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midomi.com makes it fun and easy to find and discover music and people. For the first time, you can use your voice to instantly connect to your favorite music, and to a community of people that share your musical interests. Listen to voices, see pictures, rate singers, send messages, buy music, and more. I haven’t …
The Briarcliff Manor High School had a reunion for their class of 1960. They put together a sort of web-based jukebox with songs from 1956-1960. If you like music from that era, then check out their page. There are over 450 songs!
I read about this on the Google Operating System blog: Good things are simple and come in small packages. If you wanted a plugin for your music player that finds and displays lyrics for your songs, Lyrics Plugin is a good answer. It’s free, small (around 60 KB) and available for Winamp and Windows Media …
Last night I went to Best Buy and Future Shop to look for a combo DVD player / VCR. There were a bunch of people outside, but didn’t think anything of it. My sister works at Best Buy, and she was working and asked if I had seen the people waiting for the PlayStation 3. …
I saw this on Download Squad… Media-Convert is a fairly impressive web service that will convert a file from one file format to another. That sounds pretty benign, but what’s impressive is how many formats it supports. There’s a good chance Media-Convert supports almost every document on you computer, including dozens of audio and video …
When I was growing up I was a huge fan of Tetris. In fact, everyone in my family was. I had the original Nintendo, and we’d fight over who would get to play it. My Mom would even get into it. There are lots of clones around and web-based Flash versions. A very good one …
I don’t usually pass along “good deals”. There are lots of other sites that do that. But this one is really quite exceptional. Crucial Technology has a promotion (it ends September 1) where you can get a 512MB Compact Flash card for only $1.99 after rebate. The card is $26.99 with a $25 mail-in rebate. …
Goggles is a Google Maps flight simulater you play in your browser. There are a bunch of predefined locations or you can use your own location (through a bit of work). Here is a link to fly over Niagara Falls. Hint: Head east until you reach the river then turn south. http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html?loc=tqsqttsrsssttqssq
From BBC News: About one-third of digital camera users in the UK are not backing up their photographs, reveals research. But at the same time, the survey of 2,227 consumers revealed 89% of those quizzed now own a digital camera or camera-phone. And just under half are taking more than 10 snaps each month.
I read about this on the Google Operating System blog… Apparently RealNetworks has a simple version of RealPlayer that business can install. But the thing that makes it appear to businesses, will probably make it appeal to consumers as well: RealPlayer Enterprise gives you the best of RealPlayer you know and use at home, but …