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Go back in video time with TimeTube One of the coolest YouTube mashups I've come across lately has to be TimeTube, a site that takes your topic and finds videos for it, chronologically, starting with the first and ending with the most recent.
For example, I typed in "American Idol" and got a video walk down Memory Lane....the first season, the worst auditions (and there were many), the winners, the losers, etc. Plus, TimeTube gives you more than one way to look at all these videos: timeline, list view, flipbook, and geolocation. Pretty darn cool. More great Web video doodads
Friday May 9, 2008 | permalink | comments (0) Share your iPhone photos at Natuba If you are one of the lucky folks who has an iPhone (pardon me whilst I drool a little bit....mmmmm.....iPhone....), then you might want to check out Natuba, an image sharing site specifically aimed at the iPhone crowd. As far as I can tell it's not any different from any other image sharing site on the Web; however, it is kind of neat to see the great pictures people are taking (I especially liked this one of an old Coke machine).
And speaking of images....
Thursday May 8, 2008 | permalink | comments (2) Save your Web pages with Iterasi Tell me if you've ever done this: you're playing with a map, or you're tweaking your favorite online radio station, and you go to save it to your bookmarks or your favorite social bookmarking service. The next time you go back to this site, all the changes that you so carefully crafted? Well, they're gone. Why? Because that content you were playing with is dynamic, while the URL itself is static. One changes, the other does not.
That's what I love about Iterasi, a new service that not only saves the URL in your carefully crafted cache of content, but saves the Web page itself; a virtual snapshot of the last time you visited it, with all the tweaks, changes, or additions you made still there and ready to be accessed. Simple, elegant, and incredibly useful. More about saving your stuff on the Web
Wednesday May 7, 2008 | permalink | comments (1) Is that site down for everyone, or just me?
Here's the scenario: you try to access one of your favorite sites (maybe one of the sites you're addicted to), and the darn thing won't load for you. You try, over and over again, and STILL no joy. You know that it really should be coming up, so you type the URL into your favorite search engine to see if there's anyone else having the same problem. Unfortunately, search engines just don't index result quite that fast (yet), so it seems as if you're the only person having the problem, and you're just going to have to wait it out. Bummer!
That's where Down For Everyone Or Just Me comes in. This is an ingenious site, and here's how it works: simply type in the name of the site that's not cooperating with you, and within seconds you'll see if this mysterious downtime is a more widespread problem (or if it's really JUST YOU). This is an easy way to troubleshoot where the connectivity problem might be happening. More great Web tools
Tuesday May 6, 2008 | permalink | comments (0) Make your own animated movies with Animoto If I told you you could make professionally animated movies of your photos with music and special effects, for FREE, you might look at me a little funny. After all, that kind of presentation usually requires some pretty hefty software, right? Not unless you try Animoto, a new service that takes your images, helps you overlay customized music, and personalizes your presentation. Check out one of the videos that I made with Animoto:
Cool, right? All you need to do is sign up with a free Animoto account and get started; you can send these videos to friends, to YouTube, share 'em with your family, etc.
More fun with videos
Monday May 5, 2008 | permalink | comments (0) Get more out of your Web searches with Addictomatic I love finding new Web search tools, and when I came across Addictomatic, you could say I was hooked. Plus, anything with a retro-looking robot gets my vote!
Addictomatic works like this: you simply type in your search term, press enter, and wham! You get results from sites such as Google, Yahoo, Technorati, Ask, YouTube, Truveo, Flickr, Blinkx, Ice Rocket, Digg, Topix, Newsvine and Tweetscan; plus the top 200 or so blogs as judged by Technorati and personal blogrolls of the Addictomatic staff. That's not all though. Once you get your search results, you can move the result boxes around on the page and delete the sources you don't want. Addictomatic also offers Newsfix, a topical directory with results from top sites/blogs (this is similar to other content aggregators). So far I like Addictomatic; they've definitely got some improvements to make (no RSS feed, and searches seem to be a bit hit or miss), but I think there's a lot of potential. Plus, did I mention the retro robot mascot? More Web Search Tools
Saturday May 3, 2008 | permalink | comments (1) What are your addictive sites? Hello, my name is Wendy, and I am addicted to the following sites:
Fess up - what are YOUR addictive sites? Let's hear it, folks. I can't be the ONLY one out there with some serious Web addictions, right? RIGHT?!?!?!? Let's hear your favoritest sites in the comments below!More addictive sites
Friday May 2, 2008 | permalink | comments (8) Free MP3 Downloads on the Web One of my absolute favorite things to do on the Web is to find new music. I love to listen to Last.FM, Pandora, the Hype Machine, not to mention the literally thousands of free radio stations I get on my Squeezebox. Basically, I'm listening to music ALL THE TIME.
I also really like to create mixtapes at Muxtape, a great (free!) way to create your own playlists and share them with friends. In order to do this, you've got to have some mp3 music files on your system, and that's where my new article, Free Mp3 Downloads, comes in. I've rounded up some of the best sites and methods on the Web for you so you can listen to new music, make some new music mixes, and generally just get your groove on. Music, baby!
Thursday May 1, 2008 | permalink | comments (0) How to Effectively Use a Search Engine
Wednesday April 30, 2008 | permalink | comments (1) Smarten up your Boolean searches with Boolify One of the more interesting and simple to use Web search tools I've come across lately is Boolify, an educational tool that teaches you how to use Boolean search operators in a visual way. Here's how it works: you start with a green puzzle piece, type in what you're looking for (I used "how to knit"), figure out what you don't or do want in the results by adding the "and" or "not" puzzle pieces, and you're off and running.
More on Boolean search Boolean searching is built on a method of symbolic logic developed by George Boole, a 19th century English mathematician. Most online databases and search engines support Boolean searches. Boolean search techniques can be used to carry out effective searches, cutting out many unrelated documents. Learn more about Boolean search. Tuesday April 29, 2008 | permalink | comments (0) Display Latest Headlines | powered by WordPress |
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One of the coolest
If you are one of the lucky folks who has an
Tell me if you've ever done this: you're playing with a
Here's the scenario: you try to access one of your favorite sites (maybe one of the sites you're
If I told you you could make professionally animated movies of your photos with music and special effects, for FREE, you might look at me a little funny. After all, that kind of presentation usually requires some pretty hefty software, right? Not unless you try
I love finding new Web search tools, and when I came across
Hello, my name is Wendy, and I am addicted to the following sites:

One of the more interesting and simple to use 
