Nowsy
9/30/2006
Nowsy is an information and news dashboard. On Nowsy you select the feeds from the list that is provided or you can enter a feed URL that is not in the list and each feed shows up in a feedbox. You can also drag and drop the boxes in the position you like. I've seen some other sites that do this but in my opinion I think Nowsy is the best.
eSnips
9/29/2006
With eSnips you get 1GB of free storage to upload and share. You can upload anything like web snippets and links, photos, audio, video, documents, and files. A cool feature is that you can decide to keep your uploads to your self, a private group, or anyone. You can also tag your things that you upload.
ilovefreeWiFi
9/27/2006
ilovefreeWifi is a site where users contribute free WiFi access points in the United States. Users submit WiFi access points and they write a short description about it. Other users can comment on the hotspots. ilovefreeWiFi is a pretty big database of free WiFi hotspots.
Soapadoo
9/26/2006
Soapadoo is a site where people can search and write reviews on a particular topic. All the reviews are real and the people are real. Things are different on Soapadoo because users know that the reviews they write help people by sharing their experiences. "It's a chance for them to share some of the experiences they've had and it's a chance to learn from the experiences of the people in their network."
Newshutch
9/24/2006
Recently I've tried many feed readers and just wasn't happy with any of them but I just came across this feed reader called Newshutch. I think Newshutch is the best and simplest feed reader out there. Newshutch is very clean and simple to use. You create folders to put your feeds into so you can categorize your feeds. Also if you've already used a newsfeed aggregator before you can import your existing list of feeds. You can install the browser buttons to easily add feeds to Newshutch. Check out some other features and screenshots here. So if you have never used a feed reader or you're not satisfied with the one you currently use I would definitely check out Newshutch.
Weebly
9/23/2006
Weebly is a service that helps you create websites for free very easily. Currently Weebly is in beta but I can already tell it's probably the best free website creator I've seen. You can view a screencast of the service in action here. "Weebly is the easiest way to create, upload a website, and share it with the world for free. From personal to professional sites, Weebly will enable you to spend your time on the most valuable part of your site, its content."
I Dig Deals
9/21/2006
I Dig Deals is new site that works similar to the Digg voting method. Users submit deals they have found and then others can vote on the deals. You can make your own account but it is not necesary to submit or vote on deals. So far you can get some pretty awesome deals off this site.
KungFuGRIP
9/19/2006
KungFuGRIP is a new site that users submit creative web entertainment. KungFuGRIP doesn't want its users to submit things like home videos or news articles. Just like Digg people can vote for the content they like. "KungFuGRIP is your source for what's new and popular in creative web entertainment. The social aggregate site for creative web entertainment it is powered entirely by users like you. Contribute as an artist or fan by submitting links, voting, and posting comments."GameStop: Reserve PS3 or Wii
9/17/2006
Okay so here in this picture it seems like GameStop will force you to trade in $50 worth of trade-ins to reserve a PS3 or Wii. In trade-ins that's a lot because as you probably know you hardly get much at all for them. This isn't confirmed yet but it seems likely that it's true. We'll see Monday as the posters should go up then.iKaraoke by Griffin technology
9/16/2006
The iKaraoke sends music from your iPod to your stereo without the lead vocals. The iKaraoke hooks up to your stereo via line-in cable, or wirelessly through your FM receiver. With the iKaraoke it makes it easy to pause the music, scan forward, and backwards. You can even add the vocals back in to help find your place and the iKaraoke includes reverb effects. The iKaraoke supports the following iPods: Mini, 4th gen., nano, new nano, video, and the new video.Microsoft officially reveals the Zune
9/14/2006
Today Microsoft revealed the Zune as expected, we now have more details and pictures. The Zune has 30Gb of HDD, WiFi, 3-inch screen, built in FM tuner, picture and video playback. A really neat feature of the Zune is that you can wirelessly share a music track with a friend that also has a Zune and over a 3 day period they can listen to that track 3 times. If you ask me I think this is a very good idea on Microsoft's part. You can also share pictures, playlists, and recordings. The Zune comes in black, white, and brown which is supposed to be available this holiday season.
[for more pictures go here]
Zune conference tomorrow
9/13/2006
This is just a quick post about tomorrow when Microsoft will hold an invite only press meet to discuss the launch of the Zune. I will write more about the unveiling as details are available tomorrow.5.5 Gen. iPod and iTunes 7
9/12/2006
Today at Apple's It's Showtime event, Apple revealed quite a bit of new stuff. To start off I'll talk a little about the 5.5 gen. iPod. The new iPod looks basically the same but it has a 60% brighter screen. The iPod also has longer battery life and new headphones. It will have gapless playback (which I think goes for all iPods as an update) and even text based search I'm really not to sure how this function works yet.
iTunes 7 is now available and you can download full length movies such as Pirates of the
Caribbean, The Incredibles, Flightplan, and many more. And get this, on the 5.5 gen. iPod you can now download games at $4.99 each such as Pac-man, Tetris, Bejeweled, and more. There are many other new things in iTunes 7 so got to the iTunes 7 overview page for more info.Linkachi
9/11/2006
Linkachi is another service that will shorten your links. They maintain a top ten list of the most used links. Currently the service gives you a randomly generated short URL, soon they say you can make your own personalized links. They will also let you track the stats of your links soon as well.Blockstar
9/10/2006
Blockstar is a service that has a website builder and hosting. There is both a free and paid version of Blockstar. With Blockstar you can make webpages, upload pictures, build photo galleries, and put documents online. With the free version you get 50MB of storage and 1GB of bandwidth. There is no need to know HTML because their website builder does it for you. You have to download their software to create your site. Unfortunately you get domains like this http://sites.blockstar.com/username and their are some ads.
YouTube on your iPod for free
9/09/2006
With these two freeware programs one for Mac and one for Windows you can easily get YouTube videos on to your iPod. The Windows version is called iTube and the Mac version is PodTube. In iTube (Windows) you paste the video URL into iTube and it then downloads the video, converts it, and adds it to your iTunes library. In PodTube (Mac) you must browse in Safari and one click will download the video, convert it, and add to your iTunes library as well. Both of these are very easy to use and also very helpful when you want to get a YouTube video on your iPod without any hassle.
Concise Freeware
9/08/2006
Today I came across this nifty little site called Concise Freeware. Concise Freeware seems to have everything that's freeware. They categorize everything pretty well so it's easy to navigate and find what you want. The categories are as follows customization, games, graphics, internet, maintenance, miscellaneous, sound, articles, services, information, and art. This website is really useful so go check it out!
The "It's Showtime" event
9/06/2006
Next Tuesday on September 12th Apple will reveal something new at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, California at the confirmed "It's Showtime" event. Rumors say it could be the "real" iPod Video. I'm not really sure what to expect yet.
9/05/2006
Earlier I talked about Social Meter a little bit in a post. "Social meter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage's social popularity." Well someone recently commented on that post and notified me that Social Meter is now for sale on eBay (thanks!). Currently there aren't any bids and starting bid is $425.00 US.For Dummies Book Cover Maker
Okay today I came across this "For Dummies" book cover generator. The one I made is on the left. You chose what text you want to be displayed in the sub title, main title, book description, comic bubble, book name, and edition name. You can also choose how the pizza head guy looks too. It's pretty cool and if you change the book title to dummies it looks exactly like a "For Dummies" book.
BlogMusik
9/03/2006
With BlogMusik you can listen to online music on demand. You just type in a band name or song name in the iPod like player to search for music and then you click what you want it to play on the right. You don't have to sign up but if you want to make playlists you have to register but it takes less than a minute and you don't have to confirm an email or anything like that. Overall it's a pretty nice service but it's still in beta so it has some bugs. I'm a bit confused why it's call BlogMusik though.SafePasswd
9/02/2006
With SafePasswd you can create a really great password. The user puts in how long they'd like their password to be and what type. The different types of passwords include easy to remember, letters, numbers, letters and numbers, all characters, and hex. They also let you select if you would like there to be case variation in your password. After you enter in those things it gives you a randomly generated password perfect for such things as encryption.Browzar
9/01/2006
Update:
Okay I'm sorry for the confusion but I've now figured out that Browzar is trash. The built in search has results that suck and they are paid results. It's really just Internet Explorer and its no safer (see screenshot below). For more info go to the Web3.0log.
Check out this screenshot I took (Click it to enlarge the image, you'll see "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.")
