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How to Find Clever Web Domains Like del.icio.us or ma.tt or blo.gs
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 15, 2008
Say your name is Jessica and you plan to launch a personal website but the web domain jessica.com is already registered. You then try other common options like .org or .net but unfortunately, none of them are available.What you can not try is different permutations and combinations of domain names - something like jessi.ca, j.essi.ca je.ssi.ca, jes.si.ca or jes.si/ca - they are all valid domains...
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Finish Line
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
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Packaging for retail
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on May 15, 2008
Item 1: My Logitech cordless remote (which I like a lot) came in plastic, non-recyclable packaging that weighed twice as much as the remote itself.* The plastic was so well sealed and so thick that I actually broke a kitchen knife trying to open it. (*this is not hyperbole. I weighed it). This is expensive, time-consuming and positions the product as extremely ungreen. This packaging is the...
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Get Vista's Best Features in XP [Windows]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 13, 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended XP's shelf-life, several new and improved features available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that doesn't mean you're out of luck. Let's take a look at a few ways you can incorporate Windows Vista's best...
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Quote o' the Day
via The Online Photographer by Michael Johnston on May 05, 2008
“An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.”- —Nina Simone
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Speeding up Photoshop with an External Drive
via The Online Photographer by Michael Johnston on May 12, 2008
By CteinYou're about to read a follow-up to an article that's yet to be published. I'll have an article in the July/August PHOTO Techniques magazine on how to extract the maximum performance from Photoshop. Post-deadline, Other World Computing loaned me a couple of high-performance external drives to test as Photoshop scratch drives. I report on them here. Isn't time-twisting...
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All For Freedom and For Pleasure
via Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk on May 14, 2008
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I Can't Forget
via Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk on May 15, 2008
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Google Spreadsheets Become Wikis
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click on the Share tab and enable "Anyone can edit this document WITHOUT LOGGING IN", your spreadsheet becomes a wiki...
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Magnify’s New Blogging Plugin Tries to Make Multimedia Simple
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 14, 2008
Magnify.net has introduced a plugin for Movable Type and WordPress that attempts to minimize the effort required to add multimedia content to a blog. Magnify.net is a video discovery and broadcast platform that provides a hosted framework for video distribution.The plugin, called Magnify Publisher, allows bloggers to search and embed content from over a dozen media sites including YouTube and...
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