Category: Technology

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3/24/2006 · 3 min read

Newsvine

On March first a great little website called Newsvine opened their doors to the public. I was fortunate enough to get a beta invite to the site and have been playing with it for quite a while now.…

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3/19/2006 · 1 min read

ONTV & Democracy Video Players

Over the past few months I’ve run across a few of these video player/aggregator applications. A couple of the better ones I’ve found have been ONTV and Democracy. Both these players are more than just video players. They…

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3/6/2006 · 1 min read · 2 comments

Drive a Racecar Through New York

The new Windows Live Local Virtual Earth will let you take a spin through the streets of New York City (and any other city they cover) in a racecar, sports car, or on foot. This is kind of…

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2/17/2006 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Games

The smallest web games in the world! This image is not a thumbnail, that is actual size! Pong PacMan Asteroids Breakout TicTacToe Footy Life Pinball Simon F1 Racer Maze Space Drum Piano Fruit (slot machine) Arena Don’t go…

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2/10/2006 · 1 min read · 4 comments

Lemmings in a Browser

I guess this is along the same lines as my recent “old school games” posts. Someone has created a web version of Lemmings using DHTML. It has been quite some time since I’ve played this game! I started…

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1/27/2006 · 1 min read

Pickr and Fastr

If you build a tool off of Flickr, it apparently must end in the “er” sound spelled with only the letter “r”. Anyway, I ran across some more cool Flickr do-dads. ColorPickr ColorPickr is just a color palette…

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1/24/2006 · 1 min read

Bloggie Awards

The nominations for the 6th Annual Bloggie Awards have been released. There are several categories in which the nominated blogs are judged. BEST WEB APPLICATION FOR WEBLOGS BEST AUSTRALIAN OR NEW ZEALAND WEBLOG BEST ASIAN WEBLOG BEST AFRICAN…

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1/18/2006 · 4 min read

New Apple Stuff

I’m a bit behind on this (for obvious reasons) but am finally getting around to the new Apple announcements. Outside of the typical “sales are good – blah blah blah – iPods rule! – blah blah blah,” three…

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1/7/2006 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Two Cool New Flickr Toys

Slickr This is a really slick screensaver (hence the name) that pulls images from Flickr and does a nice Ken-Burns-Like fade between them in a screensaver. You can chose to only use your Flickr images, or certain groups,…

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1/3/2006 · 2 min read

Year End Best-of Lists

Happy New Year! The transition to Twenty-aught-six just wouldn’t be complete without some internet best-of lists. The best Web 2.0 software of 2005 The buzz word as of late has been Web 2.0, or web-based applications. Dion Hinchcliffe’s…

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12/19/2005 · 1 min read · 6 comments

More Old School Computer Games

Along the same lines as my last post about Sim City Classic Online, here is an entire virtual Apple IIgs computer that runs through your web browser (again, unfortunately only Internet Explorer). This one has some great old…

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12/14/2005 · 1 min read · 3 comments

Sim City Classic Online

I can remember playing Sim City on an old Mac Classic in black and white! That’s back when you had to wind up computers before turnign them on! Well, guess what… The Original Sim City is now available…

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11/30/2005 · 2 min read

Firefox 1.5 Released

Late yesterday the Mozilla Corporation released version 1.5 of the Firefox Browser just a little over a year after Firefox 1.0 was released. There are a number of notable new features (from the release notes): Automated update to…

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