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Remix YouTube videos with Yooouuutuuube

Emily Price — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:39:31 +0000

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.

The way YooouuuTuuube works is pretty simple. You enter the URL [...]

AT&T and Verizon do some trading

Emily Price — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:05:10 +0000

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 [...]

Podio and the Tonium Pacemaker: a new wave of PMPs

Emily Price — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:12:24 +0000

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 [...]

Could metered broadband be a good thing?

Emily Price — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:43:38 +0000

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 [...]

Google Earth helps find plane wreckage

Emily Price — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:32:43 +0000

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.

According [...]

Is Craigslist responsible for murder?

Emily Price — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:42:50 +0000

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 [...]

Is Comic Sans the “plague of our time”?

Emily Price — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:15:38 +0000

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 [...]

Google tries out picture captchas

Emily Price — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:04:20 +0000

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 [...]

Is Amazon censoring gay and lesbian-themed literature?

Emily Price — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:45:12 +0000

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 [...]

Blocking the Digg Toolbar-Why would anyone want to do it?

Emily Price — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:18:11 +0000

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 [...]