Category: Geek

  • Pirate Facebook

    After yesterdays Private Facebook article today have Pirate Facebook…You  can now change Facebook language to “pirate talk”…. And you better know what was what before you change over else you might not get back again. Follow link below and select Pirate English from near the bottom of the drop down language box. http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?language Thanks Chris!

  • Twitter moving into main stream adoption?

    Article about Twitter's slow move into the main stream. I admit to being a late comer to this particular party. I think people are still working how exactly it fits in between all the other communications tools we have at our disposal; email, blogs, social networks etc. I think this confusion with the “is that […]

  • G Drive's a coming..

    Speculation is rife amongst the web geek fraternity that Google is about to launch free online “cloud” storage. Already dubbed the G drive this will let everyone store anything and everything they want, photos, music, files, etc online. With the most common applications already running in the cloud (Google Docs, Zoho, even Microsoft Office is […]

  • Nice Critic

    Nice Critic – it's a website which allows you to anonymously send a message to any email address. Anonymous messages could turn nasty, but Nicecritic doesn't let you send any message, no. A list of messages are provided – grouped together in a range of different categories (Office Behaviour, Personal Hygiene, Appearance etc..). All the […]

  • Songsmith

    From Microsoft's research department comes Songsmith, a desktop application that generates musical accompaniment to your voice, regardless of how good or bad your singing is. You get to choose the style of music (from a selection of 30, including reggae, rock, salsa, pop etc). You also get the option to customise the various music tracks, […]

  • Songbird

    Songbird is an open source music manager, and potential replacement for iTunes. Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac. http://getsongbird.com

  • Over-the-air Google Calendar sync to iPhone

    Neuvasync is a free service that bi-directionally synchronises your iPhone calendar with your Google Calendar. This is fantastic for someone like me whose been relying on Google Calendar (GCal) for a while. Now all those events are on the phone and likewise any I add while out and about are in GCal next time I check… yeah […]

  • Font conference

    Funny to those who are interested in fonts…. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

  • A Terabyte of free storage

    Oosah offers 1 Terabyte of free storage online for free. Optimised versions for iPhone/iPod Touch as well as also intergrating with Flickr, Facebook and some other popular web sites. http://www.oosah.com

  • Pedal charge your iPod, iPhone etc..

    Yanko Design have a charging unit for iPod that gets it's power from your pedalling. The device uses magnets and a dynamo to collect energy which can in turn be used to power up your MP3 player, phone or what have you… http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/09/11/bike-for-power