Exhausted from spending time with Mom this weekend and need a little entertainment? Check out YooouuuTuuube.com, a new YouTube video remixer that allows you to watch every frame of a video on YouTube simultaneously.
Following the purchase of Alltel, it was no secret that Verizon would have to unload some of its new properties in order to keep things legal. Now AT&T – just as expected – has offered take some of that additional property off Verizon’s hands to the tune of several million dollars. The end result of the deal is that the two wireless companies essentially swap properties, with a little cash thrown into the mix.
Personal music players (PMPs) are exceptionally popular these days. Most music lovers are now in possession of an iPod or some other PMP that plays digital music. This week two new PMP’s were announced that both add an interesting twist to your traditional MP3 player; one letting you listen to tunes on your bicycle, and the other allowing you to remix tracks on built-in turntables while you’re on the go.
Several broadband companies have started talking about putting caps on the amount of bandwidth each customer can use. Having a broadband cap, or metered broadband would mean that rather than just paying one price for unlimited use of the Internet, you would instead pay for the amount of Internet you use (similar to your electric bill), or you would be limited to using a certain amount of bandwidth each month.
On September 24, 2006 a two-passenger plane carrying Marcy Randolph and William Westover disappeared which the two were on a sightseeing trip in Arizona. After searching for two and a half years the wreckage of the plane was finally found, with the help of Google Earth.
Last Thursday Philip Markoff was arrested for killing a woman he met through the popular classifieds site Craigslist. Boston police suspect Markoff was meeting women through the site in order to rob them and collect money to pay off a large gambling debt. In the wake of the arrest, the founders of Craigslist, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, were interviewed by ABC’s Nightline on their thoughts on the entire situation and how it will affect Craigslist.
Fifteen years ago Vincent Connare was working at Microsoft and created the typeface Comic Sans. The comic strip inspired typeface quickly found its way onto signs, school papers, and restaurant menus and has become a pretty common typeface to see almost everywhere. Close to a decade ago a group started with the sole mission of banning the typeface, and now thanks to the Internet they are growing stronger.
Chances are at some point during your Web travels you’ve run across a captcha. You know, one of those things where a phrase or word are written out in what appears to be handwriting and you have to type the word that you see written into a box in order to move on in filling out a form, making a purchase, or signing up for something? The idea behind a captcha is that they make sure there is actually a real person trying to do whatever it is you’re doing rather than an automated computer system. It turns out automated computer systems have started to catch up with the traditional captcha method, so now Google has come up with a new method to keep out the computers.
When shopping on Amazon, many people use a particular books ranking to determine whether or not to purchase it. A book’s ranking is determined by how many overall copies it has sold, and the more popular a book is, the more likely it will be to sell more copies. Recently, Amazon has decided to stop ranking titles that are categorized as “adult” titles, which includes a substantial amount of gay and lesbian books that are not adult in nature.
Last week the social news site Digg released a DiggBar tool that gives users a new way to use Digg. At first glance the service seems to be a win for everyone, the tool bar lets makes it easy to Digg Web pages, and allows users browse new content quickly, theoretically driving more traffic to Web sites that people find popular. Many Web publishers however aren’t very happy with the service, so much so in fact that they’ve decided to block it from being used on their sites.
Almost everyone has probably wished at some point they could make a million dollars quick, and sit back and relax. It looks like some people, even in this bad economy, are finding ways to make that dream turn into a reality- by creating iPhone applications.
It looks like the Palm Pre could be hitting store shelves next month. According to tweets by Jim Van, the CEO of Logicom the Pre is going to be released on April 30th of this year, making its debut before the next iPhone.
Could Mom’s get into Twitter? While there are undoubtedly tons of mom’s already in existence on Twitter, a new microblogging site called “Today’s Mama” popped up this week offering Twitter like functionality JUST for moms.
If you’re not a fan of the new Facebook redesign, you’re not alone. It seems that even Facebook employees are lashing out against the site’s new Twitter-like redesign. So what’s Mark Zuckerburg’s response? He doesn’t care.
The New York Times is reportedly considering charging users for online access to the paper. At an event this weekend, a paper spokesperson indicated that the NYT was looking at the possibility of charging for some of its online content, whether that would mean the news that most people read or special select content is unclear.
Last summer Facebook announced plans to bring Facebook Connect to the iPhone. And now almost a year later, those plans have finally come to fruition with the first apps launching on the service this weekend.
With music labels cracking down on online music streaming sites it’s difficult to find one that can let you listen to the tracks that you want, when you want them. Muziic is a new music player created by a 15-year-old, which may be just what we’ve all been looking for.
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