Online storage for those big files to send or share

Using one of these types of sites - list from smashingapps.com - is so much better than sending someone a massive audio or video file by e-mail.

I've used mediafire.com with no problems, and yousendit.com many times, but you have to register.

Here's another list of file storage sites.

And another.

How to do more with your pictures at Flickr

Lots of tips on how you can get more out of Flickr, or get started, with this from ReadWriteWeb.

Word clouds - easy to make at wordle.net

I've seen word clouds around for awhile, but wordle.net sure makes them easy to create. To get a grasp of what Barack Obama said in his Democratic Convention acceptance speech, I made one of his prepared text. "Promise" looms large, but it looks like if "America" and "American" were combined, that would have been the most used word. Click on the image to see it better (wordle.net lets you use their images in about any way as long as you give their site attribution).

Stanley Kubrick, box by box

Boxes. Lots and lots of boxes. A fascinating video look inside the mind of director Stanley Kubrick.

Side note: I smiled that in the film one of the fan letters to Kubrick was noted to have been from Sequim, WA (one of my favorite places in the Pacific NW).

And - quite a lot on Kubrick in his imdb.com bio.

Voice to Text on your mobile phone

Lifehacker has some ideas about alternatives to Jott, now that it's out of beta and most functions are no longer free.

In particular, vlingo works on BlackBerry.

PC Mag's Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites - Info, Search, and Reference - Reviews by PC Magazine

A WOW cool 360 view of the Olympic Pool

What it looks like high up on the diving platform . Move your mouse to take a look around.


Some nice exterior shots of the Water Cube here.

Plus Inside the Olympics Stadium in 360 degrees

and View of the Opening Ceremonies - Interactive Feature - from NYTimes.com

Make your own iPhone Ringtones with iTunes for Windows

It's for tracks you already own in iTunes.

In-car Wi-Fi. It's here.

Well that didn't take long.

Information Week says: "will deliver download speeds from 400 to 800 Kbps and average upload speeds of 400 Kbps."

Combining this with the voice recognition features of Microsoft's Sync is when I think it's all going to get very interesting.

Thoughts about how this competes with satellite radio here from Motley Fool.

A PORTABLE Wii Screen?

Score another completely gotta have one gadget from ThinkGeek.com! So awesome.

Feist is adorable on Sesame Street

Do you LOVE the video of Feist "counting to 4" on Sesame Street?! Sweet. She's a sport.

Do not trust your ears - you must hear this

Listen (and then listen again) to the amazing Shepard scale.

And check out the Shepard-Risset glisssando (towards the bottom of the linked page).

The "Twilight" books and Stephenie Meyer

My daughter just started in on the "Twilight" teen-vampire books. To get in the loop I found this overview of who's who in the "Twilight" novels from Entertainment Weekly to be handy.

No doubt a road trip to Forks, WA will be in in our future.

Bwa Ha Ha... Chris Brown hit song is a commercial!

Wow, clever these marketers are.

We will no doubt see a lot more of this.

The audio cassette slips further away

I still remember my first mono cassette recorder/player from the early 70s. It was amazing to be able to record my voice or the radio and play it back right away. And then came stereo, and Dolby, and all those blank TDK, Maxell, Memorex, and BASF tapes I bought over the years.

I still have a few hundred cassettes - mostly spoken word stuff and radio airchecks - that really, I'm going to convert to MP3s... someday. Here another publisher says goodbye to the once cool cassette.

How cool will Cuil be?

Maybe really cool, since it's a new search engine built by ex-Google engineers.

8/13/08 - or, maybe not so cool at all...

An update on the Long Tail

A Wall St. Journal look at how the Long Tail is holding up.

The man with the sound

Neat piece from Rotten Tomatoes about Ben Burtt, the former Lucasfilm and now Pixar sound genius (and voice of Wall-E).

Wicked Pissah in Boston

When I arrived in Boston for college I learned right away that something wicked was good, and that something "wicked pissah" was THE stuff. A fun listen in on the world of Boston-area accents.

A whole lotta productivity going on

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