Impulse Buying….at its’ best.

Posted on Sunday 6 August 2006 by Darren McKee

This site has gained a lot of popularity over the last month, but I am hoping it will do even more so. Zazz is a site that sells one product per day. If it sells out, you have to wait until midnight for the next day’s product to arrive. There has been some junk on there, but also some great (mostly tech-related) products on there as well, with the crappier stuff being in the minority.

They have sold PC’s, monitors, MP3 players, Coffee machines and many other cool things.
I now check it every day, and have even bought a couple of things. Check it out if you get a chance.

Every Video Game!

Posted on Thursday 20 July 2006 by Darren McKee

Great site I found the other night, that uses the Potato Emulation software to convert many old console games into java applets. There are some great titles on here, and the software to convert games into applets is free.

Check out Every Video Game, but no lawsuits please when you lose your job and your wife leaves you…

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So Simple….So Smart

Posted on Thursday 20 July 2006 by Darren McKee

I saw this a few months ago but completely forgot about it. It was linked to from a site that I was recommended by a monk who used to dance with my dog.

I can’t remember how I originally found this site, but I am sure glad I did. I just found myself with a bit of an urge to hack something out on paper. Some designs that have been stuck in my head for a couple of days (poor buggers) and that would disappear into vapour if I didn’t get them into a hard copy.

I can barely write legibly let alone draw, so I usually like to have a grid of some sort or some lines available to guide my doodling. That’s when I remembered Pocket Mod. Having seen that there was a sudoku game as one of pocket mods pages (more in a second), I googled “paper print and fold sudoku” and Pocket Mod was found.

This site is one of my favourite pieces of creativity. Simple yet very effective. It allows you to create an 8 sectioned piece of paper, with each section containing a different kind of page. It can be a simple grid like I required, a shopping list, a calendar , a game of tic-tac-toe or a list of mathematic formulas. Then all there is to do is print and use it. So mind-numbingly simple.

Sure this could be hacked up with a bit of time in a word processor, but the simplicity with which it is achieved along with the neat Flash Interface and overall fuzzy feeling I get from using it, make Pocket Mod a breath of fresh air.