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Sometimes you are connected to a WIFI point and don’t know the WEP key you used to connect.
After you do a search on Google you will likely be offered software that costs $49.95 to retrieve keys
The windows application below has been separated from the big bundle of security apps at http://www.aircrack-ng.org to help [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Do It Yourself, Toolkits | No Comments
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Cash going into your business\muse\micro-enterprise and NOT the library? Here are free books to keep you inspired and skilled up.
http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book/
Here are four books go start your own X, Y and Z
http://free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
Question your deep seeded beliefs on copyright. Now go innovate.
http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf
Our society is constructed on stories. Time to tell yours.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/bzzagent/The_Word_of_Mouth_Manual_Volume_II.pdf
It may infuriate but [...]
July 21st, 2008 | Posted in Bootstrapping, Do It Yourself, Marketing, Uncategorized | No Comments
Yesterday, I received this message from a retailer asking to stock a product I sell purely online.
Did it make sense? Probably not.
Why? Because the guy had never heard of my business or the products I sell but strangely enough customers kept coming in hassling him for my product.
What did this business owner do [...]
June 12th, 2008 | Posted in Bootstrapping, Do It Yourself, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Selling | No Comments
If you are an independent technologist\artist\media hacker\entrepreneur\etc and want to experience San Francisco and the Bay Area on the ground instead of a one week gig feeling like a tourist. Here are tips to make it happen cheap!
Travel OFF PEAK
Peak is May to August and any holidays i.e. Christmas, Thanks Giving are peak. For [...]
March 30th, 2008 | Posted in Bootstrapping, Do It Yourself | 1 Comment
Truly portable media has the potential to facilitate delivery of your ideas, stories, concepts, memorable moments to the right person at the right time in the right place……. seamlessly.
Facebook is not portable. Content that goes in cannot be easily shared outside of facebook.
However content developed outside of facebook can be easily included within facebook.
For example. [...]
November 1st, 2007 | Posted in Do It Yourself, Research and Development, Social Media | No Comments
How many guys do you know that have a phone\cell\ipod charm?
Not many huh? The reason is the majority of guys would have to sport something like this………..
Beside the cute accents of todays modern charm there are two major reasons there is no market for male charms.
Lack of function
Cool factor
Last month, I inadvertantly had a crack [...]
September 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Do It Yourself | No Comments
Recently, I strung together a couple of lines of code using the codeplex facebook toolkit to create a facebook application that does NOT leverage the social graph and integration points. Funnily enough some people are using it. This suggests people are using facebook not just for the socializing but as a dashboard for all their [...]
September 1st, 2007 | Posted in Design, Do It Yourself, Prototypes, Research and Development | No Comments
Montreal, Quebec, November 2006 - Cam and Julian
Step 1. Set dates - We planned for 7 days.
Step 2. Organize a car
Step 5. Confirm cell phone works in target location
Step 3. Research and gather music of target location’s audience
Step 3. Find three groups of people to stay with on www.couchsurfing.com
Step 4. Book a last minute www.wotif.com [...]
January 7th, 2007 | Posted in Community Development, Do It Yourself, Toolkits | 1 Comment