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Highbrow enables anyone to utilize each installed web browser more effectively on your Mac by eliminating the annoyances that arise from using multiple web browsers. With Highbrow, you can select any of three separate behaviors: * You can easily switch the system-wide web browser via the Highbrow menu in your Mac's menubar. * Highbrow can change the browser on the fly as you shift between web browsers. * Highbrow can ask you which browser to use each time you click a link via an unobtrusive heads-up display. - Zeke

This stunning and scary stairway is real. While this stairway in the heavens will not carry you all the way to the clouds, these sensational metal steps can certainly take you to the afterlife quite quickly should you miss a stair while out for a walk. 6 Vote(s) - Zeke

Eye is an inventive flowerpot that enables you see the root system of plants. Defining humidity of the soil, light level, soil conditions and the ambient temperature the flowerpot shows the development stages of the plants and help us to understand a plant better. 3 Vote(s) - Zeke

These tiny clockbots keep the time and they look adorable on a bedside or desk. 4 Vote(s) - Zeke

At first these amazing photographs show a world of steam-punkish industrial buildings, but take a closer look to see what they're really made of... 3 Vote(s) - Zeke

Archiving, Curating, and Threading Tweets - Zeke

Studio Shubal has designed a cool Lightpot prototype planter that comes with a built-in telescopic LED light, which then grows in time with the plant. 6 Vote(s) - Zeke

The Qlocktwo shows the time in words, displayeing the time just as people talk to each other.Built in Light sensor for automatic adjustment to ambient light, DCF-77 time-signal receiver for to the second accurate time-telling without manual setting and its all handmade in Germany.You can buy a program for the iPhone, so you can have the Qlocktwo as a wallpaper. 4 Vote(s) - Zeke

Echo is...the next generation commenting system. It’s the way to share your content, and watch the live reaction. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments, ratings and more. - Zeke

These doodles are done using instruments and techniques I have developed over the past 6 years. Before that, like anyone else, I did a lot of scratching with sticks.As a calligrapher I have a particular interest in African colonial and pre-colonial writing systems, so when I doodle on the beach its often along these lines. The more angular letter styles take their inspiration from Tifinagh, the script of the Tuareg people of North Africa. It is interesting how that, even to this day, the Tifinagh resembles ancient Greek and Phoenician.The interesting-looking characters in other pieces are usually taken from west African symbols such as the Adinkra symbols of the Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. They're mostly meaningless doodles - a play with form.- &rew 4 Vote(s) - Zeke

Estonian architects Muru & Pere have designed an outdoor kitchen in Tabasalu, near Tallinn in Estonia.The shelter consists of two large disk-like roofs supported next to a tool shed on two pillars, which are wrapped in copper bands. 3 Vote(s) - Zeke

Backing up your web server with rsync and a regular mysqldump command. - Zeke

This ingenious tea pot and serving pitcher not only features classic Space Invaders, it's completely functional as well. When the water is hot, the blue invaders appear, letting you know it's ready for service.For the design, the kettle won the World Kitchen Tea Off 2009, which I sadly had no idea existed until the moments before I typed "World Kitchen Tea Off 2009" for the first time 5 Vote(s) - Zeke

This is a CSS technique that could be useful if you want to give users accessible added content such as tool-tips, notifications, or alerts, without adding unnecessary clutter to your page. And since it doesn’t rely of JavaScript, it should be useful to everyone, even disabled users. - Zeke

every wonder how to get to your lower intestine from your heart? or what the shortest route from your liver to your heart is? me too! with the human map tshirt you can take the guessing out of organ harvesting because the directions are all RIGHT THERE! and what a gorgeous design and color scheme too. it makes me want to take savor my internal organs on the local train. 10 Vote(s) - Zeke

White Jasmine Sparkling Tea - Zeke

It's not everyday that you can see an iPhone app jump into life, let alone bark! :)Photo 2007 Gregory Hull.Swell created this great iPhone model from 'scratch' for the 2007 Tompkins Square Halloween Parade. 2 Vote(s) - Zeke

"The King of Usability", "The Smartest Person on the Web", "The Usability Pope" and "The Only Webbie To Never Return Our Emails" are just a few of the titles people have bestowed upon Jakob Nielsen. His best-selling book, Designing Web Usability, is a must for any designer looking to improve their user's experience. 4 Vote(s) - Zeke

Build Your Community - Zeke

A quick reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. Handy for the desk, the TDR contains over a thousand facts on typography. 4 Vote(s) - Zeke

Show your recent Twitter status inside Last.fm's sidebar - Zeke

Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR. - Zeke

This hand-held twin calculator designed by D.K. & Wei breaks the rule normal calculator is built. It has a digital interface on the front with touch screen and keys, which makes it not only look cool but hassle-free to use as well. Meanwhile it has a mini abacus built on the back for those who enjoy the cool calculating experience from working with beads! 6 Vote(s) - Zeke

Giant Flowers Give You Free Power, Wi-Fi, Make You Feel Like Alice In Wonderland..Toyota is planting giant 18-feet Solar Flowers all across major cities in the United States. It's all a Prius marketing campaign, but as long as they give me free power and Wi-Fi, I'm game. 3 Vote(s) - Zeke

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database. Or, let cloak-draped font enthusiasts lend a hand in the WhatTheFont Forum - Zeke

"To be clear the WordCamp will be held on Sept. 12. and DevCamp will be on Sept. 13." - Zeke

Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car. Genius work!! 3 Vote(s) - Zeke

A Web Developer’s Guide to HTML 5 - Zeke

Brand New encourages the practice of sketching, doodling, jotting, listing, scribbling or any other method for capturing fleeting ideas on paper for the purpose of designing great logos that can serve as the foundation for even greater and broader identities for corporate, cultural or educational institutions, consumer brands, non-profit organizations or the corner laundromat...Gathered at the edges of these pages are thoughts from the friendly readers of Brand New on their impetus for sketching logos. These thoughts were provoked on June 11, 2009 through Brand New and Twitter, and collected over the following 24 hours. The most fetching have been printed here, while the rest can be seen on Brand New 4 Vote(s) - Zeke

Designed by New York designer Harc Lee, Time Switch is a wall clock that was designed to resolve the designers own frustration with meeting deadlines and wanting to "stop time." For anyone who wants to turn off time for a while, Time Switch offers a flip-switch solution 3 Vote(s) - Zeke