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Wow, I need to try this – Everything you modify, create or download during a Live-CD session is kept in memory until the computer is rebooted; then it’s all lost. More precisely, it WAS lost until SLAX came out and the new era of portability began… Don’t carry your settings along with you anymore, just remember a secret pass phrase! Link.
Handy…script which runs once a day to get the links for my link blog. It now crawls each link and sends an email to a Gmail account with the From field being the page URI, the Subject being the tags, and the body being a copy of the page. In addition to searching the page text, I can filter by tags by using an advanced search (e.g., subject:python). Now I love del.icio.us and Gmail more than before. Link. Also, check out our list.
Nice to see articles like this from the NYTimes…Many new multimedia notebooks include built-in television tuner cards and software that let them double as digital video recorders. But you don’t have to buy a whole new laptop just to record your favorite shows… Not bad for $90. Link.
With this Google maps hack you can see the spammiest places on the planet, well- at least where a lot seems to be coming from. Mailinator is a service that gives you free, disposable email anytime, anywhere. No need to ever sign up. Send first – come to the site later. Mailboxes are created when email arrives for them. This map shows (in semi-realtime) ip addresses that are currently sending the most spam to Mailinator. Link.
Google Areometer measures areas using Google Maps – handy. Drag the map with your mouse, or double-click to center. Click on the map to place points. Once you have placed at least three points, the enclosed area will be computed. Link.
Looks like it might be running something other than Windows too – Radio shack is getting in a shoebox sized computer for surfing the web. It appears to be DC powered, has built in Ethernet, modem, VGA, and USB ports. This might make a good car computer if it is truly DC powered! [
Apple has Widgets, Yahoo has Konfabulator, now Microsoft will have gadgets – What are Gadgets? Gadgets are a new category of mini-application designed to provide information, useful lookup, or enhance an application or service on your Windows PC or the Web. [