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Make a digital Swiss Army Knife.

Here’s a list of 55 of the most useful USB programs around.

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Google Maps now shows real-time traffic information for many cities including Miami.

It works by adding a layer that colors the roads in green, yellow, red, or gray. The colors represent how fast the traffic is moving:
* Green: more than 50 miles per hour
* Yellow: 25 - 50 miles per hour
* Red: less than 25 miles per hour
* Gray: no data available

I’ll put this to the test tonight, hopefully no more being stuck on the palmetto.

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No, not for those kinds of bumps, but it does involve illegal behavior. Supposedly a bump key can open nearly any lock in seconds, and it’s much easier than lock picking. Seems pretty easy to make as well.

Also see how to crack a lock.

Now go out there and burglarize!

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They must trust their predicting system.

“Farecast is a service that predicts airline pricing in the future (U.S. domestic market only), helping customers decide if they should purchase a flight now, or wait. They’ve been testing a product which allows users to lock in a price found on the site for up to a week. For $10, customers will be protected against any price increases for that flight. This is, effectively, the purchase of an insurance policy against the risk of future price increases.”

Time to add farecast to my regular lineup of flight sites (kayak, mobissimo, southwest). And note to southwest, share your flight data with the aggregator sites already!

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Backpack is a site that allows you to quickly make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. It also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times.

Their suggested uses include: keep track of things to do and places to see on your next vacation, plan a home improvement project, organize a wedding, keep track of houses you’re considering buying or gather information for a research project.

Born of the 37 signals network.

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Now you can actually give your number to any creep. You also don’t have to worry about assholes like Michael Crook posting your personal info online.

Unfortunately there’s little information on the site (Not even a privacy policy or terms of use!). Is this the Craig of craigslist? I’m doubting it. I’m also wondering how they plan on making money.

updates: looks like they added a ‘factsheet’ and Safe Talk launched a similar service in the UK earlier this year.

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“In addition to starting to charge for its service, Skype has announced they will be including a free “lie detector” to go with it.”

Could make for some ackward business calls, even if it doesn’t work.

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Strap on one of these watches and after your run check out your tracks on Google Earth. Navigadget explains what watches and software do the trick.

Probably looks pretty cool for hikes as well.

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Now you can cruise the ‘casual encounters’ section at warp speed!

As someone who’s found numerous apts, chairs, couches and ‘other’ on CL, this is an amazing time-saving tool.

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So far I’m loving Songbird. It’s only at version 0.2 and it crashed on me within my first 2 hours of previewing it, but it’s features are fabulous. This media player is built on the same platform as firefox and plays local and online music. Go to any web site and it will scan the page finding the media and showing a playlist. Click on any of the songs, play it, pause it, download it to your library. A built-in search box includes Singingfish, elbo.ws and others.

If I haven’t convinced you to download this app, this screencast should.

Friendly with Windows, Mac and Linux

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Proud of my former school and employer (I worked a few semesters in the Chemistry Library) for getting involved in Google Print and trying to get as much material out there as possible.

“The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google plan to provide access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library, they said.”Those books and documents represent one of the largest U.S. collections of historical and government documents. They will be selected from a combined 7.2 million library holdings.”"The University of Wisconsin-Madison joins the University of California and Spain’s Universidad Complutense de Madrid — two other major libraries Google has announced are participating in the library book search project in the past two months.”

“The Google Books Library Project began last year with five participating libraries — the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, the New York Public Library and Oxford University. Google is also conducting a pilot project with the Library of Congress.”

link (via CNN Technology)

The folks at myscienceproject.org tested everything from donuts and legos to the traditional foam cozy.

“Conclusions: All of our food-based can cozies worked to some degree, but the Rice Krispies Treat cozy stole the show. We theorize that its superior insulating ability probably comes from the thickness of the material combined with the Styrofoam-like quality of the Rice Krispies Treats. And as gratifying as it would have been to see a successful synergy between beer and donuts, the bagels were slightly better insulators, perhaps because they are denser than the raised glazed pastries.”

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Designer or not, this (beta) site is(will be) a quality bookmark. Provides hex, rgb and hsb codes for each color.

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