Albeit a bit rough at the edges, and definitely low budget, Alex Rose and his business partner Jay Adelson have started an online television network of sorts, sometimes called IPTV. Most of their programs appeal to geek culture and technology issues, but they’re cool. Check out revision3.com to see for yourself.
The websit MousePrint.org literally turns advertising on its head by focusing on an ad’s asterisked fine print footnote rather than the headline. The goal is to help educate the public about the catches or “gotchas” in disclaimers, and to encourage advertisers to abandon the motto, “the big print giveth, and the little print taketh away.”
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Here’s an exceptionally cool Mac feature that I just learned of.
Pressing the ESC key after typing in a character or part of a word while in iChat, Mail, TextEdit, etc. will reveal a drop down menu. This menu contains all the words your computer knows that begin with that combination of letters! Pretty neat, and [...]
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I think this is cool, and I wish I could make it work. Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. The user of this software would observe an ever-changing mosaic of all the jpeg images that other users of his LAN (local area network) [...]
This links to a short animation on U-Tube.
I’ve found myself on the U-Tube site more and more in the last few days. It’s actually pretty cool.
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Enter your number into this site and it will identify the letters associated with the numbers…does yours have a secret message?
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A shy 8-year-old Long Island Boy Wonder is making money hand over fist by teaching grownups how to master Halo.
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This supports a belief I’ve held for some time. It never hurts to ask for a better price. This article from the Wall Street Journal explains it. Retailers and anyone with a service or article to sell need you and your dollars sometimes more than you need the item. So let that work for [...]
Here’s one for the frequeent travelers out there. A definitive, comprehensive guide to airport wireless connections in the USA. Which airports offer wifi, who offers it and how much is it.
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Okay, this is cool. This article reports on when the best time is to purchase a wide assortment of products and why. From cars to televisions, airline tickets and broadway shows, each has a predictable “right time” to buy.
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“A simple animated geographical visualization that shows the relative impact different countries have on climate change over the timeline of watching the application. Different icons represent the statistical data of countries in the context of its birth & death rate, & its carbon dioxide emission.” Via infosthetics.com. It’s important to realize that the CO2 [...]
A cool web game. Seems easy at first, then it quickly becomes more challenging.
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I can’t believe how many people don’t know about versiontracker.com. At this site you’ll find a link to the most current version of any software you’re using.
I found this to be a really good example of how in a large organization, one group may have no idea what the other is doing.
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This is it! I’ve been working on this new site for about a week now. This is the new and much improved DougFolkerts.com. Check out the about page to learn more about what to expect here.
I’m looking forward to using this site as a place to share information and pictures.
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