Microblogging options abound, most with drippy sounding names and many with half-baked functionality, having only been thrown together because Twitter was down again due to some kind of malfunction with the staffroom espresso machine. Rejaw, on the other hand, offers users a solid alternative with a number of excellent features. Without whales.
The basic idea’s pretty [...]
I tried not to post about this, but after using it I just couldn’t help myself.
Yet another head-in-hole type photo manipulator, Turbanizer takes your image and allows you to overlay any of several fashionable turbans. The simple interface provides the granular controls you’ll need to create an oh-so-convincing composite: it’ll scale your photo or the [...]
Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google.
In this edition:
Olympic madness
Google Translate comes to the iPhone
New Google Earth API resources
Directly link to Google Mapplets
Get your Picasa prints at Walgreens
Olympic madness
Google has Olympic fever. In celebration of the Beijing Summer Games that start today, Google has created a special site specifically for Olympic news, updates [...]
If you’re a good, upstanding netizen, odds are you have accounts with half a dozen social networking service or more. You may only use one or two services, but if your friends or colleagues pressured you into signing up for LinkedIn, Plurk, or Pownce, you probably filled out an online profile before promptly forgetting about [...]
I have a hard time reading some of my favorite blogs, including Eee PC News and Blogeee because, well, I don’t speak German or French. Not fluently anyway. Historically, I’ve tried to deal with this limitation of mine by subscribing to each site’s RSS feed and trying to figure out what articles are about by [...]
Some days it’s all good and you’re enjoying reading the news for the masses on Digg or Reddit. Other days you want something with a bit more substance. Maybe you’re having dinner with your future in-laws and you need a good, solid, grown-up conversation starter. Check out Polymeme, which bills itself as the “experts’ take [...]
I’ve seen my share of bad web products. Some are bad because they are poorly implemented, others are bad because they are ill-conceived. The new Private Label Custom Domains product from FeedBlitz definitely falls into the latter category.
To be honest, I’m not even sure where to start here. From what I can gather, FeedBlitz [...]
There are plenty of great places to upload and share files, so why not use a bunch of them all at once?
Rapidspread is a a simple file upload site that automatically forwards your files to as many as 10 filesharing sites. From the upload page, simply browse for your file(s), agree to the terms of [...]
Google has stopped accepting new users for Google Page Creator, the company’s online web site creation tool. Current users can continue using Google Pages, but the company wants new users to sign up for Google Sites instead.
Google Sites is a web site/wiki creator that Google launched a year after purchasing Jotspot. Sites allows you [...]
Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google.
In this, yes, we’re alive edition:
Google tests automatic Blogger support for Google Reader
Gmail adds “never send it to Spam” filter
CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar
Multilingual Google
Google Maps transit directions come to more phones
Google tests automatic Blogger support for Google Reader
Google Reader is testing a new feature [...]