Kindle 2 Leaked (10)
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Found this on FriendFeed. Still frustrated that my network uses Google Reader, but FriendFeed is much more conversational...
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Josh Bancroft said:
Not sure if I like it, but then, I love my original Kindle. Looks like it's bigger, but the screen is the same size. And no more SD slot or user accessible battery (or fake leather cover)? That sucks. Still, I'll probably buy one, and waterfall my original Kindle to Rachel. Or maybe buy a second first gen version when they get cheap because v2 is out.
Electric Sheep (6)
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This computer screen saver is incredibly beautiful, dynamic, amazingly hypnotic, free (!), and literally alive. You can get the full story here, but Electric Sheep is Scott Draves' open source, distributed computing project which creates and disseminates new user-generated and/or computer-generated fractals to everyone who's downloaded the screen saver. I've been running the Mac version for about four or five years and find myself involuntarily staring at it for long periods. Over time, you'll actually ...
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Derek said:
I use to run this screensaver, but as the post mentions, I found myself just staring at it. If you haven't seen this, install it, it's sweet
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Ryan said:
Glad this is getting recognition
Christian Guerreiro shared as favorite Dabbleboard Collaborative Whiteboard [Collaboration Tools] (10)
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Online whiteboard Dabbleboard makes drawing diagrams, jotting notes and sketches, and sharing that work easy online. Dabbleboard comes with a library of readily-available objects for piecing together org charts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, photo annotation, interface designs, and electrical diagrams. When you share your Dabbleboard work with someone via emai, you can watch, real-time, as he or she makes changes to it. There's also a public library of Dabbleboard drawings that you can ...
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Derek said:
This is an awesome collaborative tool. Let me know if you come up with a cool use case, I'd love to see it
Tip: Read your mail without touching your mouse (106)
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Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Gmail Product Marketing ManagerFirst, if you don't have Gmail keyboard shortcuts enabled, turn them on in Settings. You'll be glad you did. If you spend a lot of time in Gmail, you'll start shaving milliseconds of every action, which adds up. Get through a hundred or so messages every day and you'll end up with extra minutes each week to read your favorite blogs in Reader -- using Reader's keyboard shortcuts ...
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Derek said:
if you aren't using gmail keyboard shortcuts, you're crazy
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Matthom said:
Keyboard shortcuts rock.
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Jeff said:
I guess that I don't really get enough email at my gmail account to take advantage of the time saving benefits of keyboard shortcuts.
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Linden said:
I need to start doing this. I use J and K in Reader, but haven't taken the time to learn the Gmail shortcuts. Perhaps today is the day I leave this post up and start learning?
Twitter Blog: The Debate: A Twitter Play-by-Play (13)
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This graph illustrates tweet volume for specific terms mentioned during the course of last week's presidential debate. For example, how many updates per minute contained the word "Iran." Of the terms in this graph, the most twittered word in a one minute time span was "Iraq" at nearly 300 just after McCain's assertion that Obama did not visit the area for 900 days. We've annotated a few of the spikes with what the candidates were ...
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wendy said:
This is pretty cool
Google Moderator (13)
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Google Moderator is a small application initially created for submitting and voting on the questions for Google's tech talks."At Google, we host a large number of "tech talks". These talks cover a wide rage of Computer Science topics like research in machine learning and methods for ranking images based on text queries. I've enjoyed attending these tech talks, but as the number of attendees has grown over time, the question-and-answer part of the talks hasn't ...
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Derek said:
I'm happy to see this is public. It has been very useful internally and hopefully others can find some cool uses for it
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Fran Correas said:
Ya se le está ocurriendo a @rafacampoamor un uso fraudu-sexy-guarro de la nueva aplicación de Google, basada en listas, votos, preguntas, sugerencias.
Friends Everywhere, and other Friendly Features (44)
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It's Tuesday here, so the Reader team is happy to announce bunch of new features: friends worldwide, tagging with note, alphabetical ordering, and even last-crawl-date. Fun! Friends Everywhere Now that our new and improved sharing features are available in the US, we have made sharing with friends available to Reader users in all supported languages. We are dedicating this to our teammate Steve Goldberg, who claims he can speak almost every language in which Reader ...
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a48 said:
тестируем тэги
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Derek said:
Reader adds the ability to share with a note & tags and the ability to sort your subscriptions by alphabetical order
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Bram said:
eindelijk alfabetisch sorteren mijn subscriptions.endless feature requests finally paying off !
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Suzana Gutierrez said:
notas agora com tags !
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Alistair said:
This looks interesting.
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mubbashir said:
this is super cool
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Phil said:
"Last updated timestamp" is a very interesting feature!
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David Chartier said:
Google Reader gets tags for notes (like this one), alphabetical subscription and folder sorting, a new Options menu at the bottom of the subscription list that's just dying for more features, and some international sharing goodies. A marginal update, but a nice one nonetheless.
Android Makes its Debut in T-Mobile G1 (27)
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After less than a year since the initial Android announcement, T-Mobile USA launches today the first handset that uses Android's software stack: a smartphone built by HTC, which is known for manufacturing Windows Mobile portable devices.T-Mobile G1 showcases some of the most advanced capabilities of Android, by including a touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, accelerated 3D graphics, Wi-Fi and 3G support, GPS and accelerometer. The device won't have an impressive design and it won't be as easy ...
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Derek said:
I'll try only share one item about the Android launch today. This seems like the best one I've come across so far. The coverage is about as I would expect...
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pkj said:
Check out the videos. It looks pretty good.
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TheUnixGuy said:
i want one....
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duguguiyu said:
Gphone is coming...
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nyenyec said:
Android coming to Europe Q1 2009...
Get My Tagged Pics Pulls Down Every Facebook Photo You're In [Facebook] (9)
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Update: Looks like Get My Tagged Pics is no longer available. Apologies! Social media enthusiast Alana Taylor put together a Facebook application that's not only worth installing, it can actually save you time and keep you away from one of the web's most powerful procrastination portals. Get My Tagged Pics does exactly what you might think, pulling together every picture your friends have tagged you in, and offers Zip-compressed archives of 10 at a time ...
10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles (5)
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theodp writes "Confirming paranoid high-schoolers' fears, a new Kaplan survey reveals that 10% of admissions officers from prestigious schools said they had peeked at sites like Facebook and MySpace to evaluate college-bound seniors. Of those using the profiles, 38% said it had a 'negative impact' on the applicant. 'Today's application is not just what you send ... but whatever they can Google about you,' said Kaplan's Jeff Olson. At Notre Dame, assistant provost for enrollment ...
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rorowe said:
Haha, University = Big Brother :)
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Derek said:
I wish they talked about the potential upside an online presence could have in these cases
New FriendFeed design launched... with an exciting new feature! (22)
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You might have noticed the new look for FriendFeed. We've been tinkering with a new design for a few weeks, and after spending some time in beta, it's finally ready for primetime. larger screenshot One of the things we'd heard most from users is that you wanted to have greater control over what you see in your feed—whether it's separating out your family members' updates from your coworkers' or making sure you don't miss entries ...
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Derek said:
ff just keeps getting better. i really like the feature that detects dups
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Josh said:
Even when you're not signed in it looks great.
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Min Liu said:
thank you for improving my life
Google Chrome Will Support Add-Ons, User Scripts [Google Chrome] (28)
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InformationWeek confirms that Google Chrome will have add-ons, a move that could have an enormous impact on Chrome's viability among the power users and early adopters in the Firefox camp. In addition to regular extensions, Chrome will also support scripts à la Greasemonkey: "There's two different kinds of add-ons," [Google engineer Ojan] Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of ...
Maghound Offers NetFlix-Style Magazine Subscriptions [Magazines] (14)
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Love receiving magazines in the mail, but don't feel like committing to yearlong subscriptions? Maghound is the magazine service for you. Users sign up for a tier system: Tier 1 is $4.95 a month for 3 magazine titles, Tier 2 is $7.95 for 5 and so on. Changing the magazines that compromise your selections is as easy as logging into the website and removing the old subscriptions and adding in new ones. Find after a ...
Will Obama appear at U-M game? | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press (1)
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The day after next Friday's first presidential debate Democratic nominee Barack Obama will be back in Michigan. That first debate -- on Sept. 26, at the University of Mississippi -- will focus on domestic policy, suggesting that the economy will be the biggest talking point of the night.
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Derek said:
I will be there, will you Barack?
Audrey Guillemenot shared as favorite Stuff We Like: StairCASE Stepladder Bookcase (39)
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Conceptual designer Danny Kuo has prototyped an ingenious solution for getting to the topmost levels of a tall bookshelf with his StairCASE design. The bookshelf combines the functionality of drawers to make steps to reach the high shelves, as shown. For small apartments with high ceilings, this is a pretty ingenious space-saver. For similar storage as ladder, see how to turn your steps into drawers. The StairCASE doesn't appear to be available for purchase, but ...
