Interesting tidbits from the world wide web.
Need to know how to get every little ounce of energy out of your warp engines? Well, the following article from howstuffworks.com explains the basics of the antimatter engine (this is real folks, no science fiction here).
Howstuffworks “How Antimatter Spacecraft Will Work”
It won’t help you break that warp 10 barrier, but hey, an interesting read nonetheless for the modern day space explorer in all of us.
I was talking to Mom last night and she was mentioning her new eMac at the school. She said Matt was playing around on it and had really liked the Dashboard feature of Mac OS 10.4 (aka Tiger). Well, Dashboard was most likely born from a previous widget concept made popular by a program known as Konfabulator. I believe that Konfabulator used to be about $25. But it was recently bought by Yahoo and as a result is now free. It runs in Mac OS 10.2 or greater, Windows 2000, & Windows XP.
Konfabulator ships with several useful widgets like Analog Clock, Calendar, and Weather. But here is a list of some other interesting/useful/fun widgets.
iPlayer
iTunes widget for Konfabulator based on iPod shuffle design.
Sing that iTune!
A lyric fetcher Widget for iTunes which can also handle radio streaming titles. The lyrics are saved in “Documents/Sing that iTune!” folder and you can also add your self-made lyrics in there. Sync the folder with iPod’s Notes folder to bring it.
NCAA Football liveSchedule
An updating desktop football schedule for NCAA division 1A schools. Schedule will update as game-times and scores become available.
mini iTunes Remote
The eighth Widget in the mini Widget series. mini iTunes Remote is a complete redesign and coding effort of the iTunes Remote that ships with Konfabulator. This version features a compact design, the ability to change your ratings, and and set your iChat status to your current playing track.
HAL9000
A novel Widget where HAL9000 periodically speaks.
Stack ‘Em!
A classic time waster is now available for Konfabulator! Can you keep pace with the falling blocks? Good luck! (Basically it’s Tetris as a widget)
Finally, get more useless and useful widgets from the Konfabulator Widget Gallery.
This is pretty cool…
I haven’t gone through the whole list, but there are a few Mac friendly ones in there. Just wish I had more spare time.
Parents of the world will cringe as they read the following article. It looks like there just might be something to chewing gum. I personally can’t last much more than 15-20 minutes with the stuff.
However, despite the positive affects, it’s still pretty tough to get out of hair.
Origami for the 21st century. If any of you ever make one of these, please take a picture and post it on the site.
Here’s another one for all you closet Uke fans. Jake Shimabukuro, an apparently extremely talented Uke-ster, can be seen in a live performance at CollegeHumor.com.
If you’re interested, don’t forget to visit his personal site at jakeshimabukuro.com. You can also find his music at the iTunes Music Store.
So it’s been a few days since the last update, but what do you expect. HS football started on Monday, and it’s kept myself and Becky pretty busy.
Anyway, here is a cool animation of the world as it is seen at night, and it’s even in 3D!
It’s still surprising how little lights there are in Africa.
I recently was looking up information about some songs that Dad had on iTunes and came across some sites that I said I’d send to Dad and anyone else who may be interested. They are basically just websites for the Dillards, The Kingston Trio, and John Stewart.
I’m sure one you of will have this figured by the end of the day. I’d do it myself but I have other “reponsibilities” to attend to (you know stuff like breakfast, email, etc.).
I am on some kind of roll today. Maybe it’s because I’ve been limited this week in the time I could just surf the internet and read about interesting things. But, I found some nice BYU icons as part of a whole Moutain West collection. You can grab the set from ResExcellence, or download the set directly via this link.
Alternately, you can download icons from just about every major conference by browsing the Pop Culture section on the page listed above.