2005 Archive

2005

236 posts

AvantGo for RSS

Seems a little clunky but perhaps worth a try if you already use AvantGo.

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Retouch

Sneaky magazine photoshop-fu revealed

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OptOutPrescreen.com

The offical credit industry site to remove yourself from the credit card/junk mail offer list - permanently.

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San Fransocial

'So you show up somewhere where there are other people you're going to "meet" and when you arrive, out come the laptops.' That's not always true, some of us order a drink before bringing out the laptop.

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A good place to drop off your old computer in the Bay Area. If you are out of area and still want to donate a laptop they will reimburse you for ground shipping.

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Leia's Metal Bikini

It's a shame Jabba isn't alive to see this. [via Cinematical]

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Web Two Point Oh!

Create your own Web 2.0 Company. Nice - my next venture will be Inftix, tag-based micropayments via flash!

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DRM Crippled CD: A bizarre tale in 4 parts

Long story short, CD crippling isn't the answer, especially when the question isn't clear. I've yet to be convinced that any DRM is good DRM.

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Cassette Jam '05

If you are what you eat, then the tape player in the Volvo I drove in college was a Maxell 90 II Metal.

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My Outsourced Life

A dig at Friedman's mustache, great writing and a tempting idea. [via Waxy]

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Hammertime @ Blogger

I still haven't gotten the back-story on his visit to Google today, but there he is hanging with Case.

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Google Reader

This is the project I've been working on for some months now. Give it a whirl!

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SaveMyAss.com

Of course if you need this service, you may need a seperate service to remind you to sign-up.

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Robertson issues Fatwa

Tell Robertson you don't remember assasination being advocated by Jesus.

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Google Talk

'Talk and IM with your friends for free'

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vedana: Fresh Gmail

Eric explains a cool new feature for Gmail that just went live.

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EasyEnvelopes

Great UI solution for printing envelopes [via TUAW]

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Lush Life West Sounds

Kanye West's The College Dropout mixed with the Beach Boys Pet Sounds.

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KMaps for Treo

Cool looking mapping program that uses Google Maps.

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PHP baby doll

Nice, but where's the Mens version?

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Odds Against 7even

I'm a sucker for a fake viral campaign, especially when it involves free music, ringtones or podcasts from indie bands.

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Calling All Luddites

Thomas Friedman in the NYTimes on the role of technology in the future of politics.

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BDN: Two Minor Updates

Blogger now has draft mode in the API! Such a big deal to a geek like me.

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'Email is for old folks'

danah boyd has been telling me this for over a year. The kids love their IM!

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AIM Fight

It was a close one but I must tip my hat to Anil and anyone in Google PR.

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Bush tried to aid Iraqi parties

Clearly this administration would have to produce a televised special with Jessica Simpson and Donald Trump singing and firing people with the intent of convincing the American people that they DID in fact mislead them before they would be removed from office.

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Change of Course

Wherein Aaron Swartz stops being a silly blogger and begins adhering to the rigid ethical standards of major media journalists.

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Karl Rove must go

Please petition the White House to ditch traitor Karl Rove.

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Cruise 'passionate about life'

Transcript from GMA shows Dr. Tom Cruise is either insane or a very good, but shameless self-promoter.

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The Great British Venn Diagram

Handy for those of you who aren't a geographical smarty pants like me. [via gwaldon.blogspot.com]

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Flylittlebird.org

Building collective wisdom from commencement speeches.

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Crack Creme

Catchy name, but I really don't want to rub this on my skin.

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Kremed! - CFO.com

The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme is a cautionary tale of ambition, greed, and inexperience.

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AutoBlogger

Letting you live your life one entry at a time.

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Blake Ross on Netscape 8 problems

My favorite line: if it's impossible for you to explain a feature to your users, ask yourself what the hell it's doing there.

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Digital Rebel Firmware Hack

I usually the first to try any sort of non-destructive hack but firmware level hacks make me nervous.

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Pac-Man Turns 25

I feel old! This was our generations horse-less carriage.

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GIMP for Windows

I never knew there were Win and Mac versions of GIMP.

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The Huffington Post

Celebrity blogging aggregated by Arianna Huffington. Great first post from Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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Beef Relief Patch

Viral spoof for Fuddruckers. Watch out for the audio.

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Rojo launches

Good luck to Chris Alden, Kevin Burton and crew.

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FeedBurner out of beta

Announces that no gamma or delta versions will be forthcoming. Hah.

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Adobe to acquire Macromedia

Congratulations to both sides. However, I'm calling the death of MM Fireworks at 06:00 hours on April 18th, 2005.

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Price/gallon

Ouch! The price of gas in the Bay Area is getting a little out of control.

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Cable Yo Yo

I like the idea, but I need about 20 of them.

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Google X

An alternate Google interface that pays homage to Apple OS X from Google Labs.

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Blogger Buzz

Wherein we on the Blogger team actually maintain a blog... again.

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Non Sequitur

The journalism vs. blogging debate hits the funny pages.

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Google Desktop Search 1.0

Now out of beta GDS supports Firefox, Netscape and many more file types. The kicker is the open plug-ins and Desktop SDK.

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Huh Corp.

They do stuff.

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syncOtunes

Synchronize your iTunes libraries across different machines. PC and Mac versions.

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The Mavericks Surf Contest Is On!

World Class Surfers From Around the Globe Will Compete Wednesday as They Ride the "Most Dangerous Wave on the Planet"

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Your Traveling Billboard

Drive the World to Your Website with our mobile billboard advertising system! - Just point and click, er... remember and type and point and click.

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saladwithstacy

Congratulations to Steve and Stacy who are headed for a salad-filled bliss!

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UniKeep

The View Case Binder is the Trapper Keeper of the 21st century. I'm dorkishly excited about a new binder. This makes me feel like I'm 11 again.

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Newsburst Preview Release

Let the online aggregator games begin! This is not fully baked but looks interesting.

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Google Maps

Cool maps, from Google. Click and drag is my favorite feature.

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So You Wanna Be A Blogstar?

Advice and pointers from Grant about using a blog to your advantage as a musician.

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Groundhog Day

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties because it's COOOLD out there today.

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Shellen Mini 2 released

For those of you not keeping up with my main blog - a self indulgent announcement.

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1001 Free Fonts

Cool, but only until 1002freefonts.com trumps them.

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PostSecret

Secrets posted on a group blog. Cool and sorta scary.

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Currently showing fair use video snapshots and accompanied text.

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Anti-Nofollow FUD

Anil deconstructs a black hat spammers attempt at humor.

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Bomb-A-Tron

Attention Reporters: Use this tool to file your story about the latest car bombing in Iraq.

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cin-o-matic

A tool to help people decide what movies to go see or rent. Feeds, Netflix and Dack Ragus are involved so of course it's cool.

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Popcast

They call it Open Access Internet TV. It looks like Tivo for BitTorrent.

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HistoryHound

That dogs eyes just aren't right, but I'll give their sofware a try regardless. [via JJG.net]

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Get Back To Work

Crack the whip on yourself. Perhaps the TaDa list could integrate this too? [via 43 Folders]

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Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign

An appropriate response to NO WMDs FOUND. Short of actually leaving Iraq of course.

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Preventing comment spam

In which we (Google) propose a tag to help address the problem of comment spam.

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Picasa 2

An excellent revision to an already great piece of software.

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Iran blocked!

Hoder reports Blogger, Blog*Spot, Y! Mail, Orkut and other services are being blocked in Iran.

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ColorWhore

a directory of nice colors

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TiVoToGo is here

It's a little kludgey and doesn't work for Macs yet. I still have to applaud a step in the right direction though.

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