Access 1,000,000 quotes in your browser at QuotesDaddy

Filed under: Fun, Web services, web 2.0, Web

Whether you’re writing a speech, searching for something witty to add to your email sig, or just looking for a little inspiration, QuotesDaddy’s massive database is a good place to look. With over 1,000,000 quotes categorized and tagged, it’s easy to navigate and

"Altruistic" Trojan blocks Piratebay and Mininova access

Filed under: Internet, Security, P2P

A new trojan once again underscores the importance of exercising caution when downloading. Disguised as a keygen, Troj/Qhost-AC is one of the strangest pieces of malware I’ve seen.The trojan doesn’t appear to be particularly malicious. Its mission: to prevent you from downloading torrents from PirateBay and Mininova, keep you… Continue reading

Free your Viking friends encased in ice - Time Waster

Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Time-Wasters, Web

Nothing makes me feel better about -40 degree temperatures outside my house than seeing cartoonish people actually frozen solid.Ice Breaker is an addictive little Flash game where your goal is to free your Viking comrades from their icy prisons. To do it

SUPER video player and encoder releases 2009 version

Filed under: Utilities, Video, Windows, Freeware

The powerful, versatile, and free video encoding and playback app SUPER has released a new version that adds tons of new functionality to the already powerful application.If you’re not familiar with the program, it’s based on Open Source projects like FFMpeg, libavcodec, MPlayer, and MEncoder and… Continue reading

YackTrack shows you all the places people are commenting

Filed under: Blogging, Social Software, web 2.0, Web

First, there were blog comments. But then there were Twitter, FriendFeed, Disqus, Google BlogSearch, and a host of other ways people could attach feedback to a particular URL. YackTrack is a service that aims to help you see all of these different types of comments… Continue reading

Display GMail unread message count on the favicon

Filed under: Internet

If you’ve always got GMail open in one of your Firefox tabs, you can’t always see the unread message count - when you have a whole slew of other tabs open, for example.Install the Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon script for Greasemonkey, and that problem is solved. The script overlays the current count on… Continue reading

Phishing scam hits Twitter. Don’t get sucked in!

Filed under: Security, Web services, web 2.0

Phishers are up to the same old tricks, with a new target: your Twitter password. Several Twitter users received a direct message today that included a Blogspot link purporting to be about “a funny blog about you!” They clicked on it and found themselves redirected to a spoofed… Continue reading

PicClick: Visual browser for ebay and Amazon

Filed under: Search, web 2.0

PicClick is a tool that lets you browse eBay and Amazon product listings by sifting through images rather than text based descriptions. The web app was developed by Ryan Sit, the same guy who brought us ListPic, a visual browser for Oodle classifieds.The new site works reasonably well. You… Continue reading

Find the hidden menu in Google Mobile for iPhone

Filed under: Fun, Google, iPhone

Google’s iPhone app, Google Mobile, was already pretty handy with the addition of voice search, but it turns out that it’s got more features than anybody realized. The Google Mobile team just blogged about an easter egg, a hidden menu in the app that enables some extra goodies. To find it… Continue reading

BlahblahFish shows just how bad machine generated translation can be

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services

You know how when you enter some French, German, or Japanese text into a web-based translator, the results always look a bit… suspect? BlahblahFish is a website that shows you what it looks like when you translate an English phrase into another language and then try to translate… Continue reading