Archive for July, 2006
YouTube Serves Up 100 Million Videos Per Day
YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said on Sunday viewers have are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand for its “snack-sized” video fare. YouTube videos account for 60 percent of all videos watched online, the company said.
read more | digg story
addthis_url [...]
Stop PDF from freezing your Firefox
Yes, you can stop Firefox from trying to use this silly PDF plugin to open PDF files. Read how and become more productive.
read more | digg story
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fianscott.biz%2Fstop-pdf-from-freezing-your-firefox%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Stop+PDF+from+freezing+your+Firefox’;
addthis_pub = ”;
Google sends blogger aspirin after complaining about Google headaches
After writing a blog post titled Dear Google, You’re Giving Me a Headache, Google sent the author a small pack of acetaminophen, with a message saying “I hope this helps you keep up with the many Adwords changes.”
read more | digg story
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fianscott.biz%2Fgoogle-sends-blogger-aspirin-after-complaining-about-google-headaches%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Google+sends+blogger+aspirin+after+complaining+about+Google+headaches’;
[...]
FBI: putting a backdoor in every router soon?
The FBI wants all future routing equipment manufactured to include backdoors for law enforcement. Like in CALEA, such back doors require no warrant to activate, and hence can be secretly enabled at will. How bad is this?
read more | digg story
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fianscott.biz%2Ffbi-putting-a-backdoor-in-every-router-soon%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘FBI%3A+putting+a+backdoor+in+every+router+soon%3F’;
addthis_pub [...]
TWiT.tv redesign, at last!
After months of development, the completely redesigned TWiT.tv website has launched, “After many months of hard work by Arktyp and Lullabot (and Shooby who fixed all the entries by hand) the new look TWiT.tv is up and running.” This site will feature the new Dell sponsorship, and is a place where all of Leo’s [...]
How To Find Podcasts
Podcast search engines
In general, major search engines aren’t indexing podcasts in a format that’s easy to find, at least. However, there are podcast-specific search engines that have solved this problem:
Podscope: Podscope is a specialized search engine that only looks for podcasts, searching for the spoken words within the podcasts themselves.
Yahoo Podcasts: Out of all the [...]
How To Save YouTube, MySpace, Etc. Videos As .AVI’s Using Free Tools
This tutorial shows you how to download any video from sites such as YouTube, GoogleVideo, iFilm, etc. and then convert them to .AVI files using only free tools (Firefox, VideoDownloader, and MediaCoder). Although this tutorial doesn’t go through how to do it, you can later burn the AVI videos onto a DVD so you [...]
New Google Gmail features on their way
Some new features are rumored to be on their way into Google’s Gmail web mail application.
Garett Rogers checked out the source, only to find that the code for them is present, but the variables are set to false.
The new features in question are:
Deleting all spam messages - no need to select>all, then delete.
Apply filter to [...]
