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 [...]