Telling a story is always easiest and most effective when you have an image to simply show what you're talking about. pictorymag.com is a new site that exemplifies the exact point. here's what the site looks like, check it out and see for yourself how awesome it is to see incredible imagery that perfectly explains the story attached!
Google Wave is the internet-based communication of the future, no doubt about it. It's like email 2.0. Here's a video from the developers themselves introducing Google Wave. it's a great watch.
I love the ability to have images, videos, and music put right in line with my message. Also being able to have conversations with many people at the same time about the same topic such as planning a trip, then having a private message with just one person about the same topic who's already a part of the conversation; maybe asking Sally if she's okay with us inviting her ex-boyfriend... she might not want to answer that to the whole group involved in the conversation, but to just me she's more than willing to answer so we know what's the best course of action. This can all be done within the same thread. Public and private messages including pictures, video, music, slideshows, links, you name it.
What would your day look like in 140 seconds? That's the question Nikon is asking. Nikon's Film Festival is where you can see the answers other people have posted. They encourage you to use a Nikon dSLR with video to make your movie with either stop motion or in movie mode, but it's not a requirement. A day in the life of photographer Chase Jarvis for example...
Google Voice is a fantastic beta service by Google. Here's a quick video to give a brief explanation:
The first thing all my friends say is, "But I only have one phone line, so why would I want this?" I then start to list off all the other benefits of a Google Voice number, like how when you get a call you can choose to answer it, send it to voicemail, or send it to voicemail and listen in on the message. If you choose to send the call to voicemail it will then transcribe what the person says and then send it to you in an email and text message if you'd like.
The next part is what I love so much: free calls. Call your own Google Voice number from any phone you have set up on the account and you can call any number for free. So say you're at home and you want to call your sister in Seattle but it's only 3:40pm on a Tuesday afternoon so you won't get free minutes on your cell, no problem, go online to your account or call your Google Voice number, hit 2, then dial your sisters number and #. Then you will be connected for a free call.
I use Google Voicemail so when I can just give out one number to everyone: friends, colleagues, family, clients, someone who got my business card or maybe got my number from a friend. When people call I can place them into categories and down the road when I have a work phone or land line I'll never have to bother my friends with new numbers. I control who calls where and when they can reach me.
Say I go on vacation, I can set up a temporary number so all my calls go to my cell for the week. When I get back everything automatically goes back to normal. I can set up do not disturb times as well, so if I want to go to sleep and never get a call from anyone but certain emergency numbers between the hours of 11am and 8am, I just set it up!
To see a full feature list of the incredible and, as always, forward thinking Google Voice service, cheek it out at Google.com/googlevoice/about.
Ever get a call and need to write something down but you aren't in quick reach of a pen? Or maybe you just like to doodle. This app is a must check out app, it's call Desktastic and it lets you do just that, if you have a Wacom tablet, it takes advantage of the pressure sensitivity and the eraser.
Here's how it works: you have a tool set on your desktop at all times and when you want to write a note, draw a picture, write some text, or point something out to someone, just hit the user-customizable enabler hotkey, choose the tool you'd like to use and you're all set!
It's a eat app for productivity or just fun, so check it out! The app will run you $12 bucks if you want to use it past teh 30 day trial period, or the serial is in June 2009's Serial Box, which worked for me.
First off Saft is an input manager for Safari, it enables many features that Safari will probably include next time around such as full screen options, ad blocking, and session restoring. It's a great tool, but it only supports certain versions of Safari, so when you upgrade Safari to the most recent release, it breaks Saft and it's useless, meanwhile leaving you with an annoying reminder that Saft isn't properly running.
This is an excerpt from sniptools.com that explains perfectly how to solve this problem for now:
"If you’re here, you know what I’m talking about. The Safari plugin sounds like a neat little tool but is a pesky customer on any computer. Not the way to win hearts. Deleting it doesn’t work, nor do the instructions on their website. Here's what you do:
First, close Safari. This is VERY important, as it does not work otherwise.
Start Terminal. (Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, or type Terminal in Spotlight).
Under Terminal type “sudo -s” without the quotation marks to log in as root.
Then enter: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
Go to the blue (or gray) apple at the top left of the screen, then select Force Quit. From the menu of items, click on “Saft” and click on the Force Quit button.
Then, in the same Force Quit window, click on “Finder” and click the “Relaunch” button.
In the Finder window, on the top right bar (the Filter spotlight bar), type “saft” without the quotes. Delete with delight any file called Saft. Note: This may reveal a few other files that may contain the word “Saft” such as threads.py in my case (a Python file). Naturally, you want to NOT delete these. Just get rid of the Saft files.
Empty the trash. If there is a file that won’t delete because it’s in use, then Force Quit “Saft” again as in Step 5 above, and then Empty Trash again.
Go back into Terminal, and type “sudo -s” again without quotation marks. Then enter: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE This will set the Finder back to the way it was before. Then type “exit” and it will exit out of the root.
Now navigate to the folder: /Library/InputManagers. Note that this is NOT the “Library” folder in your Users folder. This is the Library folder from the root. Inside InputManagers is the “saft” folder—get rid of it.
Empty Trash (again). If it says Saft is in use, reboot the machine and empty it then. Or if you use some excellent utility like MainMenu you can “Force Empty Trash”.
