Website Roundup

I stumbled upon a cool feature inside of Itunes. It allows you to have an RSS of recently purchased tunes as well as what your favorite artists are. Now I need to update my Itunes library to really reflect what I like. It has crashed several times and all my ratings have largely disappeared. Check out my blog and see what I have bought and am listening to. If you are interested, sign into your Itunes account, and enable "My Itunes" near the bottom of the page. You can then copy code for various widgets.

TechCrunch has compiled a list of online vendors providing DRM-free music. I knew about Apple and Emusic, but the rest were news to me. Check out the article here.

Here is a neat way to keep track of your credit card expenditures with Quicken. My wife uses Quicken this way to keep track of budget items. pretty slick...


takes social networking to the shopping place. It now incorporates reviews from Cnet and the like as well as shopping search engines such as Amazon and Ebay.

CCRRFD (Cheap creative rascals ring flash diffuser)

Make Magazine reports on some creative ways to add diffusers to your camera. I will have to try this one.


Halloween is just around the corner. Yahoo did a post on popular outfits this fall. Here are a few of my favorites with links from the list.

1. Optimus Prime Costumes
2. Black Spider-Man Costume
3. Hermione Costume
4. Ghost Rider Costume
5. Bellatrix Lestrange Costume (I think my wife would like to dress up as her for Halloween)
   

Google has a new feature out that is pretty handy. 1-800 GOOG -411 allows you to use Google to search for stuff via telephone.

Lifehacker shares a way to put Google calendar in Outlook 2003.

Speaking of Google, Google Earth now provides interface of the stars.

Log Me in

I discovered some cool software the other day. It is called logmein.com The company allows you to log onto any computer and download files, or watch the other user configure their computers. Or if you are at work and your computer is on, you can access your computer and mail yourself a file.

Check it out at www.logmein.com

8/5/2007

Download free vintage children's books at the Rosetta Project

If you're looking for quality children's books either to read with your kids or just for your own enjoyment, you can't go wrong with the Rosetta Project. There are literally thousands of free books here, all beautifully illustrated and available for free download.

Every book is alphabetized in the ginormous A-Z super index; you can read them page by page online or download an entire book as a zip file. I plan on browsing through here for some fairy tales to share with my kids.

Songs Stick in Everyone's Head

'Earworms' Bother Women, Musicians Most

They bore into your head. They won't let go. There's no known cure. Earworms can attack almost anyone at almost any time.

No, it's not an invasion of jungle insects. It's worse. Earworms are those songs, jingles, and tunes that get stuck inside your head.

The coming water wars

Every minute 7 people die from bad or no water. Less then .007% of the fresh water on Earth is available to people. The UN estimates in the next 20 years, the worlds per capita water supply will drop by third, and in 2000 Kofi Annan warned that competition for fresh water could be the seeds of violence.

Bonsai Primer

Keeping and growing Bonsai is not as hard as you may believe. They are no more difficult to look after than most houseplants, needing food, water and light to survive. However most bonsai are NOT houseplants. If you live in a part of the world subject to frosts, bringing them indoors over winter in the mistaken belief that they need to be warm to survive is a sure way to kill them.

Why an Apple a Day keeps the Dr. Away

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”…but why? Do you really know what makes an apple so special? Why is it that we never hear an orange or a banana a day keeps the doctor away?
Apples have properties that no other fruits have and its benefits have been proven overtime. You will be able to get the benefits of these properties individually with other fruits, but an apple combines everything and makes it simpler. It has been shown over and over that if it’s not simple, easy and fast, people won’t take care of their health.

Recovery for lost memory card photos

Tips for when your card goes clunk.

Mystery Gel that is light as a feather and could help stop pollution

A solid that's up to 99 percent gas, it is rigid to a light touch, soft to a stronger one, and shatters like glass if it's put under too much pressure too quickly; it's one of the most enigmatic of materials, as well as one of the most versatile.