Archive for the ‘Web Site’ Category
Google Traffic
Google Traffic isn’t the official name for it, but I think it should be. Head over to Google Maps find a major city and then click the traffic button in the upper right corner. All of the major routes through the city will be color coded according to how quickly traffic is moving. You also [...]
Audible
Audible is the internet re-incarnation of books on tape. They have over 50,000 books to choose from. Once you’ve selected your book, you download it and sync it to nearly any portable audio player, or one of thousands of PDAs, smart phones, GPS and other devices that support Audible. Books typically run about $10 to [...]
Google Reader
Google Reader is a great way to aggregate all of your RSS feeds and view them from anywhere. I use it in combination with Yahoo Pipes (see yesterday’s post) to keep tabs on news, tech and some of my favorite comics. There’s also a mobile interface for Google reader for your phone. The two keep [...]
Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes can take some getting used to. The slogan for it is “Rewire the web.” What it allows you to do is work with RSS feeds to combine or filter them to create your own custom feeds. Instead of having to write your own program in PHP, or something similar, to do this, Yahoo [...]
Pandora
Pandora is your own personalized internet radio station. Once you sign up, you start by telling Pandora about one artist that you like. It then uses data collected as part of the Music Genome Project to find other music you might like. It then begins playing music. As each song comes up you have the [...]
Convert units with Google
Google will covert units for you. Try entering “7920 ft. to miles” into the search box. You can even use it as a calculator, for example try calculating the area of a 2.5 inch radius circle like this “pi*2.5^2″
Stuff for your calculator
TICalc.org has software for any TI graphing calculator, and some software that runs on your computer. Be sure to look thorugh the archives.
Twenty Questions
20q.net will guess just about any object that you can think of by asking you 20 yes/no questions.
Free, Quality Software
For internet and media utilities I recommend AnalogX. Their tools are all free and very high quality.
Name That Tune
Want to know what that song was that you heard on the radio? Yes.net can tell you. Just let it know when the song played and on what station and it will find the name of the song and even link you to the CD.
Find a Radio Station
Traveling somewhere, and don’t feel like scanning channels on your radio all day to find a station to listen to? Have Radio Locator do the work for you. You can search by Zip code or city and state to find all the stations that you can recieve in that area, and what their [...]
Lots of Games
Looking for a way to kill some time? Addicting Games Has hundreds of ideas. One of them is sure to keep you from getting your work done.
More Fun
Here’s another one that’s just there for fun. Click on any one of the Singing Horses to make them sing, then try mixing and matching them.
Stress Relief
This one is just silly, but it can be a lot of fun as well. I think it’s a great stress relief tool. You’ll just have to Poke the Penguin yourself to find out. Be sure to do it more than once.
Last Year’s Version
Ever wish you hand’t upgraded that piece of software? If you don’t like the features that have been added to your favorite software and want an older version oldversion.com might be able to help you out.
Name That Tune
Ever hear a song in a TV commercial and wonder what it is? Songtitle.info can help find it. Its archives date back to 1996.
DNS Stuff
Something not working right with your internet connection? DNS Stuff can help you find the source of the problem.
Your Internet Radio Station
If you’re not satisified with listening to a traditional internet radio station, why not create your own? Yahoo’s Launchcast let’s you specify what your station plays. You begin by telling Yahoo what genres that you like, then as each song plays you can rate the song, artist and album and Yahoo will create [...]
