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Wink – now that is a cool way to automate your home

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/21

While in the USA I usually go by Home Depot to get some inspiration.

This time my Eye fell on a lot of  Smart Home Products compatible with the Wink Hub: people in the USA have a lot more choice in that area than in The Netherlands.

So I did some more browsing and found this: Shop Amazon – 20% or More Off Select Wink Home Automation Bundles until January 31st 2015.

Some of that is even better than the ones listed at Wink – Featured Products – The Home Depot.

Too bad this 110V stuff doesn’t work in 220V land (:

–jeroen

via: Wink | Buy and View Smart Home Products.

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“KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning…

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/13

I never use wireless keyboards because of the bad signal quality. Now there is one more reason not to use them…

By Andrian Knoth, thanks to a link by Kristian Köhntopp:

“KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity.”

–jeroen

via “KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning….

The sniffing assembly...

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Password requirements by @NicvantSchip – via Koushik Dutta – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/12

Brilliant: password requirements by @NicvantSchip.

“Your password must contain at least 8 letters, a capital, a plot, a protagonist with good character development, a twist & a happy ending.”

And Dilbert via Thomas Kear:

“Starting today, passwords must contain letters, numbers, sign language and squirrel noises”

–jeroen

via: Koushik Dutta – Google+.

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The Underground Map of the Elements | Mark Lorch | Science | theguardian.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/02

Click on the map to view a larger version. Thanks Guardian!

Click on the map to view a larger version. Thanks Guardian!

Fun way to display some other relations between various series of atoms:

–jeroen

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EveryTimeZone: The visualization of Time Zones done right.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/29

Ever got your mind into a headache state because of time zone calculations?

Then EveryTimeZone.com is for you: the best visualization of time zones I’ve ever seen.

Makes it easy to schedule meetings, or be on-time for a webinar organized anywhere in the world.

Or to say “happy new year” just in time for your friends a few continents apart.

–jeroen

via: Time Zones.

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em-dosbox: Internet Archive port of DOSBOX in your Browser. Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/27

Wow. Just wow. DOSBOX in a web browser.

Read this: Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott.

Then play with this: dreamlayers/em-dosbox or the integrated version here: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos

–jeroen

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[NL] Hotspots van flitsers in 2013

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24

Hotspots van flitsers in 2013.

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Am I really a developer or just a good googler? – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/23

Found back an awesome post from about 16 months back: Am I really a developer or just a good googler? – Scott Hanselman.

I admin that I’m both, not only for development, but also for life hacking and a lot of other stuff I do.

There is so much information, that you can’t know or remember everything.

In fact one of the reasons I started my own blog, contribute to sites like StackOverflow, newsgroups, and speak/visit at events (conferences, user groups, etc) is that I don’t know everything and the interaction helps me learn more.

One of the cool things, is when Googling for some information, I stumble upon one of my own blog entries or other online contributions (:

–jeroen

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[NL] Full-page kaart van Parkeren Amsterdam – Gemeente Amsterdam

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/23

Helaas bevat de web-pagina Parkeren Amsterdam – Gemeente Amsterdam maar een heel klein kaartje.

Een beetje door de HTML heen bladeren lijdt tot een full-page kaart met parkeertarieven op http://amsterdam-maps.bma-collective.com/embed/parkeren/tarieven/index_desktop.html.

Handig!

–jeroen

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Wow: Milan Linate airport has free WiFi that – unlike Rome Fiumicino airport – works!

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/22

Wow: Milan Linate airport has free WiFi that – unlike Rome Fiumicino airport – works!

ViaMilano WiFi – Surf at maximum speed.

https://wifi.seamilano.eu/olswifi/wifi/welcomePage

–jeroen

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