Archive for December, 2008

“Tons” of Gizmodo readers are reporting that their Zune 30 players stopping working last night. The Zune Scene tech support forums are full of posts (and a sticky at the top titled “Stop Creating Zune 30 Frozen Threads Look Here First”), as are the Zune.net forums. Folks are dubbing the fiasco with amusing names such [...]

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“MP3 Recorder” by Martin of gHacks.net covers PCWin Speaker Record, a dead simple sound recorder for Microsoft Windows. PCWin Speaker Record will turn any sound playing from your computer into an MP3 file. Martin notes that this can be very useful for recording things likeord VoIP calls. PCWin Speaker Record is dead simple to use. The [...]

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“Enable Google Analytics for your AdSense Account Now” by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration uses a screencast video to illustrate the procedure for getting your AdSense stats into Google Analytics. Google is slowly rolling out Analytics reports for AdSense that help you track click performance and ad revenue both page by page and day by day.The [...]

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“How to convert .flac files to .mp3 using Ubuntu Linux” is a tutorial by tech site SimpleHelp for making lossless audio ready for payback on your portable mp3 player. You’ve downloaded some flac files, perhaps from http://bt.etree.org and now you want to convert the flac files to mp3 to take with you on your iPod or [...]

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Maybe you are considering moving to a Linux distro like Ubuntu. Maybe you need to do a little bit of housekeeping on your web hosting server. Or maybe you are wondering how to open these strange compressed files you just downloaded with your new Mac. Whatever your reason may before wanting to know how to [...]

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“Pocket Videos Cameras – Buying Guide” by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration summarizes five different pocket-sized digital video cameras that are available for under $250. Each of them is small, easy to use, and can store an hour or more of footage. The cameras covered are: Creative Vado Pocket Video Camera Creative Vado HD Pocket Video Camera Kodak [...]

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Now that Christmas is here, the “ho ho ho hat” Flickr easter egg is back. You can add a Santa hat to a picture by adding a “ho ho ho hat” note, and a Santa beard by adding a “ho ho ho beard” note. “Show Your Christmas Spirit on Flickr” by PCMech has instructions and [...]

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I just received a notification that the IMDb Twitter Bot is following my Twitter account. IMDb on Twitter seems new… at least to me. Anyway, the bot twitters various movie quotes, facts, and information. You can direct-message the bot for information about titles and people, to which it will respond with a short description and [...]

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“Use a web FTP client to access files from an iPhone” by Mac OS X Hints runs through the general process of setting a web-based FTP client in order to access files on a computer system from an iPhone. The challenged as stated by the author is: I keep a number of reference documents on a [...]

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I was just wondering how to tell if you have been blocked by someone on Twitter. What happens when you get blocked? When you block another user on Twitter, the site asks you to confirm the action and states that the following rules will be put into effect: You are removed from the blocked person’s friend list. The [...]

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