Hamachi VPN

Hamachi is a really cool little application that allows you to build a secure encrypted vpn accross the internet. What makes Hamachi special is that you don’t need fixed IP’s or anything like that, this means you can create a network between machines even if you don’t know there current ip’s or if they’re behind a router/firewall/nat.

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viZoo – Free Format – holographic projection.

I spotted this site along time ago but I keep getting asked about it. viZoo is a advertising company that according to their site “Are an advertising film company, developing and producing new media with “edge”. Something that has never been seen before. For window shopping, events and outdoor.”

So what makes them so interesting then? Well they’ve come up with something called Free Format that is sort of a cheap version of a holographic projection system. What they do is project using standard digital projectors onto an invisible screen the effect is that it looks like the items they are showing are really there in the showroom. Of course because they using Digital Projectors they can make the displays interactive too. If you watch the video clips on there site (under the Show Reel section) you’ll see that most of these displays attract a large crowd, in one the police step in to get the people to move on.
If you check out the site you’ll see they got a few demo clips on the system in action, best ones is the girl who walks around a clothing store at night and keeps changing into clothing (this one isn’t so much “technically” impressive but who cares… it’s a sexy girl removing her clothes…) the others are ones of various cars and other things.

I do wonder how easy it would be to homebrew a similar setup, projectors aren’t that expensive anymore… the problem is find something that allows you to create a screen that from a few meters away you can’t see.

Cool Programs for Cell Phones

I don’t like cellphones, there screens are too small they don’t have full qwerty keyboards and normally the only people who call my phone (during the day anyway) are people I really don’t actually want to talk to.

That all said there are a few cool programs that you can download for your cellphone (if it supports J2ME) that make it a little bit more useful.

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New version of Google Talk is out

Incase you didn’t know, theres a new version of Google Talk out. It’s now got things like voicemail and the ability to send files.

You can get the new version here. (Please note this version is marked “testing”) You can get the old version on the normal site here.

For those of you who don’t live permanently plugged into the Internet/Googlesphere. Google Talk is a IM (Instant Messaging) system that uses Jabber and allows you to talk or text chat to friends who use Gmail. The really cool bit is you can text using through the gmail web interface or you can use Google talk if you want things like voice.

Update: Fixed the link so that it actually goes to the new version… (Thanks Eduard for the info.)

Google Part 1 – GDrive

Google is part of everyday life for me, it’s become something that I can’t live without and I can’t work without. This is the first post of many in which I’ll write about some of the cool things you can do with Google and there suites of software and websites.

This post is all about the GDrive an extension for Windows Explorer that allows you to use your Gmail account to store files. I know it’s a bit of an odd place to start but a I was talking about it over the weekend and a friend asked me to please give him the link to it.
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Tools and DIY

Anyone who knows me well will be able to tell you that I’m mad about tools… any tools. Since I was small I would go wonder round the tool/DIY sections of shops staring at all the cool tools that you can buy. My dream as a kid was to have a huge workshop filled with all kinds of tools where I could make anything I could dream of…

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A simple site

I have this site open almost permanently in my browser and I use it more then any other site especially while writing stuff but also when I’m coding. The strange part is that it isn’t one of the “big name” sites and you’ve probably never heard of it or seen it and yet I couldn’t live without it…

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