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Online Translation Services 2007-09-11 07:23:27
Microsoft joins Google and AltaVista. They launched Windows Live Translator. This Online Translation
Service is also powered by Systran like Babel Fish and Google Translate. Like the others it is possible to translate text (limited to 500 words) or a Web Page.
Related Links:
- Microsoft Launches Translation Service Read more:Services
MySpace 200 Million Accounts 2007-09-10 07:35:13
Ofcourse many fake and inactive accounts but MySpace
crossed the 200 Million Users Mark (230000 new registrations per day) on September 7th, 2007. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands.
Related Links:
- 200 Million MySpace Accounts
SoccerProject 2007-09-09 10:39:40
SoccerProject: Online Soccer Manager Game. Become manager of your own Soccer Team. You are responsible for everything within the the club. Manage your Team, Staff and Stadium. Make transfers, send messages to other managers and arrange friendly matches. League games are played from Monday till Friday except for Wednesdays when cup games will be played.
More Info:
- SoccerProject Forum
- SoccerProject Quick Start
- SoccerProject Rules
10 Oldest dot com Domains 2007-09-09 05:42:03 10 Oldest dot com Domains
:
1. SYMBOLICS.COM - Created: 15 March 1985
2. BBN.COM - Created: 24 April 1985
3. THINK.COM - Created: 24 May 1985
4. MCC.COM - Created: 11 July 1985
5. DEC.COM - Created: 30 September 1985
6. NORTHROP.COM - Created: 07 November 1985
7. XEROX.COM - Created: 09 January 1986
8. SRI.COM - Created: 17 January 1986
9. HP.COM - Created: 03 March 1986
10. BELLCORE.COM - Created: 05 March 1986
Related Links:
- Jottings.com - 100 oldest dot com domains
Most expensive Stereo System 2007-09-09 04:22:19
Something for Christmas… Most expensive StereoSystem
presented at the IFA 2007. Priced at € 630,000 ($ 867,069).
Some of the components:
- Clearaudio Statement turntable for €100,000 (Picture)
- 5.1 JBL speakers at €50,000 a pair
- 4 Velodyne subwoofers total €38,000
- 5 Krell amplifiers total worth €120,000
- Mark Levinson pre-amplifier priced at €40,000
- SIM2 projector HAT-500 for €50,000
- Pioneer Blu-ray player only € 1,300
IFA 2007: The World’s Most Expensive Hi-Fi System Slideshow
IFA 2007: The World’s Most Expensive Hi-Fi System Video
Related Links:
- IFA 2007: The World’s Most Expensive High-End Stereo System
Social Networks at digFoot 2007-09-09 03:34:07
digFoot: Directory for Social
Networks. Browse Site Categories or Search (Name / Keyword, Category, Type, Language) and save your favorites with their Bookmark Tool. Possible to add your Review and Rate the Networks. Useful if you want to join a Social Network and don’t know where to start.
Firefox 400 Million Downloads 2007-09-08 03:40:43
Four Hundred Million FirefoxDownloads
: New milestone for Firefox. The download counter crossed the 400 million mark since its release in November 9, 2004.
Related Links:
- Syndicating the Firefox download counter
- Firefox 300 Million Downloads
- Firefox 200 Million Downloads
Formula 1 Grand Prix Circuits Mashups 2007-09-08 01:06:23
Satellite Images of Formula
One Grand
Prix Circuits
with additional info from f1.com and Wikipedia. Two Google Maps Mashups
available:
- Formula One Grand Prix
Circuits Satellite Images All Tracks 1950-2007
- Formula One Grand Prix Circuits Satellite Images 2007
Related Links:
- Formula 1 Google Maps Mashups
- New Google Maps mashups and links for 2007-09-07
WordPress 2.2.3 2007-09-08 00:26:11
WordPress 2.2.3 available for download. Security and bug fix release. Immediate upgrade recommended.
List of Bugs fixed in 2.2.3 - Changed files for 2.2.3
Related Links:
- WordPress 2.2.3
- Codex WordPress 2.2.3
- Upgrading WordPress
- WordPress extended Upgrade Guide
Google Trends Daily Updates 2007-09-26 07:52:07 GoogleTrends
now daily updated with new search data. In addition to daily updates, available for Google Hot Trends (search trends updated hourly):
- Google Hot Trends Gadget for iGoogle and,
- Google Hot Trends Feed
Related Links:
- It’s all about today Read more:Daily
, Google Trends
Breaking News Videos with Google Maps 2007-09-26 05:21:22
MediaScrape: Find breaking News Videos with Google
Maps. News partners include the BBC, CBC, Associated Press, Asia News International, Reuters and other leading news broadcasters. Search by Region, Country or Broadcaster. When you register you can submit videos, share them and customize your site profile by selecting your categories, regions and broadcasters.
Related Links:
- MediaScrape Integrates Google Maps
and Adds Broadcasters
- 35,000 World News Videos on a Google Map Read more:Breaking
Missile Base for Sale 2007-09-26 05:21:16
Titan Missile
Base for Sale at eBay for $1,5 million: Titan Missile Base Central Washington. Former Larsen Air Force Base Complex 1A Titan ICBM Facility on 57 acres with 16 underground buildings. Original photos and info can be found on The Missile Base. Anyone interested?
Related Links:
- Nuclear Missile Base for Sale on eBay
WordPress 2.3 2007-09-25 00:39:37
WordPress 2.3, called “Dexter”, available for download.
New features and fixes:
- Tagging
- Update Notification for WordPress and WordPress Plugins
- Improved Post and Draft Management
- Pending Review
- Advanced Visual Editor Buttons
- Pretty URLs, WWW / no-WWW see also WordPress 2.3: Canonical URLs
- Cleaning up of bad URLs
- Updated Default Blogroll
- Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including publishing protocol.
- jQuery 1.1.4
- New taxonomy schema WordPress 2.3
- Importers improved. Possibility of adding an importer through a plugin.
- Override the update system, the dashboard RSS feeds, the feed parser and more through hooks and filters.
- $wpdb->prepare() way of doing SQL queries.
- Bug fixes and enhancements from Trac
Related Links:
- WordPress 2.3
- Codex WordPress 2.3
- Upgrading WordPress
- WordPress extended Upgrade Guide
- Preparing for 2.3
Million Dollar Fishing Lure 2007-09-24 06:47:29
Something for our Gagdets: The Million DollarFishing
Lure by MacDaddy’s Fishing Lures. See it in action at their Bisbee’s Tournament. Pictures available in their Photo Gallery.
Statistics:
- 100 cts. Diamonds and Rubies (4,753 stones)
- Over 3 pounds of platinum, 14-k and 18-k gold
- Over 12 inches in length
Related Links:
- The million-dollar fishing lure Read more:Million Dollar
Ancient Places in Google Earth 2007-09-24 06:26:38
If you like Ancient
History you should check Pleiades. Pleiades, organized by the Ancient World Mapping Center, covers ancient geography and provides a KML file for GoogleEarth
with Accient Places
including additional info from their Database: Ancient Places in Pleiades. They are working on new areas and places which will be added to their Database.
Related Links:
- Pleiades: Georeferencing ancient history Read more:Google Earth
Virtual Earth New 3D Cities 2007-09-24 06:26:32 New 3D cities included in Virtual Earth
. Others received a facelift.
US Cities
included:
- Phoenix, Tucson, Tempe, Mesa, Avondale, Gilbert, Peoria, Glendale, Augusta, Denver, Nashville, Chicago, Fort Worth and Coral Springs.
Canada:
- Edmonton
Related Links:
- New 3D cities in Virtual Earth
- Live Maps
Forbes Richest Americans 2007-09-24 06:26:25 Forbes released their annual Forbes 400, List of richest Americans
. One billion dollars is not enough to get in The Forbes 400. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, enter the Top 5 with $18.5 each. Bill Gates stays at the first place with $59 billion dollars
The Forbes 400 Top 10, 2007:
1. Bill Gates, $59 billion
2. Warren Buffett, $52 billion
3. Sheldon Adelson, $28 billion
4. Larry Ellison, $26 billion
5 and 6. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, $18.5 billion each
7. Kirk Kerkorian, $18.0 billion
8. Michael Dell, $17.2 billion
9 and 10. Charles Koch and David Koch, $17.0 billion
Related Links:
- In Pictures: The Forbes 400
- Hometowns Worlds richest Billionaires Read more:Forbes
WinRAR 3.71 2007-09-24 06:26:19 WinRAR
3.71, This powerful archive manager can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Supported Archive file formats: ZIP, RAR, ACE, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZ2, UUE, JAR, ISO, 7Z and Z.
What’s New WinRAR:
- Archive names in rar.log error log file always include the full path.
- WinRAR tray icon is compatible with high DPI display modes.
- If you modified a file in archive with encrypted names using an external editor, WinRAR will not ask for archive password again when prompting to update a file. It will use a password which you entered when opening an archive.
Bugs fixed:
- switch -tl and “Set archive time to latest file time” option could fail in previous version. Sometimes they set archive time to current system time instead of latest file time.
- if -ag switch mask contained archive number, month and minute characters, WinRAR placed
viewAt Panoramic Photos 2007-09-29 11:29:37
viewAt.org: Panoramic photos geotagged on Google Maps. Possibility for Photographers to submit and share their own Panoramic photos. KMZ File available for Google Earth. More info in their viewAt Help section.
Related Links:
- Browse and share panoramic photos with viewAt
New Street View Cities Google Maps 2007-10-13 08:22:35
Six new Cities
added to Google
Maps Street
View in Google Maps
: Chicago, Portland, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Tucson and Philadelphia. Images in Phoenix, Tucson and parts of Chicago are all in high resolution. They introduced the option to look up at tall buildings in most new cities like the Sears Tower in Chicago.
Related Links:
- More Street View cities to explore
- Street View: Six New Cities YouTube Video
XnView 1.91.5 2007-10-13 08:07:44 XnView
1.91.5: View and convert all sorts of graphic files. XnView supports more than 400 graphics formats. XnView lets you modify, convert almost anything (gif, bmp, jpeg, png, targa, multipage tiff, camera RAW, jpeg 2000, mpeg, Avi, Quicktime). EXIF & IPTC metadata are also supported. Fast and easy in use.
XnView Features:
- Import about 400 graphic file formats
- Export about 50 graphic file formats
- Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
- EXIF auto rotation support
- IPTC editing
- Resize, rotate, crop support
- Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
- Adjust brightness, contrast…
- Auto levels, contrast
- Modify number of colors
- Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, …)
- Apply effects (lens, wave, …)
- Fullscreen mode
- Slide show with effects
- Batch convert, batch rename
- Create WEB page easily
- Screen capture
- Create contact Sheet
- Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
- TWAIN & WIA support (Windows only)
- Print support (Windows
DiggKiller 2D Shooter Game 2007-10-13 06:02:22
DiggKiller: 2D Shooter
Game built with the Digg API by Kurt Margenau.
Related Links:
- DiggKiller: The Game
YouTube Layer Google Earth 2007-10-13 05:59:06
New layer for GoogleEarth
with Geotagged YouTube
videos. Click on the YouTube button in the featured content folder and little YouTube icons with videos will appear on the map. YouTube videos only appear on Google Earth
when people geotagged them and allow embedding.
Related Links:
- Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth
- YouTube + Google Earth
- New YouTube Layer
in Google Earth
Iheard Search Internet Radio Stations 2007-10-11 08:44:09
iheard.com: Search
engine for InternetRadioStations
. Easy Search Interface and Directory with Stations organized by genre, country and language. Welcome addition to my big list of Stations. Find easily new favorites. Stations not available in their database can Suggest their Station for inclusion. Read more:Internet Radio
Sony BRAVIA Play Doh 2007-10-07 09:08:12
New SonyBRAVIA
commercial.. Play Doh, full of Rabbits created by Passion Pictures. Filmed in New York. Sony Bravia Play Doh TV Ad on YouTube.
Related Links:
- Sony Bravia Play Doh Rabbits
Wikipedia Unusual Articles 2007-10-07 08:29:28 Wikipedia
Unusual Articles
: Lists all unusual and odd articles submitted to Wikipedia like Mill Ends Park.
Article should meet one or both of following categories:
- Article not expect to find in a standard encyclopedia, and
- Article contains things that most people would find unusual.
Several categories like Places, Numbers and Dates, Language, Science, Culture, Entertainment, Arts, Food and drink, Plants and Animals, Sports, Folklore, Politics, Economy and Law, Religion, Military and Life.
Related Links:
- Wikipedia articles about unusual places, names, people, and cultural artifacts
Internet Explorer 7 Update 2007-10-07 08:29:16 InternetExplorer
7 Update
from Microsoft, some minor changes and no longer Windows Genuine Advantage validation required. In short:
- Installation and Availability Update, No longer Windows Genuine Advantage validation required. Available to all Windows XP users.
- Menu bar now visible by default.
- Internet Explorer
7 online tour has updated how-to’s.
- Included new MSI installer that simplifies deployment for IT administrators.
Get Windows Internet Explorer
Related Links:
- IEBlog: Internet Explorer 7 Update
- Internet Explorer 7
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