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.
The new apple iPod nano can be used the Griffin Tunebox (meant for the shuffle). It charges and plays music just fine as expected. Nothing surprising, it’s just USB and sound, but since I’m using my ipod nano full time now, this will make a nice iPod alarm clock out of something I already had. Link. I might take it all apart and make a new enclosure.
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.
Excellent article by MAKE pal Carlo Longino – As mobile phones become more powerful and pervasive, it was inevitable that they’d spawn the same kind of homebrew hacking culture as computers and the Internet. While the locked-down nature of cell phones and the closemindedness of wireless carriers has stunted that culture’s growth, a few developments are afoot that promise to give a big boost to DIY mobile programming… Link.
Create Digital Music has a round up of some of the ways you can record audio with a portable device – my fav is still the iPod, running podzilla, but it’s not always the best of course…while Nano is certainly deeply drool-worthy for listening, wouldn’t it be great to have an iPod-like device for recording? Here are some of your options- Link.
Handy, I put mind on an iPod…Cross-platform Portable Firefox works by using John Haller’s excellent Portable Firefox 1.0.6 on the Windows side of things, and a little script I made on the Mac side of things. The script basically keeps two versions of all user profile files. The reason why is simple: as I am sure some of you have figured out, Windows Firefox profiles are not completely compatible with Mac Firefox, only certian files. Link.
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. [