Archive for December 2009
More Internet TV
Access free content from:
- www.hulu.com
- www.youtube.com.shows
- www.joost.com
- www.cbs.com/video
- www.nbc.com/Video/Library
- www.thewb.com
- www.cwtv.com
- www.fxnetworks.com
- www.comedycentral.com
- www.crackle.com
- www.clicker.com
- www.bc.co.uk/iplayer
You’ll need to use www.witopia.net to get virtul UK IP address in order to watch the BBC stuff.
If you’re looking for media center software, try:
Sending MMS (Image) Messages To Cell Phones
Most cell phone carriers have a way to send an image to their customers. Use the following email address formats:
- Alltel – number@message.alltel.com
- AT & T – number@mms.att.net
- Bell Mobility (Canada) – number@1x.ball.ca
- Boost Mobile – number@boostmobile.com
- Cingular – number@mms.mycingular.com
- Fido (Canada) – number@fido.net
- Rogers Wireless (Canada) – number@pcs.rogers.com
- Sprint/ Nextel – number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
- T-Mobile – number@tmomail.net
- US Cellular – number@mms.uscc.net
- Verizon – number@vzwpix.com
- Virgin Mobile – number@vmobl.com
In each case the number is the phone number of the destination phone, entered without any dashes.
Resize Your Images On Line
Do you need to resize your images into Avatars or just make them more web friendly for your website? Don’t have Photoshop or don’t want to mess around Photoshop Elements? Try http://shrinkpictures.com. They let you select any image up to 6 Megabytes in size – then select basic re-size options and Viola! a resized image ready to go.
There are many utilities on-line today that perform this function, but this one actually allows you to change the pixel density (DPI) – thereby creating a much smaller image.
Check them out today.
Last Minute Gift Ideas?
Probably NOT! AbeBooks Weird Book Room has 101 titles in it. Most of these would not make it to the gift list for ourselves, our friends, or our relatives. On the other hand… Well, you can judges for yourself. Check out the Weird Book Room for yourself!
Apple Tablet Computer
Whether you’re a Mac fan or not, you’ll love some of these ideas showing what the future of computing could look like. Here’s a quick slide show of 20 visions of an Apple Tablet Computer.
How Many Social Websites Are There?
I’m not sure anybody really knows that answer, but there is a website called KnowEm.com that will not only give you categorized links to 350 of them, you can check you user name and/ or register on them as well. Go check this out, you might just find something new and very useful to you… I did.
Relevant Search Results Or ???
Google announced Friday “Personalized Search Results For Everybody“. We’ve had personalized search in the past, but it’s been on an opt-in basis. Now it’s on an opt-out basis only.
If you’re signed in as a Google user and have opted-in, nothings changed. If you’re not signed in, your search results will be customized based on 180 days of search activity. You can turn off personalization as well.
Watch this video for more information.

