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Writely
Jan 30th
Writely is an online word processor, allowing you to create, save, delete, and generally manage documents — online.
The best part is that you will have your writely documents wherever you go. From the site:
- Nothing to download — your browser is all you need.
- Collaborate just by entering people’s e-mail addresses.
- Publish on the web or post to your blog with a click.
- Pick exactly who can access your documents.
- Upload from Word/OpenOffice & save to your desktop.
- Edit your documents anytime, from anywhere.
You can use it for:
- Meeting notes, Reports, technical specs
- Sign-up sheets, proposals and much more…
Here’s how Writely explains More >
Recolorize Black & White Photos
Jan 25th
Check out Recolored, it’s a great program that will colorize black and white photos according to the monochrome shading.
You can colorize the whole image, or just certain parts. All you do is mark the area you want colorized, and then Recolorize will colorize the selected area for you. Check it out!
Jesse
Mozilla Firefox, without the mouse.
Jan 23rd
Learning to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts to reduce your trips to the mouse can lead to a much more fulfilling web browsing experience, especially at those times that your mouse just isn’t doing the trick.
Okay, you got me. I have, on occasion (read: often), neglected to charge my wireless mouse for long enough that, when it’s time to get posting, I find myself totally mouse-less.
Now you’re thinking, “What, just because this wire-hating jerk can’t remember to put their mouse on the charger every now and then, I’m supposed to get all excited about the idea of using Firefox without a More >
Windows Live! Mail without an invite
Dec 31st
You can get a Windows Live Mail! account for free. It’s a small exploit that was discovered by someone and it really works. Alright, let’s start!
1) Open up Internet Explorer. MSN likes Internet Explorer, and hates Firefox. 2) For this to work, you must be signed out of MSN. Go to the MSN Homepage, and double check you are signed out. 3) Copy this URL to Internet Explorer: Right Click On Here -> Copy 4) You should be redirected to another URL (Another URL to login). Sign in. 5) You should see the regular hotmail once signed in. 6) Once you More >
Google Paying for Firefox Installs
Nov 6th
Yahoo Maps pranks Google
Nov 6th
Found this hilarious article over at Sillicon Valley Sleuth. I read it myeslf and it is absolutely hilarious. Enjoy.
Yahoo engineers apparently couldn’t help themselves. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed “The Dude’s Fish Store” at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA.
The address is better known as the headquarters for Yahoo’s competitor Google.
Yahoo claimed to have further information (screenshot here) about the store, listing hours of operation (only open in summer) and an assortment of fish, hamsters, gold fish, snakes and spiders. Languages spoken are German and Russian.
The store even has a basic website More >
Cool Google hack with Digital Cameras
Nov 5th
Here’s a fun thing to play around with, if you’re bored at 3am. Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them. So by clicking this link you can see the first photo taken by someone with their new camera or newly formatted card for some cameras, this is what it looks like when thousands of Sony cameras lose their photo-virginity.
Here’s some filenames for various other cameras:
IMG_0001.JPG is the equivalent for Canon cameras. More >