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Add this to your list of must have iPhone applications. Direct Line (iTunes link) is a service that helps you automatically navigate phone trees to get right to an operator (exactly what companies don’t want you to do). Install the application, browse of search the included companies, and select the one you want. Direct Line then calls the number and preselects the appropriate choices to get you to an actual person. The service operates much ...Shared by Aaron (26) AC Valentine (16) Adam (5) Alec Peden (8) Alex C (30) Alex Porter (4) Andrei (6) Austin (3) ayn (9) baardoa (29) bddemir (4) Ben (18) Bill (20) Brian McNitt (1) brokekid (134) Camtron 9000 (20) Charlie (2) Chuck Reynolds (20) Dan (23) Dave (1) David (9) Dennis' Library (4) dkastner (16) DOCBook Howto (116) giginger (33) glongman (10) Greg T (17) Haltse (17) Henry Webb (20) James Forbes Keir (19) Jeffrey Blais (47) JEP (12) Joe Schueller (16) Jonathan Washburn (3) Josh (17) JUSTIN (13) Justin (6) Kells Nollenberger (4) Kevin Etter (8) Kunal Ghate (3) Lokkju (6) Luke (11) Mark (2) Mark (9) Martin (5) Matt (26) Matt (10) Matthew (4) MV (23) Nick (3) Nick (5) OhCaptain (5) Ooble (26) Oren (15) Patrick (0) PJ Kix (6) potentato (25) Priyadarsan Venugopalan (17) puthali (12) Ramit Sethi (8) Rob (24) Roberto (21) Roger Åberg (14) Russ (6) Siva (0) Thomas Hochmann (2) Thomas Smith (33) TNLNYC (5) Tony (8) Will Cole (9)Explore read six notes- Roger Åberg said: Genialiskt! Någon måste göra en svensk version
- Ooble said: Great. Now I need an iPhone.
- Nick said: BEAUTIFUL! Another tempting reason to check out the iPhone.
- glongman said: neat idea. Incredibly difficult to keep the "maps" of company call tree up to date. I would venture to guess its harder than what we do at Overlay TV to import videos from sites like Veoh and Tudou - their sites change frequently.
- Austin said: I hate you iPhone, why doesn't Verizon love you?
- Haltse said: now that my friends.. is genius. I've been using a site to do this but Holy heck in a crap basket this is too freaking cool:) If it works:D
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onAdd this to your list of must have iPhone applications. Direct Line (iTunes link) is a service that helps you automatically navigate phone trees to get right to an operator (exactly what companies don’t want you to do). Install the application, browse of search the included companies, and select the one you want. Direct Line then calls the number and preselects the appropriate choices to get you to an actual person. The service operates much ...Shared by AC Valentine (16) Adam (5) Alex Porter (4) bddemir (4) CannonGod (226) Charlie (2) Dave (1) David (9) Dennis' Library (4) DOCBook Howto (116) glongman (10) Jeffrey Blais (47) JEP (12) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) Josh (17) Kevin Etter (8) Mark (9) Martin (5) Matt (10) Matthew (4) MV (23) Patrick (0) potentato (25) puthali (12) Russ (6) TNLNYC (5) Will Cole (9)
- glongman said: neat idea. Incredibly difficult to keep the "maps" of company call tree up to date. I would venture to guess its harder than what we do at Overlay TV to import videos from sites like Veoh and Tudou - their sites change frequently.
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Spacing magazine's Matt and I went to see the launch of the scrambled Yonge and Dundas intersection last night. Took a few thousand frames from Milestones restaurant to make a timelapse video which is uploading right now. Check back here or visit Spacing Toronto's Wire in a few hours for the video clip.Shared by Alex Porter (4) Andrew (31) Bamdad (8) Brenton (8) CannonGod (226) Carol (148) Daniel (33) Edouard (18) Greg (2) Kamangir (58) Kevin Branigan (7) Kim Reed (6) Lu Tao (21) Maksim Berjoza (24) maomao (26) Michael (6) mo (137) Mohammad (1) Musa (6) natalia (28) Shawn (20) Thiago (34) wyclif (22) Zach (4)Contribute comment -
Comcast to cap monthly consumer broadband (12)
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Starting October 1 customers of Comcast's residential data services will have an invisible barrier on their monthly data usage. Under the new guidelines of Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy announced Thursday, that cap will be set at 250 gigabytes per month, per account. Users who go over the limit will get a courtesy call from Comcast's customer service for the first instance. However, under the new policy a second-time offense means the service is immediately suspended ...Shared by aaron (124) Adam (18) Alex Porter (4) Andru (23) Araceli (1) Billy Fairchild (2) Jigar Mehta (44) Kevin (3) krisnelson (3) Ryan (20) timbevil (14) WindPower (28)- Kevin said: WTF, Comcast?
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onShot from Edward and Bay street. You know when you take a photo but you think it could have been better? I took this a few years ago but always wanted to try it again with better gear. I have this extremely sharp Zeiss 135mm f1.8 lens only for a few week so I thought it'd be a good opportunity.Shared by adam (972) Alex Porter (4) Alexander13 (467) Alexandru Savu (36) Ame (7) Amerynn (2) angel (253) Avi (598) Bamdad (8) Bill (11) Cai Chen (995) Carol (148) Cassi (5) cheflove (239) Chris Schutz (5) Danial (13) digits12 (716) Ez (7) Fanttazio (26) Getinet (37) Grandje5ter (22) Guy (702) guy (626) Hrag (4) Inthenameofmine (406) J (107) Jake (0) Jesús Dugarte (3) Krazy (146) Leena (1060) Maryam (26) maxyRO (482) natalia (28) neda (38) Nima (35) npike (5) Parastoo (15) SMC (204) Thiago (34) tobalito (4) viola (34) webto (2) yyq123 (10) ZsaZsa (6)
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My urbanist geek friend Don Vehige got all excited about some pedestrian behavior he observed downtown at 1st and University and snapped the photos below. Apparently people lose their ability to read during sunny Saturday afternoons, because the construction area at the front of the new Four Seasons hotel has the biggest and most explicit “sidewalk closed” signage I’ve ever seen. During work week days, there’s almost always a cop at 1st and Union who ...Shared by Alex Porter (4)Contribute comment -
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Introducing Ubiquity (526)
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An experiment into connecting the Web with language. It Doesn’t Have to be This Way You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. 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- Beemer said: Awesome concept by mozilla...it will definitely change the way we interact with the web...have a read and look at the video.
- Sjoerd Visscher said: Yubnub on steroids!
- Brent said: Just playing with this thing this afternoon. So far, pretty cool.
- Jon Winstanley said: Nice new browser innovation
- Walter DeFoor said: Holy crap this is amazing.
- baber said: Got this itro from my friend Atul, cool stuff about ubiquity and about time.
- Ryan said: very interesting. kind of like executer or launchy for firefox
- Yann Dìnendal said: Wah ! Regardez la vidéo, ça a l'air énorme !
- Juan Diego said: Mencionado en:- http://www.davidgp.com/2008/08/27/ubiquity-para-firefox/- http://alt1040.com/2008/08/ubiquity-para-que-la-web-desconectada-este-mas-conectada/- http://www.enriquedans.com/2008/08/ubiquity-visualizando-tendencias-en-el-uso-de-la-web.htmlEn ninguno de los tres he entendido qué es Ubiquity, en realidad. Se dice que está muy bien y que hay que ver el vídeo.Y como aún no he visto el vídeo... :)Actualización:Ya he visto el vídeo. Parece que sí, que puede ser interesante. ¿Por qué? Para qué te lo voy a contar si puedes ver el vídeo tú mismo, jeje.
- Eddie said: i've wanted something like this for a while now, if only for a command line interface to the web. yubnub is too slow, and is often down. firefox smart keywords are ok but require an extra bounce and extra (server-side) coding if i want to do anything fancy.
- ryan.capote said: This is really cool, watch the video!
- Pradeep said: Awesome!Have been playing with it since yesterday evening. It is most certainly the Quicksilver (http://bit.ly/1XVYsZ) of the web. And they seem to be intent on revolutionizing the way we access the web. (Also, check out Adaptive Path's video for Mozilla Labs' concept web series: http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/)Install (https://people.mozilla.com/~avarma/ubiquity-0.1.xpi) and type "command-list" to get the complete list of built-in commands.Or ubiq "command-editor" and build your own commands. May be something to 'select a text, add a note and post-to-reader'!It's also possible to embed Ubiquity commands in webpages. How will the web react? Think of the possibilities for a frequent user on a massive destination like Amazon or Yahoo!They admit that the whole thing is "messy" and "cluttered" (sample: hyphenated commands) but I can firmly say that they are heading in the right direction.Hmmm...now, about the lost mojo...[http://bit.ly/3xtnj7]
- g9yuayon said: Super cool command line
- WebFlint said: super cool
- Craig said: watch the video halfway down, it's pretty cool
- Ooble said: ZOMGWOW.This should make anyone switch to Firefox. Watch the video.
- brianwyrick said: hot.
- Malcolm said: Web 3.0 right here
- wyclif said: I'm finding this very useful.
- Giacomo Rizzo said: Molto, molto interessante...
- Betula said: this is too cool! a command launchy in firefox
- Dean said: A command line for the Internet! I love it.
- Ihar Mahaniok said: Wow!Check out the video.This is the first thing in quite a long time that really impresses me.This will increase productivity, definitely.
- Cameron said: This is awesome, its like Quiksilver/Launchy for the web!
- Johan Lopes said: taking web browsing to the next level
- Geoffrey Wiseman said: Looks interest
