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. It has quickly become my news outlet of choice on the web. Now you’re probably asking yourselves,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Technology
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 both present themselves as internet television and provide a nice directory of videos all viewable right inside… Read more »
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 a novel way of showing the street-level photos they’ve had up for a while now as part… Read more »
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 blind playing!
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 playing and got hooked on it last night making it all the way to level 11. I… Read more »
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 that pulls images from Flickr based on the color that you chose. Fastr Fastr is actually a… Read more »
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 OR MIDDLE EASTERN WEBLOG BEST EUROPEAN WEBLOG BEST BRITISH OR IRISH WEBLOG BEST LATIN AMERICAN WEBLOG BEST… Read more »
It’s About Freakin’ Time Gmail!
Gmail launched (invite only) in the Spring of 2004. Why has it taken them this long to FINALLY put in a delete button. It probably took some developer 15 minutes to write. Yeesh… about time!
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 big announcements were made. iLife/iWork Upgrades Apple rev’ed the iLife and iWork suites. For most of the… Read more »
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, or just random photos (that’s what I’ve got mine set on). Retrievr This is just a cool… Read more »
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 has put together a long list of what he calls the best Web 2.0 apps of 2005…. Read more »
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 games for the IIgs. And yes, it even includes Oregon Trail.
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 (in all its glory) to play on the web. Maxis has made the game available again for… Read more »
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 streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be… Read more »
Geek Gift Guides
I guess I’m a day late for the newly coined “Cyber Monday,” but I’ve put together a collection of geek holiday gift guides, for that hard to buy for person on your list this year. Wired Magazine: Ultimate Geek Gift Guide Make Magazine Gift Guide Cnet Holiday Gift Guide 2005 Ars Technica 2005 Holiday Shopping… Read more »
