Interesting stuff I picked up in my aimless browsing of the web
Here’s a Gizmodo article that outlines how you can very easily get this on your computer.
I tried it and, well, it is noticeably different. I don’t know, maybe the font has changed or something. Plus, you do get a side bar when you do a search.
By the way, it doesn’t work for anything other than www.google.com. You might find that even if you type www.google.com it reverts to dot-something-else if that’s what you normally use. You can get over this by typing www.google.com/ncr.
I came across this when I was researching a means of setting up a local DNS server. It allows you to type (or copy) in the relevant part of the url (without the http://) and out comes the IP.
Not sure how often I’ll use it but useful to know where to get it.
Getting the GPG key for a Launchpad app can be a pain as the default server seems to be down a high percentage of the time.
Until I found this, I had just been trying over and over until eventually the key was received. Now, however, a choice of servers is available to facilitate this process. This is very welcome.
Tried out the free version of Grooveshark today. Rather than selecting songs from “similar” artists to the on you chose as Last.fm does, Grooveshark allows you to search for exactly what you want. The you can make playlists that remain available (as long as you save them).
In addition, you can upload your own stuff from your computer to add to what’s in Grooveshark. Haven’t apparently yet found how much space is available to you on the free account. The VIP account, which costs US$3 per month (same as Last.fm) apparently allows to you to store 50,000 songs which is about 300 GB and that’s a lot. Not sure though if this is just for your own stuff that you upload to Grooveshark or it includes all songs you’ve saved in playlists.
In any event, I’ve been using Grooveshark all day and I’m extremely impressed. Quite a chance I’ll end up paying for this.
I used to love cl1p.net whose main feature, as far as I was concerned, was the ability to upload a file (up to 30MB) which I could then access from any other networked computer.
Then, suddenly, the file sharing option was dropped. Nothing about this appeared on the homepage nor did I come across anybody else refer to this loss. Am I really the only one who found this useful? In any event, cl1p.net is now just useful as an online copy&paste facility. But I want more.
Well, now there’s a substitute, file2.ws, which does basically the same thing alhough the maximum file size is limited to 15MB. So, for example, I uploaded a 1MB photo and file2.ws provided me with a url. When I clicked on the url, the photo opened instantly an gave me an option to download it.
Unlike cl1p.net, however, seems to handle only one file at a time.
I found out about this in this article where a number of other similar tools are reported.
[Actually, I had forgotten about Postica which is a kind of online postit note system. It also allows you to "post" files up to 5MB in size that you can subsequently access from anywhere]
Nice site with lots and lots of easily installable clocks to enhance your desktop. This article
explains how to install. I just installed what you see in the screenshot on my EeePC 901.
See them in this article. Not sure I’d want to drop everything to install any of these on any of my Desktops, but they’re there if I ever change my mind.
This could have been a very useful addition to a Gnome Panel if it hadn’t been for either AWN dock or Kiba-dock that I use in almost all of my OSes.
Nevertheless, I’ve included it in Ubuntu just to see how useful it might be but I have doubts, but let’s see.
This is a nice, free online app that allows you to quickly provide enviably flawless skin on photo portraits.
Just upload your photo (which might be slow depending on your Internet speed and the size of the photo) and the improved version will come back shortly afterwards.
There are, however, no tweaking options so what-you-see-is-what-you-get. I’ve tried it just a few times, however, and it worked admirably.
Yes, I find it annoying when I’m listening to music on VLC and a Skype call comes in and the computer doesn’t know to stop the music so I can take the call. Well, a new app called ear_candy is supposed to handle just this type of problem. Haven’t tried it yet but will very shortly.
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