http://google.com/favoriteplaces | A brief overview of the Google Maps Favorite Places project and launch event at San Francisco City Hall, 7/15/09. Favorite Places is a project on Google Maps to call attention to all the interesting places and businesses that are found online. Watch Google Vice President Marissa Mayer and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom describe the project.
Michael Pritchard: How to make filthy water drinkable
http://www.ted.com Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
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Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
http://www.ted.com Willard Wigan tells the story of how a difficult and lonely childhood drove him to discover his unique ability — to create art so tiny that it can’t be seen with the naked eye. His slideshow of figures, as seen through a microscope, can only be described as mind-boggling.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Dry-Aged Steaks at Home – Part 2
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Stelvio Pass in the Dark. Without Headlights.
Take a drive over the world famous Stelvio Pass at night without headlights through the magic of Mercedes-Benz Night View Assist Plus Technology.
David Morrissey lassoing – Doctor Who Confidential: The Next Doctor – BBC
David Morrisey gets a chance to demonstrate his newly acquired lasooing skills as he captures a stray Cybershade! Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC America YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcamericatv
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The Doctors hanging around – Doctor Who Confidential: The Next Doctor – BBC
David Tennant and David Morrisey take us behind the scenes of the 2008 Christmas special to reveal how Time Lords scale buildings… with the aid of a Cybershade and some rope! Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC America YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcamericatv
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My Favorite Old Technology
This really doesn’t have anything to do with my normal videos, but I’ve just gone back through some of my older things and couldn’t resist making a video about my favorite old technology.
Do you have any of these? Be sure to post in the comments which of these gadgets and games you have, and what some of your favorite old technology is.
Tutorial: How To Get Aero Transparency and More on Vista
Download Nimi Visuals: http://bit.ly/17afTc
NOTE: To run Nimi Visuals, you need to have Microsoft .NET 3.5 installed. If your computer is fully updated you should have this, but if you try to run Nimi Visuals and you get an error you most likely don’t have it installed. In that case, download and install this and you should be ready to go: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en
Watch the first video on how to prepare your computer for custom themes and how to install the Windows 7 theme here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8eNuwawzBk
This is the second video in my series on how to customize Vista with themes and much more. This video is more oriented towards people with Vista Home Basic, which does not have Aero or any of the nice effects that comes with all other versions of Vista. There are some interesting effects that anyone can use regardless of what kind of Vista you have, however, so you may want to take a look at the program anyway.