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August 16, 2005

Google News now has RSS Feeds

Filed under: Google around 7:49 pm

You can receive various sections of Google News or Google News search results as a RSS or Atom feed. When you subscribe to a feed from Google News in your favorite feed reader, you’ll be provided with updates from Google News.

Now Google can claim 95 billion more webpages than Yahoo. It’s about time Google add RSS feed to it’s news service.. This is Google News articles as RSS Feeds, not simply RSS feeds on your personalized Google homepage.

RSS simply saves time. I read news from all over the Web every night. If I spent the time to go to every Web site for the news, it would take all night. With an RSS reader, I can skim the headlines from dozens of sites in minutes. Some feeds allow me to read the whole story from my reader, others give me a teaser and make me click on the link (taking me to the page) for the whole story. Even in that case, I’m only opening the stories I want.

Beat those Phishing sites…

Filed under: Net Security around 7:49 pm

I haven’t seen this here and I think that people should be aware of anti-phishing
software
…plus its free and works good.

30 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do on the Internet

Filed under: Interesting Findings around 7:49 pm

The Web is learning new tricks every day.

These surprising sites and services will help you solve problems and save time–and one might even make you a star.

Read any book via Google

Filed under: Google around 7:49 pm

Great tutorial with images about how to read any book with Google.. Till it lasts that is.. I am sure there are gonna be copyright issues involved here for sure. And Google is not fool to sit and just watch people read books and print them.

It’s an interesting find, but quite limited. There were many books that didn’t show up, and the reading is quite tedious. Doesn’t work very well at all. The images look like they’re pulled off of Amazon.com’s “look inside” feature that is in many books. This service by no means lets you read an entire book.

I’m sure it would be very easy for someone to hack up a Google book explorer that automatically went to the next page. Each click to the right would search for “page 5″ then search for “page 6″ and follow that link. I’m no scripter but I’m sure it would be easy.

What I found was by simply changing the page number towards the end of the search string worked reasonably well.

PA20&sig=3KGbhU5fXDNapvOiFjO71N_CvBI
PA21&sig=3KGbhU5fXDNapvOiFjO71N_CvBI

you would change the 20 to 21 at the beginning of the string snippet there.

Hopefully that makes sense. *shrugs*

The coolest pop-up you’ve ever seen

Filed under: Eye Catching around 7:48 pm

Here’s one pop up I wouldn’t mind looking at. The window resizing it’s pretty neat.. Isn’t?

Hahaha that’s great……Screwed up but great. Great marketing! Eye catching, etc. Well executed. Sometimes the cool stuff doesn’t have to be hard to make. It’s nice how sound matches with animation, reminds me of eye4u.com.

I can see that these guys took a lot of time in doing this. Props to them. Its an awesome pop-up. I just hope that this does not start a trend with actual advertisements, then I’ll be pissed. Okay, how the hell did they do that. Is it code in flash or some kind of java script in the HTML editor? Perhaps not complicated, but IMHO, unique and well played. Very well thought and creative.

It seems that is for some sort of contest, could be wrong, but not much advertising go on there. Just at the end with the URL of the site is was on. Still very interesting and creative; it must of taken hours to perfect see as how java script is a very strict language as screen resolution, browser type, etc. etc. Play a major factor and not to mention that it was it time with the music.

Note: if you have pop-up blockers, disable it…

I promise you it won’t be that annoying.

Gigapixel Resolution

Filed under: Eye Catching around 7:48 pm

Graham Flint and Catherine Aves are not your average photographers. The two are currently traveling across the country creating a photographic record of landscapes using a Gigapixel camera that Flint Invented. The Gigapixel project.

The direct link is at gigapxl.org. It’s amazing how much detail is captured. I can’t wait till we can carry one of these in one hand. But technically, this is definitely NOT a digital process.

  • Basically what they’ve done is used a large format film camera.
  • Film based aerial cameras are 9″x9″ format.
  • They scanned their film at 6 microns.
  • When scanning at 7microns you’re actually scanning individual grains in the film. What you get is a nice speckley noisy image at that resolution (as if a sharpen filter were run on an image).
  • With high quality film it’s far more practical to scan at 14 microns so each pixel has a good mix of red/green/blue.
  • Scanning 8 bit 3 band 9″x9″ exposures results in files a bit over 16kx16k, or about “256 megapixel”.
There’s nothing special about this camera except that it’s really expensive and really heavy and requires really expensive custom film. They should have stuck with 9″x9″ format which would have been far far cheaper to buy and run.

Google History

Filed under: Google around 7:48 pm

This is a timeline of Google’s history. From 1995 to this year, is a list of events and accomplishments involving Google.

How to do “pen tricks”

Filed under: Interesting Findings around 7:48 pm

This website contains videos that teach viewer how to do tricks with pens, such as spin them.

This link contains bad information! I tried them all and could not perform a single one successfully because the videos use the craptastic indeo codec which you now have to pay for to get. ;)

This link isn’t to the current pen tricks, this is the current “production” site. If that doesn’t work, try this one pulak

Sheesh!! I’ve been trying to do these damn pen-spinning tricks for years and I still can’t do them.

High Speed Bullet Photography

Filed under: Eye Catching around 7:47 pm

A collection of high speed images most involving bullets destroying things. I never knew shooting stuff could look so cool and the tomato juice was actually white. Actually, it appears white because of the amount of air ‘trapped’ in the spray. This is the same reason water looks white when it gets air in it (white caps, rapids, faucet).

I wonder what it looks like to shoot living people with a high-speed camera! I can’t wait to find out! YEE-HAW!!! Who knew people would love high-speed photography so much?

Here’s a couple more links:

How to lock Firefox settings.

Filed under: Browsers around 7:47 pm

Let’s say you are the administrator of one or more installations of Mozilla Firefox and you want to lock certain settings/options, so users cannot edit them. For instance you may want to prevent people from changing the proxy setting, the homepage, the ability to save passwords, etc. You can make it so.

This is good info. There really needs to be more info out there about doing enterprise deployments of Firefox. I haven’t tried it, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Perfect for schools and private institutions.