I love Foursquare almost as much as I love food. And my love of food means I’m always up to try the best recommended dishes at a new restaurant. The problem with Foursquare is that it will tell me what restaurants are around me, but once I get there I have to dig through the tips to find out what looks good, which can be a bit awkward if you’re on a date with a non tech-reporter....
Designer Mark Beasley has developed a bookmarklet called 333DDD that converts any page you’re viewing into a red/cyan anaglyph. Anaglyphs are stereoscopic 3D images, and you’ll need a set of red/cyan 3D glasses to view the images properly. You can find thebookmarklet on Beasley’s blog. Drag it to your bookmark bar, click it while on any web page and the result is instant. While this is a fun gimmick, it does make you wonder about the future of 3D on the web....
Sometimes, it seems, humans are destined to repeat the same mistakes again and again. The Wall Street crashes of 1929 and 1987, the savings and loans crisis of the 1980s/1990s and the recent financial calamity certainly seem to suggest that when it comes to money, lessons aren’t being learnt. Likewise, the nineties Dotcom boom may have been exciting for some, but the fallout from it wasn’t quite so exciting for those caught in the middle of the storm....
Ever feel that your Mac speakers aren’t loud enough? We may have an app to solve your audio frustration. Boom, a volume booster app, will crank the audio output on your Mac up to 400%. Whether your main thing is watching YouTube videos or it’s listening to tracks on iTunes, Boom will dramatically pump up the volume. The audio boosting app that recently won a Best in Show award at Macworld 2011, works with any application on Mac including iChat, Quicktime and Skype....
As good as mobile has gotten, there are points where it is still quite lacking behind what you’re able to do on the desktop. For me, since I spend a big part of my day in the browser, one of those lacking points is not having access to the plugins that I’ve come to reply upon to keep my life sane. Boomerang for Gmailis one such plugin, whichwe’ve written abouta few timeshere on TNW....
