MattsCuppa Link Roundup for 6-6-2007
Posted by telecommatt on June 6, 2007
I really, really need to dig myself out of some of the articles I’ve clipped over the past few weeks, so I’ve decided to take a new approach. Rather than posting each as a separate article and clogging your RSS reader, I’ll be writing a few posts with a lot of articles in them. Some of these I’ll return to for a full post. If there is anything you want to hear more about, please let me know!
Webcam: Perfect your webcam picture
Photography blog Strobist breaks down how to get the best webcam shot using simple techniques.
Adjusting your light source, turning down the monitor brightness, softening your desk lamp light, wearing a white shirt and even setting up a background you can make a huge difference in how you come across on your webcam. Check out the image above for a before and after shot, and head over to Strobist for the details on how to get yourself looking that good on the cam.
How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam’s Picture Quality [Strobist]
At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pandora has just announced their new mobile client for Sprint phones. TechCrunch has more details on the announcement.
The
client will let Sprint customers stream their Pandora radio stations to
their phones. For the next 30 days the client will be free by going to
Pandora.com on your mobile phone. After that, you will need a Pandora
premium account, which costs $3/month and gives you ad free access to
Pandora.Readers interested in mobile music should check out our coverage of PartyStrands, Avvenu, and Oboe .
The newest version of Zoho Notebook (beta) is now available to the public, and it offers more features than Google Notebook.
Add
text, web clippings, videos, spreadsheet snippets and record audio
(straight from your browser!) into your Zoho notebook. A Firefox
extension is available for quick and easy web clipping, too. See the
video demo of these features courtesy of the Zoho folks above. See also
how you can GTD using an online notebook app in my previous feature, Getting Things Done with Google Notebook.
All Your Data Are Belong To Us: Google wants to dress you in the morning
founderchief executive says that in 5 years time, it should be able to tell you what job to take and what to do on your day off. Shortly thereafter, none of us will need actual minds of our own.
Create an online store with no up-front fees. Automatically get submitted to Google’s Product Search. URL: Flying Cart.
Food for Thought: Chocolate Constituent Bests Fluoride
The beans used to make chocolate can also render a tooth-decayfighting extract; unfortunately, it’s bitter, not chocolaty.
If you live in a city, you dont need to own a car. They are bold
words, especially coming from William Clay Ford JrCEO of Ford Motor
Company and great-grandson of the legendary Henryas quoted in an
interview with the British newspaper The Observer in November, 2000.
Bold, certainlybut bang on. Ford and like-minded people envision a
world where individual car ownership is replaced by environmentally
friendly alternativesresulting in a community less reliant on the
one-car-per-person system which causes so many problems today. (more ) » original news
What Would Happen if We Reduced Demand for Gas by 5%?
If people were able to reduce their fuel consumption by just 5% -
whether it was by simply not driving, purchasing a more fuel efficient
vehicle, or getting more of their current car s gas mileage – we would
save 7.05 billion gallons of gas, $22 billion dollars and keep 1.4 tons
of carbon dioxide out of the air. » original news
AskMeNow Mobile Search for Wikipedia
2007-06-01 10:14:00.0
Ask
and thou shall receive, especially if the information you’re
looking for happens to be on Wikipedia. AskMeNow, Inc. has announced an
agreement with Wikimedia Foundation to provide mobile search for
Wikipedia, the user-generated online encyclopedia. The companies have
announced a preliminary agreement to introduce a natural language
desktop search, and following this will also launch a free Mobile
Wikipedia service. This would allow users to ask queries and get the
answer results directly to their mobile handsets. AskMeNow, which
launched in 2005, currently utilizes technology to offer natural
language-based interaction and and dynamic content provision for simple
and quick information retrieval.
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