Archive for February, 2007
Get the Story with Medstory
An article in the Wall St. Journal yesterday turned me on to Medstory, which is being bought by Microsoft bringing Microsoft into the business of health and medicine. Medstory is a health-related search engine that is suppose to help the user focus in on the content most important to them through an “intelligent search” of [...]
Never Miss A Concert With BeeThere
I have developed a new appreciation of music over the past year and now am up-to-date with many of the new bands and artists on the club and concert scene these days. I still love Led Zepplin, Queen, Pink Floyd and such but now also like Coldplay, Snow Patrol, The Fray and Howie Day, just [...]
Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Sidebar & Widgets With KlipFolio For Windows PCs
Thanks to Ed Oswald over at BetaNews and his article, KlipFolio Adds Sidebar Functionality, I now have a nice, light, customizable sidebar sans Vista with over 4000 widgets to choose from to make it mine. In a previous post, Transform Windows XP to look like Vista, I wrote about loving the sidebar that came with [...]
Put Your Life On Postcards With Zimoz
Wouldn’t it be nice to convey your day to your friends and family with a postcard with a photo or video and a bit of text? Somedays I just want to let people know I’d rather be fishing… I came across Zimoz today and it lets you create and store personal postcards with photos, video, [...]
Streaming Movies With Netflix on Windows PCs
I joined Netflix (a movie rental services that sends DVDs in the mail) recently, after not being a member for a couple of years, mainly because of their announcement offering subscribers the option of instantly watching movies on their PCs (here is their press release). I was curious as to the selection of movies and television series as well [...]
Infomaniac’s Top 10 Reasons I use Gmail
Gmail, Google’s web-based email, is finally open to the public though it is still labeled beta (I guess it’s hard to get rid of the beta label these days) and I thought I would tell you why I use Gmail. Why do a need a Gmail account when I already have a few email [...]
Get Details on Website Visitors With Clicky
I have to say that my blog doesn’t get a whole lot of traffic and when I look at my site statistics with Google Analytics it can be depressing and down right confusing with all the information like goal conversion tracking and visitor segment performance. It reminds me of a college statistics course . [...]
Keep Track Of Hours and Clients With Freshbooks
If you are looking for a nice application to keep track of clients and billable hours for your business then you may want to check out Freshbooks. I’ve been using Freshbooks for the last 4 months to track my hours and invoice the two clients I work for and have found it an easy to use [...]
Video On-Demand With A Message: Nomads Land
Since I have dual monitors running on my computer system I find myself watching more and more video. And, there is a lot of video to be seen on the Internet these days with sites like YouTube. Sometimes though I want to watch something that has more value than a viral video and yet [...]
Bad Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas from Amazon
Are you looking to upset your steady/lover/spouse this Valentine’s Day? Look no further than Amazon’s Valentine’s Day: Bad Gift Ideas filled with gifts that might just get you kicked to the curb. These are great gift ideas if you want out of your current relationship. If you don’t want out and have bought one of these [...]