Matt Richards, a writer for Make Magazine, had a problem. His favorite word to use was “awesome.” He would put it in everything he wrote. He realized this and wanted to expand his vocabulary, but he wanted to have fun with it as well. So, he decided to make a button to help.
Matt hacked an “Easy Button” that you get from Staples into giving him synonyms for “awesome.” In this video, he shows you step by step, and explains what he did to make this brilliant idea work. I was so intrigued that now I want to go out and try it myself.
After I saw what Matt did, it got me thinking, maybe I could hack into the old Nintendo controller and turn it into something as awesome as The Easy Button.
You will only truly know after they are gone. I was recently asked to review a piece of backup software. Siber Systems Goodsync Pro. I have to tell you i was excited by the opportunity because this is one of the areas in my computer life where I am the least vigilant. As a technical support person I often tell people to backup their documents, on occasion I even do it myself. The process, either via Windows Briefcase, in house backup solutions or simply burning items to a CD is time consuming and frustrating. Quite often the users don’t end up backing anything up and I’m forced to try and recover their files or my own. I have had hard drives fail. All of my experiences have taught me something. The dirty truth about backing files up is that no one likes to do it because its boring, and is often justified as time that could be better off spent doing something else. Since no one likes to do it, its hard to figure out and takes up your time, no one does. And this is a problem waiting to happen.
Matt Richards, a writer for Make Magazine, had a problem. His favorite word to use was “awesome.” He would put it in everything he wrote. He realized this and wanted to expand his vocabulary, but he wanted to have fun with it as well. So, he decided to make a button to help.
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