Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Weddinic is a new wedding-planning site hailing from South Africa. The premise behind this site is to offer a web-based tool for everyone involved in the wedding process to stay on task. That includes the bride and the groom (i.e. the bride), the guests, and the vendors. ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
You may have noticed that it’s a pretty big week for social networking profile pages. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube…well, that’s about it, but still. It’s kind of a big dealContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Windows only: Firefox extension Firefox Throttle caps your download and upload rates in Firefox so you can throttle the amount of bandwidth Firefox can use. The extension is full-featured, with options for excluding specific web domains and toggling the bandwidth throttle, along with some simple traffic stats for the current ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Firefox/Thunderbird (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you download a lot of files through your browser, chances are Firefox's default download manager doesn't really impress. Luckily there's DownThemAll, the free Firefox extension and download manager that makes managing, speeding up, and supercharging your downloads a breeze—and today, DownThemAll has updated to their 1Continue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
It’s becoming almost a non-news item now to talk about yet another day that Twitter is down. It is getting a bit beyond painful for those of us that are great fans of the service, and it’s not going un-noted that they’re coming up on the one year anniversary ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Okay, so we just highlighted how to build your own iPod projector, but consider this power-of-optics Friday, because another iPod nano owner frustrated with the small-screen viewing experience has transformed a 35mm slide viewer to a full-fledged nano TV, complete with speakersContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Twing is a new forums search tool that’s getting ready to officially launch next week. When I first read the email Twing sent over, I was immediately reminded of a forums search I covered a few days ago, Dipiti, though I must say there are a few notable differences ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
While some of the Mashable crew is going to be at SXSW, (make sure to say hi to Pete, Kristen and Tamar as they make the rounds) the rest of us will be hanging back at our computers to keep the site running. While there isn’t a lot of ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
This second installment in the three-part series shows you how to configure HTTP basic authentication for your Web services and Web services client, and monitor the HTTP basic authentication information using the TCP/IP monitor. Check out the first part of there series for the initial steps.Continue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Firefox with Greasemonkey: The YouTube Lyrics Greasemonkey script adds a lyrics box to the YouTube sidebar, which is perfect for following along with the lyrics on the wealth of music videos available on YouTube. The search is automatic when you hit the Lyrics link, and it can search several lyrics ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Something is rotten at MeeVee, and nobody’s talking much about it. We received word late last night from a source close to the company that over three quarters of the staff had been laid off following the resignations of the CTO and CEO Michael RaneriContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Joining consortium will give the search giant optical-fiber capacity at cost, not at retail prices. Google's new undersea-cable deal still doesn't mean that it is trying to become a phone company. Instead, the search giant is just doing a world-class job of cutting its telecom bills.Continue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
An inventive user on DIY web site Instructables steps through making a DIY iPod video projector using cardboard, a glue gun, mirrors, and gobs of black electrical tape. As you can see in the video above, the final product requires no power, working instead through the magic of light and ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Were you one of those kids that could sit in a corner with a giant “Where’s Waldo” book and pour over it for hours? Eventually you realized that Waldo was likely to appear in different areas on each page, and was always smiling (usually walking), and always wore ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Backing up your data on a regular basis is important, and turning a spare computer into a backup server is often the best way to make sure it gets doneContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
As reported earlier today, YouTube will launch its own live video service later this year. This follows the recent alpha launch of Yahoo Live, and the emergence of several “lifecasting” startups like UStream, Justin.tv, and Mogulus. YouTube absolutely dominates the competition in video sharing (roughly 6x more popular ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Well, I don't care what Mozilla or 'The Shaver' says. If I know one thing, it will be that anonymity in Firefox is impossible. Before I'm going to repeat myself, here is another trick to de-anonymize someone which can come in quite handy if you are interested in reconnaissance. This ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Last year, it seemed as though Sourcefire could do no wrong.The company behind the popular Snort IDS tool had received a mostly positive response from industry experts for its move to go public, and Chief Technology Officer Martin Roesch started talking about acquiring other technologies. The vendor got more positive ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
I just tested a new RockYou application for the pending MySpace Developer Platform, and the results may raise a few eyebrows about the spaminess of what appears to be possible.
The “Likeness” application, which you can access here, seems simple enough. Order 10 things you like from most ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
This week, Mashable was brought to you by PartnerUp, KillerStartups, Kluster, and ShareThis. Thanks to you four! <a href="http://partnerupContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like <a href="http://lifehackerContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Google is all about social collaboration this week. After launching Sites, we see an update to Google’s recently launched My Library. You may recall that this personalized library tool acts somewhat as a bookmarking service that aligns with the Google Book search onlineContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
MySpace has been staying on top of its political game through its Impact Channel, giving the users on this youth-oriented site a direct way in which to participate in the political scene. One of the more prominent ways in which MySpace is doing this is through the Impact Presidential ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
You've probably proved this theory to yourself and groaned about it, but researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business can prove it—buying one item reduces the amount of deliberation that goes into buying the next item, and the next one, and so on. In other words, as Get Rich ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Windows only: MSConfig Cleanup does one thing that you might only need once, but it does it well. When you run "msconfig," also known as Windows' System Configuration tool, or a number of other optimizing programs, you have the option of disabling startup items to free up memory at boot ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The Unclutterer blog posts a neat productivity tip that also serves to keep the dreaded Paper Monster at bay. By printing out tiny "To Do," "To Pay," and "To File" labels for binder clips and then hanging them off hooks inside a closet door, blogger Christine manages to both keep ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Jason Alba, author of I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What?, gives Wired's How-To Wiki advice on how to use LinkedIn for something other than esteem-boosting connection counting. One of the keys is stepping away from the monitor if you want to make contact with somebody in a contact's network—in other ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
We first caught wind of the YourTrumanShow video aggregator widgets at DEMOfall 2007, and the cross-platform video aggregator is finally ready to be launched to the public. When I first got a chance to check out the YourTrumanShow video aggregator, I was impressed with the visual mapping that it ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
MyBlogLog has rearranged its profile pages and decided to put a lifestream of the user’s activity in the center. It shows your latest blog posts, diggs and similar items, which you can see in the screenshot of my (horribly outdated, I know) profile below.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Webmaster's job requires long hours and a ton of frustrations. This article has listed 101 tips and resources to help you become the healthiest and happiest Webmaster around!Continue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Will.I.Am is at it again, evangelizing Obama with another star-studded cast of Hollywood-types, showing off their love of the Democrat presidential candidate. Included amongst the many performers on this video are Jessica Alba, Ryan Phillippe, George Lopez, John Leguizamo, Luis Guzman, and Macy GrayContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
OpenSocial just recently saw another version number bump up to version 0.7. This new version is bringing with it the first launched applications on the actual platform on sites like Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace in the very near future. This much we knew from the updates Adam received from ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Videoblogger Sarah Meyers managed to squeeze some fresh info from YouTube co-founder Steve Chen: live video is coming to YouTube in 2008. See the video interview below.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Slashdot has picked up an interesting (and highly technical, you’ve been warned) article by one of Firefox 3’s developers, Vladimir Vukicevic, in which he explains that Safari is so much faster than Firefox 3 in Mac OS X due to usage of some undocumented APIs that boost its performanceContinue ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
I remember my first week at college. I got a bunch of free stuff from the Diag, like a fishbowl, and a fish (it died after about 7 hours). I also got a Student Advantage card. That thing came in handy. Book discounts, train ticket discounts, ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Niche Xtreme sporting social network Go211 is launching a new video player this week, to top its old one. This new video player features live webcasts, is embeddable, and to get the party started on the good foot, Go211 will be offering a live webcast of the Nissan X-Trail ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
There are a lot of options for businesses applications these days, and many of them are dabbling with the cloud concept, providing DaaS as a way to replace the need for self-maintained servers, which are costly. Some of these services, like LongJump, are also moving towards the realm of ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Although choice is generally seen as a positive thing, the New York Times examines how and why closing a few doors can help you take major steps toward moving forward with projects and getting things done. The article begins with a look at a third century B.C. Chinese general named ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
After acquiring LiveJournal back in December ‘07 (see coverage here), SUP added ‘create advisory board’ to its to-do list. Tomorrow morning, SUP will be announcing the new members of its advisory board, which will be joining the founder of SixApart, Brad FitzpatrickContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Windows Mobile only: Freeware Windows Mobile application Google2GO! marries the functionality of Yahoo! Go to Google apps. As you can see in the demo video above, that means search, calendar, email, RSS, and more are all tied to the Google offerings of each applicationContinue Reading....
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The developer community for Wordpress and Wordpress themes is getting to be a pretty big and dedicated group, and Jeffro has come across an interesting Wordpress theme from The_dead_one (TDO), that essentially turns your blog into a forum.
If you head over to TDO’s Demo Forum, you can see ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Weblog Web Worker Daily sits down with Getting Things Done author and productivity evangelist David Allen to discuss his upcoming book and how GTD is more than just lists. To Allen, it's about control:If you walk into anywhere and want to get more control, all you really need to do ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Linux Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) can help you protect world-writeable shared directories from abuse. This article for Linux system administrators lays out the steps to enable namespaces with PAM. The pam_namespace module creates a separate namespace for users on your system when they login to protect users from several types ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Web site Wirenode turns any web site with an RSS feed into a mobile-friendly version of that site, perfect for browsing sites on your mobile device when they don't have a mobile-friendly interface. "Mobilizing" any site with an RSS feed is a breeze, and when you're done you'll end up ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
If you use your cell phone in environments where a blaring ring isn't always the ideal, but vibrate alone doesn't always get your attention, then you'd probably do well to set your phone to vibrate first and then ring if you don't pick it up after a few seconds. This ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Reader's Digest rounds up 24 tips for changing your habits to improve (or stop harming) your vision, like this gem for those of us who sit in front of a computer all day:Move your computer screen to just below eye level. Your eyes will close slightly when you're staring at ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The everyday technology of tomorrow is taking shape in today’s laboratories. Fantastic innovations are showcased in prototype form, offering a glimpse of things to come. Here is a look at 10 cool technologies of the future.Continue Reading....
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The big news of the day is that Google finally freed JotSpot with the release of Google Sites. When we posted the news last night, PBWiki executive Chris Yeh left a comment:
As an investor and executive at PBwiki, I feel obligated to offer my thoughts…the usual caveats about potential bias ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
How do I convert my blog entries and comments into a book on-the-cheap?How do I get rid of that horrible new carpet smell?How to remap Windows XP keyboard shortcuts to standard Apple shortcuts?<a href="http://askContinue Reading....
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