Year: 2006
Captioned Fractals
Blue Oyster Spiral Fractal Zoom – Google Video This is an interesting demo of two nice items. First this is from Google’s new “Captioned” videos they have available. I am listing this one because it is a relatively short show, but you can also see full programs and movies more than an hour long now…
Google Reader Upgrade
Google Reader (100+) Today Google updated their page format of Google Reader. It now can look much more like Bloglines or Pluck in addition to its old style of display. Personnaly I think this is a great improvement once again making Google the big bully on the web, M$ is falling backward again. Consider this…
Google Captioning!
Closed Captioning Hits Google Video This is great news for the hearing impaired. Now Google is captioning the videos on it’s site. I wonder if it uses software or skilled people to do it…
Great humor video from Japan
You need to see this… It’s a five minute video I only recommend for high speed connected folks, but it’s good. 🙂
Desktop Storm Wallpaper
Here is a great link to some incredible storm photos sized for desktop wallpaper. As a former pilot and weather affecionado I recommend this link below … Wallpaper
How is your hearing?
Mosquito Ringtone and other ultrasonic ringtones only kids can hear! I’d never thought of this! The link above offers some high pitched sounds for you to listen and judge how high a pitch you can hear. The story is that if you are under 20 you may still be able to hear tones over 17kHz…
Dynamic Drive
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Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site! Very useful stuff for website building.
Mozy Remote Backup: Free. Automatic. Secure.
Update: 2021-05-31 The Internet and computing is so dynamic, changing, and the post here from 2006 is now outdated. Mozy was scarfed up by Carbonite and the service receiving the most votes for best personal cloud backup is iDrive.com. They have a great starter offer which I used for a year and found to be…
Google Calendar
Google Calendar AT LAST!! Calendaring has long been a sore spot for me. MS Outlook does most of what I want but it’s M$ software, expensive. Yahoo has a decent system but its covered with ads. Mozilla Sunbird is developing slowly and I believe will eventually be what I use as it uses the MAC…
Folder View
Folder View – Official Home Folder View is a free (freeware) add-on for Windows that drastically enhances the way you browse the folders on your system. Files are often scattered around many different folders on the harddisk and locations on the network. Every time you want to copy, move, open or save a file, this…
Hit the Switch!
Switch. Off. More people are interested in switching off their PCs & Macs than ever before. See why they made the change and how easy it was. Discover how compatible you are with other people. Learn about all the great ways getting out more will give you a better life. And understand how a simple…