Here are my favorite shared items for August 2012.
Please let me know in the comments if you find any of the particularly useful. I’ll keep my eye open for similar items — Douglas
- Technology / Eve Trains You to Use Keyboard Shortcuts
- Halloween / I Like This – Halloween Eyes in the Bushes Put glow sticks in them
- Food / Summer dessert recipe: Ice Cream Brownies
- Education/Classes/Learning / Books: Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you including: SharePoint Visual Studio Windows Phone Windows 8 Office 365 Office 2010 SQL Server 2012 Azure and more
- Food / I Like This – Roasted Parmesan Sweet Potatoes
- Garden / I Like This – Wood pallets as fencing – Set them up nicely and add a dash of paint. This could work.
- New Media / At the intersection of new media and technology – Lightplot – Dancer Test by Ben Cowell Thomas. This animation is shot entirely in-camera the figure having been animated in 3DS Max and then plotted by custom built 3D light painting system.
- Technology / Make Your Notifications Less Intrusive with These Soothing Alerts
- Garden / Seed saving packets (diy seed packets template)
- Food / Delicious Shots: Strawberry-Orange Sorbet
- Garden / Video Making your own POTTING SOIL is quick and easy. You’ll not only save money but you’ll end up with a higher quality product than what you can buy at the store.
- Garden / Growing The Home Garden: Gardening in the Home Landscape: 5 Tips to Organize a Vegetable Garden Layout
- Garden / I Like This – How to lay out a labyrinth
- Garden / I Like This – A flower labyrinth
- Garden / I Like This – Autumn labyrinth
- Food / Black Bean Hummus
- Garden / Design Candy: MmmMoon Doors!
- Garden / Fun and Funky Fences Make Good Neighbors | HomeJelly
- Video / The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey — Official Trailer
- Technology / Amazon begins renting paper textbooks — Engadget
- New Media / Radio Killed The Podcasting Star
- Technology / Instagram streams from various cities
- Technology / Shortcuts for Gmail Teaches You to Use Shortcuts by Reminding You When You Don’t
- Food / I Like This – Cake Batter Fudge – 10 Minute Recipe! Maybe a new recipe to try for our annual Christmas Party
- Food / I Like This – Joni Gommo’s Strawberry Brownies!
- Garden / I Like This – Our Little Acre: “Pathway Becomes a Solution for Standing Water”
- Food / I Like This – Raspberry ice cream or frozen yogurt
- Garden / I Like This – Recycling Tree Branches into Coasters (via Garden Therapy)
- Books / Book: Killer Ratings by Lisa Seidman
- Garden / Forest Garden Plants: Potentilla indica – Blog -Emma Cooper
- Garden / I Like This – DIY Seed Packet
- Food / I Like This – Sweet I Like This – Sweet Baby Ray’s easy crockpot chicken
- Garden / I Like This – Organi I Like This – Organic gardening
- New Media / How to Aggregate and Use Multiple Audio Inputs and Outputs in OS X
- Food / I Like This – Slow cooker spinach and tortillini soup…
- Garden / I Like This – Seedlings in egg cartons
- New Media / Ballad of Poisonberry Pete (short animated video)
- New Media / YouTube’s Built-In Video Editor Gets Easier [VIDEO]
- New Media / PBS’ Idea Channel
- Food / I Like This – Crock Pot Strawberry Jam
- Food / I Like This – English Muffin Bread! | One Good Thing by Jillee
- Food / I Like This – Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Roll
- Garden / I Like This – Slow release watering using plastic bottles
- Food / I Like This – Peanut Butter Chocolate Rice Crispy Treats
- Food / I Like This – Buckeye Bark. Nice twist on an old candy idea
- Food / Mor.sl uses your tastes preferences and skill-level and recommends curated recipes from around the web.
- Food / Substitute Butter and Milk for Heavy Cream
- Food / French Brioche Loaf easy no-knead bread #recipe #baking; via atelierchristine.com
- Food / Homemade peach frozen yogurt: puree peaches honey and greek yogurt!
- Technology / Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder
- Food / Mini Gingerbread Houses made out of Graham Crackers! 12 DIY Day’s of Christmas.
- New Media / How Many Fake Twitter Followers Do You Have?
- Food / 4-Ingredient Homemade Pumpkin Frozen Yogurt
- Garden / DIY Washtub Fountain
- Garden / Shade Garden Ideas from Better Homes and Gardens
- Technology / Send to Kindle for Chrome Sends Web Clippings, Articles, and Blogs Straight to Your Kindle Device
- Garden / A (recycled) way to start seeds
- Food / Blueberry cabernet cheesecake popsicle
- Food / Pumpkin spice donuts – baked not fried
- Food / Peanut butter granola
- Education/Classes/Learning / How to Build a Journaling Habit in 28 Days from lifehack.org
- Food / Garlic lemon chicken with green beans red potatoes!
- Food / Strawberry Honey Butter
- Food / Apple Pie Breakfast – Similar to the Overnight Oatmeal I make on Christmas Eve. Nice switch on that idea.
- Food / Hot Vanilla instead of Chocolate
- Garden / Is it Ripe? How to Tell When Your Favorite Fruits and Vegetables are Ready to Eat
- Food / Crockpot Bacon Cheese Potatoes
- Garden / Tutorial: Easy Tiny Seed Storage Envelopes for Seed Saving
- Food / Carrot Cake Cookies with Oatmeal Macadamias Teenie Cakes
- Food / Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream
- Technology / ‘The Make Room Planner’ Webapp Simplifies Room Layout Design
- Food / Baked Ranch and Parmesan Chicken
- Food / Seasonal Fruit Availability Calendar
- Garden / Get a jump on a cool-season vegetable garden from Houzz.com
- Food / Pumpkin-ginger waffles
- Food / Maple-Pecan Butter
- Food / Pesto-Ricotta Pie
- Garden / Vertical garden with bamboo. Cool unique twist on the vertical gardening trend
- Food / S’more Bars
- Food / California Farmer’s Market App
- Garden / Planting tall grass in Galvanized Tubs for privacy screens.
- Garden / 20 Inventive Ways To Upcycle Pallets | Inthralld
- Smoky Mountain Café: Three Cheese Hasselback Potatoes
- Technology / Groopt: This Online Group Collaboration Hub Replaces Insecure Listservs
- Food / Smith and Kerns – Cola Half-n-Half Kahlua – 1 to 1 to 1
- Food / Snow Cocoa – Possibility for annual Christmas Cookie party
- New Media / YouTube heralds arrival of in-stream ads, built-in annoyance for mobile devices – Engadget
- New Media / Timelapse Photography Tutorial: An Overview of Shooting, Processing and Rendering Timelapse Movies
- New Media / Sound Forge Pro apparently coming to the Mac | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- Food / Sparkling Apple Sangria
- Technology / Wireless Sensor Tags alert you to movement and temperature changes, fit on your keyring — Engadget
- Technology / beatlab – make music together
- Technology / Adam Savage’s toolbox
- Garden / Made in the Shade
- Food / Baked Yeast Doughnuts
- Food / Apple Pie-Infused Bourbon Recipe
- Garden / Log planter
- Food / Cracker Barrel chicken and dumplings in crock pot
- New Media / 99% Invisible Blows Kickstarter Goal Out of the Water | ArchDaily
- New Media / Video: Where I Live — Los Angeles — A video by Colin Rich via Vimeo
- Food / Pesto ricotta pie
- Food / Honey ginger lemonade
- Garden / Concrete leaf casting Garden Muse
- Food / No bake Homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Truffles
- Home / Paper Bags Make a Surprisingly Attractive Floor Finish
- Technology / Dropbox Adds Two-Step Verification for Enhanced Security, And You Should Turn It On Now
- Food / Twirl and Taste: Pineapple – Pear Sparkling Sangria WITH a PUNCH or Non-Alcoholic
- Technology / Prismatic Is a Personalized News App Built Around Your Interests That Strips Away the Clutter
- Books / The Mark Inside: A perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con.
- Garden / Garden Closet Storage Project | The Family Handyman
- Food / Waffles of Insane Greatness | The Sisters Cafe
- Food / Quick Pasta with Cream & Garlic
- Food / My Favorite Weeknight Meals eBook available from macheesmo.com
- Cheese Sauce for Cheese Fries and Nachos | Serious Eats : Recipes
- Food / A Veranda Moment – Absolut Vodka Lemonade Blackberry Liqueur
- Food / Sauteed Corn Bacon and Scallions
- Food / Tide and Thyme » Swedish Meatballs
- Technology / Camalapse: Make your own panning time-lapse iPhone movies | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- Garden / Garden Music – Recycled instrument into birdbath
- Garden / Don’t hang up your spade after summer — plant these unusual bulbs in fall for a spectacular spring show
- Technology / Kindle for iOS updated with rapid highlights, adjustable margins and more — Engadget
- Garden / Outdoor Stone Staircase
- Books / The Storytelling Animal: 4 questions for Jonathan Gottschall | Daniel Pink
- New Media / Not Having a Blog Is Not An Option
- Technology / Cordlets keep your cables exactly where you want them – The Red Ferret Journal
- New Media / Blue Microphones Mikey Digital portable microphone for iOS devices hits shelves, offers mobile tracking for $100 — Engadget
- Food / Potato and Herb Focaccia « Baking Bites
- Garden / Before prime planting time, clean out the old garden, prepare for the new, and dream up ideas for fall flowers and veggies
- Garden / The Lasagna Method: Get Rid of Weeds and Sod the Easy Way @ Everyday Gardener
- Food / Deep Dish French Bread Pizzas…great idea! Just hollow out and fill with toppings!