The Great Geek Manual

In an attempt to expand its market share in South Korean, the European grocery chain Tesco has come up with a brilliant idea. Tesco has launched a virtual grocery store in the subway. While waiting to commute, customers can purchase food items by scanning QR codes with their smartphones at virtual shelves installed right in the subway station. A delivery service drops off the ordered items at the customer’s door by the time they get home.

Utilities and Resources

• Google Web Fonts – Offers hundreds of free, open-source fonts for your perusal.
• MachStudio Pro 2 – this expensive 3D visualization suite is now free.
• Quirky – is sort of like Threadless, but for inventions. Learn more.
• Qwiki – a colorful alternative to search engines. Qwiki tells the story of a topic, rather than just returning webpages.
• Search by image – similar to Google Goggles, you can drag an image to the search and find similar pictures and content. Doesn’t work well with faces. [Demo]
• Should I Change My Password – checks a list of e-mails connected to passwords released by hackers to the public (source list here) and tells you if your password has been compromised.
• sideCLOUDload – send files from a url directly to “the cloud” (currently Dropbox and Email) without downloading to your computer or mobile device.
• TuneSpan – a free app for Mac OS X 10.5 or higher that lets you store parts of your iTunes library on external storage to save disk space.

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Utilities and Resources

• Google Notebook – an excellent web application for all those who take notes to save bookmarks or for any other purpose. Log-in using your Gmail account.
• MP3 Cover Downloader – find and add cover images (album arts) to your mp3 files. No matter where you move your mp3 file, the saved cover will be there.
• WiFi HD FREE – turn your iPhone into a wireless, mobile external hard drive. It works over any WiFi connection.

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Utilities and Resources

• Androidify – an app that will let you take that little green Android avatar and turn it into yourself, your friends, your family or anyone.
• Asciiflow – an online utility for making ASCII art diagrams.
• gleeBox – browser add-on enables new, faster keyboard navigation options to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox web browsers.
• HideIt – allows you to minimize any application to your Windows system tray (rather than your taskbar) by right-clicking its minimize button.
• Lorem Pixum – a placeholder image generator for web and print designers for any size or topic. Speed up your workflow during the development process.
• Smipple – a social service for saving, storing, organizing, and sharing snippets of code with your friends and coworkers.

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Utilities and Resources

• GeeMail – a desktop client for Google Mail based on Adobe AIR.
• LiberKey – a system for installing and keeping updated over 300 free programs (both open and closed source) on a Windows machine. All of the programs are portable meaning that they can run directly off a USB key without installing anything additional on the computer (this is very useful if you’re working on a computer where you don’t have administrative rights).
• PintPay – enables you to add recurring payments and subscriptions to your site in 5 minutes. Free to setup, and no merchant account or gateway necessary.
• Rapportive – a plugin that enhances GMail, adding a Twitter interface and more.
• Resophnotes – a free note taking software that syncs with the “SimpleNote” cloud-based note taking service. Very convenient for the student on the go.
• Tag Galaxy – a time-killing web app that uses Papervision3D to explore Flickr photo tags as virtual solar systems. Enter a tag, and related tags appear as planets around the initial choice. Completely useless, but fun to play with.
• Web2DB – send a file to your Dropbox from its URL.

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Utilities and Resources

• Bandwidth Place – test to see if you are getting the internet bandwidth that you were promised by your ISP. Once the websites loads just press on the “Start Test” button and you will have the results in no time.
• Document Corrupter – need to stall a deadline? This online utility will chew up your Microsoft Office document like a dog on homework and spit out a broken file in return. Submit it to your professor or boss and buy yourself some extra time to get that report done!
• Give Me My Data – a Facebook application that helps users export their data out of Facebook. Reasons could include making artwork, archiving and deleting your account, or circumventing the interface Facebook provides. Data can be exported in CSV, XML, and other common formats. Give Me My Data is in beta.

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Utilities and Resources

• CardFlick – helps you create beautiful business cards with your iPhone. CardFlick has beautiful card themes, easy customization, and you can share your card with our patent-pending CardFlick.
• MAFIAA Fire – a Firefox plug-in that connects users an alternate domain for government-seized filesharing websites via a crowd-sourced database
• Plizy – a mobile application and service that utilizes a sophisticated intelligence engine to generate video based on your interests, as well as the interests of your friends. Think Flipboard meets Pandora for video, plus social, on your iPad.

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A 24-year-old Austrian man named Patrick decided to trade in his non-functioning left hand for a bionic one. In this video, he uses the new hand to tie shoes and pour water from a bottle, and tests a prototype that gives him better wrist movement.