Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on July 25, 2012 by CyberNet.

As many of you know I am always on the lookout for a good Notepad replacement, and generally I tend to always fall back to using Notepad++. It’s a solid application with a lot of great tools, but in some aspects Notepad++ is a big departure from the simplicity that the built-in Windows Notepad offers. If you feel the same way the free and portable TED Notepad may be more along the lines of what you’re looking for.

What really makes TED Notepad awesome is that it continues to stay as far away as possible from using sidebars, toolbars, and other graphical non-sense that would otherwise make the app start to feel like WordPad more so than Notepad. It doesn’t lack in features though. There are dozens of different text manipulation actions that can be performed, advanced find and replace with regular expression support, advanced auto-completion based on the content of the document, and it’s littered with more keyboard shortcuts than you could possibly remember.

I’ve had TED Notepad on my machine for a few weeks now, and while I do still switch over to Notepad++ occasionally TED Notepad has been standing strong as my primary Notepad replacement.

TED Notepad Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

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I have a confession to make, and I’m sure I’m not alone: I’m really bad at reading analog clocks. I learned how to when I was a kid, and I even wear an analog watch today, but some 15 years of digital crutches in between has made reading old-school clocks kind of a drag. You too? Well here’s a clock for the both of us.

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I don’t know which videogame first featured a map of its world, but whoever did that started a wonderful tradition. The in-game map can be one of the most useful and beautiful parts of a game. City Prints is now branching out, and is making minimalist prints of virtual locales as well.

That of course is the map from The Legend of Zelda. Can you name the origins of the other maps in the gallery below?

Pack your bags and head to City Prints to order these maps. They sell for $40 to $180 (USD) depending on the size of the print. If you’re more of a hardware geek, City Prints also has schematics of old computers and videogame consoles.

[via Fab]

Christmas is coming. The goose is getting fat and whatnot. Maybe you’re in the market for a Christmas tree, maybe you’re not. Maybe you’d like to be in said market, but you are extremely, extremely lazy. Treeasy’s got your back, that is, if you don’t mind something bare and metallic. More »

And I thought that John’s Phone was as dumb as dumbphones get. But now, a UK-based company has created OwnFone, a phone that doesn’t even have a number pad, just speed dials people that you set when you order the phone. If this isn’t idiot proof then I don’t know what is.

Users can choose to have 2, 4, 8 or 12 contacts on their OwnFone. Aside from the numbers, users can further customize their OwnFone by adding colors and style. You can leave the phone as it is, add a pattern or upload an image to be used as its background. Right now customers can only use alphanumeric characters to label the contact buttons, but in the future it will be possible to use Braille or even images as labels to make the phone even more accessible.

The phone is only about 0.28″ thick and weighs just 40g (about 0.09 lbs). It’s also rechargeable and can last up to a year in “Shutdown” mode. I’m not sure if the last feature is merely a sleep mode or a literal shutdown state.

Want your own OwnFone phone? Better move to the UK as it’s currently exclusive to the state. If you’ve got that taken care off, head to the OwnFone website and be ready to fork over £55 (~$87 USD) for the device itself. You’ll also have to sign up for a monthly plan that costs between £7.50-£15 (~$12-$24 USD).

[via The Verge]