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Help Me DesignMyRoom

Joel — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:33:05 +0000

Some times it isn’t easy to decorate a room. Many people try to imagine how a room may look with a particular style or color, or even resort to sketching the room. Today we are going to take a look at DesignMyRoom, a web site which aids its users in home decorations.

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Jimmy Justice

Joel — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:12:32 +0000

There is a man that goes by the name Jimmy Justice in NYC armed with a camcorder who has made it his mission to capture NYC’s finest in their… …not so finest hour. Watch how J. Justice follows and confronts cops as they, them selves, brake driving laws. Bellow theres a few clips of Jimmy in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjBaRCANLbI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-tcjc87hw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052S1yg-zR0

Searching with The Find

Joel — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:15:13 +0000

Online bargain hunting can be a daunting and a tiring task without the aid of a shopping search engine. Today we are going to take a look at a new start-up called The Find that makes online shopping a bit more manageable with its use of Ajax.

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Gphone Rumors

Joel — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:58:13 +0000

Soon we might have a competitor to the iPhone, the “Gphone”. Gphone is a supposed secret Google phone is is supposed to debute in the USA and in Eurap in the year 2008. (more…)

Vixy.net

Joel — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:55:27 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about Vconvert.net, a web service that converts video from avideo hosting sites, such as YouTube and Google Video, to other formats. Today I found vixy.net which provides the same service but supports different conversion formats. Vixy.net is basicly the same thing as Vconvert.net but supports the following formats: (more…)

Vconvert.net

Joel — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:19:32 +0000

We have all visited video hosting sites such as YouTube and Google Videos. For many, these videos are only available at the hosting companies’ website. But now, video from these sites can be easily downloaded to your computer or mobile device (iPhone, PSP, or iPod). (more…)

Browsershots.org

Joel — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:35:30 +0000

Websites don’t always look the same throughout competing web browsers. Usually web masters have multiple operating systems and web browsers installed on their computer in order to be able to test their creation. The process of checking a website in multiple platforms and browsers can be time consuming and tedious; a better way do exist.

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Sell Your Gadgets with SecondRotation

Joel — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:28:39 +0000

Have old electronics stowed away in your closet that isn’t worth the time to sell on eBay: sell it to SecondRotation.com. Second Rotation buys electronics from users and then resells the item on eBay.

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Descoving new music with TuneGlue

Joel — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:18:20 +0000

Played out your play list? Discover new artist that may interest you with TuneGlue. TuneGlue is a very simple service with one great feature, create a web of similar artists. The user begins by searching for his or her favourite artist and expanding the artist. TuneGlue will then display six additional artist that share the same genre, these new artists will be attached in a web. The additional artists can then be expanded as well. (more…)

Your Faviorate Blog Now Avilable as an Email Subscription!

Joel — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:58:40 +0000

Now you can have Rumboard delivered straight to your e-mail box with an Email Subscription! Always remember that your privacy is very important. Your email or any other information about you will not be shared with anyone else, period.

Evil Popups

Joel — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:51:51 +0000

I ran into the hackademix.net blog a few days ago, and the author is reporting of a new type of Java script pop-up that can cause many users headaches, he calls it, "Pure Java, Pure Evil Popups." These pure Java script pop-ups can cover up the whole screen and also can't be closed without terminating your browser. The author recommends totaling disabling your web browser's Java script and only enabling them on trusted sites.

Visit the article for additional information and also neat examples of the pop-ups in action.

Put Your Documants Online with Scribd

Joel — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:56:11 +0000

I was reading Full Circle Magazine today, an Ubuntu magazine, when I noticed a neat feature on their site. FCM publishes a preview of the full PDF within a embedded document reader, examples can be seen here or at the bottom of the page. (more…)

Have a Great Idea? Spigit!

Joel — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:46:29 +0000

Lets face it, we all have had a great idea that others thought stank or ideas that really did stink but everyone else thought was great. How do you weed out bad ideas from the good? How do you test your ideas before putting it into action? This is where Spigit comes to the rescue with its concept showcasing platform. (more…)

Google Maps - Mapplets

Joel — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:53:19 +0000

Google Maps has come a long way with it’s satellite photographs, Traffic report, My Maps, and Street View. Now let’s prepare our selves for Mapplets.

Mapplets provides the user’s My Maps menu with additional tools. Some of the tools, or Mapplets, are provided by Google and others are third party tools. Let’s take a look at these tools provided as of this writing.

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Tangler

Joel — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:17:17 +0000

Tangler is fairly new and it is the first Ajax based and real-time messaging board service that I have touched upon. As mentioned, Tangler is built with Ajax and allows users to interact with each other like any other message board, except the interaction is done in real-time similar to an instant messenger.

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