Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Here's what I'm mostly listening to and watching, podcast-wise these days:
All in the Mind "is Radio National's weekly foray into all things mental – a program about the mind, brain and behaviour."
Apple Quick Tips (iTunes Store) -- "Shortcuts and techniques to help you and your business get the most out ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Not to totally knock satellite radio, but from what I've experienced so far, it is just not worth it.
I recently signed up for a free XM trial online. Limited to roughly 80 channels, the trial lasts only a few days and takes place entirely online where it seems all the ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
If you have any interest in New York, New York and/or photography, check out The Manhattan Street Corners -- pictures of everyone of about 11,000 street corners on the island by designer Richard Howe. I don't know what to make of the site's Flash interface. On the plus side you ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Members of the American Legion can now sign up for VetCam, a free video conferencing website that allows Legion members to talk face to face with friends and family in the Armed Forces without either party having to download additional software.
Looks like it's Windows only however:
For this free one-on-one video ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
DingItsUp.com sends out a email, tweet or text everytime a site of one's choosing goes down and back up again. The site explains further:
Ding It's Up is a free service that alerts you via text (SMS), twitter or email when a website goes down or when it comes back up. ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
I received a somewhat interesting email from Amazon -- from all of their unwanted email they send. It is titled: My Name: Vote for Our Most Ridiculous Deals. I clicked, taking me to a landing page where, from what I gather, you vote on products you'd like to buy then ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
So I'm trying to test this new site that was passed along to me: DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com and am experiencing trouble finding sites that could be potentially "down". (Internet, you are just too perfect today.) But finally found one with one of my favorite radio stations, WFMU. When I tried streaming their ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Looks like Twitter is down again for database maintenance. They have come up with this humdinger of a "be right back" image. I have yet to scope the "failwhale" recently.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Last Friday I clicked on Twitter>>Find people>>Search, typed in a name and hit enter. And today it says the same thing it did then:
This feature is temporarily disabled.
Thanks for your patience while we work to restore it.
And there is an image of a bird staring down a bug. What ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
A text message appeared on my iPhone yesterday and shortly thereafter came an email stating that AT&T is finally offering up free Wi-Fi to iPhone customers "at thousands of hotspots". Here are the instructions to connect if you happen across one:
Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone.
Select “attwifi” ...
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