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June 01, 2008

Subprime Foreclosures Illustrated

The New York Times designed this excellent chart to illustrate the subprime foreclosure mess.

Subprime Foreclosures

May 27, 2008

Tag Galaxy - a new way to search Flickr

Tag Galaxy provides a very visual tag-based search tool for Flickr - check it out. IMO Google really needs to start working (they probably already are) on more visual search tools like this for the Web. Browsing search results like this provides a better, or at least more interesting, user experience. If Google is working on this kind of thing - they should start releasing some of the work as Google Labs projects. DIGG also sports cool visual search tools. WARNING: Tag Galaxy was built by Germans so watch out for David Hasselhoff avatars.

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May 23, 2008

TransferBigFiles

TransferBigFiles - another cool way to quickly transfer a large file.

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May 14, 2008

Drop.io

Drop.io looks like a really cool tool for simple large file transfers. File transfers up to 100mb are free.

Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops."

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May 13, 2008

Searching Gmail

Great tips on using search operators to improve your Gmail searches. Now if I could only remember a few of these.

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Lists of Twittering journalists - good people to Follow

Thanks to my-creativeteam.com for lists of Twittering journalists part 1 and part 2. I'm following a few of these now.

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Viewzi

Viewzi, a new visual search engine, looks promising. I'm surprised Google isn't playing around with visual search more - text heavy search results aren't going to last forever.

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The airline industry is stupid ...

Surf Report: Ed Cone talks about the stupid airline industry. I agree with Ed - the airline industry is stupid. I recently had a similar experience on a United flight but I was one of the guys that paid (in advance) for the Economy Plus seat. Tall people (I'm 6' 5") think about these kinds of things in advance ; ) By the way Ed - I would have been pretty pissed if they let people move into the Economy Plus seats that didn't pay for the extra inch. I'm pretty sure smarter airlines will start to emerge from this mess.

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My money is on Craigslist

eBay Vs. Craigslist - my money is on Craigslist

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More button just added to Google Maps

A *More* button was just added to Google Maps. Clicking *More* gives you the option of displaying Wikipedia articles associated with the map you're viewing and photos from Panoramio. Google Maps just gets better. Love it. Read more about the *More* button.

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firefly demo on scripting.com

Wow, take a look at the firefly demo Dave Winer has up on scripting.com - neat. firefly makes it easy for you to interact with the other people viewing the web page you're on.

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May 12, 2008

New Google Reader for iPhone

Cool new Google Reader iPhone interface available at http://www.google.com/reader/i/ Big improvement over the previous version.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.apple, tech.commentary.iphone, tech.commentary.mobile
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R2-D2 Projector / Awsome

R2-D2 projector featured on Gizmodo. Awesome. Watch the video.

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April 03, 2008

South Park Internet Stars Massacre

Internet Stars slaughtered in South Park episode. Farewell Tron Guy.

Update: Bummer, they pulled the video.

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March 24, 2008

twhirl

Noah pointed me towards twhirl - an Adobe Air Twitter client. Pretty cool implementation. I'm still a big fan of the Firefox Twitterbar add-on for its' simplicity.

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June 06, 2007

Speed Demon Photography

Surf over to Crestock.com and check out the amazing action shots submitted for thier photo contest. Sprinting greyhound by EcoShow is my favorite.

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November 27, 2006

demoreel postproded

Discovered at Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection whiile surfing the bits.

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October 20, 2006

Quick Tabs in IE 7

Using Quick Tabs in Internet Explorer 7.0 [Microsoft]

Tab through thumbnail images of your opens tabs - helful if you frequently have multiple tabs open in IE.

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Crazy Frog Bros

Crazy Frog Bros! The kid in the red shirt dances just like me! 998,848 views as of 10/20/06 - did they make any money from this? 50 cents a view and they'd be rich - that's 1/6 the cost of a ringtone. A lot of companies are profitting from citizen journalism.

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October 18, 2006

Sound Sleeping

Relaxing music, sleep-aids, anxiety reduction, relaxation tools

Sound Sleeping is a very cool app. if you're one of those people that love white-noise machines. It's free, it runs in your browser, and you can even mix up the white-noise - bumpin up the gulls and pimpin the song-birds.

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September 12, 2006

Startup Review

Startup Review, a blog that profiles successful web companies, is a refreshing read. Sometimes the endless flow of Web 2.0 companies (here today, gone tomorrow) profiled on TechCrunch leaves me feeling a bit overwhelmed, or should I say underwhelmed. Startup Review caught Guy Kawasaki's attention.

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July 26, 2006

TemplateMonster.com

TemplateMonster

Wow, TemplateMonster.com is sporting a very slick collection of templates for websites, flash applications, and a lot more. Pimp your WordPress powered site. Didn't see any templates for MovableType powered sites. I like how every template has a "Unique Price" - a price, that if paid, yanks the template off the site.

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July 13, 2006

Virtual PC 2004 Now Free!

Virtual PC 2004 is now free. Go download it now. Or, take a look at the DEMO.

You can use Virtual PC to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same computer. I use Virtual PC at the office to test our software on multiple operating systems. I can be in my work environment and have a test environment running in a separate window. It's pretty slick - I love being able to install all kinds of software without messing up my main work environment.

Why is Microsoft giving Virtual PC away?

Microsoft views virtualization as a tool. Virtual PC is used for a number of reasons, but the primary reasons are for development and test scenarios and application compatibility. We already provide Virtual PC as part of MSDN for development and test users, and given that all our other application compatibility tools are free - charging for Virtual PC did not make much sense. - Virtual PC Guy's Weblog MSDN

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July 11, 2006

The Lost MAC Ads

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July 08, 2006

Surf Report

Surf Report: Rides I want to remember and share.

zefrank show

the show with zefrank, witty, informative, hardly work safe - amazed he can do it as often as he does.

Spot & Roy Boy - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

short-run t-shirts came back into my attention space this week - a random link to deezteez.com got me started and a threadless shirt graphics competition my brothers are participating kept me rolling. original t-shirts are a cool way to express yourself - I have a few.

jumpcut (create and share short movies on-line) caught my interest for oh about five minutes thanks to a jumpcut shirt that came in my schwag bag this month. my wife wants me to cancel the subscription - I like the shirts - she'll win.

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