Slife
Slife is a downloadable application that tracks your own computer habits and then helps you to create goals around how you can work more efficiently and productively. If you’re like me and have a little trouble entering your time at the end of the day, then this is the tool that will help you.
History of the Internet
An awesome online animated documentary about the history of the internet. It was brilliantly done with a whole textbook of information crammed into a nice 7 min video. Enough nerdy information to make yourself the life of the party tonight.
Google Maps: 100+ Best Tools and Mashups
It’s crazy how much you can do with Google Maps. This is pretty sweet column highlighting some of the Google Maps mash-ups around the web.
[for fun] Church Sign Battle
A funny religious debate between Catholics and Presbyterians carried out via passive aggressive church signs. (yes its fake)
Concept Share – http://conceptshare.com/
ConceptShare allows you to setup secure online workspaces for sharing designs, documents and video and invite others to review, comment and give contextual feedback anytime and anywhere without a meeting.
EtherPad – http://etherpad.com/
This is a crazy concept developed by two ex-Google Engineers that allows you to open a word document in a web browser and make changes and edits simultaneously with others in real-time. I watched that screencast and it looks pretty sweet.
(for fun) Spider Email String – http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html (viral)
OK…so some of you may have seen this already since it has been passed around quite a bit, but if you haven’t, please enjoy. Very funny!
(for fun) Let Me Google that For You – http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/ (viral)
Very useful (with a pinch of sarcasm) when you have a non-computer savvy relative (or friend) who asks you a stupid question that could be solved in an instant by Google. Example: You get asked, “how do I find the website for US Bank?”. Your Answer: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=US+Bank
Low Cost Usability Testing – http://www.usertesting.com/
You pay $19 per person to have them review/test your website. You get a video of the user speaking along with a written review.
Flowgram – http://www.flowgram.com/
Free tool where you can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, videos etc on any topic, and add a voice narrative which provides context, emotion and consistency. The flowgram can be shared as an embeddable widget, email or as a link to either a private group or with the world. Flowgram recipients can interact with any of its pages by, for example, clicking on links, and playing and pausing videos.
Moving through life, we all try to keep our roots close. In light of keeping my roots close, I’d like to highlight one of the best web design reference guides from a college of which I am not alumni of. For many years, the great people from the ITSS department of University of Minnesota – Duluth have built out an amazing archive of some of the best web design articles, tutorials and references from all over. The reference covers topics ranging from accessibility to usability.
With the writer strike in full effect, it’s hard to get much out of TV these days. Personally, I see this as my chance to catch up on old re-runs. What better to catch up on old episodes than indulging in the blooming, but plentiful TV and film library of Hulu. Under the joint ventures of two TV networks (NBC Universal and News Corp), Hulu offers a vast TV and film library that seems to grow everyday. If you’re like me, then when you think TV on the web your first question would be “how’s the quality?” Believe it or not, the quality is superb and the download time seems to be relatively fast as well – far exceeding YouTube in my opinion. By the looks of it, they are even beginning to test the waters with High Definition as well!
“Hulu offers current primetime shows like The Office, Prison Break, Bionic Woman, House and Bones, and episodes from TV classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Arrested Development and more. We’ve also partnered with premier content owners like E! Entertainment, FUEL TV, SciFi Network and USA Networks to add to our growing collection of premium programming. ” – Hulu.com
Well now that I have your attention, take note that Hulu is not currently open to the public since it is still in beta testing. If you are OK with waiting a little while then you go sign-up to be a beta-tester at Hulu and be assured a first glimpse. Since Hulu seems eager for beta testers, it shouldn’t be long before you get accepted.
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