Digg ain't the only digg in town

All the digg-style applications: The list !!!

Top 10 Coolest Designer Gadgets

Top 10 Coolest Designer Gadgets

A transparent toaster, now that's cool.

How to turn a disposable camera into a permanent one

Ten Dollar Digital Camera: "Turn a 'disposable' 10 dollar digital camera from RitzCamera, CVS, or Walgreens into one you can use over and over, just like a normal digital camera."

Link:
http://...TenDollarDigitalCamera

Microsoft's Office 2007 hits snag

Microsoft's Office 2007 hits snag: "Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would delay the release of its Office business software suite, citing 'product performance' issues."

MS delay a product release? No, that never happens!

Take the 2007 Microsoft Office release out for a test drive

Take the 2007 Microsoft Office release out for a test drive so you don't have to worry about the huge download and the installation of beta software (which does who knows what to your computer). Microsoft has made an online version available so you can get a sneak peek at the next Office version.

Link;
http://.../office/preview/beta/testdrive.mspx

The big Google list

Google has its hands in so many cookie jars it hard to keep up. Here is a little cheat sheet of some of Google's offerings.

• Gmail
• Google AdSense
• Google AdWords
• Google Analytics
• Google Blog Search
• Google Calendar
• Google Checkout
• Google Code
• Google Code Search
  
• Google Computer
• Google Custom Search Engine
  
• Google Desktop
• Google Directory
• Google Earth
• Google Extensions for Firefox
• Google Factory Tour
• Google Finance
• Google Gears
  
• Google Groups
• Google Image Labeler
  
• Google Local for Mobile
• Google Maps
• Google Mars
• Google News
• Google News Archive Search
  
• Google Notebook
  
• Google Pack
• Google Pages
• Google Patents
  
• Google Personalized Home
• Google Personalized Search
• Google Reader
• Google Ride Finder
  
• Google SMS
• Google Scholar
• Google Secure Access
• Google Sets
• Google Sites
  
• Google Spreadsheet
  
• Google Suggest
• Google Talk
• Google Toolbar
• Google Transit
• Google Trends
  
• Google Video
• Google Video Store News
• Google Web Accelerator
• Google Web Alerts
• Google Webmaster Central
• Google Zeitgeist
  
• Site-Flavored Google Search

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 is now out to give it a test drive.

What New:
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 is now available for download and includes improvements in reliability, compatibility, user features, and security. Although Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 was layout complete, based on our customers’ feedback, we’ve made some additional changes to the look and feel of the browser. Beta 3 allows users to add the e-mail button back to the toolbar, enables users to reorder the tabs by dragging them to the left or right, and enables horizontal scrolling while zooming.

To improve the RSS experience, Internet Explorer 7 now allows users to update all their RSS feeds automatically. In addition, the user has more control in marking their RSS feeds as "READ."

Beta 2 testing has helped us improve compatibility with websites and web applications in Beta 3. Internet Explorer 7 reliability has improved in Beta 3 as several layout-rendering bugs have been fixed as well.

In addition, Beta 3 contains all the security fixes addressed in the June Internet Explorer Security Bulletin MS06-021.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Digital Locker

Digital Locker is a new way to try, buy, and manage software from a single location, Windows Marketplace. Could be interesting, but how does one get the registration codes for the software? Is MS going to manage this aspect with the software vendors?

Link:
http://www.windowsmarketplacelabs.com/

Silk Icons

Silk Icons

Nice looking icons for either web development and application development.

Link:
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

SoonR?

"SoonR is the only service that enables standard mobile phones to use the applications on PCs in an optimized way. Desktop Search, Outlook, Skype, and the files on desktop computer(s) are made available anywhere you are and even when your computer is turned off*. Any phone with data access becomes a smart phone."

Link:
http://www.soonr.com/web/front/home.jsp

Top CSS Layout Download Sites, Hacks, Galleries and Tricks

Some nicely grouped CSS sites. Categories include:

• Download CSS Layouts
• Create a Layout via a Web Form
• Visit Layout Galleries. Be Inspired.
• CSS Articles, Hacks, Tricks and Tutorials
• Back to Basics : Full CSS Tutorials
• Mailing List
• Official CSS2 Specification
• CSS Properties Reference
• Printable CSS Cheatsheet
• Validate your CSS file
• Tweak Your CSS file
• Check Top Links
  

Link:
http://.../top-css-layouts-downloads-hacks-galleries-tricks.html

Oh, and check out the CSS Printable Quick Reference Guide I created:
http://www.veign.com/blog/2006/05/css3-preview.html

FEBE Firefox Extension

FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.

Link:
http://.../extensions/febe/febe.html

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility: "With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program's Windows Installer configuration information. You may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your program if you experience installation (Setup) problems."

How To Make Winamp Sound Better

Google Operating System: How To Make Winamp Sound Better: "These tips will make your Winamp play music louder and with higher fidelity without buying a new sound card, like Creative SoundBlaster."

Its free so it doesn't hurt to try it...

Choosing an open source CMS

Choosing an open source CMS: "There are a lot of CMS choices -- Drupal, Mambo, Bricolage, WordPress, and Plone are some of the most recognizable names. While they all perform the same basic functions, you have to pick only one. How do you do it?"

Link:
http://internet.newsforge.com/...

One massive database of boardgames

BoardGameGeek: "BoardGameGeek is a completely free online resource for learning about, discussing, buying, selling, and trading board games."

Link:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

WinFS R.I.P

Read on

Claria Says to Uninstall its Adware (GAIN / Gator)

Claria Says to Uninstall its Adware: "Adware company Claria this week took the unusual step of telling users to uninstall its software, following through on a promise to exit the adware business in order to focus on personalized search. Claria says it will stop sending pop-up ads to users' computers on July 1."

One down, many to go...

Using Gmail as Your Universal Email Account

You can setup Gmail to check and manage all your other email accounts, even from your hosted domain or ISP. Check out the article on Google Tutor on how to accomplish this.

Link:
http://.../using-gmail-as-your-universal-email-account/

Website Design and development in South Carolina

Website Design and development in South Carolina
is a website I put up to showcase various techniques that are being used as flavor-of-the-week design elements. See the reflection on the images? Those are dynamically generated from Javascript. Click the image. That is also Javascript.

I will be adding some other elements over time but wanted to get something up quickly to get indexed in Google.

Link:
http://website-design-south-carolina.com/

New Device Zaps Migraines

New Device Zaps Migraines on Yahoo! News: "A magnetic pulse technique originally developed to treat psychological disorders like depression has been modified to zap away migraines before they can fully form."

I suffer from migraines and the pain can be so bad at times its hard to describe to someone who has never had one. Its just not like a normal headache. For me there is nothing that can help once one starts and I just try to get to sleep as soon as possible by taking Melatonin and Nyquil.

Former Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams vs. BlogNYC

Former Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams vs. BlogNYC: "Stephanie Adams"

How many brain cells is this chick operating on? I mean trying to bully a blogger and think it will get her anywhere except looking like a little cry-baby.

Will people never learn not to mess with 'the blog' as only bad can come out of it...

Butterfly from American Express

Butterfly is a sleek new credit card from American Express.

Microsoft Personal Storage Manager

Microsoft Personal Storage Manager: "Microsoft Personal Storage Manager is a free power toy for Windows that provides an easy to work with personal storage devices. With a seamless explorer like interface the tool allows you to drag your files (music, documents and more) to and from the device. It furthermore allows you to create a secured password protected section on the device for storing files you do not want to fall into the wrong hands if you lose the device. Even if your device is lost, the tool allows you to save your address, email or phone on the device so when someone finds the device they can contact you and bring it back. Lastly, the tool enables you to synchronize the content of the device with your computer enabling users that roam between computers to always have their important data up to date."

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

Alphabet Evolution

Whatch as our alphabet evolves from its earliest form

Kinda interesting...

It a big, big, big world

Really puts things in perspective as to the size of Earth as compared to other celestial bodies. Never knew how big things can be.

Yahoo! Mindset hits the mark

Yahoo! Mindset brings a slightly new way to present the results of a search by allowing you to adjust the results based on the question of 'why am I searching for this'. What they do is give you a slider high up on the results page that lets you adjust between Shopping and Researching.

Does need some work as some of the results in the #1 spot are questionable.

Link:
http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/search.php?p=shakespeare

I'm not the only one who thinks ThinkAll is doing a bad, bad thing

Check out this site. Another happy customer, yeah right...

Link:
http://thinkallsucks.blogspot.com/

The Genographic Project

The Genographic Project: "Your results will reveal your deep ancestry along a single line of direct descent (paternal or maternal) and show the migration paths they followed thousands of years ago. Your results will also place you on a particular branch of the human family tree. Some anthropological stories are more detailed than others, depending upon the lineage you belong to. For example, if you are of African descent, your results will show the initial movements of your ancestors on the African continent, but will not reflect most of the migrations that have occurred within the past 10,000 years. Your individual results may confirm your expectations of what you believe your deep ancestry to be, or you may be surprised to learn a new story about your genetic background."

This is a cool idea but think it will be lacking much information because of the $99 cost to get your DNA into the database and analyzed. With that kind of price tag I think most people just won't do it...

Veign on Rocketboom!

I love it. Amanda Congdon wearing a Veign shirt on Rocketboom.

Link:
http://www.rocketboom.com/.../rb_06_jun_20.html

In case you want a shirt of your own (not like anybody would but what the hell):
http://www.cafepress.com/veign

A couple tools to stream video from your website

Online FLV Players (free):
http://www.flvplayer.com/

Riva FLV Encoder (free):
http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3

Young FrankenSteve

Young FrankenSteve is a satire taken from Young Frankstein starring Gene Wilder.

This is just too funny...

Link:
http://www.videosift.com/siftoff/story.php?id=2577

File this under no way in hell

Animated Shark Stereogram: There is no way in the world that I would be able to see this. I can't get a still one to work.

How it all works

Good luck!

Way too many video viewing websites

Musical chairs for the video sites: "The number of YouTube-like services now stands at a staggering 173 - and in April alone 3 outfits got $30 million in funding. Who will survive?"

Opera 9 released

Opera 9 was released today.

Features:

• Bit Torrent
• Content Blocking
• Site Preferences
• Thumbnail Preview
• Widgets
• Improved Rich Text Editing

More features...
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/

Link:
http://www.opera.com

Ferrari: 0 - 60 in.......never

Ananova - Student knits her own Ferrari: "Art graduate Lauren Porter knitted a Ferrari sportscar for her honours degree at Bath Spa University."

Pretty good area code map

LincMad's 2005 Area Code Map

Might be a out of date but will do the trick for me.

Be a better web designer

A couple of articles on becoming a better web designer. Both, 50 ways to become a better web designer and 5 steps to building a better website, are good reads.

50 ways to become a better web designer:
http://.../50_ways_to_become_a_better_designer

5 steps to building a better website:
http://www.project83.com/weblog/?p=9

20 Great Low-Cost Utilities

Might be able to find a couple useful tools in a recent article from PC World about some low-cost or free utilities for general PC maintance.

Link:
http://pcworld.com.../0,aid,126037,00.asp

A website can grab the contents of your clipboard from IE

Check it out here:
http://www.jerryandmissy.com/work/clipboard.htm

There's a 9-Letter word that remains a valid word as Each Letter is Removed

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Language (Nine Letters): "The English language has at least one nine-letter word that remains a valid word as each of its letters is successively removed. "

Can you come up with it? If not click the link.

Amazon.com Grocery

Something just doesn't seem right buying Groceries from Amazaon. In my mind Amazon will always be the place to buy books, not groceries. Not so much a grocery store as a bulk ware house like Costco or Sams Club.

60 pack of cereals in a cup - More like what I would end up buying.

Top 10 Strangest Computer Setups

Top 10 Strangest Computer Setups

Too cool...

Keeping your email a secret using encryption

Lifehacker has a pretty good article on how to encrypt your email. I'm not sure I have ever sent an encrypted email. If the information is that sensitive that it needs encryption I never felt email was the way to go.

Just in case you use Gmail and want to encrypt than check out the Gmail Encrypt script from Greasemonkey (Firefox users only).

Microsoft Location Finder for Windows Live Local

Microsoft Location Finder is a application that turns a regular WiFi enabled laptop, Tablet or PC into a location determining device without the addition of any separate hardware. Basically it looks up your IP and shows your location on Windows Live Local. Really amazing how many of these little tools Microsoft has - just have to look through their downloads.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

An Inside View From a Google Employee

An Inside View From a Google Employee is a pretty interesting read about some of the ways that Google thinks and operates. The one thing that I think is appearent with a company like Google is that they know how to bring out the best in people.