Running a bit late on this week's post, but was busy helping out with a Halloween haunted house. I got to be a pirate, so I made a giant 7 ft anchor, wrapped it to me with a bunch of chain, and got to scare a lot of kids. Tons of fun!

Here is me getting my makeup on:


If I get some of the shots people took when I finished I will try and post. If you have any pics of your weekend feel free to post. Lets see how scarry you were this weekend.


But on to the links. First the usual, and then lots of good links out about stuff to do for halloween. Might give you some ideas for next year!




The Tech News


Software

How to Stop Google, Yahoo & Bing from Tracking Your Clicks - Might want to stop reading and go do this now. We will still be here when you get back

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Officially Available for Download -I'm still waiting for for the portable apps version so I can give this a try.

Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: October '09 Edition and This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps - I've been playing with the Photoshop app since it's free

70 Free Useful Portable Applications You Should Know Tons of good apps. I use them sometimes just because I don't want to install an app, and I just put the folder on my desktop.

Top 10 Apps that Boost Your Media Center With the price of the nettops coming down, and ION2 on the way (see below), this might be one you want to bookmark.



Hardware

Logitech Harmony IR Extender Blasts IR Signals Beyond A/V Cabinet Doors -I have been checking amazon.com every morning for this. It is on the Logitech Website and Logitech Blog, but the system doesn't seem to be in stores yet.

Canon S90 Review: It'll Never Leave My Pocket (Except When I'm Taking Pictures) -Expensive for a point and shoot, but you get what you pay for it looks like.

Universal microUSB Mobile Phone Charger Standard Approved - Man, I hope they get their act together and make this happen. I have so many left over chargers, both wall and auto.

Petman Walking/Balancing Robot Is Like BigDog's "Human" Master - We have a thread in the TG General section about BigDog (Robot video you have to see!!!), and it is a pretty amazing/scary project. It looks like with the new version they have worked out the sound problem. Engadget article is here with a lot more comments to read: Boston Dynamics PETMAN predicts the future of man as pet (video)

Minox NV mini II makes night vision pocketable They need to just go ahead and announce the price and when/where we can buy.

Noctua releases nine-blade 140mm premium fan - All I can say is WOW. It is amazing how much research went into this fan, and I'm considering replacing my case fans right now.

ION 2 comes in Q4 2009 - I think ION2 and a dual-core from the new intel Pineview line will convince me it is time to pick up an nettop to use as an HTPC.


Six-core Core i7s photographed in the bit-tech lab Drool.........

Upcoming Zinc-air Batteries Store More Than Three Times the Energy of Lithium-ion This do offer a lot of promise. Crossing my fingers here.

Intel Core i7 930 said to debut in Q1 2010 -This is supposed to replace the i7 920, and cost about $284. Just a heads up if you are planning an i7 build.

Thermaltake Launches Element V, Full-Tower Case with Optimized Cooling - Looks pretty good for about $169. Will keep an eye out for reviews.




Links to see for fun.

ROPID the adorable humanoid can jump 3-inches into the air, sweep you off your feet -Wow, the toys kids will be playing with in the next few years

Don't Adjust Your TV Set - It took me a sec to figure out how they did it and why it was cool, but now I'm impressed.

How-To: Massive DTV antenna - I really could have used this article 2 years ago when I worked in a park where we barely picked up 1 fuzzy channel. I would have started building this right away.

New Apollo 17 Landing Photo Clearly Shows Lander, Flag - The moon landing wasn't faked. But there was a coverup. They think we can't handle knowing there really is cheese on the moon.

Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House - I have a feeling with a little TG support, this could become the new Lawndarts




And now for the spooky stuff...................

I wish I had more free time in the last few weeks. I would have tried out a bunch of these.

Silly-String-shooting Jack-'o-lantern

Monsterlist of Halloween Projects Has Hundreds of Halloween How-To Guides

How-To: Spider web balloons

How-To: Cast concrete tombstones

Zombie crossing road sign -Hell, I may just leave this out front all year long

Headless Marie Antoinette Costume

How-to Tuesday: Scariest Pumpkin Ever - I foresee some kids needing a dipper change with this and an air horn

Front porch "prop dropper" -

Anatomy suit one-piece zombie costume This is on the top of next year's agenda!

How to Create Realistic Facial Prosthesis -This might help with the zombie link above and is how I put barnacles and lost an eye with my pirate costume

Make your own zombie costume -similar to above with good info

Get Ready for Scares with the DIY Halloween Roundup

Download free Halloween music and spooky sounds

Pumpkin Carving 101 -hey, you got to start somewhere

12 Spooktacular DIY Projects For Crazy Halloween Fun - oh yeah, lots of good stuff

Build a Low-Cost "Pop-Up" Halloween Prop you know things that pop up scare the poop our of people

35+ Free High Quality Photoshop Brush Sets for Halloween

Thinkgeek Halloween pumpkin template contest

Lifehacker Readers' DIY Halloween Projects - Oh yeah, this is AWSOME!



And finally: