People just keep thinking of cool things to do with Flickr. Marcos Weskamp has taken the Flickr API and put together a cool social networking graph thingy. (great description huh?). What it does is allow you to see the relationship between Flickr contacts. Enter your Flickr e-mail address and it you’ll see a sort of… Read more »
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Google Maps
You knew it was just a matter of time before Google got into the online maps and directions business (especially with their Google Local tool and thier purchase of keyhole last year). They have officially released (in beta) Google Maps with a slick interface that you would expect from the search company. They have done… Read more »
iLife ’84
Who needs the new iLife ’05 when there is iLife ’84 ! Hopefully you’ve got a machine the can run it. System Requirements: Macintosh computer with a Motorola 68000 processor 8 MHz or faster required for GarageBand 8 MHz or faster required for GarageBand software instruments 8 MHz or faster required for iDISC 512 KB… Read more »
MSN Launches Search Tool
Good ole Microsoft has officially launched their search tool: http://search.msn.com The results seem pretty solid, but I think I’ll stick with Google for the time being.
TargetAlert Extension for Firefox
While reading a post from YourTotalSite.com about web designers not marking their PDF files, so you inadvertently click a link having to wait for the excruciatingly slow PDF plug-in to open. One of the comments recommended a Firefox plug-in called TargetAlert which will add a little icon beside all links to external documents (Word, Excel,… Read more »
Google Releases TV/Video Search
Google released a beta of their new TV/Video search yesterday. This new search allows you to search the content of recent TV shows. Your results will be presented with thumbnail images of the show along with a short transcript of the clip. I did a quick search for mentos, and it seems like they’ve used… Read more »
Face Transformer
Ever wondered what you’d look like as an ape? The Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer is a java application where you can upload a picture of yourself and then do all kinds of cool stuff to it. You can transform your face into all sorts of different forms: baby child teenage young adult older adult afro-… Read more »
Picasa 2.0 Released
Google has just released a new version of their photo management software, Picasa 2.0. New Features include: Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa Make a label Add a star rating Keep one picture in multiple albums Password-protect collections Improved Basic Fixes for images 12 new visual effects to improve your photos Captions that stay… Read more »
New Round of Apple Goodies
Apple released a slew of new products today at MacWorld San Francisco. iPod Shuffle This is the flash based iPod that has been rumored for a few weeks now. It’s no bigger than a pack of gum and it comes in two sizes: 512 MB ($99) and 1GB ($149). There is no screens since the… Read more »
Using Google to Find Web/Security Cameras
There have been some neat Google tricks popping up lately (first seen on boingboing) to find web/security cams on the web. Some web cams that haven’t been secured have a specific syntax in their URL that Google has indexed and are searchable. Here are a few Google searches for cams: Search 1 Search 2 (you… Read more »
Need a last minute gift idea?
With just a short while left before Christmas, there isn’t much time left for gift shopping. Luckily Google comes through yet again. You can “Give the Gift of Google” this year. They provide a download of all their software and a lovely image to print for the CD they’re burned on. They also provide a… Read more »
Flickr’s Mappr!
Flickr, the super cool photo organization/sharing/tagging/viewing/playing site has opened up a beta of their new tool called mappr. Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. What it does (or will do eventually) is take the photos from Flickr and geographically map them to a U. S. map (the… Read more »
Yahoo Maps Now Show Traffic Information
Fortunately I don’t live in a large enough city where I have to worry about traffic too much, but if I did the new Traffic on Yahoo! Maps would sure come in handy. They currently cover about 45 US cities with live traffic information that includes traffic speed on certain roads and accidents and lane… Read more »
The Alphabet According to Google
Sombody has put together The Suggested Google Alphabet based on the term that first comes up for each letter of the alphabet in Google Suggest. The best thing is… it checks each time you load the page, so if Google changes, it does too.
My Trip to the Apple Store
This past Saturday I braved the holiday crowds madness at the Jordan Creek Mall in Des Moines. I was doing a little Christmas shopping but only really stopped at three stores in the entire mall. One of those stores happened to be the new Apple Store. This is the second Apple Store that I’ve been… Read more »
