July 2008
38 posts
VidtoMP3 Converts Online Video Clips to MP3 [Mp3] →
YouTube, Google Video, and family are ripe with music videos whose soundtrack you’d love to add to your music collection, and VidtoMP3.com can do just that. Enter a video URL and it spits…
Ask a Jedi: Learning cfscript? →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke
Must look into this in more detail.
Robert asks:
In anticipation of the greater role CFSCRIPT will play in CF9, how is the best way, and what are the best resources,…
Here I Am Sends a Google Map Link to Your Location... →
iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application Here I Am uses your location-aware iPhone to pinpoint your position and share your whereabouts with a link to a Google Map. It’s a very simple…
iPhone Apps We Like: Here I Am Location Sender →
The idea of taking your current location and emailing it to one of your contacts is super simple, but super effective. If the recipient opens the resulting URL on their iPhone, it’ll pop open the…
Convince Your Site Visitors to Upgrade their Web... →
Old web browsers are not just insecure, they also pose a problem for web designers as they have to design sites while keeping the older versions in mind.
If you like to help…
New, blue, and better than ever →
Less is more.
Before
After
With the new look for Google Maps, you can do all of the same things, but without the extra clutter. Find businesses (creamery near palo…
Customs Could Search Your iPods For Pirated Music →
When will these people get a clue? News.com.au is reporting that the next time you travel with your iPod, those friendly customs officials could pull you aside, slap on the latex and give your…
Copy/Paste references caught loitering in iPhone... →
The ability to copy & paste is probably one of the most requested features still absent from the iPhone. Whenever word of an update gets out, it’s a safe bet that one of the first question…
A Better Interface for Google Bookmarks →
Google promotes a new interface for Google Bookmarks, as part of Google Notebook. A similar interface can be accessed directly from Google Notebook if you click on “Unfiled bookmarks”. The old…
Pound the pavement →
It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and when it’s not too hot, it feels like a waste of gorgeous weather to get behind the wheel or hop in a cab. Doubly so when you’re traveling to a city you’d…
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For... →
Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal…
The new iPhone IS a gaming platform →
As I drove my 5 year old son to school this morning in a wet, cold Melbourne winter morning, he sat in the car next to me playing Crash Bandicoot Nitro Card 3D on my less than 2 week old…
Last.fm iPhone App rides the georetarded fail... →
Good news today for Last.fm lovers, the official Last.fm iPhone application has been released…for some, as it doesn’t appear to be available outside of the United States and some part of…
Google My Maps →
(YouTube link)
A Google Maps application leads to mystery and intrigue. From The Vacationeers, the guys who brought you the video Google Maps. -Thanks, Andy!
10 Richest People of All Time and How They Made... →
Quick: who is the richest man of all time? Bill Gates? Warren Buffet? Not even close, though there’s no denying they’re very, very rich. The richest man of all time, when wealth is measured as a…
Western Spaghetti →
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Western Spaghetti is wonderful new stop-motion short from the geniuses at PES. You really should look through their entire portfolio. Link -Thanks, Jon Jason!
Free Sounds to Relax Your Brain Or Improve... →
I Dose has a collection of free sounds that, they say, can help relax your stressed brain or make it more alert and improve the concentration level.
These are basically Binaural…
Should Voicemail Die? [Reader Poll] →
Tech writer Michael Arrington wishes everyone would stop using voicemail because it takes too much time to listen to a message (versus reading it), and checking traditional voicemail is…
Energy from a Giant Rubber Snake →
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200-meter-long rubber snakes in the ocean could harness the power of waves to produce energy! The device is called the Anaconda, and is being tested by researchers at the…
gAttach Fully Integrates Gmail into the Windows... →
Windows only: Free Windows utility gAttach tightly integrates your web-based Gmail account into your operating system, fixing nearly every “Mail to” or “Send to” button and option to use a…
Find Who Has Access to Your Gmail Account →
After years of testing, Gmail has finally added a very useful security feature: tracking open sessions. If you log in to Gmail from more than one computer and you forget to sign out, you’ll be able…
Google Maps Tests Walking Directions →
Google Maps tests a new feature: walking directions. You can already get driving directions and, for a small number of locations, Google Maps has transit directions, but these directions are not…
Limeade with a Touch of Mint →
After one of the best July 4ths on record (70s in Sacramento in July? unbelievable) we’re gearing up for another heat wave. If the smoke clears enough for us to go outside again, I’ll make…
Techno Chicken →
(YouTube link)
This is just silly, but it made me smile. -via Arbroath
Why I’m Buying the 3G iPhone →
Allen Stern has another great video up on Centernetworks where he discusses why he’s not buying the 3G iPhone. I had to respond. If you’d like to leave a video response, use the embed to reply.
Italians choosing pasta over pizza →
National Geographic has a series of interesting articles about the global food crisis. Basically, the high cost of food is changing behaviors around the world, from Japanese bars to the slums of…
Optus fails to deliver on Australian iPhone plans →
iPhone pricing plans from Optus, one of the three Australian telco’s offering Apple’s iPhone July 11, have been revealed today, and local users won’t be happy.
iPhone in Australia has all the…
Google Talk Comes to the iPhone…And It’s Kinda... →
Fanfare: Google Talk is now available for the iPhone. It features a snazzy interface (is it possible to create a shoddy interface for the iPhone?) and almost everything you can do on the desktop…
Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Talk for the... →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke
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Tip: Set Gmail as your default email client in... →
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager For those of you using newly released Firefox 3, or willing to give it a try, you can take advantage of a new feature that lets you…
Agile Messenger Brings Tabbed IM [Featured... →
Jailbroken iPhones/iPod touches only: Agile Messenger isn’t the only multi-client app available for the iPhone, but it makes mobile messaging seriously convenient, and it’s pretty…
Italians choosing pasta over pizza →
National Geographic has a series of interesting articles about the global food crisis. Basically, the high cost of food is changing behaviors around the world, from Japanese bars to the slums of…
Guinness bestows download record on Firefox →
The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox.
Mozilla’s Download Day…
Supporting a faster, more accessible, more open... →
Posted by Carolyn Dalton, Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy - Australia & NZ Google’s services – web search, Gmail, Google Maps, and YouTube – help to connect millions of individuals,…
June 2008
35 posts
Seven unveils hobbled TiVo →
Many key features of TiVo, the much anticipated digital television recorder, will be disabled when it is launched at the end of the month.
Google learns to crawl Flash →
Posted by Ron Adler and Janis Stipins, Software Engineers Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners,…