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The amazing photographs that show the world's most famous landmarks replaced by cheap souvenirs
The amazing photographs that show the world's most famous landmarks replaced by cheap souvenirs
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Ooh, great find. - possible248
very cool! - Zee from WeDoCreative
Brilliant. - Brandon McCall
Let's send a guy to the moon to hold up a globe in front of earth and take a picture. - Josh Haley
These are quite funny. heh Love it. - Daynah
perfect for politians that don't want to travel in order to gain foreign policy experiences - David HC Soul
Nice to see some humor amidst all of the news swirling about concerning the stocks. Thanks for sharing! - J. D. Ebberly
J.D. My pleasure. :) Variety is key! - Mona N.
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Pepperidge Farm remembers. - Mark Trapp
I apparently didn't exist. ;D - Cyndy
@Cyndy Me neither! - Sarah Perez
I was result #4 for my name, behind Commander Louis Gray and others. - Louis Gray
I admit to having done the ego search, too. - John McCrea
Only four results on my (real) name in 2001, in either order. All mine... quotes in some magazines and some science stuff. - £ogical €xtremes
@Louis Commander Louis Gray? That's awesome. I'm totally calling you that from now on. :) Commander Louis Gray of the Good Ship FriendFeed. - Sarah Perez
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Watch The Political Spin Machine With Google “In Quotes”
September 24 at 7:23 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches and interviews that they’ve given recently." - Lindsay Donaghe via Bookmarklet
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Evernote Addicts: Lindsay Donaghe posted a message
“What's your best "AHA!" use for Evernote so far?”
August 29 at 6:52 pm - Link
toughie really, but i'd probably say using public notebooks as my "read later" pile. I'm on a mac so i just drag titles from google reader or the urls of any site into notebook and add it to my "read later" notebook. I then get the rss feed for it & add that to my google reader - or obviously just access that directly from my evernote on the iphone. - Zee from WeDoCreative
I would love it though you know if they could do an iterasi & save pay layouts too - but it's asking quite a bit i realise. - Zee from WeDoCreative
finding song lyrics when I am at work, saving them at work, and then when I am home sing them for my daughter :) - Baard Overgaard Hansen
@Baard - awww, that's sweet! @Zee - yeah I wish they could do like Iterasi does as well... As a stopgap I've been using FireShot (FireFox plugin) to take screenshots of web pages... Since Evernote can do OCR it's *almost* as good. Though I don't end up doing that unless there's something about the design of the page I want to remember. Usually the text/pictures are good enough (if ugly!). - Lindsay Donaghe
yeah Lindsay, exactly the same here - works pretty well to be fair. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Some of the best uses for me now are storing credentials for websites as encrypted text on notes. I have looked for years for a good solution for storing passwords and other sensitive info somewhere I have a local copy and one in the cloud. Evernote fits the bill perfectly. - Lindsay Donaghe
I am also putting in years worth of PDFs of tutorials and other interesting bits I have collected on the web. I would just print them to PDF so I didn't have to worry about them going away. Now I have a great home for them! - Lindsay Donaghe
Set up a filter in Gmail for a mailing list I'm on. Filter on keywords and matches get forwarded to Evernote. - Larry Huffman
@Larry - do you know if that works with attachments? I haven't tried email import yet. - Lindsay Donaghe
@Lindsay, that is a great tip about storing passwords. But how can I encrypt text? - Baard Overgaard Hansen
You can only do it through the local clients and I only know how on Windows... Highlight the text you want to encrypt and right click it... there's an option in the menu to encrypt. You'll need to supply a pass phrase (create one if the first time). Be aware that you can't change the text once it's encrypted so if you change your password you'll need to create a new note and delete the old one. - Lindsay Donaghe
AHA. Thanks, just tested it. Found the "Encrypt selected text". Learned something useful today :) AHA again! - Baard Overgaard Hansen
@Lindsay, yes it does work with attachments, just tested it. Pretty cool, eh? - Larry Huffman
@Larry - you must have had image or PDF attachments? I just tried one with a PowerPoint presentation and it didn't bring that over... bummer. Oh well, hopefully they'll expand the file types allowed soon. - Lindsay Donaghe
Yep, pdf. - Larry Huffman
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Apps: Cee Bee posted a message
“let's talk note-taking/organizing applications such as evernote, yojimbo, bento, soho notes, etc....what are some of your favorites and what do you use it/them for primarily?”
September 17 at 10:06 am - Link
i'm completely devoted to evernote - nothing beats it for me right now. I do get tempted with the other mac desktop apps but the fact that I can't access them from virtually anywhere ruins it for me. - Zee from WeDoCreative
I'm using Zoho wiki this week. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Agree with Zee (That's got to be a book title) - evernote beats all for me. Though I'm try desperately to trust the system, just dump everything in, and trust that I can just search easily in the future to find it, rather than tagging / foldering everything. We shall see! - Matt Harwood
i've never used zoho except to edit document files like word, etc. i personally like soho notes due to its custom-ability, keyword and archiving functions, but i also use evernote quite a bit as a way to harvest random notes i leave on my desktop every day. since it has a monthly cap i tend to use it for less graphics-based note organization, which take up space rather quickly (yeah, i'm cheap) - Cee Bee
I generally stay clear of Zoho...maybe because of the impressions I got from their products when they first launched. I should revisit but somethings holding me back... - Zee from WeDoCreative
Onenote is my deep repository. Essentially it is my local networks shared wiki style system. The sync, sharing and offline features rock entirely. Evernote is OK but too limited so I only use it for clipping stuff from browsers. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
I'm not sure it counts as a "note taking" app. But I'm still loving http://todoist.com - Ryan Gallagher
yeah Todoist is absolutely incredible. no doubt. I wish he updated it more often but it's still the best online todo list imo. - Zee from WeDoCreative
lead developer from plurk - same developer of todoist. - Zee from WeDoCreative
I have Evernote but have yet to get into the habit of using it. Everyone seems to love it, and I probably will too. @Zee: what did Zoho do in the beginning? - Rebkin
Evernote - pictures, voice notes, task lists, meeting notes, web clippings, etc. One of top 3 apps on iPhone for me too. Jott - notes/tasks that I want transcribed. - Abbas Haider Ali
Evernote on my iphone and on the web - Ernie Oporto via twhirl
Another Evernote fan here but also looking at Scrivener today as someone sent me the link and raved about it thinking I could organise my science notes there for client reports instead of as a writing tool. - Sally Church
sally i've looked into scrivener, but does it provide archiving as well? i wasn't sure about that. and how much of a learning curve is there, if any? - Cee Bee
I've tried all the fancy note-taking software (including Evernote and Onenote), and I keep coming back to a plain text editor (like Textpad) with a powerful search program (like dtSearch). Well-organized plain text files provide the most reliability, stability and flexibility for text notes. I can instantly recall minute details from notes covering a span of 15 years (including reading notes for books and articles). - Sean McBride
Cee Bee, I have no clue only heard about it today and looked at the demo http://www.literatureandlatte.... - Sally Church
I am totally in love with Evernote. I keep everything that I have even a tiny urge to find later in it now. My own bits and pieces of text, PDF files, tutorials and recipes off websites, photos, funny graphics on FriendFeed, even whole conversation threads on FF that made me laugh. I love love love love it! - Lindsay Donaghe
I just took another look at Evernote, and quickly decided that its text management features couldn't come close to matching up with Textpad + dtSearch. Probably a good choice for multimedia note-taking, however. - Sean McBride
I've moved my note taking from OneNote to Evernote and upgraded my account with them. - Bored
Another effective method for note management: wrap a powerful file manager like Xplorer2 http://zabkat.com/ around your conventional files. - Sean McBride
Evernote. It's all about the cross platform, access-from-anywhere goodness. - Eric
Evernote - To store a copy of all my web findings. It keeps all articles I found valuable, pictures I liked, and anything else I want to keep, complete with references - Lindsey Smith
For Web-based management of plain text notes: does Evernote have any advantages over Google Docs or Google Notebook? - Sean McBride
Well . . . I look at it this way. It has no direct advantage over plain text notes, but at some point you're going to want to save a pic or two and you might as well have everything organized in one place. Plus I like the evernote interface, including the drag and drop organization. It's just more robust. - Lindsey Smith
@Sean, the main advantages of Evernote over text files, for me, are that 1) I don't just keep text notes (graphics, PDFs and music too) and 2) it syncs up anywhere automatically... and 3) I can use it from my phone or the web if I'm somewhere I can't install the client (I can't FTP from work but I can browse). Can't do all that with text files... the search and tagging work well enough for me for retrieval. I am a religious tagger so I can usually find what I need very quickly. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay -- thanks for the observations. Evernote is the best Web-based manager of multimedia notes I've discovered so far. I agree. I am a text freak supreme, however, so I tend to gravitate to the most powerful text editor I can find as the core engine for my note-taking. So far I haven't been able to find an online text editor that is as full-featured as Textpad. - Sean McBride
I'm trying out Evernote. I've been using OneNote but I feel like a change. I also use Remember the Milk for todo lists. I love RTM. I used Todoist for a long time but I just found RTM was far more useful and it works beautifully in Gmail. - Mark Wilson
I use google notebook, myself. I also use Google Docs. It makes it easy to transport my work everywhere. - Mavericks of A-sauce!
The search features for Google Docs and Google Notebook are robust -- good for finding needles in the haystack in one's notes. And the Google Docs editor is fairly full-featured. - Sean McBride
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Evernote Addicts: Lindsay Donaghe posted a message
“What's a feature you'd like to see in Evernote? Specify Mac/Windows/Web if only applicable to a particular platform.”
August 30 at 4:39 pm - Link
I want TWAIN support so I can scan something directly from my scanner into a note... either as an image or PDF. - Lindsay Donaghe
On the Windows client I want thumbnail view of my notes (the "tape" interface is a bit frustrating for me). - Lindsay Donaghe
I want to be able to attach zip files or just more file types in general. - Lindsay Donaghe
I want to have a motivator to get me to actually start using it. - Pete Delucchi
On the Windows client, I want some of the same editing options I have in the Web client (such as adding a horizontal rule and making some text a link or not). - Lindsay Donaghe
On the Web client I want to be able to "paste plain" instead of html formatted text (such as when you copy from a Word document). - Lindsay Donaghe
I want to be able to switch off the Rich Text editing and use something like Textile or MarkDown to type in my notes (much faster and easier to make consistent format). OR at the least, be able to switch to and edit the HTML version of the note (to fix the sometimes super annoying list formatting problems or add a freaking TABLE). - Lindsay Donaghe
What's stopping you Pete? Lack of information to store or is it daunting because it's such a blank slate or do you not like the interface or what? - Lindsay Donaghe
I want to be able to share particular notes or particular notebooks with particular groups or people. This is a BIG one on my wishlist. - Lindsay Donaghe
I want a secure RSS feed to private notebooks (so I don't have to make them public to grab my data). OR even better an API that I can use to grab notes in other applications... other editors... hmmm. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay, I watched the vimeo or youtube or whatever from the creator a while back and was instantly enthralled. Since then, I realized I just don't have that much stuff to put in it, so I've never really had a big oomph to get started with it. Also, I'm already pretty well organized, and it's always difficult for me to integrate new organizational tools into my repertoire. - Pete Delucchi
I'd like the portable version to sync with the desktop, like in 2.0. - Larry Huffman
What do you mean? Is there a portable version that's different from the web client? All my stuff syncs from my Windows client to the web and back again... - Lindsay Donaghe
audio recognition or something so I can record audio notes on the iphone and have them be a little more useful - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
@Lindsay, yes there's a version for USB sticks that also syncs to the web. Before the web version came out, it sync'd with the desktop app. Not anymore, unless I'm mistaken. - Larry Huffman
@Michael - what's "audio recognition"? You can store audio notes... do you mean searching for content in the notes? I think you can use jott.com for that... Call jott and leave a message which it transcribes for you... have it set up to send to your Evernote account and it will show up in your notes. - Lindsay Donaghe
@Larry - ahh interesting... I guess I hadn't had the need to use the portable version yet. - Lindsay Donaghe
I want to be able to format parts of a note as a code snippet. I like the idea of storing all my snippets but it's a pain if I have to do any formatting with tabs and there are some awesome code formatters they could pick up. In general it would be nice if a note could have a "type" so it was formatted in a particular way... code could be one of them. - Lindsay Donaghe
I'd like to import my notes from Google Notebook... I have so some much of them to copy/paste/tag. - c0wb0yz
Definitly TWAIN support for scanning documents, would be great combined with an ADF on a scanner - Simon Green
There is Evernote for iPhone and Windows Mobile but nothing for the S60 Platform. S60 is surely one of the mobile platforms that cannot be ignored. Personally i would love to use Evernote on my N95 too. - Dinesh Manne
an API ! - Alexei
I agree with @Dinesh Manne. A Java app for "normal" mobiles, top prio for me. Other than that, more formats supported, yes please. Would love to have .amr and .3gp (mobile audio and video standards, not sure if all use them), so I don't have to convert to mp3's all the time. Not to mention mp3s being so much larger than .amr's - Sin Trenton
Ability to share with people that I specify. - Steve Sill
I would love to be able to use the iPhone app when not online. Often, in conference centres in the bowels of the building I get zero signal but would love to use Evernote for taking notes of the presentation while offline. - Sally Church
I want to be able to use Evernote to bookmark my favourite websites. This way I could get rid of having a separate bookmarks set up (whether delicious, google or firefox) and do it all from Evernote. Then we would be in serious business. - Robin Lumley-Savile
Robin, why can't you use Evernote that way? The bookmarklet lets you save web pages or parts of them... They even have a feature now to let you import your Del.icio.us bookmarks. - Lindsay Donaghe
I'd like the ability to decrypt notes on the Windows Mobile platform. then I could store private info and access it on my phone while I'm away from my desk. - lester
I would like to be able to do a search inside an open note (Ctrl+F), and search next (Ctrl+F). One key tagging would also be nice (i.e. click on a message, hit a key, say 'w' for work, which would tag the note with the work tag or whatever w is mapped to. - Robert
I wish they make all this http://www.ritescript.com/ open source with free license, so we could fork. Period. - silpol
How about a blackberry client? - Tim FitzGerald
Definitely a Blackberry client! - Greg Baker
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The Pigtail Meme! Put your hair in two pigtails, snap a picture, post it to FriendFeed and put these instructions! This is for the lovely Melle aka Melissa! <3
The Pigtail Meme! Put your hair in two pigtails, snap a picture, post it to FriendFeed and put these instructions! This is for the lovely Melle aka Melissa! <3
The Pigtail Meme! Put your hair in two pigtails, snap a picture, post it to FriendFeed and put these instructions! This is for the lovely Melle aka Melissa! <3
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How's this? - Rah™ via Bookmarklet
wooohaaar! - ※Fu※
work of art! - imabonehead
hahahahahha - Anna Haro
I did one of me and mo's pic wit those bigass ponytails...but that one is gonna give me nightmares - Rah™
bahahaa - Caroline
Funny! - BeeLing
Nice Rah! - Amber aka SDA
I love you so very much right now!!! - Monique(boring)
couldn't miss 2 pic memes in one one. What kind of attention slut would I be then? - Rah™
twin!! - Stefano
This is superb!! How did we not see the similarities before? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
That's hilarious. - Trish R
the inbetween looks like LL Cool J - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
WOW . . . the resemblance! - Lindsey Smith
*bump* worth another viewing i think. - Monique(boring)
time to do Monique morphed with princess Fiona? :) - silpol
Ha - I spit out my water a little bit! - jbrotherlove
That's awesome, Rahsheen! - Pete Delucchi
WINNAR. - Chris Hollander
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Finally the solution is there: Anti-Theft Lunch Bag
Finally the solution is there: Anti-Theft Lunch Bag
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Is that then called "active aggressiveness"? ^^ - ※Fu※
That is very funny. - Kevin
Well, it may not be stolen... but thrown away by somebody else... ;-) - Alexander Ebel
Nahhh, Alexander. Nobody throws away something in a shared fridge, even if it is already developing intelligence... - ※Fu※
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It is her job!
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"I do not know about this, can I sue them for it in some way? like false advertising? or something to do with it not being in my job description, there has to be something us mothers can do about this bad advertising!!!!" - Rah™ via Bookmarklet
HAHA - Mona N.
Thats pretty funny. - Mathew Ballard
Pretty funny indeed (and I'm a mum!!). - Penny
OMG... I still give seriously messed up stuff to my mom. She is the laundry MASTER! - Cyndy
Wat the?! lol! - James Cooper
Nice moniker, matey! - Josh Haley
I like your name Josh! - Monique(boring)
Had to forward this to my wife. Not sure whether she'll laugh or curse me out... - Hutch Carpenter
*sigh* - WorldofHiglet
=)))))))))))))))) - Maryam Ardakani
if my kids are in college and expect me to do their laundry, they can expect everything to come pink or bleach stained. believe that. - Faboo Mama
I brought my laundry home from college, but I washed it myself....I think..LOL - Rah™
Hah. My parents lived halfway between my college and Akiva's apartment. Every Friday, I drove 1.5 hours to their house, dropped off laundry, and drove 1.5 hours on to Akiva's. Then reverse on Sunday to pick up laundry and head back to college. That only lasted two quarters before I gave up, switched college locations, and moved closer to Akiva. - Rochelle
It was a sad day when she told me no more, you need to learn to do it yourself. I can still get her to do an occasioal load, even though she complains I think she likes it!. - Michael Fidler via twhirl
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8 Amazing Holes
8 Amazing Holes
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September 7 at 1:27 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
these creep me out - especially the water based ones - Zee from WeDoCreative
Great pics. Horrid title ;-) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
ahahaha SB - Anna Haro
and I thought it would a guy who brought that up... :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
Has anyone scrolled down to the see the last "hole"? - Brian Sullivan
lol, yeah - i was gonna put it in here but the others were too impressive - Zee from WeDoCreative
can someone please explain the hole in the water? how/why does that occur? - Zee from WeDoCreative
There is no way I could swim/sail/boat over that blue hole. No way in Hell. - Timothy Griffin
They're created by water soaking through limestone fractures in the surface, Zee....a looooong time ago. http://www.blueholes.org has good information on them. - Candace Holly
and I thought this was about Golf... - Victor Ryden
haha Victor - Zee from WeDoCreative
That last hole looks like water was seeping somewhere more recently. - Ernie Oporto
Candace, thank you - that is seriously interesting & the pictures on that site...incredible. - Zee from WeDoCreative
those are some sweet looking holes. - ::Kristen::
a line you don't hear every day... - Zee from WeDoCreative
These are beautiful. Do I have a dirty mind for thinking the title is full of innuendo? - Sparky
the one in Bisbee, Arizona is a pretty big one too - Jeff Quinton
That was a great ending! - Michael Fidler via twhirl
Here's the Wiki on the second pic, the Great Blue Hole of Belize, The hole is circular in shape, over 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep. It was formed as a limestone cave system during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower. As the ocean began to rise again the caves flooded, and the roof collapsed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... - Christopher Harley
sweet Christopher, cheers - Zee from WeDoCreative
nice natural uhmm.. holes! =D - Anjo Miranda via twhirl
i'm glad people seem to agree on the wonder of holes, of all shapes & sizes. - Zee from WeDoCreative
The one on the left above is the "Glory Hole" at Lake Hennessey (Lake Berryessa) in Napa... that thing is really amazing, but it rarely looks like that! Right now, it's a tower sticking up 20' above the water surface because the lake is so low... - Clay Newton
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What happened ? - Ryo via Bookmarklet
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TY. that is *exactly* what i was looking for, in last hour or such. you read mind! :) - Giuseppe Cunsolo
thank you! - Francesco Passantino
Very nice. Thank you. - Justin Wah Kan via twhirl
I like the new version of the widget. Most problems with the old version are solved, except one thing: with a set a flickr pictures, all pictures link to the same flickr page, instead of each to its own page. - Peter
Thanks for the new options! - xero
Can we get this for TypePad? - Zviki Cohen
I like the new look to it! Very cool. - Brian Bufalo
I'm totally going to have to add that to my blog. - Rainer Paskiewicz via twhirl
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The Feedly experience is fairly unique for me in the time it took to go from first discussion and launch. It was fun, but most sites don't have as long an incubation period. Thanks for the nice comments. - Louis Gray
Watching the man work on Feedly has been close to a religious experience. - Michal Chmielewski
Louis: You deserve them. We still have a long road ahead of us but one thing is sure, we would not be where we are today without you as a detonator. - Edwin Khodabakchian
Good lessons from the Feedly folks. Love that they call Louis a "detonator." - Robert Scoble
Louis is "da bomb!" - Colby Olson
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