Cost To Drive Calculates Per-Trip and Car Fuel Costs [Cars] (23)
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Handy webapp Cost To Drive estimates how much gas you'll have to buy to make a given trip in your vehicle. Enter your starting point and destination, then the year of your car, make, and model, and Cost to Drive uses your car's MPG, the average price of gas, and the distance to estimate the fuel costs for the trip. Unlike previously mentioned Drive Pricing, Cost To Drive does the MPG lookup for your car ...
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Matt said:
interesting. Could we use this?
Save Time De-corking Your Wine with the Slide Technique [Household] (13)
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Noisy wine expert Gary Vaynerchuck offers a quick but smart tip for removing the foil sleeve from a bottle of wine without the tedious cover trimmers. His simple secret: Just pull it off. This may not be mind-blowing if you already knew this seemingly obvious trick, but if you didn't, it's a real time-saver. The Slide Technique [Eat Drink or Die]
iTunes 8.0.1 is available (14)
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Filed under: iTS, Software, iTunes, Software UpdateApple released iTunes version 8.0.1 earlier today. This update is 58.8MB in size, and features the following changes: Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist. Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano. Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading. Improves checking for updates from the App Store Improves accessibility with VoiceOver. Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod. That's quite a detailed ...
The debate tonight (2)
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I have no idea what to expect any more. And, hey, I'm the champion debate watcher in the entire world!For instance: "Everyone knows," based on a long string of past episodes, that some unintentional flash of character revelation usually turns out to be the memorable aspect of a presidential debate. Eg: Nixon looking furtive and sweaty in 1960, Ford momentarily seemed befuddled in 1976, Dukakis seeming bloodless in 1988, etc. All these moments "mattered" because ...
Will GE's Buffett Cash Quell NBC Sale Talks? (1)
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In case you haven't been following it, shares of GE have been taking it bad lately. On one side, you have the industrial division, highly exposed to a slowing economy and any difficulty among customers in financing big purchases. The other side is finance, and everyone fears it's sitting on a hand grenade. In a bid to stem the decline and reassure the markets, the company took a $3 billion investment from Warren Buffett, in ...
DataPortability is boring? (3)
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Drama 2.0 has made a guest post on Mashable suggesting that DataPortability is boring. I obviously disagree. Let me address each of his main points one by one. (1) The average Internet user probably isn’t an active member of dozens of Web 2.0 services. While this may be difficult for some to believe, the truth is that most people don’t feel compelled to sign up for every new Web 2.0 service that launches. And quite ...
How one student uses Backpack as a "digital notebook" (1)
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If you're a student wondering how Backpack can help you get organized, check out "Technology Focus: Backpack" over at Student Blogger. Situation: Your student life is in disarray. Papers are here and there, deadlines and assignments are floating around in your head. Sure, a notebook could help. But you need something digital. What do you do? Solution: Use the very flexible Backpack web application from 37signals. Best of all, it is just what you need ...
AT&T in no rush to build out 4G network (21)
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Apple's exclusive iPhone wireless carrier AT&T said this week it's in no hurry to begin deploying a fourth-generation wireless network, as it believes there's two to three years of "runway" left in its current and future 3G technologies.
AppleInsider | Apple details cursor-based QuickLook and advanced functions (19)
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Apple is exploring new ways to use the Mac OS cursor to provide users with additional information and usability options for files residing on their hard drive or linked via the internet before they're triggered or activated.
Stainless 0.1.5 - Multi-process Web browser. (Free) (1)
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Stainless 0.1.5Stainless is a multi-process browser inspired by Google Chrome. Each tab runs in a separate process, which means: Increased performance. Slow page loads (esp. due to plugins) can't affect the responsiveness of the browser, or of pages in other tabs. Increased stability. Crashed pages can't bring down the browser. Decreased memory usage. Once a tab is closed, the memory for that session is completely freed to the system. Like Chrome, Stainless also has tabs ...
Interview With Last.fm Founder Richard Jones: Part 1, The Competition (21)
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This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm's reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the rise of Imeem, discuss business models in online music, and find out what's new at last.fm. We're running the interview in 3 parts, over 3 days. See also Part 2, on business models. We started out by asking about the increasing competition in ...
VP debate + you = Qik & BBC experimental fun (1)
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Anticipation around Thursday night's vice presidential debate is reaching a fever pitch in the US and - judging from all of the media I'm watching - around the world. As one of my friends on Twitter said this morning, today is like Christmas Eve for political buffs and passionate voters. That seems to be true whether you support Obama or McCain - or if you just want to see what kind of fun Tina Fey ...
Why The Online Music Industry Should Move To a Rev-Share Model (20)
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Memo to the Copyright Royalty Board: a bigger pie fills more bellies. Tomorrow, the three-judge panel that sets rates on music copyright fees is scheduled to announce new rates on digital music downloads for the next five years. The fees, which go to music publishers (the actual owners of the copyright to each song), are currently set at 9 cents per track. Music publishers want to raise that to 15 cents per track. Apple has ...
More Video Experiments in Louisville (1)
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I realize that even small children are now shooting video, editing it, and posting it online. But I still like to show off some of our video experiments. I’ve talked about some of what we’ve been doing on Louisville’s NPR News Station, but we’re trying a few things on our Triple A and classical stations. Here’s a sample from our in-studio “Live Lunch” program on WFPK Radio Louisville. The setup is simple - a couple ...
