Top-Tier SEO Consultant at SEOmoz

Published on 2011-03-18 01:52:44

Posted by Danny Dover This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, I > read more

Son of Know Your Bolts

Published on 2011-03-18 00:00:58

In the comments on I would encourage budding young fabricators to also take a look at the bolt grade charts and get an inexpensive universal thread gauge. For found fasteners, the grade markings help differentiate metric from SAE, and the thread gaug > read more

Open MAKE, THIS Saturday, March 19, 10am

Published on 2011-03-17 21:00:34

It’s that time again for the monthly Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. This month’s theme is Metal and Wire. The Featured Makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater > read more

Interns Corner: Autodesk Inventor Publisher Review

Published on 2011-03-17 20:00:42

MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Nick Raymond, engineering intern Autodesk recently sent Make: Labs a copy of their latest softw > read more

Making a Laser-cut Zoetrope with Processing and Kinect

Published on 2011-03-17 17:30:28

We’ve been loving the job that Andrew Odewahn has been doing with the Codebox column. But Andrew has always liked the idea of having others contribute to it and explore the Processing language from different angles. So he introduced us to Greg > read more

Join The Arduino Team, Sorta

Published on 2011-03-17 17:10:18

Wow, I hope a MAKE reader applies for this! Arduino has partnered with a university in the south of Switzerland on a master degree in Interaction Design. Massimo (Arduino team) will be heavily involved in the teaching and the students will have the c > read more

Lego Minifig Volt and Ohm Meter

Published on 2011-03-16 21:59:23

This Lego meter uses a microcontroller inside the case to check resistors and batteries. A PC running a .NET application displays the value and uses text to speech to say the number aloud. [Via Dangerous Prototypes] > read more

Restricting Robot Access for Improved SEO

Published on 2011-03-16 19:52:18

Posted by Lindsay Left to their own devices, search engine spiders will often perceive important pages as junk, index content that shouldn’t serve as a user entry point, generate duplicate content, along with a slew of other issues. Are you doi > read more

6 Reasons Why Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO in 2011 (Despite Google’s Farmer Update)

Published on 2011-03-16 19:52:18

Posted by Pavel Israelsky This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmo > read more

IBM’s Smarter Planet Icons are More Cute than Useful

Published on 2011-03-16 19:52:17

I came across these interesting icons on IBM’s site today, which are all part of creating a smarter planet, whatever that means. I’m trying to decide what I think of them. While they are quirky and interesting to look at, most of them don > read more

Maker Shed Now Carries Jameco Components and Tools

Published on 2011-03-16 18:00:50

Now there are even more reasons to make Maker Shed your one-stop shop for kits, components, and tools. You’ve always been able to buy Arduinos, Netduinos, and hundreds of cool DIY kits from the Maker Shed store, but what about all of those comp > read more

Skill Set: How To Make Pinwheel Gear Patterns

Published on 2011-03-16 17:30:49

The awesome automata artist Dug North does a quarterly column, “Dug’s Automata Tips, Techniques and Tricks,” on the Cabaret Mechanical Theater website. His latest installment outlines two different methods for making paper patterns for > read more

And the Winners Are.

Published on 2011-03-16 16:39:22

We had two giveaways close last night. In the Make: Arduino Getting Started with Arduino Kit giveaway, the winner is: Fractal LLC Thanks to all who participated (we had over 600 entries) and thanks to Maker Shed for providing this great kit. In the R > read more

PCB / Component Rings

Published on 2011-03-16 15:07:54

Yuma Fujimaki is certainly not the first person to make jewelry from scrap electronics components, but IMHO she has done a better job of it than most. [via adafruit] More: > read more

Geek Run, a Kinect game

Published on 2011-03-16 13:18:16

This game, designed by Emilie Tappolet, Raphaël Munoz and Maria Beltran, involves manipulating physical cubes as if they were game controllers. Geek Run is a collaborative game prototype played with cubes and a Kinect controller programed with open > read more

Make: Pioneer

Published on 2011-03-16 12:14:37

Engineer, kit maker, entrepreneur, MAKE advisory board member, open source hardware pioneer Limor “Ladyada” Fried is on April’s WIRED cover. This is the first female engineer to appear WIRED’s cover (as well as the first femal > read more

Sony wants to hire hackers now?

Published on 2011-03-15 17:02:12

Sony Offers a job to a hacker, Whilst Suing another via Reddit. A commenter on image sums it up nicely… Just an FYI since it hasn’t been stated yet, but for those of you who do not know, Koushik Dutta is the main developer behind Clockwor > read more

Steel Guitar in a Sink

Published on 2011-03-15 17:00:53

Prolific MAKE contributor Andrew Lewis sent us this video of a guy who built a steel guitar into a steel sink top. Add a washboard bass and you’re ready to jam and do housework! > read more

Dramatic Gestures With Kinect

Published on 2011-03-15 15:03:03

I’m indebted to a commenter on yesterday’s > read more

Jeri Ellsworth vs Talking buses #Trimet

Published on 2011-03-15 14:29:36

“I hate to tell you this but; you have set back the progress of women 100 years” this is a quote from “peterbartek” on Jeri Ellsworth’s video in which she shows Trimet (Portland buses) how to save $4590 with their new bus audibl > read more

No More Starred Results in Google Search

Published on 2011-03-15 14:03:38

Last year, Google replaced SearchWiki with starred results. You only had to click on a star to bookmark a search result and to quickly find it later. Unfortunately, this feature is no longer available and you have to find other ways to bookmark searc > read more

WebM Plugin for Internet Explorer 9

Published on 2011-03-15 14:03:38

Internet Explorer 9 will be released later today and one of the many new features is the native support for videos. Unfortunately for Google, Microsoft decided to only support H.264 videos by default, so you can’t watch WebM videos without inst > read more

Traffic Source Diversity is Essential for Successful SEO

Published on 2011-03-15 13:52:12

Posted by randfish �I recently created some custom filters in Google Analytics to illustrate SEOmoz’s traffic over the past 12 months: SEOmoz’s Traffic Sources Distribution _Data from March 15, 2010 – March 14, 2011 Here’ > read more

Printable C02-Powered Pinewood Derby Motor

Published on 2011-03-15 13:20:26

sliptonic is back with a new pinewood derby car… It’s Pinewood Derby season again and I kinda enjoy making derby cars. This year, my youngest son and I made an awesome car for his bear den division… We also have an ‘open’ class > read more

This Week in Hobby Robotics 02

Published on 2011-03-15 13:00:49

Frits and Rik are back with another episode of This Week in Hobby Robotics! Find out what’s going on in the land of robots. Frits (from Denmark), who works professionally in web concept development, is the creator of Letsmakerobots.com, a popul > read more

Showcase Of Creative Typography In Modern Web Design

Published on 2011-03-15 11:40:23

In any web design, typography is the integral part that cannot be taken for granted at any cost. Correct use of typography can make or break the whole feel of the design. Therefore, lots of close attention should be paid to typography used in the web > read more

Math Monday: Modular Clothing

Published on 2011-03-15 03:58:35

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The mathematics of modular textiles allows you to take many small pieces of slotted fabric and interconnect them into a do-it-yourself garment. There is no sewing as the textile and the garment are created > read more

Mini Home FabLab for Around $4000

Published on 2011-03-14 23:00:12

Bart Bakker of Utrecht, Netherlands sent us these images and a link to a short piece about his mini home fab lab. He built it for around US$4K. The lab consists of an A4 Laser Cutter, a vintage Ultimaker 3D-printer, a Mantis CNC mill, and a CraftRobo > read more

Reminder: Maker Faire Town Hall Meeting, TechShop SF, Tomorrow Night! (3/15)

Published on 2011-03-14 21:30:59

Don’t forget, tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 15th, we’re having a town hall meeting at TechShop SF to discuss plans for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area event (May 21 & 22, 2011). Join Dale, Sherry, Louise and other Maker Media > read more

Search for buried treasure with your very own OpenROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle)

Published on 2011-03-14 19:00:15

Eric Stackpole is an adventurer. For Eric, exploring the inner depths of Hall City Cave was only the beginning of his latest exploration. He had one goal in mind: buried treasure. Legend has it that, in the late 1800s, a few renegade Native Americans > read more

Google Toolbar 8, Powered by Google Chrome

Published on 2011-03-14 17:03:33

After Google released Chrome, Google Toolbar’s development slowed down. That’s because Google Toolbar is no longer the primary vehicle for adding browser features and Google mostly focused on improving Chrome. Google Toolbar 8 is a comple > read more

Upcoming Blogger Features

Published on 2011-03-14 17:03:32

Google rarely preannounces new features, so I was really surprised to see a video that highlights some upcoming Blogger features. Google’s video does a great job at enumerating the latest Blogger improvements, while asking people: “Have y > read more

Crowdsourced Arduino Q&A

Published on 2011-03-14 16:30:03

Two weeks ago, we ran a Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway on our Make: Arduino page. If you’re not familiar with our Getting Started book, it’s the perfect introduction to Arduino, setting up the hardware and software, and doing > read more

How-To: Mechanical Chocolate Box

Published on 2011-03-14 15:14:33

Aww, nuts! Learn to make your own from chocolate with this mechanical chocolate box tutorial by annahowardshaw. > read more

Make a large display from a bunch of small ones

Published on 2011-03-14 15:00:24

Rick Borovoy of MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media Project developed the Junkyard Jumbotron, which makes it easy to turn a bunch of small computer displays into one big one. Setting it up is as simple as opening a web browser on each device, loading t > read more

Kinect + Tesla Coils: Those Fools At The Academy Laughed At You

Published on 2011-03-14 10:55:19

If you only watch one online video today, it should be this one. Or at least the first 10 seconds of it. That guy is my new hero. [via adafruit] > read more

Linocut Letter-A-Day

Published on 2011-03-13 20:00:34

Brooklyn-based graphic designer Aymie Spitzer is challenging herself to carve a linocut letter every day for the month of March. Her typeface of choice? Champion Gothic because of her “deep rooted affection with its ampersand.” [via swiss > read more

Chrome 12 Will Drop Support for Google Gears

Published on 2011-03-12 22:03:27

While most Chrome users have been upgraded to Chrome 10, Google is fixing the bugs from Chrome 11 and working on Chrome 12. A recent Chromium build made a significant change: Gears is no longer included in Google Chrome. Gears is a browser plugin rel > read more

Giant etch-a-sketch built using projector

Published on 2011-03-12 17:57:54

Members of the Manchester, UK hakcerspace HAC:Manchester used a projector, an Arduino, and some rotary encoders to build this giant project-a-sketch. Here’s a video of it in use by Maria of littlestar.tv: [via Hackerspaces Soup] More: > read more

Awesome opportunity to work with MAKE!

Published on 2011-03-12 17:02:56

MAKE is currently searching for a Maker Shed Evangelist to work with our ecommerce team. This is a contract position. You will seek out and curate cool new products for the Maker Shed store, develop our relationships with independent maker suppliers, > read more

How-To: Pop Rocks

Published on 2011-03-12 14:00:29

If you have a little time and a lot of nostalgia for crackling candy, learn to make your own Pop Rocks with this Instructable from chickflix. Most of the ingredients are easy to find, and you’ll need a blunt object such as a hammer to break the > read more

Laser Light Show Fits in a Cigar Box

Published on 2011-03-12 13:00:31

Pete Mills from Ann Arbor, MI, wrote in with his Cigar Box Laser Light Show. It was spring break last week so I had some spare time to kill. I wanted to do a project that would be done fairly quickly and still have some time to study for classes resu > read more

Putting Your Worst Foot Forward: Why No Website Is Better than a Bad Website

Published on 2011-03-12 12:19:35

The old line “all publicity is good publicity” may be comforting, but it’s not something a business should rely on. Whether in advertising, storefront window displays,… No related posts. > read more

Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears

Published on 2011-03-12 02:57:30

Thingiverse user BenJackson designed a bracket and two gears that allow you to add numeric ontrol capability to your Etch-A-Sketch. What can I say? I’ve never been able to draw anything with an Etch-a-Sketch. I won this one in a Christmas gift > read more

Real Life Up House Lifted by Balloons

Published on 2011-03-12 02:57:29

It took this crew the short span of two weeks to “fly the house” in this National Geographic project to create a real life version of the house in Pixar’s Up– lifted into the sky by balloons. “The real Up! Scientists rec > read more

Block Sites from Google’s Results

Published on 2011-03-12 00:03:18

You no longer have to use Google’s Chrome extension to hide the results from certain domains. The feature is now available at google.com and the best thing is that the list of blocked sites is saved to your Google Account. To try this feature, > read more

Google’s Navigation Bar Links to Your Google Profile

Published on 2011-03-12 00:03:16

Google’s new navigation bar started to link to the profile pages. Click on your name at the top of a Google page and you’ll notice that you can quickly access your profile. If you don’t have a profile, Google includes a link to a pa > read more

Server Maintenance this Weekend

Published on 2011-03-11 23:00:41

Hello Makers, We’ll be doing another bit of maintenance over the weekend (WordPress’ development cycle is off the chain!), so we’ll be down for about 15 minutes (knock on wood) starting at 11pm PST on Saturday, March 12th. Hopefully > read more

Collins Lab: Homebrew Piezo

Published on 2011-03-11 20:30:14

Piezoelectric materials are about as close to magic as you can get. They turn physical pressure into electricity and can even turn electricity into physical pressure – an amazing sort of bidirectional converter for mechanical and electrical ene > read more

Maker Faire Bay Area 2011: A Maker Space Odyssey

Published on 2011-03-11 18:30:39

We’re thrilled by how things are shaping up for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area. This year’s theme will be: 2011: A Maker Space Odyssey — From Maker Space to Outer Space Some highlights for 2011, so far, include: Returning Fa > read more

Mygazines.com: A Web Based Platform For Easy Distribution, Tracking And Analyzing Content On Any Web Enabled Device

Published on 2011-03-11 17:52:08

One of the biggest challenges of any business is to connect with its audience. Regardless of your product or service, engaging with users and tracking how they access and use your content –including catalogs, brochures, whitepapers, corporate docum > read more

Preventing Link-Based Penalties – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-03-11 17:51:08

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �At the end of February, Google announced that it was updating its search algorithm to serve higher-quality results to searchers. The update has since been dubbed the "Farmer Update" due to the algorithm’s n > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Argyle Invaders Hoodie

Published on 2011-03-11 17:48:17

High Score! Maybe the sky doesn’t normally drop bombs on you, but it’s always best to be prepared. Basically, anything falling from the sky you generally want to keep away from what we must say is your finest asset, your noggin. Let our h > read more

Google’s Homepage Promotes Gmail

Published on 2011-03-11 01:53:01

Google’s homepage has briefly displayed a promotional message that encouraged visitors to try Gmail: “Switch to Gmail. Free email from Google”. The message linked to a page titled “Welcome to Gmail” that shows some of th > read more

Google’s Word Count Experiment

Published on 2011-03-11 01:53:01

Google tests a new feature that shows the approximate number of words next to certain search results. The word count is usually displayed for articles, but only for a small number of results. You’ll probably think twice before clicking on a sea > read more

Inspirational Maker Videos

Published on 2011-03-10 18:00:38

When I So, this got me thinking about other such videos, either ones we might have posted here on MAKE, or from across on the interwebs, that fill you with deep maker wonder, awe, and that unbearable itch to get out your tools and start making someth > read more

Make: Arduino Hooking up a 7-Segment LED Display

Published on 2011-03-10 17:01:56

As part of our Make: Arduino page, Riley Porter has posted a project that shows you how easy it is hook up a 7-segment LED display to your Arduino projects. This is the first, simplest method he explores. In a future project, he’ll show you mor > read more

Top 10: Shelves And Shelving

Published on 2011-03-10 15:10:31

I recall an infomercial a few years back for a little plastic triangle that stuck in a corner, between two walls, to make a small corner shelf. I don’t remember the exact name of the product, but I do remember that the commercial exhausted all > read more

Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make TechShops?

Published on 2011-03-10 14:00:22

To me, public libraries — the availability of free education for all — represent the collective commitment of a community to their future. They symbolize what is most important, a commitment to educating the next generation. The role of a public > read more

Polar Bear Spy Cams

Published on 2011-03-10 12:00:58

These covert cameras employed by wildlife videographer John Downer imitate natural elements of the Arctic Norwegian environment to grab an insanely closeup view of the polar bear’s journey. Jacob Resneck at Cool Hunting writes: Downer employs t > read more

Kinect + Open Drivers + Physics Engine = Piles of Kickable Corpses

Published on 2011-03-10 11:12:52

I first met John Boiles in October 2009 at Dorkbot Austin, when he was an undergrad engineer at UT, and was presenting His most recent project weds Microsoft’s Kinect to Garry’s Mod, a popular sandbox game based on Valve’s Source ph > read more

How to Make Login Forms More User-Friendly

Published on 2011-03-10 10:51:06

Login forms are often such sterile, unfriendly places. Which is why it’s nice to see SEOmoz taking a more people-friendly approach. Visit their login page and, along with the standard form, you will be greeted by a cartoony robot called Roger. > read more

What Keywords Do I Rank For?

Published on 2011-03-10 10:51:06

Posted by Dr. Pete As you start tracking your rankings and taking SEO more seriously, you’re bound to ask the question (and we hear it a lot) – "What are ALL of the keywords that my site ranks for?" Sounds simple enough, but it tu > read more

Getting Started with Arduino Kit V2 Drawing!

Published on 2011-03-10 05:56:43

We were delighted with the massive response we got to our Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway. So much so that we decided to up the ante. This week we’re giving away the awesome Getting Started with Arduino Kit V2 from Maker Shed. This k > read more

Hackerspacer Happenings: Wednesday Edition

Published on 2011-03-10 05:56:42

Ordinarily I want to just do Hackerspace Happenings posts 1X a week, but guess what? After yesterday’s post I got two intriguing late additions in the mail, too tasty to ignore. Mikey Slkar sent in this one: Cooking With Microcontrollers When & > read more

Gmail Smart Labels

Published on 2011-03-10 03:52:57

Gmail Labs has a new feature for organizing your messages: Smart Labels. Many people create filters that label messages from mailing lists, newsletters, so Google decided to use artificial intelligence algorithms to categorize messages. Right now, th > read more

Electric Kart in Your School?

Published on 2011-03-09 22:15:24

MIT Tech TV Chad’s a former student of mine who has been doing electric car projects for about six years now. On seeing The Cap Kart project, he says: If I was going to start an electric vehicle school program, I would start by following these > read more

Make: Live is Broadcasting

Published on 2011-03-09 19:38:06

Make: Live airs in just a few minutes! Don’t miss our DIY Musical Instruments episode with guests Ranjit Bhatnagar and Pete Edwards. Make: Live 04 – DIY Musical Instruments Wednesday March 9th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on U > read more

Interview with Kinetic Artist Andrew Smith

Published on 2011-03-09 19:00:32

Utah-based artist Andrew Smith creates fantastical kinetic sculptures with found objects and beyond. We caught up with him recently to chat about the challenges in making kinetic sculpture, his influences, dreams of junk, and the disconnect between t > read more

MAKE Is Hiring!

Published on 2011-03-09 18:30:01

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, got skills, and love MAKE, come work and play with us here at Maker Media. We’re located an hour north of San Francisco in lovely Sonoma County, in the city of Sebastopol. We’re currently hiring > read more

The Crucible Offers Class Discounts to Makers

Published on 2011-03-09 18:00:22

We got this announcement from our friends at The Crucible. Many thanks to them for offering this deal. We hope that some of our readers will use this as an incentive to take some classes. > read more

Parts Tray + Fruit Wedger Blade = Sorting Parts Tray

Published on 2011-03-09 14:54:11

When I’m taking something apart, using a magnetic parts tray for the screws and other tiny metal bits is one of the best things I can do (together with taking pictures as I go) to make sure that it all goes back together again more or less as it’ > read more

Alert the internets about your project automatically at MetaLab

Published on 2011-03-09 14:44:08

The fine hackers at MetaLab in Vienna put together this Alert the internets box, which lets you effortlessly share a project with the world. All you have to do is record some footage on the camera and then stick it on the dock, and an automated scrip > read more

Google Docs Brings Back Details View

Published on 2011-03-09 05:52:55

The latest design refresh of the Google Docs homepage added many useful features, but also made some controversial changes. Google decided to hide useful information like the last modified date and the list of collaborators from the list view because > read more

What’s New in Chrome 10?

Published on 2011-03-09 05:52:54

Google Chrome 10 is ready for primetime and it comes with a surprising number of new features. Here are some of them: 1. The Options dialog is now a web page that opens in a new tab. Chrome has one less modal dialog and the new Options page is better > read more

Google Fast Flip for Mobile Web Search

Published on 2011-03-09 05:52:53

Google calls it Instant Preview for Mobile Search, but it’s actually a new interface based on Google Fast Flip that lets you preview search results. “Starting today, Google Instant Previews is available on mobile for Android (2.2+) and iO > read more

Inbound Marketing Attracts Millions from Google, Salesforce and Sequoia

Published on 2011-03-09 03:50:59

Posted by randfish Today, Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Salesforce.com made a massive investment – $32 million – into Hubspot, the company at the forefront of the Inbound Marketing movement. Hubspot’s had impressive growth, r > read more

Conversion-Oriented SEO: When SEO Marries UX

Published on 2011-03-09 03:50:58

Posted by renatatr This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Portal Test Candidate Hoodie

Published on 2011-03-09 03:48:02

Officially-licensed Portal gear. Congratulations on being accepted as a test candidate for the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center. Please keep your hoodie on you at all times as the results of prolonged exposure of test subjects to the > read more

Maker Faire Town Hall Meeting at TechShop SF, Tuesday, March 15th

Published on 2011-03-08 23:00:50

Light up the proper pixels on your calendars, folks. Next Tuesday, March 15th, we’re having a town hall meeting at TechShop SF to discuss plans for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area event (May 21 & 22, 2011). Join Dale, Sherry, Louise > read more

Hackerspace Happenings: Global Challenge!

Published on 2011-03-08 19:00:55

Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings will run > read more

Skill Set: Intro to Machines and Mechanisms

Published on 2011-03-08 18:00:41

This month, for our Mechanics Skill Set, we’re happy to have our friend Dustyn Roberts joining us again to help out with the theme. We’ll be excerpting from Dustyn’s book, Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, > read more

Tweet-a-Watt Using Ruby

Published on 2011-03-08 17:00:41

rellik has a site and code if you want to run a Tweet-a-Watt using Ruby… I’ve ported the python library over to ruby, and used it in a small project to collect, graph, and publish the data. It’s on github, if anyone is interested. T > read more

Birds Eye View Photography That Make You Say Wow

Published on 2011-03-07 20:51:44

One can find inspiration out of anything and amongst some great sources of inspiration; photography is one source designers can derive inspiration from. Taking bird’s eye view photographs is the newest trend in the photography arena. The term b > read more

SEOmoz Website Update – Making it Easier to Get From Here to There

Published on 2011-03-07 20:50:55

Posted by adamf As part of a series of SEOmoz self-improvement efforts, we are happy to announce another update to the site! As you’ve probably already noticed, we just launched a brand new SEOmoz header, footer, and, with these, a distinctly n > read more

How to Build Links with Infographics

Published on 2011-03-07 20:50:54

Posted by Justin Briggs It should be no surprise that infographics aquire links. Although they’ve quickly become a saturated tactic, they still work. I like infographics, because they’re a great intersection between traditional marketing > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : OMG Pwnies Bib

Published on 2011-03-07 20:47:56

Keeps ‘em clean and stylish. Our sister site, Slashdot, pimped out their design a few April Fools ago with an OMG! Ponies!!! pink theme. We love the idea and are doing them one better. $7.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock Bib

Published on 2011-03-07 20:47:55

“Rock.” “Is anybody paying attention here?” You know when babies make a fist? And you put your hyuge finger next to it and say, “HOW CUTE!” Babies aren’t making fists. They’re saying “rock.” > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Come to the Dark Side Bib

Published on 2011-03-07 20:47:55

We’re here for the youngest Padawans. Start them out right. No time to waste. Also, cookies are awesome. $7.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Soft Kitty Shirt

Published on 2011-03-07 20:47:54

Now available in a unisex cut! We can’t promise this shirt will make you less sick when you’re ill, but it will make you feel better. Cause who wouldn’t feel better with this anerable shirt on? $18.99 – $20.99 > read more

Make It Last Build #3: Drawbot Winners!

Published on 2011-03-07 16:00:25

Maker “colin.faulkingham’s” Drawbot entry oPossum5150 used shipping envelope cardstock to create this Drawbot pen holder We’re happy to announce the winners in our Make It Last Build Series Drawbot project. This time, we did a > read more

LilyPad Arduino with Fabric Snaps

Published on 2011-03-07 15:00:06

Clever idea from Instructables user mizliz, who outfitted her LilyPad Arduino with a set of snap-on contacts so it can be quickly transferred from one soft-circuit prototype to another. More: > read more

Math Monday: Elliptical One-Sheet Furniture

Published on 2011-03-07 14:00:55

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics An interesting design exercise is to cut and fold furniture from one sheet of plywood. Peter Meijer has explored families of elliptical tables that are folded from exactly one rectangular sheet, with no un > read more

Laser Cut Celly Holders

Published on 2011-03-07 02:55:51

In one of my classes, we’re making cell phone pouches recently. On Monday, we looked at some fabric iPod cases on Flickr, and then they made sketch models with paper and tape. Sketch models are a very quick model that allows you to see what the > read more

Kinect & Arduino-Controlled Delta Robot

Published on 2011-03-07 02:55:50

This is a project in development for the module “Digital Ecologies”, at the Bartlett’s AAC Msc. A Delta-Robot is controlled by a Kinect through Processing and Arduino. The movements of the performer control directly the position of > read more

Inexpensive and Readily-Available DIY Laser Dyes

Published on 2011-03-06 21:30:25

My friend and fellow DC Dork, Jon Singer, does a lot of laser research and experimentation at the Joss Research Institute. This week, he sent me a link to a new article he’d posted, a report of his findings on lasing various fountain inks, invi > read more

Car puts spare tire to use

Published on 2011-03-06 19:44:19

This 1950s newsreel shows a car that was modded by its owner to deploy its spare tire as a tight-spot parking assist. (Thanks, Lew!) > read more

Poker Tournaments for All

Published on 2011-03-06 16:23:23

What is the most challenging game available on the net? Seemingly, there is no single answer to the question, mainly because that depends on several factors such as personal preferences, previous experience, rivals’ quality and many more. Nev > read more

6 Steps On How To Formulate Your Social Media Plan

Published on 2011-03-06 13:50:46

This article is guest posted by Jack Harold. Formulating an online marketing strategy is vital when making the decision to include social media to your marketing efforts. A plan is required to evaluate the feasibility, know what steps you will have t > read more

Unedited Google Profile Pictures, Publicly Available

Published on 2011-03-06 11:51:53

If you want to upload a profile photo to your Google Profile and use the cropping feature to edit the photo, it’s important to know that the original version is publicly available. François Beaufort noticed that you can go to http://profiles.g > read more

DIY Ring Flash from Optical Fiber

Published on 2011-03-06 08:00:27

Ring flashes are often used for macro and glamour portrait photography, but that kind of professional equipment can be quite expensive. Wolf made his own using a bundle of fiber optic strands originating at his camera’s flash and terminating at > read more

Pneumatic muscle controller

Published on 2011-03-05 18:30:50

Ben Krasnow shows a handy demo of how to build an air muscle, which is based on this Instructable. This technique is just crying out to be paired with the > read more

Make: Live Episode 04: DIY Musical Instruments (preview video)

Published on 2011-03-05 13:43:39

Join us Wednesday evening for the third episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Collin Cunningham is filling in as cohost this week for Matt Richardson. Make: Live 04 – DIY Musical Instruments Wednesday March 9th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watc > read more

Transform a Chair into a Dog

Published on 2011-03-05 08:00:18

Gulliver modded an Ikea chair into this stool for his dog and it actually looks like a dog. Very cute! [via Ikea Hackers] > read more

Deconstructing Google

Published on 2011-03-05 06:50:47

Posted by gfiorelli1 This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, In > read more

Bing’s Duane Forrester on Webmaster Tools, Metrics, and Sitemap Quality Thresholds

Published on 2011-03-05 06:50:46

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �This week we are thrilled to have a special guest joining us for Whiteboard Friday: Duane Forrester, a top-of-the-line SEO who went over to the other side of the fence and now works at Bing’s Webmaster Project as t > read more

Cheap DIY GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) Illuminator

Published on 2011-03-05 05:55:16

It wasn’t some creepy-crawly fetish that got me reading The Worm Breeder’s Gazette. Rather, it was talking to Kathryn Hedges — a smart, passionate, and well-credentialed scientist and artist — about The Gazette’s tips on > read more

Arduino Book Giveaway Winners

Published on 2011-03-05 05:55:15

We were floored by the number of comments that we got for our Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway (377!). Lots of folks had great questions about the Arduino and some of you pitched in with answers. We’ll sift through this content now an > read more

Remote controlled cockroach

Published on 2011-03-04 19:14:47

Our pals at Backyard Brains (makers of the terrific SpikerBox kit, which allows you to study the electrical impulses of insect neurons) are developing circuitry to control which direction a cockroach walks. By modifying the HEXBug toy “Inchworm > read more

Presenting This Week in Hobby Robotics

Published on 2011-03-04 18:44:32

I’m happy to present the first episode of a new weekly MAKE video called This Week in Hobby Robotics, a roundup of interesting things happening in the world of — what else — hobby robotics. It’s hosted by Frits Lyneborg and Ri > read more

Introducing the Mechanics Skill Set

Published on 2011-03-04 18:00:26

This month, we’re thrilled to announce our Mechanics Skill Set. Over the course of March, we’ll explore the wonderful world of simple machines, mechanical forces, motors and motion. We’ll have guest authors, including our friend and > read more

Bot Blows Really Big Bubbles

Published on 2011-03-04 14:17:57

I held off on “giant,” because, well, there’s really big, and then there’s > read more

Sony wants hackers

Published on 2011-03-04 14:00:05

Sony is jumping into the SDK world and going after all the Kinect hackers out there. After Microsoft’s release of the Kinect, thousands of makers started tinkering on open source drivers/data dumps were released (disclosure, I worked on this wi > read more

Automatic Tattoo Machine Inks Random Tats

Published on 2011-03-04 13:00:24

Chris Eckert created a CNC tattoo machine with a twist: Auto Ink is a three axis numerically controlled sculpture. Once the main switch is triggered, the operator is assigned a religion and it’s corresponding symbol is tattooed onto the person̵ > read more

Malware at the Heart of the BBC’s Decline

Published on 2011-03-04 11:45:54

Anyone who has been following me on Twitter or identi.ca will have noticed that I have a bee in my bonnet – actually, make that a Beeb in my bonnet – about the BBC. In fact, I have several – including the fact that I really want it > read more

More Fun with Anti-Open Source FUD

Published on 2011-03-04 11:03:57

One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by a strange, insubstantial beast going by the name of FUD. Back in 2006, I wrote a short history of the topic, b > read more

In the Maker Shed: Circuit Breaker Leatherman

Published on 2011-03-03 23:54:56

The Make: Circuit Breaker Leatherman features 13 tools, including wire strippers and scissors. It’s the perfect companion for electronics hacking, mobile fixing, and MacGyvering on the go! Also available is our Warranty Voider & Bomb Defus > read more

Dropless Laser Projection Microscope Takes Glass Slides

Published on 2011-03-03 23:54:56

Interesting post from dusjagr over on Hacketeria, who reports success using a 100 mW green laser with the lens from a cheap webcam, in the arrangement pictured here, to make a projecting microscope that will accept conventional microscope slides, and > read more

SxSW Dorkbot Austin

Published on 2011-03-03 23:54:55

If you’re attending SxSW or will be in the area, be sure to check out SsSW Dorkbot Austin on March 11th at the Austin Music Hall. Yes, that time of year is upon us. SxSW Interactive time. Which also means it’s time for the biggest Dorkbot of > read more

Thumbs Up: Help Raise Money for New Zealand

Published on 2011-03-03 23:50:42

Posted by jennita Today we’re taking a different angle than we normally do on the blog. As you know, recently New Zealand and Christchurch�specifically was seriously affected by an earthquake on February 22nd. After Rand sent out an email > read more

Google’s Farmer Update: Analysis of Winners vs. Losers

Published on 2011-03-03 23:50:41

Posted by randfish By now, everyone in the SEO world is aware of the algorithmic update Google launched last Wednesday, February 23rd. Several posts on the topic are worth reading, including Danny Sullivan’s take, Aaron Wall’s assesment,& > read more

RoboGames Call For Papers and Projects

Published on 2011-03-03 23:30:35

Our buds at RoboGames sent the following announcement about their 2011symposium and competition. They also wrote to tell us that they’d also nabbed Heather Knight from CMU as their academic chair and were super excited about that. Congrats, to > read more

How-To: Arduino-Controlled Yogurt Maker

Published on 2011-03-03 20:15:03

MAKE Volume 25 contributing writer Chris Reilly loves yogurt but is impatient. He writes, “My impatience often leads me to botch important steps when I make yogurt. So to get better control over the fermentation process, I made a crockpot therm > read more

Add Multiple Google Profile Photos

Published on 2011-03-03 17:51:32

The new Google Profiles interface lets you upload multiple profile photos and switch between them with a simple click. Visitors can see all the photos you’ve uploaded, so you must be careful when you replace a profile photo. It’s not enou > read more

Google Tests Enhanced Suggestions

Published on 2011-03-03 17:51:31

Google’s search suggestions are useful, but they’re only displayed if many people search for them. If you type a “long tail” query, Google doesn’t show suggestions and can’t even finish the words you type. Adam Har > read more

How to CAD your own DogBot

Published on 2011-03-03 17:41:00

Gavilan of On Shoulders is building an excellent looking 3d-printable dogbot, using openSCAD. But the awesomeness doesn’t stop there: He’s also producing a TV show about his projects, such as how to mill PCBs and print your own 3d printer > read more

Google Profiles Has a New Interface

Published on 2011-03-02 19:51:23

Google Profiles has a new user interface that emphasizes the profile photo, includes many new sections and uses encrypted connections. You can now click on a section of your profile to edit it, add “10 words that describe you best”, bragg > read more

A New Google Error Page

Published on 2011-03-02 19:51:20

Google has a new 404 error page that’s displayed when you type a Google address that can’t be found (for example: google.com/hosting). The new error page is supposed to be funny, but it’s not useful. Google’s laconic page info > read more

The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History

Published on 2011-03-02 17:00:25

Maximum PC has a list of the 15 Most Important Women in Tech History Do a quick Google News search for “women in technology” and your results are sure to be bemoaning the lack of female bodies in the industry (or maybe just results for th > read more

10 Excellent Yet Free To Use Web Tools Worth Checking Out

Published on 2011-03-02 16:51:03

Now and then I keep discovering interesting websites that I share with my friends. These sites range from helpful utilities to simple games; whatever their category is, the sites are surely great finds. I decided to share with you all 10 of the recen > read more

Successful Site Architecture for SEO [SES London 2011]

Published on 2011-03-02 16:50:29

Posted by richardbaxterseo For today’s blog post, I’m going to write about my favourite topic of all, site architecture for SEO. This write up is based on my recent presentation at SES London 2011, and rather than just posting the slide d > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : PixelJunk Shooter 2 Ship It

Published on 2011-03-02 16:41:28

Got the game? Get the shirt. Ship It! See? It’s a ship, AND it’s completed software. Er… wait a minute. It’s a PSN game? Download it! Yeah. Just not the same…. $17.99 – $19.99 > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : PixelJunk Shooter 2 Acid Test

Published on 2011-03-02 16:41:27

Officially-licensed PixelJunk gear. Digestion is a complicated process. Especially if you’re the food. $17.99 – $19.99 > read more

Announcing the Arduino grblShield

Published on 2011-03-02 16:00:05

I love how many of the maker geniuses who work on our site are usually up to something behind the scenes — some new project, new product, Pinky and the Brain-type schemes for taking over the world. I was talking to new contributor Riley Porter > read more

45 Totally Awesome Tutorials And Techniques To Become A Master Of Photography

Published on 2011-03-02 15:58:36

This post showcases a list of useful and unique photography related tutorials that will help you learning the skills of a trained photographer. The field of photography has extensively grown over the past few years to such a huge industry with millio > read more

Hexome, A Hexagonal Monome

Published on 2011-03-02 14:30:52

Hexagons are cool but a bit of a pain because their spacing involves a root 3, a non rational number. This means you can’t lay it out on strip board, it needs a special PCB. That’s why I built my CNC project mainly to do this project. The > read more

Long-Exposure Signal Strength Pix

Published on 2011-03-02 02:54:04

This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre tall measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a > read more

Enter Our Arduino Book Drawing

Published on 2011-03-02 02:54:04

We’re getting a wonderful response to our Getting Started with Arduino giveaway. The theme is “everything you always wanted to know about Arduino but were afraid to ask.” You can ask your vexing questions to be eligible for one of f > read more

Dan Reetz Talk at Personal Archiving 2011

Published on 2011-03-02 02:54:03

Innovator and Imagineer Dan Reetz talks book scanning, hardware hacking, camera control, and cultural impact at Personal Digital Archive 2011, hosted by The Internet Archive in San Francisco. > read more

Collins Lab: Monotron Hacking

Published on 2011-03-01 23:30:32

The Monotron mini analog synthesizer is a simple but sweet-sounding little synth that sports a few basic features that give a nod to us hardware hacker-folk. In the above vid, I merely scratch the surface of how this little guy could be put to creati > read more

Picasa Web’s New Homepage

Published on 2011-03-01 21:51:13

Picasa Web’s homepage has been redesigned to emphasize the photos recently uploaded by the people you’re following. The homepage no longer displays all your albums, so you’ll only be able to see the most recent 8 albums. “This > read more

George geohot speaks and Sonys own infringements

Published on 2011-03-01 20:00:08

Two updates to our Sony article Sony sued lik-sang out of business, for get this, helping them sell PSPs. Sony even accused me of “extortion” of a job from them. Yea right, like I want to wear a suit and be subordinate to people like Jack > read more

Hackerspace Happenings: Microsats & Mendel Clones

Published on 2011-03-01 19:00:28

Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Hackerspace Happenings will run weekly Tuesdays. The Distributed Clone Factory at Metrix Crea > read more

Make: Arduino and RFID

Published on 2011-03-01 18:30:18

Riley Porter, our Arduino projects guy, is going to be loading some basic Arduino tutorials to Make: Projects. These will be like project stubs, the basic details of doing something that you, dear reader, can then add to as you start using the tech s > read more

2011 NASA MAKE Challenge

Published on 2011-03-01 16:00:58

Image of the Noisebridge weather balloon space probe, part of our DIY Space coverage in MAKE Volume 24 I’m excited to announce the launch of the NASA MAKE Challenge: Experimental Science Kits for Space. Last year, I met with Lynn Harper and Dan > read more

How-To: Fluorescent Flowers, The Easy Way

Published on 2011-03-01 15:00:05

The hard way, of course, is to splice in the gene that codes for green fluorescent protein, as in the case of, say that GFP bunny that made the rounds a few years back. That’s a bit of a project, really. This quickie version, from everybodyR > read more

Google and the Value of Social Networking (Part 3)

Published on 2011-02-28 23:51:08

Paul Buchheit, the ex-Googler behind Gmail and a former Facebook employee, answered a question about the rivalry between Google and Facebook. There is an interesting competitive element there because Facebook is growing very fast, and obviously, Goog > read more

Many Gmail Users Can’t Find Their Messages

Published on 2011-02-28 23:51:08

Imagine loading Gmail and noticing that all your messages have been deleted. This is a real problem for many Gmail users who thought that they lost all of their messages. Here’s one of the many reports from Gmail’s forum: Yes, whatever th > read more

Videos From the Old Googleplex

Published on 2011-02-28 23:51:07

In February 1999, Google moved from Susan Wojcicki’s garage to “new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees” and in August 1999, Google relocated to Mountain View: 2400 E. Bayshore. Five years later, Goo > read more

Top 10 Skills of a Graphic Designer

Published on 2011-02-28 20:18:46

Graphic designers need multiple skills to pull of what they do. Here’s a condensed top 10 list of those skills. Related posts: Two things that give designers a bad reputation … A Great Example to Developers > read more

Easy File Handles From Corks

Published on 2011-02-28 19:00:07

This trick might have been around forever, but it was new to me: using wine and champagne corks for file handles. Ray Connors, a new member of the Hack Factory, was showing me his > read more

Skill Set: Making A Butterfly Spline (Or Arikata)

Published on 2011-02-28 18:00:34

For our Now that we’ve skimmed the surface of woodworking tools, perhaps we should put some of them to work. Below, we’ll outline the process for making the butterfly spline, known in Japanese as “arikata.” When working with w > read more

Make It Last Build Series: Robot plant winners!

Published on 2011-02-28 17:00:48

Back in November, we launched a contest to build a The grand prize goes to Eric McKinley for his Robotic Fly Trap. This “plant” has a servo-actuated mechanical jaw that snaps shut when an unsuspecting bug lands on it. Eric’s contest > read more

Make It Last Build #3, Drawing With Your Drawbot

Published on 2011-02-28 16:00:07

The latest Make It Last Build Series Dispatch, #6, went out today. It includes the last build instructions for this project. It covers understanding the parameters that you’ll need to consider in your machine (e.g. diameter of the spools you us > read more

Two Open Source Hardware Makers Featured On Entrepreneur.com!

Published on 2011-02-28 15:28:37

Big news in the world of Open Source Hardware! Two Open Source Hardware makers were featured on Entrepreneur.com! These are well known innovators in the maker community, Bre Pettis and Limor Fried. It’s fantastic to see OSHW folks getting the s > read more

Maker Sheds Follow, Tweet, & (Maybe) Win an iPad Contest

Published on 2011-02-28 14:30:10

The Maker Shed is giving away an iPad loaded with Make: The Complete Collection (PDF). It’s super-easy to enter, and no purchase is necessary. Read all the details about how to enter on the Maker Shed’s contest page. > read more

Smartphone Telepresence Device

Published on 2011-02-28 04:05:27

When I first came across this video by South Korean maker Mok Young Bak I have to admit that I didn’t quite get it. I haven’t had that many buttons on a mobile in years. All kidding aside, any technology that gets you away from a desk is > read more

Tips and Must-Haves for your eCommerce Platform

Published on 2011-02-28 02:50:22

Posted by MikeCP Choosing an eCommerce platform can be a terribly frustrating experience because of the options and packages available, the misinformation, the pushy sales reps, the time and money investment, and so on. I want to talk about this deci > read more

Best Practices for Product Image Placement

Published on 2011-02-28 02:50:10

I’m in the process of redesigning an ecommerce product page which currently has the product images on the right hand side of the page. As part of the redesign I am proposing placing the image on the left. Why? Well, many other online retailers > read more

Can Inbound Links Harm Your Website?

Published on 2011-02-28 02:50:09

This article is guest posted by Angie. This is a question that I get asked from clients from time to time and in most instances, the answer is NO. Google and other search engines do not make it easy for competitors to damage your business. If inbound > read more

Bike-Mounted Rainbow Graffiti System

Published on 2011-02-27 19:00:41

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DIY Homebrew Video Game Cartridges

Published on 2011-02-27 10:00:45

Got an old Colecovision gathering dust? Don’t give up on it, MAKE contributor Joe Grand (of hacker con badge fame) has detailed instructions on creating your own video game cartridges. In 2001, I wrote a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 called > read more

Rust Box Advice

Published on 2011-02-27 09:30:15

I picked up this lovely old toolbox full of tools at a yard sale recently. Any advice on reviving some of those rusty tools in there? Please add your favorite refinishing/de-rusting tips in the comments. > read more

Upcycle Wine Corks into a Bulletin Board

Published on 2011-02-27 08:00:39

Julie over at Home Made repurposed an old door into a bulletin board using a large stock of wine corks. Open up an extra bottle of wine tonight and you’re one cork closer to making your own! More: Make Wine Cork Stamps > read more

Gallium spoon makes for fun teatime prank

Published on 2011-02-27 04:34:48

The metal gallium has a low melting point (29.78 °C, according to the material safety data sheet), so a spoon made of it will melt when used to stir a hot beverage. [via Gizmodo] > read more

New Google Profile Search

Published on 2011-02-27 03:51:02

Google has a new specialized search engine for searching Google Profiles. It has a better interface than the regular Google Profiles search feature, it’s integrated with Google Search and it shows additional links from people’s profiles. > read more

I Disagree with Fred; Marketing is for Companies that Have Great Products

Published on 2011-02-26 19:50:20

Posted by randfish One of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred in his New York offices, > read more

Gadgeteer Testing Notes

Published on 2011-02-26 13:00:08

Recently, I had an opportunity to get early access to a new hardware system from Microsoft. Last fall, Since this is such a new system, there isn’t a huge set of example projects, project rubrics, sample code, or other resources that many class > read more

Wear Your Lockpicks!

Published on 2011-02-26 08:52:46

One of our new members at the Hack Factory is Ray Connors, a locksport aficionado. He makes his own lockpicks, which are sold in pairs, double-sided rake/tensors. Also, I really liked his method for storing them, in a safety pin laced through a pen s > read more

Making Interactive Displays Smarter

Published on 2011-02-26 08:00:07

In this video, Steven Bathiche from Microsoft Applied Sciences shows off some imaging and human interface technologies that are currently under development at Microsoft. They’re working on something called an optical wedge, which they’re > read more

Store More Photos and Videos in Picasa Web Albums

Published on 2011-02-26 05:50:43

You’ve probably noticed that Picasa Web‘s storage counter shows that you have more free space than a couple of days ago. It turns out that this is not a bug. “We recently made a change whereby any pictures 800 pixels and under don&# > read more

Amigurumi time lapse build

Published on 2011-02-26 03:45:28

This time-lapse video of a self-assembling Amigurumi bear had me dancing along and reaching for a hooks. Looks like a good project for a rainy (or snowy) weekend! [via Neatorama] > read more

Apples and Oranges: Why a Blog Is Not an Informational Website

Published on 2011-02-25 22:18:08

Free blogging platforms are not noted for innovative design. The big ones have millions of blogs, all using the same handful of templates. Would you really want your business’ web presence to look the same as a million other blogs? Related post > read more

Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd!

Published on 2011-02-25 20:00:10

Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! We’ve been overwhelmed with the response (over 45 logos submitted!) and many of you have asked for an more time. So we are extending the OSHW Logo Submission Deadline till MARCH 3rd! With the > read more

Getting Started with Arduino Book Giveaway

Published on 2011-02-25 16:20:01

In celebration of our new Make: Arduino page, we’re giving away five copies of Massimo Banzi’s popular book Getting Started with Arduino. This rockin’ little book serves as the perfect introduction to Arduino and even to high-tech m > read more

Insulated Canteen From No-Refill Propane Bottle

Published on 2011-02-25 15:54:43

Cool Instructable from user hpstoutharrow. Of course these propane bottles are not meant to be opened, so you have to be careful to follow a sensible procedure, but it seems to me like hpstoutharrow has done a good job in providing that. Commenters t > read more

Basic Blacksmithing on CRAFT (video)

Published on 2011-02-25 14:00:16

In this week’s CRAFT Video, Meg Allan Cole and I took a trip to Brooklyn’s She-Weld studio for a special blacksmithing lesson from Alex Himmelbaum. He showed us how to taper and decoratively curl the end of a steel rod and rivet it to a h > read more

LED Display Shows Time and RSS Feeds

Published on 2011-02-25 13:00:09

Bob Alexander wrote in with his elegant USB clock/web data display: When I built my Homemade Digital Clock, I shamelessly overdesigned it. It had an eight character alphanumeric display (plus two discrete LEDs for a colon), four more discrete LEDs fo > read more

Outreach for Linkbuilding – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-02-25 12:50:10

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �Linkbuilding: can’t do it alone, can’t not do it! While some people may prefer to avoid interaction with people they don’t see every day, others flourish when communicating with strangers. The field of > read more

What Is In All Likelihood The Worlds Smallest Aquarium

Published on 2011-02-25 11:04:45

Among the more delightful members of the set of all possible World’s X-est Ys, IMHO, is this 3 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm freshwater fishtank from Russian miniaturist Anatoly Konenko. It’s stocked with three tiny zebrafish and outfitted with matching > read more

Eight Great Tools Windows Users Would Never Want To Miss

Published on 2011-02-25 10:15:17

There are many apps out there for you, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Eight Great Tools Windows Users Would Never Want To Miss. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best. Yo > read more

DorkBot SoCal this Sunday

Published on 2011-02-25 09:00:36

From our friends at DorkBot SoCal: Dorkbot SoCal 43 ***** SUNDAY, February 27, 2011 ***** 1:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 Christopher O’Leary http://users.design.ucla.edu/~oleary/index > read more

Pour-Your-Own Concrete Tabletops

Published on 2011-02-25 02:52:22

Georgia hackerspace Freeside Atlanta needed countertops, so they made their own with chicken wire and concrete, while referencing this instructable. Freeside is a great space, but our kitchen could be charitably described as “needs work”. > read more

Make: Live 2/23/11

Published on 2011-02-25 02:52:21

Make: Live ep03 video is online! Thanks to our guest Sean Ragan, we enjoyed an evening of science. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 03 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Also check out the chat room > read more

Tiny Yellow House in the New York Times

Published on 2011-02-24 23:00:05

Photo: Erik Jacobs for The New York Times Congrats to MAKE video contributor Derek “Deek” Diedricksen for the piece about him and his micro-homes in this past Sunday’s New York Times. Really nice profile and slideshow of some of Dee > read more

MAKE Karts and Wheels Contest Winners

Published on 2011-02-24 21:03:32

We got some really great, creative entries for our We had three Runners Up as well, including the well-documented and stylish Teardrop Camper Trailer by Werner Strama, built upon the salvaged frame of a dilapidated trailer: Next up is the deliciously > read more

Giant Bubbles on the Beach

Published on 2011-02-24 17:00:36

In a follow-up to my Giant Stinson Beach Bubbles > read more

NYC Molecular Biology Hackerspace Featured by Nature Magazine

Published on 2011-02-24 15:00:07

Prestigious general science journal Nature has just published a video segment on MAKE pals GenSpace NYC. GenSpace, an open dues-based DIYbio workspace in downtown Brooklyn, bills itself as “the first-ever community laboratory.” This line > read more

Sonys War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators

Published on 2011-02-24 14:30:44

Two weeks ago I proclaimed a winner in the microcontroller dev board arena with “ This week I’m going to switch gears a little and declare an enemy for all makers, hackers, and innovators — it’s in a very different space: the cons > read more

Make It Last Build #3: Rigging Up Your Drawbot

Published on 2011-02-24 14:15:30

Welcome to the fifth installment of the Make It Last Build #3, the Drawbot, sponsored by Microchip and Energizer. The goal this week is to build and rig all of the mechanical parts on your drawing machine. By next week you should also have a more per > read more

Tin Cans + Bucket of Sand = New Science

Published on 2011-02-24 10:30:25

Physicists whose work requires thousands or millions of dollars of apparatus may be chagrined and/or delighted to learn of a new and startlingly counterintuitive effect discovered, by Raphaël Clément and co-workers at France’s Université Par > read more

Ski Tow for Sleds

Published on 2011-02-24 09:00:57

Josh Smith of Pennsylvania built this tow rope with a friend. This project started as an innocent “oh, I have an engine” comment and has turned into a really awesome project. I first blogged about it here but decided it needed a permanent home. T > read more

Open Source Hardware Definition and Overview Endorsed by Over 100 People, Companies, and More!

Published on 2011-02-23 20:45:53

Open source hardware definition and overview endorsed by over 100 people, companies and more! This is fantastic! If you look at the list it’s the full spectrum, from independent makers to large companies. Next up, logos! > read more

MAKE Volume 25 Zombie Attack

Published on 2011-02-23 20:30:08

When MacGyver creator and author of our MakeShift feature Lee Zlotoff sent us the text for the current issue, we instantly knew it was going to be a fun photo shoot to set up. If you’re not familiar with MakeShift, it’s a challenge that&# > read more

Watch Make: Live! (Broadcasting Soon)

Published on 2011-02-23 19:07:32

Make: Live airs in just a few minutes! Don’t miss our science fair projects episode with guest Sean Ragan, contributing MAKE writer and blog MVP. He’ll be showing us his laser projection microscope project. We’ll also be trying out an a > read more

Build Your Own Backyard Rocketship

Published on 2011-02-23 18:00:26

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with control panels. I dreamed of making a spaceship capsule out of my room, covered with toggles and panel lights that I could used to launch countless astronaut and sci-fi fantasies. The closest I ever came to this > read more

How-To: Detect the Earths Rotation with a PlayStation Move!

Published on 2011-02-23 16:00:24

Gorgeously geeky and detailed how-to on homodyne measurement of the Earth’s rotation using an old turntable (remember those?) and a PS Move motion sensor: In this project we follow in the footsteps of Léon Foucault who in 1851 produced the fir > read more

Engraved Plastic + Black Crayon = High Contrast Panels

Published on 2011-02-23 15:43:04

Effective, easy, inexpensive process from Briton James Williamson. James starts with laser-engraved panels, rubs them with black crayon, and removes the excess by buffing with paper soaked in mineral spirits. A few minutes in a low-temperature oven s > read more

DIY workshop mash-up at BAM/PFA in Berkeley this weekend

Published on 2011-02-23 14:17:53

The folks at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive have teamed up with Machine Project to host what sounds like a delightful and confusing workshop this weekend, called Confuse-a-tron: This Friday, February 25, as part of our L@TE: Friday N > read more

Lego Spongebob Terminator Mecha

Published on 2011-02-23 13:00:56

I don’t know what to say about this project (by AFOL rack911) other than it’s amazing, diabolical, and mind-boggling! [Via The Brothers Brick] > read more

Make: Live is Tonight! Episode 03: Science Fair Projects

Published on 2011-02-23 12:00:47

Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss Sean Ragan’s laser projection microscope aka microbial science theater. We’ll also be using a 9V battery to isolate two flammable gasses- FWOOM! Make: Live 03 – Science Fair Projects Wednesday F > read more

Android Gingerbread for Nexus One

Published on 2011-02-23 11:50:21

Two months after Android Gingerbread was released, Nexus One users can finally update their phones to the latest Android version. “Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) update now rolling out to Nexus S and Nexus One. Be patient, may take a few weeks for > read more

In the Maker Shed: RFID Card Reader

Published on 2011-02-21 23:51:17

Designed in cooperation with Grand Idea Studio, the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Reader Module is the first low-cost solution to read passive RFID transponder tags. The RFID Reader Module can be used in a wide variety of hobbyist and commerc > read more

Clock Built for Extraterrestrial Travelers

Published on 2011-02-21 18:30:56

For those of you currently planning extraterrestrial trips, check out Alexander Avtanski‘s well-documented Mars Clock project. Built with a modem enclosure and other spare parts, the clock can tell time on any number of planets based on their r > read more

Open Gmail’s PDF Attachments in Google Docs Viewer

Published on 2011-02-21 15:50:07

A recent Gmail update changed the “View” links for PDF attachments, but only if you use Google Chrome. Instead of opening PDF files using Google Docs Viewer, Gmail now uses the PDF plugin included in Google Chrome. Unfortunately, this mak > read more

Site Speed – Are You Fast? Does it Matter?

Published on 2011-02-21 15:49:53

Posted by Geoff Kenyon When Google made their “page speed is now a ranking factor” announcement, it wasn’t a significant new ranking factor, but it is significant because it means Google wants to use usability metrics to help rank p > read more

You Want Traffic, Fame and Fortune? Ways to Improve Your Blog

Published on 2011-02-21 15:49:52

This article is guest posted by Brandon. For those who’ve had a blog for a while it can, it can become difficult to apply the necessary enthusiasm it takes to maintain interesting and informative content. Every blogger, after the initial startup, h > read more

What I wanted for this year…

Published on 2011-02-21 15:06:46

I really wanted a new camera—the Sony DSC-F828 is 7 years old and I’ve been studying the specs on various high-end DSLRs. But there’s also this great new game from Disney called Epic Mickey. I don’t have a Wii, but Epic Mickey looks so good t > read more

Five Essential Free iPhone Apps That Can Come In Handy At Any Time

Published on 2011-02-21 14:45:00

iPhone owners have a large option of applications available to them. These apps range from every day utilities to games. Many of these apps are so useful that quickly become a necessity if you want to take full advantage of your phone. Being an iPhon > read more

Super Awesome Sylvia builds the MiniPOV

Published on 2011-02-21 12:00:43

In the latest episode of Sylvia’s Mini Maker Show, she’s at it again with this classic MiniPOV build and persistence of vision demonstration. Today we’ll be building the awesome MiniPOV kit by Adafruit, available in the Maker Shed. It > read more

Make: Live Episode 03: Science Fair Projects (preview video)

Published on 2011-02-21 10:59:34

Join us Wednesday evening for the third episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Make: Live 03 – Science Fair Projects Wednesday February 23rd, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream We also give away a fabulous prize fro > read more

Minneapolis Mini Maker Faire Call for Makers

Published on 2011-02-21 07:38:42

Last year’s “ I would like to announce that we have selected Sat. April 9th to be the date for this year’s Mini Maker Faire. The Faire will take place from noon until 5pm and there will likely be some sort of after party. Mark your > read more

Car assembles itself, owner and dog watch

Published on 2011-02-20 17:51:08

Car enthusiast Michael Bakiewicz put together this time lapse movie of his Suzuki car putting itself together. At least that’s what it looks like– in reality, the short documents nine months of car building, starting with a bare chassis a > read more

7 Chrome Annoyances and How to Fix Them

Published on 2011-02-20 17:50:03

Guest post by Shankar Ganesh Google Chrome was released more than two years ago and it’s the browser of choice for many people. Despite having won hearts for its speed and elegance, Google Chrome does have some minor flaws that you might want t > read more

Cubelets: Modular Robotic Blocks

Published on 2011-02-20 08:00:28

Cubelets look like they’re the perfect toy for kids that are old enough to be interested in robotics and electronics but not old enough to understand an H bridge: The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped toget > read more

Mechanical Principles ca. 1930

Published on 2011-02-20 02:51:03

Ten minutes of mechanical goodness! [Via Tinkernology] > read more

The Beep-It: An Analog Optical Theremin

Published on 2011-02-19 19:29:28

As we detailed This past summer I attended the Maker Faire in Detroit and got to talk with Mitch Altman of TV-B-Gone and Trip Glasses fame. He gave me some good advice about manufacturing and later referred me to his overseas manufacturer. That start > read more

Attack of the Cardboard Robo-Nauts!

Published on 2011-02-19 16:57:22

Dale Dougherty tweeted this pic of a giant cardboard robo-naut bounding around at the Open MAKE/Young Makers Program at the Exploratorium today. This month’s theme was, you guessed it, cardboard. Next month is metal/wire. The Open MAKE event is > read more

Fitbit Uses Arduino for Rapid Prototyping

Published on 2011-02-19 08:00:50

While many think of Arduino as strictly for hobbyists, its ease of use makes it a great tool for prototyping products for the mass market. The designers of the Fitbit, a device for tracking your level of activity throughout the day, wrote to the Ardu > read more

Director of Bing Discusses Holistic Search and Clickstream Data – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-02-19 01:49:46

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �A little over a couple weeks ago, Search Engine Land broke the story that Bing uses clickstream data from Google searches as a ranking factor in its results. The article was entitled, "Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copyi > read more

More File Formats in Google Docs Viewer

Published on 2011-02-18 21:49:40

Google Docs Viewer added support for a lot of new file formats. You can now use it to open Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from Office 2007 and Office 2010, Apple Pages files, PostScript documents, Microsoft XPS docum > read more

Reminder: Open MAKE Makers, Kids, and Cardboard tomorrow at the Exploratorium

Published on 2011-02-18 18:31:23

This month’s Open MAKE/Young Makers program is tomorrow, Saturday, Feb 19, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The theme is cardboard. Featured makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater between 1 and 2pm. Ma > read more

Skill Set: Woodworking Tips from Lauras Dad

Published on 2011-02-18 17:00:02

As we never tire of saying, we love it when family members get involved in MAKE. Our crack editorial assistant Laura Cochrane’s dad, Craig, is a general contractor and woodworker. He did the Dutch Wood Repair piece on Make: Projects and contrib > read more

How-To: Photorealistic Fabric Versions of Stuff

Published on 2011-02-18 14:49:47

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HDSLR Shoulder Rig from IKEA Cutting Board

Published on 2011-02-18 13:31:28

Check out this HDSLR shoulder rig made out of an IKEA cutting board from maker Chris Knight. [via DIYPhotography] > read more

Punchtape Synth

Published on 2011-02-18 13:15:43

I can’t wait to see all the 555 contest entries. Here’s one: Here are the details for my 555 Contest entry. It is a three channel music synthesiser, capable of four octaves per chanel. The 555′s are used to generate each octave for > read more

Finding the Right Provider

Published on 2011-02-18 13:09:26

Finding the right provider for any given task can be a daunting task, depending the field you’re delving into and the level of service you are expecting. For instance, when it comes to picking a cloud computing provider, small and medium-sized > read more

Pallet Chair Tiny Yellow House

Published on 2011-02-18 12:00:26

In this episode of Tiny Yellow House for MAKE, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen shows us one of his salvage uses for freebie pallet wood— an ultra-simple deck chair that cost him 89 cents (screws/nails) to build. Subscribe to the MAKE > read more

Oil Drum Cabinet

Published on 2011-02-18 11:28:13

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Make It Last Build Series #3: Finishing the Stepper Motor Drivers for the Drawbot

Published on 2011-02-18 05:50:37

Today, the latest newsletter went out for the Make It Last Build Series, sponsored by Microchip and Energizer. The goal for this week was to finish getting the stepper motor controller for our Drawbot working. By the time you’re finished, you s > read more

DIY Projection Screen Paint Tests

Published on 2011-02-18 05:50:36

The title image shows my twenty-three test samples against a blank white projected screen. The unlabeled white image, as well as red, green, and blue screens, are available in the gallery at the bottom of this post. Bare 3-ply cardboard. Same materia > read more

Google Social Search, a Recommendation Engine

Published on 2011-02-17 23:49:36

Google Social Search is not a new feature, but it wasn’t that important until now. Google used to display at the bottom of the search results page a few links to pages created or recommended by your friends and social connections. The feature a > read more

Gmail Opens PDF Attachments Using Chrome’s Viewer

Published on 2011-02-17 23:49:35

If you use Google Chrome and you haven’t disabled the built-in PDF plugin, you can now open PDF attachments from Gmail using your browser’s viewer. Just click “View” next to the attachment and you’ll notice that the PDF > read more

Evil CO2inator (CO2 injector for fruit)

Published on 2011-02-17 23:00:55

Our lab-coated compadres at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have taken on a guest contributor for extra evil, more madness, and bonus science! Rich Faulhaber’s nifty project is a CO2 injector for whole fruit. And who doesn’t want to injec > read more

$75 Sous Vide Immersion Cooker

Published on 2011-02-17 20:00:23

Sous vide cooking, immersing vacuum-sealed foods in temperature-controlled hot water, is all the rage in culinary circles, touting incomparable results achieving optimal doneness. But the price tag on most commercially produced machines is a bit stee > read more

Block Results From Google Search: 5 Ways How This Can be Helpful

Published on 2011-02-17 18:49:55

Suppose you Google your name every now and then to see if there are any new web results that include your name. But each time you search, the top entries are from MySpace, Facebook, or some other website of which the results you already know. You wou > read more

What It Takes To Be an Independent Search Marketer

Published on 2011-02-17 18:49:37

Posted by Lindsay If you’re a Search Marketer working at an agency, in-house or are out-of-work entirely, you’ve probably considered going independent at least once. A bad day at the office can inspire daydreams of earning more money and > read more

Your Profile Just Got a Whole Lot Snazzier

Published on 2011-02-17 18:49:36

Posted by jennita Disclaimer: This post has absolutely nothing to do with SEO or even online marketing. You’ve been warned. Please keep reading to see the awesomeness that is your new profile. *happy dance* Before I jump into the new profiles a > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : There’s No Place like ::1

Published on 2011-02-17 18:40:21

Resurrected from the t-shirt graveyard at your request! Now that IANA’s allocated its final /8 blocks, we’re all part of IPv4′s death march. Reclamation can only do so much, so we hope you brought sunscreen and some Gatorade. Oh, an > read more

Google One Pass

Published on 2011-02-17 01:49:29

Google launched a service that allows publishers to manage paid content and subscriptions. Google One Pass is a “payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to their digital content”. Once you pay to access some con > read more

Google’s New Navigation Bar, Publicly Available

Published on 2011-02-17 01:49:29

The new navigation bar is slowly rolled out to all Google users. After more than 6 months of testing, the new navigation bar removes the clutter by grouping extraneous links in a menu inspired by Google Chrome. It also removes link underlining and re > read more

More About Google’s Reading Level Filter

Published on 2011-02-17 01:49:29

Google’s Daniel M. Russell has more information about the reading level filter, a feature recently added to the advanced search page. The reading-level is based primarily on statistical models we built with the help of teachers. We paid teacher > read more

Interactive Mirror

Published on 2011-02-16 23:50:14

Alpay Kasal, who helped create Alpha One Labs‘ Twitter-searching Christmas tree, has a new project: a touchscreen mirror. thought to build this version of the Interactive Mirror after I saw some dielectric glass mirrors with LCD panels built in > read more

Two Cells Enter! One Cell Leaves! Blood Wars!

Published on 2011-02-16 20:00:07

White blood cells pitted against each other in ‘Blood Wars’ @ Wired UK… Blood Wars is an art-science installation that will pit white blood cells from two different people against each other in a “tournament” that aims to see wh > read more

Stardate: Clockwork Skies

Published on 2011-02-16 18:35:28

I caught the wonderful Stardate program on AM radio this morning. Today’s program “Clockwork Skies” describes constellations that are named for tools or machinery. The constellations are Sextans, Antlia, and Pyxis — the sextan > read more

Codebox: Make a Ken Burns-style Movie Using Flickr and Processing

Published on 2011-02-16 17:00:15

This Codebox shows how to use the Flickr API to create a Ken Burns-style movie from your photos, like this one for Maker Faire: You’ll need to supply your own melancholy period music. Set up the sketch The first thing you’ll need to do to > read more

Top 10: Easy Woodworking Projects

Published on 2011-02-16 15:00:36

I’ve built a lot of stuff with wood in my life, but I do not consider myself a “woodworker” by any stretch of the imagination. When I evaluate a project that uses wood, personally, what I look for is the maximum cool result for the > read more

Bug Labs at the Health 2.0 / MAKE challenge in Boston

Published on 2011-02-16 13:30:02

In an update to Here’s what Far has to say about the gear: “The heart of the kit it is the ‘BUGbase’, which has built in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and battery, along with the Cortex A-8 ARM for some raw computing guts. The base is similar to > read more

Lego Kanji

Published on 2011-02-16 13:00:21

Flickr user Empress of Blandings built these clever Lego Kanji. [Via Typegirl] > read more

Block Domains from Google’s Search Results

Published on 2011-02-15 05:49:20

Google has released a Chrome extension that lets you block domains and sundomains from Google’s results. If you never find the results from experts-exchange.com useful, you can now click “Block experts-exchange.com” next to a search > read more

Default HTTPS Access for Picasa Web Albums

Published on 2011-02-15 05:49:19

Last month, Picasa Web Albums started to support HTTPS and now it’s enabled by default. It’s probably the only popular photo sharing site that uses an encrypted connection by default and that’s really impressive. Picasa Web Albums i > read more

The Next Generation of Ranking Signals

Published on 2011-02-15 04:49:26

Posted by randfish Every 3-4 years, there’s a big shift or addition to the key metrics Google (and, to a lesser extent MSN/Bing and Yahoo!) uses to order competitive search results. 1996-1999: On-page keyword usage + meta data 1999 – 2002 > read more

Getting SEO Value From Your Affiliate Links

Published on 2011-02-15 04:49:25

Posted by Paddy_Moogan There are various industries online where traffic and revenue from affiliate programs is a huge part of the overall revenue stream. If you work in one of these industries (gambling for example) then you may have the opportunity > read more

Serendiptichord

Published on 2011-02-15 02:49:45

Di Mainston and Tim Murray-Browne made Serendiptichord, a wearable soundscape interface: The Serendiptichord is a wearable musical instrument that entices the user to explore a soundscape through touch and movement. Referencing the architectural silh > read more

10-Year-Old Explains Import Of 3D Printing At Ignite

Published on 2011-02-14 23:00:59

10-year-old Schulyer loves his MakerBot! So much so, he was willing to get up in front of an audience of 850 people at Ignite Phoenix to tell everybody about it, explain 3D printing, and the import of the technology. Way to go, Schulyer! I love how h > read more

Profile on think|haus, Hamilton ONs Hackerspace

Published on 2011-02-14 19:00:33

A nice summation of the hackerspace scene courtesy of the folks at Hamilton, Ontario’s think|haus. > read more

How-To: Restore a Vintage Saw

Published on 2011-02-14 17:30:08

Make: Projects contributor Josh Burroughs has posted an excellent handsaw restoration how-to. Why bother to take the time to restore an old, rusty saw? Josh explains: Modern saws found at the big box home centers usually have induction hardened teeth > read more

Packing Tape Torus

Published on 2011-02-14 15:27:18

We saw a small sample of “tapecraft” artist Matthew Buckley’s work in > read more

Math Monday: Geodesic Dome Chicken Coop

Published on 2011-02-14 14:31:36

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Maybe you’ve always wanted to build your own geodesic dome home, but consider that too large of a project. You can build up your skills on a smaller scale by constructing a chicken coop. Anthony Liek > read more

This happens when you don’t have a condition variable

Published on 2011-02-13 20:40:34

Did Windows NT not have condition variables? This might be an artifact of that. It shows what happens when you don’t have a condition variable. stop_ibuf_merges: �� mutex_enter(&fil_system->mutex); �&# > read more

The Dark Side of Branding

Published on 2011-02-12 19:16:59

We noticed something on the Design Observer site this week that not only struck a nerve but also offered up an example of how powerful and long standing graphic design can be … good or bad. No related posts. > read more

You Gotta Maintain

Published on 2011-02-12 14:48:52

We’re going to be dropping into maintenance mode for about 15-30 minutes, Saturday night at ~11:30pm PST. A new version of WordPress dropped a few days ago and we want to update, as well as take care of some legacy data that’s missing fro > read more

10 Simplest Ways To Increase Your iPhones Battery Life That Majority Of People Dont Realize

Published on 2011-02-12 14:46:41

We use our smartphones to make calls, send and receive text messages, take picture, shoot and view videos, play games, and use various applications. All of this, needless to say, considerably drains the phone’s battery. If you do not take the r > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Minecraft Creeper Babydoll

Published on 2011-02-12 14:40:07

Creeper now available for ladies. Nothing’s worse than spending hours working on a project just to have some jerk come in at the last minute and mess it all up, whether it’s a bully, a thesis adviser, or your boss. Now it’s your tur > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Minecraft Creeper Kids’ Tee

Published on 2011-02-12 14:40:07

You asked for it. We listened! Nothing’s worse than spending hours working on a project just to have some jerk come in at the last minute and mess it all up, whether it’s a bully, a thesis adviser, or your boss. Now it’s your turn t > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Zombie Jerky

Published on 2011-02-12 14:40:06

Eat the flesh of those who would eat yours. Catch yourself a zombie and re-kill it. Then chop it up and turn it into jerky. Then, you’ll have Zombie Jerky. Ok, so it really it’s just teriyaki beef jerky, but it sure is tasty. $4.99 > read more

DIY Slide Projector from Ikea Lamp

Published on 2011-02-12 08:00:31

Here’s a cool Instructable by derte84, who converted an Ikea lamp into a slide projector using his own custom laser cut slide holder. I’m thinking that if Ikea implements this idea as a product, they can call it “Projekt�r.R > read more

Glass block LED display at Hive 13

Published on 2011-02-12 03:57:50

The fine hackers at Cincinnati, OH hackerspace Hive 13 recently finished up their glass block display LED sign, which is mounted in an outside window at their space. I got to see a preview of the project when I visited last fall, and was impressed wi > read more

Nail Self-Portrait

Published on 2011-02-11 23:48:40

This project is done on a sheet of heavy 3/4″ plywood, 48″ (four feet) square, with a grid of a half dozen different kinds of nails and screws spaced roughly 5/16″ apart (and some wire to do the lines in my signature). That means that there are > read more

In the Maker Shed: New Edison-Style Cup Phonograph Kit

Published on 2011-02-11 23:48:40

The New Edison-Style Cup Phonograph Kit from the Maker Shed uses the same principles Thomas Edison used to make his original recordings. The Gakken version replaces Edison’s waxed pipe and stylus with a plastic cup and a needle, but the end res > read more

Whole Lotta Arduino Going On

Published on 2011-02-11 20:15:52

The Arduino microcontroller has sure been getting a lot of lovin’ around here recently. First we released MAKE Volume 25, featuring tutorials and projects centered on this popular open source platform, then we did our first episode of our new s > read more

Things To Do With Disposable Camera Flashes

Published on 2011-02-11 20:00:38

They’re every where, they’re cheap – they can be dangerously “fun”. Things to do with disposable cameras! Booby-trapped Magic 8 Ball, turn it over and FLASH! Here’s a simple, but Homemade Strobe Photography. Take high > read more

Giant Knitted Squid

Published on 2011-02-11 19:00:30

Plarchie is an 8-meter squid knitted from plastic shopping bags. > read more

Skill Set: Understanding the Lathe

Published on 2011-02-11 17:00:18

We asked another woodworking maker we admire, Ben Light, of B.Light Design, to come share some of his expertise with us. He wrote this wonderful introduction to lathes. Thanks, Ben. -Gareth The Lathe The lathe is often an overlooked and under appreci > read more

Arduino Won? Hack a Day Responds

Published on 2011-02-11 15:21:03

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Open Source Ecology: Interview with Founder Marcin Jakubowski

Published on 2011-02-11 13:30:59

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) won our 1. Tell us about Open Source Ecology. How was it started? Open Source Ecology (OSE) was started to contribute to a global commons of open source information — with a particular focus on the too > read more

HVAC Music Box

Published on 2011-02-11 13:00:32

The HVAC Music Box is a sound sculpture that uses the idea of an HVAC unit as a resonator to circulate the sound of music boxes that are activated by viewers. The composition in the music box is an original piece that is on a continuous loop that is > read more

Google Doodle Celebrates Edisons Birthday

Published on 2011-02-11 12:06:36

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Why the Arduino Won and Why Its Here to Stay

Published on 2011-02-10 17:00:08

Each month, I’ll be posting a couple of new editorial-style columns here on Make: Online. These pieces are meant to get you thinking, to stir up discussion and debate, maybe even freak you out a little. My first column is called “Why the Ardu > read more

Make It Last Build Series #3: Prototyping the Stepper Driver

Published on 2011-02-10 16:00:24

The goal for this week is to prototype the driver circuit for the two stepper motors. Check out the Make It Last Build Series landing page for full info, prize details, and info about the first two builds in the series. A pin of a microcontroller can > read more

Homemade Revolving Shotgun

Published on 2011-02-10 15:33:32

Using chambers cut off 12 ga. scrap barrels and a new $10 bbl for an Italian auto shotgun, the only other gun part is a scrapped hammer from a 1857 Remington perc revolver. Loads like a SAA Colt but underlever rotates and cocks it. Blow-by is negligi > read more

Doug Mangers Hand-Carved Lockpicks

Published on 2011-02-10 13:00:36

I have been interested in picking locks since I picked my first lock in science class one day during 7th grade. Last year, I purchased a number of lock picks from various manufacturers (SouthOrd, Rytan and Peterson) and found that, although good in t > read more

Make: Live 2/9/11

Published on 2011-02-10 12:00:52

The second episode of Make: Live is online for your viewing pleasure! Matt and I had a great time hosting guests Limor Fried and Marc deVinck! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 02 in its entirety (m4v), or watch cli > read more

Thingiverse 3D Catan Pieces: Legal?

Published on 2011-02-10 11:35:03

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AllJoyn Open Source

Published on 2011-02-10 09:03:57

One of the sure signs that open source has entered the mainstream is when companies not normally associated with this approach starting getting involved. A case in point is Qualcomm, not someone that I’ve come across in this area before apart f > read more

Arduino Stripper, a Perfboard Duino Clone

Published on 2011-02-10 09:00:14

Asim from a group called TinkerAct! came by the Hack Factory a couple of weeks ago with a bag of Arduino clones they had created. Called the Arduino Stripper, it’s super tiny (1.6″ X 2″) and inexpensive ($20). I love using the little Arduin > read more

Giant Outdoor Catan

Published on 2011-02-10 08:14:13

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Open Hardware Definition 1.0 RELEASED!

Published on 2011-02-10 08:11:43

This is big news, for everyone who does open source hardware we finally have something we can put on our pages, stamp on our boards and say THIS is open source hardware! Please visit this page, read the definition and endorse! Ayah writes - Finally D > read more

Google Tests a Navigation Bar Integrated with Google Profiles

Published on 2011-02-09 17:42:31

Google has been testing different versions of a new navigation bar that removes link underlining and adds a menu for the features that now clutter the bar. The latest iteration of Google’s experiment replaces your email address with your name a > read more

Google Instant Supports Search Operators

Published on 2011-02-09 17:42:30

When Google Instant was launched, many power users noticed that they need to press Enter after typing a query that included advanced search operators like site: and filetype:. Most likely, these queries are resource intensive and it’s difficult > read more

Google’s Interactive Doodle for Jules Verne’s Birthday

Published on 2011-02-09 17:42:30

Google’s doodles are now a playground for creating small web apps. Static images are just the starting point for interactive apps that automatically load when you visit Google’s homepage. Pac-Man, Isaac Newton, John Lennon and the particl > read more

Google Translate App for iPhone

Published on 2011-02-09 17:42:29

Yet another Google app initially developed for Android makes its way onto the Apple App Store: Google Translate. It doesn’t have all the features of the Android app: there’s no conversation mode, no SMS translation, Google Suggest or a li > read more

3D-Printed Robot Snake

Published on 2011-02-09 09:00:12

Via i.materialise: This robot is nothing we haven’t seen before, but it intrigues me. It was apparently built as a promotion by the folks who make Objet 3D printers. I’d love to see what each module looks like — room for a servo, PC > read more

How-To: Papier-M

Published on 2011-02-09 08:00:22

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22 Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin

Published on 2011-02-09 06:00:08

We’re big fans of Altoids tins here at MAKE, which is why we love this awesome round-up of 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin by The Art of Manliness. Highlights include: a pinhole camera, an urban survival kit, and my favorite, the fireball > read more

High Altitude Paper Airplanes

Published on 2011-02-09 04:30:07

Project Space Planes is a publicity stunt, but a fun and interesting one at that. Launch 100 paper planes with a particular brand of memory cards containing messages sent in from people across the Internet on a high altitude weather balloon and see > read more

STEREO Reveals the Entire Sun (video)

Published on 2011-02-08 20:00:40

The sun takes about 27 days to rotate once, so it was a challenge to guess what type of solar activity was happening until it was basically too late. The new STEREO satellite can now help us predict and view what’s going on around the sun all a > read more

Lego Servo Multiplexer

Published on 2011-02-08 19:00:17

A NXT brick can control only three servos, but don’t let that limit you. This multiplexer — dating back to 2007, an oldie! — uses two servos to do the work of twelve, thanks to this clever homebrewed multiplexer. > read more

Call For Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2011

Published on 2011-02-08 05:47:19

We are thrilled to the gills to be announcing the official “Call For Makers” for Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. From the announcement, by Faire Director Sherry Huss: We are now accepting entries for the 6th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 > read more

Cardboard bins!

Published on 2011-02-08 05:47:18

OK, that may not be the most exciting headline I’ve ever written, and I’m not sure the exclamation point really helps all that much. But I am, personally, nonetheless very excited about cardboard bins right now, because thanks to them, fo > read more

3D Buried Treasure

Published on 2011-02-08 05:30:24

Interested in learning about powder-based 3D printing and in the greater Seattle area on Thursday, February 10th? Matt over at Metrix Create:Space will be giving a workshop on the subject and will introduce his latest project, 3dburriedtreasure.com, > read more

The Math of V-Plotter Design

Published on 2011-02-07 18:00:22

In response to our latest Make It Last Build Series project, the Drawbot, Bill Ola Rasmussen posted a link to this piece he wrote on the math involved in V-plotter design. Thanks, Bill! What is the optimal configuration of control lines for an area t > read more

Math Monday: Light Dimmer Knobs

Published on 2011-02-07 14:00:49

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics I believe that in the future, 3D printing machines will commonly be used to make household parts, e.g., when you need to fix a broken appliance knob or handle. I put this into practice recently when I need > read more

Roundrect Ocarina

Published on 2011-02-07 12:03:32

Ranjit Bhatnagar whipped up this laser cut ocarina, and provides the plans so you can make your own. Not sure how to get started? Ranjit’s running a laser whistle workshop Saturday 2/12/11 at NYC Resistor in Brooklyn. > read more

Double Lego rainbow!

Published on 2011-02-07 11:00:11

Lego color wheel, above, from Brickshelf user Chris Behrens, inspired by that below, from Danish enthusiast Niels Bugge. What does it mean?!? > read more

Training Tips for SEOs

Published on 2011-02-07 10:42:06

Posted by robmillard A quick introduction – I’m Rob and I work for Distilled in the UK office. This is my first post here on SEOmoz, so I hope you find it useful and I look forwards to your feedback. Running well planned training sessions > read more

555 contest prizes piling up

Published on 2011-02-07 09:04:30

If you’re considering NOT entering the 555 contest, be sure to peep their list of prizes before you make that decision. There’s a pro Eagle license from Element 14, a scope and DMMs from Extech, XMEGA dev kits, XuLA boards, a Nexus S phon > read more

Tamper proof screws pool on Flickr

Published on 2011-02-07 08:00:17

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Motorized Lego tank with brick-shooting gun

Published on 2011-02-06 12:55:05

Martijn “Dino_Martino” Hellemans of the NXT STEP Mindstorms blog has been working on a motorized Lego tank that packs a lot of sophistication. For instance, he uses a MTRMX-Nx multiplexer to control both NXT servos and Technic motors. In > read more

Crabfus rodent-powered Jansen walker

Published on 2011-02-06 12:13:02

A couple of weeks ago, we And so, after some modifications involving a hamster ball, mounting brackets, and a Meccano sprocket and chain, the tightly-wound hamster, Princess, was borrowed from a friend and press-ganged into service. The result is the > read more

How-To: Fingertip heart rate monitor

Published on 2011-02-06 08:00:12

Here’s a well-documented and rather enlightening project from Embedded Lab: This project demonstrates a technique to measure the heart rate by sensing the change in blood volume in a finger artery while the heart is pumping the blood. It consis > read more

10 Addictive Games That (ACTUALLY) Demonstrate The Power Of HTML5 Technology

Published on 2011-02-05 18:12:51

Wondering how to have fun on the internet? One obvious way is to play online games. And it may double your fun when you found these HTML5 based browser games which are worth checking out. There are many games out there, but getting by free and good o > read more

Business cards made from designers desk

Published on 2011-02-05 17:46:25

Designer Andrew Byrom made these literal business cards out of his old writing desk. Great pun! [via Steve Hoefer] > read more

Why Are Fewer Students in Science Fairs?

Published on 2011-02-05 16:18:15

According to the New York Times article, “It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are Lagging“, fewer students may be participating in science fairs because there’s not enough time in school to do science. An education policy > read more

DIY under-cabinet LED lighting

Published on 2011-02-05 08:00:55

Instructable user Esterill shows how to make your own swanky under-cabinet LED lighting scheme on a budget and the results are quite professional looking. For extra measure, Esterill used a microcontroller to fade the LEDs up when they’re turne > read more

Dust Sniper, a DIY dust extractor

Published on 2011-02-05 02:45:57

If you have computers in or near your woodshop, don’t underestimate the need for a dust extraction system. In fact, even if you don’t, you still need one. This how-to, by Instructables member bongodrummer, shows you how to make your own. > read more

Sylvias Maker Show: Super simple screenprinting

Published on 2011-02-05 02:45:56

Ever wanted to design your own cool t-shirt, or maybe wanted to put your awesome doodle on a bunch of different stuff like birthday cards, jackets or your backpack? Today we’ll show you how you can do all of that with super simple screen printing! > read more

8 Creative Ways To Find The Perfect Domain Name For Your Business

Published on 2011-02-04 20:40:59

“Why are all the good domain names already taken?” They aren’t. You just have to know how to create a great domain name that is available. If you want to get a great domain name for your new website or e-business, you’ve got t > read more

International SEO: Where to Host and How to Target – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-02-04 20:40:59

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �International SEO is big business, and big business equals big websites. It can be really confusing when you have to cater to a target audience that is the entire world: you know that people from different countries and > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Minecraft Creeper Creeper

Published on 2011-02-04 20:39:39

See? Creeper? Creeper? Yeah. We couldn’t resist. Nothing’s worse than spending hours working on a project just to have some jerk come in at the last minute and mess it all up, whether it’s a bully, a thesis adviser, or your boss. No > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : World of Minecraft

Published on 2011-02-04 20:39:38

Can you dig it? You have to wonder if the excitement about Minecraft is going to create a resurgence in spelunking and visits to roadside caverns. Course, most caverns don’t take kindly if you leave a trail of burning torches behind as you go&# > read more

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

Published on 2011-02-04 20:00:46

This weekend is the Superbowl, Sunday, February 6, 2011 – 6:30pm ET. It’s the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Green Bay Packers. Like many busy people with a of couple jobs, I didn’t know anything about these teams and didn’t realiz > read more

Arduino network monitior

Published on 2011-02-04 18:31:36

Pat Arneson built this clever network monitor that uses a BlinkM, an Arduino, and a little python. I never appreciated my internet connection enough when I lived in the city. Now that I’m a country mouse I think it really IS a series of tubes. Reli > read more

So long kernel mutex

Published on 2011-02-04 16:40:14

If you are willing to look there are a few good changes in trunk for InnoDB. A frequent source of mutex contention in InnoDB, kernel_mutex, has been replaced with a rw-lock for the transaction system (see trx_sys_struct), two mutexes in srv_sys_struc > read more

Skill Set: Understanding basic woodworking tools

Published on 2011-02-04 16:00:03

For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques. His first piece looks at five must-have beginner woodworking tools. As Len says below, your choice in too > read more

Improvised helmets in the streets of Cairo

Published on 2011-02-03 17:00:55

Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA Kyle Wiens, of iFixit, sent us the link to this photo essay from the UK Guardian showing Egyptian protesters improvising helmets in the heat of bat > read more

The quest for a rechargeable lithium-air battery

Published on 2011-02-03 16:30:07

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Make It Last Build Series #3: Building the Drawbot controller

Published on 2011-02-03 15:30:44

As discussed in the The project can be broken down into the three components shown in the diagram above: power, controller and driver. Power distribution is a major consideration in the design of any circuit, especially when driving higher current lo > read more

State of the Community

Published on 2011-02-03 13:40:42

Posted by jennita Every now and then it’s important to take a good look at your community, see where you stand, remember where you’ve been and take a look at where you’re going. Today I wanted to take the time to do just that. Over > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Circuit Sweetheart Necklace

Published on 2011-02-03 13:39:31

Circuit-board heart design shows the neuropathways to loveCircuit-board heart design shows the neuropathways to love $59.99 > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Hyper-Caffeinated Coffee-Flavored Marshmallows

Published on 2011-02-03 13:39:30

Loaded with 200-280mg of caffeine per mallow. YIKES!Three marshmallows crammed with coffee goodness and caffeine. Two flavors have 200mg per mallow, and one has 280mg! No way to fall asleep with these! $5.99 > read more

Home & Office : Test Tube Vase

Published on 2011-02-03 13:39:30

Love is chemical, so express your love with magnoliophyta in a borosilicate sample vessel.Love is chemical, so express your love with magnoliophyta in a borosilicate sample vessel. $8.99 > read more

Geek Toys : Snarky Valentine’s Day Cards

Published on 2011-02-03 13:39:29

Valentine’s Day cards for adults. Rude and funny. Rude Valentine’s Day cards make life more exciting. By adding some snark to your romance, you truly will be living on the edge. Good luck! $9.99 > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Shower Shock Caffeinated Bubble Bath

Published on 2011-02-03 13:39:29

Bubble bath and caffeine – in perfect harmony. Most bubble baths relax you – but that’s just not good enough for us. So we loaded some with caffeine. Now you can relax and wake up all at once! $14.99 > read more

Gadgets : Rubik’s Cube Fuzzy Dice Danglers

Published on 2011-02-03 13:39:28

Dangle some cubes from your rear view mirror.Just like the dice danglers of old, but this time with a fresh face. Show your geek pride by hanging some Rubik’s Cubes from your rear view mirror. $9.99 > read more

Two things that give designers a bad reputation

Published on 2011-02-01 03:15:14

Design is not a profession where a degree or certification is required. While this is not necessarily a bad thing in a creative field, it does completely open it up and one person calling themselves a professional designer might actually be someone w > read more

Five Ways to Get Links From Fan Sites

Published on 2011-01-31 23:40:19

Posted by RobOusbey Whatever your site’s topic, whether you are very niche or broad, B2C or B2B, a retailer or a publisher – there are likely to be independent fan sites that overlap with the subjects on your site. By fan site, I mean > read more

Two new Arduino & Processing online classes: video mixing & visualization

Published on 2011-01-31 16:30:00

In February and March, O’Reilly Media is running two online classes with instructor Joseph Gray. The classes are free to attend if you’re watching them online live, and they will be available for sale after the classes are over: Session 1 > read more

7 Best Android Apps Students Can Really Make Use Of

Published on 2011-01-31 15:47:20

Most of the students buy Android devices for fun, gaming and social activities. Some buy it for marking their status symbol in the society. No matter what your reason is but you can always use it to help it with your studies or at least a pocket tool > read more

Bollywoodbot

Published on 2011-01-31 15:31:00

OK, honestly, this has little to do with MAKE or making. It’s scenes from a ridiculously over the top Terminator-like Bollywood movie. But the inventiveness of the transformations of the killer android, and the perverse humor of it all, tickled > read more

Boston vintage printshop equipment bonanza

Published on 2011-01-31 15:00:00

Last summer, the city of Boston’s North Street municipal print shop was closed down. Now, the contents of the shop, which served the city for 78 years, are going up on the auction block. Andrew Ryan, writing for Boston.com, says: [T]he linotype > read more

Update: MS Research bringing Kinects to Health 2.0 / MAKE code-a-thon in Boston

Published on 2011-01-31 14:30:00

In an update to last week’s post , , and . Can’t wait to see what happens at NERD on February 19th. > read more

How-To: Earthbag dome

Published on 2011-01-31 14:00:01

Owen Geiger on Instructables writes: This earthbag dome Instructable simplifies the process and illustrates each step of construction with photos. The two critical drawings are also included here. Please refer to the complete article before asking qu > read more

Math Monday: Office supplies

Published on 2011-01-31 14:00:00

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics For a true maker, any stock of unused office supplies is perceived as a challenge to make some kind of construction. Here is an icosahedrally symmetric geodesic sphere made from ninety paper fasteners. It > read more

Cyborg contact lenses

Published on 2011-01-31 12:00:07

Smart contact lenses for health and head-up displays at New Scientist: The next time you gaze deep into someone’s eyes, you might be shocked at what you see: tiny circuits ringing their irises, their pupils dancing with pinpricks of light. Thes > read more

10 Evergreen (Yet Free) iPad Apps To Kill Your Boredom

Published on 2011-01-30 16:40:18

Wondering how to have fun with your iPad? One obvious way is to play games or try fun apps on it. And here we are listing down Top 10 Evergreen iPad Apps To Kill Your Boredom. Read on my list of top 10 free iPad apps for your entertainment. Try them > read more

Shinya Kimura, motorcycle maker

Published on 2011-01-30 10:00:00

I loved this mini documentary of custom motorcycle creator Shinya Kamura. [Via yatzer] > read more

30 Insanely Beautiful Digital Paintings

Published on 2011-01-30 08:59:19

Today we have assembled some of the most incredible and beautiful digital paintings from Deviant Art. In this post, you will find that most of the masterpieces are softly colored yet look truly stunning. You will notice that each of the artwork tells > read more

Lego ghost trap replica

Published on 2011-01-30 08:00:00

Flickr user Alex Eylar made this amazing LEGO replica of a Ghostbusters ghost trap. If you’re not familiar with this this piece of equipment, the site Ghostbusters Fans has a primer for you. No word yet if Alex plans on making a matching Ecto C > read more

Apartment covered in 25,000 ping pong balls

Published on 2011-01-30 05:30:08

Apartment covered in 25,000 ping pong balls… A pied-à-terre as permanent residence, Box/Box is an apartment for Snarkitecture partner Daniel Arsham. A 90 square foot private hideaway contained within a larger 2,500 square foot collaborative wo > read more

Rings of Saturn

Published on 2011-01-30 03:00:00

I can’t say I’m convinced of the viability of this amusement ride concept by Thomas Casey, however I’m entranced by the model version that he shows off in this video. So many colorful moving parts! > read more

Protect yourself welding stainless steel

Published on 2011-01-29 20:43:11

Michael writes - I’m sure some makers work with stainless without understanding the risks. Here’s a great article written by my friend Lee Sonko when, as part of the Flaming Lotus Girls, he worked on the Serpent Mother. > read more

DIY Lego/Ikea table

Published on 2011-01-29 19:00:00

Via Ikea Hackers: Quentin of Bordeaux, France, covered a Ramvik table with a Lego design he created, with bricks ordered from Lego’s Pick-a-Brick service. > read more

Design Squad Nation

Published on 2011-01-29 13:30:00

This week brings us the premier of Design Squad Nation, the reworking of Design Squad, with new hosts, and a new approach. All material from the first three seasons is archived on the Design Squad site, along with lots of great short video segments i > read more

Using the right tools to reach customers

Published on 2011-01-29 12:19:50

Those who have tried Internet marketing know that starting out Internet-based marketing campaigns can be difficult, especially for those who are getting started and haven’t had much contact with the tools, strategies, etc. required to run them > read more

Roundabout dog challenge

Published on 2011-01-29 10:00:00

The Hack Factory in Minneapolis is throwing a Roundabout Dog challenge. Place a dog sculpture in a roundabout and win eternal fame! Prize: A picture of your roundabout dog framed and displayed in the basement of Minneapolis’ hackerspace the Hac > read more

How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google’s Search Results

Published on 2011-01-29 09:40:13

Posted by invseo This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Anatomical Heart Necklace

Published on 2011-01-29 09:39:00

You don’t need no cutesy jewelry. You don’t need no cutesy jewelry. $39.99 > read more

Take a tour of the Arduino… but watch your step

Published on 2011-01-29 08:00:00

engineerzero was kind enough to give a guided tour of a ginormous Arduino Uno to a handful of faceless Google SketchUp denizens recently. Highlights of the tour included a short stroll down Power Street to Analog Alley, where many different kinds of > read more

Remembering Challenger

Published on 2011-01-29 05:42:48

Christa McAuliffe, weightless Long before I stumbled into the jobs that I do now, long before I even knew what I wanted out of my life, I wanted to be an astronaut. Nothing new there, of course — I’m going to hazard a guess that most make > read more

Hubcap viperfish

Published on 2011-01-29 05:42:47

We have actually covered the work of British hubcap sculptor Ptolemy Elrington a couple times before (see below), but I couldn’t resist posting again when I saw this viperfish sculpture, which appears among others in a gallery at The Telegraph. > read more

Interlinking Your Sites – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-01-28 02:39:45

Posted by caseyhen Hello mozzers! �Wow, my first post as a Moz staffer and it’s not even something I wrote or recorded, I promise the training wheels will come off soon. �This week Rand dives into a topic that many of you have asked a > read more

Why Won’t Google Use My META Description?

Published on 2011-01-28 02:39:44

Posted by Dr. Pete I’ve seen some frustration in Q&A lately with how Google is handling search snippets and META descriptions. You may have seen a schizophrenic search result that looked something like this: Site owners are understandably f > read more

In the Maker Shed: tinyCylon kit

Published on 2011-01-27 23:42:04

You can easily solder together the tinyCylon kit yourself, or you can buy one already assembled & tested, and jump right into the world domination stage of your evil plan. Not into Cylons? *gasp* Then maybe a Lux Spectralis or WeeBlinky might be > read more

Temporary Restraining Order Issued in Sony vs. Geohot – Everyone is going to mirror GeoHot’s PS3 Jailbreak

Published on 2011-01-27 22:00:19

Temporary Restraining Order Issued in Sony vs. Geohot via Engadget. This means three things 1) The GetHot team cannot link to, distribute or really do anything with the jailbreak code while the case continues. And 2) Sony wants all the computers and > read more

Gmail Desktop Notifications

Published on 2011-01-27 21:40:09

If you use Google Chrome, you can enable a new Gmail feature that shows desktop notifications for new messages. Go to “Settings“, and enable chat notifications and mail notifications to see a small bubble when you get a new message. If yo > read more

Bubble photography tips and tricks

Published on 2011-01-27 20:15:00

I’m completely enamored by Tom Falconer’s gorgeous bubble photography, and he was nice enough to share his tips and tricks with us. Tom is a Tahoe resident, so he’s blessed by beautiful surroundings and cold temps that make shots li > read more

Laser-cut plexi case for LED cubes

Published on 2011-01-27 18:30:00

Check out this sweet laser-cut Plexiglas case my HacDC homeboy Riley Porter fabbed to enclose a Seeedstudio Rainbow Cube Kit. Riley’s Flickr set Rainbow LED Cube Case (Riley’s blog post) In the Maker Shed: LED Cube Kit An animated 3D cube > read more

Make It Last Build #3: The Drawbot

Published on 2011-01-27 16:30:00

Welcome to the third installment of the Make It Last Build Series and contest, sponsored by Microchip and Energizer. Over the next five weeks, we’re going to be working on the third project, a cool mural drawing machine called the Drawbot. With > read more

Lovely handmade wooden door latches

Published on 2011-01-27 15:00:00

Matthias Wandel writes: My dad originally started making wooden door latches for the cottages he built at Amogla camp. Conventionally available doorknobs and strike plates don’t allow for a lot of latitude in terms of dealing with shifts in the > read more

Global hackerspace cupcake challenge update

Published on 2011-01-27 14:00:00

The The contest is still going on, however I’m digging the submissions that are already in: The Artifactory (Perth, Australia) opens TOG’s (Dublin, Ireland) cupcake. > read more

The Power Of Volunteer Search Marketing

Published on 2011-01-26 19:39:38

Posted by Keenan Steel This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, > read more

So Much Great New Stuff (On-Page Tool, More Accurate Rankings and a Linkscape Update!)

Published on 2011-01-26 19:39:37

Posted by randfish You might have noticed that SEOmoz has been heating up with some spiffy new changes of late. Our engineering and product teams are in a groove, and that means cool new stuff every 2-3 weeks. Last night, some really slick new featur > read more

Kate Spade Email Design Showcase

Published on 2011-01-26 19:39:13

Now that I am responsible for my company’s email marketing campaigns I have become much more interested in email design and best practices. Once you subscribe to enough marketing emails you notice that there is a lot of great design going on in > read more

Geek Toys : Tron Kubricks

Published on 2011-01-26 19:38:56

Designer limited edition TRON kubrick figures from JapanListen up, programs. If you don’t behave yourself on the grid based here in the USA, we’re gonna send you to the grid in Japan and then you’ll turn out looking like one of thes > read more

Gadgets : Etch A Sketch iPhone Case

Published on 2011-01-26 19:38:55

Fully functional, protective iPhone 4 case looks just like an Etch-a-SketchFunctional and whimsical, this is a fully functional, protective iPhone case made of impact resistant ABS plastic and molded to look exactly like an Etch-a-Sketch. Know why? I > read more

Home & Office : Dalek Mug

Published on 2011-01-26 19:38:54

A mug befitting any surviving denizen of Skaro, this Dalek mug says it all – “YOU ALL WILL BE EXTERMINATED.”Whether sipping a steamy beverage in the war torn ashes of Skaro with Davros or just jotting down to the kitchen with your h > read more

Home & Office : TARDIS Mug

Published on 2011-01-26 19:38:54

Internal volume is smaller than the external. It’s a mug, not a time machine.A mug made to look like a 1950′s British police box, complete with roof (lid)? It has to be the TARDIS! A mug for for any time traveller, the TARDIS mug is bette > read more

Home & Office : The Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker

Published on 2011-01-26 19:38:53

Thinks for itself and adjusts temperature and cooking time for perfect riceThe Fuzzy Rice Cooker has a mind of its own and will actually make adjustments to temperature and cooking time while you’re kicking back on the couch. Every batch of ric > read more

Home & Office : Click n Cook

Published on 2011-01-26 19:38:53

A modular spatula system that keeps all your essential utensils in one easy placeA modular spatula system that keeps all your essential utensils in one easy place. Just snap the attachment into the handle, cook up a storm and release with a click of > read more

Home & Office : Hobbit Stein

Published on 2011-01-26 19:38:52

Massive stein features red dragon Smaug’s lair and the thieving Bilbo BagginsStanding over 10 inches tall, this massive fine-grain stoneware stein is nothing short of epic. Artwork by premier fantasy artist Matthew Stawicki features the red dra > read more

Try to avoid foreach/for loops

Published on 2011-01-25 12:39:24

Before I get into this a little bit, know that my comments are a direct response to this post: http://www.codekicks.com/2011/01/try-to-avoid-foreachfor-loops.html. The reason I’m writing this post is because the author is making invalid comparisons > read more

Recommendations for Blog Commenting as a Marketing Strategy

Published on 2011-01-25 12:39:23

Posted by randfish Many of us in the web marketing space have a love/hate relationship with the practice of leveraging blog comments as a marketing strategy. On the one hand, it can bring valuable participation and content to our sites and provide an > read more

Weighty mission for scientists: redefine the kilo

Published on 2011-01-25 11:40:17

Weighty mission for scientists: redefine the kilo The original cylinder of platinum and iridium used as the standard weight for one kilogram. Scientists said Monday they were moving closer to coming up with a non-physical definition of the kilo after > read more

Matchstick entomology

Published on 2011-01-25 11:00:00

UK designer Kyle Bean, who previously made waves with his laptop/book sculpture More: > read more

13 Excellent jQuery Techniques And Demonstrations

Published on 2011-01-25 10:34:41

Are you looking for some cool and handy jQuery Plugins, you landed at right place. Below we are presenting 13 most useful and handy techniques that you can use in your next project and make it stand out. jQuery is the most well-known and open sourc > read more

In the Maker Shed: XGS AVR 8-Bit development system

Published on 2011-01-25 10:00:00

The XGS AVR 8-Bit system was developed to be a very competitive entry/midrange development kit for the Atmel ATmega644 AVR processor with 64K FLASH, 4K SRAM, and running at 28+ MIPs. The kit includes everything you need to get started developing appl > read more

Lasercut pendant light

Published on 2011-01-25 09:00:00

Thingiverse user Rob Ward of Melbourne created this teardrop light fixture out of laser-cut 3mm MDF. He also created a similar desk lamp. Very nice! > read more

Now THIS Is What We All Really Hate About Our Lives (Cartoon)

Published on 2011-01-25 08:55:44

This is so true. The perfect example of what “Modern Life” term means. Now a days whatever we do, from studies to games, entertainment to gathering everything is done via computers and internet. Computer is a part of our modern life and i > read more

Laser-cut interlocking Settlers of Catan tiles

Published on 2011-01-25 08:00:00

Clever idea from Thingiverse user jmne. I like the art he’s chosen to represent each of the various resources. He’s also produced a version in transparent red acrylic. I’ll be interested to see how this idea evolves. More: > read more

Hand powered smartphone charger updated

Published on 2011-01-25 06:00:00

Back in October 2010 Ben Heckendorn > read more

In-House SEO: Integrating SEO into the Project Process

Published on 2011-01-24 05:38:35

Posted by Geoff Kenyon If you make frequent updates to your site, it is easy for mistakes to have a big impact on your SEO. Sometimes page titles will contain only the company name, the noindex tag gets carried over from the test environment, or you > read more

Saving on Ink Cartridges, without losing quality

Published on 2011-01-24 05:33:42

It seems like a fact of life that there is no school or college that let their students escape from writing assignments or papers. When I was in primary school, assignments were always written by hand and presented on our school exercise book. Howeve > read more

555 contest up and running

Published on 2011-01-24 04:17:58

The 555 contest was conceived by Jeri Ellsworth and Chris Gammell in a conversation on Twitter, and now it’s going to happen. This contest came about in mid-January 2011 on Twitter. Jeri began talking about 555 timers and excitement built up en > read more

There Are No Electrons (book review)

Published on 2011-01-23 17:00:00

There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings Kenn Amdahl Clearwater Publishing, 1991, $12.95 As an obsessively visual person (and someone who suffers from dyslexia), I have a hard time understanding concepts that aren’t graphical or story > read more

Google Science Fair

Published on 2011-01-23 16:30:00

If you’re looking for a way to fill up some of your after school time in the next few months, check out Google Science Fair. You can work solo or gather up a friend or two and set out to explore science and making while creating an online recor > read more

Last call for Karts and Wheels contest

Published on 2011-01-23 11:30:00

Wheel aficionados, there are still a couple of days left to enter the MAKE Karts and Wheels contest. Got any projects that have wheels and can carry a person? Enter for your chance to get your project polished and published in MAKE Volume 26, the Kar > read more

Learn photography inside an enormous pinhole camera

Published on 2011-01-23 08:00:00

Whoever thought you could learn about cameras while sitting inside a camera? Luxembourg-based Flash007 holds photography workshops inside an awesome custom trailer that doubles as an oversized camera obscura, which they call the Roulot’ographe. > read more

Girl, 10, becomes youngest to discover supernova

Published on 2011-01-23 05:30:10

Girl, 10, becomes youngest to discover supernova… A 10-year-old Canadian girl will head back to school this month with a good case for some extra credit in science: She became the youngest person to discover a supernova during the holiday break > read more

Texting your door lock: "open pls. TY"

Published on 2011-01-22 22:17:29

You can leave your keys at home with this clever hack by Billy Chasen, who rigged up his deadbolt to a Propeller-based Spinneret Web Server. Using an SMS gateway called Twilio, he can open and close the lock by tapping out a quick text message. Not o > read more

Google Navigation Bar Switch

Published on 2011-01-22 18:45:50

Google made a small change to the navigation bar used for its non-search services: the link to Google Reader was moved to the “more” drop-down, while the link to Picasa Web Albums was brought back to the main bar. At some point, both link > read more

Daisy-chained history o’ printers make artist’s book

Published on 2011-01-22 07:17:24

Cory writes on Boing Boing: Xavier Antin’s installation piece “Just in Time” uses four devices spanning 100 years of desktop printing to generate a rather lovely book; each printer’s output is the input for the next one down t > read more

Defusing the fuse issue

Published on 2011-01-22 07:17:23

Well, the use of fuse ignition in the Make: Projects: Model Rocket Igniters More: Check out MAKE Volume 25: MAKE Volume 25: Arduino Revolution Give your gadgets a brain! Previously out of reach for the do-it-yourselfer, the tiny computers called micr > read more

Pasta whistle!

Published on 2011-01-22 03:00:00

It’s a whistle! It’s edible! I like this pasta whistle concept by designers Elan Leor and Eran Lederman. Anyone want to try making one? Here’s a video of Japanese food instrument hacker Junji Koyama jamming on some regular pasta: [v > read more

Whiteboard Friday Live – When Keyword Targeting Gets Tough

Published on 2011-01-21 19:25:26

Posted by Jamie Whiteboard Friday Live – tomorrow at 10am Pacific Standard Time We’ll do it live! For the first time ever,�Whiteboard Friday will be broadcast live! �Will the whiteboard fall from the wall? Will Rand go crazy? Yo > read more

iPhone grip tape backing

Published on 2011-01-21 19:00:00

Over the holidays I dropped my phone into the snow. Again. After cursing some, thinking some, and then cursing some more, I decided to make a backing for my phone that was less slippery than the glass or even the metal one I have. I went through a fe > read more

Penrose tile floors

Published on 2011-01-21 14:55:00

Sir Roger Penrose, himself, standing on a Penrose tiling at Texas A&M University. Penrose tilings (Wikipedia), named for British mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose, who investigated them in the 1970s, are interestingly “aperiodic,R > read more

User-configured multitool

Published on 2011-01-21 13:00:00

Switch is the ultimate modular pocketknife, with 17 different attachments so you can mix and match your most frequently used tools. Customize your Switch’s width by swapping out the inner axles, or group your tools into different “themes& > read more

Super Awesome Sylvia’s Mousey the Junkbot

Published on 2011-01-21 11:00:28

Super Awesome Sylvia builds the ambitious Mousey the Junkbot project by our very own Gareth Branwyn from MAKE v02 Ever wanted a pet but your parents wouldn’t let you? Why not try Mousey the Junkbot! Today we’ll be highlighting the build f > read more

Kaiju anatomical drawings

Published on 2011-01-21 09:00:00

For those curious about the inner workings of kaiju beasties like Gamera (top) and Guiron… The anatomical features of Gamera and his foes are detailed in a set of illustrations found in one volume of the Kaijū-Kaijin Daizenshū movie monster b > read more

The owls are not what they seem…

Published on 2011-01-21 08:00:00

Especially this one. Unless, that is, it seems to you like an original sculpture prepared by Chicago sculptor Jessica Joslin for the Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition coming up on February 12-13 in LA. In which case, well, at least this one > read more

Clear iPhone 4 mod

Published on 2011-01-21 06:00:00

Yesterday the general public learned what a > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Plotting for Your Heart Babydoll

Published on 2011-01-21 02:06:22

Sometimes love is the answer. We think this would be a perfect shirt to wear to speed dating. If the person blinks uncomprehendingly at you, he or she is right out. If the person spouts off the phrase “My normal approach is useless here,” > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Plotting for Your Heart

Published on 2011-01-21 02:06:22

Did you want me to draw you a picture? We think this would be a perfect shirt to wear to speed dating. If the person blinks uncomprehendingly at you, he or she is right out. If the person spouts off the phrase “My normal approach is useless her > read more

Halo costumes at Open MAKE event

Published on 2011-01-20 23:00:00

One of the most popular posts of last year was about Shawn Thorsson’s amazing Pictures from Open Make at the Exploratorium More: > read more

Google’s New CEO: Larry Page

Published on 2011-01-20 22:45:04

Eric Schmidt announced today that Larry Page will become Google’s CEO. Larry will now lead product development and technology strategy, his greatest strengths, and starting from April 4 he will take charge of our day-to-day operations as Google > read more

More Compact Google Search Options

Published on 2011-01-20 22:45:04

Google used to group the options from the search sidebar so you can quickly find the filters related to location, visited pages and the different ways to present search results. All these groups have been merged and Google only kept the group that le > read more

Esc to the Rescue

Published on 2011-01-20 22:45:03

Google’s search engine is already fast, but what if you could save more time? Let’s say that you’ve typed a query and pressed Enter, but the results aren’t great. How to quickly delete your query and type something else? Press > read more

New Google Maps Navigation Controls

Published on 2011-01-20 22:45:03

After more than three months of testing, the new Google Maps navigation controls have replaced the classic tabs. By default, Google shows a small preview of the satellite imagery and a link to the traffic layer, but you’ll get more options if y > read more

Gmail Labs Search

Published on 2011-01-20 22:45:02

There are so many Labs features in Gmail that’s difficult to find one of them. There’s always Ctrl+F to the rescue, but you shouldn’t have to use a browser feature for this. To solve this problem, Gmail added a search box that perfo > read more

We make planes

Published on 2011-01-20 22:00:20

America’s landlord is visiting this week – Here’s another interesting blurb from the NYTimes, people are always asking what “we make now”… planes, 200 of them – The White House announced shortly after the cer > read more

New "Deal of the Day" Email Template

Published on 2011-01-20 21:12:54

I’ve been working with Florida Flourish on a couple of projects and here’s the outcome of the first one — a new template for our weekly deals email. Here’s how the almost final version looks: I couldn’t be happier with t > read more

Google Chrome and the Beginning of Time

Published on 2011-01-20 00:44:50

A recent Chromium build updated the message used for the “clear browsing data” section. The most impressive option lets you “obliterate the following items from the beginning of time”. It’s less boring than “clear > read more

New YouTube Homepage

Published on 2011-01-20 00:44:50

Last month, YouTube tested a new homepage with many useful features. The new homepage is now available to everyone. The list of new features hasn’t changed, even though some of them have been slightly tweaked: * Combined list – Merges you > read more

Google Project Hosting Adds File Editing

Published on 2011-01-20 00:44:49

Google’s service for hosting open-source projects added a new feature that lets you edit your files from a browser. It might seem like a minor addition, but it could be the first step towards a full-fledged online IDE. “Perhaps you were b > read more

The Good News About Android’s Version Distribution

Published on 2011-01-20 00:44:49

When you develop a product and use liberal licensing terms, there’s always the risk that someone else will use your code to create a poor product. Maybe it will include a lot of unnecessary features, it will be slow and have a lot of bugs or it > read more

Geek Toys : Mashoonga! Foam Saber

Published on 2011-01-19 19:06:18

An affordable saber for office duels, lightsaber practice, LARPing, and just whacking people.Get ready for some great office duels. Each Mashoonga the greatest foam saber we’ve ever found. Safe, fun, and ready to duel with right out of the pack > read more

Geek Toys : Khet 2.0 Laser Game

Published on 2011-01-19 19:06:17

The new version of Khet – now with laser movement and a wicked contest!Just like the game played in Ancient Egypt, this game uses lasers and mirrors to eliminate pieces. Will you be crafty enough to tag your opponent? Or will you suffer humilia > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Soylent Green Is Me Creeper

Published on 2011-01-19 19:06:17

Sci-fi meets Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” Soylent Green meets Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” Would babies be the veal of Soylent Green? And would you be able to tell in wafer form? Science fiction m > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : Made With Love (and Science) Creeper

Published on 2011-01-19 19:06:16

How is babby formed? When a man and a woman love each other veerrrrry much, they combine their chromosomes into a single being, much like Voltron. Only with less mech involved. Well, we don’t know. It is OUR customers we’re talking about > read more

Voyager 1 at edge of solar system

Published on 2011-01-19 18:30:00

Stamatios M. Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is pictured with the Voyager spacecraft’s backup flight unit which was never used. (Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun/January 17, 2011) So cool. Thanks to Michael Doyl > read more

Open MAKE webcast video available

Published on 2011-01-19 16:01:00

This past Saturday, the latest Open MAKE/Young Makers program took place at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Lanny Smoot (above) showcased his incredible strobing zoetrope, Virginia Fleck (middle image) hosted a workshop on building inflatable med > read more

Images via scanning laser excitation of glow-in-the-dark paint

Published on 2011-01-19 04:16:03

My best days at Make: Online come when I see a new process, something at once so simple that I can’t believe I never thought of it myself, and so impressive in its results that my head just overflows with creative possibilities that weren’ > read more

Skill Set: Electronics tips from "Ask MAKE"

Published on 2011-01-19 04:16:03

For the past few years, we ran a column called “Ask MAKE,” where we answered reader-submitted questions about all things making. Not surprisingly, many of them had to do with electronics. Here are some of the most popular ones, which migh > read more

Clever book-folding sculpture trick

Published on 2011-01-19 04:16:02

It would appear that Isaac Salazar’s remarkable “origami” book sculptures are made simply by folding each page to the right dimensions. Dog-ears of various sizes will achieve the outer profile of the shape, but I assume internal det > read more

Improvised offroad toy

Published on 2011-01-19 04:00:00

Toys are so much more fun when you make them yourself rather than purchasing one. Popular in Cameroon, these so called “remote controlled” toys are made from the various bits of debris cast off from modern life. It may not have accelerate > read more

Google Docs to Add Preview Pane, Music Player, Collections

Published on 2011-01-19 02:44:43

Google Docs code includes references to some upcoming features that could make the service better suited for storing media content. There are many references to a preview pane that will allow you to view more information about your files and even che > read more

Abandoned Knol

Published on 2011-01-19 02:44:43

Knol’s homepage says a lot about the current state of the project. There’s a big empty section called “what’s new”, a single featured knol that has 1,000 views, while the “most discussed” section doesn’ > read more

Going to the Dogs: SEO Out of Control

Published on 2011-01-19 00:13:36

Don’t take this the wrong way. Search engine optimization is a useful tool. It helps businesses get their message out and stay one step ahead of the competition. For someone shopping online, it usually brings what they’re looking for righ > read more

Stuxnet Worm – BYOC, bring your own centrifuges

Published on 2011-01-18 22:00:57

This crazy story is making the rounds, it appears a virus was specifically designed to spin nuclear centrifuges. In order to do this, the virus writers most likely needed to reproduce this with the actual (duplicate) equipment… The worm itself > read more

3D printing in titanium

Published on 2011-01-18 19:00:00

3D printing service i.materialise just announced that they now print in titanium. We’re overjoyed that we’re the world’s first 3D printing service to let consumers order titanium 3D prints. Titanium 3D printing opens up an entirely > read more

REMINDER: WordPress move: Please Stand By!

Published on 2011-01-18 17:52:55

Don’t forget: We’re going to be moving our Movable Type blog to WordPress (in the Amazon cloud) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. We’ll be shutting off comments at 4pm PST/7pm EST in order to start some of the data migration. We’l > read more

Guide to Competitive Backlink Analysis

Published on 2011-01-17 22:24:51

Posted by Justin Briggs Using link data, although it can never be perfectly accurate, allows you to take a more scientific approach to your SEO strategies. How can we leverage link data for actionable insights? I recently wrote a post breaking down t > read more

Web-controlled shotguns combat feral hog infestation?

Published on 2011-01-17 22:00:20

Cyber hunting for hogs… According to a Nov. 19 bulletin from the Georgia Information Sharing & Analysis Center, “three shotguns were set up on a platform and linked to a Web-accessible camera system that allows the guns to be fired vi > read more

Self-balancing pogo stick

Published on 2011-01-17 19:00:00

“iHop” is a toy robot that can hop. It uses two independently actuated arms in order to simultaneously hop and balance in the lateral plane. The “sagittal” plane is stabilized by torque applied to the two drive wheels (note th > read more

MAKE on TWiT Live

Published on 2011-01-17 18:00:00

This past Thursday, a bunch of us took a field trip to the house that Leo built, the TWiT Cottage, in Petaluma. We were: Dale Dougherty, founder and GM of Maker Media, Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of MAKE, Gareth Branwyn, editor-in-chief of Mak > read more

Make: Online –> WordPress countdown: Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Published on 2011-01-17 16:00:00

And now, a word from Stefan Antonowicz, our Director of Technology, freshly reformatted, reinstalled, and ready to rumble. — Gareth After the debacle of A little over a month ago, however, I spotted a small craft on the horizon, bearing straigh > read more

Math Monday: Personal rapid prototyping machines

Published on 2011-01-17 14:30:00

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The rise of personal rapid prototyping machines, such as the Makerbot, RepRap, or Fab@Home, allows one to make a variety of geometric models. Polyhedral models, such as this 5 cm ABS dodecahedron, are fair > read more

How-To: Valentine motor

Published on 2011-01-17 14:00:51

Mrfixits writes: This Valentine instructable shows a pair of Hearts that unite to become one! The homopolar motor is the simplest form of electric motor, consisting of a battery, a conductor, and a magnetic field. The flat Heart shape is the most bas > read more

MAKE Volume 25: Arduino

Published on 2011-01-17 13:35:00

Give your gadgets a brain! Previously out of reach for the do-it-yourselfer, the tiny computers called microcontrollers are now so cheap and easy to use that anyone can make their stuff smart. It’s called “physical computing” — > read more

A great example to developers

Published on 2011-01-17 13:13:17

Recently, while watching one of my favorite HGTV shows, “Holmes on Homes” I had a mini revelation. Mike Holmes is a Canadian contractor and an expert in his field. The premise of the show is that folks will call on Mike to, “Make It > read more

Prototype II by Nick Laessing

Published on 2011-01-17 12:27:28

Prototype II, 2009 (after US patent no. 6545444 by John Bedini) by Nick Laessing. A quick search reveals that John Bedini’s 2003 patent, recreated here by the artist, was for a “Device and Method for Utilizing a Monopole Motor to Create B > read more

60+ High Quality Wallpapers For Your iPad

Published on 2011-01-17 00:12:39

Have just got your new iPad? Want to personalize it with your favorite wallpaper but facing difficulty in finding it? Since this is the era of iPhones, iPads and iPods, we decided to compile a post in which we showcase some amazing and cool wallpaper > read more

LinkedIn Email Makes Great Use of Technology

Published on 2011-01-17 00:12:36

I really like this LinkedIn email I received recently. I was just checking my mail before starting some work, when before I knew it 20 minutes had flown by while I clicked around on ex-colleagues to see what job moves they had done in the past year t > read more

RFID-reading musical instrument

Published on 2011-01-16 10:00:00

The C60 concept was created to bring tangibility to the digital music experience. A card represents a song or a collection of songs. Placement of a card on the C60 table causes the music represented by the card to be played. Multiple cards placed on > read more

Quiz-O-Tron 3000 Arduino quiz lockout system

Published on 2011-01-16 08:00:00

If you’re an aspiring Alex Trebek with some Arduino skills, you should check out RoysterBot’s Instructable on how to make a Quiz-O-Tron 3000, an electronic quiz contestant lockout system, which allows contestants to “buzz in” > read more

55 Breathtaking Examples of High Speed Photography

Published on 2011-01-16 07:27:39

High Speed Photography is getting very popular day by day. High speed photography produces awesome results because of a relatively faster shutter speed. This form of photography comes into play when we want to capture those scenes which cannot be wit > read more

Kindle Unswindle – how to remove the DRM from your purchased books

Published on 2011-01-16 05:30:27

Kindle Unswindle – how to remove the DRM from your purchased books… This Kindle hack relies on a few Python scripts to remove the DRM from books already purchase via the Kindle Store. The scripts, of course, require Python to be installed > read more

Incredible Collection of 50 High Quality Free Textures

Published on 2011-01-15 17:12:26

This post is designed specially for designers and our all the texture lover visitors, who always have a high regard for innovative and fresh textures and are desperate to execute them in their new design. This is because of the reason that a good t > read more

Cartoon: A Very Brief (Hilarious) History Of Micro-Media

Published on 2011-01-15 17:12:26

Technology changed our lives and made everything much simpler than ever. But who would have thought that one day anyone can create a new content without creating it himself. Just writing a paragraph or two on the actual story from somewhere else prod > read more

Open MAKE webcast, 1pm PST today

Published on 2011-01-15 13:31:00

As part of the Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium today, there will be a live webcast starting at 1pm. From the “MAKE at the Exploratorium” page: Open MAKE is a monthly program at the Exploratorium, in collaboration with > read more

Better Music Video Results in Google Search

Published on 2011-01-15 10:44:16

Google updated the group of video search results sometimes intermingled with regular results, but only for queries bands and music artists. “People often come to Google to find music videos, and this week we improved our results so now when you > read more

Karts and Wheels contest deadline extended to January 24th

Published on 2011-01-15 10:14:36

Calling all wheel freaks, go-kart aficionados, bike builders, skateboard modders, soapbox specialists, trailer tinkerers, and vehicle hackers! Wanna get published in MAKE magazine? Here’s your chance! We’ve just extended the deadline for > read more

DIY telecine converts film to video

Published on 2011-01-15 08:00:00

A telecine is a machine which converts motion picture film into video. The process is a bit more advanced than just pointing a video camera at a running projection of film. Each film frame is captured individually and some advanced math goes into con > read more

3D printers on CNN

Published on 2011-01-15 05:24:56

3D printers on CNN, nice work Bre > read more

Using jQuery Ajax to call ASP.NET JSON web service

Published on 2011-01-15 05:15:02

The jQuery Ajax infrastructure allows you to perform asynchronous HTTP requests which makes it easy to call an ASP.NET JSON web service, using this api. Let us see how. On a side note, if you are using jQuery with ASP.NET, you will find my eBook 51 R > read more

Intro to Circuit Bending

Published on 2011-01-14 22:00:41

Summary Hack a day has an excellent “Intro to Circuit Bending”. Their article combined with some previous coverage and pages of MAKE will allow you to make incredible retro, blippy, noise Electronic musical instruments are a lot of fun fo > read more

$5.99 Exclusive Ebook Deal of the Day

Published on 2011-01-14 19:14:15

Missing an issue? Well, today is your lucky day. One day only. Get any back issue of MAKE: Technology on Your Time as PDF for only $5.99 from oreilly.com by entering the code DDMAK. Act now! You never know when a deal like this will come around again > read more

Announcing the Make: Arduino page!

Published on 2011-01-14 18:31:00

To coincide with the imminent release of MAKE Volume 25, the Arduino issue, we’re launching an Ardunio site here on MAKE. Over the years, we’ve amassed tons of Arduino content here, offered dozens of Arduino projects in the magazine (and > read more

Auto Art Show & Smash-up Derby

Published on 2011-01-14 16:01:19

Bethany Shorb, a Detroit maker of hand-silkscreened neckties at Cyberoptix, is showing new auto-inspired creations in a show at the Public Pool Artspace in Hamtramck, MI. This show opens Saturday as a kind of counterpoint to the North American Auto S > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Edible Giant Toasted Leafcutter Ants

Published on 2011-01-14 15:05:23

Also in stock and ready to be munched!A delicacy if you lived in Colombia, means they are a super delicacy here. The largest species of ant – for you to eat. Yum. $24.99 > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Edible Oven-Baked Tarantula

Published on 2011-01-14 15:05:23

Now in stock and ready to eat!Tarantulas are big spiders. Lots of people are scared of spiders. So why not swallow your fear as you swallow a spider? Oven baked and ready to eat – just remove the fangs first. $24.99 > read more

Construction by teams of quadrotor drones

Published on 2011-01-14 13:00:00

Teams of quadrotors autonomously build tower-like cubic structures from modular parts. Work done by Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. > read more

5th annual thing-a-day

Published on 2011-01-14 12:00:12

It’s that time of the year again! February is Thing-A-Day month: Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where, every year in February, participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog.Sign-up now to get insp > read more

Reusing old optical disc spindles for cable storage

Published on 2011-01-14 11:00:00

Clever idea from reddit user Crath. Unfortunately, I think most of us are likely to have many more cables than empty CD/DVD-ROM spindles lying around. Still, me likey. [via Recyclart] More: > read more

Fabbers: Mega-Damage by Micro-Patents

Published on 2011-01-14 10:51:59

As my occasional postings on the subject indicate, one area that fascinates me is that of fabbers, aka 3D printers. One reason is that they effectively make our analogue world digital, in the sense that they allow 3D objects to be captured as digital > read more

Making it rain with Arduino

Published on 2011-01-14 10:10:00

We love it when our customers share their projects! This example by Todd Moore uses an Arduino and a LoL Shield to make a simulated rain pattern on the display. Not bad for a first Arduino project! Thanks for sharing Todd. Building and coding the Ard > read more

Life-size Spitfire model kit

Published on 2011-01-14 04:14:04

More: > read more

DIY Arduino animatronics

Published on 2011-01-14 04:14:04

Just though you guys might like to see my latest Arduino project – animatronics for costuming! I show how to make a nifty little Arduino servo driver board based on the Arduino Pro Mini and there’s several code examples to get people star > read more

Age of Site and Old Links – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-01-14 01:24:40

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �Lately, we’ve been seeing a lot of chatter on forums about the age of domains and links. No, we’re not talking about the Age of Domains and Links – that time is already upon us (we call it "The Inte > read more

Link Building Training – Strategies, Tactics and Tips

Published on 2011-01-14 01:24:39

Posted by willcritchlow Want to know more about link building? I’ve got something you might be interested in. For the first time ever, we are running one-day seminars dedicated purely to link building: London – 18th March 2011:�(tick > read more

How Many Links Is Too Many?

Published on 2011-01-14 01:24:38

Posted by Dr. Pete There’s a long-standing debate in SEO about the maximum number of links that you should place on any given page. If you use the SEOmoz PRO Campaign Manager, you may have seen a warning that looks something like this: Digging > read more

IBM’s Watson wins Jeopardy practice round AGAINST Ken Jennings!

Published on 2011-01-13 22:00:36

Well, we’re screwed… IBM’s Watson supercomputer won a practice round against Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and raised a lot of questions about the capabilities of artificial intelligence. Watson, a four-year effort > read more

Repair an old pocketknife

Published on 2011-01-13 20:00:00

Make: Projects community member Josh Burroughs restored his grandfather’s old pen knife, and shared his step-by-step photos and instructions with us. For a point of reference, below is what the old knife looked like before he got to work on it. > read more

Cake models geological strata

Published on 2011-01-13 16:30:00

Our own Laura Cochrane writes: Flickr user Khol made a geological layers cake, inspired by Tim Babb’s “Geology” design on Threadless. It makes me think of the song “Dirt Made My Lunch.” [via CRAFT] More: > read more

Guitar Hero-controlled fire organ

Published on 2011-01-13 16:00:00

Chris Marion (Andover, NJ) is an amazing teenage maker I found out about through element14′s website. I love his “About” statement: If you look up “Chris Marion” on Google, you will find a folk singer and a professional > read more

Top 10: Augmented reality

Published on 2011-01-13 15:30:00

#10 #9 #8 > read more

Free Post-Processing Textures

Published on 2011-01-13 04:12:29

Change the color, change the saturation, use multiple textures, just have fun! Here’s another freebie for you! Time to relax, forget about work and do something creative just for yourself. Today we have 3 digital post-processing textures for yo > read more

Compressed air train – AIR PUNK

Published on 2011-01-12 22:00:59

Compressed air train – AIR PUNK! Will steam power give way to compressed air for driving locomotives and hauling fast passenger trains? That is the vision of William E. Boyette, of Atlanta, Ga., whose amazing challenge to the iron horse—a mon > read more

Zimoun’s kinetic sound sculptures

Published on 2011-01-12 20:00:00

Swiss artist Zimoun creates stunning sound sculptures using simple, basic components, like DC motors and wire, amplified in effect by their numbers. One sculpture employs 30,000 plastic bags and 18 fans to create audio eerily like rain. Ever wonder w > read more

The Social Media Marketer’s SEO Checklist

Published on 2011-01-12 18:24:34

Posted by jennita As the lines of SEO and Social Media continue to be blurred, it’s becoming very clear that getting a page to rank highly in the search engines takes a combination of the two disciplines. So what does the Social Media marketer > read more

A reader-built Squelette

Published on 2011-01-12 18:00:00

In Volume 23, we featured Ross Hershberger’s Squelette, a see-through amplifier (“squelette” means skeleton in French). There has been some lively discussion happening on the Squelette article page, and among those contributing to t > read more

How-To: Simple molding and casting for toy duplication

Published on 2011-01-12 17:03:58

Super Awesome Sylvia is back with another Mini Maker Show, this time it’s all about casting! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Did you ever want another of your favorite > read more

Conversation Mode in Google Translate for Android

Published on 2011-01-12 16:43:59

Google Translate’s app for Android added a feature that has previously announced by Google: conversation mode. The new option is experimental and it only works for English and Spanish, so it’s more like an early preview. Conversation mode > read more

Free print-and-stick pinout label for ATmega (Arduino) chip

Published on 2011-01-12 15:30:22

A handy resource provided by George Graves over on the adafruit forums, based on an idea by Tod E. Kurt. More: > read more

New from O’Reilly Media: Building Wireless Sensor Networks

Published on 2011-01-12 14:30:00

Rob Faludi, NYU Professor, SVA professor, and all-around XBee hacker, has written a new book on creating wireless sensor networks with Arduino, Processing, and Digi’s XBee Series 2 radios: Create distributed sensor systems and intelligent inter > read more

SparkFun Free Day returns

Published on 2011-01-12 13:00:00

Last year, SparkFun held a On January 13th, 2011, Boulder-based SparkFun Electronics will give away $150,000 worth of products in the second annual iteration of the aptly-named event “Free Day.” The event is open to anyone with the magic > read more

7 Coolest Real-time Collaboration Web Apps You Might Not Know About (But Should)

Published on 2011-01-11 20:11:38

There are many web apps out there for real-time collaboration, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The 7 Coolest Real-time Collaboration Web Apps You Might Not Know About But Should. Read each entry in the lis > read more

T-Shirts & Apparel : I’m Here Because You Broke Something Babydoll

Published on 2011-01-11 20:11:33

Popular design now available in a fitted cut. There are some days when whatever title you go by – sysadmin, coder, security analyst, IT Lead – doesn’t fit. Cause the job you’re doing is basically that of a pooper-scooper, wand > read more

Google Chrome to Drop Support for H.264

Published on 2011-01-11 18:43:56

Chromium’s blog informs that Google Chrome will drop support for H.264 in the coming months and will only support WebM (VP8) and Theora codecs. We expect even more rapid innovation in the web media platform in the coming year and are focusing o > read more

API for Google’s URL Shortener

Published on 2011-01-11 18:43:55

Google’s URL Shortener has many advantages: it’s fast (probably the fastest URL Shortener), it rarely goes down, it’s integrated with Google Safe Browsing, it shows neat stats and it automatically generates QR codes. Unfortunately, > read more

Skill Set: Understanding electronic components

Published on 2011-01-11 15:30:00

Over the last few years, our very own Collin Cunningham has authored a series of awesome videos called MAKE Presents. Each video covers an electronic component (and one fundamental law of electronics). Understanding how these components function, and > read more

Fallout 3 replica helmet

Published on 2011-01-11 15:00:00

Pretty impressive replica prop work from Josh Jay, posted by his buddy Chris Bartlett. Josh started with a folded-paper model. Detailed construction pics are available in Josh’s Facebook photo set. [via Gizmodo] More: > read more

Arduino Tetris on the Video Game Shield

Published on 2011-01-11 14:00:00

Wayne and Layne have adapted Myles Metzler’s Tetris clone for use on their Video Game Shield. Myles recently ported an open Tetris clone to the Arduino. We added support for the Nunchuck (so now it works with both the Nunchuck and the Classic C > read more

Tron bag 2.0

Published on 2011-01-11 12:00:55

Roy S. wrote in to share his Tron bag based on our tutorial, so awesome! More: Tron Bag with EL Wire – CRAFT Video > read more

What’s the Future of Mobile Search and SEO?

Published on 2011-01-11 11:24:30

Posted by randfish There’s no doubt that mobile and, by extension, local search is hot. Technology pundits have been declaring every year since 2005 "The Year of Mobile" – that magical moment when everyone suddenly starts using th > read more

JavaScript Array Push and Pop

Published on 2011-01-11 11:13:42

JavaScript Arrays can be manipulated through various methods like Push and Pop provided by the Array class. Sometime back I had written on Slice() and Splice() in JavaScript. In this post, let us see an example of how to use the Push and Pop methods > read more

Suitcase furniture

Published on 2011-01-11 01:13:21

Arwen @ CRAFT spotted this neat upcycled suitcase furniture, made by upholstering (and presumably adding springs to) charming old luggage. > read more

How-To: Make beach glass in a cement mixer

Published on 2011-01-11 01:13:21

Rich Faulhaber wanted enough sand-polished “beach glass”, AKA “sea glass” (Wikipedia), to cover a walkway, and didn’t want to spend the rest of his life combing beaches for it. So he figured out how to make his own knock > read more

Google Transcoder’s Zooming Feature

Published on 2011-01-10 20:43:42

If you’re trying to load a web page using your mobile phone’s browser, but the Internet connection is slow and you can’t install Opera Mini, there’s always Google Transcoder. Google’s service shows a simplified version o > read more

Google Can’t Find Paris

Published on 2011-01-10 20:43:42

If you use Google to search for [Paris], the top search result is a Wikipedia page for PARIS (Paper Aircraft Released Into Space), “a privately-organised endeavour undertaken by various staff members of the information technology web site The R > read more

Google Goggles Solves Sudoku Puzzles

Published on 2011-01-10 20:43:41

Google’s visual search tool has a new trick up its sleeve: solving Sudoku puzzles. Google Goggles 1.3 for Android scans barcodes much faster, recognizes print ads from the major U.S. magazines and newspapers, but most people will probably ignor > read more

Printing circuit boards lecture @ 27C3

Published on 2011-01-10 19:00:00

Are you ready to wake up from the cult of Arduino? Tired of plugging together black-box pre-built modules like a mindless drone, copying and pasting in code you found on Hackaday? You’ve soldered together your TV-Be-Gone, built your fifth Minty > read more

Alt.CES: Cereal boxes with wirelessly-powered glowing ink

Published on 2011-01-10 18:15:00

Chris Walker, of Secret Labs/Netduino fame, was kind enough to agree to do some snooping around at CES for MAKE, too. Here’s more info on the printed-circuit ink product boxes on display at the show. — Gareth As Damien Stolarz These boxes > read more

Rice Krispiehenge

Published on 2011-01-10 16:16:44

Xeni Jardin writes: A photograph contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Laser Bread, aka Brock Davis, who lives in Minneapolis, MN. More: > read more

LINQ to XML Sorting

Published on 2011-01-10 15:13:04

In this post, we will read data from the XML file using LINQ to XML, sort it by an element and then load it into a Dictionary. If you are new to LINQ to XML, check my article LINQ To XML Tutorials with Examples The sample XML file looks like this: Le > read more

SlideTab surface creation system

Published on 2011-01-10 14:01:39

Chriskpalmer on Thingiverse writes: This edge lock system for paper and plastic works great for realizing meshes from thin sheets of material. It avoids the negative accumulated error common with the classic glue and tab method of construction. Inste > read more

The Problem With Being An SEO Consultant – It’s Always Your Fault

Published on 2011-01-10 04:24:18

Posted by Paddy_Moogan Quick disclaimer – this post contains advice on getting SEO done whether it be within your company or for a client as opposed to hands-on SEO tips. Just before the start of 2011 I published a post on my personal blog titl > read more

Drag and Drop Uploading for YouTube Videos

Published on 2011-01-09 22:43:37

Why download YouTube videos when it’s so easy to upload videos? Now you can drag and drop multiple videos on YouTube’s upload page instead of using the operating system’s file open dialog. The new feature requires a recent version o > read more

Android Addresses UI Shortcomings

Published on 2011-01-09 22:43:37

It’s amazing to see how much Android’s user interface has changed ever since Matias Duarte was hired by Google to improve Android. Matias has previously worked on Sidekick, Helio and Palm’s WebOS, so Android is a perfect fit for him > read more

YouTube’s HTML5 Rickrolling

Published on 2011-01-09 22:43:36

YouTube’s HTML5 interface has a very cool feature: if you right-click on a video, you’ll no longer see the boring contextual menu displayed by the browser that added uninteresting features like downloading videos. Instead, you’ll ge > read more

Bandsaw + block of wood = Deer

Published on 2011-01-09 19:12:39

Bandsaw + block of wood = Deer > read more

DIY ammo box speakers

Published on 2011-01-09 16:00:00

The folks from the I3 Detroit hackerspace show how to repurpose an old ammo box into speakers, using only $50 in parts. It seems like a good way to put military technology to a better use. > read more

Getting Started with Sharepoint 2010

Published on 2011-01-09 09:12:31

Microsoft has released a free eBook for those who are just getting started with SharePoint Foundation 2010 and want a quick introduction plus installation steps. The eBook contains the following chapter contents (taken ‘as-is’ from the eBook) Wha > read more

DIY convertible table

Published on 2011-01-09 09:00:00

Space is at a huge premium in my tiny apartment, which is why I absolutely adore No�lle’s hacked dual-purpose table. Using an adjustable trestle for legs, it can easily convert from a coffee table to a dining table. She even used a pair of > read more

Alt.CES: A maker’s peek at North Hall and the International Pavilion

Published on 2011-01-09 08:00:00

This year, MAKE/O’Reilly author Damien Stolarz (iPhone Hacks, Car PC Hacks) agreed to be our eyes and ears on the ground at CES, scoping out hardware at the show that he thought would be of interest to makers. Here’s his second installmen > read more

The Truth About Generating Traffic To New Online Stores

Published on 2011-01-09 06:11:21

This article is guest posted by Kirsty. “If you build it, they will come” It’s a great voiceover for a movie, but it hardly translates to the online world. There are countless entrepreneurs out there who think that all they have to do > read more

ASP.NET GridView Row Count with ObjectDataSource

Published on 2011-01-08 13:11:57

Continuing my ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks series, this post shows how to get the total row count when the ASP.NET GridView is bound with an ObjectDataSource. To get the total row count returned from an ObjectDataSource, we will use the ObjectDat > read more

G4 axe-intosh

Published on 2011-01-08 13:00:00

This interesting project in process was found in the MAKE Flickr group. It’s a 12″ Macintosh G4 laptop, presumably without the screen, embedded in a guitar body. The creator, Flickr user feurig, has lots of interesting projects in his pho > read more

Nixie tube reverse geocache box

Published on 2011-01-08 08:00:00

Arduino forum member RickP posted his awesome-looking reverse geocache box, which unlocks to reveal its contents only when it’s in a certain place on the globe. He uses an Arduino, a GPS sensor, and a trio of nixie tubes, which indicate the box > read more

Caterpillar Beam Bot

Published on 2011-01-08 03:00:00

Let’s Make Robots user adam “MiddleCreekMerchants” claflin built this Caterpillar BEAM bot, which manages to crawl along the ground and follow light without the need for a microcontroller. I’ve seen many different kinds of Bio > read more

Hexapod with printed legs and skull

Published on 2011-01-07 22:12:16

As cool as this superbad hexapod is, the coolest thing about it is that it’s the derivative of not one but three Thingiverse things, 5156, 5005, and 4378. The original didn’t work with the servos I had on hand, and I wanted to be able to > read more

Fallen AT-AT snow fort

Published on 2011-01-07 22:12:15

From reddit user jabo27. [via Geekologie] More: > read more

Arduino documentary is live!

Published on 2011-01-07 22:00:24

dcuartielles writes - Arduino The Documentary is finally out. We have been waiting for long, but now you can see it at Vimeo (EN, ES) and download it from Archive.org (links coming soon). The file is licensed under CC-SA 3.0 and can be redistributed. > read more

Cooking for Geeks at CES

Published on 2011-01-07 19:30:00

Sherry Huss, Maker Media’s Director of Sales and Events, posted this phonecam pic on Facebook of Jeff Potter’s Cooking for Geeks, spotted at the Wired Science Station. Wired is also featuring a MakerBot in their Maker Station. More: > read more

Alt.CES: A maker’s peek at South Hall

Published on 2011-01-07 18:00:00

It’s that time again. Along with death and taxes, the thing you can count on is the annual gadget gorgefest known as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). In past years, we’ve run a series of posts during CES, from the climate-controlled c > read more

Green Project Contest — The winners!

Published on 2011-01-07 16:30:00

We were thrilled by the response we got to our Green Project Contest, part of GE’s ecomagination. We ended up with 83 projects posted, 6634 votes, and many tweets and FB shares. There were a lot of really interesting, innovative, and fun entrie > read more

How-To: Trammel of Archimedes

Published on 2011-01-07 16:14:35

The mechanism known formally as the Trammel of Archimedes (Wikipedia) has practical application, when fitted with a drawing or cutting tool, as an ellipsograph. Otherwise it is fascinating but generally useless, and these qualities have earned it a v > read more

Creative Ways to Get Links from a Reluctant Target – Whiteboard Friday

Published on 2011-01-07 14:23:43

Posted by Aaron Wheeler �Happy new year, mozzerati! Another year, another 52 Whiteboard Fridays to be had. I don’t know about you, but I’m totally pumped to see what the whiteboards have in store for us this year! You may notice a ne > read more

Our Online Reputation Management Playbook

Published on 2011-01-07 14:23:43

Posted by brianspatterson This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmo > read more

Duplicate Content: Block, Redirect or Canonical

Published on 2011-01-07 14:23:42

Posted by benjarriola This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, I > read more

Geek Toys : LittleBigPlanet 4" Action Figures

Published on 2011-01-06 16:11:04

Take the game into real life. Sackboy wants to come home with you.All the fun of LittleBigPlanet can now exist in your real world. Get these figures and let the level building begin! $14.99 > read more

7 Must Try Multiplayer Games For Your Android Device

Published on 2011-01-06 11:52:40

Playing games on your Android smartphone is fun but one can feel monotonous and bored playing the same game all by himself round the clock. The best solution to the problem is playing multiplayer games with other players around the world and socializ > read more

Refactoring code using Extract Method in Visual Studio 2010

Published on 2011-01-06 11:11:27

Refactoring is the process of improving your code after it has been written, by changing the internal structure of the code without affecting its functionality. Extract Method is a refactoring operation in Visual Studio 2010 that provides an easy way > read more

10 Extremely Eye-Catching Minimalist Icon Sets

Published on 2011-01-06 10:16:37

In the past, we had posted good collection of icon sets which were highly praised by our visitors and on their request, we have compiled yet another exciting post on minimalist icon sets. Icon set if used properly help users with nice metaphors, and > read more

How to Leverage Year Over Year Data Successfully

Published on 2011-01-06 07:23:32

Posted by JoannaLord Oh the New Year. How we love you so. There are so many reasons to love you. Let us count the ways: Those "Best of 2010" blog posts finally come to an end. We all have a great reason to buy more stuff than we need because > read more

Help Us Build the 2011 Search Ranking Factors

Published on 2011-01-06 07:23:31

Posted by randfish 2011 is here, and that means it’s time for our biennial search engine ranking factors survey to be renewed. This year, we’re planning something much bigger and, we hope, better. Our plan is to offer a report that provid > read more

Picasa Web Adds HTTPS Support

Published on 2011-01-06 06:42:55

Picasa Web Albums was one of the few Google apps that didn’t support encrypted connections. Now you can go to the secure version at https://picasaweb.google.com to make sure that no one can intercept your requests. This is especially helpful if > read more

Google Docs Viewer for Spreadsheets

Published on 2011-01-06 06:42:54

Google Docs Viewer now works for spreadsheets too. Even if Google informs that the service can be used to preview “PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, and TIFF files”, you can also try Adobe Postscript files, Word documents and Excel > read more

Honeycomb: Android for Tablets

Published on 2011-01-06 06:42:54

Google has accidentally made public a YouTube video that shows Android 3.0 in action. It’s a completely new interface for tablets that borrows a lot of ideas from BumpTop, the 3D desktop software acquired by Google last year. Engadget says that > read more

Google Bookmarks Import Without Using Google Toolbar

Published on 2011-01-06 06:42:53

I really don’t understand why Google didn’t add a feature that lets you upload a bookmarks file exported by your browser to Google Bookmarks. Google still recommends to install Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer or Firefox to upload book > read more

Pixel pour 2.0

Published on 2011-01-06 01:11:51

Now in 3D! NYC’s secretly a video game, clearly evidenced by this leak in the matrix. We covered the first (to us) Pixel Pour back in 2008, and a reader has written in with these pictures of a new, more blocky version, photographed by Benjamin > read more

Sweet robot dresser built from junk table

Published on 2011-01-06 01:11:51

Anthony Pego, aka Reddit user pegothejerk, says, “I built a robot dresser out of end table scraps I found on the side of the road. My nephew is going to freak.” Pictures of the construction process reveal that the dresser seems, actually, > read more

Ingenious Hong Kong micro-apartment

Published on 2011-01-05 23:15:00

MAKE Engineering Intern Eric Chu sent me the link to this cool video of a tiny 24 “room” apartment in Hong Kong. Using a system of tracked/rolling walls, the owner-builder is able to transform the space from living, cooking, dining, sleep > read more

PS3 Root Key Found – is the Sony PS3 forever hacked?

Published on 2011-01-05 22:00:21

Awhile ago, Sony removed the Linux support for the PS3 and recently the “root key” was posted online and it seems like it’s hacked for good, there’s a great post on reddit by defyallodds… When Sony creates a newer hardwa > read more

Flash is not a dirty word

Published on 2011-01-05 21:11:54

I must say the way Flash has been treated in the design world lately makes it seem like a bit of an “f-bomb”. People have shunned it and treated it like it really has no purpose anymore other than to shock. Designers everywhere are jumpin > read more

Get published in MAKE! Enter the Karts and Wheels contest.

Published on 2011-01-05 20:00:00

There’s still time to enter the MAKE Karts and Wheels contest for the chance to have your project polished and published in the pages of MAKE Volume 26, the “Karts and Wheels” issue. Go-karts, electric bikes and scooters, biodiesel > read more

Introducing Make: Skill Sets

Published on 2011-01-05 18:00:00

In the past, we’ve run monthly themes on the site (e.g. Earth Sciences, Alt.Transportation, Citizen Science). This year, we’re going to do a series of monthly “Make: Skill Sets” (special articles and projects and round-ups of > read more

Retroreflector

Published on 2011-01-05 17:30:00

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from user lookseeseen, this lovely photograph of an optical corner reflector (Wikipedia), also called a corner cube. If you’re looking at it from the correct side, the reflection will always be centered on your > read more

The brick thief

Published on 2011-01-05 17:00:00

Enjoy this fine video, just try not to go around stealing Legos from kids and puppies, even if you know how to make them dance! [via Laughing Squid] > read more

Codebox: Handling exceptions in Processing

Published on 2011-01-05 14:30:00

In This illustrates a great point about Processing, programming, and life in general: we live in an imperfect world. Nice little sketches get started with no Arduino plugged in, numbers are divided by zero, people run with scissors, and so on and so > read more

Tracking Traffic from Google Places in Google Analytics

Published on 2011-01-05 00:23:28

Social Media Marketing: Facebook + Twitter Aren’t Enough

Published on 2011-01-05 00:23:27

Posted by randfish �Facebook’s had an incredible run for the last 6 years: source Twitter’s had a remarkable 4 years under their belt: sources: 1, 2, 3, 4 The growth of these twin networks has brought new discipline to the practice o > read more

Lego picture puzzle

Published on 2011-01-04 19:00:00

This is Ravel, a picture puzzle. You are a postman who one day wakes up in a mysterious place. What is going on, is it a dream? You come across a signpost in the road. It reads: Welcome friend to a place called Ravel, Should you wish to leave; there& > read more

Alden Hart’s robotic Christmas balls

Published on 2011-01-04 18:00:00

My friend, and MAKE contributor, Alden Hart created this unique holiday display for his house, using four TinyG boards controlling a total of 16 CNC axes, to animate 16 Christmas tree balls with LED throwies inside of them. As his business partner, R > read more

Low-cost ZigBee sniffer made with open source hardware

Published on 2011-01-04 17:00:00

Akiba of Freak Labs wrote in to share how he used one of his open hardware Freakduino boards to create a realtime wireless protocol analyzer for the 802.15.4 standard. If you haven’t heard of the concept before, a protocol analyzer is a device > read more

Yet another Lego USB flash drive mod

Published on 2011-01-04 16:30:00

In response to our Please keep in mind that I’ve been walking around with this stick for almost 5 years now and it was made out of some old pieces I used to play with as a child which were already banged up. The project was just a proof of conc > read more

Antique mechanical dice

Published on 2011-01-04 15:29:39

Dug North spotted this gem in a recent (and now unfortunately closed) eBay listing. Would love to hear what it sounds like when you pull that lever. More: > read more

Crank-powered kinetic sculptures

Published on 2011-01-04 13:00:00

Seattle artist Casey Curran sent in videos of his kinetic sculptures. Really love those flowers… In this most recent series I’ve combined pheasant pelts and simple mechanical movements with hand crafted wire insects and silk flowers to gi > read more

DIY 3D printing timeline

Published on 2011-01-04 12:30:00

I like this timeline of the year in DIY 3D printing put together by Miles Lightwood. Scroll through to see what exciting things have been going on in 3D printing, and click on the thumbnails for more info. It’s user editable, so anyone can add > read more

How (fancy) mattresses are made

Published on 2011-01-04 12:00:31

Cool Hunting went inside the Hästens mattress production facility in Sweden to take a fascinating look at how horse hair, metal springs, and wool are combined to make “the best bed in the world.” > read more

Calculator seating

Published on 2011-01-04 04:11:14

Stools upholstered, printed, and arranged to suggest a giant numeric keypad. Totally useless, and completely delightful. Also somewhat enigmatic, at least to your shamefully monolingual correspondent. The photo appears to originate from this Japanese > read more

Micachu and The Shapes

Published on 2011-01-04 04:11:12

Gregory Mitnick at Cool Hunting writes: Following British musician Micachu through the aisles of a hardware store and along the streets of NYC, our video on the 23-year-old documents how she builds her experimental instruments. We also learn how her > read more

Making treasure from trash with Design Squad Nation

Published on 2011-01-03 23:00:00

The Trash to Treasure Contest for kids recently wrapped up with a weekend of making for the three teen winners at Continuum’s offices near Boston. This was the same location as a previous video shoot, on The young makers worked with professiona > read more

Computer Mods of the Year 2010

Published on 2011-01-03 22:00:50

Mod of the Year 2010 @ bit-tech.net…. It’s been another epic year for modding on bit-tech. Our regular Mod of the Month articles have been jam-packed with dozens of fantastic projects, all of which showed huge potential. Some have been co > read more

Hackerspace cupcake challenge

Published on 2011-01-03 20:30:00

Lish posted the following on CRAFT: Who says cupcakes are just for crafters?! There’s a hackerspace challenge right now to send a cupcake in pristine condition to another hackerspace across the country. I’m wondering — have any of y > read more

Kinect ‘x-ray’ overlays you with CT-scan imagery

Published on 2011-01-03 19:00:00

The Kinect allows tracking of users without additional markers. We develop a magic mirror that generated an overlay of a video image with volume visualization from a CT volume. Such a system could be used for education of anatomy. [Via Beyond the Bey > read more

Solar Vox on Kickstarter

Published on 2011-01-03 18:00:00

We covered the work of Eric Strebel in the lead-up to Maker Faire Detroit. He contributed to our “Making Detroit” series. Now he and partner Jim Nogarian have brought their design for the Solar Vox personal USB solar charger to Kickstarte > read more

Goodbye SEOmoz, Hello Adventure

Published on 2011-01-03 17:22:40

Posted by Danny Dover Today is my last day at SEOmoz. I have been here for about three and half years and it really has been one the most important experiences of my life. I met fascinating people, traveled the world, got a book deal and learned an u > read more

5 SEO Tactics to Explore in 2011

Published on 2011-01-03 17:22:39

Posted by Kate Morris It’s the New Year and I can guarantee there will be a ton of new people at my gym this week ready to work on their resolutions (and generally getting in the way ). In SEO, some resolutions might include > read more

Announcing Maker Faire: North Carolina , June 18, 2011

Published on 2011-01-03 16:30:00

We got an email this morning from the fine folks who are organizing this year’s Maker Faire: North Carolina. Here’s a brief description of the event: Maker Faire: North Carolina celebrates things people create themselves — from Jame > read more

Doing business with designers

Published on 2011-01-02 23:11:16

Someone recently asked me, “Why are designers such push overs?” This led to a discussion that attempted to answer that but in the end, left me pondering the very same question. The service industry Many different types of businesses can a > read more

Free Photoshop Brushes

Published on 2011-01-02 23:11:15

Thought we would start the year out with giving away another freebie! This time, it’s a 10 brush Photoshop pack I created from some photography of mine. Each brush is 2000px x 1500px. Textures featured include wood, cracked paint, burnt log, tr > read more

Vending machine sits where Zoltar once did

Published on 2011-01-02 22:10:57

In MAKE Volume 21, tinkerer Roger Hess wrote about the working replica he made of the Zoltar fortune teller machine from the movie Big. Perhaps we ought to put Roger in touch with Rye Playland, the location of that particular scene. As you can see fr > read more

Caffeine & Edibles : Le Whif Breathable Chocolate

Published on 2011-01-02 19:10:28

Are you a chocolate or coffee fiend? Looking to scale back on the calories or the caffeine? Just one puff of Le Whif will deliver the flavor you want, without any of the guilt later. Deeeeeeeelicious. $6.99 > read more

Random Hexadecimal Numbers using .NET

Published on 2011-01-02 07:10:41

In this example, we will see how to generate random hexadecimal numbers using .NET. We will be using the Random class to do so. Here’s how to generate 10 random hexadecimal numbers static void Main(string[] args){ Random random = new Random(); int > read more

Printing electronic skin (video)

Published on 2011-01-01 22:00:00

Ali Javey, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkley, shows Technology Review how his lab prints electronic skin. > read more

Photo-realistic paintings of classic board games

Published on 2011-01-01 21:31:00

These may look like the boxes of games that you have in your attic or basement game shelf, but they’re actually paintings (oil, enamel, and urethane on copper), by Missouri-based artist Tim Liddy, of classic board game boxes. Stunning. [Via Dud > read more

AS220 Labs grand opening: Friday Jan 7th in Providence RI

Published on 2011-01-01 20:00:00

AS220 Labs Coordinator James Rutter wrote in to let us know about their grand opening on Friday: I am very excited to announce that the labs is officially moved into the mercantile block [pictured above] and is fully functional. We are going to be ho > read more

Truly Adorable Beauty Of Flowers Captured With Vibrant Colors

Published on 2011-01-01 18:58:45

Today, we are showing you Truly Adorablte Beauty Of Flowers Captured With Vibrant Colors. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see the > read more

The Ultimate Best Of 2010 Resources For People Who Create Designs

Published on 2011-01-01 12:10:41

Today, we are going to take a look on few of the best of 2010 collection for designers and developers that we think you would really like to bookmark for 2011. We hope you guys will like this stunning collection of inspiration, resources, tutorials a > read more

Gallery Page Design Showcase: 60 Examples of Excellent Product Category Pages

Published on 2011-01-01 12:10:28

Although they are an important component of many websites and almost all online stores, very little appears to have been written about designing great category (also known as ‘gallery’) pages. This is despite the fact the Jared Spool call > read more

DevCurry.com Completes Two Years!

Published on 2011-01-01 11:10:35

Happy New Year 2011 everyone! Today, it is exactly two years since I launched DevCurry.com and it has been a great journey so far! Check this link list of my popular posts written in 2010 Most Popular Posts for Developers in 2010 – DevCurry.com > read more

Say hello to Matt Richardson!

Published on 2011-01-01 01:10:31

Everyone please give a warm welcome to Matt Richardson! He’ll be making videos and posting here at Make: Online. Matt is a long-time sci-tech lover and maker. In his childhood, he wrote computer games in BASIC and then as a teenager he worked a > read more

Tag Your Green Contest: Deadline Tonight!

Published on 2011-01-01 01:10:30

Hi Makers! The Do you have an innovative project that you think is “green” or one you’ve been thinking about starting? That word green gets tossed around a lot. It’s slapped onto everything these days. What constitutes “ > read more

Happy 2011, makers!

Published on 2010-12-31 23:01:00

Part of Sean Gallagher’s amazing Celestial Clock project Happy New Year to all of our friends around the world! We hope you’re having a great time ringing in the new year and the next decade of the 21st century. We look forward to collabo > read more

Taking Apart the Microsoft Kinect (video)

Published on 2010-12-31 22:00:58

Taking Apart the Microsoft Kinect… The Microsoft Kinect is the first consumer product that lets people control an interface using gesture and voice alone. An add-on for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video-game console, the sensor-packed device can > read more

Predictions for Google’s 2011

Published on 2010-12-31 18:41:54

1. More free storage in Google Docs: at least 20 GB. 2. A new HTML5 interface for Gmail that loads faster, stores email offline and integrates with other Google apps like Google Calendar and Google Docs. 3. An updated Android keyboard that uses Googl > read more

Best of Make: Online 2010 — Makers: The best of us

Published on 2010-12-31 15:30:00

A few weeks ago, we were talking internally about somehow celebrating some of our favorite makers from 2010. Of course, when we do that, our usual cast of amazing makers pop to mind: Mister Jalopy, Bill Gurstelle, Bre Pettis, Limor Fried, Lenore and > read more

Snail mail push alerts

Published on 2010-12-31 13:00:00

Getting iPhone push notifications from objects in your physical world is possible using an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield, a PHP-enabled web server and an iPhone app called Prowl. In this video, I show how to set up a mailbox so that it pings your p > read more

Useful Developer Tools and Resources Posts

Published on 2010-12-31 05:10:23

Yesterday, I had posted on the Most Popular Posts For jQuery, JavaScript and .NET Developers in 2010 on DevCurry.com. In this post, let us see some useful posts which showcases Free Tools and Resources for Developers. Enjoy the link list! Tools and R > read more

SEO Link Wheels: Dominating the Competition?

Published on 2010-12-31 05:10:22

This article is posted by Valerie and sponsored by SEOLinkWheelers.com. SEO is certainly not a new concept (or phrase) to those involved with the Internet. In fact, even those who have little or nothing to do with websites, blogs or anything else r > read more

A tour through a center that tests CFLs, LEDs, and human health (video)

Published on 2010-12-30 22:00:52

A tour through a center that tests CFLs, LEDs, and human health… > read more

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