Category: Useful Web Sites
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Extended My Flickr Pro Account Subscription for a Year
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve just completed a one month trial of a Flickr Pro account. I got the folks at Flickr to provide me with this one month trial so I could see how well the service worked when I had a nearly unlimited photo upload quota. I’ve reported on a couple of Flickr’s…
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Google Maps Spices Up the Driving Directions and Local Information Market
Reading Time: 2 minutesGoogle Maps: A new service from Google that will light a fire underneath Yahoo! Maps and Mapquest. The local maps produced by this service are more helpful than those produced by competitive sites. (Click on the image to see more detail.) [ Image: Google ] I noticed that Google announced a new…
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Flickr Gives Customers Ability to Add Notes to Photos as Metadata
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFlickr Photo with Notes Attached: John Cloninger added notes to a photo that he posted on Flickr. I took a screenshot of the photo and cut it down to accentuate one of the notes. Followthis link to view the complete photo. My friend John Cloninger used his Flickr account to publish…
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Salon Calls Flickr “The Friendster of Photo Sites”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalon published a really good article about the many uses of Flickr, the on-line photo sharing site that I’ve been using for the past 10 days. The article points out some interesting statistics: 176,000 members, 2.2 million photos, growing at a rate of 30,000 per day, 82 percent of those photos…
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“Apple Tipping Point” Visualizes the Sweet Spot in Recent Product Pricing Developments
Reading Time: < 1 minuteApple Tipping Point: Paul Nixon explains Apple’s pricing strategy in a chart. While browsing Philip Torreone’s Flickr Photostream, I came across a really effective infographic developed by Paul Nixon of Nixlog. It explains the evolution of the pricing of Apple computers and iPods in terms of all the products that they…
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MacHTPC.com Debuts to Explore Mac mini’s Possible Future in Home Theater
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBryan Greenway of Home Theater Blog and Jonathan Greene of Atmaspheric Endeavors are teaming up to launch a new blog called Mac HTPC to explore the potential of the Mac mini as a home theater system. A number of people (including me) think that the Mac mini has many of the…
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Accessing Dave Aiello’s Public Photos on Flickr
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Home Office in Snow: One of the photos I uploaded to Flickr for Operation Gadget readers to look at. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] Earlier this week, I promised that I would point to my Flickr account when I had some digital camera photos to share with the public. The…
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Team Discovery Unveils New Website
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLance Armstrong’s professional cycling team, the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team or “Team Discovery”, made its 2005 debut on Monday. TDFblog raved about the team’s new website: They’ve got a really nice website, with a number of high quality 5-minute streamed videos, and much of Lance Armstrong’s appearance on “Overhaulin’”. FYI,…
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Trying out a Flickr Pro Account
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough Operation Gadget has its own Coppermine Photo Gallery, I wanted to find a different web-based solution for casual photo sharing. I decided to give Flickr a try, uploaded a few test photos, and invited my wife, my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, and my sister to view the photos. Anyone can have…