Nick.com, a great place to find kid-friendly games, is now doing a “Game of the Week” promotion. Basically, they post a new game built around a popular Nickelodean character, every week all year long.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Our goal with findiPod.info is to offer up at least one new iPod tip or trick a day, along with any news and reviews we come across. Feedback is welcome.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )iTunes is offering the Disney Channel original movie “High School Musical” for sale. This marks the first time a full-length movie has been sold through iTunes.� The complete movie is a $9.99 download, and can only be watched on your computer or a video iPod. Our daughter loved this movie (and we thought [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Amazon has added a new low-cost online storage service, which they’re calling “Amazon S3″:
Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data [...]
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), with appearances by Jefferson Starship and Beatrice Arthur. What could be better? Just about anything, actually, but it was so bad it was kinda good. Especially if you were in the fifth grade and obsessed with a galaxy far, far away, like we were. Watch it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The 2006 Weblog Awards (a.k.a the Bloggies) have been announced. Check out the results here. The funniest part of the awards is the prizes offered. Blogger, owned by Google (worth about a jazillion dollars), won a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate, cash prizes totalling $40.12, and a tote bag. Google’s shareholders must be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )On the Pixoh web site, you can import pictures from Flickr or any website, then edit them online. The site allows users to crop, rotate and resize images, before saving them in various formats including JPG, PNG, PDF, and BMP. This is a nice web application that’s very usable right now, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Minti is a Social networking site where parents can give and receive advice. This is a very nice looking web design, and the site itself is easy to use. You can head straight for the Popular Advice page to see the generally high quality of the content. Here’s more about the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The AJAX Translator does realtime translation of any entered text. Just start typing, and your words are translated into another language — as you type! Very cool. Supported languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and French.
AjaxTrans
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Google has purchased Upstartle, the company responsible for Writely,the popular online word processor. The Writely web site has stopped accepting new signups until the application has been moved to Google’s servers.
Google is certainly going in interesting directions. We assume Google sees online applications as eventually displacing local installs, and the company wants to [...]
MyEmail.com lets users access their POP3 email account from any computer. There’s no signup process, just enter your email address and email password, and MyEmail.com figures out the rest. The interface is clean, with lots of white space. The color scheme is more than a little reminiscent of Gmail, but the interface [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )iPower.com has a good deal on domain names. They charge just $2.95 for the first year for any domain extension they offer (.com, .net, etc.). After the first year, the cost goes up to $8.25 a year, which is still a competitive rate.
[cross posted on TechLizard.com]
With Ta-Da, make and save simple to-do lists online. You can even make to-do lists for other people, share your to-do lists, and access lists via an RSS feed.
Ta-Da is a simple application that does one thing very well, and does it for free. If you need more time management or project management [...]
Whether on the computer, on paper, or via hand-held games, it seems everyone is playing Sudoku. LogicGamesOnline.com offers a very nice online version. Just be careful…it’s addictive, and harder than it looks. A friend discovered Sudoku today (after we printed off one of these for her), and she went to the bookstore [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Inbox.com provides free email with 2 GB of storage. The email address you’ll get is short and easy to remember: you@inbox.com, and the email interface is both clean and functional. The 2 GB of space can also be used for uploading and saving files (online file storage). A desktop notifier [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )According to reports, Google may be planning a free service called “GDrive” to offer online file storage — wth the ulimate goal of offering unlimited file storage. It looks like Google ultimately wants to store everything on their computers. Sounds cool, but why do we suddenly have visions of the Matrix popping into [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Sending someone a large file has always been a hassle. Most email services (including Gmail) have file size limits topping out at about 10 megabytes.
Several new web sites allow you to send files up to 1 gigabyte. You’re not actually ’sending’ a file at all — you’re uploading it to a server. [...]
There are plenty of online bookmark managers out there. Our biggest beef with the current favorite, del.icio.us, is the whole cute “see, our web address is a word” thing. You not only have to know how to spell “delicious”, but you also have to remember where to put the periods. Insanity!
Two good [...]
Gmail truly owns online email.  We especially like the way it groups sent emails and replies into conversational threads. And Gmail is far better at filtering out spam than any other web account we’ve ever had. Very cool.
If only Gmail were a little prettier. The interface is just drab and plain. Not like AIM Mail, which has a [...]
Newsvine is a new site where people can go to “read, write, and discuss the news.” This is a very nicely designed community news site, with lots of fresh content. Newswire stories are presented alongside member contributions, and content is categorized and tagged to make finding stories of interest a piece of cake. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Box.net is a great new site that let’s you store files online. An account with 1 gigabyte of storage is free. The free account let’s you share files with other box.net members, or upgrade to a paid account and share files with anyone via a public link (which can be password protected). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )ABC tv shows ‘Lost’, ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ will be offered as free downloads as soon as May of this year. The catch? Commercials. It looks like you’ll still be able to buy the commercial-free versions on itunes. Read more at ClickZ.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Business 2.0 magazine has taken a look at some of the hot new ‘Web 2.0′ startups, what they have to offer, and the potential they have for changing the internet. Read “The Next Net 25″ here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Jeeves has disappeared.� AskJeeves.com is now just Ask.com, and is hoping to rebrand itself as a serious search contender in the crowded search space dominated by google.com.� � From the ask.com web site:
Where’s Jeeves?
After ten years of dutifully serving a growing population of internet users, Jeeves decided to step down as the face of [...]
Wikipedia has posted its millionth english language article, a very informative piece about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland.
In celebration of this milestone, no iPods will be given away.
Obligatory press release here. And a more interesting Wikipedia article here (unless you happen to really like trains and/or live in Glasgow, Scotland)
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