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Just One Club Card Innovation

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Just one club card user Mark has come up with a clever way to block all but the barcode you want to use when at the store. He cut one side of the card into fingers:

So you just fold over all the barcodes you want to block leaving on one visible for the scanner […]

Visualization Tricks - Generate a Heatmap of your Keystrokes

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

The other day I noticed that the letter markings on some of my keys on my keyboard were wearing off. I thought it was pretty neat. It’s nature’s heatmap of sorts. The keys I used the most wore off the fastest.
So then I got to thinking, wouldn’t it be neat to see […]

How to Make an HTML Element on Your Website Disappear after 10 Days

Saturday, October 13th, 2007


After October 15th, 2007 this message will disappear forever.

The text above is an example of auto-expiring HTML. (Don’t see it? If it’s after October 15, 2007, then it’s working Perhaps try viewing the source of this page to see it.)
Do you have any of these problems? If […]

Are You Spending Too Much Time Getting Images from the Web to Your Website?

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

What if I told you, any image I come across on the vast internet, that I could get it onto my own server, and get the new URL into my clipboard in 3 clicks?
Well I can (gotcha, puppy!):


See there’s this PHP script I drop onto my server, which makes this bookmarklet. Which when I […]

Slick Animated Idea Generator Wheel

Monday, August 13th, 2007

This website present a cool spinning wheel to put random concepts together. It might be useful for generating creative ideas.
I got one so far. The wheel said “[something] inflatible food” and I came up with the idea of what if you could inject air into foods to make them feel more filling? […]