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Sirius has a web client you can use to stream their music to your computer, but it’s pretty lame (or it was last time I checked). Enter NiceMac LLC, creators of StarPlayr for Windows [alpha, download], Mac [download], and soon on the iPhone.
StarPlayr’s features include setting presets, choosing a high or low bitrate, tracking what [...]
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I was stumbling around recently when I came across this gem someone created on Dipity, a way to put events on a horizontal scrolling timeline. The service itself is a pretty good idea and there are surely other great timelines out there. For now, enjoy this one.
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A while back I had a neat idea to build a service that would allow me to select a list of Craigslist feeds for a location (or locations) and aggregate it into a single feed. You could add any of the categories from any of the cities just by going to a website and it’d [...]
The official Firefox 3-compatible release for Tab Mix Plus is out. There are a number of improvements over the previous version, but the important thing is that it’s finally official. I hacked together a version a couple months back, and while I’m glad I was able to help, I’m even more glad that a true [...]
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You can add another name to the pool of URL shortening services - Cligs. This service performs the same basic routines that others perform, but with analysis on the links you’ve created. It’s got a pretty decent set of analysis tools including referrer statistics, search engine bot sightings, social media mentions, and hits per day. [...]
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Ever wonder if a username is taken on a certain site? Scared that other people might have snatched up your oh so precious net handle? Curious if you actually registered your handle on a site? Check out usernamecheck.com. It’s a simple way to determine if a username is available on a site.
All you have to [...]
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For Mac OS X: I’ve been looking for a solution to feed my addiction to Google Reader without having to go the the website every time. There’s an AIR application called ReadAIR, but I didn’t like it very much. I really like the usability of the Reader interface, so I would be hard-pressed to use [...]
A personal start page is a single page that can be accessed from any computer and typically serves as the homepage for a browser. There are many solutions for personal start pages, including a homebrewed page, iGoogle, and Netvibes. I’ve used both homebrewed pages and iGoogle in the past, but eventually stray from them.
I thought [...]
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Ever wonder what color an element on a web page is? Ever try to recreate that color, only to be greeted by painful headaches and an impossible time at recreating that color? ColorZilla takes all the guess work out of figuring out the code behind a color.
To use the addon, all you have to do [...]
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A few days I wrote a post about OpenID. There’s another authentication method similar to, but different from, OpenID called OAuth. OAuth stands for Open Authentication and was formed by a committee of users. The original spec for OAuth was released in late 2007. OpenID and OAuth were conceived for the same general purpose, but [...]
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