Monday, November 17, 2008
Design
PiccDrop Is A Format Friendly Quick Photo Host
11:30PM Lifehacker US Edition | PiccDrop is an extremely spartan photo hosting service with a friendly attitude towards a wide variety of image formats. The PiccDrop website consists of little more than a button to browse for the file and a button to upload it. Once you upload it, you are redirected directly to the image itself sans the forum and HTML-friendly formatting many image hosts provide. PiccDrop allows for unlimited uploads, has a file size restriction of 6MB, and supports a multitude of image formats including: .jpg, .png, .tiff, .bmp, .gif, .ico, .icn,s .vg, .pdf, .icns, .hdi, amd .psd. For another quick and spartan photo hosting service check out EchoPic, for meatier photo hosting check out the Hive Five: Best Photo Sharing Sites. PiccDrop More »
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Flash Coming Soon To WinMobile, Android
11:15PM Kevin Purdy | Adobe plans to demonstrate today a version of Flash 10 working on a Windows Mobile phone, and a spokesperson says an Android version is also in the works. The Flash maker is also working closely with chip-maker ARM to optimise mobile Flash, but as for a version for iPhones (which run on ARM chips): It’s “up to Apple.” [via Gizmodo] More »
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Why Google’s Voice-Search iPhone App Didn’t Launch
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | So, it turns out Google fully planned to release its search-by-voice iPhone app on Friday—as noted by the New York Times and certain blogs—but were left in the dark by the App Store approval process, according to TechCrunch. The app is now expected to launch today—but we won’t put any chips on it. More »
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‘Are You Sure’ Bookmarklet Fights Web Wandering
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | We’ve all got them—those bookmarks that sit on your toolbar (or on a keyboard shortcut, if , begging you to take just, you know five minutes and see if anything’s new over there. Web developer and author Paul Bausch certainly has a few, so he’s taken to editing them to add a small bit of JavaScript around their URLs, which brings up a prompt asking “Are you sure?” The format is easy to adjust and edit, though, if your procrasti-browsing habits require a more strern warning. Here’s the basic template: More »
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Track Down Startup Programs And Processes With A Comprehensive Guide
10:00PM Kevin Purdy | If you’re stumped trying to figure out where a rogue background process on your Windows system came from, and what it does, the Los Angeles Free-Net’s web site will likely have your answer. On a page meant to help volunteer mentors of the non-profit ISP, there’s seriously comprehensive list of programs and processes, easily searched with a Control-F text find. It’s based on the well-linked PacMan’s list, and combined with the more system-based Process Library database, there’s not a listing in Task Manager that can’t be identified and dealt with swiftly. For a guide to getting built-in process lookups and more details on what your system’s running, try our guide to reclaiming memory by mastering Windows’ task manager. Thanks, kgeissler!. Startup Programs and Executables Listing [The Los Angeles Free-Net] More »
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DimDim Hosts Your Webinars For Free
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | If you work in a corporate culture that’s fond of meetings, or an industry that involves lots of long-distance collaboration, you’ve no doubt heard an increasing amount about “webinars” lately. The web-based meetings, usually involving collaborative editing, whiteboard brainstorming, slideshow presentations, and/or live desktop sharing, are helpful when teaching a computer concept or technique, providing a one-way presentation a la PowerPoint, or presenting ideas and getting feedback from clients. Lots of providers compete for the largely corporate market, but at least one site, DimDim, provides free web conference hosting for groups of 20 or less. We gave one of them a try and took a few screenshots, so read on to see what you can get for free in the webinar world. More »
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4:01PM Angus Kidman | Ahead of its MAX conference this week, Adobe has upgraded its AIR cross-platform application technology to version 1.5. Enhancements in the new version include support for design features introduced in version 10 of Adobe’s Flash Player, incorporation of the WebKit HTML engine, and encrypted database support (to tempt all those corporate app types). Windows and Mac releases are available now; the Linux release is due before the end of the year, though in the meantime Adobe has released a 64-bit version of Flash Player 10 for Linux users. If you want to find out why AIR matters, check out our list of the 10 best AIR applications.
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Adobe AIR 1.5 Released
4:01PM Angus Kidman | Ahead of its MAX conference this week, Adobe has upgraded its AIR cross-platform application technology to version 1.5. Enhancements in the new version include support for design features introduced in version 10 of Adobe’s Flash Player, incorporation of the WebKit HTML engine, and encrypted database support (to tempt all those corporate app types). Windows and Mac releases are available now; the Linux release is due before the end of the year, though in the meantime Adobe has released a 64-bit version of Flash Player 10 for Linux users. If you want to find out why AIR matters, check out our list of the 10 best AIR applications.
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2:00PM Angus Kidman | While I was totally not thrilled when I recently got stuck on a flight that was delayed for 23 hours, my natural paranoia meant that I actually had plenty to keep me occupied while I was waiting. Whether you’re just looking to fill in time during multi-hour overseas flight, or you want to be prepared for the next time a missing flange grounds everybody, here’s the tactics I use to make sure there’s something to stop me staring idly into space without having to overload my hand luggage.
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How To Make Sure You’re Not Bored At An Airport
2:00PM Angus Kidman | While I was totally not thrilled when I recently got stuck on a flight that was delayed for 23 hours, my natural paranoia meant that I actually had plenty to keep me occupied while I was waiting. Whether you’re just looking to fill in time during multi-hour overseas flight, or you want to be prepared for the next time a missing flange grounds everybody, here’s the tactics I use to make sure there’s something to stop me staring idly into space without having to overload my hand luggage.
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12:31PM Angus Kidman | Last week’s discussion of chill mats for laptops prompted some excited discussion and raised some interesting ideas. One emailer suggested using two books for a cheap improvised alternative; another suggested mats were entirely unnecessary, which I suspect means they’ve never visited central Australia in the summer. But just how much difference do they make? Reader Carl did some testing of his own and got some interesting results, as he explains in an email:
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How Much Difference Do Chill Mats Make?
12:31PM Angus Kidman | Last week’s discussion of chill mats for laptops prompted some excited discussion and raised some interesting ideas. One emailer suggested using two books for a cheap improvised alternative; another suggested mats were entirely unnecessary, which I suspect means they’ve never visited central Australia in the summer. But just how much difference do they make? Reader Carl did some testing of his own and got some interesting results, as he explains in an email:
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