Archive for December, 2007

Tool Time Friday | We be Blackberry Jamming

How about downloading your videos, daddyos, to your Blackberrys?!?!

MediaCell Video Converter is the best free software (according to CNet) for MP4 file conversion of portable Backberrry devices.  MediaCell introduces unmatchable video compression ratio and conversion speed – 7 times the playback speed.  Cool!

The technology that lies behind this tool allows them to re-compression video files without causing any loss in video quality.

I see them flying off the shelf.  How can’t they be – they’re free!

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Tool Time Friday | Videorama Mama

Got another video converter for you along the lines of our Wile E. Koyote (Yes, I know how to spell coyote) in our first post today.

There’s some differences (other than this one being freeware) between the two that you just might want to check out for yourself!

So dash on over and see what you think.

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Tool Time Friday | Ki Yi Kippy Ki Ya Koyote

Okay, so you got a new iPod for Christmas.  Or you already have one and don’t know how to  download videos to the blasted thing!

wi.jpgHow about we start out with a tool that can convert FLV, DIVX, AVI and other formats to an iPod video format? Can you dig it?

This means that you can download YouTUbe videos and put them directly on your video iPod. Shazam whatam!

Go here to check out Koyote Soft ($19-25 depending on what you’re doing) and here for free downloads.

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Merry Christmas!

We hope you’re enjoying your Christmas, and won’t be reading this until Wednesday, December 26, 2007. Except for our order fulfillment department, we’ll be out for the week, and you’ll be reading special posts we’ve prepared for your enjoyment in advance.  In the meantime, here’s what we read during the holiday weekend. 

  1.  Was Jesus born at Christmastime?
  2. The Best of ProBlogger 2007
  3. How to Say Merry Christmas in over 300 Languages
  4. The 10 Most Spectacular Places to Spend New Year’s Eve
  5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas: A Special Holiday Recipe

After your celebration, we hope this gives you some relaxing reading until tomorrow when we start our vacation posts.  Again, Merry Christmas.  We hope you have enough to enjoy and enough left over to share with someone who needs it. We’ll be back in plenty of time to usher in the New Year together, but please give us a chance to catch up if you’re sending us emails. :)

Tool Time Friday | Glubble, glubble, glubble.

Noooo, I haven’t gone haywire. I just thought this title would catch your eye and then you can learn about this very cool tool.

Everyone knows that the Internet is a censor-less place where anyone can fake their identity, browse or publish any content whether it is appropriate or not for them. Children are no exception, they can be exposed to this content as well.

And for that reason, here’s a Firefox extension which allows you to control what your child browses right from the browser. As soon as you install this extension, you can start to add accounts for each of your family members.

Firefox’s ‘Glubble’ makes sure your kids can’t see the whole World Wide Web – they can only see ‘family friendly’ parts of the web – it’s like their own little world – Glubble World!

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Tool Time Friday | The Mother of all Audio Converters.

River Past Audio Converter is the award winning audio converter and extractor.

With this puppy you can convert almost any audio format to WAV, MP3, WMA, or audio-only AVI. River Past supports a variety of input formats, including the standard WAV, MP3, WMA, RealAudio, and the not so standard OGG, AIFF, and Unix Audio.

Extract audio from the standard AVI, ASF, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, RealMedia and QuickTime MOV and MPEG-4.

If the file format exists, River Past will probably support it.

There’s a $29.95 basic model and a $49.95 fully loaded with all the bells and whistles.

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Tool Time Friday | Dog Plays, Dog Smiles, Dog Eats and Dog Piles!

How’s that for a catchy title. You never know what’s happening unless you take a peek.

If you had a choice between a single-person search party or a search team of a half-dozen, which would you choose? All those that answered a ‘half-dozen’ can go to the head of the class!

Why not put six search engines to work on something in the same time it takes to use one? This is what is called metasearch.

Dogpile puts the power of all the leading search engines together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. This process is more efficient and yields more relevant results. (Not all search engines are the same.)

You can read more about Dogpile when you head on over to their site.

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Friendship, Dust-Crawling, Toothpaste and Antifreeze – Great Gobs of Googler Genius

at Google Espanola

Photo – En Google.

A Googler is a person who works at Google (Nooglers are the New Google Employees, which these folks aren’t, necessarily.) Since Google is one of the companies that is shaping our world in a major way, I thought it would be cool to know what they are thinking, because I, my friend, am a Geek.

My 6 Picks for Most Fascinating Publications by Googlers
and Why You’ll Find Them Intriguing

This list is based on what is publicly available. I picked from that subset 6 papers that were the most accessible in language, and most applicable to our lives as surfers. I think you’ll like them because these publications: (more…)