Google Personalized Homepage Now Displays Feed Snippets

February 5, 2007


The Google Personalized Homepage has made a small tweak to the way it handles RSS feeds. All feeds now have a plus sign that when clicked shows the snippet of the text of the feed. Also, all feeds now have time stamps.



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SMS Post

February 4, 2007

Tamame khoshi ham male toe janam, ba harki basham delam peshe toe

Top Google Custom Search Engines

January 23, 2007


If you’ve created a Google Custom Search Engine, you can now check if it appears in Google’s (traffic) popularity chart. Here’s the current top 10:



  1. Soundclick.com Search

  2. e-Words Search

  3. MozillaZine KB Search

  4. Macworld

  5. Google Earth Community

  6. New Advent

  7. Antoloji Arama Motoru

  8. AreaConnect

  9. Duowan WOW Search Engine

  10. New York State DMV

 


 



[via Google Blogoscoped]

World’s Highest Website

January 23, 2007


Here’s the world’s highest website. The creators claim it’s 18,939 kilometers high, and they’re using the following CSS:


div#whws { font-size: 100cm; height: 18939em; line-height: 1.0; }




[via Google Blogoscoped]

The Castle of Bozcaada

January 23, 2007

 


The Castle of Bozcaada



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Tunnel of ice

January 23, 2007

 


Tunnel of ice



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How to download video from YouTube, MySpace, Google Video and others

January 11, 2007


Tech tutorial site Gil’s Method details how to download and save web video from YouTube, MySpace and Google Video using the Firefox Video Downloader extension and Media Coder. Why the big rigamarole?


The reason you have to go through this process to download the videos is due to the fact that content providers (YouTube, Google Video, and others) use special formats that do not allow playback in traditional media players (i.e. Windows Media Player, Itunes, and others); as such this method allows you to save the downloaded video files to a universal .avi file that you can play back on any media player.

We’ve covered this ground a couple of different ways before but this is a good step by step to pass on to your brother.





[via Lifehacker]

Ophcrack Live CD

January 11, 2007

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The free, open source Ophcrack Live CD is a Windows account password cracking tool designed to help you recover lost Windows passwords.


After you download the 462mb .iso and burn it to a CD, just restart your computer and boot up the Live CD. Once the CD boots, Ophcrack automatically loads and is on its way to cracking your password. So how well does it work?


Honestly… Ophcrack is creepy. It cracked my (somewhat mediocre) 13-character alphanumeric password in about 5 minutes. Like most powerful tools, Ophcrack can be used for the forces of both good and evil, but for anyone who’s been locked out of their Windows user account because you can’t remember your password, Ophcrack can be very good. It may also encourage you to beef up the security of your user account password – that’s what it did for me. Thanks K-milo!





[via Lifehacker]

Create smart sets in Flickr with SmartSetr

January 11, 2007

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Web site SmartSetr lets you create smart sets for your Flickr account based on predefined criteria, like tags, text, date taken, or date uploaded.


In a nutshell, SmartSetr works a lot like iTunes Smart playlists – but for your Flickr account. This is an incredible tool for any prolific tagger and lover of advanced filtering, providing a quick and easy way to create image sets when you already know which tags, for example, you’d like to include. As of this writing, you have to manually refresh the smart sets through SmartSetr if you want it to update a set with the latest images, but the app’s author claims automatic updates are on the way – meaning dynamic, smart Flickr sets aren’t far away. Flickr lovers rejoice! SmartSetr is free, requires read-write access to your Flickr account.





[via Lifehacker]

Daily news roundup

January 11, 2007





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