Amazing Cityscape Art Made from Unusual Objects

See San Francisco constructed out of Jello or cookware, Shanghai out of poker chips and dice, made-up cities created with bottles and food packaging, discarded circuit boards, machine parts, etc.
Oddly beautiful stuff.

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/06/amazing-cityscape-art-made-from-unusual-objects/

SamZ...Touch This

A contributor to our newsletter points out some interesting iPhone apps.

WiFinder
This app is very useful because it finds all near wifi signals. It finds a way other than going through the menus to find the wifi section, and it is a lot easier. You can also connect to the wifi signal right through this app. The only downside to it is that you can not refresh immediately. You have to wait for it to check all the signals and say if they are good or bad.

I like it, and its helpful plus its free!

SamZ...Touch This

A contributor to our newsletter points out some interesting iPhone apps.

Virtual Zippo Lighter
This is just a little app for when you are bored. You can customize the Zippo in various ways like changing the color of the Zippo, or adding one of the various designs. You can also write on a couple of the patterns. This app uses the accelerometer in your iPod/iPhone to flip open and close the Zippo. Overall I love this app since it is so much fun. And the best thing about, it is it's FREE!

Acronyms can be fun and frustrating when you don't know them...

Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine
by Lore Sjöberg http://www.brunching.com/acronymer.html

Tired of practicing your blank stares for when someone says they need a TCP/IP-based LAN set up and a USB-to-SCSI adapter ASAP? Do you wish you could throw around acronyms with that same casual attitude that pisses you off so much? Here's your chance. With this tool, you can enter any combination of letters you like (from 2 to 6) and we'll expand them into a handy, technical-sounding, completely made-up phrase that borders on the plausible.

So invent your own. Go to: http://www.brunching.com/acronymer.html

Acronyms can be fun...

Print 3D Buildings from Google Earth

SketchUp and 3D Printing the Disney Concert Hall - Sweet Onion Creations

Another company has come out with a solution for making 3D prints from Google Earth. This time the solution is actually based on SketchUp 3D models. The company is called Sweet Onion Creations, and they describe how to click on a 3D model seen in Google Earth (or any found in the Google 3D Warehouse) and using their "3D printing" service get back an actual physical model. Here's a video they've made showing how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLiReajlXrg

SlideShare...a great tools for user groups

SlideShare is a great tool for user group members to make slide presentations available to others. There is now a plug-in for Keynote as well as powerpoint.
Here is a video that shows how to upload a keynote presentation.

Upload Keynote to SlideShare

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: keynote slideshare)