I haven’t really thought of doing a podcast of my own, too many other little projects on the side right now. But it’s always good to keep up to date on the current copyright playground, if for no other reason than to feel smarter than 95% of our media and politicians!
I’d love to meet anyone that has used even half of the crap Microsoft has stuffed into their latest bloated monstrosity. Between OpenOffice and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, I haven’t had to open anything in MS Office in weeks!
Workplace productivity blog Web Worker Daily has written up a list of their picks for the top ten streamlined alternatives to Microsoft Word – and they’re all free.
There are a lot of really great picks on this list – Google Docs, Zoho, AbiWord, and more. When all you need is something that will help you write content without a lot of extra unnecessary features, this is definitely a good place to look. What’s your favorite alternative to MS Word? Let’s hear it in the comments.
Can’t wait until the Dreamgirl finally gets her adorably cute little hands on a decent camera… I’m hoping stuff like this will allow me to at least contribute a little to her meteoric rise to becoming the next… uhhh… <insert famous photographer here>!
Web 2.0 tracker Mashable has compiled a monster list of more than ninety online photography tools and resources.
You can find online photo editors here, as well as photo sharing sites, free photo hosting, photography blogs, mashups, photo printing helps, and a lot more. Personally I’m loving this list, as I’m trying to get more out of my camera and pictures, creativity and productivity wise.
Years worth of photos. Thousands of mp3s. Gigabytes of e-mail, some actually worth keeping.
I am terrified of what it would mean if Susie (my Apple iBook) were to ever go down hard and take it all with her. I’ve got a firewire drive I’m backing things up to, “when I remember” (ie: not often enough). I’ve been researching hooking up a cheap file server to my router, hopefully if I can get that done in the near future one of these apps will help keep me a bit more secure.
The MacZealots weblog runs down several ways to back up data on your Mac. Gina’s been down this road before, however MacZealots reviews a plethora of alternatives including: SuperDuper, Synk Backup, Apple Backup, iBackup, CrashPlan, and Leopard’s built-in Time Machine. Their conclusion?
Like most pieces of software, there isn’t a single solution that is a perfect fit for everyone. Each backup solution I look at in this article has a unique feature set to help it stand out from the competition.
The reigning Lifehacker champ is SuperDuper. What kind of experience have you had with the other apps mentioned? Let us know in the comments.
To prove the effectivness of viral marketing, these guys created an insanely cool video that got tons of attention. I’m not exactly sure what it proved, they weren’t selling anything other than the fact that they were able to get people’s attention for a few minutes… which in the marketing world, especially online, really is a tremendous success!
Well, you can think too hard about it and get a headache, or just watch the video.
Cory Doctorow: 
This video documents a rube goldberg machine that spans multiple storeys of a residential house, running from room to room, with transitions that include stairwalking slinkies, a computerized magnetic chess-set, and the piece de resistance, a cellphone that calls another phone elsewhere in the house, setting off a vibration ringer that triggers the next reaction. Must be seen to be believed. Link (Thanks, Richard!)
Did you remember to hug your geek?
I told you Google Calendar’s public calendars last week; well, this week, techie site Mashable has come up with the top ten best GCal’s for that oh so charming geeky side in all of us.
There’s Mozilla Development! HD DVD release dates! Geek Holidays! Any self-respecting geek (of which I’m sure we have quite a few among our intrepid LH readers, right?) will be sure to find something that fits his or her style here; but hey – if you’ve found yet another goodie in the Google Calendar public offerings, let’s hear it in the comments.
Won’t be long before we look back at the idea of storing files and applications on our own individual computers the way we look at having to get up off the couch to change the channel. Ubiquitous, ultra-high-speed, wireless connectivity combined with cheap, convenient dumb terminals of every shape and size, running everything off of web-based services and online data storage.
Could be sweet, if someone finally manages to light a fire under our buttheaded telco monopolies and get them to actually offer decent service instead of the global embaressment that is our current lot! Is it too much to ask for a pricing structure that is at least as fair as those in 3rd world dictatorships!?
Bah, I’d be happy if just ONE of our major carriers offered an unlimited data plan…
The Frantic Industries weblog has a two part series that reviews 20 web operating systems. A few weeks ago we introduced Desktoptwo and received bunches of comments and questions about other web operating systems. The review done by Frantic Industries does an excellent job of introducing each web OS and giving a rundown of the pros and cons. If you’ve been searching for a usable web OS, give the Frantic Industries articles a read and let us know which OS you prefer and why.
Fun with webcams… other than that.
Web site Cameroid lets you play photo booth with any webcam in the comfort of your browser.
The web site is basically a web version of Mac’s PhotoBooth program, offering you different effects for your pics, from colorful filters and scenes to the popular morph settings. After you take a picture, you can save the image to your desktop or their public page, email it, or print it out. If you’ve got a webcam and an internet connection, Cameroid promises hours of free fun.
