In case you missed them, below is a summary of the past weeks posts on this blog.
Yahoo TV now works with Tivo Series 3
The Yahoo TV Guide site has allowed you to set up recordings on your Tivo Series 2 for a while now, but you couldn't with Series 3 Tivo's. Well now that has changed. They also added a few other features to the site. Features Added according to the Yahoo TV Blog TiVo Series 2 and TiVo…
Teacher Tech: Free Powerpoint Slides for Teachers
This is the first of a few posts I'll be making that have a focus on helping teachers with technology. Many of these will be relavent to everyone - but they will have an extra focus for the teachers. My wife is an American History teacher and is working on building a set of powerpoint…
Streaming Media Included in Billboard Hot 100 Chart
Another sign that Streaming Media has more than arrived. Billboard has expanded their Hott 100 chart to include streaming media Data. From the paidContent.org blog: Under the new Billboard Hot 100 formula, radio play will average about 55 percent of the chart’s total points, digital for about 40…
Awesome Flash Presentation for a Photo Gallery
This is one of the more unique uses of Flash for an online photo gallery I've seen. As you move your cursor around the screen, the image changes around your cursor. It loops through a certain set of photos each time you move your cursor around. Video of the concept below or check out the link…
Skyscraper Photo PC - Stunning Digital Picture Frame
Jeffrey Stephenson has created one of the most beautiful digital photo frames I've ever seen. He calls it the Skyscraper Photo PC. The design is based on a 1931 Hammond Gregory clock, and made the casing for the frame entirely of basswood with a mahoganny veneer. The PC innards… Crop Multiple Images At Once with JPEGCrops
If you have a lot of digital pictures and would like to crop more than one at a time, JPEGCrops is the best freeware option for you. This program lets you maintain the aspect ratio, but still crop your photos to only leave the exact portion of the photo you want to keep. With JPEGCrops, you can use…
Slashdot Tries to Be Digg with their Firehose
For quite a long time, slashdot has been outplayed by digg and even reditt as a social tech news site. Slashdot made their site too difficult for a story to make it to their homepage and thrived on insulting any story submissions that weren't by their own "club" of long-time users. To…
Why Netflix Has Already Won The DVD Rental War
There's been a great deal of discussion recently about how Netflix is struggling with its continued competition with Blockbuster and the online movie streaming sites. With the recent hit Netflix stock took (it hit its lowest point in over two years), lowering it's monthly fees by $1.00 and…
Travel Hack: Get Free Wireless at Airports in August
Dan over at the UneasySilence blog tells you how to take advantage of Boingo's offer for free wireless at select airports in August. Note the offer is really just for those elite iPhone users, but he shows you how to make it work with any wifi device. It's available at the following…
Track Conversations with Commentful
I was reading a post by Robert Scoble today about how he has been using CoComment to track his comments he posts across the web, but isn't happy with the way it won't always allow his comments to upload to other sites/blogs and instead gives him an error message when CoComment is down. He…
Search Engine Trick: Easter Eggs
I have two search engine " easter eggs " for you. First a new one (for me at least) thanks to Google Blogoscoped: Enter number of horns on a unicorn into Google to see what Google Calculater says.... For an older one that many of you probably already know, go to the Yahoo search engine…
Walk Your iPod Dog: An iPod Dock for Your Pet
I've seen a lot of iPod docks in my day, but this is a first. Kevin O'Callaghan & Wei Lieh Lee have designed this ipod doc that you put on your dog. Now your dog is a walking, peeing iPod Jukebox.... It's just a concept right now, but it wouldn't surprise me to see someone…
Timewaster: Internet Pong
Time-waster of the day: Internet Pong. It's simple, you use your mouse to control both sides. It doesn't keep score but its somehow still entertaining. LINK
LCD Monitor Hack: Mod your LCD Monitor to Fashionable
Are you getting bored with your old, same-as-everyone-elses LCD computer monitor? Well, DerangedMoose7 has written an instructable showing how he converted this LCD monitor: into this more modern-looking, cool LCD. using some plexiglas, a metal frame and some elbow grease. It really does look…
Polar Clock Flash Screen Saver
PolarClock 3.0 is a hypnotic screen saver for Mac and Windows. It also can be used as a dashboard widget for OSX Tiger. This screen saver is based on a color wheel of sorts, and developed in Flash. Polar Clock represents the passing of time on that wheel showing year, month, day hour minutes and…
iPhone Poll Results
My iPhone Poll has finally concluded. I put this poll on the site back before the iPhone was released and probably ran it a little too long, but it was an experiment to test the Blogger Draft's new polling feature . It works fairly well although it doesn't look perfect on Internet Explorer.…
Roll Your Own Flickr Clone - Hosting Your Photo Site For Free
While I know the masses (myself included) use and love Flickr , Zooomr and Picasa Web Photo hosting sites; there are some of you who want a photo site that is uniquely yours. You want to roll your own Flickr-Clone type site. Enter Gallery2 . Gallery2 is an free, open source, PHP web-based photo…
Refurbish a Dead, Seagate External Hard Drive
Do you have an external Seagate Hard Drive like this one? If the hard drive dies, you shouldn't throw the whole thing away. Rather than buying a whole new external hard drive, you can save money by opening up that external hard drive and replacing the dead, internal drive with a newer one.…
Yahoo TV now works with Tivo Series 3
The Yahoo TV Guide site has allowed you to set up recordings on your Tivo Series 2 for a while now, but you couldn't with Series 3 Tivo's. Well now that has changed. They also added a few other features to the site. Features Added according to the Yahoo TV Blog TiVo Series 2 and TiVo…
Teacher Tech: Free Powerpoint Slides for Teachers
This is the first of a few posts I'll be making that have a focus on helping teachers with technology. Many of these will be relavent to everyone - but they will have an extra focus for the teachers. My wife is an American History teacher and is working on building a set of powerpoint…
Streaming Media Included in Billboard Hot 100 Chart
Another sign that Streaming Media has more than arrived. Billboard has expanded their Hott 100 chart to include streaming media Data. From the paidContent.org blog: Under the new Billboard Hot 100 formula, radio play will average about 55 percent of the chart’s total points, digital for about 40…
Awesome Flash Presentation for a Photo Gallery
This is one of the more unique uses of Flash for an online photo gallery I've seen. As you move your cursor around the screen, the image changes around your cursor. It loops through a certain set of photos each time you move your cursor around. Video of the concept below or check out the link…
Skyscraper Photo PC - Stunning Digital Picture Frame
Jeffrey Stephenson has created one of the most beautiful digital photo frames I've ever seen. He calls it the Skyscraper Photo PC. The design is based on a 1931 Hammond Gregory clock, and made the casing for the frame entirely of basswood with a mahoganny veneer. The PC innards… Crop Multiple Images At Once with JPEGCrops
If you have a lot of digital pictures and would like to crop more than one at a time, JPEGCrops is the best freeware option for you. This program lets you maintain the aspect ratio, but still crop your photos to only leave the exact portion of the photo you want to keep. With JPEGCrops, you can use…
Slashdot Tries to Be Digg with their Firehose
For quite a long time, slashdot has been outplayed by digg and even reditt as a social tech news site. Slashdot made their site too difficult for a story to make it to their homepage and thrived on insulting any story submissions that weren't by their own "club" of long-time users. To…
Why Netflix Has Already Won The DVD Rental War
There's been a great deal of discussion recently about how Netflix is struggling with its continued competition with Blockbuster and the online movie streaming sites. With the recent hit Netflix stock took (it hit its lowest point in over two years), lowering it's monthly fees by $1.00 and…
Travel Hack: Get Free Wireless at Airports in August
Dan over at the UneasySilence blog tells you how to take advantage of Boingo's offer for free wireless at select airports in August. Note the offer is really just for those elite iPhone users, but he shows you how to make it work with any wifi device. It's available at the following…
Track Conversations with Commentful
I was reading a post by Robert Scoble today about how he has been using CoComment to track his comments he posts across the web, but isn't happy with the way it won't always allow his comments to upload to other sites/blogs and instead gives him an error message when CoComment is down. He…
Search Engine Trick: Easter Eggs
I have two search engine " easter eggs " for you. First a new one (for me at least) thanks to Google Blogoscoped: Enter number of horns on a unicorn into Google to see what Google Calculater says.... For an older one that many of you probably already know, go to the Yahoo search engine…
Walk Your iPod Dog: An iPod Dock for Your Pet
I've seen a lot of iPod docks in my day, but this is a first. Kevin O'Callaghan & Wei Lieh Lee have designed this ipod doc that you put on your dog. Now your dog is a walking, peeing iPod Jukebox.... It's just a concept right now, but it wouldn't surprise me to see someone…
Timewaster: Internet Pong
Time-waster of the day: Internet Pong. It's simple, you use your mouse to control both sides. It doesn't keep score but its somehow still entertaining. LINK
LCD Monitor Hack: Mod your LCD Monitor to Fashionable
Are you getting bored with your old, same-as-everyone-elses LCD computer monitor? Well, DerangedMoose7 has written an instructable showing how he converted this LCD monitor: into this more modern-looking, cool LCD. using some plexiglas, a metal frame and some elbow grease. It really does look…
Polar Clock Flash Screen Saver
PolarClock 3.0 is a hypnotic screen saver for Mac and Windows. It also can be used as a dashboard widget for OSX Tiger. This screen saver is based on a color wheel of sorts, and developed in Flash. Polar Clock represents the passing of time on that wheel showing year, month, day hour minutes and…
iPhone Poll Results
My iPhone Poll has finally concluded. I put this poll on the site back before the iPhone was released and probably ran it a little too long, but it was an experiment to test the Blogger Draft's new polling feature . It works fairly well although it doesn't look perfect on Internet Explorer.…
Roll Your Own Flickr Clone - Hosting Your Photo Site For Free
While I know the masses (myself included) use and love Flickr , Zooomr and Picasa Web Photo hosting sites; there are some of you who want a photo site that is uniquely yours. You want to roll your own Flickr-Clone type site. Enter Gallery2 . Gallery2 is an free, open source, PHP web-based photo…
Refurbish a Dead, Seagate External Hard Drive
Do you have an external Seagate Hard Drive like this one? If the hard drive dies, you shouldn't throw the whole thing away. Rather than buying a whole new external hard drive, you can save money by opening up that external hard drive and replacing the dead, internal drive with a newer one.…
