Saturday, March 14, 2009
Work
LittleShoot Brings BitTorrent To Any Browser For The Uninitiated
9:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: Browser plug-in LittleShoot integrates BitTorrent downloads into virtually any web browser—including IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari—making BitTorrent dead simple for those who can’t wrap their head around the popular file sharing protocol. We’re big fans of uTorrent around here (and apparently
Design
Moleskine Icons, Windows Edition
7:00AM Adam Pash | Earlier this week we highlighted some very cool Moleskine icons for Macs, and while a serious Moleskine nut could convert them for Windows, reader shadoblak points out a different, already Windows-friendly set of Moleskine icons. Not much more to say beyond that, except that they look great and that we hope you’ve gotten your fill of virtual Moleskine—we’ve definitely hit our quota for the quarter. Moleskine Icons by =pica-ae [deviantART] More »
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OperaTurbo Boosts Performance On Slower Connections
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’re stuck on a slow connection or frequently find yourself using hot spots with different speeds, OperaTurbo can make your web browsing experience more pleasant. Thanks to server-side optimisation, pages load lightning fast. Unlike Opera Mini, which actually tweaks the layout and code of a page to make your mobile browsing experience better, Opera Turbo leaves the page layout exactly how it is but applies varying degrees of compression. Visual elements from the page like images are compressed as they pass through the server to decrease the load time on your end. The pair of images shows the header from the Opera Turbo splash page with the turbo enabled and under normal conditions. While the artifacts in the image are quite visible, images with more varied textures and backgrounds don’t suffer as much. More »
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Put News On Your Desktop With GeekTool
2:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Mac OS X only: Reader Rodolfo Novak posts a useful script to add RSS feeds to your desktop using the GeekTool desktop overlay tool. This can be used anywhere with access to the Bash shell and common *nix commands, including Cygwin for Windows. The text output can then be added to the desktop using GeekTool for the Mac—but enterprising readers could modify it to work with Conky on Linux or Samurize on Windows. More »
Money
Amazanian Provides Richer Amazon Search Results
1:30AM Adam Pash | Web site Amazanian taps into Amazon’s API to display rich Amazon search results with all the information you need on one page, complete with inline reviews and cart management for quicker Amazon searching and purchasing. The idea is pretty simple. Amazanian makes it dead simple to browse and compare search results directly from the search page. You can read customer reviews, editorial reviews, and browse similar products for any item in the search results, all from the same page. Find something you like? Add it to your cart in one quick click and keep browsing. Apart from that, the service serves basically the same purpose as Amazon, and as soon as you’re ready to check out, you’ll be directed back to your actual Amazon account. It’s always an uphill battle when a site tries to change the way you interact with another site you’re very used to, but Amazanian does make you wish that Amazon took some cues from it—so it’s off to a good start. Amazanian [via MakeUseOf] More »
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