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Free Nine Inch Nails Album
via Flickr Free Blog by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
This morning Nine Inch Nails released a new album called “The Slip”. Big deal right?It is a big deal because they released it for free on their website. No hooks. No gimmicks. 100% Free. Plus, the key word is “they.” No label involved here. The band released it the way they wanted to.On top of that they released it under a Creative Commons license so that you can play it on podcasts, use...
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Do You Have A BlackBerry? Can I Interest You In A Raise?
via Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image by (author unknown) on May 01, 2008
Have you ever read something in the newspaper that, literally, made you burst out in laughter? You know, the kind of laughter that could best be described as the verbal equivalent of, "really? this is what you're thinking?"In the Montreal Gazette today, I almost passed over a small news item in the Business section titled, Call Is Out For BlackBerry Pay. Here's the gist: Canadian...
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In search of 'the Flickr photograph'
via Tim Connor by Tim Connor on April 27, 2008
"Lighthouse," Rebekka Guoleifsdottir, All rights reservedVirginia Heffernan's "Sepia No More" article in today's New York Times Magazine gets a few things right. She contends that a distinct visual style, "the Flickr photograph," has emerged from Flickr.com, the popular photo-sharing website. I'd say she's right."People don’t upload to the Web words and images they had fashioned...
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Better Bookmarks for Firefox 3
via Yahoo! Search Blog by (author unknown) on April 30, 2008
The del.icio.us team has been working on a new beta add-on for the also-still-in-beta Firefox 3 to give users easier and quicker access to information. While maintaining full compatibility with the previous add-on for Firefox 2, the latest version offers a few new features, which they've detailed in their post. Give it a try and if you want to share your experience, thoughts, or have...
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Speeder Dogs!
via Global Nerdy by Joey deVilla on April 30, 2008
As both a dog person and an aficionado of science fiction action flicks, this photo amuses me to no end: Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
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Living in the Cloud
via Michael Mistretta by Michael Mistretta on April 30, 2008
Ever since Tommy Vallier’s “Living in the Cloud” talk at Podcamp Toronto this year, I’ve been pondering the idea of truly living in the cloud. In many ways, it is the ideal solution - being able to walk up to any computer in the world with an Internet connection, and access all of your data.Of course, at this point in time, it is next to impossible to store 500GB+ of your data on a server...
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Unified Comments - A New System for On Site Community
via Deys.ca by Bill on April 30, 2008
So I was listening to Mitch Joel on the latest Six Pixels of Seperation this morning and Joseph Rogers had a comment that he spent a lot of time reading blogs but not commenting because he uses a feed reader and rarely goes to the site. I can say I do the same thing but I do have a habit of opening the feed item in a new window and commenting every once and a while. I would probably comment more...
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RSS Needs An Easy Button
via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on April 25, 2008
Yesterday, Microsoft Live News Search added RSS feeds site-wide. This means you can now subscribe to a specific category, such as Business, or subscribe to a specific search term, such as “Mark Zuckerberg.” Thus, whenever a new story in the Business category or a new story mentioning Facebook’s CEO hits Live News, you will get a new item in your RSS reader of choice. Google News has long...
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PodShow is Dead; Long Live Mevio
via Remove Feed Ads by (author unknown) on April 24, 2008
The podcast world is abuzz - an icon in the podcasting world has passed on as a company. Adam Curry’s PodShow is dead, but before you podcasting naysayers start dancing on it’s grave, you should know that it’s simply a name change (and a site redesign).Mevio, which still claims co-founder and former MTV VJ Adam Curry, was one of the so-called founding fathers of podcasting, along with...
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The double-click time tells the window manager how good your reflexes are
via The Old New Thing by oldnewthing on April 23, 2008
The double-click time is sort of the dialog unit of time.It's used as the basis for many user interface time valuesthat don't have their own custom setting.Here are just a few examples, along withthe values you get if you leave the double-click time at its defaultof 500ms:The default tooltip timeouts are based on the double-click time. (Initial: 0.5s, autopop: 5s, reshow:...
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