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Monday November 24th, 2008
4.1
Your iPhone Idea is Worth Zilch
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Do you have an idea for an iPhone app? Yeah, me too. And so does the barista at my local coffee shop. Ideas for iPhone apps are as ubiquitous as screenplays in LA. The idea alone isn’t worth anything, according to iPhone consultant Raven Zachary.
There are several factors conspiring against your iPhone idea:
There are still [...]
Saturday November 22nd, 2008
1.0
Share Your Mundane Details
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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The web has all sorts of data, but it’s sorely missing yours. If you request an account from Daytum, you can change that.
The site lets its users collect data about themselves and share it via beautiful charts. Track your coffee consumption, how often you exercise, or anything else that matters to you.
One of the site’s [...]
Friday November 21st, 2008
2.1
Go Go Gadget OAuth Support
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Passwords are a little bit more secure now that Google added OAuth support to its iGoogle Gadgets. Developers can now use their gadgets to easily grab data from OAuth-enabled APIs. Using OAuth, users do not have to give their passwords to developers. Instead, if a developer wants data from a service, the user enters the [...]
5.0
TypePad Takes On Disqus With New Distributed Comment System
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Six Apart, makers of blogging platforms Movable Type and Typepad, have announced a new distributed blog comment system that offers a very simple way of integrating comments into any page.
Similar to services from Disqus, the new TypePad Connect allows you embed comments in any page using JavaScript. Any user with a TypePad Connect profile can [...]
6.8
Customize Your Search Results Using Google’s New ‘SearchWiki’
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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If you’ve been wanting a way to tweak Google’s search results to suit your whims, the company is hearing your call — you can now edit and rank Google search results.
SearchWiki, as the new feature is known, appears to be Google’s answer to Wikia Search and Microsoft’s URank, both of which give you ways to [...]
2.3
Yahoo Improves Its OpenID Support
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Yahoo continues to make strides to improve its OpenID implementation. Thursday it announced limited testing for Simple Registration, which supplies profile data once a user logs in with their Yahoo OpenID. Currently it is only testing Plaxo and Jyte.
The experience logging in with Jyte is remarkable. It only takes a few clicks and I’m started [...]
Thursday November 20th, 2008
10
Create Image-less Graphs And Charts
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Adding beautiful charts to your site does not have to require a hefty server-side process or a third party service. With CSS and a little ingenuity, you can have the lightweight, easy to create visualizations of your data.
The design mavens over at Six Revisions have put together eight examples of CSS charts and graphs. Each [...]
1.9
Mac Viruses Continue to Lag Behind Windows Counterparts
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Quite a few software makers routinely release Windows versions ahead of Mac flavors — Skype, Google Chrome and Adobe Photoshop Elements to name a few — and now it seems that poor Mac users can’t even get a decent virus that’s on par with the threats Windows users face.
Yes, that’s right, there’s a new Mac [...]
4.1
How To: Watch YouTube Movies in Full 720p HD Glory
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Psst. Hey, wanna know secret? YouTube is offering 720p HD streaming on select videos.
We’ve already showed you how to hack YouTube URLs and embed codes to get higher quality video. While those tricks work on most videos, they only bump the resolution up to 480×360px — better, but still nothing close to HD.
Well, good [...]
1.0
Google Spices Up Your Inbox With New Gmail Themes
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Gmail has always been notable for its very all-business approach to e-mail, but with the service well established in the mainstream, Google has decided to add some more fun-oriented features. The latest is a series of themes that let you transform Gmail’s appearance to suit your whims — because nothing “spices up your inbox” like [...]
Wednesday November 19th, 2008
1.8
Make Your Site An iPhone App
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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You can get most of the benefits of an iPhone application without writing a single line of Objective C. An open source project called PhoneGap lets your wrap your website in iPhone App goodness. And you can even charge for your creation.
Even more exciting than being able to easily create an app is getting access [...]
1.0
Let My Maps Be Your Geo Database
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Toss out that MySQL book. The only thing you need to store location data is Google Maps.
My Maps is a feature that lets you create your own mashup on a map. Once a map is created, it can be shared with a link, or in Google Earth with a KML file. And now, it is [...]
3.9
Revamped CitySearch Makes Facebook Connect Look Useful
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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CitySearch probably isn’t your go-to site for local searches. While the site can be useful, its current interface is more likely to start you reminiscing about the old Geocities network, than inspire a return visit.
But CitySearch is hoping to change that perception with a new beta version that brings the site up to web 2.0 [...]
1.8
Xobni Puts the Social Web in Your Outlook Inbox
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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Those of you stuck using Microsoft Outlook for e-mail will be happy to know that the Xobni Outlook extension has been revamped with new integration tools for Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype and Hoovers.
Xobni (that’s “inbox” backwards and it’s pronounced “zob-nee”) already integrated with the LinkedIn social network and the new options bring the add-on closer [...]
7.2
Why Adobe ‘Configurator’ Will Revolutionize The Way You Use Photoshop
From webmonkey, 1 month ago,
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For newcomers, Photoshop can seem like a labyrinth. The photo editing app is very powerful, but with great power comes great complexity — figuring out how to do what you want can take longer than actually doing it.
To help make Photoshop more flexible and bit easier to work with, Adobe has just released Configurator — [...]