Unicycle-Riding Robot - Murata Girl

MS launches new Xbox website

Xbox Flavors:
Link:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/default.htm

The 10 Most Mysterious Cyber Crimes

The best criminal hacker is the one that isn't caught—or even identified. These are 10 of the most infamous unsolved computer crimes (that we know about).

Link:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2...

Giving away 3 Camtasia Studio Licenses

First, what is Camtasia Studio:

Imagine being able to show exactly what's on your screen to anyone, anywhere. Imagine that it's easy. Now you've imagined Camtasia Studio. With the smartest screen recording tools on the planet, Camtasia Studio makes everything from training videos to PowerPoint presentations to lectures look better, reach more people, and pack more punch. Which makes you look even smarter, too.

I have used Camtasia Studio for years now and its an excellent tool that makes creating videos a simple process. From screen recording to post production to publishing the video, everything is logical and easy to do.

Link:
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Second, how to enter:
Leave a comment to this post saying one thing you like about Camtasia Studio (at least try it before leaving a comment). Also, in the comment leave your name and email address (use a format like name-a-t-domain-com so spammers won't pick it up) or use a Blogger account where I can locate your email address to send the registration key to.

I will be selecting at random three comments at the end of the month.

(please don't enter multiple time)

Value: $299.00

Closed - Selecting winners later today

Google Moderator launches

It lets a collection of users post questions and the group votes the questions up. Great for company wide meetings where each employee can post questions and vote the questions up to be answered.

Collect questions in one place Everyone has a chance to propose a question to the group.

Vote for the questions you care about The blue featured question gives everyone's submission the chance to be voted on.

Use at any event or gathering Google Moderator works in any group setting, from lectures to town hall meetings.

Link:
http://moderator.appspot.com/

Be sure to check out my Big List of Google websites.

Tabblo Print Toolkit

The Tabblo Print Toolkit (TPT) is a suite of developer tools for making websites more printable. With our first release you will be able to re-format a web page into printable templates through calls to our templating engine.

Information may be a little dated but it does have some good information and the site contains links to other useful information about printing. The article at A List Apart is one I recommend to people all the time.

Link:
http://developer.tabblo.com/

The Ultimate Small Business Owner's Resource Guide Available as Free PDF

When your brother's starting up a new business and keeps asking you for the best places to do things online like send faxes, get legal help, or find a virtual assistant, send him a copy of The Ultimate Small Business Owner's Resource Guide. The book normally costs $35 for a print version, but it's available as a free PDF download here today.

Link:
http://lifehacker.com/5053913/

Google's 10th Birthday website

Link:
http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/

View the Google Timeline:
http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/#start

Crawling through HTML forms

In the past few months we have been exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages and URLs that we otherwise couldn't find and index for users who search on Google. Specifically, when we encounter a <> element on a high-quality site, we might choose to do a small number of queries using the form. For text boxes, our computers automatically choose words from the site that has the form; for select menus, check boxes, and radio buttons on the form, we choose from among the values of the HTML. Having chosen the values for each input, we generate and then try to crawl URLs that correspond to a possible query a user may have made. If we ascertain that the web page resulting from our query is valid, interesting, and includes content not in our index, we may include it in our index much as we would include any other web page.

Link:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/...

Busuu - A new way to learn a language

A new concept of language learning by offering you the following advantages:

• Learn from your fellow students: Learn directly from native speakers of the busuu.com community and forget about the horrible grammar sessions you had in school
• Learn what you really want: Be completely flexible in the content you want to learn, from preparing for a job interview to a discotheque pick-up line we can meet all your language needs
• Learn for free: During our beta phase, busuu.com can be used completely for free! Once we launch our next version, you will have the possibility to pay a small amount per month in order to become a premium member and get access to additional learning tools and premium content. But even as a basis-member, you will always enjoy loads of learning content completely for free!

Link:
http://www.busuu.com

Windows 7 M3 Build 6780 Pictures

The writings on the wall. Get used to the Vista like experience or move to Linux. If you are sticking with XP attempting to wait out Microsoft hoping they would take a step back with the UI of Windows there doesn't seem to be a point. Windows 7 is shaping up to be Vista II and not a cross between what users love about XP with the enhancements of Vista.

I'm still going to wait for Windows 7 before leaving XP.

See more at:
http://www.thinknext.net/archives/2268

X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2

The competition to become the next markup language for the Web is heating up. This article takes a look at what's cool and what's uncool about the competing technologies.

This is something that is progressively getting closer to a topic web designers / developers need to start thinking about. The article 'How HTML 5 Is Already Changing the Web' is what brought this back to focus for me.

What the differences are:

XHTML 2 is a bold step forward intended to create an architecture that will become the host language to many other W3C technologies already in use, or in the works. XHTML 2 is based solely on XML, a technology that most believe will enable the Web to reach its full potential. XHTML 2 is driven by how markup should be used, rather than by how markup is currently used.

X/HTML 5 is an extension of HTML 4 and XHTML 1. It is an incremental step forward rather than a grand leap forward in the style of XHTML 2. Working within the confines of HTML 4 and XHTML 1, X/HTML 5 has devised clever solutions to address some of the faults in HTML 4 and XHTML 1. X/HTML 5 can be also be served as HTML or XML. So, unlike XHTML 2, X/HTML 5 is influenced by the current state of the art (Web browser technology, etc.) and how markup is currently used.

Who will win? I sure hope that it doesn't stay a split and one specification will become the standard. I think small steps forward at a faster rate of finalizing the spec is better than huge steps forward with long breaks between updates.

Link:
http://xhtml.com/en/future/...

MS drops Seinfeld

Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether.

That didn't last long.

Link:
http://valleywag.com/5051455/...

Do you Jott?

Jott makes sure you stay on top of everything. With a simple phone call to 866-JOTT-123, you can capture notes, set reminders and calendar appointments, stay in touch with friends and family, and interact with your favorite web sites and services...all with your voice! Simply call Jott and tell us where you want your message to go. We capture your voice, turn it into text, and send it to the destination you chose.

Link:
http://jott.com

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures. The current version enables you to quickly geotag your photos, view and edit metadata, and more, leveraging the power of Windows and Microsoft Live Local.

Features:

• Geotagging with flexibility
• Determine location name automatically
• Determine GPS coordinates from location name
• Identify location on a map
• View images on a map
• Edit image metadata
• RAW support
• Extensibility

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

Best Buy to buy Napster....why?

A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday confirms that retailer Best Buy has entered into a deal to completely purchase online music service Napster, for $121 million including $54 million up front.

Why? Where is Best Buy going with this? Are the brick and mortar companies as we know it on the way out the door?

Link:
http://www.betanews.com/...

The ultimate guide to motherboards

As with every other component, motherboards have come a long way from the original IBM PC of 1981. If you're old enough to remember the first De Lorean DMC-12, perhaps the original PC XT mobo still casts some dark shadow over your memory? At the time there were certainly wonders to behold; these days, they simply look a mess with integration the last thing on the designers mind and all the IO having to be decidedly off-board.

The XT had all the same parts as today's mobos, they just worked a little slower. Instead of having a dedicated, integrated chipset, the XT used discrete off-the-shelf components: clock generators, DMA controller, interrupt handler, keyboard and bus controllers, a system timer and a real-time clock, along with the CPU, FPU, ROM and system memory.

That's eleven individual integrated-chips along with all the additional components, adding up to one expensive mother of a board. What we might recognise today as a motherboard didn't appear until 1986, when a company called Chips and Technology offered a single-chipset solution, by rolling most of the previous parts into one. Requiring only a few support chips, it simplified mobo design, reduced costs and started the trend of ever-greater integration.

Link:
http://www.techradar.com/news/...

6 Online Photo Storage websites besides Flickr

ImageShack
ImageShack is an intuitive and easy-to-use free media hosting service. It can be used to upload images, flash files, and movies, and share them with friends using any imaginable means.



PhotoBucket
Photobucket is a media-sharing and hosting site that also allows users to upload video clips, edit them using Adobe Remix, and create profiles and portfolios to share.



Picassa Web Albums
Show your photos at their best. View full-screen slideshows, see your pictures arranged on a global map, enjoy video playback, and more.



ShutterFly
Helping you enhance, organize and store your digital photography allows us to provide the highest quality products for you, our customer.



WebShots
Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites.



Zooomr
Everyone can sign-up and share unlimited photos with their family, friends and the entire world as well.

Microsoft Jerry Seinfeld Ad #2

Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory

This is the first blog post in a series I'll write over the coming months called Pushing the Limits of Windows that describes how Windows and applications use a particular resource, the licensing and implementation-derived limits of the resource, how to measure the resource’s usage, and how to diagnose leaks. To be able to manage your Windows systems effectively you need to understand how Windows manages physical resources, such as CPUs and memory, as well as logical resources, such as virtual memory, handles, and window manager objects. Knowing the limits of those resources and how to track their usage enables you to attribute resource usage to the applications that consume them, effectively size a system for a particular workload, and identify applications that leak resources.

Link:
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/...

Google Chrome User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13

I am already seeing Chrome hit around 1% of my web traffic. Luckily Veign renders fine in Chrome and the website I checked, that I designed, work fine too. No worries for me, yet.

Link:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-user-agent/

First ad for Microsoft using Jerry Seinfeld

Cfont Pro makes a Smashing Magazine blog post

Cfont Pro made smashing magazine's 25 Font Management Tools Reviewed blog post. Its near the bottom of the blog post.

If you use Cfont Pro cast a vote at the bottom of the smashing magazine post.

Answers to common Google Chrome objection

• This browser is going to have AdSense hard-coded into a browser frame that I can’t delete, right?
• Hmm. Well, I bet you hard-code Google as the default search engine, don’t you? I’ll bet you can’t even select other search engines!
• Okay, but this browser is tracking everywhere I go and sending that information to
• Another browser? Geez, I’m a webmaster/search engine optimizer/front-end
• Clearly launching a web browser means that Google is losing its focus on core search quality, right?
• Does this mean that you don’t love/support Firefox or the Mozilla Foundation?
• Speaking of Macs and Linux, why no Mac/Linux support yet?
• This is going to be some buggy, crashing piece of beta download, isn’t it?
• Google has some selfish motivation for doing this, right? I’m sure that there’s some angle here--there’s gotta be?
• Will Google stop actively working on Google Chrome and let it stagnate after a few months?
• Dude, this anonymous commenter said that Google claims that they own everything you touch when you run Chrome! Should I be worried?

Read the answers at:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

CurdBee, weird name but a useful website

CurdBee is a safe and secure web-based billing application from Vesess. Use it to send clients invoices and then collect payments via PayPal or Google Checkout, billing them easily in the currency you choose. It’s so simple, you won’t believe it till you see it.

Link:
http://curdbee.com/

First screenshots of Google Chrome

Link:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-02-n72.html

The Great Software List for Linux

If this will be anything like his original The Great Software List, which was geared towards Windows software, then The Great Software List for Linux will be an amazing resource of invaluable software. Even though I'm not much into Linux I can still appreciate the level of software he is recommending.

Check this resource out, and be sure to bookmark it.

When is The Great Software List for Online Applications coming?

Link:
http://www.anova.org/software/index.html

Google Chrome?

Google just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow).

Link:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/...

Chrome Link:
http://www.google.com/chrome

Happy Labor Day

Go out and enjoy the day instead of working...