For your Friday distraction, the guys from Hipotam threw a whole collection of classic handheld LCD Games on-line. From Donkey Kong to The Terminator. Have fun!
Organ Trail was an edutainment game developed in 1971. Schools across America used this game as a teaching tool to prepare children for the impending zombie apocolypse and dysentery.
Re-live your childhood with this faithfully emulated version of Organ Trail for the Apple-II here: http://hatsproductions.com/organtrail.html
The people from The Men Who Wear Many Hats launched a kickstarter project to raise funds to develop this game for the iPhone and Android. The aim was to raise 3000$, which they passed with a nice margin (the counter is over 16.000$ now).
You can also download the game’s soundtrack here: http://hatsproductions.com/organtrailsoundtrack.html
A tin can phone that plugs into your computer, cellphone or tablet- and works! Yes, you can actually talk to people with it- we keep calling our friends.
This is a project found on KickStarter that has an interesting view on mobile communication. they are still quite a bit away from raising the required funds, but I do like the idea enough to make a mention.
Since an image speaks more than a thousand words…
more on their Kickstarter page or in this wired article.
Aside of being a (pretty bad) mail client, Lous Notes is quite a powerful non-relational database platform. You can see some examples in the other posts in the Lotus Notes category. Here is a hack that shows a bit of hidden power in the ln 6/7 client.
You can use the (quite bad) internal web-browser to access some functionality of the host system. This can be particularly useful in a locked-down environment (ex. Citrix).
Many people in a IT-Support environment will recognise this situation. You need to access the command prompt, but cannot, since it is not available through the Citrix published apps or desktop.
Here’s a way you can work-around this by using the Lotus Notes Client:
In the Lotus Notes Client, check if Lotus Notes is set as the Default Internet Browser. If this is not so, it will most probably open the links in the Microsoft Internet Exporer Window, which is limitred by the system limitations.
You can access this setting in the Location Settings (File ->Preferences -> Location preferences)
Once done, you need to check that the Address bar is present in the Client Top toolbar.
To access the Windows command prompt, open the following link in the address bar:
file://c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe(somehow I could not make it work using the environment variable like %system% so you’d have to know where your windows folder is located)
From there, you are free to go 
Have Fun!
Some tunes to listen to for free, in total (there are 6 volumes) 6 hours of Kraftwerk remixes that will help you get through the Friday and start the weekend in a good mood.
If you’re into Kraftwerk, on the site of Nerdcore, there are some great instructions on how to play the songs on a Casio calculator.
Kraftwerk Kover Kollection Vol.1 by DJ Food
More volumes can be found on: DJ Food’s Soundcloud page
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