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http://www.masternewmedia.org/new_media/new_media_tools/
best_new_media_tools_of_the_week_20061029.htm

http://tinyurl.com/y4c5qg

October 29, 2006
New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 76
Livia Iacolare and Robin Good

{Once again, they challenge us with new web services.}

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1. Immense http://www.immen.se/ is a network that provides online video publishers with the capability to use contextual ads in videos.

Nah, I don’t create video!

2. Toufee http://www.toufee.com/ is a web based editor that allows you to create and publish flash movies and presentations online.

Nah, I don’t that much.

3. Veeker http://veeker.com/veeker/ is a service that lets you and your friends communicate instantly using the video cameras in your mobile phones.

Nah, No friends!

4. mTextbox http://www.mtextbox.com/ is a service that enables you to upload text files that you can read on your mobile phone.

Nah, why would I want to do that?

5. Tabblo http://www.tabblo.com/ is a service that lets you upload your photos and create albums that you can share with other people.

Nah, Another one?

6. MediaFile http://www.mediafire.com/ is a service that lets you upload unlimited size files also simultaneously.

Nah, Another one?

7. Huddle http://www.gohuddle.com/ is a hosted service that offers virtual workspaces called ‘huddles’, which can be used to manage projects, share and review documents, monitor timelines and discuss work across the members of the group.

Maybe, if cheap enough, it might be good for any ad hoc group to exploit.

8. Freenigma http://www.freenigma.com/ is a service that adds privacy technology (with strong e-mail encryption) to your webmail service.

Winner, This can be used by everyone in today’s era of snoopy gubamint.

9. Wridea http://www.wridea.com/ is project management tool that allows you to create a page for each project and different categories for each work type.

Maybe, ditto above, it might be good for an ad hoc group to exploit.

10. LocalHostr http://beta.localhostr.com/ is a service that allows you to upload and store any type of file up to 20MB.

Maybe, duplicates other big file store and share site, need to know what the limits are. There have to be limits don’t there? Or, does it do something fancy?

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I sent an email message using gmail. GREAT!

Now I can’t figure out how to change to a different email account?

Yesterday at work, PA on NOTEBOOK said that PRINTER on WORKTOP was offline. But PA on WORKTOP says it was online.

Today at home, PA on NOTEBOOK says that PRINTER on HOMETOP is offline. But, PA on HOMETOP says it is online.

http://groups.google.com/group/printeranywhere/

Their GOOGLEGROUP has a problem report.

Sounds like a bug at the PA mothership.

I fell back to my PCANYWHERE / GOTOMYPC and printed in both cases. SO I’m sure it ain’t me!

http://www.ubuntu.com/Welcome

Ubuntu 6.10 flexible and user-friendly released

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Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!

The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.

ubuntu definition

Ubuntu is suitable for both desktop and server use. The current Ubuntu release supports PC (Intel x86), 64-bit PC (AMD64), Sun UltraSPARC and T1 (Sun Fire T1000 and T2000), PowerPC (Apple iBook, Powerbook, G4 and G5) and OpenPower (Power5) architectures.

Ubuntu includes more than 16,000 pieces of software, but the core desktop installation fits on a single CD. Ubuntu covers every standard desktop application from word processing and spreadsheet applications to web server software and programming tools. Read more about Ubuntu on the desktop and Ubuntu on the server.

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I couldn’t find a torrent, so I had to do it the old fashioned way. I’ll try it now and report back.

http://www.slipstick.com/problems/outbox.htm

Says the problem is caused by add-ins reading the outbox.

Someone asked me to formulate a demonstration of Web 2.0 and the power of XML.

Let’s go BLOG 2 FEED 2 EMAIL.

Free.

AND, completely independent inet web services that speak XML to each other.

SO we’re going to tie WORDPRESS (a great blog site) to FEEDBURNER (a great feed generating site) to FEEDBLITZ (a great feed 2 email site).

Without cost and in minutes.

==== BEGIN ====

Start a free blog

http://wordpress.com/signup/

Let’s create “loveconquersallthings”.

It’s now at:

http://loveconquersallthings.wordpress.com/

Put in a message at:

https://loveconquersallthings.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

You’re now a blogger.

Go to a different web service site, and create a feed:

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

and it now tells you that the feed is available here:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpress/RPsI

Now you have a blog and a feed, lets ship it to email:

http://www.feedblitz.com

and it tells you here’s the link to add an email output:

http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=115156

Plug in your email address and respond to the challenge.

It sends an email to confirm that the owner of the email wants it.

Confirm your subscription with the link in the email.

==== DONE ====

Now write a post in your blog. And the next day, it appears in your email box.

Why?

You have put the email recipient in true control of their subscription to your blog. You don’t need to know their email address. No chance for spam.

That’s the promise of web 2.0!

I hope that helps.

http://www.vox.com

A new social networking blog site with the concept of logical neighborhood. Just launched. Free. I’m there. Noodling around the concept. Join up with me or ping for an invite. If you wanted to try blogging and virtual networking, this seems like a gentle way to stick that toe in. imho.

Dear Support:

Put in:

http://www.thinkfree.com/filelink.tfo?filemasterno=492907&filekey=o6l02vlqyp

Got out:

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/thinkfree-to-wordpress-test/

Note the garbage line that looks like bad format.

Note all the advertising. (Yuck!)

Verdict: Would be a good feature. Not properly implemented. Obviously not tested.

imho!

http://tinyurl.com/yzgp9r

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/
http%3A%2F%2Freinkefj.wordpress.com

Technorati

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You show an age of 165. I have new content everyday. HELP! I ping. WordPress pings. To no avail.

http://tinyurl.com/y6xbmo

http://drjoewebb.blogspot.com/2006/10/
theres-some-serious-magic-at-adobe.html#comments

Jasper Joe Webb’s blog reported

>This article reports their purchase
>of Serious Magic. I have used their
>Visual Communicator product

Dear fellow Jasper, I’ve used the Serious Magic product. I’m sorry to see ANY useful product picked up by “the big boyze”. It always leads to the death of innovation. Here’s my uses if you want a laff.

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/PaperKnot.wmv
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/We_Have_Technology.wmv

Just playing with a “new” feature in ThinkFree. Did it work?

.thinkfree_footer {font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;color:#999;}

Click POWER VIEW

Powered by ThinkFree, the best online office Some rights reserved.

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20061019CopernicDesktopSearchIsAMustHave.html

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I did try the new version. But the darn thing locked up the whole setup during install. So, I’ll wait to hear how others do.

I have canned searches to find my fellow alums. I am finding that more and more of the inet are not indexed at all. There is a TREMENDOUS amount of the inet that isn’t spydered at all. In my nievete, I used to think that Google and the other engines were pretty good. Now, I think they are mediocre at best. Arghh!

I’m defining a new word to describe this problem / opportunity. SNARF for the word SNAG and F for you know what.

A message gets SNARFed, when for no apparent reason,

LookOut, (OutLook’s evil Sybil side), takes:

a perfectly good outbound message that was sitting read to go, as denoted by that BOLD ITALIC font that it has in the outbox with a date of today

AND

changes the date to NONE, removes the BOLD ITALIC font, and it just sits there.

No amount of cajoling will get it out of that state!

One can see other messages whizzing out bypass the “stalled cars”.

Stopping Outlook doesn’t help, though it gripes about unsent messages, so it knows that they are there.

The only solution is to create a brand new message, send that, and nuke the old ones.

Argh! I hate OutLook.

And, yes, the data stores are big, but that would only bear if all messaging stoped.

Argh!!

http://tinyurl.com/yhvx69

http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/10/19/
forbidding_vistas_windows_licensing_disserves_the_user.html

October 19, 2006
Forbidding Vistas: Windows licensing disserves the user

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It is unlikely that a home user looking for a computer operating system has any of these “features” of the Vista EULA in mind: The Red Queen

1. Self-limiting software
2. Vanishing functionality through invalidation
3. Removal of media capabilities
4. Problem-solving prohibited
5. Limited mobility
6. One transfer only
and a bonus,
7. Restrictions on your rights to use MPEG-4 video

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Why would you “volunteer” for this non-sense?

I can’t understand WHY do this upgrade. There are few upsides; what comes out of this that can’t be done on Ubuntu or remaining on XP SP2?

If I had any Microsoft stock, then I’d dump it. I think they “screwed the pooch” doing this XP 2 Vista. I’d bet they planned for a huge increase in the bottom line. I think they are going to take a hit. A big hit!

I think this is the best thing that could have ever happened for Linux!

Microsoft Ward began to display, what I think Microsoft calls a “screen artifact”, today. (I’d call it a bug!) Unfortunately it was right over the main menu entries on the upper left part of the display. Stopping and restarting Word was enough to make it go away, but it was annoying, until I gave up and tried that. Arghh! ;-)

Somehting’s funky.

The icons that should be there are not. I have lots marked “always” and they ain’t there.

Did a quick look at the Microsoft Knowledge base and didn’t see anything that applied. (But, then there is so much chaff, how can anyone find anything?)

Thoughts?

Microsoft rewrites them anytime they make a significant change. That seems anytime they feel like it. It’s annoying. It wastes time.

When I went to look up an obit for a fellow alum, I wanted to find the funeral home’s site and see what it had to say. You can’t do it.

You get overwhelmed with sites that have stories that use their name, as well as, what I will call scraper sites that have created “listings”. Those so called listings don’t point to the underlying real site.

Hmmm?

If you print a document and ask for multiple copies, then PRINTERALL only produces one copy.

Interesting.

My profile is on LinkedIn at:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=214231

…

if you want to play pick a new friend at random

…

Pick a number!

Put it at the end of the following string:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=

… and meet your new friend!

How long before a bot master discovers this and “sucks” linkedin dry.

Zoominfo did it with the public inet. Why couldn’t a bad guy do it with this “semi-private” data source?