A Directory of Google Reader Shared Pages? (19)
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Google promotes on the homepage a site called "Power Readers in Politics", which lists the Google Reader shared pages for US political journalists and the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain."You can read what they read, and see what's on their minds as they share and discuss news. Each participant has created a reading list with a feed you can subscribe to in Reader (or any other feed reader), and is also publishing shared ...
Two nifty ways to still receive Twitter SMS updates (1)
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Last Thursday, European Twitterazi experienced a bad start of the day. Their beloved micro blogging service would no longer send SMS updates. Smart phone users can still find ways to receive updates about Twitter conversations. Yet people with less sophisticated mobile devices are in the dark now. My co-editor Patrick suggested that Twitter should offer a pro-account option, so that people would have to pay for SMS updates. But co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the ...
Knol's Advanced Search (7)
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Knol has recently added a search toolkit that lets you build advanced queries, a feature that wasn't available at launch. Many of the options from Google web search can be used in Knol: phrase search, negative terms, OR search. You can also restrict the search to titles, summaries, authors, reviews, recent knols. Google offers three options for ordering the results: by relevance, by creation date, by last modified date and an interesting "reverse sort".The advanced ...
What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like? (20)
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Pandora's on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news - the streaming music market online is expanding and contracting faster than a stadium rocker's pupils. What if the perfect service rose from the noise and gave you exactly the user experience you wanted? What would such a service look like? Let's call out our dreams, ...
First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC (28)
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Today, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for this highly anticipated phone: November 10th, 2008. So what will the HTC Dream offer? We take a look at some of the details and unknowns surrounding this device. This morning Engadget Mobile broke the news of the ...
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Brian said:
interesting... a reason to stick with t-mobile? time will tell
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nyenyec said:
I'm planning to get one.
Del.izzy Does What Del.icio.us Won’t: Search The Full Text Of Your Bookmarks (31)
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When you search your bookmarks on del.icio.us, all you are searching is the tags, titles, and descriptions. If you want to search the full text of the underlying bookmarked pages themselves, you have to go to Del.izzy, a site out of Melbourne, Australia that was hacked together in three days. Del.izzy takes each page that you’ve bookmarked and puts it through a Google custom search to bring back results for the search terms you enter. ...
Jitterbit: An Open Source Project That Bridges Data Gaps (12)
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Jitterbit, a service that helps companies bridge and integrate data from different sources, has released a new 2.0 version of its software along with a new pricing model that it hopes will make it more appealing to businesses and consumers alike. Jitterbit is an open source project that allows users to efficiently use and modify data from multiple sources that may not typically communicate directly. While the company is partially targeted towards the enterprise market ...
25 Painless Ways to Free Up an Hour a Day for Your Goals | Zen Habits (30)
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“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” - Henry David Thoreau What would you do if you had an extra hour a day? This is a common barrier I run into when I write about making positive life changes: people don’t have time to pursue their dreams. People don’t have time to exercise. People don’t have time to get organized. Well, it’s time to make time. By using some combination of the following, ...
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Everyone should take 5min and read this. Time management really comes down to identifying how and perhaps more importantly where you are wasting time. My personal tip is don't just listen to podcasts/netcasts/audiobooks, optimise them. Using audacity (free audio editor) set up a chain that changes the pitch of a podcast down by 50%, then increase the speed by 100%, finally export it as a mp3. You have just cut your listening time in half. While the people do speak a little faster, your not listening to chipmunks, and when it comes to audiobooks (like those from audible), listing to a book in 5hrs instead of 10 makes a big difference...
Simplify Media: deel je muziek op pc, mac en iPhone (1)
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Simplify Media is een handig programmaatje dat verder gaat waar iTunes of WinAmp ophoudt: je maakt je muziekverzameling online beschikbaar om te beluisteren op een andere pc, mac of iPhone. Je streamt de muziek tussen verschillende lokaties, via de server van Simplify Media. Bijzonder aan de software is dat je vrienden kunt uitnodigen om via internet naar je muziekverzameling te luisteren en vice versa. Want hoewel iTunes ook muziek tussen computers kan streamen, is het ...
Automate File Upload in Google Docs (23)
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Google Docs has an option to upload files from web addresses, but it's not very convenient if you want to load many documents or you want to add a link for uploading a document. Here's the direct link that can be used to open a document from the web in Google Docs:http://docs.google.com/?action=updoc&formsubmitted=true&uploadURL=DOCUMENTURLThis works for documents (.doc/.txt/.html/.rtf/.odt), spreadsheets (.xls/.csv/.ods), presentations (.ppt) and PDF files.In Windows, you can easily create a batch file that automates the upload ...
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Srinvard said:
Upload multiple files at once to Google Docs.
Vimeo AIR App Coming Soon? (15)
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We have to admit that we have a thing for AIR apps. Most of our most popular desktop tools include AIR apps. From Twhirl to Snackr, they help us do our job with style. However, AIR apps are not in abundance and missing from various sites and services. While we recommend uvLayer for Youtube videos, it would be awesome to see other services release their own official AIR apps. Well, it seems Vimeo may be ...
Ik wens mijn favorieten geen overname door Google toe! (1)
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Als Google een bedrijf opkoopt dan weet je dat de zelfstandige titel een snelle dood nabij is. Dan weet je dat je er voorlopig niks meer van hoort. En als je de kenmerken van de web-apllicaties terugziet, dan vaak in een verwaterde versie van het origineel. Twee voorbeelden. - Jotspot. Jotspot was een voorloper op het gebied van ‘collaboration’ op internet. Met de service kon je bijvoorbeeld eenvoudig wiki’s bouwen. In 2006 werd het bedrijf ...
Android And The Internet Of Things (22)
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As the world waits for the first Android phone to appear in the wild (from T-Mobile), questions are being raised again about whether Google’s Android ambitions will stop at cell phones. In a speculative, but well-thought-out piece, VentureBeat’s Eric Eldon reports: Industry sources tell us that although Android will indeed start as a mobile OS, Google intends to expand it to be a sort of universal operating system that will span set-top boxes for televisions, ...
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While this article is truely foward thinking, it does pose an interesting question. What happens as the world moves to cloud based, bite sized device orientated computing. Will the android/windows/mac OS be able to cope?
4 Great iPhone App Review Sites (22)
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The iTunes App Store is a bit of a big deal these days. Several new applications pop up in the iTunes store every day. With hundreds of apps to download from it can be time consuming to sort through them all. Unfortunately, there is no try before you buy option for any of the iTunes apps. So, if you happen to see one that looks interesting, but requires you to shell out your hard earned ...
Great Review Site For iPhone Apps (54)
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I came across AppVee this evening, a new site that is creating written and video reviews of iPhone apps. We continue to write about iPhone applications that we find interesting and include them in Crunchbase, but we aren’t doing the kind of in-depth, categorized reviews that AppVee is taking the time to create. AppVee rates each application based on a variety of factors depending on the type of app. For entertainment applications, for example, apps ...
Fixing Video with Photographs (38)
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This system, by students at the University of Washington, uses still photographs or one single frame of a video scene to automatically improve video. The improvements are amazing. Video might contain artifacts like overexposure and low-resolution imagery and this system takes cues from still images of the scene to bring almost the entire video up to photographic quality. Can’t wait for this to hit our local point and shoot - in maybe five years. Click ...
Study: Fastest Growing US Companies Rapidly Adopting Social Media (51)
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A one year follow up on a study of social media adoption at 500 of the fastest growing companies in the US has found that familiarity with and use of blogs, podcasting, wikis, online video and social networking has skyrocketed in 2008 to nearly double what it was in 2007. 77% of respondents now report at least some use of a social media tool in their business. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing ...
