Archive for the ‘Great Finds Online’ Category

What is reCAPTCHA? - Digitizing Books One Word at a Time and Protect Your Website at the same time!

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books. A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” [...]

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I’m addicted to RSS — Finally — Thanks FeedMyInbox!

Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Okay I’ll admit it, it’s been an uphill battle trying to figure out a good way to keep up on the blogs that I like to read on a daily basis. I tried feed readers and they didn’t work. I never checked them and they just filled up. I tried Google Reader and that was [...]

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Google’s Answer to Second Life?

Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Thoughts? I looks like Google’s trying to create a virtual space for people to chat in 3D. Interesting

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F-35B Transformer Jet for Marines

Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Check this out. (Thanks to Gizmodo) This footage was leaked on YouTube last week anonymously. This is the new joint strike fighter and I’m very impressed.

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Awesome iPhone Cupcakes

Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Thanks Digg.com

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Lil O’Reilly

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Thanks to Dvorak.org/blog Very disturbing. But strangely funny and true.

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I’m a PC

Friday, September 19th, 2008
Great ad from Microsoft. It’s good to see they are finally fighting back and responding to Apple.

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These Gates/Seinfeld Commercials are getting stranger and stranger

Friday, September 19th, 2008
The latest from Jerry and Bill. I get what they are trying to do, but it’s an interesting way of doing it. They are trying to say that PC’s connect the World, but a 4 minute commercial? I have to admit if they were trying for a viral video they sure got one. I think they [...]

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Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Commercial

Thursday, September 4th, 2008
This is a great commercial for Microsoft starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. A long one too at 1:30.

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From Gizmodo: Quarter Million Dollars in Photo Equipment in this Photo

Friday, August 15th, 2008
So Gizmodo just posted this picture on their site. I think it’s a neat photo showing where all these great Olympic pictures come from. The guys over at Gizmodo estimate that there’s about $250,000 worth of equipment here and closer to $22 million in equipment at the Olympics. Impressive to say the least.

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