Archive for February, 2008

links for 2008-02-08

iGoogleBar: Google Apps Bar with iGoogle Gadgets
iGoogleBar is a Firefox extension that adds Google Apps favicons to the Google Apps Bar, using them as triggers for the Apps’ respective iGoogle Gadgets.
(tags: firefox extension google igoogle apps applications widgets)

Text Messaging Privacy
(tags: Text Messaging Privacy)

ColorSchemer - Online Color Scheme Generator
Great way to choose a color scheme.
(tags: colors [...]

Origami Plane in Space Launch

Japanese origami experts have made a specially designed aircraft to be launched from the International Space Station.
BBC Video:

Google Local News

Google News has a new feature: custom localized news. Just visit the Google News homepage and scroll down to the “Local News” input box. Enter your location, click Add, and you’ll find a new navigation entry in the top left.

Go to:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-02-07-n63.html

links for 2008-02-07

Sharpening Up Your New HDTV
Forbes has but together a nice list things to do to adjust your new HDTV.
(tags: hdtv tv television calibration)

LiveNewsCameras.com - Beta Version
The idea behind this page is simple - to bring together the resources of Fox and other broadcasters around the world, and make it easy to find live streaming video [...]

Election ‘08 Leaderboard


links for 2008-02-06

Maintaining WordPress on SVN
First in a series of videos on maintaining Wordpress with SVN.
(tags: svn subversion wordpress)

Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
Don’t tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life
(tags: education [...]

Apple Launches How-To Site For New Mac Users

Apple has launched a subsection of its site that offers dozens of how-to videos to try to sway Windows users and to help new Mac customers get started.

Go to:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/macosx/

links for 2008-02-05

Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Google responds to the Microsoft bid for Yahoo. “This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.”
(tags: microsoft google yahoo merger business)

Birth of IPv6
Well tonight’s the night. For the [...]

links for 2008-02-04

Fun with highlights
This can’t be explained you just have to try it if you have Firefox or Safari.
(tags: firefox safari highlights)

DIY Camera Stabilizer

Here is a video that shows a handy way to help eliminate camera shake.
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