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AppMenuBoy Adds an Applications Menu to Your Dock [Featured Mac Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on April 29, 2008
Mac OS X only: Back in the non-Stacks days of Tiger, you could add a folder to the Dock and expand it into a hierarchical menu. Now with Stacks you can't easily navigate subfolders from a folder on the Dock, but small utility AppMenuBoy aims to change that—for your Applications folder, that is. Start up AppMenuBoy and expand your Applications folder into a Tiger-style hierarchical menu, as...
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FLVto Converts YouTube Videos to MP3s, No Upload Required [YouTube]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on April 29, 2008
FLVto is a web app with three buttons, one input box, and one simple-but-great function of converting YouTube and other Flash-based videos to MP3 audio files. We've shared a reader-submitted download-and-convert method, but FLVto makes the process pretty foolproof. Paste a YouTube or other video link (or upload an FLV file), hit "OK," then wait for your download prompt. The sound quality is...
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Shoes are bad for your feet? Vindicating the barefoot set
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 23, 2008
Adam Sternbergh's long investigative New York Magazine piece, "You Walk Wrong," makes a compelling case for shoes as inherently damaging to your feet and spine. I have very flat feet, which has always meant problems with my hips, knees and back, and I've work custom orthotic inserts since I was a teenage. Last year, I picked up a pair of Vibram Fivefingers "barefoot shoes" that do a...
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NYTimes.com hand-codes its HTML
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 29, 2008
... code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.But really the browser-to-browser consistency that you see (and I have to admit, it’s far from perfect) is the result of a vigilant collaboration between many different groups — the visual designers and tec...
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Artist Themes for iGoogle
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on April 29, 2008
Google in the US is currently promoting a new “artist themes” section for iGoogle via a special logo and text below the search box. IGoogle is the name of Google’s personalized homepage, and as it allows skinning with special background graphics and so on, this directory offers works by artists like Jeff Koons, Coldplay, Robert Mankoff, Dolce & Gabbana, Akira Isogawa, Anne Geddes and more...
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Diamondbacks | Scherzer unhittable in debut
via TOP 50 MLB NEWS by http://www.kffl.com on April 29, 2008
The Associated Press reports Arizona Diamondbacks SP Max Scherzer threw 4 1/3 innings as a reliever Tuesday, April 29, and retired all 13 batters he faced, seven by strikeout. His fastball reached 98 mph on the gun.
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The Twi-Nighter: The reasons we like Lee Elia are multifold
via Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
So did you really think I was going to get through an entire day of blogging without mentioning the 25th anniversary of Lee Elia's tantrum?C'mon people. You should know me better than that. As expected, there have been a lot of words devoted to Elia's famous rant in today's papers and across the Internet and I agree with almost all of them. A quarter of a century later,...
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Arizona pitchers win with arms and bats
via MLB - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
The Arizona Diamondbacks are working on an uncommon trifecta. Their hitters can hit, their pitchers can pitch … and their pitchers can hit, too. Not only do the D-Backs lead the major leagues in runs and ERA, their pitchers lead in virtually every offensive category — hits, doubles, RBIs, batting average, OPS (on-base average plus slugging percentage).D-Backs pitchers are hitting .273 with 15...
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Search Twitter in Realtime, and Get Free(ish) Content
via SEO Book.com - by Aaron Wall on April 29, 2008
Summize is a conversational search engine which allows you to search Twitter in realtime. Useful for finding customer feedback even when people do not provide it directly to you. For example, I just found out that for some people the Rank Checker Firefox extension stopped working after the last update. So I just reverted the extension and am awaiting another update from the developer. Summize...
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Rockies | Iannetta plays third
via TOP 50 MLB NEWS by http://www.kffl.com on April 29, 2008
The Associated Press reports Colorado Rockies C Chris Iannetta played first base for the first time in his major league career after SS Troy Tulowitzki (quadriceps) left the game in the first inning with a strained left quadriceps Tuesday, April 29.
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