As always, let me know what types of interesting items you would like to see and I will keep an eye out for them especially. — Douglas
Get new shared links as I find them via my social media feeds:
- Food / 10 Hot & Boozy Drinks to Get Cozy With This Winter
- Technology / Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a Cheap Home Surveillance System
- Garden / 14 Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree Alternatives to Green Your Holidays
- Garden / Get a knack for black in the garden
- Garden / 5 Great Plants for Borders and Screens
- Garden / Free Seed Packet Template (Basic)
- Food / Learn to Speak Italian While Learning to Cook Italian Food
- Home / A Introduction to Campfires: An Illustrated Guide from 1942
- Book / NPR Books of the Year Interactive Page
- New Media / 6 Reasons You Must Shoot Video Every Day
- Garden / 10 Native Wildflowers to Beautify Your Winter Garden (12 photos)
- Technology / Apple offering eight free songs for the Holidays in Apple Store app
- Technology / Skill Builder: Arduino 101
- Technology / Google Calendar updated with Maps location autocomplete and improved events searching
- Food / Wintersweet by Tammy Donroe Inman — New Cookbook
- Technology / 60 Google Now Commands You Need To Know
- Technology / Screen to Gif – record any part of you screen and save it to an animated GIF file [Freeware]
- Technology / Turning A Pi Into An iBeacon
- Technology / Check out the Maker Shed’s Arduino & Robots Gift Guide!
- Technology / Most Popular DIY Projects of 2013
- Technology / How to Pick the Perfect Smartphone Wallpaper
- Food / Holiday Whiskey Punch
- Technology / Fuzel is a standout collage creator for your iPhone
- Technology / Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself (Liz Gannes/AllThingsD)
- Technology / Which Programming Language Should I Learn First?
- Technology / Chromecast update brings more minimalism to your TV screen
- Food / Favorite Christmas Cookies for Cookie Exchanges and Parties
- Food / Favorite Christmas Cookies
- New Media / Insert Coin: capture 360-degree video with DLSRs and GoPros, viewable on an Oculus Rift
- Technology / The Persistently Cool Blinky POV Kit
- New Media / Keep a Light Studio in Your Pocket with Kick [Deals Hub]
- Technology / The Perfect Present for Pi Prototypers
- Technology / Pandora for iOS has gained a nifty feature today: the app can act as an alarm clock so you can wake
- Technology / AllThings Is a Feature-Packed Webapp for Personal and Group To-Dos
- Food / Holiday Hooch
- Technology / Create your own Street View
- Garden / A Mini Garden at The Base of the Tree
- New Media / MediaCrush – superb free open sourced hosting for video, images and audio
- New Media / Google Chromecast adds ten new apps to its streaming arsenal
- Technology / Solar Powered, Tweeting Bird Feeder
- New Media / Book Review: The Book of Audacity
- Technology / Spotify Announces Free Service For Phones and Tablets
- New Media / The Best Headphones You Can Buy Under $20
- Technology / Google Sheets Gets Faster, Offline Use, and Tons of New Features
- New Media The Ox | Documentary
- Technology / Angry Birds Go! kart racer now in the App Store
- New Media / Autographer – makes photography spontaneous and hands-free
- Technology / Gmail Will Never Ask You to ‘Display Images Below’ Again
- Technology / IFTTT for iPhone Adds a New Location Channel
- Food / 10 Cookbooks & Food Memoirs Worth Gifting This Year — Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
- Garden / 30 Gifts for the Gardener
- Technology / MindMeld Assistant App Listens Along to Conversations to Help in Real Time
- Technology / Mirror app for Android can record your screen or stream it to Apple TV (video)
- New Media / YouTube expands live streaming to all channels, adds option to directly launch a Google+ Hangout On Air (Emil Protalinski/The Next Web)
- New Media / Chromecast in 2014: an open SDK, big international plans and maybe even new devices
- Technology / Google launches Tips to help you get more out of Gmail and its other services
- Technology / As Google slowly preps the Chromecast ecosystem, waves of new apps are on the way
- Technology / Raspberry Pi Wall Calendar
- Garden / Explore Your Garden Personality: The Traveler (9 photos)
- Technology / Awesome Stuff: Lenses For Your Phone
- Technology / TweetsPie Shows the Best Tweets from Your Recent Timeline
- Food / Remember the 2:2:2:1 Ratio for Perfect, Recipe-free Punch
- Career / 15 Best Leadership Books Every Young Leader Needs To Read
- Technology / The Morpholio Project Launches Trace 2.0
- Food / Gift Guide 2013: Kitchen Tools for The Home Cook
- Career / The Women Behind the Wright Brothers
- New Media / Digital Bolex D16: fantastic indie-friendly digital film camera
- Technology / Google Now Wants To Go Christmas Caroling With You
- Technology / DIY FREE Printable Instagram Gift Tags
- Food / Elizabeth David’s Sensible British Christmas — Classic Cookbook
- Education / The Nerdy Teacher: Spanish Is Your Amigo with @espanoles2amigo #EdChat
- Technology / 20 Free E-Book Resources For iPad
- Home / 35 Cool And Creative DIY Christmas Tree Ideas You Surely Don’t Want To Miss
- Technology / Flickr Web Embeds
- Home / Before & After: Cartolina’s End Grain Block Flooring
- Technology / NSA Paid a Huge Security Firm $10 Million to Keep Encryption Weak
- Technology / New Project: SunBEAM Seeker Bot
- New Media / Where there’s a Spark Digital (Microphone) , there’s Lightning
- New Media / Ten tips to get the most out of your new Chromecast
- Technology / OED birthday word generator: which words originated in your birth year?
- Local / LAFD Releases Surveillance Video of Van Nuys Arsonist
- Technology / An Opensource Arduino Guitar Pedal
- Garden / Great Design Plant: Brittlebush Brightens Rocky, Dry Spots (7 photos)
- Technology / Turn Your Mac Into a Home Security Camera with an Automator Script
- Technology / Top 5 Game-Changing Gadgets of 2013
- Technology / Magical Jelly Bean KeyFinder Finds Product Keys for All Your Programs
- Education / 10 Best Tools for Teachers and Students to Use in 2014
- Career / 5 Ways You Can Be More Creative
- Garden / Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain’s traditional fruit and vegetables
- Home / 7 of the World’s Most Awesome Alternative Christmas Trees
- New Media / The 8 Best Video Game Scripts of All Time
- Technology / PowerUp 3.0 – fold it, launch it, fly it…with your phone
- Technology / OpenEmu, an open source video game emulator, launches on the Mac
- Technology / The Best Free iPhone and iPad apps
- Garden / Feed the Birds: 6 Plants for Abundant Winter Berries (6 photos)
- Technology / 11 Best iPad Apps of 2013
- New Media / Samson’s Go Mic: A capable and compact microphone for podcasting
- Technology / Like Legos? You’ll Love LittleBits
- New Media / YouTube Announces Live Streaming Video for All Users
- Technology / Build a Moisture Sensor that Shows Emoticons When a Plant Needs Water
- Technology / Internet Archive Now Lets You Play Vintage Console Games
- Technology / How the New York Botanical Garden Digitizes Nearly 300 Plants a Day
- Technology / Resplendent with simple graphics and simpler rules – aged Console games play in your browser
- Book / The Best London Books Of 2013
- Technology / Seven Clever Ways to Use Your Phone’s Camera for More Than Just Photos
- Career / The New Year’s Writing Resolution You Can Actually Keep
- New Media / Social media is not a zero-sum game and Facebook isn’t going anywhere so get used to it (Leo Mirani/Quartz)
- Technology / The 10 Best Photoshop Alternatives You Need To Know
- Garden / New Year, New Landscape — What to Do in Your January Garden
- Technology / An Arduino With Better Speech Recognition Than Siri
- Education / #NerdyCast on Blogging for Students and Teachers #YouTubeEDU
- New Media / The 3Pod P5CRH Tripod – A Review
- Career / How to Overcome Cynicism
- Technology / 12 Free Web Apps to Boost Your Drawing Skills
- Garden / 9 Ideas for Thoughtful Gardening in 2014 (9 photos)
- Technology / 13 Highly Useful Free Programs and Websites That Any LifeHacker Must Try