Flickr, a photo-sharing site, now will allow you to upload videos! A couple of caveats:
You have to be a Pro member ($25 per year)
Videos cannot be more than 90 seconds in length
Videos cannot be more than 150mb each
Only safe or moderate content is permitted (no restricted content)
Only videos you have created yourself
By the way, Flickr [...]
In Switzerland, a data center sits next to a local swimming pool. Keeping the equipment in the data center cool requires pushing cold air in and pushing hot air out. Instead of losing the hot air by pushing it outdoors, this data center is using it to heat the next door pool.
One of [...]
Harlequin Books now has a series just for busy women — Harlequin On The Go. They send their electronic books to cell phones in small, daily installments — 5-10 minutes each. Each installment takes up about 8 screens of text.
This service is currently available only to Verizon customers, but all national cellular carriers [...]
Ring tones have been around for a while. You can purchase your own, make your own, or use the ones that come with the phone. However, it hasn’t been easy, until now, to find good, classical ring tones. The couple that come with the phones are not the best quality. I currently have an aria [...]
Twitter, a service that allows you to send very short messages to one another, now has at been part of at least two marriage proposals.
March 2
@stefsull - “ok. for the rest of the twitter-universe (and this is a first, folks) - WILL YOU MARRY ME?”
@garazi - OMG - Ummmmm… I guess in front of the [...]
It’s coming! In other countries, television programs and videos are already streamed to cell phones. However, here in the United States, it’s a little different.
NBC Universal and News Corp. have banded together to provide Hulu, a free Internet service which provides television shows and movies over the web. Some of their partners [...]
I’m always surprised at the creativity of others. In this case, someone took the sounds from the Windows 98 and XP operating systems and made music! Don’t believe me? Try it!
[from CNET News.com]
If you’ve seen one of the “In Plain English” videos created by Common Craft, you’ll remember it. Using basic tools like paper, scissors, drawings and a creative mind, they create videos that explain complex ideas.
If you’re wondering what these topics are and have a few minutes to spare, you will be rewarded:
Twitter
Online Photo Sharing
Blogs
Social [...]
Want a trip down memory lane? There’s now a wiki of Obsolete Skills. As you can imagine, many, if not most, are technology skills. Each skill links to an overview of how to accomplish the skill.
Some of the skills include:
Archie
Blowing dust out of a Nintendo cartridge
DOS
ISDN
Library hand
Multiplication using a slide rule
Recording Windows [...]
A partnership between Nokia and the Cambridge Nanoscience Center has created the Morph. The Morph is one example of a cell phone that is transparent and can be molded into anything you’d like — even a bracelet.
These devices use nanotechnology, flexible materials, transparent electronics, and self-cleaning surfaces. Check out the video (46mb) to [...]
