May 2007
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BUY the First Beta Invite to eBay's San Dimas...
Filed under: Internet
We talked about the San Dimas project before, and we just got an update from Alan Lewis, San Dimas product manager. He says the beta is feature complete and they are working hard to get rid of bugs while also making minor changes. Response to the project has been greater than expected and beta invites, which will be starting soon, may flow forth slower than they hoped. They...
Oh Sam I Am, can I read it on the tram?
Things you can’t bring with you on an airplane: Bottled water. Organic shampoo. Google Reader.
I’m happy to announce that our team has fixed one of these problems. Although we find the business of mini bottled water intriguing (and cute!), we’ve decided to stick to our core business: feeding your reading habit.
As of today, you can use Google Reader offline. Now you can...
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First Google Gears app: Offline Google Reader
Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Blogging, E-mail, Productivity, Web services, Google, Freeware Well, that was fast. Google Gears hasn’t even been announced yet, and already Google Reader users can install it and wallow in the splendor that is offline reading. Yep, Google Reader now offers the ability to download the 2000 most recent unread posts, so that you can read them...
Google Gears takes online applications, offline
Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Utilities, Web servicesOnline applications are great, but what happens when you can’t get a connection to the internet? Whether it is because you are on an airplane, or in the middle of nowhere camping, and have to get certain emails, calendar items, or files, you are quite possibly out of luck. Its sure a bummer, and one of the reasons why so many...
AppleTV officially supports YouTube
Steve Jobs today at D showed off an AppleTV that officially supports YouTube.
So what we’re going to do today is introduce something really cool. People want to buy a lot of video… wouldn’t it be great if you could see YouTube on your Apple TV… it’s available as a free software upgrade available in a few weeks. Normally I wouldn’t announce it early, but hey, it’s D.
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What’s the Weight of all the BitTorrents in the...
An interesting article has been published about some research which aimed to find out how much all the data sent through the internet on an average day would physically weigh. So if we can find out the weight of the bits which make up a piece of information when it is assembled in a computer’s memory, as the article says, we’re halfway to figuring out the weight of the Internet and a small step...
Last.fm bought by media giant
Last.fm has been purchased for £140 ($280) million by media Giant CBS Corporation. The story’s at the Beeb. (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
Latest acqusition rumor: CBS buys Last.FM?
Acquisition rumors have lately been hit or miss: some were totally off (like the Microsoft - Yahoo deal) while some turned out to be correct (like the Google buys Feedburner one).
Well, here’s a new one for you to chew on: CBS acquires Last.FM for $280 million. This deal, if it goes through, doesn’t surprise. Last.FM is a great service, has 15 million users, and has recently announced a video...
Apple blocking MySpace from store machines
Filed under: RetailLate last week it was reported that Apple is now blocking access to MySpace pages from computers in the Apple Store as a means of preventing cyber-loitering. Apparently some ‘customers’ have been hogging both the iSights and the bandwidth the stores provide and impeding the free flow of shiny, glossy, well-designed commerce. As I am neither a teenager, the parent of...
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We Were Wrong: Forever stamp not a good investment
Slate columnist Nathaniel Rich calls our previously-posted advice to save money buying U.S. “forever stamps” a bad idea, because postal rates have increased more slowly than the actual inflation rate in the last 30+ years. I’ll take financial advice from anyone with that last name. [via kottke] (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
Ants Fill Potholes With Their Own Bodies
British researchers have written a report in the journal Animal Behaviour about army ants of Central and South America that repair their ‘roads’ by throwing their bodies into rough spots to make it smoother.
They found that the ants match their own bodies to the size of the hole they want to plug. Several may plunge together to fill in bigger holes.
“We inserted planks...
Lego MMO
Legomog!
““Playing with LEGO bricks and developing online worlds are both
creative activities. To bring them together is deeply professionally
satisfying and we look forward to working with the LEGO team,” said
Scott Brown, President of NetDevil.” Details are very thin on the ground, and NetDevil’s site seems to be down, which is rather bad form. Even Google’s cache...
Dungeon Runners
I’m off to London today to catch up with the home base, but in my 40m of peace at LAX after two hours of hellish checkin, these pics pop up in my flickr rss from young crecente.
I’ve missed much on Dungeon Runners so far - but these screenshots got me digging. It’s a free-to-play RPG from NCSoft; free, that is, for basic level play. You need a registration with NCSoft, and a...
Enterprise Java Community: Using OpenID
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Launch: Google Maps adds Street View
Google Maps adds a new perspective to the urban landscape: Street View lets you navigate down the streets of big cities like New York, Denver, Miami, Las Vegas and San Francisco. Go to Google Maps and hit the “Street View” button to check it out. (Amazon’s A9 was the first to release this kind of street-level mapping almost 2 years ago, and then Microsoft followed suit last...
Search for Faces with Google Image Search
It’s been almost a year since Google acquired Neven Vision for face recognition, and finally we see one way how Google is putting it to good use. Google Blogoscoped just pointed out a new “unofficial” feature with Google images that will allow you to search specifically for faces.
It’s not an official way for now, but that ought to be coming soon. If it were an official method, they’d have a...
What are the Threadless offices like? Ask Guy
Guy Kawasaki recently visited the Threadless offices and took a boatload of pictures, looks like a very cool work environment.
I really like the “I park like an idiot” bumper stickers, guess what you do with them
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Om interviews Desktop Tower Defense creator
he’s making six figures of ad revenue with only $130 in monthly expenses (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
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When Bike Locks Go Wild
Dustin Sacks recently came across this crazy bike & bike lock installation in Vancouver. Notice, however that only one lock is being used for the bike rack.
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photo credit: Dustin Sacks
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Massive Zombie Outbreak in San Francisco &...
The rumors were true, a massive zombie outbreak took place in San Francisco tonight during Critical Mass. The documentation of the undead carnage is starting to surface. Stephan Zielinski has some great photos of the zombie hordes.
Mike Ricca was on the scene, shooting a bunch of zombie photos.
Hear are some Zombie Mob Invasion 2007 photos from Kanaka Pacifica.
Even more San Francisco...
Thumbstrips Firefox Extension: view your browsing...
Thumbstrips is a Firefox Extension (Add-on) that lets you view your history in the form of a filmstrip of screenshots.
The Thumbstrip can be toggled on and off with a toolbar button and recording of history can also be started and stopped.
Makes for a nice visual way to look for through sites recently visited. (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
World’s Thinnest Notebook to Revive PCs
At 0.7-inches thin and 2.25 pounds light with an out of this world battery life of up to 14 hours, a prototype laptop backed by Intel dubbed the “Intel mobile Metro notebook” could change the game for PCs. I know I am biased as I write this on my Mac, but for the last few years PC offerings have been rather stale. With few attractive yet functional PC notebook solutions it’s no wonder why people...
Featured Linux Download: Add screen actions with...
Linux only: Open-source app Brightside adds reactivity to the corners and edges of your screen (in Gnome) so you can execute commands using only the mouse.
Brightside brings to Linux a combination of the functionality of Mac OS X apps, VirtueDesktops and Active Screen Corners. Almost exactly the way Active Screen Corners allows you to attach custom commands to your mouse gestures in Mac OS X,...
Places/Bookmarks now on Fx 3 Alpha 5
A little over a year later since Places was removed from the then under development Fx 2, it appears it is finally starting to take shape for Fx 3. From the mozilla Developers News blog:
The Firefox Places team has been hard at work to get the bookmarks portion of Places in shape for it to go out with Firefox 3 Alpha 5 scheduled later this month. And we are excited to let you all know that...
Flickr Find: Microsoft Amnesty Bin for iPods
Filed under: Flickr Find From the entry way at Zune headquarters, we bring you today’s Flickr Find: the iPod Amnesty Bin. Yeah sure, it’s probably “art” more than it’s a real “amnesty bin”—but it says something that upon seeing this picture my heart skipped a beat. It’s like seeing adorable puppies in a pound. I instinctively wanted to grab...
The Line Rider version of the first level of...
The Line Rider version of the first level of Super Mario Bros…in case you need to know what having way too much time on your hands looks like. (link) (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
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hugin: easy, cross-platform panorama photo sticher
hugin - Panorama photo stitcher - assemble a mosaic of photos into a complete panorama.
hugin is still in beta but declares it’s latest version “stable”. Download for Linux, OS X or Windows, with a large number of localized versions available as well. There is also a hugin tutorial available to get started.
You can check out the hugin pool on Flickr for some examples....
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Pampered cows give more milk
A Spanish farm is providing its dairy cows with plenty of creature comforts to help improve yields. (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
Maker Faire 2007 Videos
Here are a bunch of great Maker Faire 2007 videos shot by Andrew Baron for Rocketboom and Sarah Meyers for Gizmodo.
Make put together a Maker Faire Video Report featuring highlights from the event.
Daniel Raffel has several great Maker Faire 2007 videos on Vimeo, including one featuring Cris Benton describing his amazing Karp Fishing Pole Photography and another of the curious knitting...
Newsflash: Gmail doubles maximum attachment to 20...
If you’ve bumped up against Gmail’s previous 10 MB attachment limit too often in the past, you’ll be glad to hear that Gmail’s doubled the maximum attachment to 20 MB. Huzzah! (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
Logo design for power awareness
Wes Goodhoofd writes in:
The picture I have attached has the words “Flick Off” and is
sanctioned by the provincial government here in Ontario, Canada for awareness to climate change.
Their idea is to make people “flick off” their
lights and other electronics when not in use, and while the idea is
excellent, the execution is broken.
They have purposely used a...
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poot!
I found a cute post on the Songbird Blog about the popularity of their tees. I thought it rather odd that a company specializing in Desktop Web Players might sell out of their girls tees, but the designs are just so darned cute!
A crew of “Songbird Ninjas on a bug slaughtering mission.”
Where flatulent fowl & ninjas are cute, Ninja vs Pirate pooting-bird Armwrestling, is BEYOND CUTE!
Why...
AutoRate: iTunes rating done right
Filed under: Software, iTunes I don’t know about you, but ratings are one of those iTunes features that I’d like to use but never seem to find the time. Rating each song individually is such a drag, and I’m a busy, powerful, and influential blogger. I don’t have that kind of time. Luckily for busy iTuners everywhere AutoRate is there to help. As you might have gathered from...
PHPture: Aperture on the web
Filed under: Software, Open Source PHPture is very cool, and almost makes me wish I used Aperture to organize my photos. PHPture leverages the web technologies that are baked into every Mac running OS X to enable sharing of your Aperture library over the web. PHPture is limited to serving up webpages from the Mac that has Aperture installed on it by default, but I don’t see why you...
RIAA Radar Charts, buy these RIAA-safe albums
No one likes the RIAA, plain and simple. Without going into the technicalities or personal feelings concerning the Recording Industry Association of America, I will simply point our knowledgeable readers to this handy Top 100 Indie chart featuring 100 RIAA-safe albums.
The 100 highest-selling albums on Amazon.com that are RIAA-safe. Updated every day.
Works for me… Then again, I...
RIAA Radar Charts, buy these RIAA-safe albums
No one likes the RIAA, plain and simple. Without going into the technicalities or personal feelings concerning the Recording Industry Association of America, I will simply point our knowledgeable readers to this handy Top 100 Indie chart featuring 100 RIAA-safe albums.
The 100 highest-selling albums on Amazon.com that are RIAA-safe. Updated every day.
Works for me… Then again, I can’t remember...
Open Source tips: alternatives to commercial...
Filed under: Audio, Design, Developer, OS Updates, Photo, Security, Text, Video, Office, Productivity, Open Source
Instead of upgrading your commercial software apps, now may be the time for you to try something in the Open Source arena. Push your comfort zone a little and see what Open Source can do for you. To help you get started quickly, osalt.com is a website with all the right stuff in one...
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