Archive for January, 2008

These are my links for January 31st:

• dooce ® – our panel will be held Sunday, March 9th, if you are in Austin and can spare the mortgage payment it costs to get into the festival. Maggie will be the one speaking coherently, I will be the one trying to distract her by snapping the elastic on her bra.
• Eighth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2008 Bloggies – Honor. Prestige. Wealth. These are some of the things that a Bloggie won’t bring you. But that won’t stop the Web from voting, because this is the annual non-profit competition that determines which blogs are the best of the best.
• Musicovery : interactive webRadio – visually awesome music interface … fascinating
• COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY – Noory and Bell talk show site for Coast to Coast
• Coast to Coast AM Members – Art Bell and George Noory’s subscription Coast to Coast AM “streamlink”… cool name… wonder how they’re doing
• Slashfood – Nectar With-a-Sting Honey Mustard featured in my V Cuisine cookbook. Of course, I’ve made other dressings before – the classic vinaigrette, several tofu-based creamy monstrosities – but they don’t even come close to the awesome power that is this dressing

These are my links for January 29th through January 30th:

• Jeffrey Zeldman Presents – daily report, designing with web standards
• Merlin Mann – Merline Mann’s blog SF CA of 43 Folders and MacBreak Weekly nailing down speaking gigs including sxsw 08 creator of 5ives
• Lijit | Home – I saw this on Veronica Belmont’s blog… it’s a custom search for your blog using google, del.icio.us, etc.
• imacros’ bookmarks tagged with “imacro” on del.icio.us – del.icio.us bookmarks which illustrate macros
• http://forum.iopus.com/_uploads/demos/firststeps/FirstSteps1.htm – macros for firefox browser
• Urban Dictionary: Define Your World – wild expressions for the modern age… you can have fun with this one for hours
• SecTheory – Internet Security – Have you ever just wanted to sit in a small room with a few likeminded professionals and get some tough questions answered? Ever wanted the right ammunition to tackle the tough web application security issues on your plate? Welcome to The Austin Project.
• Geek News Central Technical News and Informational Stories – I found some links today through a round about way that indicates that some podcasters may and I repeat ?may? have found a way to game the Podcast Subscription Metric System Apple has.
• Roxer – The easiest way to make a web page – Now anyone can create stunning websites online in just minutes.

These are my links for January 28th:

• Theme Viewer – graphical theme viewer for wordpress
• GarageBand.com : charts – tons of podsafe music available for downloading
• ReadWriteWeb – news and apps in the web 2.0 world
• Social bookmarking services poster and community websites submitter: digg.com reddit.com netscape.com propeller.com Del.icio.us Stumbleupon.com etc. –
• DomainsBot – Available domain suggestions, name spinner, expired and expiring domain name search – great domain name search tool
• Mediafly: Technology News podcasts – really great, visually appealing podcast directory
• 12 Podcasts for the Creative Class – Here are 12 must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers–those entrepreneurial spirits who start and staff the most innovative, fast-growing companies.
• Twitter Stats – springnet twitter stats
• Free Windows Vista Drivers Update Scan at RadarSync – This page lists the latest Windows Vista drivers and provides direct links to the files for downloads. We’re offering this as a free service to the community, to help you all get through this challenging period of Vista-transitioning.
• SIW | System Information for Windows – SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100 – Simply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second, and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust.
• Virtual Hosting Blog » The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets – The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets
• What is Big Think? – Big Think – Featured Ideas – we are what you think
• vozMe – just type your text and it creates an mp3 file
• A Sample of Journals Using Open Journal Systems | Public Knowledge Project – This is not a comprehensive list of the over 900 titles using OJS (as of March 2007) in ten languages, but includes those who have indicated an interest in being listed, and is intended to illustrate the diversity of journals using system.
• Austin jumping on Rails – What started as a grass-roots movement has become one of the hottest new things in programming technology, generating the same level of passion among its adherents as Linux, another outsider technology that moved into the mainstream.
• ONLamp.com — From Weblog to CMS with WordPress – This article describes how we used one blogging package (WordPress) to replace a traditional content management system (phpWebSite) to run a community website.
• Twitter Stats – This is a totally ugly engine to produce some stats from your Twitter feed and present them with the Google Charts API, including Tweets per hour of the day, total Tweets per day/month, top @replies and top overall @s.
• Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets – A wonderful Twitter update badge you can customize to your heart?s delight and place on your blog, Facebook, MySpace?
• Software Categories – softwre applications for ubuntu gutsy (debian)
• Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move – Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website. The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that website.
• About CMS Watch — CMS Watch – Our reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements.
• Podcasting Underground | Podcasting Tips for Podcasters – In this episode of The Podcasting Underground, I talk about how I make the most money from podcasting and blogging. It?s probably not what you?re thinking. In Q3 of this year I used an often overlooked strategy to generate over $70,000 from my podcast
• Mogulus » Broadcast Live. – lifecast 24/7 with mogulus … competition for ustream.tv and justin.tv
• World?s Largest Swimming Pool cost nearly Two Billion Dollars to Build – SlashGear – Seriously, take a long and deep breath if you?re thinking of making a lap in the swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo city, Chile. The 20 acres man-made saltwater lagoon measures more than one thousand yards in length, 115 feet d
• Exclusives: The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientologists Don’t Want You To See – Didn’t get a chance to watch the terrifyingly creepy Tom Cruise video yesterday before Scientologists pulled it off YouTube? Well, we’ve managed to get our hands on a copy and now we’d like to invite you to watch in all its technicolor glory.
• SlashGear – Apparently the deal with this card is that you slide it into your iPhone and it somehow magically hardware unlocks your iPhone. I am not an electrical engineer, so I can?t tell you how well this thing will work, but if I had to guess, it won?t.
• Google Labs – Google labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.
• Small Laptops – Small laptop: ?A subnotebook (also known as a palmtop, a kneetop or an ultraportable) is an extremely small and lightweight portable computer, with all features of a standard laptop computer and running all its applications. Its overall size is much sm
• HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials | Howtos about Linux and Open Source – HowtoForge provides user-friendly Linux tutorials about almost every topic.
• Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools | TechnoTarget – Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools
• Feature: Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN – Wake-on-LAN (or WOL), which?as the name suggests?turns on your PC through your local network. Wake-on-LAN is a breeze to set up and use on your local network, and with a little legwork you can set it up so you can wake your computer away from your hom
• Thoof – Welcome to Thoof! Thoof will show you interesting news, websites, videos, and other links, personalized to your individual tastes. Just click on the stories that interest you, and let Thoof do the rest.
• Jane Austen on PBS — PVS / PBS and Public Television videos and DVDs – Masterpiee the complete Jane Austen airing on PBS January through April 2008
• Ubuntu Linux Resources – a collection of tutorials and random other pages that will help Ubuntu users.
• Gridjit: A Social Portal for Twitter – The Twitter view that springnet sees.
• Podcast Generator – Open Source Podcast Publishing Solution – Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also feat

These are my links for January 27th:

• springnet’s podcast – within 5 minutes I had a show on itunes! it was so easy it was amazing. http://www.gcast.com/u/springnet/main is the url. highly recommended
• Social Networks in Education » home – listing of social networks used in educational environments. Please add to this list (alphabetical by category and within categories).
• Infinite Thinking Machine – a single-purpose wiki for educators to link to and describe their social networking sites. I’m including a snapshot of the list as it is today, but it keeps growing and as it does so provides an interesting insight into the variety of ways that social net
• WebMynd – Home – Never bookmark or save a page again. We remember everything for you.
• Netdisaster.com – spring.net – ooops, spilled coffee on my spring.net site…. guess it’s time for a redesign
• Flickr: The Japan HDR Pool – amazing images

These are my links for January 26th:

• Put Together Quickly » Optimizing performance for WordPress – make wordpress work better
• 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging –
• John Mccaint – Look out Chuck Norris, Sylvester?s comin? after you. He?s comin? after you and he?s going to get you. You better run! Chuck, you can run but you can?t hide!? – John McCain
• Emma Alvarez Site: Top Best 50 Blogger & Wordpress Customizations Tips ( Hacks ) – Dynamic Slideshow In Header, A demo can be seen here. This makes a slideshow for the header, making your blog interesting and dynamic.
• G4 TV – cool video podcasts, real stiff competition for podshow
• EVDO info, EV-DO Coverage, Tips, News, Reviews, Verizon, Sprint : EVDOinfo.com – everything evdo
• jkOnTheRun – good blog about new mobile devices
• Apple – iTunes – iTunes Store – Podcasts – Technical Specification – Submitting Your Podcast to the iTunes Store.
• Carnaval Austin 2007 on Vimeo – Austin’s hottest party is Carnaval … see http://sambaparty.com

These are my links for January 22nd through January 25th:

• 250120082.jpg (JPEG Image, 800×600 pixels) – Daikatana or “daiky” is an awesome lifecaster from the Netherlands
• SocialEngine PHP – Build your own unique social network! – SocialEngine is a PHP-based social network platform that lets you create a social network on your website. Right out of the box, your social network will offer nearly all of the features found on today’s wildly popular social networks. Instead of hosting
• DZOIC Handshakes Professional :: The Best Social Networking Script / Software in PHP – Are you looking for an ideal software solution so you can start your own social networking portal? If so, then you have just found what you were looking for.
• WordPress and aMember: Teasers – Combined with aMember, WordPress is a great CMS to use for a membership site. If you have a site where all the content is considered members only it?s a simple matter of using aMember to protect the whole site.
• Mac Daddy World – Use your iPhone?s camera as a wireless Mac webcam! Stream video over Wi-Fi to any Mac video application such as iChat, Photo Booth or Skype.

These are my links for January 20th through January 21st:

• Will We See Delicious 2.0 This Week? – It?s been four and a half months since Yahoo first previewed Delicious 2.0. We?ve heard not a peep from them since as to when it might launch publicly and replace the existing, somewhat dated interface.
• DVM5051_SPECS.pdf (application/pdf Object) – awesome webcam that has night vision and a 60′ cable. Rocks!
• ImageShack – Hosting :: austintexassj6.jpg – logo austin texas for jtv austintexas site
• Add Gnome etc to a Server install? – Ubuntu Forums – how to add the desktop gnome to a server install
• Perfect 7.1 ubuntu gutsy gibbon install – One of the best guides for install gutsy gibbon ubuntu 7.1 excellent!
• The Zeitgeist » About – David HM Spector is an innovator, developer, writer, consultant and entrepreneur specializing in high-performance computing, social network applications and interface agents. His consulting company is Zeitgeist Information Systems, canonically known as
• redhat.com | Products & Services – Virtualization provides an escape from this very problem. The existing stack can continue to run as is as a guest inside a virtual machine, while the latest hypervisor happily supports the new hardware, as well as bringing benefits in reliability and perf
• Skype on iPhone – there is a workaround that will enable you to use Skype on the Apple iPhone.
• Common File Extensions – Common file extensions that are good to know, organized by file format.

These are my links for January 15th through January 18th:

• Wired LivingHomes – About the Home – The 4,057 square foot WIRED LivingHome is designed to attain at least a Gold rating from the USGBC LEED® for Homes Program. Consistent with its focus on sustainable design
• I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Google-Mart | PBS – in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn’t just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cra
• AskMen.com – Top 10 hottest women in tech – While there are certainly a number of drop-dead gorgeous ladies within the world of tech media to choose from, we?ve narrowed the list down to 10.
• Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About – As rumored, Apple announced a new line of portable computers during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at MacWorld San Fransisco today, the MacBook Air. The new line is a complement to the existing MacBook and MacBook Pro lines.
• Traces of Inspiration » Blog Archive » SXSWi: ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside InternetVille – SXSWi: ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside InternetVille

These are my links for January 8th through January 14th:

• DeluoGPS – Deluo MouseGPS(tm). An optical laptop USB mouse with an integrated GPS. – Available with Microsoft® Streets & Trips, the best-selling mapping software, the Deluo MouseGPSTM will help you find your way through urban jungles and the World Wide Web alike.
• ATP’s GPS Photo Finder geotags your pix OTG – Engadget – GPS Photo Finder, a unique device which automatically tags your digital pictures with latitude and longitude, without the need for a PC nearby. The little rectangular box works by reading SD, MMC or Memory Stick data and then tagging pictures on the media
• best.online.docus – Best Online Documentaries – best online documentaries
• We Want Better TV – cody keith’s spinoff? of Justin.tv… lifecasting
• 7 Twitters Of The World – Twitter: easy to love, easy to clone. The first startup a young, aspiring web developer might want to try and build will probably be some version of Twitter, which can clearly be seen from all the local/regional Twitter clones we?re encountering every d
• Twitter / Customize Your Badge – make a twitter badge for your blog or website
• Singers and Dancers Fans ? Dance Wars! Bruno Tonioli vs Carrie Ann Inaba – Dance Wars on ABC, the unofficial fan site with a live feed from http://justin.tv/austintexas …. grew out of Dancing with the Stars. Drew Laschey is hosting. Mondays 7 pm on ABCE

These are my links for January 2nd through January 7th:

• Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Scripted Re-Mark – Batch Editor for Bookmarks – manage your bookmarks stored at del.icio.us. one hit batch mode re-tag bookmarks en masse, make wholesale changes to URLs or update descriptions in bulk. toggle public/private sharing settings and mass delete bookmarks.
• The Austin Chronicle: Calendar: Recommended: 2008-01-03 – 2008-01-23 – austin chronicles calendar of events
• Patrick Timpone – new age talk show host on KLBJ Austin, healthy living for a healthy planet
• springnet – CommunityWalk – A place for spring.net website users to get to know each other geographically.
• Refresh Austin / GeekAustin Happy Hour | door64.com – For January, the GeekAustin Happy Hour moves downtown to the exceptional J Blacks. Some of you may remember that PhizzPop was hosted here last month. Well, Whurley and LinearB liked JBlacks so much that we decided to host the next few GA happy hours there
• 728uo88.png (PNG Image, 825×300 pixels) – austintexas banner
• barton springs – Google Image Search – images of austin, texas barton springs
• Viddler.com – Search results for “springnet” – Global tags » videos tagged with ?springnet?
• Austin City Limits Festival – Austin City Limits Festival Photo Gallery from the official site. Pictures by Paul Terry Walhus on spring.net/aclfest/
• Tanya Streeter – Like whales and dolphins, humans can take a breath and descend beneath the surface of the waves to experience the surreal silence and beauty of any aquatic environment.
• Tanya Streeter – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Tanya Streeter, born January 10, 1973 in Grand Cayman, is a world champion free-diver, who made her first important breakthrough in 1998 when she bettered Deborah Andollo’s Women’s No Limits diving record by 10 feet, achieving a total depth of 370 feet (1
• PC World – Browse CES – The Microsoft chairman’s last CES keynote features a parody video and preview of multimedia products in the works.
• springnet Videos, springnet Music, springnet Photos on IMEEM – I’ve installed 3 ubuntu servers in the past 3 days.  If you go to http://delicious.com/springnet/ubuntu you can see some of the references I used in these installs.  I think ubuntu is great. What are your experiences with ubuntu?  How are y
• springnet on imeem – My page on imeem…. that goofy picture of me with the Longhorns hat the the grey wings was taken at SXSW by a nice lady at the imeem booth. Imeem is cool. Pioneering socialnet.
• LinPVR.org – linux pvr or personal video recorder or dvr digital video recorder
• Talk Digger Search for: “springnet” – IBM didn’t see it coming, but Microsoft does. They are smart. That’s why we’re aligned with them. What is this perfect storm? What happened to IBM?
• FlamingText: Free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics and animations. – sique on jtv suggested I use this to generate my banner on http://justin.tv/austintexas… I did. It worked
• VLC media player – Overview – VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multi
• OVGuide: Online Video Guide – It’s what’s ON the Web – site recommended by a friend on jtv… the ultimate guide to online video… it’s what’s on baby
• Why should you use Runscanner? – Runscanner is a completely free windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs. You can use runscanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other problems.

These are my links for December 31st through January 1st:

• Cutline – Links Menu – great wordpress theme, I’m using this on http://bountyhuntersecrets.com and other blogs
• karmalised – antiwar blog, nice use of the cutline theme
• Bounty Hunter Secrets ? Secrets of a Bounty Hunter – Secrets of a bounty hunter – blog for a film, a dvd and a book to be issued soon
• Viddler.com – Upload, Enhance, Share – You can upload many videos at once, and in various formats, too (.mov .avi .wmv .mpeg). You also won’t have to worry about file size ? just keep any video you upload under 500 Mb.
• AddThis – Social Bookmarking Widget Del.icio.us Digg Button – promotes your content everywhere through bookmarking and sharing
• WordPress ? WordPress Plugins – most popular wordpress plugins