the future of commenting? past come alive: voice

comments in voice?

http://vocaroo.com/

cross between disposablewebpage and pastebin

disposeablewebpage alternative

http://tblurb.com/

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tBlurb links don’t expire, but they have markup.  Get the best of both:  share tBlurb links with ephemurl

tBlurb deleted after 90 days inactivity: no option to auto delete sooner.

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need fewer features than disposablewebpage.com or tblurb? then tinypaste.com/

need more destruction that pastebin.ca (or pastebin.com)?  then https://privnote.com/

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roll in collaberation with simplybox.com want reliability on top of that?  acrobat.com

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FINALLY a short URL service with self destructing (expiring) feature

self expire short links

http://ephemurl.com/

microsoft privacy policy and kids: guess who doesn’t care

microsoft doesn’t care about protecting your kids online

Microsoft loves keeping sites up to date.. and of course they have a huge privacy effort..  “protect the kids” visit their information center

http://kids.msn.com/

oh, wait, you can’t.  it doesn’t exist

thanks microsoft

http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.mspx

microsoft privacy feedback
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1310&ws=1prcen

microsoft customer feedback
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1316&ws=1prcen

microsoft executive email
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1311&ws=1prcen

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windows live robots
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1318&ws=1prcen

windows live beta feedback
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1302&ws=1prcen

sneaky webmail features requests
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1301&ws=1prcen

questsions about products and services
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1333&WS=UTM

google voice is much creepier than gmail

google voice is much creepier than gmail

creepier than gmail owning a slice of your digital soul through cross correlation of search results, ads, and EVERYBODY you ever interact with on their other platform tools?  Google will cross identify your surfing (through searches and ad presence) and email habits against those of your circle of friends, family, business associates, and website visitors (should you use their widgets);  Should they be unable to identify you per se they certainly will if you volunteer your credit card to purchase international calling minutes.

I spent about an hour with the number picker, got a really really really cool phone number that I am in the midst of porting out.. so it was awesome in that respect only.

Google Voice might seem impressive to someone who has never tinkered with voip.

Better option: Orgasmatron VPS with Vitelity ITSP with voip.ms and callcentric backups.

much needed search engine features: learn the spam I wish to avoid

server side search engine spam result filtering.. hueristic?

Sure, there are some nifty greasemonkey UserScripts for hiding undesirable search results.  I don’t want to see evil blog scrapers (IP piracy).  I don’t want to see offers to buy illegal drugs when researching a drug.

Learn what I do NOT want to see and NOT-return it for my query.  This need not require signin and microsoft’s new BING engine implies.   Hueristic server side search engine filtering is a must have especially as it would be cheaper than hiring assassins to find and kill spammers.

[IE8 sucks: no native FORM spell checking as you type]

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import from picasa with lightroom

import from picasa with lightroom

not quite there yet
http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00R9Pn

Jeffrey’s “Export to PicasaWeb” Lightroom Plugin
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/picasaweb
http://regex.info/blog/2007-12-17/663

yay use both.. redundancy is fun?
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=26579065

http://alternativeto.net/desktop/adobe-lightroom/

google is no help.. big surprise
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14609

gmail filter repository

where is gmail filter repository?

nothing like SpamAssassin Rules Emporium has turned up yet

http://rulesemporium.com/

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to stay competitive gmail now needs to add

+ a TMDA.net analog
+ properly support IMAP4 flags
+ fine grain spam rules (no, not filters)
+ x-header support in filters
+ actual wildcard support

tangent: http://crm114.sourceforge.net/

stellarium more free than planetarium

http://stellarium.org/

a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

yay stellarium

I’m still waiting for something that will print charts onto transparencies to be held at arm’s length to map the sky by eye

will BobSpam spam me?

let’s find out

setup a virgin hotmail-, aim-, or inbox.com mail account — each offers free POP3 access.   gmail is still evil.

singup for BobSpam 30 day trial:
http://bopspam.co.uk/

login to webmail account a few times a month… for a few months and see how much mail past initial contact with bobspam I receive…

adsweep, the other adblock for chrome: yet another reminder to download adblocking technology missing from googe browser

first:  STOP using chrome.   No, this is not about firefox.  This is about privacy.

Use Chromium… a particular build of Chromium.  Chrome is a build of Chromium; it’s all about the information harvesting.  Iron is a build of Chromium.

Iron Chromium is what you REALLY WANT:

http://SRware.net , click American flag, software, iron, download, click, wait brief seconds at 144 Mbits/sec, run setup, clickity click, run Iron.  Enjoy the same experience as Chrome without the Faustian hand-off to google.

next: http://adsweep.org/

which itself ironically has banner ads (the site and not the product).

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ads mostly gone.  sure, it’s nowhere near as awesome as the tools for Firefox* but it’s certainly MUCH better than the unmaintained, adblock format based on a FanBoy blocklist Iron Chromium offers in its native adblock engine with SRware’s adblock.ini …  AdSweep is a big help … though I am CONFIDENT SRware will patch up their native adblock engine and integrate it with the context menu (for easy right click on ANY ad / annoyance for quick blocking across sessions)

compare Iron Chromium to Chrome Chromium

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Iron Chromium portable — the only stable portable version of Chromium

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SUBSTANTIAL difference between Iron’s adblock.ini and AdSweepers extension / user script

AdSweep HIDES ads with CSS

adblock.ini BLOCKS ads with pixie dust

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AdSweep does NOT enhance your privacy.   While the current incarnation of Firefox and greasemonkey and AdSweep rely on the page completely loading, unlike Chromium, future versions of Greasemonkey alledgedly will be able to act pre-render of the page.  yay!

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AdBlock Plus
AdBlock Plus Element Hiding Helper
Greasemonkey
Stylish
Platypus
Aardvark
Remove It Permanently
Yet Another Remove It Permanently
RefControl – default set to Forge

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bad karma for internet explorer 8 development team

stolen karma is bad karma

many inprivate features bear a striking resemblance to the firefox extension “karma blocker”

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5230

Though the extension is currently not being developed AFAICT, likely owing to derisive comments, one may still hope an email antispam approach will be applied to future firefox exntesions of a similar kind.

how to convert powerpoint slideshow (pps) to PDF — extract all images from PDF

how to convert powerpoint slideshow to PDF __ convert PPS to PDF free __ extract images from PDF

sign in to evil-google

open google documents

upload PPS file

download as PDF file

easy… google now owns a slice of your digital soul

optionally extract all images with SomePDF image extract

optionally extract ImageExtract from needless installation wrapper (setup program) with Universal Extractor

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free online alternatives

http://convert.neevia.com/index.aspx (high spam risk)

http://www.zamzar.com/ (high spam risk)

http://freepdfconvert.com/  (high spam risk)

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increpate yahoo gone?

yahoo AddressGuard goneness

really?  someone is already using increpate as his yahoo AddressGuard base? hmmmm

AddressGuard is worth everycent I’ve spent on it.  Not nearly the convenience of SpamGourmet and nowhere near the power of TMDA, but no discernible bandwidth limit (yet?)

aaron: open DNS resolvers

open DNS resolvers… mmmm poison
http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/openresolvers.html

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