"Inglourious Basterds must be seen to be understood. Trailers, word of mouth, and reviews (yes, even this one) cannot possibly convey the intricacies of its script, the prowess of its performers, or the harrowing atmosphere of its unforgettable scenes. I cannot express how spectacular it all is. To my relief, Universal has treated Tarantino's masterpiece with the utmost care. While its supplemental package leaves something to be desired, its video transfer is a faithful, filmic stunner and its DTS-HD Master Audio track is a rousing, enveloping achievement. Not everyone will adore Tarantino's latest as much as I did, it can be quite divisive in its departure from convention, but it comes with my highest recommendation."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
I just added this to my Amazon Wish List.
- Aaron Hood
"Trying to extract clips from a DVD is usually a roundabout process that involves a lot of waiting. Free utility DVD Knife makes it easy to extract clips from any part of your DVD."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
URL shortening is a technique makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address.I collected a list of the top 30 free URL shortening services.It will help On Twitter or instant message because status even a 60 character long URL can be too long.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
from Bookmarklet
...who are the registrars giving out these one-letter/character domains?
- .LAG liked that
Good question LAG - I haven't a clue! I'm baffled there are so many URL shorteners out there!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I too am baffled by the numbers. Other than for than anachronistic reasons embodied in Twitter is there really any good reason for their existence at all?
- Brian Sullivan
Click stats in the social media realm, where the destination may not be one you own..
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Rahsheen -- but that really has nothing to do with shortening does it ?
- Brian Sullivan
i'm still confused about the business model of all of these... cant be showing ads on the redirect, as people would not accept that anymore. Is it the accumulated intelligence?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Selling to somebody else with bigger pockets -- like the business model of most tech start ups?
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, I guess you hit the nail on the head, then. The URL shortening business model has less to do with actually shortening URL's than it does with collecting and connecting information about links, which is very valuable.Just so happens that also making the link as short as possible makes it easier to distribute.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
100 URL shorteners??!!! Holy Smokes!!! And many of them could go away overnight!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I used to get booked into the Sheraton @ Shepherd's Bush roundabout quite a bit. It was rather shabby. Just don't associate White City with upscale retail.
- John Craft
lol i agree...but where did that come from? I didn't mention White City anywhere
- Zee.
Your "next meeting" in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
- John Craft
I have Google Wave now. It's awesome and I love it. But then again, I'm a Google fanboy. Anyone want to share their Google Wave usernames so we can add each other to our contact lists?
can't agree more with pirillo, but gina had a glimpse
- adam garrett
To all asking about invites: I have none. There is currently no way to do that. Also, viki saigal: I have it and can post a screenshot if you'd like. It's the Developer Preview.
- Eric Geller
I doubt I will have enough invites to get you all in, at least not in the first round. But I'll invite people in the order you post here.
- Eric Geller
If you can, right here Eric. Thanks!
- Andrew Leahey
Guys, Wave users don't have the ability to send out invites. Only Google can invite people, at the moment. This is a developer beta, not a user beta ....
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Sorry for the late response, but I've added the two of you who posted your Wave IDs here. Hopefully more of you will get your invites soon!
- Eric Geller
invite me please.... rail.shiyapov @ gmail dot com , thx
- rail
please add me too... rudwolf @ gmail dot com
- PMK
Dear Somebody Awesome, Please build a Google Reader Shared Items directory similar to WeFollow. I'd like to find more like minded people to add to my sharing list. <3, Erica
Yes, I'm aware that thread and it is precisely *why* I want a directory. I love friendfeeders but the fact remains that I (and others) probably don't want to read everything everyone in that thread has to share. :)
- EricaJoy
from IM
Truffle ice cream. It doesn't get much more indulgent than this. This ice cream costs $50 dollars wholesale. The truffle was 40, and with that one would need heavy cream, eggs, and sugar. A product like this could never be produced, and sold. No one would drop 100+ for ice cream (after wholesale there is retail so its about double). Or would they? I surely wouldn't. But there needs to be some fantasy, especially when it comes to clothes, and food.
- Cee Bee
Serkan, bu sarkilarla, bu sesle mumkun mu olmesi? :)
- Oğuz Serdar
Şimdi yaşasa ve bu dönemin starlarından olsa ne tür müzik yapardı acaba? Benim oyum Hip Hop ve R@B karışımına. EMINEM gibi birşey olurdu sanırım.
- Burçak Çubukçu
Eminem'in de guzel sarkilari vardir lakin Elvis bambaska. Icra ettigi muzik turunun degil, muzigin krali bence kendisi. Yasasaydi 74 yasinda olacakti, belki de hala muzik yapiyor olurdu. Erkin Koray da simdi baska bir muzik yapmiyor ki Elvis yapsin. :) Yine de muzik dusunurlerine sormak lazim.
- Oğuz Serdar
Yok şimdi 25 yaşında olacaktı Elvis mesela. Hayal dünyası benimkisi :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
"i don't know anything about music. in my line you don't have to." demis bir de kendileri. bence Erkin baba gibi o da hala en iyi soyledigi turde soylerdi. rock 'n' roll!! :) dunya onu hala dinler miydi bilmiyorum ama sevenleri birakmazdi pesini eminim.
- Oğuz Serdar
Burcak, Elvis ne soylerse guzel soyler, Elvis'ce soyler. :)) Ama "you'll never walk alone", "I did it my way" gibi eserler sanki orijinal olarak daha guzel. Tutti Frutti gibiler de var, Elvis'den daha iyi kimselerin yorumlayamadigi. Yine de kisiden kisiye degisir bu. Covers vs Originals.
- Oğuz Serdar
Bu şarkılar çok seviyorum, Oguz kardeşim! Teşekkür ederim! Burçak, Sinatra'nın "my way" => Claude François'nın "Comme d'habitude" :)
- directeur
5-6 sene önce birlikte çalıştığımız Hakan isimli bir arkadaşım vardı. Tam 2.10 boyunda. Ses olarak Elvis'e o kadar benzeyenini görmedim.
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
2.10? :) Sarki soylerken videosu olsa super olurdu.
- Oğuz Serdar
Haha, neden yahu? Little Richard süperdir, Long Tall Sally de patlat mesela ;)
- Kaan Ertürk
ona kim hayir der? :)) aslinda bendeki kayitla alakali. ayari mi bozuk nedir, diger tum MP3'lere gore start alirken irkiliyorum, cok kuvvetli cikiyor ses. :D Little Richard'a da Allah bir girtlak vermis tabi. Bir de orijinaller & Coverlar apayri bir tartisma konusu.
- Oğuz Serdar
Evet Little Richard'ın gırtlak fena, "neööğürüyon" diyesim geliyor ama tabi seviyorum o ayrı :D "Original vs Cover" olayı da gereksiz zaten, 2'sinin de çok iyi olduğu örnekler mevcut bilumum şarkılarda...
- Kaan Ertürk
"With this in mind, there are hundreds of third party applications to make twitter easier and better to use. But who has time to try them all? In an effort to streamline the list to only useful apps, I have created a list of 15 apps that should do the job, at least it does for me."
- Oğuz Serdar
from Bookmarklet
I didn't find much too sexy on the list. However, I highly recommend using Twitterfeed and Tweetdeck. I use Mashdeck, which is much better than tweetdeck for me.
- Doubledown_inSL
Oguz: I should say, I didn't find much there I hadn't already *heard* of. I used tweetdeck for quite a while before moving over to tweetie. :)
- Brad McCrorey
oh sorry. but tweetdeck > tweetie i think, i tried both of them. :)) why did you move?
- Oğuz Serdar
I dunno, really. I tried it because of the enormous buzz around the twitpocalypse, and I think I just liked the comparative simplicity. Tweetie for the iPhone came along before tweetdeck for iPhone did and I liked the idea of using the same app on desktop and iPhone too. I change twitter clients a *lot* though. You never know, I may go back to tweetdeck sometime ;)
- Brad McCrorey
- Snap your screen with the PrintScreen key - Draw, mark-up and add notes to your screen capture - Send directly to your Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, Flickr or PrintScreenMe - Email, print or save your screen grab
- Arafat Hossain Piyada
from Bookmarklet
It's almost like a Windows version of Skitch
- Outsanity
If so, this is a massive fail on FriendFeed's part. I do not need email spam for everyone that responds to something I post. It should be an opt-in action, not an opt-out. Doing this is useless, as I'll see the comments come through in my FriendFeed window already.
- Christopher A. Wichura
I don't mind this. Jaiku does this, and I found it a good way to keep track of whether someone replied to something I posted in my own threads or others. I just filter these notifs out of my inbox so I can check at my leisure.
- Cheryl Jones
I'm good as long as there's a remote desktop app. I could work on an OLPC
- Rodfather
I can't get away from the graphics/video/design production apps. Still need a PC to run most of those. Cloud is out a bit further for workflows involving these.
- SolidSmack
Steve, I don't buy into this whole "cloud exclusively" thing, yet. And that is an important yet, here's why. The underlying browser, as well as the underlying OS, makes the promise of cloud computing, well, cloudy. If you have ever tried browsing to a flash-enabled site with Linux Firefox and Ubuntu, you know what I am talking about. Invariably, the content cannot be displayed on such and such a browser or with MacOS or Unix or some troubling combination.
- Chris Sparno
Then there are the sites that still require IE and ActiveX, locking Mac users out completely. For the promise of Cloud Computing to be more than a promise, the browser and underlying OS needs to be 100% abstracted from the user experience. And as long as a few players maintain dominance in that area, good luck.
- Chris Sparno
Holden, that is true, as long as MS, Apple, Google and Mozilla all agree to really abide by the standards for once. MS is the most troubling, as their idea of innovation is taking a standard and mucking with it just enough to lock out the competition.
- Chris Sparno
There needs to be a standard browser architecture that runs the standards. Then cloud computing will meet its promise
- Chris Sparno
@Louis I am on a PC at work for the first time in five years - and a desktop too. I requested one. That's a first time for me ever (I have been on notebooks since 1995). At home I use a Mac and on the road I do too. In between I use my iPhone. It's liberating not having to carry a notebook, even one that's just 3lbs.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Chris - re: your comment on MS/standard/ActiveX, I think it's the other way around. For general consumers, they are more likely to avoid sites that display content in ways they can't access it - as opposed to changing their browser to meet the demands of those sites. Granted that won't be the case for business users, but I think that sites that attempt to force users into adopting a specific browser will just be further marginalized.
- Jim Tierney
Jim, by locking out Mac users, I meant those running MacOS X and Safari. Today, the argument a Mac runs less software is truly bogus since it can run any OS including Windows. But take for example the fact that today, when on a Windows platform box, I need to have three browsers installed to make sure I have one that will run the assorted sites I go to. Why can't I have one browser (Chrome perhaps?) that works everything with every media type on a website.
- Chris Sparno
Jim, true on the ActiveX point, but a lot of times, users don't have a choice. Granted, its getting better, but look at the state of affairs for Realtors who need to access MLS systems - pretty much all of them lock out the Mac due to IE and ActiveX requirements. Some SAAS systems are the same way. Thankfully, most of the young companies doing the cool stuff today know better and are more platform agnostic. Its about content and a lot of the sites that are set in their ways can't get out of their way.
- Chris Sparno
Holden, this is so true. Makes you wonder why there is ANY resistance to adhering to the standards. Shouldn't that be the course of least resistance?
- Chris Sparno
Holden, definitely. Run Chrome on a stick and Evernote.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Steve, what do you do when you come across a non-PC and need to plug that thumb drive in? In that case, the underlying OS is still a hindrance to cloud computing, no? For example, you say you have Chrome (which I publicly love), and Evernote (which I now starting using because of you). But Chrome (not the Mac beta) is for all intents and purposes Windows only. Then what?
- Chris Sparno
The most portant question is still, what do you do if you are without web access?
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
@Robert It's very hard for me to be without web access (and access to the apps and data I need/use) with an iPhone.
- Sam Harrelson
Nope, no tethering. I'm even leaving my laptop behind when I travel for conferences (which is amazing). Basically, the iPhone has become my primary computing device and my various laptops are entry points (I'm a Middle School teacher, so on-the-go mobile is incredibly impt for me). Wrote about the apps etc I use here: http://bit.ly/YImRr
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
Sam, I like your assortment of iApps. I see you are another one of us with multiple Twitter apps on your iPhone. I think its interesting that your iPhone has become a hub of your computing environment rather than just another tool. I too have found the iPhone to be perfect for acting as my view of the world and my laptop is relegated to large data entry jobs and work projects. Nice posterous too.
- Chris Sparno
@Chris, I keep a copy of Portable Firefox for Mac on the same USB drive. Otherwise, I just run their instance of Safari in private mode and I am good to go - or I use my iPhone.
- Steve Rubel
@Robert - simple, use USB drive apps or my iPhone.
- Steve Rubel
@Sam, my iPhone is slowly becoming my primary computer. If it starts connecting to full size monitors and keyboards, lookout.
- Steve Rubel
Steve, that's what I figured. Great stuff as usual. Thanks for keeping us all "thinking".
- Chris Sparno
I carry everything on a bootable linux thumb drive. My apps. My desktop. Wherever I am. I did actually try turning my android phone into a bootable usb drive. It almost worked.
- Slappy Line
I still can't find a descent inventory app for my iPhone. The wine cellar at work is wireless opaque, so I can't update numbers to a web app. The ones that call themselves inventory apps are just 'list of stuff I own apps'. I tried Bento but it doesn't do running totals (that i can figure out) on the iPhone version.
- Robert Hafer
If you're into netbooks, you might like to give Jolicloud a try. I'm just about to install it on my Asus EeePC 701.
- Dan Monsieurle
@dan Jollicloud is available? Thought it was only via OEMs.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Nope they are giving out a 1000 accounts a day right now, starting to really get out there. I have it on my asus eeepc, pretty slick OS.
- sean percival
I don't understand how people get Much done without fundamental UI tools like drag and drop, and newer innovations like Quicksilver/LaunchBar, etc. Web apps are great for some specific tasks, but after that a powerful OS with software that can dig in deep to shared resources is killer.
- David Chartier
from iPhone
OS still matters to me as the cloud has to run on an OS... can't escape it
- Bwana ☠
@David, my needs are limited. With the exception of PowerPoint and mindmapping apps, I can do what I need in a browser 100%.
- Steve Rubel
from email
@Meryn, I do - but many decks I create are confidential, so I use PPT.
- Steve Rubel
@Luke sure I worry about security but I am very choosy about where I store data. Business info, for example, is on Edelman servers.
- Steve Rubel
I love the cloud idea as well. Although my question about Chrome OS is will I be able to sync my ipod or iphone with it?
- Tomy Thomson
Music and multimedia is an open question, isn't it.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Music wise, I keep a few of my "desert island" albums on Dropbox and the iPhone. All of my other music consumption is via Pandora, Last.FM, AOL Radio and numerous podcasts that I download via the iPhone. I do have one laptop that I use as a syncing station for my iPhone but it's become just a place to grab backups which I then upload immediately to Dropbox.
- Sam Harrelson
Definitely can't say the same for myself
- LANjackal
You can upload all your music to the cloud too, and not have to lug it around. (try lala.com)
- April Russo (app103)
I tried running portable firefox when using a shared PC at work, but found it painfully slow via the USB drive.
- Jonathan
I wonder if you use photoshop or do some programming. Probably the all cloud solution is not indicated yet for these tasks.
- funkyboy
@funkyboy : why not? intellectual property or industrail property matters could, will rise. So what? Clouds will just get mature enough to help businesses. For now, I'd say that The Clouds are still in their early years. If somehow, part of the CPU implied in the many daily compilations of larges set of code, or implementation of any sort if real continuous integration process, if somehow some part of that CPU could be saved from server machines dedicated to that, that would be those costs saved.To start.
- Zackatoustra
from IM
I am switching machines & OSes every other week. All I see is Firefox Tabs. It is available in every platform and now that Weave is being developed. I don't need to export my current working tabs to my home/back to work.
- karthick
@funkyboy Have you ever heard of SUMO Paint? While it isn't quite Photoshop yet, it does show that the old excuse of not being able to do stuff like that in the cloud won't live much longer. http://www.sumo.fi/web/
- April Russo (app103)
What are you doing to back up your cloud in case it dissipates?
- David Libby
@David everything I do is backed up in multiple places.
- Steve Rubel
Sounds like a business opportunity to me, Steve. In all seriousness, I think if it required fewer steps (backup, different web apps, numerous logins, memory stick, etc.), it could be a very viable option for many people. There needs to be an uber web service that does all of that for you with a few clicks. A personal Network Admin. Oh wait...Google...could that be you I hear at my door? :-)
- Michael Chin
I now use Ubuntu One. My files and docs sync between the cloud and my bootable usb stick whenever I am online with it. Smooth with a capital Smoo.
- Slappy Line
@Jesse do they boot off the drives? I bet Chrome will.
- Steve Rubel
yes, usb bootables are already in existence/ Linux flavour only
- Peter Dawson
Someone on Twitter mentioned that USB drives have a limited write lifespan - so that could be an issue I guess.
- Steve Rubel
PortableApps suite has Linux and Mac OS bootables. There's alerady a Firefox Portable version. I use that stuff every day on a 2GB drive.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
@ Steve, yes I have the FF Portable from V1.0 days.. Long long time ago.. my Surf history always travelled around with me..nver left an auditable trail on a PC :)-
- Peter Dawson
Whoa that 256GB USB pen drive costs $924 bucks! (I have Knoppix Linux distro on an old pen drive)
- Susan Beebe
Steve, yes, they boot off the drives. It's already an option in most BIOS's - you can choose to boot from USB first. And I'll bet on Chrome booting from these, considering I believe it's Linux-based. I think I heard of Windows working on some of these as well, but don't quote me on that.
- Jesse Stay
Steve Rubel - I didn't use Mojopac for a long time. But for the time i used, it was pretty good. You should get the pro version. AFAIK, founders are from msft
- Vivek Puri
I want four of those! only then will data truly travel.
- Freddie Benjamin
My small WD passport HD holds far more than this USB stick and it is only powered by USB power also!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Marketing professionals need to understand this: If the investment (the “I”) is $$$, then the return also has to be $$$. It can’t be eyeballs or impressions or clickthroughs. You have to tie your results to a $ amount.
- Adriano Gasparri
One of the coolest people I know writes at Cloud Ave and they have opened up a FriendFeed room, they need 100 subscribers, if you are interested in cloud computing, would you consider subscribing to their room here http://friendfeed.com/cloudave thanks much in advance.