Lacia Pocket drive comes just with a USB 2.0 cable (no firewire [no problem, new macbooks dont have them anyway]), and uses it to power the HD and to transfer data. That was one of the things I was looking for when buying it, some external drive that you don’t need to go everywhere with a power supply just for the device. If your USB port doesn’t have enough juice to power the hd, you can use another port just to power it. This problem usually happen when you try connecting some device that requires more energy to a USB hub.

As I am planing to use it on Linux/Windows/Macs, I formatted it it as FAT32, even knowing it only accept files smaller then 2^32-1 bytes (what sucks when downloading huge High-Def movies). The drive is a 5400RPM 2.5-inch, so you shouldn’t expect it to be really super fast, but the speed is decent and works for me.

Here you can check some more pictures of this gadget, enjoy.

Some time ago I was looking for some free wiki script or free hosted wiki. The script provided by WikiMedia (the same as wikipedia) is very good, but it’s very hard to install, configure and maintain, what makes WetPaint great, easy to set up and no need to worry about server. Another good feature of WetPaint is that you can build public or private wikis, on public ones, everyone can contribute, but on private, only some users can edit and view the information, this is good to use on your company, or in some dev project, where developers can write pages and contribute writing texts about the project and it’s development.

Some facts that makes WETPAINT a great free wiki hosting service:

• It’s free
• All website is based on AJAX, which make things much more efficient and fast.
• When creating your own website, you can choose from 24 different templates, of afterwards, make your own.
• You can use tags on your posts, making it easy to find afterwards.
• It’s very easy to add/edit a post, and the editor looks like MS-Word, which people are used to, and makes the learning time shorter.
• There is an auto-generated site map, making it easier for people and search engines to find and index content, bringing more users.
• You can use Google Analytics or SiteMeter to see how many access you have on your website, so you can watch your website growing, how popular your website is, and to think what can you do to attract more users. (Google Analytics is just too good to be true on e free wiki hosting service!)

Conclusion

Wetpaint is the place for you if you want to build your own free hosted Wiki website, I believe that this project have great future, as it’s just some months old, there’s still a lot to grow. I like to see new “web 2.0″ projects, specially when they have great use and use new technologies to build it.

Well done Wetpaint!

Open-Source FlickrEdit came to help us all with this hard duty, to download all pictures from your Flickr Accound with some few clicks. It have been written in JAVA and makes the process of downloading all your pictures a easy work.

Just after opening the program, it will ask you to enter your login and password, so it will be able to get the needed information about your account. After that you will be able to see all your photo sets, like the picture below:

With this program, you can select to download all pictures from a Set, all pictures, your favorites and much more…

When you’ve selected “Backup Selected“, it will ask you where you want to save, you can still save your pictures to CD or DVD (haven’t tried this option, if you do, let us know).

While backing up, it will check how big will be the download, and then it will start downloading to the folder or media you’ve selected.

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After the backing up process is done, just go to your selected folder and your pictures will be there!

Thanks to Diogo Azevedo

When some ones make any kind of money transfer using PayPal, they usually charge %2,9 plus U$0,30. So, if you send U$100 to someone, they should receive U$96,80. The problem is that the person who is receiving the money, not always get those U$96,80 , so usually you should send some more money.

To make your life easier, you can use the PayPal Calculator. The website makes many different currency conversion, and even reverse calcs, where you set the amount that the user wants to receive, so you can see how much you should pay so he will receive what he wants. So, if the seller want`s to receive U$100, you should pay U$104,37.

It`s easy, just go to PayPal Calculator and start your payments.
http://ppcalc.com/

There are two models, Scofield with suit (called Michael Scofield Street Clothing) and with prison clothing. There will be also the same scheme for Burrows (Lincoln Burrows Street and Lincoln Burrows Prison)

The “toy” will cost only U$89,99 ($$$$²), which is for pre-sale at Sideshow Collectibles.

With Test Everything you can test for example CSS and HTML validators, PageRank, Domain Status, “Who Link To Me”, Technorati status, Server status and much more. Worth taking a look!

Take a look now at the website.

The site was designed with all the Web 2.0 style and colors, good looking and usability. And as a beta tester, you can do everything a Premium Member would be able to.

With this tool you are able to:

• Change topic color and add symbols/icons to your map
• Cut, copy and paste map elements
• Undo and redo
• Freely move map ideas everywhere
• Use the insert key to add new branches and the delete key to remove them, just like on many desktop mind mapping software programs
• View recent revisions to your map, and perform “roll backs” on them – especially useful when collaborating with others!
• Export your maps to a Rich Text File (RTF) outline or a GIF image file.
• Invite others to collaborate simultaneously in a brainstorming mode on or simply view your map
• Using integrated Skype calls, different people can edit the mind map simultaneously.

Editing the MindMap:

I’ve played with it a little bit and enjoyed a lot, I’m think it will me a very useful tool to organize my ideas and things to do.
You can take a look at my first MindMap idea clicking in the image here:

When CodeMate finally releases MindMeister, they’ll charge users $4.16/€3.21 per month for Premium Membership, but there will always be an free version which you will be able to create up to 5 MindMaps and share/colaborate with friends.

For a beta tool, MindMeister looks beautifully and is working smoothly. I’m looking forward to see how this project will be in some months, it’s definitively the best MindMappers I know.