Archive for March, 2006
Nick.com Game of the Week
Posted by Joe on March 19, 2006 · Comments Off
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.
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New iPod blog
Posted by Joe on March 17, 2006 · Comments Off
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.
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iTunes sells first full-length movie
Posted by Joe on March 15, 2006 · Comments Off
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 it was good, too).� But $10 seems a bit pricy, considering the movie is locked into Apple products.
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Amazon S3 Online Storage
Posted by Joe on March 14, 2006 · Comments Off
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 storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.
An S3 account can hold up to 5 gigabytes of data. Here’s the princing [...]
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Star Wars Holiday Special
Posted by Joe on March 13, 2006 · Comments Off
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 here. We dare you. Hey, it wasn’t all bad. Diahann Carroll was looking pretty good.
And after you watch the special, check out the unofficial home page.
Hey, what’s Maude doing in the Cantina?
Quick, hand me my lightsaber!
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Bloggies
Posted by Joe on March 13, 2006 · Comments Off
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 ecstatic.
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Pixoh is picture perfect
Posted by Joe on March 12, 2006 · Comments Off
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 has a lot of potential for the future.
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New parenting site is Minti fresh
Posted by Joe on March 11, 2006 · Comments Off
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 site:
Minti is a virtual place where parents can visit anytime to share and gain valuable advice on parenting. The content is created by members in the form of articles. The articles are tagged, rated and commented on by the community to encourage the integrity and relevancy of the information created. Topics range [...]
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AJAX Translator
Posted by Joe on March 11, 2006 · Comments Off
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
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Google buys Writely
Posted by Joe on March 9, 2006 · Comments Off
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 be out in front…perhaps ahead of Microsoft, even.
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Access your POP3 with MyEmail.com
Posted by Joe on March 8, 2006 · Comments Off
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 is much less cluttered.
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Domain names – $2.95 for first year
Posted by Joe on March 8, 2006 · Comments Off
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]
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Keeping Track
Posted by Joe on March 8, 2006 · Comments Off
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 functionality than basic to-do lists, check out Basecamp (from the same company), which adds file-sharing, time tracking, and milestones.
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Sudoku — everyone’s doing it
Posted by Joe on March 8, 2006 · Comments Off
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 tonight to pick up a digest of the puzzles).
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inbox.com offers 2 gb for email or storage
Posted by Joe on March 6, 2006 · Comments Off
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 application is also offered as a free download.
The Inbox.com home page is also a serviceable web portal, with customizable links to news, weather and a web directory. Content boxes can be re-arranged by dragging and dropping.
There’s no advertising anywhere on inbox.com that we could find. While [...]
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GDrive
Posted by Joe on March 5, 2006 · Comments Off
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 our head?
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Mail Big Files
Posted by Joe on March 5, 2006 · Comments Off
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. Your recipient is then sent a link to download the file. The file-size limits of both your email account and your recipient’s email account are totally irrelevant.
This is a service area that’s rapidly growing and changing, but one good option at the moment is [...]
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Anti-Social Bookmarking
Posted by Joe on March 5, 2006 · Comments Off
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 bookmarking sites with shorter, more conventional names are furl.net and spurl.net. See how they both have “url” in the name? Clever, but still short and easy to remember. Not as clever, perhaps, as MyNameIsURL.com, but close (We see that someone has already registered [...]
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Gmail is awesome, but needs a new look
Posted by Joe on March 4, 2006 · Comments Off
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 very modern and clean look:
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In addition to being pretty, AIM Mail offers plenty of space — 2 gigs. In fact, the only thing we don’t like about the AIM Mail interface is the use of old-fashioned banner ads, as opposed to [...]
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Heard it on the Newsvine
Posted by Joe on March 3, 2006 · Comments Off
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. Mmmm, cake. (Sorry ’bout that, haven’t had dinner yet) Anyways, check out Newsvine.com. You can even register (for free) and start a glamorous career in web journalism.
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Online storage with box.net
Posted by Joe on March 3, 2006 · Comments Off
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). The interface is very slick and easy to use, and upload/download speeds seem to be good. With a box.net account, you may even be able to retire that old USB key.
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Free Desperate Houswives downloads
Posted by Joe on March 2, 2006 · Comments Off
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.
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25 new and innovative web startups
Posted by Joe on March 2, 2006 · Comments Off
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.
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RIP, Jeeves
Posted by Joe on March 2, 2006 · Comments Off
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 AskJeeves.com, and retire in style. Jeeves symbolized a traditional, at-your-service butler which made people feel comfortable and at home with asking any type of question.
As the web became more of a real-time utility for people, Jeeves’ [...]
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Wikipedia posts article # 1,000,000
Posted by Joe on March 2, 2006 · Comments Off
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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