TechBurst

YouMail

2006-11-15T19:03:00.000-07:00

"YouMail is the new voice mail for cell phones. It allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID. Individualize your voice greetings for friends, family or important callers while maintaining a standard greeting for work and unknown callers."

Ugenie - Comparison shop

2006-11-11T09:28:00.000-07:00

"Ugenie is a powerful new tool to help you find the best price on books, music, movies, and video games. You can shop for a single item, or customize a bundle of items. Either way, we'll compute the bottom-line price (including shipping, taxes, and discounts). We find the cheapest way to buy the exact items you want from one or more merchant sites. Our prices are accurate, we don't take money from merchants for preferred placements, and it won't cost you a penny."

TWERQ

2006-11-07T21:30:00.000-07:00

"The internet's first and only search tool to feature tabbed results. We have packed this unique functionality with a ton of practical time saving features that in effect change the way you search."
This new interface for searching is unlike any search engine on the web. TWERQ is the first to introduce Tabbed results which is similar to tabbed browsers only it is internal and integrated directly into the web interface making it more portable for devices that do not have tabbed browsing functionality. It also Enhances the experience of using tabbed browsers by allows users to keep only one browser tab for multiple simultaneous searches.

TWERQ

yourminis.com

2006-11-05T22:33:00.000-07:00

yourminis.com is a personalized dashboard of minis (mini applications, also known as widgets) that let you perform specific tasks, and get information and features from all over the web in one place. You can configure minis to see your email, check the weather, watch youtube videos, search the web, browse flickr photos, read news and rss feeds, save notes & to dos, listen to music, and much, much more.

Gickr: Create animated Gifs

2006-11-01T17:22:00.000-07:00

Gickr is a service that allows you to create animated Gifs online. There are a couple ways that you can do it though. You can either search Flickr for pictures, use your Flickr account, or you can just upload images to Gickr and create your animated Gif. You can also choose from different sizes and speeds for your Gif. It's really easy to use and it's fun so try it out.

Infrequent Posts

2006-11-01T07:25:00.000-07:00

Lately you might have noticed that I have been posting infrequently. I have not really had much time to post lately. I'm also not sure if any one is still reading this blog. Maybe I could try to post more frequently just shorter posts? Maybe I should just get rid of this blog? I'm not really sure. If any one is still reading this tell me what you think.

StupidVideos

2006-10-29T02:52:00.000-07:00

"StupidVideos.com, is a viral video website dedicated to humorous, off-the-wall videos, including wild stunts, wacky animals, sports bloopers, funny commercials, song and dance parodies and more. Our videos are submitted to us by users like you, licensed from our partners, or produced by the StupidVideos staff."
StupidVideos is a really cool site for some funny and of course stupid videos. StupidVideos has been around for a while but they have a new look and have relaunched. They are currently in beta.

Retrievr

2006-10-25T22:40:00.000-07:00

retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.

Locale

2006-10-23T20:56:00.000-07:00

"Can't decide what to do today? Just moved to a new area? Bored? Enjoy a unique day out as suggested by Locale!"
Locale is a great site for when you need to find something to do around your area. First you select the day, enter your zip code, and then your country. After that there is a list of various things and activities to do and you check which things you would like to do. After you hit the start button it generates a random day of things to do.

EarthPOI

2006-10-19T16:33:00.000-07:00

EarthPOI is a very cool tool that is all about discovering Earth. "We want you to be able to keep the places you love forever, and we want you to find other lovely places very easily! From you favorite café to the mountains in Alaska, from a map to satellite imagery, just save your Points Of Interest and share them with your friends and people around the world." There is a section on the left with the latest POIs which are fun to check out.

Newgie.com

2006-10-19T16:23:00.000-07:00

Newgie uses the attention given to each news story by its readers to determine which stories are the most interesting and newsy. Implicit human actions, such as page views, recommendations, and favorites, are all parts of the equation. Articles are then sorted by Newsiness, making it easy to find the news that matters most.

Unlike traditional web 2.0 news-organizers, Newgie utilizes implicit human actions, such as page views, recommendations, and favorites, to determine newsiness, rather than a voting mechanism such as Digg. By focusing on natural actions that people take whenever they read the news, Newgie focuses on the most innate indications of interest in the story. The result is that Newgie users easily find news stories neatly organized into hundreds of subject categories that are the most interesting, the most current, and of course the most newsy.

Jmp2.Net

2006-10-17T21:11:00.000-07:00

Jmp2.Net is antoher URL shortening service. There are many of these services but this one has a very clean and simple interface and there is no registration or sign up to use it either. Jmp2.Net also makes very short URLs currently and they have a Firefox toolbar to make it easier to shorten your URLs.

mi Lites iPod Cases

2006-10-15T09:51:00.000-07:00

mi Lites are protective iPod covers. Each mi Lites has a protective graphic cover which protects your iPod. mi Lites come in a range of different graphic designs. You hold the mi Lites cover by the sensor switches and it will light up and flash in a variety of patterns. mi Lites have their own replaceable power source so they don't drain power from your iPod. mi Lites covers will be available for all sizes of iPods except the mini and shuffle.

AddThis

2006-10-13T06:48:00.000-07:00

AddThis has one button to for all feed readers, all bookmark managers, all shopping services, all podcast services, and more. For web surfers this means you can collect information online and send it to your favorite bookmarking service, feed reader, shopping service, podcast service, etc. For web publishers this means that you can help promote your content by adding the AddThis Web Buttons and it also makes it easier for your audience to save the content of your site.

Obi-Wan or Qui-Gon Cursor

2006-10-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

So this guy, Russ Nelson uses four monitors and he sometimes loses track of the cursor. Well he has his Qui-Gon to show him where his cursor is at. I know he has four monitors but I'm not really sure why you would need it to find your cursor but I guess it's more amusing than purposeful. Anyways he hooked this thing up to a Makezine Controller which costs you $149.99, two servo motors, and a program which is on his site. The following is a video of it in action.

PureVideo

2006-10-09T20:27:00.000-07:00

PureVideo lets you easily search billions of videos from 100s of sites. We also give you quicklinks to the top 10 videos for over 35 sites.

"Part of a wider strategy to offer PureVideo Network's back-end technology to consumers, PureVideo Search is the Internet's first meta search engine for video, combining the accuracy of a crawl-based search with the timeliness of a feed-based search, and returning the most comprehensive and relevant results from the entire Web. PureVideo Search also provides access to more than 35 charts presenting the most popular music, sports, comedy, celebrity, viral, entertainment, and news videos. The charts provide users with comprehensive coverage on hot topics and the chance for serendipitous discovery."

FWDitOn

2006-10-09T20:07:00.000-07:00

FWDitOn is a site where you read, rate, and share the funniest email forwards. If you want to submit something you just forward the email to submit@fwditon.com.

iPod Hack: Screensaver

2006-10-08T17:36:00.000-07:00

If you have a 5 Gen. iPod you can have a video play while your iPod is charging.

Create a folder named Demo Mode on your iPod
In iTunes rename a video file to Demo
Sync iPod
Keep iPod on charger and after 2 min. It will play that video and repeat

Visit this site for some visuals if needed.

DealTuner

2006-10-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

DealTuner has the latest deals for tech gear and more. DealTuner gets deals posted on the best deal sites and you can search for deals and find them by category also. There are some pretty great deals so check it out.

Zune Mockup

2006-10-04T22:30:00.000-07:00

Wow, if only the Zune really looked this good. It's obviously a lot thinner than what the actual Zune is and of course there are no WiFi headphones. In my opinion I don't really think WiFi headphones would be practical. I really like the idea of this though.

Zune Unboxing Video

2006-10-03T21:11:00.000-07:00

Chris Stephenson from Microsoft and CBS unboxes and shows off a couple features of the Zune in this short video. He shows the packaging, how you can change the background picture, and the FM radio.

Check the video out here.

MeeVee

2006-10-02T15:33:00.000-07:00

MeeVee is your own personalized TV guide. You can select your interests and discover TV shows you didn't even know about. You can get a widget for you webpage that displays what you watch, RSS feeds are available for your guide, and you also can get your guide emailed to you weekly.

iPod and Zune Photo Comparison

2006-10-01T23:04:00.000-07:00

I just came across a site that I wanted to point out that shows a photo comparison of the Zune and the new 80GB iPod.

"The Zune weighs considerably less than the iPod. Screen size on the Zune is a slightly larger 3-inches, but you don't get a real sense for how much difference that makes till you see it next to the iPod screen."

Check out the site for more pictures.

Nowsy

2006-09-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

Nowsy is an information and news dashboard. On Nowsy you select the feeds from the list that is provided or you can enter a feed URL that is not in the list and each feed shows up in a feedbox. You can also drag and drop the boxes in the position you like. I've seen some other sites that do this but in my opinion I think Nowsy is the best.

eSnips

2006-09-29T22:03:00.000-07:00

With eSnips you get 1GB of free storage to upload and share. You can upload anything like web snippets and links, photos, audio, video, documents, and files. A cool feature is that you can decide to keep your uploads to your self, a private group, or anyone. You can also tag your things that you upload.