Juice Receiver: Discover, download, organize and subscribe to Internet audio...
Juice Receiver is an open source application written in Python and licensed under the GPL that allows you to save Internet audio (like, say, podcasts) onto your local hard drive to listen to at your...
View ArticleLifecasting: Streaming video netcasts of an individual’s life
If you Google lifecasting, the odds are that you’ll find lifecasting.org at the top of your search results, a site dedicating to “lifecasting artists” who make 3D copies of living human bodies. The...
View ArticleNews rivers: Dave Winer makes mobile feed browsing brilliantly easy
Dave Winer, generally considered the father of RSS, has been playing with different ways of organizing, aggregating and displaying feeds for years. OPML was a meaningful contribution (and, for once, a...
View Articlexkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language
Yuval Shavit, a triple threat of writer/coder/sarcasm maven over at SearchITChannel.com, turned me on to the xkcd webcomic a few months ago. Today, he pointed out the edition above, an example of DB...
View ArticleThe IT Room: Streamingly funny IT humor coming to a tiny/medium/large screen...
Thank to its ubiquitous advertising spots on BoingBoingTV, I’ve discovered the IT Room. Clearly, I’m part of the target audience of this new take on tech support humor, ’cause I found the trailers and...
View ArticleMay 1st is RSS Awareness Day. Have you checked your feeds today?
Are you hip to Really Simple Syndication? If you’re still behind on the adoption curve, May 1st is RSS Awareness Day. Daniel Socco of DailyBlogTips offers a detailed explanation of where the idea for...
View ArticleDrop.io: Free, online file sharing made simple, easy and anonymous
Do you need a simple way to post and share large files on the Web temporarily? Is sending an attachment over email a bad option, for whatever reason? You could try Amazon S3 or FileURLs, both of which...
View ArticleWhat is Unity? Lockheed-Martin’s implementation of a social computing...
One of the unexpected hits of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this past week was a presentation by Lockheed-Martin on Unity, its social computing platform. One of the world’s largest defense contractors...
View ArticleBit.ly: A better URL shortener for developers, data geeks and microbloggers
The old adage about not reinventing the wheel doesn’t quite extend to Web applications. URL shorteners may have been around for years but there is plenty of room for improvement. This list of 68 URL...
View ArticleHow you can watch the Olympics live online (and what sysadmins can do about it)
After years of buildup, the Olympics are about to kick off tomorrow in Beijing. As Shamus McGillicuddy reports, streaming Olympics video will drain corporate bandwidth. This year’s games are going to...
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