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Friday, November 06, 2009


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Best Android Apps to Boost Your Mobile Productivity (So Far) [Lifehacker]

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:55 PM PST

One Dozen Super-Useful (and Free!) Android Apps

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:48 PM PST

Locale for Android

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:25 PM PST

"With Locale, you create situations specifying conditions under which your phone's settings should change."

Pandora Radio for Android

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:23 PM PST

Google Sky Map for Android

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:23 PM PST

Verizon's Droid: 10 Apps to Get You Started [PC World]

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:14 PM PST

Worker and Parasite [YouTube]

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:13 PM PST

The classic clip from The Simpsons... :-)

Dodge Viper logo is an upside-down Daffy Duck. [Boing Boing]

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 06:42 PM PST

The Best Free Fonts of 2009 [Web Design Ledger]

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 06:34 PM PST

The 50 Sexiest Music Videos of All Time [Nerve.com]

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 06:34 PM PST

Birdhouse For Your Soul

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:07 AM PST

Nice little story about the power of the Internet to preserve memories and to allow for serendipitous discoveries.


Thursday, November 05, 2009



Kottke.org made quite a find: "This is Carrie Fischer and her stunt double taking a nap under the Tatooine suns during the filming of Jedi."





Princess Leia and stunt double sunbathing on Tatooine Link to Delicious/driko

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 03:12 PM PST

"This is Carrie Fischer and her stunt double taking a nap under the Tatooine suns during the filming of Jedi."

You know what else is an abomination, Maine? Lobster [Blag Hag]

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 06:27 AM PST

Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 06:20 AM PST

"provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts. Account summaries appear on the left, with links to manage those accounts (and delete data) listed cleanly on the right. The Dashboard is organized into different sections according to which Google products and services users access when they are signed into their account"

PicMarkr

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 08:47 PM PST

Add custom watermarks to flickr photos

ManualsOnline

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 08:22 PM PST

"Free audio product owners manuals, user guides & how-to instructions"



Wednesday, November 04, 2009




    Video about world's greatest soda pop store - Boing Boing Link to Delicious/driko

    Posted: 04 Nov 2009 04:59 PM PST

    Awesome! It's nice to see someone start and maintain a successful business that he loves...

    Why You Should Always Be Careful While Using a Forklift [Gizmodo]

    Posted: 04 Nov 2009 04:57 PM PST

    "In this video, a hapless Russian warehouse worker destroys about $250,000 of precious, precious vodka in about 3 seconds (he escaped unscathed)."

    “Do I have the right to refuse this search?” [Homeland Security Watch]

    Posted: 04 Nov 2009 11:58 AM PST

    "It is now apparent to me that in the haste to ensure compliance with procedures that are inconsistent if not inarticulable, TSA has hastened the likelihood of failure. If we do not insist that TSA work to create articulable policies that make sense, procedures that are explicit and consistent and training that supports both, then we are complicit in what will inevitably be an ultimate compromise of TSA."

    Becoming a More Creative Photographer [photo.net]

    Posted: 04 Nov 2009 11:22 AM PST

    7 Surprising Kick-Ass Things You Can Do with Google Sketchup [Maximum PC]

    Posted: 04 Nov 2009 10:59 AM PST

    Don’t Miss These 5 Things About Google Wave! [Bit Rebels]

    Posted: 04 Nov 2009 04:07 AM PST




    Saturday, October 31, 2009



    I came across this video soon after John Hughes' untimely death, but I didn't watch the whole thing until just today. It's well worth the wait... :'(


    Friday, October 30, 2009



    Supernatural Collective Nouns. [Wondermark] Link to Delicious/driko

    Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:03 PM PDT


    50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 [Noupe]

    Posted: 30 Oct 2009 05:02 PM PDT


    Autumn Colors Macro 4 [Flickr]

    Posted: 30 Oct 2009 11:14 AM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Autumn Colors Macro 4

    I tried a slighly different setup to get this macro shot of autumn colors in a leaf. I borrowed a set of focusing rails, which allowed for a little better precision in focus...

    Best viewed large... :-)


    BrokenBridge

    Posted: 30 Oct 2009 10:04 AM PDT

    A very nice summary of what happened on the San Francisco Bay Bridge

    streambaby - Project Hosting on Google Code

    Posted: 29 Oct 2009 08:18 PM PDT

    nice application to allow video streaming from your computer to TiVo; very easy to use! Not sure about .avi transcoding yet, though...

    Google Tracking-B-Gone for Greasemonkey

    Posted: 29 Oct 2009 07:56 PM PDT




    Thursday, October 29, 2009




    Wednesday, October 28, 2009


    Download free fonts @ fontspace.com Link to Delicious/driko

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:00 PM PDT

    Personal Video Database - Home

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:44 PM PDT

    TVTrigger - Home

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:30 PM PDT

    Prevent v 1.0 [The Windows Club]

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:20 PM PDT

    "Prevents cut, paste, copy, delete, re-naming of files & folders"

    WinPatrol 2010

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:13 PM PDT

    Essential, free security application

    Want to learn about Windows 7? Microsoft offers you a look at its features

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:12 PM PDT

    AVI ReComp

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:11 PM PDT

    Nice video editor

    The genius brothers behind Google Wave [CNN.com]

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 08:50 AM PDT

    Harvesting baseball's 'magic mud' [CNN.com]

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 08:42 AM PDT

    I had heart about this before, but it's still a cool story...

    Takedown Hall Of Shame | Electronic Frontier Foundation

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:49 AM PDT

    Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities...

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:21 AM PDT

    "We've rebuilt the walls to the Cities and the streets where a large part of the early settlers of the World Wide Web used to live in. You can still find them where they were before, but not all of the houses have been rebuilt yet."

    Meat Hand [not martha]

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:15 AM PDT

    Quite a creative Halloween dish...

    Best of Wikipedia - Acoustic Kitty

    Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:08 AM PDT

    "Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions..."



    Tuesday, October 27, 2009


    Photojojo Link to Delicious/driko

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 08:00 PM PDT

    "The best photo tips, DIY projects, and gear in the whole wide world"

    "Can't sleep. Carnival dragon will eat me..." [Flickr]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 06:14 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    "Can't sleep.  Carnival dragon will eat me..."

    Taken at the St. Mary's County Fair.

    SoMD Llamas 3 [Flickr]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 06:04 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    SoMD Llamas 3

    A candid shot of llamas taken during the St. Mary's County Fair. :-)

    SoMD Llamas 2 [Flickr]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 06:04 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    SoMD Llamas 2

    A candid shot of a llama taken during the St. Mary's County Fair. :-)

    SoMD Llamas 1 [Flickr]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 06:04 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    SoMD Llamas 1

    A candid shot of llamas taken during the St. Mary's County Fair. :-)

    Scientists discover gene that 'cancer-proofs' rodent's cells

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 11:32 AM PDT

    Microsoft bails from Family Guy Windows 7 special [Ars Technica]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 09:15 AM PDT

    "We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex variety show based on the audience composition and creative humor of 'Family Guy,' but after reviewing an early version of the variety show it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand." Um, duh.

    Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7 [Ars Technica]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 08:00 AM PDT

    8 Best Ways to Share ‘Mix Tapes’ [Wired.com]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 07:57 AM PDT

    It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. [McSweeney's Internet Tendency]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 07:46 AM PDT

    How much is a stamp?

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 04:51 AM PDT

    Dead tauntaun wedding cake [Gizmodo]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 04:10 AM PDT

    Awesome!

    McDonald’s Closes in Iceland After Krona Collapse [Bloomberg.com]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 04:10 AM PDT

    Google Voice now (kinda) works with your number [CNET News]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 04:01 AM PDT

    "No, it's not a full number port, which the company still says is coming and will eventually allow things like call screening, conference calling, or listening into a call before picking up--all with your existing number. Instead, Google is taking advantage of conditional call forwarding to let users send unanswered calls to Google's voice-mail service in place of the one provided by a user's carrier. "

    Contextual search within Wikipedia [Official Google Blog]

    Posted: 27 Oct 2009 03:57 AM PDT

    "enable the Custom Search skin and you'll have quick access to relevant Google Custom Search results from Wikipedia. With the Custom Search skin, your search results are conveniently placed inline on the page."



    Monday, October 26, 2009


    'ville.2k - the 101 Best Music Videos of the Decade. Link to Delicious/driko

    Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:34 PM PDT

    GeoCities (1995-2009) is finally put out of our misery

    Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:07 PM PDT

    Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google Calendar

    Posted: 26 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT

    Enhanced Google Music Search

    Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:06 AM PDT

    "CNet reports that Google will launch the new version of Google Music Search next week, in partnership with Lala and iLike." Cool! I'm a big fan of Lala, especially since you can have it scan your music files and make those songs streamable from anywhere...

    Infographic of the Day: It's a Small World, Afterall [Fast Company]

    Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:37 AM PDT

    "This map shows exactly where are the most remote places in the world."



    Sunday, October 25, 2009


    NirLauncher puts hundreds of Nirsoft and SysInternals apps in one tidy Link to Delicious/driko package

    Posted: 25 Oct 2009 03:34 PM PDT

    Autumn Colors Macro 3 [Flickr]

    Posted: 25 Oct 2009 01:57 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Autumn Colors Macro 3

    Autumn colors on this leaf provided an interesting subject for a macro shot.

    Autumn Colors Macro 2 [Flickr]

    Posted: 25 Oct 2009 01:57 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Autumn Colors Macro 2

    Autumn colors on this leaf provided an interesting subject for a macro shot.

    Autumn Colors Macro 1 [Flickr]

    Posted: 25 Oct 2009 01:57 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Autumn Colors Macro 1

    Autumn colors on this leaf provided an interesting subject for a macro shot.

    Fittr Flickr extension for Chrome enhances your Flickr experience

    Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:00 AM PDT

    FFolio

    Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:00 AM PDT

    "Create an instant portfolio from your flickr account"

    NewsPulse [CNN.com]

    Posted: 24 Oct 2009 08:28 PM PDT

    "Get the news filtered the way you want and see what's popular"

    6 Pro Photographers Share Their Most Guarded Digital Secrets [Mac|Life]

    Posted: 24 Oct 2009 08:16 PM PDT

    Top 10 Windows 7 Booster Apps [Lifehacker]

    Posted: 24 Oct 2009 08:10 PM PDT





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