ping.fm: Update all your social networks at once (4)
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Sites like Twitter have scores of competitors and it is possible that for someone to effectively socially network, they will have to use sites other than their preferred one. It is obviously quite a chore to have to update Twitter, Facebook, Pownce etc separately. Commenter reactive pointed out ping.fm, a website which in fact I use. ping.fm allows you to update one site, through a variety of means, which will then pass those updates on ...
Access Blocked Websites By Email (2)
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Many companies, schools or universities love to block popular websites. A large proportion of computer users however start digging around to find ways to overcome the block instead of concentrating on work. Many make use of web proxies to access blocked websites. Proxies however come and go rapidly and get blocked very fast as well. This means that the user is spending some time of his week hunting for working proxies that will display the ...
10 Annoying Aspects Of Tech Blogs (6)
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Good old Rarst posted another interesting article today about 10 things that make tech blogs unreadable. He has become quite the little ranter over at his Rarst stronghold but I have to admit that he has a point. His post got me thinking about aspects of tech blogs that I dislike and I came up with enough stuff to make my own /diggworthy/ list. Interestingly enough that is also number one on my list.. 1. ...
Google Reader Essentials Userscript (11)
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Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts. A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Long time users of Google Reader will need a few minutes before they grow accustomed to the changes. Many would call ...
Guardian ‘Message for Obama’ project is published (1)
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It’s projects like this that make me sure that the Guardian is indeed the best newspaper in the UK. On November 5 we started a photographic project, with users of guardian.co.uk and of Flickr, entitled A Message for Obama. The essence of the idea was to see if we could capture reaction to Barack Obama’s presidential victory in a creative way. It started with a few of us taking pictures around the Guardian offices, and ...
Shrinkomatic URL Shortening With A Twist (3)
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Ghacks author Daniel Pataki is pretty busy these days with all the new Internet websites and services that he is creating. His latest service is called Shrinkomatic. It is an url shortening service with one interesting unique feature. But first things first. To shorten an url one would simply head over to the Shrinkomatic website and paste the url in the form on the main page. The service creates a unique short url in the ...
Wordpress 2.6.5 Security Update (2)
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The Wordpress development team has released version 2.6.5 of the blogging plattform for download. The release fixes one security update and three bugs and can be downloaded from the official Wordpress website. Alternatively only the files wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php can be copied from the new release over the old files to update the blog. The security vulnerability is unlikely to affect a large number of Wordpress blogs though as it only only affects IP-based virtual ...
Video Crawler - A Multimedia Search Engine (1)
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Video Crawler is AT&T’s multimedia search engine. The service is currently in Beta and provides access to videos and other multimedia files of more than 1600 different websites including the popular ones like Youtube, MySpace or Dailymotion. The search engine is indexing the contents of those websites and providing a search engine so that users can search all sites for multimedia content at once. The search results are therefor a combination of all multimedia portals. ...
PayPal Now Offering Mobile Security Key (3)
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VeriSign send me a free PayPal Security Key after I mentioned that an unauthorized payment was done from my PayPal account. The security key acts as a new layer of defense. It has to be entered during login to complete the login. The key is an electronic device that generates a six digit key every 30 seconds. That key is needed to login into PayPal. The device can be ordered from within the PayPal interface ...
Typealizer: What Type is That Blog (3)
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Online services that tell you things you already know seem to be becoming increasingly popular. Some analyze your browsing history to tell you if you are male or female while others analyze websites and tell you what kind of person you are. The author’s at Ghacks are Duty Fullfillers according to the analysis of Typealizer. Duty Fullfillers are the responsible and hardworking type that are careful about getting facts right and reluctant to take risks. ...
Florida open record laws often violated, media finds (1)
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(AP) -- TaMaryn Waters walked into the Jefferson County School District offices with a simple request: She wanted a copy of the most recent e-mail the superintendent sent school board members about the district budget.
Test ahead for downtown condo market (1)
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Miami's latest building boom is creating 22,000 condominium units in the city's urban center, more than double the number built in the past 40 years.
Lease dispute could send 'Burn Notice' out of Miami (1)
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Michael Westen isn't the best tenant: He makes bombs in his apartment and people tend to shoot at him. But Miami's effort to get him off public property by August has erupted into a tense showdown between city officials and South Florida's production industry.
Google Search from your mobile via sms, Now Available in India (1)
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Power cuts are no big deal in India. If you ever fell victim of power cuts and wanted to do some google search in that time or just want a mobile Google Search Solution, Google India has launched the SMS search service. The sms costs you (Rs 2 or whatever is the rate for national sms for your provider). This is a big plus because you dont have to pay for premium sms as you ...
SYNTAX and Spring design, develop the website of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha (1)
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As the world of culture’s eyes turn to Doha today for the VIP opening of Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art, SYNTAX, a leading design, branding and user experience company and Spring, a pioneering web technology company announced the launch of the museum’s website at mia.org.qa. The Museum of Islamic Art represents a major milestone not just [...]
BlackBerry Wallpapers (1)
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If you want new wallpapers for your Blackberry cell phone you could try and find sites that are offering them, you could try and create them yourself locally with an image editor or you could use the online service BBsnap which turns Flickr images into BlackBerry wallpapers. BBsnap can be used without registration which is the most user friendly approach. A new wallpaper can be created in just a few steps. It begins by entering ...
Lo que hace la falta de espacio (1)
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La falta de espacio en las oficinas está pasando de ser un problema a una solución bastante friki pero eficaz. Este método les vendrá muy bien a los japoneses, además a ellos les va mucho eso de estar muy juntos: Lo que hace la falta de espacioVer comentarios
Proudly Purple (1)
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The “Purple States” project aims to merge the best of citizen journalism and the established media. Described as “reality news” and a cross between “The Real World” and “The Huffington Post,” it launched in the run up to the 2008 elections. The “Purple States” project previously highlighted a handful of media makers that spanned geographic and demographic lines, each of whom sounded off on politics and the issues of the day. Now, the size and ...
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GPhotospace.com announced today the launch of PC and Mac versions of the GPhotospace Add-on for Firefox and Flock. Leveraging the Gmail platform, the... More at www.DigitalPixels...Shared by Olivier (2)Contribute comment
