Voting has started in the 2008 Weblog Awards, and two of Lifehacker’s sister publications are up for the gongs, which are determined by public vote. Gizmodo is up for best ANZ blog, and Defamer is vying for best gossip blog. So what are you waiting for? Get voting!
Apple’s moving iWork onto the web with iWork.com, a web-based version of their desktop office suite which will offer “transparent integration” into the desktop app.
The new release of GarageBand ’09 includes “Learn to Play”—piano and guitar lessons from artists like Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, and Sting, Gizmodo reports from their live-blog of the Macworld keynote.
It’s tucked away, but bookmarking site Del.icio.us now offers bulk tag editing (in, of course, beta) for group tagging/un-tagging and sharing/un-sharing. Helpful stuff, especially for pesky tag typos. Thanks Gergo!
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Mr. Uptime, friend to anyone who’s ever waited for the Digg/Slashdot/Lifehacker Effect to abate before reaching a cool new web site, has recently updated to be Firefox 3 compatible. Not much seems entirely new with Mr. Uptime, available both at its Mozilla home and official page, but that’s probably a good thing. As we noted when we last checked it out, the Firefox add-on can also monitor sites and alert you when specific text appears or disappears from a site, making it more than just a monitor of web hosting power. But next time a big, time-sensitive promotional give-away happens and you can’t grab it in the first few tries, you’ll be glad Mr. Uptime also does its basic function so well.
Mr. Uptime is a free download, works wherever Firefox does. Thanks, ScaryMike! Mr. Uptime [Mozilla Add-Ons]
