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More Head-in-gap Fun With Yearbook Yourself - day Waster
Ever wonder what former U.S. President George Bush would have looked like as an early-80’s high school senior? Well, wonder no more!A few quick clicks with Yearbook Yourself and you can convert yourself into a horrendously coiffed teenager from 1950 to 2000. FYI before you head over: that one’…
High royalty fees could cause Pandora to shut its music box
Music discovery service and online radio station Pandora may have to shut down, thanks to high royalty fees imposed final year by the US Copyright Royalty Board. Pandora founder Tim Westergren says his company is currently paying 70% of its revenue to SoundExchange, the organization that collect…
Google is slowly killing Page Creator, replacing it with Sites
Google has stopped accepting new users for Google Page Creator, the company’s online web site creation tool. Current users can continue using Google Pages, but the company wants new users to sign up for Google Sites instead.
Google Sites is a web site/wiki creator that Google launched a year …
Sitemeter bug takes down thousands of web sites (for Web Explorer users)
Thousands of web sites are currently inaccessible to World Wide Web Explorer 5.5, 6, and 7 users thanks to a new Sitemeter bug. Sitemeter is a free web analytics service used by many popular blogs and web sites including Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and Consumerist. They all seem to be affected as of th…
Moralize.us: whether YouTube commenters ruled the world …
Moralize.us is a site with an interesting concept: users post hypothetical scenarios, and other users vote on whether a course of action is right or wrong, according to their own personal moral codes. It’s a nice theory, that we can crowdsourcing our tricky moral dilemmas. In practice, though, t…
StumbleAudio: Find music you’ve never heard of but might like
There’s no shortage of music recommendation engines. Whether you want to find music from artists that sound like Madonna or Meat Beat Manifesto, all you have to do is hit up Pandora, Last.fm, or a similar site and pop a name in the box. whether the web site starts playing a song you like, you gi…
The Really Slow Download Squad: 62% of dialup users don’t want high-speed
As you might guess from the name of our blog, we download a LOT of software, and it’s a little scary to contemplate how much bandwidth we collectively use every day. So, trying to assume a duration when we felt like a dial-up connection would suit our needs is pretty difficult. But that’s precis…
Googleholic for July 4, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix for everything Google, the July 4th column! Happy 4th everyone!
In that edition:
Google C++ analyzing framework
Google Talk for iPhone
Google Maps voice search for BlackBerry Pearl
Use highlight to find online Google Docs
More ways to ear…
Flipping the Linux switch: Linux web tools, Pt.4 - HTML editors for every mood
Maybe you’ve taken some instance and fooled around a bit with Quanta Plus and Bluefish and decided that they weren’t for you. perhaps you just looked at the features, and the GUIs and thought, “I’d rather pluck my nose hairs out than use those.”
That’s okay. We’re not about to pass judgment o…
I heart it, you heart it, we all heart it!
Weheartit is a fun way to share photos or videos you’ve seen while browsing the World Wide Web. Others can see what you find interesting and additionally comment on them as well.
Weheartit works by bookmarking their I heart it bookmarklet and as you visit websites, images and videos are outli…
