š¦ Portable Internet,Create AI Images, and the Spore Creator Tool
Let the robots do the work
Hello!!!! Hope youāre doing well. How is it July already? 2021 just keeps speeding by . . .
Iāve got some good news this week. Our two-month-old son is finally sleeping - so Iām starting to feel rested again.
Did you hear the crazy news? John McAfee is dead - by suicide allegedly. Was he whacked? Was it all one big last prank to mess with people? Who knows.
Fun fact: He actually created a tiktok account with 4 strange TikToks - and the account has very few followers and views. Hereās the most normal video.
His Cryptocurrency āGhostā website is still up! I wonder what else is still out there? What other McAfee projects are still swirling about?
Wild Stuff!
Anyway - letās hop into todayās topics, shall we?
š¦Portable Internet
Iāve always had a bit of an obsession with what tech might look like after the apocalypse. After all, as long as thereās power, electronic devices can still be charged. However, so much has become cloud focused that our phones canāt actually do that much without internet . . .
A lot of the developing world still doesnāt have reliable and fast internet service . . . and in places - thereās no internet at all.
Thatās where āInternet-in-a-Boxā comes in.
Internet-in-a-Box brings the power of a free Digital Library of Alexandria into the hands of any school, hospital, or community worldwide . . . Internet-in-a-Box brings the very best of the Worldās Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books and many others) to those who are offline ā e.g. anybody nearby with an old smartphone, tablet or laptop.
Hereās an example . . .
The Internet in a Box team recommends using a Raspberry Pi with a Wifi hotspot so it can be hooked up as an offline server/access point.
One Terabyte of ebooks, map data, Wikipedia, and other info provides an enormous benefit to people in areas without internet access. Here in the west, we take the answer to What is the capital of China or How far away is the grocery store for granted - Google and Siri are just a button away!
I remember as a kid I had a computer without internet - and the Encyclopedia Brittanica was my only source of knowledge. I was amazed by all the things I could study and look up!
I can only imagine the joy that kids would have reading an offline Wikipedia or reading books/studying. Knowledge is power, as they say . . .
Check out Internet in a Box at the link!
š¤Create AI Images
Remember that one issue where I was lementing that I couldnāt figure out how to generate AI images from my computer?
Well, I found a really neat way to do it . . . through Google . . . thanks to a cool Vaporwave Bandcamp musician that I follow!


So, it took me a few minutes ot figure out how it works. Basically, you type in a phrase, and it starts generating AI images of whatever you type in . . . and theyāre pretty crazy!
The page is in Spanish - Aqui es bueno porque yo puedo leer mas que yo puedo hablar - but itās not too hard to figure out.
First, go to the Parameter section
Type in what you want to see. Then, go up to Runtime at the top of the page, and click Run all. Your images will start pumping out quickly.
Hereās a really trippy image I generated from āVaporwave Pepsi.ā
Wild right? Give it a try and see what it comes up with.
šSpore.Build: Creator Tool
Creator tools that ādo it allā are hard to find these days. Everything tends to do one or two things, then you gotta hunt down another tool for the other things.
Spore promises to do it all - Memberships, Chat, Newsletters, SMS, host your podcast, Host your YT and IG content, and more.
To me, Spore.Build feels like the superior version of Linktree. For several years now, Linktree (and the other link landing pages) have served as the default social media tool for directing users to different channels.
Of course, the one issue inherent with this is that youāre usually directing people to multiple channels - and will people join the ones you want them to join?
You need people to join a channel that you control. You want them to lock themselves into your audience through email or their phone number.
Spore can solve that issue by putting all of your content into one nice place - and you can get them to join your site as a member. Join the newsletter so you donāt miss anything! Join the chat! Become a premium member and get exclusive content today. You get the idea . . .
Currently, it looks like itās focused on creators who donāt want to spend hours learning Wordpress or other website platforms - there isnāt toooo much customizability. I imagine that will change.
However, the themes are clean and simple, and perfect for the creator who wants to monetize their audience without using Wordpress, Mailchimp, Stripe, Circle, and Zapier. You get the idea!
Check it out at the link!
šThe Land of Random
Randommmmmm Links forrrrr youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Instamenu
This looks like the Shopify of Restaurants. If I owned a restaurant, Iād get on the beta for this . . . or at least invest in it. It looks dope!
24 Hour Homepage
Buy an ad on this website - where a new ad is diplayed every second of the day. Itās an interesting experiment - much like that website where you could buy pixels. I thought about it haha.
Figjam
Iāve played with most of the online whiteboard tools, - from Mural to Invision - and I have to say that Figjam is my personal favorite so far. Check it out! Itās super intuitave - and you can add people for live collaboration.
Digital Island
This really fun web experiment is a little digital island. Itās pretty cool!
Scary Japanese Indie Game
This game looks so terrifying
Tap to Click Miku Game
This interactive webpage is really fun to play with - and if youāre a Vocaloid fan - even more fun!
Audio Only Social Media
The audio only social media app space is filling up like crazy, and this one looks pretty wild. Will Yap be the one?
š¶TikToks You Canāt Miss
Where is this Ice Cream fruit
The wendigos can keep my packages
The neat freak bunny
Well I want to grow my own pineapple
WHAT. These cars are awesome
Jokerās story is sad but dang
Thatās all for this week! See you next time for more randomnesssssss