kuler

kuler

Kuler is an easy-to-use but advanced color creation tool that's great for designers. It's also fun for people who just like playing around with color ...

Adobe Edge: December 2007

Adobe Edge: December 2007

The scoop on Buzzword, the first web-based word processor

Three years ago in October 2004, I was on the O'Reilly Media campus and the proverbial light bulb clicked on. Tim O'Reilly was in front of the group and he was rolling out his Web 2.0 spiel. I'd heard him do it once before, but this time a key phrase grabbed my attention: platform shift.

I have been in the software industry since the 1970s. In fact, in the '80s I was responsible for managing Lotus Manuscript, a DOS word processing product. I have also been an English teacher, writer, and bookstore owner.

Google to Buy GrandCentral

Google to Buy GrandCentral

Google is about to acquire GrandCentral, a service that links all your phone numbers and gives you a new number with additional features:

* Check your messages by phone, email, or online
* Keep all your messages online for eternity
* Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
* Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
* Click-to-dial from your address book
* Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
* Turn your MP3s into the ring tones your callers hear
* Forward, download, and add notes to your messages

"GrandCentral gives people one phone number for life. This number is not tied to a phone or a particular location; it's tied to you. GrandCentral is a unified communications service that integrates all your existing phones, numbers and voicemail boxes and bridges the gap between voicemail and email."

The service is available only for the US and Canada,

Good tool for downloading websites

HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

WinHTTrack is the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release. See the download page.

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Full WEB 2.0 API Listt

Full WEB 2.0 API List | Tech Magazine

Full WEB 2.0 API List

Aware Image Resizing

Dr. Ariel Shamir Home Page.

Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir
Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26, Number 3,
SIGGRAPH 2007
Video

GRC | Security Now! Notes for Episode #102

GRC | Security Now! Notes for Episode #102

Varitalk

Varitalk: "Varitalk is the world's leading provider of personalized talking audio. Varitalk's patented technology empowers companies and content providers to literally speak to consumers on a personal level, with individually customized messages in the celebrity or character voice of their choice."

What is reCAPTCHA?

Digitizing Books One Word at a Time A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs. About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books. To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then, to make them searchable, transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.

Embedding Google Maps

Fortunately, there are sites that solve this problem and provide you some code you can paste in your site. Map Generator is very easy to use: enter the address, the type of map (street-level, satellite or hybrid), its dimensions and you could build a map like this:

http://www.map-generator.net/map.php?name=HyperActive.ca&addres

Embedding Google Maps

Fortunately, there are sites that solve this problem and provide you some code you can paste in your site. Map Generator is very easy to use: enter the address, the type of map (street-level, satellite or hybrid), its dimensions and you could build a map like this:

http://www.map-generator.net/map.php?name=HyperActive.ca&address=201-33%20Roydon%20Place%20Ottawa%20ON%20Canada&width=500&height=400&maptype=map&zoom=14

Embedding Google Maps

from Google Operating System

Coolsat 6000 Premium BEST FTA from Coolsat Canada Retail

Coolsat 6000 Premium is here. You may have liked the Coolsat 5000 but any new purchases you should be buying the Coolsat 6000. Featuring new FASTER Conexant processor, The Coolsat 6000 premium features Faster Channel Changing Faster Channel Scanning, and Extended Memory 32 Mb. As with the Coolsat 5000 platinum, Component Video ouput for connection to newer TVs, and a nicer On Screen Display. This receiver is a lot faster than previous Coolsat offerings. Continuing the tradition of excellence, the Coolsat 6000 premium comes with a Universal Remote control to easily control your television or receiver volume. The Coolsat 6000 has quickly become the top selling FTA receiver in North America. Every unit comes complete with DiSEqC Switch and Data Cable.

Coolsat 6000 Premium BEST FTA from Coolsat Canada Retail

Innovation at Google Video

Here's "Innovation at Google", a 50 minute presentation that will definitely not bore you.

searchCrystal - Widgets

SearchCrystal is an interesting way to visualize results from different search engines. The results common to more search engines are placed closer to the center of circle and have special icons that indicate the search engines. You can use this visualization to compare search engines, to find the rankings of a site or just to discover less common web pages.

SearchCrystal also lets you view image results, videos, news and blog posts from the most popular specialized search engines, but the overlaps are less frequent here. Unlike most meta-search engines, SearchCrystal lets you view all the top results in a single page and you can also embed it as a widget in your blog. Unfortunately, the site is pretty slow, so I preferred to include a screenshot instead.


searchCrystal - Widgets

Gapminder Demo

One-minute-demo
http://www.gapminder.org/gapminderworld/help/gapminder_world_help.htm

The Gapminder World 2006
http://tools.google.com/gapminder

TED | About TED

TED | About TED:

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 100 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts

MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts

Webmaster Help Center - Does Google index sites that use Macromedia Flash?

Yes, Google indexes pages that use Macromedia Flash. However, our crawlers may experience problems indexing Flash pages. If you're concerned that Flash content on your pages may be inhibiting Google's ability to crawl your site, you may want to consider using a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site. If features such as Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.

Webmaster Help Center - Does Google index sites that use Macromedia Flash?

Invisible Children - Invisible Children website

Invisible Children - Invisible Children

The Invisible Children Bracelet Campaign

The Invisible Children Bracelet Campaign

Invisible Children

In the spring of 2003, three young Americans traveled to Africa in search of such as story. What they found was a tragedy that disgusted ... all » and inspired them. A story where children are weapons and children are the victims. The "Invisible Children: rough cut" film exposes the effects of a 20 year-long war on the children of Northern Uganda. These children live in fear of abduction by rebel soldiers, and are being forced to fight as a part of violent army. This wonderfully reckless documentary is fast paced, with an MTV beat, and is something truly unique. To see Africa through young eyes is humorous and heart breaking, quick and informative - all in the very same breath. See this film, you will be forever changed.


Invisible Children

Good Flash site - IBM BladeCenter

Good Flash site

IBM BladeCenter - Out with cables. In with Blades

Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Webmaster Help Center - Webmaster Guidelines

Webmaster Help Center - Webmaster Guidelines

Threat Level - Wired Blogs

Threat Level - Wired Blogs: "Images Captured by New Google Maps Tool"

Google Maps - Street View

Google Maps - Street View

Video Bugatti Veyron at top speed

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