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« June 2005 | Main | August 2005 » July 30, 2005Get an Email When Flickr Updates
Do you love Flickr? Sure, we all do! With that in mind you may also enjoy Notifyr.com ( http://www.notifyr.com/ ), which allows you to receive e-mails when a Flickr page updates. So if for some reason you want e-mail alerts...
Google Maps in Excel Spreadsheets
Two great tastes that go great together. Automate Excel, which is getting pride of place at the top of my RSS feed reader, is putting Google Maps in Excel. Whoopee! Check it out: www.automateexcel.com/index.php/2005/07/28/google_maps_in_excel ....
July 27, 2005My Feedshake Brings All the Readers in the Yard
And they're like, it's better than yours.. oh, forget it. Feedshake allows you to mix up RSS feeds with two levels of expertise -- regular and advanced. You can try it at http://www.feedshake.com -- note the service is in beta....
Continue reading "My Feedshake Brings All the Readers in the Yard" » Exposing the Deep Web
There's an interesting article at the National Library of Australia called "Exposing the deep web to increase access to library collections" which covers guess what. You can read it at http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2005/boston2.html . It covers what the Library did to make...
July 26, 2005Google Updates Personalization Offering
Back in May, Google started offering personalization options. I wrote about it then and made no bones of the fact that I hated it. Google has updated the service with some new options. And while portalized search engines aren't my...
Continue reading "Google Updates Personalization Offering" » The 1911 Canadian Census Online
Okay, the good news is that the 1911 Canadian Census is available online. The bad news is that it's only searchable by geographic location and is not searchable by name. You can check it out at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1911/index-e.html . The search...
July 25, 2005What Feeds Matter
Over at the Ask Jeeves blogs they've got a fun little breakdown of what feeds matter -- that is, what feeds in Bloglines are being read by at least one person. You can see the breakdown at http://blog.ask.com/2005/07/what_feeds_matt.html . I...
July 23, 2005Finding Spreadsheets With Google
Automate Excel, which I am still enjoying very much, has a 'blog entry on finding spreadsheets with Google. ( http://www.automateexcel.com/index.php/2005/07/23/google_for_spreadsheets ). More power to you but you can have even more fun with this if you use a couple other...
Google Maps Now Has Hybrid Feature
Google Maps has added a new hybrid feature. Want more than the satellite pix? More than the map? Now you can have both. It's a floor wax and a dessert topping! It.. oh, never mind. You can try it at...
Updates on Mozilla Updates
Mozillazine.org has an update ( http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6995 ) on the current status of Firefox. Briefly, 1.1 is going to be skipped in favor of Firefox 1.5, which will be coming out in September (with a planned beta launch in August.) You...
Hi!
Hey! I'm back! Did you miss me? I missed you too. Keep sending in the cool things you've found and your site suggestions. I've gotten a little more breathing room so you're going to see some serious updateage in the...
July 11, 2005Old News Baby Update
Last April I covered OldNewsBaby, which allowed you to submit links and then get mad guru cred when the links got hot. One of my complaints about it before is that there were no descriptions. Now there are resource descriptions...
Map Hackin' Goodness
Internet Cool Guy Nathan Torkington has a roundup of nice map hacks at http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/where_20_a_coll.html. ... aaand this article launches the new Internet-Tools-Mapping category, which I expect to very heavily populate in the coming days....
July 08, 2005Gigablast Rolls Out A Blog Search
Search engine Gigablast ( http://www.gigablast.com ) is now offering a 'blog search, which according to its home page searches something over 11 million pages. You can try it at http://blogs.gigablast.com/ . 11 million pages doesn't seem like much, not when...
July 06, 2005Search Form for Finding Only Playable Google Video Results
Someone's cooked up a form for finding Google Video results with only playable video in them; try it at http://www.strix.org.uk/misc/video.google/index.php. The site also points out that the special syntax source:upload can be used directly at Google Video. I found that...
Continue reading "Search Form for Finding Only Playable Google Video Results" » Rhode Island Offers New Site With Much RSS Goodness
The state of Rhode Island has announced new features of its Web site along with major support for RSS. But of course it's still available at http://www.ri.gov . Let's do the RSS feeds first. On the front page you'll see...
Continue reading "Rhode Island Offers New Site With Much RSS Goodness" » Keeping Up With Google Maps Hacks
Having trouble keeping up with the flood of Google Maps hacks? Me too. A new blog has started keeping track of them, with lots of entries and brief but comprehensive annotation. Check it out at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/. I do not yet...
July 05, 2005Getcher Visual Tag Display with TagLines
Several months ago I mentioned Zuggest, which I described as Google Suggest, only for Amazon (see that writeup here.) Now the creator of that site, Francis Shanahan, has created TagLines, which you can check out at http://www.francisshanahan.com/taglines/default.aspx?cat=All . How does...
Continue reading "Getcher Visual Tag Display with TagLines" » Google Maps Mashed With Census Data
I've known about gCensus for a while but apparently so did the rest of the world, and I was never able to get the site to work. Now it appears to work fine, so you too can visit the site...
July 04, 2005Oishii! For Finding Del.Icio.Us Good Stuff
I don't know what Oishii! is supposed to mean, but the first thing that popped into my mind is what Rincewind is always saying in the Terry Pratchett books. But that's not what it is. Instead it's a tool for...
Continue reading "Oishii! For Finding Del.Icio.Us Good Stuff" » Early Beta RSS Feed Reader: Feednation
I like RSS feeds. And almost more than that I like RSS feeds by e-mail. So I want to check out Feednation, which is in "early beta" at http://www.feednation.com/ ....
Massachusetts Offers Virtual Gateway of Services
The state of Massachusetts has launched a "Virtual Gateway" for information on health and human services programs. It's accessible at https://vgportal1.hhs.state.ma.us/portal/dt . Don't mind the bit about registration -- if your interest is consumer-level you can jump right in. If...
Continue reading "Massachusetts Offers Virtual Gateway of Services" » July 03, 2005Yahoo Releases API for Its Maps
Shortly after Google started talking about theirs, Yahoo started talking about theirs. And I'm talking about Map APIs. Yahoo's is at http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/ . This page includes documentation, lots of samples, and a pointer to a FAQ and an online mailing...
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