NOAA.gov Buoys
This recorded data is then sent by satellite back to home base and
is actually posted on their website every 10 minutes!!! Wicked
cool!!! The information that is recorded is ridiculously in depth
too, the best parts are the height of the swells, the length of the
period between swells, the water and air direction, water and air
temps, et cetera. Check it out, there's even an
RSS
feed!
Panoramio
Yet another FREE Google service that is awesome! Panoramio is a great web based service that provides the same service as Flickr's geo tagging, except Google takes it one step farther, you can then see those tagged photos right in Google Earth when you view that area!!! Pretty cool huh?!?!
Here's what the site looks like
Here's what that looks like in google earth with a photo
selected
Hulu
Some tv shows come with commercials, but they are 30 seconds or
less, so you're back to your show in no time. Plus the ads that I
have seen are usually not too bad, I've seen only Chevrolet and
Saturn commercials, both cleaver ads that show how economically
sound their hybrids are. definitely no "as seen on tv" ads
here!
With a nice clean slick player, Hulu really has done it right. I have moused over the video so the controls are shown in the screen shot above, but normally you would just see the video playing in a nice black gradient surrounding, or you can view in fullscreen with nothing but your video on the screen. It's pretty awesome, go check it out for yourself!
If you're on a Mac check out either the full featured awesome Twitterific ($15), or the barebones, stripped down, widget app, Twitgit (free!) and you can update your Twitter feed in seconds just as if you were updating your aim status, it's that easy.
Firefox 3 Beta 3
Other than the new Leopard-metal-rounded look, other features include: the newest version of Gecko (1.9) which is the rendering engine, cool new add on manager, the address bar also will now search your bookmarks and history as you type, and my personal favorite... over 350 memory leaking issues were fixed! As with most pre-releases, this version breaks a lot of add-ons, but the most important ones still work for me. Everyday developers are updating their add-ons to work with the most current versions too, so that's a plus. Download your copy here.
Google Image Labler
Try to beat your friends with a game that helps everybody at the same time by helping Google label their images.
Give Opera A Chance
• RSS support. An awesome reader in fact.
• Ad blocking with selective blocking capabilities.
• Advanced pop-up blocker that only blocks unwanted
pop-ups.
• Widgets like on iGoogle. This is an AMAZING feature! I have
my Pandora player, weather, Google Maps!!!, etc... these can be
accessed anytime, not just from a webpage.
• Mouse gestures
• Notes for marking up webpages for future review
• Smart auto-fill
• Skin flexibility
• Downloader that works like DownThemAll!
• Mail and chat built in. Which is awesome because you can
sync your Opera browsers on multiple computers so your mail and
chat goes with you wherever you go!
The more I use Opera the more I like it, it's getting dangerously
close to making me switch it over as my default browser, which is a
big deal.
Callwave Visual Voicemail
This service is a replacement for your regular voicemail your cell
phone currently uses. Callwave receives calls just like your
regular voicemail, but when you get missed calls or voice messages
you can have notices emailed to you or you can also have your
voicemails texted to you. Texted to you, but they are auditory
messages from your friends? Yep, Callwave actually takes what the
person said and converts it into text. This works about 90 percent
of the time. The point of this service is to ultimately give you
the option of listening your voicemails in whatever order you'd
like.
Above is the OS X widget that you can use that will show missed calls, even play voicemails right from your computer!
PandoraJam
If that doesn't do it for you, PandoraJam also lets you record and
pause the Pandora channels, so you can listen to recorded songs on
your iPod or in iTunes any time!
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