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Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you’ve come to the right place. By entering in a URL in a text field tinyurl will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
Tiny URL has as of today 74 million of links stored and gets over 2 billion hits/month.
On flightstats you can track flight status, airport delays and other flight and airport information. Database entries go back to early 1993.
Tags: flight, flights, schedule, statistics, stats
I’m using plaxo.com to synchronize my phonebooks through all my PCs, different MACs and accounts like Google Apps. The solution,even though quite buggy a couple of years ago, works today like charme.
With the pulse stream you are even able to consolidate all your social network services within plaxo.
However I’m waiting impatiently for the announced 2-way-synchronization of my Google Account. Furthermore I never achieved to get my twitter.com implemented and hence synchronized.
Being a premium member, I made use of raising a ticket with some strange responses, the last being that everything is now working fine. Surprisingly the button to add twitter as a shared service is now completely gone. I hope people @plaxo.com are aware about this issue and will come back with a twitter solution pretty soon. If anyone does know about a workaround it would be great to see your solution posted in a comment to this article.
Update: Twitter issue seems to be solved now (04-10-2008).
Gears (formerly called Google Gears) will be part of new Wordpress 2.6. It supports already today other services as Google Docs or Remember The Milk.
Google Reader is another application which benefits already today from Gears Offline caching of data into a database.
Gears is beta software offered by Google to enable offline access to services that normally only are available online. It installs a database engine, based on SQLite, on the client system to cache the data locally. Gears-enabled pages use data from this local cache rather than from the online service. Using Gears, a web application may periodically synchronize the data in the local cache with the online service. If a network connection is not available, the synchronization is deferred until a network connection is established. Thus Gears enables web applications to work even though access to the network service is not present.
Released under the BSD license, Gears is free and open source software.
The new WordPress release 2.6, announced for later august this year, will be able to use Gears. You can have a kind of sneak preview of version 2.6 by visiting the following page: wp.chrisjohnston.org. Chris provides an automatic renewed test side. The password for the user “admin” is “demo”.
Tags: gears, google, google reader, webtools, wordpress, wordpress 2.6
mypictr.com provides a free picture resizing service, which allows you to create a custom profile avatar for your favorite social network. You don’t need to install any programs, plug-ins or any other software, just upload your picture, resize it online and download it from their server, where they claim it will be deleted within 10 minutes.
Imagine following situation, you are about to create a new profile at a new social network and the size of profile picture is limited to a custom width and height. You would probably search for a software which will allow you to adjust your picture to the right size. With mypictr you don’t need to search for the software, all you need to do is to upload your large picture, pick a right size (or custom size) and download a smaller profile picture.
Tags: mypictr.com, picture, plug-in, webtools
Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. The Way Back Machine helps you on recovering old pages and domains, even those which might have complete different owner and content today.
Tags: way back
Do you also have concerns regarding the use of your private data by Facebook applications?
It’s up to you to share your details with an application, but if you do not want to share your information, can you be sure that a friend that adds such an application will not pull your data without you knowing? [...]
We wish a Happy, Prosperous, and Healthy 2009 to all of our friends around the world and their loved ones.
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Dagmar & Jeannot Muller
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As a kind of preview I’m posting the below picture, showing with which operating system and browser my readers connected to this page in 2008. There are far, far more information people are leaving as a footprint. Tools like Google Analytics are well known but each simple Web Server gives by it’s own a lot [...]
All social network platforms have by nature the embedded risk of getting your personal data stolen or misused. Copy & Paste is just too easy not to speak about digital “methods” for an automatic sniffling of personal data. It is a personal decision if one wants to post his data or not - I personally [...]
It’s Christmas time! Kids are looking forward to Santa Claus and (a lot) of adults are posting their wish lists on amazon.com and similar services. There is nothing wrong with these services (they are even pretty sophisticated - however they are solely reduced to their own products).
‘whishlistbutler.com’ is slightly different! Besides the fact that the [...]
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